User blog:Queen Misery/Living Multiverse - Part 1 (Earth Society)

this is the start of many blogs designed to help us as a community to brainstorm on important elements of our storytelling so we can make a shared multiverse.. this will be especially important as we "reboot" our multiverse into a more well-oiled machine as our professional standards grow..

first step is to establish Earth's Society and how it will evolve..

we have aliens, mutants and extra-dimensional beings living alongside humanity, magic and technology co-exist and science merges with magic everyday.. we need to establish how this will change society and what Earth's future is likely to be..

Magic versus Science
this one is very tricky, some stories show magic and science can merge easily while some suggest otherwise.. what is recurring is the idea that magic and science are very different ideals and may be at war with one another.. beings of science and beings of magic can work together but often seem to compete over the world (and wider multiverse).

Earth, historically, seemed to be dominated by magic in the past but basic science has been established for a while too (after all we can't reach below Absolute Zero, even with reality-alteration).. yet with Destiny Force it is clear laws of physics don't hold as massive a role as they do in the "real" world.

Our multiverse seems mainly dominated by magic but science can not be dismissed either, in regards to Earth it seems magic is re-emerging after a period of "cooling off" and the result is a war between science that established itself in magic's abscence and the return of mystical energy / concepts that Earth forgot and/or abandoned.

Aliens, Mutants and Otherkin
Earth seems to have always had contact with aliens, mutants and other-dimensional beings and Destiny Force seems to be the main reason.. these beings will of shaped society immensely and left behind bits and pieces of their own cultures.. our Earth is littered with infinite conspiracies and hidden history that theoretically allows any theory to have some truth.. what we also learn from most stories is Earth is seeing a rapid increase in aliens, mutants and otherkin, shifting it towards an uncertain future as a stellar empire.

Humanity
the future of humanity is unclear.. they may become more hostile and desparate as time progresses and more aliens, mutants and otherkin crop up.. as science and ordinary "law" begins to fade in favor of magic and the often anarchic ways of aliens, mutants and otherkin more and more humans may become fearful and angered.

this could lead to a horrific future akin to that of Neo-Earth or a world where humans are wiped out or even a scenario were Earth is completely destroyed..

alternatively Earth may survive as a stellar empire and humans may learn to co-exist with Earth's other inhabitants..