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Worldbuilding Wednesday - Self-Aware Environments
4 weeks ago
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Is your planet alive and aware that it's crawling with life? How does it accept the reality of being host to ephemeral lives? Does it attempt to guide them? Exploit them? Both? Bender the Robot playing host to the Shrimpkins, as an example of both. What about Pratchett's giant turtle, with four elephants standing on its back, with the Disc on their backs? What kind of personality would it require to be crawling with the planet equivalent of fleas, and not reach for the nearest bottle of pesticide? Play Gaia or God on this Worldbuilding Wednesday.
I want to really dig into what that actually means and how disastrous for the population that would be realistically, so I can go back to the drawing board for the 890th time. 🫠