I'm taking a short break from creating "S.I.", and am trying a somewhat different writing exercise: building up an entire story before I start writing any of it, as opposed to the web-serial model I've been trying with S.I.

I'm going for hard science fiction, based around the idea of brain-uploads, something like a Singularity, thinking hard about how to solve problems, and interplanetary exploration and exploitation. The furry content is mainly incidental, but still present, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

I could use all the constructive criticism, commentary, and advice I can get. The current draft of the story design-document is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....o_kMIcmlI/edit , and is already up to 30,000 words without my having written the first line of actual narrative... I rather suspect that short stories are going to be outside the range of my authorial expertise for some time to come.