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How would a enormous more-than-city-sized ship fare in a fantasy world?
A long time ago in my world, a people, who lived alone in a continent-sized island away from any significant other landmass, had a schism. Half of them departed in a fleet with numerous ships into the ...
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What kind of building structures could a group of eleven people make whilst stranded on a tropical island?
I'm just curious to know what kind of structures a group of people would make on a tropical rainforest island.
Context
After an incident in the beginning the story these eleven young people (young ...
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How much "value" would someone able to make certain commodities have in a post-apocalyptic world?
I'm still unsure how much technology will be available in this world, I don't know if there will be "pockets of working grids", if people can only get energy from generators(which also adds the ...
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Building a society of "fungus people" where humans have developed a symbiotic relationship with a parasitic/fungal organism [closed]
In this universe, humans discovered a previously unknown fungus. Similar to the cordyceps fungus, this particular organism uses its spores to enter the body of its host, and grows within it. It will ...
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How Do We Protect Humans in a Zombie Society?
I'm writing a story where an intelligent zombie society has defeated humans and won. The zombies are the main characters in this story.
These zombies:
Have human intelligence, emotions, and remember ...
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What are some occupations that would exist in a small settlement in a post-apocalyptic world where going outside would not be a requirement?
Let's say it was a nuclear holocaust and billions died. The setting is the US so distances are large - people are very far spread apart. There are bigger settlements/cities but for our purposes we'll ...
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Where to Put Self-Reliant, Rugged Individualists?
In fiction that tries to provide a wide diversity of cultural stances on the collectivism-individualism stances, there is often a trope that self-reliant, no-nonsense, rugged individualists (as a ...
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How to make society ravaged by random killing, prosper and remain happy?
Set in near future.
Human population is at most a hundred thousand.
Everyone lives in mountainous regions to escape deadly miasma.
The air is infected by nanites which can cause cardiac arrest in ...
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Chores and tasks suitable to younger children [closed]
This is a follow up to an earlier question about a post apocalyptic ‘civilization’ created only from those under sixteen, and not many of them. Thus, anyone who can work is needed. What tasks might be ...
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Children are abandoned on a planet, but why? [closed]
My story is set in the relatively far future of 3812 AD. Humanity has united under one country and spread out across the stars. While there are protests of government corruption and separatists ...
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Is it possible for a species to survive unassisted if each individual is so specialized to the point that they cannot survive without the colony
EDIT: Since many people think this question is unclear, let me rephrase it: Can a species with only specialists survive unassisted for a long period of time?
Specific applications:
A Robot group ...
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How would a society isolated by monster attacks get food?
So I've got a medieval fantasy world where humanity has been forced to live exclusively in fortified towns and city states because of attacks by monsters. These monsters are not kaiju level in size so ...
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How to calculate the probability of survival of a young civilization
In a fictional world a young civilization is struggling for survival.
Round about a century ago, it broke up with the core-society that was just beginning to establish itself on an inhospitable ...
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Is segregation inevitable in my unorthodox prison world? [closed]
I came up with this idea of creating this world, where the worst of the worst of a fantastic non-magical world are sent to this prison "realm" which keeps expanding chamber by chamber.
The story ...
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Would humanity survive an empty Earth suddenly populated with young children?
Scenario:
An Earth that is identical to our own (for the sake of being specific let's say the environment is the same as it was in 1 BCE)
The planet is uninhabited by humans (and no there aren't ...
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What would a society of humanoid carnivores be like?
Suppose a species of obligate carnivores had convergently evolved human-level intelligence and body plan. How would this affect their agriculture/food production, and would it lower their maximum ...
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How will our world change if all women suddenly die? [closed]
I had so much fun reading How will our world change if all men suddenly die? that I decided to register here.
It also made me wonder about the opposite case: In a world... with today's technology and ...
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How would society look if it was entirely dependent on a particular group of people?
Imagine a place where the environment is too extreme for human habitation without a lot of modern, specialist equipment. Let's say it's like one of the poles: massively below zero, awful weather, dark ...
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How to bring water and heat to an isolated and poor mountain village with extremely low costs?
The village background:
It is located at an elevation of 2,119 m (about 6,952 feet) above sea level with a population of about 1,800.
It has a continental climate with Oceanic influence. Summers are
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How to move on as a society without a common language
Scenario:
20 people (men and women of varying demographics, occupations, and socio-economic classes) awake and find themselves on a deserted tropical island (with no idea of how they got there). The ...
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Could just a few humans recreate society?
In my scenario, a tremendous war wipes most of the humanity. While pockets survive here and there, the biggest part lives in one city, totaling around 3000 to 5000 survivors.
It is also important to ...
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