/sci/ - Science & Math

The whole 'Earth colonizes space, treats them like shit, hilarity ensues' is as old as science fiction itself, but what I'm creating does remind me of the old rocketpunk stuff you'd read in 50s pulp magazines, and I think that's pretty cool although it's not intentional. There are a few thing's that I'm lampshading and subverting. Like muh flashy space battles. There's space battleship, but only one was built and it's in a museum because the idea is silly.

Plot wise, the two MCs are a team of agents working for the Bureau of Colonial Security, which is exactly what it sounds like. Big themes are nationalism vs globalism, whether the ends justify the means and some other stuff that I forget because I'm about to go to sleep.

Part of the lore is that Earth has an quasi-apocalyptic nuclear war, with the Colonies (except for maybe one or two stragglers) immediately declaring neutrality and breaking off. An idea that I had for a prequel/spinoff would be the neutral Colonies being like Casablanca during WWII. Lots of potential there.