1. Fantasy emerging from reality

2. Project Overview
 I have some ideas for a fictional world (ie Middle
Earth, Star Wars galaxy, etc.)
 At this point, no specific plot, storyline or characters
would be developed, only a world, its history, and its
general contents
 The project would be dynamic, taking the shape of the
contributors interests and building off each others
ideas to create new ones
 The following is just to introduce the general concept,
and throw some ideas in the pot to get you thinking.
Everything is just a draft, nothing is set in stone yet.

3. General Timeline
 I. A technologically advanced civilization exists
 II. The civilization is wiped out
 III. New forms of life emerge, evolving with the
technological remnants in the environment
 IV. Some kind of intelligent societies form which do
not understand the technology which proceeded
them, but learn to use it and revere it as “magic”

4. Imagine time as an hourglass, the past at the top, flowing
into the future. This scenario tips the hour glass upside
down. What we consider to be futuristic (technology) is
in the past, and what we associate with the past (village
life, belief in “magic”, etc) is this world’s present/future.
•Natural evolution
•Moss-covered ruins
•Ancient artifacts
•Mummies
•Stone huts
•Mythology
•Arcologies/future cities
•Genetic engineering
•Nanotechnology
•Cryonic freezing
•Nuclear waste/mutagens
•Mutagen/engineering-
influenced evolution
•Symbiotic nano-life
•Moss-covered arcologies
•Cryo-freezed “mummies”
•Nano-material huts
•Nanotech artifacts
•Mythology based on
“ancients”, robots, etc.
•Genetically enhanced
tribes and villages
History History
Present Present
Great
catastrophe
turns back
the clock

5. Possible Settings
Here’s a few options we have on how our world will relate
to Earth:
 The intelligent, ancient race is us humans on Earth
 Humans settle another planet (maybe one of
multiple), and the catastrophe and following evolution
occurs there, not necessarily wiping the advanced
civilization out completely
 This all occurs on a planet separate from Earth, with a
species that are not human (though likely similar)

6. Proposed Positions
 Blase: Chief of Development
 Ryan: Chief of Space & Geography
 Petemos: Chief of Time and History

7. Our world is preceded by a
technologically advanced
civilization

8.  Genetic engineering
 DNA computing
 Molecular nanotechnology
 DNA nanotechnology
 Artificial intelligence
 Self-assembling machines
 Preferably no time travel
 Preferably no alien contact

9.  We can create the history and political
geography of the technological civilization
which will influence the future, leaving behind
its remnants as ancient ruins
 Ideas:
• Highly populated superstructures (arcologies)
• Biological/genetic architecture (houses that live &
grow)
• High-speed rail systems
• Post-scarcity society
• Some images to get your imagination going…

11.  Human enhancement
• Clones, genetic enhancements
• Life extension
 Artificial intelligence
• Robots
 Combinations
• Uploaded consciousness, human minds in robot
bodies
• Cyborgs, AI enhanced humans
 Remnants, preserved into post-doomsday
world
• Cryonics

12.  Think about how any of the previous beings may react
with run-of-the-mill humans (Wiki)
 They may attempt to destroy humans, being the very
cause of the apocalypse (ie Cybernetic revolt)
 They may be superior in intelligence to humans, but
benevolent, creating the technologies which we
previously mentions and serving as guardians of
humanity
 Some of these technologies (cloning, genetic
engineering, robots) may be illegal in certain
countries/regions, leading to one country being clone-
based and the other robot-based for example

13. THE GREAT CATASTROPHE
The ancients are wiped out, but their technology stays behind

14. Doomsday Event
 Either naturally or social caused
 Preferably destroying civilization, but not totally
destroying the structures and technology
 Fate of humans
 Possibly wiped out, leaving behind the seeds for new
intelligent life
 Possibly a few remaining, restarting primitive
civilizations
 Either already enhanced, or using enhancements to
survive and evolve

15. Possible Catastrophes
 Ecological, either man-made or naturally
occurring
 Must not be so catastrophic as to destroy the
biosphere
 Nuclear, chemical or biological
war/terrorism/accident
 Pandemic, possibly natural or engineered
 Rebellion of non-human intelligence (ie
Cybernetic revolt)
 Etc, there’s plenty of possible scenarios

16. SECOND EVOLUTION
The remaining technology is integrated into the natural
process of evolution, producing “supernatural” creatures

17. MYTHS AND MONSTERS BECOME REAL
 Old, contained genetic experiments escape and
intermix and evolve with natural life
 Remnant genetic implants stumbled upon by plants &
animals and fused together
 DNA nanotechnology, DNA computing mutates and
evolves on its own
 Radiation, nuclear waste and other mutagens may
influence evolution
 Life evolves in accordance with its technological
environment, with symbiotic relationships and
ecologies made up of interacting life and machines

18. This time the cradle is filled with ancient “magic”

19.  The ancient cities remain to be seen by the new
civilization
 They may consider them cursed, witnessing people
dying or mutating from technologies they don’t
understand
 They may re-inhabit them, using them as resources
and shelter for their new civilization
 Recently evolved monsters and beasts may inhabit
them
 They may be holy sites, where the gods (robots,
cyborgs, whatever) rest

20.  The new people may find “magic” items left by the
ancients
 They may use genetic or cybernetic implants to survive
or gain power
 Nanotech smart materials, or seeds for biological
architecture may be gathered for building
 Nanotech utility fog may serve as tools, weapons and
armor which can change shape and transform, possibly
even directed by the will of the user
 Medical nanobots may be used by shamans for healing

21.  The mythologies of the new peoples will likely revolve
around the mysterious structures, technologies, and
possibly other intelligent beings that exist in their
world
 AIs may remain and take a role as the “caretakers” of
the humans and/or post-humans, possibly being seen
as gods

22.  Whatever post-humans or intelligence making up this
new civilization had to survive alongside genetically
enhanced and/or mutated beasts, so they too may
have natural extraordinary “magic” abilities encoded
into their DNA
 Perhaps the “magic abilities” that helped people to
survive are not passed down genetically, but implanted
by some means. The ones fortunate enough to find
these ancient magical implants may serve as guardians
of society to protect them from the beasts outside