From Red Galaxy

Contents 1 Founder's canon 1.1 Technology 1.2 Life and Intelligence 1.3 Sociology

Founder's canon

The Founder's Canon is intentionally Luddite.

Technology

• Only STL travel is possible. No FTL, no worm holes.
• No reactionless drives.
• No antigravity.
• No unobtanium.
• The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and made of computronium.
• The mental states of most life forms can be non-destructively copied.
• Stellar ecological-economies tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms.
  • Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible.
    • Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside.

Life and Intelligence

• Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states
• Humans are extinct.

Sociology

• The galaxy is entirely colonized.
  • Therefore we are millions of years in the future.
    • Therefore ecological-economy is very post-singularity.
      • There are many unimaginably smart sapients
      • Sapient beings who are any distance up the ecological-economic trophic levels tend to live a long time.
        • Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower.
• Fermi was right. All "life" is Terragenetic.
• The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution.
• Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity.