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This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.
Vulcan (Star Trek planet) This page was last edited on 18 November 2024, at 02:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Other names for this hypothetical innermost planet appear on occasion, such as "Aryl" in Roman Frederick Starzl's 1931 short story "The Terrors of Aryl". [1] [2] [3] In science fiction, the name "Vulcan" has since come to be more associated with the extrasolar planet Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise. [1] [2]
Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft. Some fictional spaceships have been referenced in the real world, notably Starship Enterprise from Star Trek which gave its name to Space Shuttle Enterprise and to the VSS Enterprise. [1]
Some universes also include elements from other genres of speculative fiction such as fantasy or horror. The Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson; The Star Wars universe, by George Lucas (space opera with some Tolkien influences [1]) The Warhammer 40,000 universe by Games Workshop; Bas-Lag by China Miéville
Star Trek: Dilithium (Li 2) exists (two covalently bonded lithium atoms); but something else is referred to in fiction. In Star Trek, dilithium occurs in crystal form and serves as a controlling agent in the matter-antimatter reaction cores used to power the faster-than-light warp drive. In the original series, dilithium crystals are rare and ...
Most extrasolar planets in fiction are similar to Earth—referred to in the Star Trek franchise as Class M planets—and serve only as settings for the narrative. [1] [2] One reason for this, writes Stephen L. Gillett [Wikidata] in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, is to enable satire. [3]
Kris Longknife [1] series by Mike Shepherd.Space elevators are ubiquitous across the known galaxy. 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), novel by Arthur C. Clarke.The possibility of a space elevator is realised after a groundbreaking discovery that Jupiter's core (now in fragments around the orbit of Lucifer, the small sun formed by the implosion of Jupiter) had been a solid diamond; as the hardest ...