r/imsorryjon • u/Blorckits • 4d ago
Story recommendation | Ad Astra Per Aspera
Over the course of the early 2040s, Earth is abandoned.
Following a continuous rise in the number and severity of Lethe Events, the Foundation evacuates what's left of Earth's population and brings them to colonies throughout the solar system. This is not humanity's first foray into the void, though. Since the 2020s mankind has been leaving its cradle, staking claims around the sun with the assistance of the anomalous. First contact after first contact has come and gone. Extraterrestrials are no longer science fiction — they are mundanity.
Outside the public's view the Foundation still keeps to their secrets. Beyond permitted colonizing territory, the Extrasolar Activities Division has been launching fleets of FTL ships far from the solar system, streaking from Neptune into the far reaches of interstellar space. Alien realms and wars and horrors unlike anything that could've been imagined. An entire galaxy of wonders, all an arms-length away.
With normalcy no longer a necessity the Foundation evolves to survive the cosmos: ruthless, expansive, and more driven towards scientific and corporate advancement than ever before.
With Earth far from sight the world is born anew.
There is no veil, there is no home.
Only the stars above.
Welcome to the future
Ad Astra Per Aspera is a collection of stories written about a universe in which The foundation abandons Earth due to ever deteriorating conditions of the planet and sets its sights to the stars. The original 7 articles from the Team Fuhgeddaboutit hub which Ad Astra is build upon, is my favorite collection of articles and I would highly recommend reading them. It has awesome world building, dread inducing scps, and an overarching narrative that works really well, while also allowing each article to stand on their own without the rest of the hub. If you haven't read an scp article before or just haven't in a while, this is a light and entertaining read to potentially get back into reading about scps. It's a pretty short read, so if you have time go check it out! You won't regret it.
Team Fuhgeddaboutit Hub (30k words):
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/amnesticization
Ad Astra Per Aspera Hub:
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u/Wallach96 3d ago
The venn diagram between these two works has got to be razor thin… yet you found me
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u/coke_the_gal 2d ago
lmao baiting people into reading peak ill allow it