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What kind of pressures would make a culture force its members to always wear power armour
I'm writing a science-fantasy story where there is a culture that forces its members to constantly wear power armor in public. There are different types of armor depending on the specific job the ...
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How does constant darkness effect a culture's clothing?
In my world, Elves live in a tall forest with a canopy so thick that almost no light reaches the forest floor. Due to this, Elves have all but gone blind. The sun still warms the upper layers, but ...
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What materials and building techniques would a Late Medieval-Renaissance city use next to an ocean?
I'm designing a coastal city (called Bruxport), and I'm wondering what types of materials and techniques would be used to help combat erosion, water damage, and salt build-up from damaging buildings?
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Why would a highly advanced society still engage in extensive agriculture?
What are some plausible reasons why an advanced, futuristic society would still have a sizable agricultural/rural component, and a significant rural population? This hypothetical civilization is ...
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Is there any way to justify very different levels of technological development within a few thousand miles?
Imagine a continent the size of Africa.
At the coasts are sophisticated cities, where people use digital technology, electric cars, and whatnot.
Travel inland, across a mountain range or through a ...
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What are the implications of gorilla anatomy on medieval warfare? [closed]
Let me know if I need to break this into smaller questions...my preference is to keep it as one.
I have a sentient species that has intelligence indistinguishable from humans, but with the body of a ...
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Could cars drive normally on the inside of an o'neil cylinder?
Say we had some type of four-wheeled vehicle on the inside of an O'Neil cylinder with roads. I imagine if it drove in the same direction as the spin, there would not be many problems. However, I am ...
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What would cause a culture to keep a distinct weapon for centuries?
Imagine you have the stereotypical mysterious nation across the ocean. Their mercenaries are sometimes contracted into your army. They dress weird, talk with an accent, and have really odd weapons. ...
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Is technology a natural consequence of civilization?
Can a civilization be highly evolved as far as culture, ethics, societal norms, laws, language, literature and arts, but not ever come to develop any sort of advanced technology besides main practical ...
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What could some alternative eating utensils be like?
I know it's not really all that exciting, but things like eating will be very prominent in the cultures and show up a lot in my story...
In my world I want my race to have at least two different ...
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What would be day to day life like, for people during a renaissance like period in a world I'm building [closed]
Like I said, what would people eat, what would they drink, how'd they spend their time. I realise this isn't really a hypothetical question, rather a question that requires some information from an ...
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Immediate differences between 1898-2018 [closed]
I have a story where two characters from 1898 apear in the Texas hillcounrty, on a disused ranch. Neither are familiar with ranches, and they come from vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds. What ...
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How would a different society learn to use our technology
I'm a long time lurker and while browsing this site, I just got a question:
If all of us humans are replaced with a different set of humans with a different script and language right now, how long ...
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How would a unguligrade human (similar to a satyr/faun) ride a horse?
I am working on creating a fantasy race called the Aemani. As they are part deer they are unguligrade bipeds (like a faun or satyr).
I am in the midst of creating their culture however I don't know ...
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What if the world was basically reset but people still remembered things? [closed]
In my story, the world has come to a point where technology has advanced a bit farther than what we have now but the ecosystem is in a terrible state. With the aid of magic, one of the characters ...
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