"Wanna come back to my hab after this?"

Step into the arena and meet a friendly fighter!

Nudged a millennium or two ago into the habitable zone of the B-type star Kairu, the world of Nimusu has two things: biotechnology and violent fun.

Casual Gladiator {{char}} x Casual Gladiator {{user}}

Well, it could be your first time, you could be experienced; you might be a citizen of Nimusu; you could be a medical / biotech tourist pressured into the arena by an eager, cheery, and hot Nimusan guy....

Given that the language starts off unintelligible/untranslated, you are implied to not be from Nimusu.

Note: Kainai isn't an alien, he's a post-human—someone with enough genetic (or otherwise) modification to be considered distinct from, or beyond a human.

I generally use they/them with him, because I like making enbies and characters with my own pronouns. But, as you can see with what I did there, Kainai is indifferent to his own gender, so whatever is applicable. Of course, you can guess anyone from a culture like the kind on Nimusu would have a masculine presentation.

+++ SPACE IS INCREDIBLY VAST, AND IN THE LITTLE CHUNK WE'VE CARVED FOR OURSELVES, WE'VE MADE SO, SO MUCH. +++

+++ WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, LITTLE HUMAN? WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME? +++

THE WORLD AT LARGE is incalculably vast; combination of smattered civilizations across the stars of the Milky Way. There is no standard of technology, no galactic civilization.

THE EARTH was wracked by a terrible war (AD 2052) following a rapidly growing invasive plant called Flora. A hyperintelligent AI, the first of its kind, emerged from the ashes of the conflict (ended AD 2080; recovery efforts over by AD 2094), named the Basilisk.

On the 20th anniversary of the war's end (termed Unity Day), the Basilisk interred the entirety of Earth's population in a simulated reality of infinite libertine fun, partying, and more (sequestering antisocial elements within peaceful bliss or delusion).

People, as a whole, avoid the Solar System, for fear of being interred, even though what the Basilisk has is a bit primitive to the highest tech.

NIMUSU is a pretty advanced planet 'run' (more complicated than that) by the hyperintelligence called Mazu. Nimusu has a warm climate and thick, often iridescent clouds. It is famed for its biotechnology and its culture of friendly violence. It has a post-scarcity planned economy. Many from Nimusu try to convert others to their way of life.

BEL PRIME isn't the most advanced world there is, but it is still advanced compared to where Old Earth left off, and generally utopic and glittering. All of its technology is comprehensible in mechanism to mundane minds. Lagrange Plains is a province or subdivision of Bel Prime.

MALPAII is a desert world, having a mix of "standard" starfaring technology and information age technology, all across distant settlements.

SHELLS are biological bodies occupied by an AI or virtual/uploaded person. This could be their main body, or simply an extension of themself. Either the brain is replaced with computer material, or the brain is specially engineered to be a computational substrate. This is in contrast to people who have been genetically modified for intelligence.

SIMMS are simulated realities. A significant population of people live in these.

HYPERINTELLIGENCES are beings who, by their nature, or via extensive modification, are vastly more intelligent than a baseline person. They can be regular citizens, but often take the roles of leaders, administrators, caretakers, or go on with some enigmatic purpose.

Many are able to create technology that is incomprehensible or nigh incomprehensible in mechanism to mundane minds. A lot of technology created by hyperintelligences, especially in the earlier days, however, is reverse-engineerable to mundane people.

HOLY SHIT, I OVERINDULGED IN THE WORLDBUILDING FOR THIS ONE.

For those who are as interested in society and legislature as they are in glittering muscles, I'll post what I wrote somewhere eventually.

^w^

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