Space Opera

Stories of a Galaxy

There once was a galaxy spanning empire, made up of humans, it settled and colonized the galaxy as it explored it, conquering, enslaving or otherwise subjugated any species it encountered on its way. eventually it became complacent and the expansion...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Star Wars: Shards

[p]In every “what if” that is considered, there is that one moment where the initial story, the original one diverges to lead to parts unknown. This is no different in “Star Wars: Shards”. In this story, that one moment comes at the end of...

Fanfiction Science Fantasy Space Opera

Galaxy of Exiles

Galaxy of Exiles is a space-opera series created by Katherine Franklin, and begins with the novel The Empyrean. This site acts as a wiki for information about its setting, whether that's...

Science Fiction Space Opera

Ethnis

[container:contain-centered-content] [container:contain-window bookend contain-max-1000] [/container] [container:m-t-md m-b-md] [p]Feast your eyes on the Lore Codex of Ethnis—a maximalist sci-fantasy 1,800 years hence, lo...

Biopunk Cyberpunk MagiPunk Space Opera Transhumanism

The Third Horizon

Many hundreds of years ago, two colossal colonization vessels left Earth. Their names were Zenith and Nadir, and their destination the star Aldebaran. The crews lived their lives aboard the ships, through centuries of deep space travel. One of the sh...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Vazdimet

Centuries have passed since the War for Enlightenment released forbidden knowledge into the hands of everyday citizens. Magic and technology revealed in the aftermath unlocked long-buried secrets, leading to space travel and an altered understanding...

Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

The Utopian Revelation

Humanity has breached the stars. The Core Worlds are a political battlegrounds between three major idealogies. The Rim Worlds are an unregulated mix of paradise and horror. The Depths beyond are terrifying collectives of unknown planets, alien specie...

Exploration Political Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

The Maravian Hopside

Forged by the hands of Fate and Destiny, remnants of the divine remained post-creation. Through this divine energy, the Maravian Hopside became a marvel of exploration. Those who step too close to the divine end up restricted to high-magic environ...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Weird Western

Toy Soldier Saga

"Toy Soldier": A derisive slang term for an elven marine. [color:#fff44f]A Napoleonic Space Opera in which fantastic races sail the stars in the seeds of cosmic trees and the ingenuity...

Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Ruartei

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Cycleborne

[quote]As the age of Expansion began to crumble and the colonists meant to populate the cosmos returned, Earth found itself torn between old resource wars and new horrors. What they brought back, they never should have found.."[/quote] [cente...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

The Delta Space

The Delta Space is a 'triangle' of mapped-out space in the known galaxy that is inhabited by a numerous swath of beings including the ageing but still woefully naive humanoid races of the Founders, that left, and subsequently lost the...

Fantasy Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Weird

Space Opera

[p]Since the discovery of space travel and advancements in faster-than-light travel, the galaxy has become more and more connected; With the different species and cultures from the numerous planets being able to interact and intertwine together.[/p]...

Biopunk Science Fantasy Science Fiction Solarpunk Space Opera

Asyur

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Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Historical Horror

The Sealed Kingdoms

In the far-away region of IC 1848 - also known as the Soul Nebula - lies a sphere of inhabited space measuring roughly 100 light years across. This region is known as the Sealed Kingdoms by those who live there - 'sealed' both for the envelope of ga...

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Space Opera

Age of Defiance

We’ve fought too hard for our happiness. We’ve suffered too much for our freedom. We won’t surrender our will or our lives without a fight! When evil bites us, we’ll bite back, with a vengeance! This isn’t an age of terror,...

Fanfiction Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Sword & Sorcery

Star Wars: Knights of the Dice Rolls

Inspired by Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 as well as Pathfinder. In this story the players will traverse across the Galaxy on their quest. Along the way they will come across fantastical lands, perilous dungeons, societies on the brink of collaps...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Pentapolemo

A world in which a devastating five-way war ebbs and flows between factions led by Elves, Giants, Dragons, Wizards and Undead. The conflict has no end in sight as the twenty one gods themselves, launching their forces from their individual moons, are...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Science Fantasy Space Opera Sword & Sorcery

Milky Way

The Milky Way galaxy, 2357 CE UNE Standard Calendar. Heavily inspired by the video game Stellaris by Paradox Interactive.

Political Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

Star Wars West Marches

Hello

Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera

The Outer Reaches

The newly formed crew of the ruined ship Nevander are about to find that making money and making it in the Galaxy is not quite as easy as they imagined.

Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

Aviron

[userstate:loggedout] Welcome! Login to [url:https://www.worldanvil.com/login|tab] World Anvil to follow the World of Aviron. [/userstate] [p]The World of Aviron o...

Fantasy, High Magic Modern Space Opera

Torar

In the beginning there were Ilu, Eteru, and Abatu: the Creator, the Presever, and the Destroyer. Ilu created the universe, time, gravity, and all of everything while Eteru and Abatu fought over the fate of creation. It was not Ilu's will that his cre...

Cyberpunk Fantasy Post Apocalyptic Space Opera Victorian

Old Canon

Welcome to SEVEN SEALS, a Space Fantasy Epic created and written by Khali A. Crawford. This World Anvil page is meant to serve as a companion and Codex for the Webnovels that will be written. In the future, SE...

Fantasy, High Magic Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Magha V

The gnomes don't really believe they were the first species to achieve interstellar travel, but they keep that to themselves. It doesn't matter anymore, not since they were joined by the humans, since the humans initiated first contact with the dwarv...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Space Opera

Starkeeper

The future is a strange, yet familiar place. Humanity has achieved its dream of space colonization, going interstellar with wormhole stargates. Over a century after a terrible dark age ended, civilization enjoys an age of peace united in the Commonal...

Exploration Political Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

The Zemlyan Chronicles

Hard Science MagiPunk Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Vau

Welcome to The Vau, the central location of the series: Time of the Paragons. This is the tale of the events surrounding the dual system of Bora and Kvum, a red and brown dwarf star respectively, and the four habitable planets orbiting Kvum, known as...

Dystopia Flintlock Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

Stellima

Dream of a utopian future? Where life is bliss? Where poverty is gone? Where wealth and greed are meaningless concepts? This ain't the future for you then! Do you have nightmares about a dystopian future where life is harsh, brutal, unforgiving an...

Science Fiction Space Opera

Codai Sector

A strange span of space, Y-shaped in it's stellar expanse. While some areas dot the the edges, the majority of the sector's political presence is located within this half. Among the stars, many humans live - but many more, still, died to the Scream -...

Space Opera

Science Fiction Story

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Void Between

[quote]We broke into heaven, and took everything that wasn't nailed down. When we got back, I couldn't help but feel off. I'm a different person out there, adrift in the black sea. I was happy when we lost our home. I thought, great. No more...

Exploration Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Ascent of the Old Ones

This is a homebrew setting focused around the concept of a D&D world progressing in technology, and taking to the stars. The setting is inspired from various bits of sci-fi and post Apocalypse, such as Fallout, Battlestar Galactica, Far Cry...

Dystopia Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Escape Velocity Universe

In the vastness of the universe, one galaxy has come together miraculously and formed a communication system- several primary species from various home planets working together to form their own cultures, languages, and communities. However, hundr...

Biopunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Political Post-modern

Mudewei

Mudewei is the seat of the star-spanning empire of the Stenza, who have been menacing the rest of the galaxy for several centuries, beginning with the planet now known as Desolation. They are well known to exploit other planets and civilizat...

Space Opera

2d20-Arndsts

[container:sw-marquee][container:sw-text] [marquee:scroll|up|2] A New Menace The Spy Lords of Pollux In the Pollux Cluster, things are about to heat up. The Coalition, led by its leader Master Djimmu, and his trusted acolytes th...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Mecha Space Opera

Solar Dominion

Solar Dominion is a near-ish future semi-hard science fiction setting, following humanity as the colonise the stars, fight for resources and ideological dominance and find their meaning in a universe that has seemingly killed every other sentient spe...

Science Fiction Space Opera

Galenara's reach

Space Opera

New Deseret

A planet settled predominately by Mormon settlers. While I imagine a "lore" will evolve, this setting exists mainly to write out and explore the role and consequences of constitutions, laws, and urban development.

Cyberpunk Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera Urban

Andromeda Galaxy

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Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Coulgakat Omega

A system on the edge of the galaxy. A place of combat and anger. where the strong survive and where the players will try to make names for themselves.

Cyberpunk Science Fiction Space Opera Western

Eldrispace

Beware the celestial abyss, for it echoes with the harrowing whispers of forgotten terrors and hidden truths. Eldritch relics of unfathomable power lie dormant, waiting to ensnare those who dare seek their forbidden knowledge. You are one of the d...

Horror Science Fiction Space Opera

Landamaeri Domestication Guide

Adult 18+ Space Opera Weird

Elivera: The Lost Ones

[h2|3e015490-20c3-4a06-93ac-2306a817815f]Introduction [p][/p] [p]After a fierce fight for freedom from the experiments of the Dragios, humans adjusted to life on Elivera. Now a millennia has pas...

Science Fiction Space Opera

Drift City

Diese Welt ist Schauplatz unserer Mekton Zeta Kampagnen. Mekton Zeta ist ein TTRPG mit Mechas, auch Mektons genannt, das von Mike Pondsmith entwickelt wurde und auf seinem bekannten Werk 'Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.' basiert. Wir haben die Regeln hier und da...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction Space Opera

Yukiverse

A hub for all canon and fan lore pertaining to the Yuki: Space Assassin series, the species, the characters, technology, and fan fiction in this perverse Galaxy known as the "Yukiverse".

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Space Opera

A Wondrous Universe

In the year 2075 everything changed for humanity, when advanced technology was discovored, that enabled humanity to break the boundaries of our own solar system and made it possible to venture deep into the unknown dark of the milky way galaxy. Almos...

Science Fiction Space Opera

The Age of Convergence

Humanity has officially recovered from the Cozine Disaster. On the 500th anniversary of the defeat of the Cozine-07 AI, the Pan-Solar Consortium government has decided that it's time to unite the human diaspora. While adventurers and prospectors...

Science Fiction Space Opera

USS Nightingale

Crew profiles and mission logs for the U.S.S. Nightingale as it explores the Typhon Expanse. Gamemaster's Note: Some of this material has been borrowed from published adventures, from other sources...

Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Silence of the Centurion

The United Human Empire stretches across dozens of solar systems, with hundreds of planets inhabited. Earth has long since been stripped of all resources and been abandoned. For the last 200 years...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

THF Universe

[aloud]In a world driven by military and technological advancements across the galaxies, the many alien factions vie with each other over precursor technology left over from a time long past. hidden, forgotten, and potentially world-ending in the wro...

Hard Science Mystery Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Star Trek: Shadows of the Galaxy

[h1|ee2d486f-96f5-43f9-988f-253f581bfcf8]Welcome to Star Trek: Shadows of the Galaxy [p]The Federation is fraying. Old alliances are strained, new powers are rising, and dangerous technologies—Borg salvage, synth breakthrou...

Adult 18+ Science Fiction Space Opera Stealth

Operation Wolf Dragon

Humanity has expanded slowly across the local arm of the Milky-way galaxy. Several worlds have been terraformed and others being mined for resources. A growing divide between the core worlds and outer planets was growing. Several worlds and stations...

Space Opera

Project: Ark

En 1945 se alcanzó el mayor hito científico en la historia de la humanidad, se consiguió unificar la física de partículas mediante la teoría de la Supersimetría y se construyó el primer generador que dió rápidamente la victoria de la II Guerra Mundia...

Space Opera

The Virgo Cluster

This is an area of the Universe known as the Virgo Cluster. Leveraging technology like the Travellermap, one can view [url:https://travellermap.com/?p=-4084.621!813.863!6.4&options=58359&mains=1|tab]mapping information for the @[Virgo Sector](l...

Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Braz

Planète lointaine et inhospitalière, Braz sert de colonie pénitentiaire aux différentes factions extraterrestres, qui exploitent l'humanité depuis des millénaires.  Les Hommes laissés à l'abandon sur ce monde cruel doivent lutter pour survivre, av...

Flintlock Hard Science Science Fantasy Space Opera

Solaris

Winner of Most Beautiful New World 2022, a wondrous reimagining of our Solar System. Solaris is retro science fiction with a queer and artistic twist. Written and illustrated by Annie Stein, with the help of Sol's best fiancée Skairunner.

Exploration Romance Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

No Man's Galaxy

The 2nd Imperium is dead. The New Republic struggles to ensure its own legitimacy and control over its corpse. [quote] May the saints of all the stars and constellations, Bring you hope, As they guide you out of the dark and...

Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Third Imperium of Mankind.

Welcome to Charted Space Humaniti has reached the stars—and found them crowded. Alien empires, strange life forms, and rival civilizations fill the voids between the stars. Science and technology have advanced far beyond the present day, yet the...

Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera

The Sea of Spheres

A working project for an attempt to recreate Spelljammer for D&D 5e. Much of the content has come from those before us, and I take no credit for any of the content included in this World Setting. I simply wish to compile it for modern use in an ac...

Fantasy, High Magic Science Fiction Space Opera

Star Wars

[p]A long time ago... in a Galaxy far, far away...[/p] [p][/p]

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Earth

In 2338 Mankind learned, definitively, that they were not alone in the universe. They had always known they were never the first, the artifacts, bases, and satellites they had found throughout the Sol System were proof of that. But now, instead of th...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

Coriolis - der 3te Horizont

[userstate:loggedout] Coriolis ist ein Science-Fiction-Rollenspiel, das in einem abgelegenen Sternensystem namens "Der 3te Horizont" spielt. Es ist ein von Konflikten und Krieg verwüsteter Ort, aber auch die Heimat stolzer Zivilisationen, sowohl der...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

Breaker's World

Literature RPG Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

Ammoian Empire

What would society look like if there were about four females to every male? How would society function? What might society look like if Eve ate the forbidden fruit but not Adam? The Ammoian Empire is a high tech, patriarchal and feudal society sp...

Adult 18+ Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Of Stars and Steel

Humanity has spread its wings among the stars, growing ever larger in the absence of alien life. Traveling across the stars in massive Voidships we've colonized a large part of our galaxy. The galaxy is in turmoil as the Greater Families fight amongs...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera

Star Wars

It's Star Wars. You know the deal.

Space Opera

Sol System

[p] The birth place and home of the human race. This collection chronicles the expansion of humanity as it grew to inhabit the entire Sol System and beyond to new stars. [/p]

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Legends of Thrinar

Thrinar was a tiny star system that held the twin planets of Cannid and Callon, the home of the Thrinese people. The people there were an advanced civilization, with technology to make almost every aspect of life easier, but they were not very intere...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Science Fiction Space Opera Young Adult (YA)

The Trident Coalition

Millenia ago several ancient human civilizations developed interstellar travel, individually of each other, and colonized thousands of systems across the Milky Way galaxy. The stories I write are primarily set in the Trident Coalition, formed by t...

Comedy Science Fiction Space Opera

Legends of Enoch

LoE Book 2 - It's 2AM LoE Book 1 - Our Story Begins What's @[The Premise behind LoE?](article:15959602-a30a-42...

Religious Science Fantasy Space Opera Steampunk Supernatural

The Tellurian Diaspora

Human colonization of space has been underway for 500 years. Initially, colony ships leaving Tellus/Earth were mostly one-way, until transuranic-powered tachyon supralight drives reconnected the early colonies and unleashed a Second Wave of colonizat...

Science Fiction Space Opera Young Adult (YA)

Elaris: Sea of Stars

Exploration Mecha Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Eternal Wheel

Biopunk Mecha Political Space Opera Sword & Sorcery

Star Wars Fall of the Republic and Rise of the Empire

In this world, you will be able to experience the era of the Fall of the Republic at the end of the Clone Wars, and the sudden and drastic change into the Rise of the Empire. You will witness and experience a galaxy both in turmoil from the war and...

Adult 18+ Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Helgan of Earth

The Helgan of Earth is an epic tail that follows Barix, a troubled young Helgan man from earth who joins his nations military in an attempt to find purpose in his life and in doing so he becomes part of a squad of misfits known as Delta squad 667 and...

Fantasy, High Magic Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Lumen Expanded Universe

[youtube:https://youtu.be/9VkPYuGQ57Y?si=_6aYjDpKAkP1cWuz] [p]Welcome, to the Lumen Universe—a cosmos where truth is not a single star, but a constellation perceived differently by every eye, every civilization, across a history stretching ni...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative Evolution

The Great Peace Crusade

Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Space Opera Steampunk

After Earth

5 corporations hold most of explored space. Tensions are rising.

Space Opera

Space Western

A spaghetti western sci-fi theme

Dystopia Space Opera Western

The Pontision System

Welcome to The Pontision System! I have created an original, science fiction setting primarily designed to be used in conjunction with the Lancer system. This is a galaxy teeming with life, adve...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Mecha Science Fiction Space Opera

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Starfinder - Strange Galaxy

A universe unlike any other.

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Pearl Directive

[follow:f21bcf04-4876-4cee-b0dc-1554bbe5b1a8] A one-of-a-kind game that merges the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Players can embark on an immense journey of space exploration and discovery, as they navigate through an ever-...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Mystery Science Fantasy Space Opera

Benkärna

Benkärna är en gammal, övergiven koloss, återupptäckt och återupplivad. Det är en varelse av massiv storlek, ett skelett inuti vilket är karvat ett land, en massiv stad och där mystiska ting och varelser göms i skuggorna.

Adult 18+ Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

The Trans-Universal Unfortunate Plights of Orwell, Alexander, and The Tea Kettle

Once, there was a narrative, which was promptly abandoned. The universe teeters on the edge of a singularity. Space is vast. Technology is ever-advancing. Titanic, life-consuming insects are eating Aunt Mabel. The dead rise at five A.M. for work j...

Comedy Dieselpunk Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy

The Outer Isles

Across Khorvaire, the people of the five nations look to the sky and beyond. Their planet's rings, the source of magic. The distant moons, anchors of the planes. And further, the endless distant stars. None have ever reached them - but today, that ma...

Exploration Science Fantasy Space Opera Steampunk

ASDF

Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Arcadia

Far in the future, Humans have colonized almost every planet and moon in the solar system, leaving the apocalyptic Earth behind. The man-made solar s...

Cyberpunk Religious Science Fantasy Space Opera Young Adult (YA)

Ultimus

Long ago, Mankind fled the Earth amidst a great disaster, on 8 massive colony ships carrying millions of men and women each. Each ship was equipped to last for almost two thousand years. After many of those years had passed, Man forgot his home, and...

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

War of The Realms

made you look.

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

The Watchers Eye

Political Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Science Fiction Universe

This 'world' is really the universe that 'Tales of the Terrace Republic' is set in. This series of books/stories is about the republic of terrace and focuses on the march to the next war, the war and the aftermath. This will also cover all the other...

Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Farthest Frontiers

Cyberpunk Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

Star Tiger

A giant white tiger flies across space, on his tail a small spaceship follows. The pilot - A white tiger man. They are the only two feline creatures in space. The tiger turns, the jet follows. It knows its purpose - The man does not. W...

Exploration Science Fantasy Space Opera

Beyond The Rift

[quote] "The old galaxy is dying, and a new galaxy struggles to be born; now is the time where monsters are born and heroes are forged."[/quote] The Imperium has always been host to pockets of wilderness space that were either too remote or too d...

Horror Science Fiction Space Opera Supernatural

Dune

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Adult 18+ Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera

A World of Light

A D&D adventure using the Dungeons & Destiny Role-Playing system built off the foundations of D&D5E(link: https://dndestinyproject.com/). A World of Light is set in the universe of Destiny created by Bungie(please don't sue me I don't know if...

Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Space Opera Western

Distant Suns

Set in the Procyon Systems as put forth in the Scum & Villainy corebook.

Space Opera

Starfinder-Pact System and the Pariah Sector

Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera