Post index:

• For an 8 minute audio explanation of the information below, /u/Acrobatic_Ticket_659/What-is-Gateway-Theta-1">click here
• Google Docs: submit a new species to Gateway Theta
• Google Docs: read entries about the established species
• What is Gateway Theta? - scroll down
• About the Gateway Theta setting - scroll down
• How to create content for Gateway Theta - scroll down
• Scripts & audios for Gateway Theta - scroll down

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What is Gateway Theta?

An open-source project of original scripts and audios that take place in a sci-fi setting, featuring original alien species. Anyone is invited to make content for Gateway Theta, whatever sci-fi element is your thing, the goal is to be able to insert that story into the Gateway Theta universe, and, by doing so, help define the setting.

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Gateway Theta is an idea in the same basic shape as [The Blend], but rather than working with our familiar world with fantastic creatures brought into it, this is a galaxy in the future, in which humans are just one more species walking the streets amidst a myriad of others.

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The species of Gateway Theta are intended to be original, which has the advantage of not being dependent on pre-existing franchises. They may have thematic similarities to established science fiction platforms, but are intended to be denizens of a galaxy that incorporates them in total, from the broadest aspects of culture to unique quirks of physiology. In this way, we can all collectively create a galaxy that neither requires investment in previously existing lore, nor is impeded by previously existing rules. We can make a new universe that believes in itself, and watch it evolve as new content creators add to it.

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Whether you have a story about two star-crossed spacefarers far from Earth that never thought they would see each other again, or ambassadors from warring species that secretly cannot wait to get their appendages on each other behind closed doors, chances are you can incorporate it into Gateway Theta.

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Much like The Blend, the rules are simple: anything that has not been previously explored and codified by a previous creator is yours to work with as you please. If you read an idea from an existing creator that you enjoy, you can always riff off that idea and take it further, using species, technologies, and ideas they have invented and further integrating them into the galaxy.

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Unlike The Blend, the general lack of reference points necessitates a little bit more investment on the part of the potential contributor. A rule I would like to establish is that, if you have a species you would like to add to the galaxy's lore for the sake of a story, that you take a few minutes to fill out the google forms species questions on this page. This will feed into a spreadsheet that will provide some background on the species so that new readers can get an idea of what they are about, and provides a sort of database for anyone who wants to take an idea someone else started and run with it. My hope is that any new species introduced in a script or audio will be represented in the spreadsheet at around the time of posting that script or audio, and that new species will only be introduced along with their incorporation into a script or audio, so that the galaxy doesn't become flooded with aliens that nobody has ever actually used in a story.

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About the Gateway Theta setting:

It is a future distant enough that humankind has long since taken to the stars. Human settlements exist on multiple worlds, both near and far from Mother Earth. With this expansion out into the galaxy has come an introduction to the galactic community - a place rife with life forms of all shapes and sizes.

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Gateway Theta is a massive space station created by a unique coalition of species from across the galaxy. It is the hub to govern one of the precious naturally occurring regions of space, known as fractal zones, that allow space vessels to return from subspace, a nonlinear reality who's different physics allow effective faster-than-light travel. While it is possible for a properly equipped vessel to force entry into subspace from anywhere, without the fractal zone to come back through, it is a voyage with no hope of return.

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So imperative are the fractal zones, that those found in neutral space are governed by the coalition, an organization composed of contingents from the majority of known sapient species in the galaxy, that operate the Gateway stations. Even species currently in a state of war with one another have put aside their differences sufficiently to fund the coalition, for without it, interstellar travel would become effectively impossible.

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The vast station itself is composed of a hybrid of technologies from all across the galaxy - an amalgam of structures built, grown, quantum threaded, and sung into existence, collectively producing something entirely unique. Designed for the diverse species of a heavily populated galaxy to come together, various portions of the stations provide everything from oxygenated, to aquatic, to methanated environments, all governed by a range from low to high gravities and temperatures.

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As one travels to the station, the first impression they get is of a vast, many-spoked wheel, lazily rotating in the void. This image rapidly dissolves, however, as approach gives a true sense of the station's sheer size, and scale becomes impossible to truly gauge. Landing in one of its eight docking bays, each themselves the size of a small city, the visitor must brave the elaborate transportation network to get to their final destination. The wealthy and the important are likely headed to the station's hub, where the movers and shakers rub shoulders with ambassadors and royalty around the embassy in the political districts. The less fortunate are likely to head outwards on the wheel, where both labor and life grow cheaper the further away from the station's center you get.

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It is a melting pot metropolis in space, where trade, politics, and exploration converge to form an ever-changing environment. And this is porn, so of course, so everybody fucks.

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How to create content for Gateway Theta:

1. Anyone who wants to make content for the Gateway Theta universe is welcome to hop aboard. Just respect what other people have made and try not to directly contradict it.
2. Fill out the new species form.
3. For your script or audio, tag [Gateway Theta] in the post title.
4. Send me a DM to let me know you've posted something for it!

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Scripts & audios for Gateway Theta:

Writers/VAs are listed in alphabetical order. Their individual content is also in alphabetical order.

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Works by u/Acrobatic_Ticket_659

1. Caste-Offs - script offer
2. Deep in Her Guts - script offer
3. Permission to Cum Aboard - script offer | filled by u/A_fleurdepeau
4. Stranded with the Enemy - OC
5. The Discovery - OC

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Works by u/Flyleaffriction

1. Of Thorns - script offer
2. Stargazer - OC

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Works by u/SwoonShadow

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1. Interrogated by the Dark Lord pt 1- improv
2. Interrogated by the Dark Lord pt 2 - improv
3. Interrogated by the Dark Lord pt 3 - improv

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Works by u/WeAreTheBorg23

1. Assimilation - script offer | filled by u/dominaexcrucior
2. A Collective Love - script offer | filled by u/LurkyDip and u/Gaussian_blured

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Works by u/dominaexcrucior

Outbreak on Acora III - script offer |

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Hope to hear you out there among the stars!

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New formatting courtesy of the talented and generally awesome u/dominaexcrucior.

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Copyright free music: "Entering a Black Hole", courtesy of Wee Free Music, and "Stars in Her Skies" by Scott Buckley.

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UPDATE (3/1/23): Like the master post for The Blend, this post is intended as a living document. I will be adding pertinent lore not to do solely with species, or to do with larger galactic politics/phenomena here.