Before I started my SG-BSG-AU, I actually wanted to make my very own sci-fi. In the very beginning, I even wanted to write my own novel – but once I had the concept for the novel worked out, I realized I was having more fun creating a universe than writing a novel. So I wanted to create a kind of "Encyclopedia Britannica" of my own universe. But after a while I had to admit to myself that my universe was just the series "SG1" and "SGA" with different names and set 400 years after the series.
So I decided to embrace my destiny and actually create a Stargate AU, which I combined with Battlestar Galactica years later. In fact, I haven't made any progress with my own sci-fi in recent years. For various reasons, the models I had were such that they regularly crashed Sketchup. Creating a scene was unthinkable. So I put the universe on hold.
But that has changed in the last few days. Since I'm not creating any new SG/BSG models at the moment - my current stock of SG/BSG models is enough for at least two more years of posts (I'm afraid it will take even longer until I've posted everything). I'm currently reworking the "faulty" models with Michael's tools. Or rather, I'm recreating most of the models.
As a little motivation for myself, I have created this image using the models that do not need to be revised. This universe – the universe of the "United Worlds Organization" (UWO) - is based on the assumption that gravity is transmitted by its own particles, the gravitons, and that these gravitons are discovered in 2015 at the CERN research center in Switzerland. In 2020, CERN discovered the existence of stable chemical elements beyond atomic number 118 – elements that can either be used to artificially generate gravitons (artificial gravity) or to influence gravitons and thus gravity itself (e.g. to create weightlessness on Earth). The so-called "GravoTech", the technology for manipulating gravity or for manipulating gravitons, which is not necessarily the same thing, is based on these elements, 17 in total. The effect of "GravoTech" is ultimately based on the combination of two or more of the known elements beyond atomic number 118, the so-called "gravimetric elements".
By 2060, almost the entire solar system is colonized with the help of "GravoTech", e.g. through artificial gravity on board spaceships or through space-time curvature and anti-gravity, which make the conventional engines of spaceships more powerful and fuel-efficient. In the year 2100, conflicts arise between the colonies and the states on Earth that founded the colonies – above all the USA, Russia, China and India. Earth is more and more dependent on the resources of the interplanetary colonies, and the colonies resist the system of oppression designed to guarantee the maximum outflow of resources to Earth.
After 5 years, peace is reached, as neither side really has the resources to wage such a conflict. The colonies are admitted to the UN as separate states, which thus becomes the UWO. In the course of the 22nd century, the UWO develops into the de facto government of the solar system. In the middle of the 22nd century, the time has come: the "GravoTech" engines are further developed into FTL engines and first contact is made with sentient aliens. That changes everything.
The UWO, mankind, must recognize that the Milky Way is divided into the spheres of interest of six old or even ancient superpowers. Humanity now has two options: To become a vassal of one of the superpowers, like all the other peoples of the Milky Way so far, or to become the Milky Way's seventh superpower itself. The UWO opts for the second option. To achieve this goal, humanity chooses the most radical, most difficult, but in the long term most rewarding path: All for one and one for all.
Mankind opens the UWO to all species that wish to become members and fulfill certain basic requirements. These include first and foremost the acceptance of the UWO's supreme doctrine: "Many species, but only one people".
Many civilizations have tried to establish multi-species states. In the long run, however, they all failed, as never in the history of the Milky Way has one civilization been willing to consider the other as an equal and a partner. In the long term, there were only two types of alliance. Either loose alliances of a military or economic nature, which could be broken and changed at any time in the long term. Or master-vassal or even master-slave relationships. But equal rights as citizens of a common state had never been achieved.
The image shows a UWO convoy from the 24th century. At this time, the UWO consists of several dozen species and has, at least in its local area of the galaxy, the rank of a medium power. This was only possible because the superpowers were and are divided on how to deal with the UWO. Most believe that this multi-species state will eventually break up, like so many others in the millennia before. And because humanity was ready to truly unite with other species.
The convoy consists of four "Lake Superior" freighters (the four spherical spaceships in the center), four "Mongoose" patrol ships (small saucers) and two "Carthago" destroyers (large saucers). The convoy is overflown by a heavy fighter/scout (I don't have a name yet, but probably F-41).
