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It is the year 4005.

Over the past two-thousand years the human race has reached a level of technological advancement incomprehensible to those of the 21st century. Fusion, antimatter and orbital solar technologies have made access to energy infinite, advanced biological engineering has triumphed against disease and mortality, automation has made all the old concepts of work fade into obscurity, and a mastery of physics have allowed everyday manipulation of matter and the fundamental forces, allowing feats such as artificial gravity, weather manipulation, and even the terraforming of formerly inhospitable planets.

In this era humans have colonised the Solar System and various exoplanets. Though connected by starship lanes made possible by the Kimber Drive - a mass-affecting system capable of allowing starships to reach 99% of the speed of light - the undeniable reality of the light barrier keeps the human-inhabited worlds at immense distances from one-another.

Though considerably advanced off the back of its own ingenuity, it was artificial intelligence that has pushed mankind's technology beyond all previous historical measure, with its capabilities becoming so exponential and gargantuan that it has over the centuries slipped out of human control, spawning an entire section of industry dedicated to containing it. By the mid 3rd millennium, the infrastructure networks of all of human-controlled space were entirely managed and operated by AI, and by the 4th, human intelligence began to find itself paralleled by machine learning as if it were a separate life form, with AI having even developed its own cultures and languages in its efforts to self-improve.

Life in 4005 is one of dual utopia and dystopia. A human of any stripe or creed will find both serenity and dread on one or more of the core planets. Many relish in their idyllic breeds of capitalism, many more canker in its millenia-old advance. No one society has found an ultimate solution to modernity, and all are left with two ancient existential choices: adapt to the world and survive, or overcome it and hope to live better.

About the wiki

4005 is a science fiction project written by Khalael, MongoosePirate and Necrus, with key input from OvaltinePatrol, Skonis, and others.

The setting is ever-growing, and much of the wiki is unfinished and subject to change. Feel free to check out our featured articles for a handful of articles deemed "complete enough" for a worthy read. Or you could just hit random page and see where it takes you.


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