Abeceus System

Setting & Canon

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Setting & Canon

Core constraints and tone for the Abeceus setting.

Tone

  • Gritty and realistic — believable adult economics and geopolitics
  • Not fully dystopian — stability exists alongside localized brutality
  • Mil-sim feel — logistics, doctrine, budgets, and operational limitations matter
  • Spy-thriller layer — secrets exist and can be uncovered

Technology Constraints

  • No casual FTL — space travel is high-performance STL: expensive, fuel-intensive, operationally constrained
  • Helium-3 is strategic — enables lighter, higher-performance reactor and propulsion profiles
  • Advanced infrastructure exists but must be expensive, politically contested, and not so abundant it breaks power structures

Secrets Constraint

  • Secrets and alien artifacts can exist in multiple places
  • They should be discoverable, localized, and high-value
  • They reshape incentives and create crises, not instantly rewrite the economy

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