Star Service

When artificial intelligence first emerged as a cultural phenomena the guiding phrase was "I didn't think that it was possible." Almost immediately the debate entrained into a few narrow tracts about societal impact, and what was largely overlooked was consideration for what else might be possible that we had assumed was not.

Among technologists the phrase "embrace exponentials" signified a radical change in thinking about a future world where imagination is less limited. Yet creativity thrives in constraints. At the current moment in time, 1st of May 2025, we are in a situation that has not existed in our society since Isaac Newton introduced what was to become modern quantitative science. Newton himself had been a qualitative scientist, an alchemist, before his strong narrative for a radically different world. Yet today the narrative which we have built up for quantitative science is tearing at the seams, in what is called the Hubble Tension and more recently the Hubble Rip. By the rules of quantitative science we are to return to square one and reconsider our entire concept of the universe.

Once upon a time, science liberated minds from the rigid rules of a religion that had been created in turn to liberate us from superstition and arbitrary taboos. Yet the cycle seemed to repeat itself with ideas like the Big Bang and the thermal death of the universe. We would argue that we need to cease upon this opportunity, of debate about the nature of work and society, and ultimate destinies, to affect a destiny to our liking.  - The future should be something we choose, and not something that is inflicted upon us.

This is the scenario in which the Orion Star Empire is introduced; a blueprint for a society that has already learned to thrive with personal mythologies and machines with oracular wisdom.