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	Examples: [[Star Wars]] for a Neutral one with pretty horrific details but a hopeful story, [[Star Trek]] with full Noblebright with some dark details, [[Warhammer 40000]] for full Grimdark with some bright details, Mass Effect (a textbook example of single point of divergence from real life science), [[Twilight Imperium]], [[Cosmic Encounter]]		Examples: [[Star Wars]] for a Neutral one with pretty horrific details but a hopeful story, [[Star Trek]] with full Noblebright with some dark details, [[Warhammer 40000]] for full Grimdark with some bright details, Mass Effect (a textbook example of single point of divergence from real life science), [[Twilight Imperium]], [[Cosmic Encounter]]

	*'''[[Solarpunk]]''' - The most [[noblebright]] punk of them all, necessarily more advanced than Atompunk but can slot into any after that. An utopia for all environmentalists, this aesthetic features a world driven primarily through use of renewable energy and people live harmoniously with nature. Expect to see windmills, solar panels, individualized replacements for infrastructure (home-sized wastewater treatment, people sewing their own clothing, household battery walls, etc.), farming and large gardens, and ''lots of plants everywhere''. Settings using this aesthetic are frequently post-apocalyptic. This one doesn't get much love.		*'''[[Solarpunk]]''' - The most [[noblebright]] punk of them all, necessarily more advanced than Atompunk but can slot into any after that. An utopia for all environmentalists, this aesthetic features a world driven primarily through use of renewable energy and people live harmoniously with nature. Expect to see windmills, solar panels, individualized replacements for infrastructure (home-sized wastewater treatment, people sewing their own clothing, household battery walls, etc.), farming and large gardens, and ''lots of plants everywhere''. Settings using this aesthetic are frequently post-apocalyptic. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s A good video for explaining Solarpunk architecture.] This one doesn't get much love.

	Examples: All the Good Futures from Sonic CD, the Gaians from [[Alpha Centauri]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20fiction "CliFi"] fiction, Wakanda		Examples: All the Good Futures from Sonic CD, the Gaians from [[Alpha Centauri]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20fiction "CliFi"] fiction, Wakanda

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	Examples: [[GURPS]] Screampunk (where the name came from), [[Unhallowed Metropolis]], [[Magic: The Gathering]] (the plane of Innistrad specifically)		Examples: [[GURPS]] Screampunk (where the name came from), [[Unhallowed Metropolis]], [[Magic: The Gathering]] (the plane of Innistrad specifically)

	*'''[[Casette Futurism]]''' - An aesthetic based on the "futuristic" styles of the 70s and especially the 80s. This aesthetic also refers to the unique style of "futuristic-looking" devices made during that time. Expect CRT-screens, fake woodgrain, wedge-cars synthwave music, neon lights, hard-edged plastic shells on all technology, and ''of course'' VHS-tapes and cassettes.		*'''[[Casette Futurism]]''' - An aesthetic based on the "futuristic" styles of the 70s and especially the 80s. This aesthetic also refers to the unique style of "futuristic-looking" devices made during that time. Can overlap with cyberpunk but cybernetics are either non-existent or are given less focus. Expect CRT-screens, fake woodgrain, wedge-cars synthwave music, neon lights, hard-edged plastic shells on all technology, and ''of course'' VHS-tapes and cassettes.

	Examples: Alien, Terminator, Stranger Things		Examples: Alien, Terminator, Stranger Things

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	Examples: All the Good Futures from Sonic CD		Examples: All the Good Futures from Sonic CD

			*'''[[NASA-punk]]''' - Term coined by Bethesda for their new IP, Starfield, though not the first to fit the description. Refers to a setting that is far enough into the future for space travel to be commonplace but still has a very functional look to it, or as Bethesda puts it, "advanced but still grounded and relatable". Expect things to look somewhat analog, not much unlike what one might find on modern day spacecraft and space stations.

			Examples: Starfield, The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

	*'''[[20 Minutes into the Future]]''' - An aesthetic that is definitely in the future, but not by much. Things are not too different from how they are today. For someone living in the 80s, the 2000's would be this aesthetic. This is a very hard-to-define aesthetic, because it keeps moving as time goes on. Most media written with this aesthetic are archetypical science fiction stories, speculating and warning about how present trends will extrapolate. Usually used to insert whatever Macguffin or plot weasel that is used and as a convenient way to dodge contemporary political issues by sidelining them in favor of the new one created in universe without having to go so far into the future that it becomes irrelevant by default at the cost having to worldbuild the background of the setting.		*'''[[20 Minutes into the Future]]''' - An aesthetic that is definitely in the future, but not by much. Things are not too different from how they are today. For someone living in the 80s, the 2000's would be this aesthetic. This is a very hard-to-define aesthetic, because it keeps moving as time goes on. Most media written with this aesthetic are archetypical science fiction stories, speculating and warning about how present trends will extrapolate. Usually used to insert whatever Macguffin or plot weasel that is used and as a convenient way to dodge contemporary political issues by sidelining them in favor of the new one created in universe without having to go so far into the future that it becomes irrelevant by default at the cost having to worldbuild the background of the setting.

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	So if you just want to tell tales of knightly heroism or clashes of empires without fantasy or sci-fi elements but also without feeling constrained by having to make it fit in with real history, making a fictional world based on these settings might be the thing for you.		So if you just want to tell tales of knightly heroism or clashes of empires without fantasy or sci-fi elements but also without feeling constrained by having to make it fit in with real history, making a fictional world based on these settings might be the thing for you.

			*'''[[Prehistory]]'''
	*'''[[Stone Age]]'''		*'''[[Stone Age]]'''
	*'''[[Bronze Age]]'''		*'''[[Bronze Age]]'''

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	*'''[[Nanopunk]]''' - An aesthetic focusing around the use of nanotechnology, Cyberpunk's son. This aesthetic is still evolving, but typically features organic-looking machines, synthetic meta-materials used create "impossible" things (vantablack clothing, mono-molecular edged blades, synthetic muscles), and transhumanist themes. Can often share many themes with Cyberpunk, but the use of nanotechnology is what sets it apart. While a Cyberpunk setting would have cyborgs with cybernetic implants, a Nanopunk setting would instead have people with nanomachines inside them. Sometimes portrayed as a next step from cyberpunk, where cybernetics are becoming obsolete due to advancements in nanotechnology.		*'''[[Nanopunk]]''' - An aesthetic focusing around the use of nanotechnology, Cyberpunk's son. This aesthetic is still evolving, but typically features organic-looking machines, synthetic meta-materials used create "impossible" things (vantablack clothing, mono-molecular edged blades, synthetic muscles), and transhumanist themes. Can often share many themes with Cyberpunk, but the use of nanotechnology is what sets it apart. While a Cyberpunk setting would have cyborgs with cybernetic implants, a Nanopunk setting would instead have people with nanomachines inside them. Sometimes portrayed as a next step from cyberpunk, where cybernetics are becoming obsolete due to advancements in nanotechnology.

	Examples: Crysis, [[Metal Gear\|Metal Gear Solid]] (1,2, 4 and ''especially'' [[Meme\|Rising: Revengeance]]), Deus Ex (First two games only, rest are cyberpunk)		Examples: Crysis, [[Metal Gear\|Metal Gear Solid]] (1,2, 4 and ''especially'' [[Meme\|Rising: Revengeance]]), Deus Ex (First two games only, rest/the prequels are cyberpunk as aforementioned, in fact the original game has the PC as a prototype nano-aug about to replace your fellow mechanical-aug agents while the sequel -second game- has that replacement being complete)

	*'''[[Space Opera]]''' - The grand-daddy of Sci-Fi, Space Opera features a multitude of worlds, races and technology that play loose and fast with the science part for the sake of a wide, bright adventure in SPAAAAACE! Space Operas are filled with larger-than-life characters, space-nations loosely based on different earth societies and great, galaxy-saving adventures, though it can easily be zoomed in to a planet- or even a party-focused story if needed. Can be split into three sub-settings: Hard sci-fi which tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible (which can become obsolete in real life, what [[TVTropes]] terms Science Marches On and Technology Marches On), soft sci-fi where technology works by it's own in-universe rules, somewhere in-between the previous two and science fantasy, which features stuff which is supernatural even by the rules of it's own universe (which can be either hard or soft or in-between, possibly justifying deviance from real life physics/chemistry/biology through the influence of the resident supernatural phenomena).		*'''[[Space Opera]]''' - The grand-daddy of Sci-Fi, Space Opera features a multitude of worlds, races and technology that play loose and fast with the science part for the sake of a wide, bright adventure in SPAAAAACE! Space Operas are filled with larger-than-life characters, space-nations loosely based on different earth societies and great, galaxy-saving adventures, though it can easily be zoomed in to a planet- or even a party-focused story if needed. Can be split into three sub-settings: Hard sci-fi which tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible (which can become obsolete in real life, what [[TVTropes]] terms Science Marches On and Technology Marches On), soft sci-fi where technology works by it's own in-universe rules, somewhere in-between the previous two and science fantasy, which features stuff which is supernatural even by the rules of it's own universe (which can be either hard or soft or in-between, possibly justifying deviance from real life physics/chemistry/biology through the influence of the resident supernatural phenomena).

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	** Some modern Cyberpunk is called "post-Cyberpunk" and is not quite as pessimistic, though still pretty grim compared to other settings. In post-Cyberpunk, augmentation and technology is seen as a powerful tool that can be used to control or liberate people, and is used globally in political and economical powerstruggl- Wait, where have I seen this before?		** Some modern Cyberpunk is called "post-Cyberpunk" and is not quite as pessimistic, though still pretty grim compared to other settings. In post-Cyberpunk, augmentation and technology is seen as a powerful tool that can be used to control or liberate people, and is used globally in political and economical powerstruggl- Wait, where have I seen this before?

	Examples: The Matrix, [[Cyberpunk 2020]], Blade Runner, Shadowrun. Post-cyberpunk examples: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, most modern shooters with robots and augmentations. And it's "just" a novel, but let's not forget the first cyberpunk, and his creator: William Gibson's Neuromancer. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is also a high seminal piece of literature for the genre, if one that treats its conventions tongue-in-cheek even as it helps to ~~actually~~ codify them.		Examples: The Matrix, [[Cyberpunk 2020]], Blade Runner, Shadowrun. Post-cyberpunk examples: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, most modern shooters with robots and augmentations. And it's "just" a novel, but let's not forget the first cyberpunk, and his creator: William Gibson's Neuromancer. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is also a high seminal piece of literature for the genre, if one that treats its conventions tongue-in-cheek even as it helps to codify them.

	*'''[[Steampunk]]''' - One of the first derivatives of Cyberpunk, at least in name only. In actuality, the aesthetic draws quite a bit from the works of Jules Verne, which taking place in Victorian times and features more advanced versions of the steam-powered technology of the day. These kinds of settings can swing between [[noblebright]] and dystopian, since the Victorian Era was a time of wondrous progress, ''and'' huge inequality.		*'''[[Steampunk]]''' - One of the first derivatives of Cyberpunk, at least in name only. In actuality, the aesthetic draws quite a bit from the works of Jules Verne, which taking place in Victorian times and features more advanced versions of the steam-powered technology of the day. These kinds of settings can swing between [[noblebright]] and dystopian, since the Victorian Era was a time of wondrous progress, ''and'' huge inequality.

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	** Some modern Cyberpunk is called "post-Cyberpunk" and is not quite as pessimistic, though still pretty grim compared to other settings. In post-Cyberpunk, augmentation and technology is seen as a powerful tool that can be used to control or liberate people, and is used globally in political and economical powerstruggl- Wait, where have I seen this before?		** Some modern Cyberpunk is called "post-Cyberpunk" and is not quite as pessimistic, though still pretty grim compared to other settings. In post-Cyberpunk, augmentation and technology is seen as a powerful tool that can be used to control or liberate people, and is used globally in political and economical powerstruggl- Wait, where have I seen this before?

	Examples: The Matrix, [[Cyberpunk 2020]], Blade Runner, Shadowrun. Post-cyberpunk examples: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, most modern shooters with robots and augmentations. And it's "just" a novel, but let's not forget the first cyberpunk, and his creator: William Gibson's Neuromancer.		Examples: The Matrix, [[Cyberpunk 2020]], Blade Runner, Shadowrun. Post-cyberpunk examples: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, most modern shooters with robots and augmentations. And it's "just" a novel, but let's not forget the first cyberpunk, and his creator: William Gibson's Neuromancer. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is also a high seminal piece of literature for the genre, if one that treats its conventions tongue-in-cheek even as it helps to actually codify them.

	*'''[[Steampunk]]''' - One of the first derivatives of Cyberpunk, at least in name only. In actuality, the aesthetic draws quite a bit from the works of Jules Verne, which taking place in Victorian times and features more advanced versions of the steam-powered technology of the day. These kinds of settings can swing between [[noblebright]] and dystopian, since the Victorian Era was a time of wondrous progress, ''and'' huge inequality.		*'''[[Steampunk]]''' - One of the first derivatives of Cyberpunk, at least in name only. In actuality, the aesthetic draws quite a bit from the works of Jules Verne, which taking place in Victorian times and features more advanced versions of the steam-powered technology of the day. These kinds of settings can swing between [[noblebright]] and dystopian, since the Victorian Era was a time of wondrous progress, ''and'' huge inequality.