In transformative fandom, the song of my people is a lonely tune

[extrapenguin]

So, after a very hectic week of work featuring lots of overtime, I daydreamed about what sorts of things I'd write for my letter for the 520 Guardian Reverse Exchange (I will totally write a letter of prompts for my author to choose from, because how else am I supposed to do an exchange???), and basically the answer is "porn prompts, cute scenes, plotty plot ideas, all the worldbuilding, and all the worldbuilding, except this time as if it were for a science fiction novel". The latter category includes stuff like relativity.

Assuming Shen Wei were slapped on a relativistic space ship that accelerated at 1 G for 5 000 years, then did some funky gravity assist swing stuff and decelerated at 1 G for 5 000 years more, he'd have from his POV spent 18 years on a relativistic space ship while the rest of the Universe ticked along by 10k years. This is obviously the best solution for reconciling Shen Wei saying he's sought Zhao Yunlan for 10k years yet have him not be an immortal!

(But seriously, someone sing me the song of my people. I would love to have someone take the chance to explain how the Hallows time travel is totally somehow due to the fact that they are e.g. a FTL drive left behind by a more advanced civilization that turned Zhao Yunlan into a tachyonic construct with imaginary mass who could thus break the speed limit and time travel! The pains of wanting science fiction/space AUs that aren't Star Wars or Star Trek based...)

(Guardian rewatch post ep 5 will take another few hours.)

Comments

[teaotter]

I really do wish I'd been in Guardian fandom before worldbuildingex had their fandom nominations this year. Maybe next year a bunch of us can sign up?

[firestar]

I would read the shit out of this. *_* Alas, I can't help with the science stuff. I can barely BS my way through Star Trek/Wars/Gate AU fic let alone anything actual science realted. >.>

[rheasilvia]

I would also love to have some hard scifi elements make their way into Guardian! There is such a huge wealth of stories bound up in the spaceship backstory - not just the FTL/time travel and other scientific aspects, but also the story of the aliens leaving their own planet.

Sounds like a great prompt to me! :-)