• Space and Hyperspace/the Astral Plane overlap each other
  • the darkness between stars is mostly empty and boring, although sometimes hides cthuluhoid monsters
  • most people travel through hyperspace to reach realspace star systems or hyperspatial realms
  • https://bertball-images.s3.amazonaws.com/the-astral-plane.png

Things that get their own doc

• fallen empires
  • Asgard

Species

Traits:

• name
• class (mammalian, aquatic, lithoid, etc)
• has own state
• civilization index
  • 0: total barbarians
  • 1: about as civilized as humans in 2020
• physical description
• values

Empires

Religions

Religions spawn from something special, something unexplainable, something at least seemingly special, such as:

• Matter triumphing over antimatter
• Living in the "goldilocks zone" of stellar time
• Life and evolution, and the laws of physics favoring thenm