Core Themes

How can technology be integrated into society and the world?

What are the pros/cons of different social structures?

How do different technological ideologies mix with different social ideologies?

Notes

Star Wars + Cyberpunk + Cozy Cottages

Shrines to different icons (common UI like battery, cellular bars, save icon, etc) that have been simplified to each represent a different fundamental idea (energy, interconnectedness, memory/rememberance).

Households are powered by solar and wind power. Types of renewable energy have their own religious followings with different sects. Wind energy pirates?

This is now expanded on to be the factions below.

Small nuclear batteries power weapons, spells are required to make them into batteries and create containment fields for safety. Being struck with a nuclear weapon is like being hit with a blaster/laser weapon (Star Wars) but it also causes radiation poisoning over time and the more you are hit.

Maybe the spells for making radiation powered weapons are tightly controlled? Maybe you are only allowed to learn once you reach a certain age?

This doesn’t really work with the factions below. Presumably the technologists would have old people too? Maybe it’s controlled by a single faction, like the solar sages.

Empire of robots is trying to take over? They have laser weapons, but not radiation powered. Maybe young people run this empire? Laser weapons need an energy source hence the need for expansion and taking over resources.

This also doesn’t work with the below faction ideas, but more interesting to have multiple distinct ideologies for both the sustainable theme and technological theme.

Factions

Sustainablists

Communities entirely divested from non-renewable sources of energy and non-replaceable materials.

Solar Sages

An isolationist religious faction. The majority of members live alone. At most, they live in groups of 3-5. Elders are able to live alone with assistance from technology.

Wind Sailors

Hydro Cooperative

Technologists

Analog

Lo-Fi Monarchy

The ruler dictates the VIBES. Star Wars vector graphics?

Digital

More classic cyberpunk but less dark and grim. Dense population, advertising, capitalism. Visually still a bright color palette + neon, concrete buildings.