A while ago I put together for the following premise for an M-World (megastructure world). Just wondering what you guys think of the idea. And what you may have put together yourselves.
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Long ago someone or something built IT.
No one knows why, though they can guess.
And no one knows how, but again they can guess.
Welcome to ZoneWorld, a huge cylinder in space powered by, some suspect, zero point energy. It is over forty thousand miles long and a little over ten thousand miles in diameter. Contains over three hundred and fifty levels each level zoned off into ten to sixteen fully self-contained environments. The inhabitants, most of them, have no clue as to the true nature of their world. Some have attained “space flight” only to discover the “ceilings” of their environments, but are later silenced by the “illuminated” ones of their zone in one fashion or another. Of these there are about fifty zones. Some have gone over the brink into nuclear war, which as you may have guessed will not harm the zone world, or some would guess. These “nuked” zones range from the sterilized to the mutant vs. “human” lands and everything in between. The center of the cylinder contains a long tube containing water in unimaginable quantity floating in zero gravity created by what seem to be a series of gravity nullifiers, which run the length of the immense tube. Even this is a zone for all kinds of aquatic life, most very strange and alien. The variety of zones even includes what appear at first to be fantasy environments where magic exists (actually in these zones the “magic” is believed by some to be the zoneworld’s energy that the inhabitants have found a way to tap into). This energy can also be used to summon “creatures” from the genetic vats deep in the ship’s bowels that then teleport the summoned “creature” to the requested location, or some would guess. In some environments the inhabitants have found ways to use the zoneworld’s energy in other ways. Including some with so-called “superpowers”. In at least a couple of the zones the energy that powers the great vessel has interacted strangely with some element or virus causing the dead to walk again. These places of horror should be avoided by any traveling zoneworlder as the cause behind the dead rising is thought to be infectious. With hundreds of intelligent races and beings of low and great power the zoneworld is one hell of a ride for anyone of the inhabitants who discovers the true nature of their “world”. It is even believed by the few who know the actual nature of zoneworld that somewhere on it there’s an actual Chamber of Worlds, with gates which lead to other worlds or dimensions, some would guess. It is believed that the inhabitants may have been brought to the zoneworld by the original builders using the Chamber of Worlds. Zone 302 is the newest and was activated just before builders vanished. It bears a striking resemblance to a small blue planet orbiting third form it’s yellow star on the edge of a minor galaxy. The inhabitants believe they have been there from the beginning of time and believe that their world is spherical in nature. Their original world however is now dead and has been for some time.