AetheriaLore

AetheriaLore is an Obsidian vault for the Aetheria setting: a politically charged science-fantasy / science-fiction world shaped by corporate power, technological escalation, ideological struggle, and the long consequences of social collapse.

At its core, Aetheria imagines a world where capitalism has been pushed to its farthest conclusion. Identity, labor, infrastructure, warfare, media, and even consciousness itself are mediated by profit, governance, and competing systems of control. The repository collects the notes that define that setting and trace how its factions, technologies, concepts, and histories fit together.

What This Repository Contains

The vault is primarily organized under Aetheria/Worldbuilding/, with major sections for:

• Pre-Elysium: the history, factions, technologies, movements, and timeline of the solar-system era before the setting's major rupture.
• Post-Elysium: the concepts, species, and technologies that define the transformed setting after that rupture.
• Politics: the legal, strategic, and institutional logic that governs conflict and power.

How To Read It

This project works best as a connected knowledge base rather than a linear manuscript.

• Start with Aetheria/Introduction.md for the broad premise.
• Move into Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Timeline.md for the macro-historical arc.
• Follow wiki links such as [[Megas]], [[Aether]], or [[Pan-Solar Consortium]] to move between related ideas.
• Browse by subject if you prefer: factions, movements, technologies, concepts, and political structures are all broken out into separate notes.

If you open the vault in Obsidian, the internal wiki links will give the best reading experience.

What Makes Aetheria Distinct

Aetheria is not just a catalog of cool technologies or factions. The setting is built around cause and effect:

• technology is treated as socially embedded rather than neutral,
• institutions emerge from material pressures and historical conflict,
• faction identity is shaped by class power, ideology, labor relations, and survival strategies,
• worldbuilding is grounded in incentives, contradictions, and lived consequences.

That means the repository is especially focused on questions like:

• Who benefits from a given technology?
• Who is constrained, exploited, or erased by it?
• What forms of resistance, adaptation, or control does it produce?
• How do political economy and historical struggle shape the world over time?

For Contributors

This repository now includes project guidance in AGENTS.md, which documents the conventions, tone, structure, and thematic expectations used across the vault. If you plan to expand or revise the setting, start there before making broad changes.

License

See LICENSE for repository licensing details.