This is a really interesting idea for your setting. You always see a unified human state when we reach the stars but its uncommon to see the opposite. Also I love the Cuman war masks you've got for these guys~

ahah, nice catch :D

discovered cumans raider recently and I was like "ok, this but for space pirates"

and agreed! It's rare take on humanity and I find it kind of strange, seeing how we always failed to unite irl.
So sure, we can imagine the different human fleet can work together from time to time, but on a long timeline, no lasting cooperation.

discount thunder warrior; sign me up :P

well shit, never realised they took inspiration fromt the cuman tribes ahah

There are a few sci fi stories out there that don't feature united humanity, wish more did cause they usually result in some far more interesting worlds. Good to see this one at least has it.

thanks man :D

I think the reason why we don’t have it be used more is because it reminds us of current day issues and how they haven’t died out with advancement of technology. We don’t want that so we want sci-fi to be escapism.

Anyway. I love your concept of humans. :D We would easily be this.

prob with less fancy armor tho u_u

That too.

At least one word that would apply in this sort of case would be 'diaspora'...

And yeah, given that there are group hatreds that have already lasted for millennia, the idea that all gets put aside seems... unlikely, to say the least. Not to mention that there are always going to be people who are willing to throw others under the proverbial bus to get ahead themselves.

A lot of the early days will depend on how the space drive works and where it comes from. If it's expensive and rare because we have to buy the drives from the aliens, the rich and self-important head out (with their servants) and Earth itself becomes a ghetto. If it's dirt cheap you get people flying out scattershot and no combined face of humanity. (There was a comic book anthology called FTL, Y'all! that played with this idea.) In between you get a few large-scale colonization attempts from various groups as a new Space Race happens.

For Humanity to be united out in space, we'd pretty much have to figure it out before getting a space drive.

ahah, yeah

idea here would be to have spacedrive being developped first.

how did peeps took to the stars is lost to the sands of time tho, point is, there is multiple cultural groups spread between numerous fleet

Well, yeah, and absent good communications tech, that's going to happen anyway. The Romans (among others) demonstrated that it's hard to hold an empire together if you can't move information or people around fast enough. My personal theory is that the first step in the collapse of what was still at the time the Roman Republic came when it was no longer possible to gather an army, march out to the frontier, fight a war, and come back to report your success in the time between sprint planting and fall harvest. Because once the frontier was that far away, suddenly farming families were a lot less willing to volunteer members for the army...

A large empire can only hold together so long as it's possible to react to situations before they finish happening. If someone can stage a coup in an outlying system and finish erecting their defences faster than you can get forces in to deal with it, your empire crumbles. (See, for example, the second Riel Rebellion in Canada, where being able to ship troops via the half-finished railroad ended up quashing the rebellion before they had time to dig in for the winter.)

Fundamentally, this is pretty much why the old RPG Traveller runs on a semi-feudal system: The high-level government absolutely relies on local 'barons' to handle things, because there's no way it can react fast enough to do more than set general policy for most situations. And the moment there's a power vacuum at the top, things break down regionally really quickly as every local power starts backing their own favoured candidate in hopes of improving their own situation.

Aaahhhh a human with the heavy flamer, purging heretics and xenos in the name of the God Emperor XDDDD

That's probably still better than the 40K universe.

as much as i unironically like it for what it is, the WH40k fanbase is about as annoying from a "humanity f*** yeah" perspective as a vegan bitcoin trader doing crossfit

a humanity that isn't united come first contact with aliens? that's new. i just thought they were united and then kinda fell apart at some point.

i must inquire more about this at a later date :3c

Reminds me of the interior ministry in sekiro with the cannoneers

oooh! ❤️ neat!

So in your Universe , Giants are ruling the space while small weak/used as slaves?

where did I said that oO

macros are only a species located into a specific area of space, they rely on micros for transit between worlds

Just a tought , i've seen your Scavenger arts and the micros seem like pirates and other stuff and when you described humans here i came with the tought of "micros are weak while macros are strong" , but anyways ... your art is awesome keep it up!

Same for other micro species you introduced in Scavengers BTW

just cuz you can't tackle a macro in 1 on 1 scenario doesn't mean your species is weak ahah

Damn.... true!


Noted.

You can find a way to liquidate anyone if you get creative. And few people have survived intense, overwhelming fire from an organized group/army.