My first reaction to this would be I'm not happy with the idea, but I can't immediately figure-out why.
If this is to be done, then I think it would be sensible to have some sort of divergent history timeline - what things have happened on Terra in the Real World that did not happen in the Fenspace setting.
For example, space exploration will have gone differently, changes in Australian and maybe New Zealand politics, changing attitudes to the managing of global warming, the Large Hadron Collider...
Then there would be things happening on Terra in the Fenspace timeline that didn't happen in ours, that might be agreed on, such as handwavium 'black projects':
* why didn't various nations create their own space navy?
* are there secret slave AIs?
* are there attempts at superintelligent AIs?
Also, are there attempts to build medical technology, with manageable quirks, on Terra, to make a serious attempt to push forward the boundaries of medical knowledge:
* fast, cheap, DNA sequencing of all cancers? (to allow precisely targeted treatments; including monitoring further DNA changes)
* gaining a full understanding of how the immune system works?
* gaining a full understanding of neuro degenerative diseases?
* understanding the aging process?
Are there attempts to build global models of the environment of Terra?
Are there attempts to build a global model of the financial system?
Are there new religions on Terra to do with handwavium? Do these have extremist arms?
How does the existence of Fenspace affect the power and influence of the United Nations? The World Bank? The World Court (International Court of Justice)?
Is handwavium being employed to deal with disasters like drought or food shortage?
I'm not even touching on military or police uses, like AI in drones, or surveillance, or forensics, or profiling...
(I'm assuming that geo engineering with giant space mirrors, or messing with hurricanes, is minimal.)
Past a certain point I think there needs to at least be a sketch of the divergence - seven billion people with handwavium potentially giving them all sorts of new possibilities - I don't think that this influence on Fenspace stories should be sensibly ignored.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
If this is to be done, then I think it would be sensible to have some sort of divergent history timeline - what things have happened on Terra in the Real World that did not happen in the Fenspace setting.
For example, space exploration will have gone differently, changes in Australian and maybe New Zealand politics, changing attitudes to the managing of global warming, the Large Hadron Collider...
Then there would be things happening on Terra in the Fenspace timeline that didn't happen in ours, that might be agreed on, such as handwavium 'black projects':
* why didn't various nations create their own space navy?
* are there secret slave AIs?
* are there attempts at superintelligent AIs?
Also, are there attempts to build medical technology, with manageable quirks, on Terra, to make a serious attempt to push forward the boundaries of medical knowledge:
* fast, cheap, DNA sequencing of all cancers? (to allow precisely targeted treatments; including monitoring further DNA changes)
* gaining a full understanding of how the immune system works?
* gaining a full understanding of neuro degenerative diseases?
* understanding the aging process?
Are there attempts to build global models of the environment of Terra?
Are there attempts to build a global model of the financial system?
Are there new religions on Terra to do with handwavium? Do these have extremist arms?
How does the existence of Fenspace affect the power and influence of the United Nations? The World Bank? The World Court (International Court of Justice)?
Is handwavium being employed to deal with disasters like drought or food shortage?
I'm not even touching on military or police uses, like AI in drones, or surveillance, or forensics, or profiling...
(I'm assuming that geo engineering with giant space mirrors, or messing with hurricanes, is minimal.)
Past a certain point I think there needs to at least be a sketch of the divergence - seven billion people with handwavium potentially giving them all sorts of new possibilities - I don't think that this influence on Fenspace stories should be sensibly ignored.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind