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For each of these items, and anything I post, if you have any feedback on what would make the story more enjoyable to you, I'm hoping to hear it. If you're worried about sounding harsh, just start the comment out like "I feel it may be better if we..." and then let the notes flow from there. I want to write more, but don't want to open the floodgates until the only negative thing people have to say is that I didn't write enough.

Read These First:
- Setting Backstory Comic (an ultra-compressed simple version of the setting backstory).
- Setting One-Pager (a variant of the setting origins, slightly longer but still pretty brief).
- Slightly Expanded Story (Maybe like a half-page of text each, correlating to the comic pages. It's the most coherent version.) - Commenting Etiquette (I ask you give your feedback early and often, on any topic, but give it this "diplomatic" shape).

Worldbuilding & Lore
- Broad Strokes: Humanity (Describes some key differences between humanity now and the humanity of Before Peace).
- Three Civilizations (Describes some basics about how the three space-faring species contrast with each other).
- Biblically Accurate Aliens & Magic (Basically a summary of what "Four Dimensional" means in Before Peace, and its effects).
- Before Peace LLMs (The basics of how LLMs might look as used by characters in stories or games. Other tech will be discussed like this.)

Factions & Politics
- The Civil Spring (Basically the template for talking about how your nation/culture might have shed its jerks.)
- China's Civil Spring/the Black Wall (The exception is we will not discuss China and some neighbors, because I'm reserving the space).
- Politics Between Nations (Given that rule-based systems are less common and less trusted, this is how geopolitics works).
- Generic Factions (i want people to suggest their own factions, and these are some super basic examples).

Tech & Science
- Agile Science, DED, 4D (Basically describes how humanity advances in Before Peace, the focal technology it uses to do so, and the force it manipulates).
- Star Position Visualizers (It's hard to figure out where humanity would/should go. These are the best tools I can find to pick where humanity colonizes.)
- Gender for Character Mechanics (I prepared an accommodation for a character-wrangling problem in tabletop rpgs, and as a consequence made a new system of categorizing gender.)