Poll: Which scifi/futuristic setting would you rather live in?

[Irony's Acolyte]

Mass Effect I would be more interested in overall. Star Wars is pretty nice, but I just like the feel of Mass Effect more. Then of course Star Wars is partly space fantasy while Mass Effect is just straight up sci-fi. Never watched anything on Star Trek (besides the recent movie, but that isn't worth much) so I don't really know if its that nice. Doesn't seem so bad, but I still like the Mass Effect universe too much.

And the only way you're going to get me to be in the 40k universe is if I was part of an Inquisitor's retinue. Yeahs its dangerous, but its better than being just another cog in the Imperial war industry, just another body in the Imperial Guard, or just another bag of flesh in the maw of some alien. As a Inquisitor's henchman I'm a bit more unique amongst humans. Plus having that 'I' to flash to whoever would be quite useful. Nobody crosses the Inquisition!

 

[Shrifes]

I voted for Star Trek because of the Earth being a Utopia thing and I could see myself joining Star Fleet.

I was so very tempted to vote for 40k but humans have it kind of rough there even if your planet isn't being raided or invaded. The lack of understand with our own technology is a huge strike against 40k and if I did end up in battle, and it being Warhammer it always seems to go that way, I'd probably have a flashlight and a might as well be paper flak vest. But if I could be a Rogue Trader I'd probably go with 40k.

 

[iblis666]

known space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space

specifically for the autodoc build by carlos wu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_Shaeffer#Carlos_Wu

 

[Hashime]

Mass effect, I would get rich somehow (gun running?) and genetically engineer the hell out of myself. I also would have force powers and sick tech.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Star Trek. It's the safest of the universes to live in. The other settings may have peaceful planets, but the odds of catastrophic events occuring are much higher.

Warhammer 40k would be far and away the worst of these universes to live in. The Imperium ("the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable" if the preface is anything to go by) squelches free thought and expression in favor of mindless subservience to the Emperor. Their judicial system has a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality, with death sentences or life servitude on penal worlds being the norm for even minor crimes (either that, or they'll lobotomize you and turn you into a servitor). Even if you lived on some remote backwater world where Imperial authority is lax, you would always have the risk of some other alien or daemonic faction invading and killing/eating/enslaving/erasing you. Your best bet would be to join the Tau as they're about the only faction that accepts outsiders. You would have to follow the tenets of the Greater Good and possibly have second-class citizen status, but at least you would be left alone for the most part.

 

[minarri]

Star Trek. Synthehol, guys.

You can't get drunk off of it and it tastes different for some people...

I'd probably go with Star Trek anyway. Great medical care, people do whatever the hell they want as a profession, sexy pre-beard Riker.

You can get drunk off of it, you just don't get hangovers. Hence why I want some.

 

[thylasos]

Star Trek, clearly. Opportunities for all sorts of life there, especially in later series, be it in a quiet town on earth, a struggling frontier colony, aboard a warship, working with smugglers, devoting your life to scientific or artistic study... the choice is yours, really.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

EDIT: Keep in mind most people in Warhammer 40k don't even know about the wars, and the like. Chances are you would be perfectly happy in your life. Unless you lived on a forge world.

Or a Death world or arguably a hive world. An agri-planet would be rather nice though.
Considering my interests I'd probably be a Techpriest, and Mars is one of the safest planets in the imperium being next door to Terra and all. Or at least until the Void Dragon awakes.

Mass Effect is a close, close second, smexy Quarians and all.

Star Trek. Synthehol, guys.

You can't get drunk off of it and it tastes different for some people...

I'd probably go with Star Trek anyway. Great medical care, people do whatever the hell they want as a profession, sexy pre-beard Riker.

Post-beard Riker was a lot sexier than Commander Babyface.
Just look!

 

[the rye]

I would choose the Fallout universe.

 

[linwolf]

The Known Space universe by Larry Niven.

 

[Zacharine]

The Culture.

No death if you don't want it, magictech (it's called inferior and superior hyperspace layers but yeah...) at it's finest, orgies are a common way to pass time and everyone can do whatever they want - and thanks to the absolutely ludicrous tech level, there are really not that many physical constraints. I mean, these are the guys that can create an autonomous almost-as-intelligent-as-human pen-sized self-guided projectile with an anti-gravity drive that cuts trough matter at atomic level and then comes back asking for new orders. They can hack computers from light-years away by scanning and altering the quantum state of it as effect-at-destination that simply skips the intervening space ("Lightspeed limitations? How droll. Who would want to be bound by those?")

So yeah, it's a Utopia of the highest degree.

 

[Stollos]

I'd never make it as a SPEHS MAREEN!!!!1!, so I suppose its Mass Effect for me. And no, not just for the sexy aliens, although that is a part of it. Mainly for the variety of species and societies that co-exist in the galaxy, and a setting I prefer over Star Wars.

 

[Absimilliard]

Isaac Asimov's, if I could live on one of the planets were robots did my every bidding.

 

[=VTA=Spax]

Most of the options have merits but;

Star Trek;
A place where employment through self-improvement is the main job option, virtuous behaviour is the norm rather than the exception and for once humanity strives for galactic peace rather than defend against some 'Great Evil' or 'Imminent Danger'.

The Mass Effect option comes a fairly close second as every moment is an eyegasm.

The only reason Star Trek (mainly TNG) comes across as less visually appealing is due to the time in which it was filmed (87-94), at the time the trend was beige-tastic.
Voyager was much more ocularly exiting, I'm recalling cool blue interiors with black glass and silver highlights but again this is a product of the time it was shot (95-01).
If another Star Trek was filmed now then you can bet that the smooth minimalist design of such things as the Apple products would play a significant role and not in an ironic, reimagining of original late '60's/early 70's designs, way either!

I guess I've gone a bit too in-depth with my sci-fi futuristic design but the look of a place can be the best way of getting a feel for it.

 

[veloper]

Star Trek. It's the safest of the universes to live in. The other settings may have peaceful planets, but the odds of catastrophic events occuring are much higher.

Warhammer 40k would be far and away the worst of these universes to live in. The Imperium ("the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable" if the preface is anything to go by) squelches free thought and expression in favor of mindless subservience to the Emperor. Their judicial system has a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality, with death sentences or life servitude on penal worlds being the norm for even minor crimes (either that, or they'll lobotomize you and turn you into a servitor). Even if you lived on some remote backwater world where Imperial authority is lax, you would always have the risk of some other alien or daemonic faction invading and killing/eating/enslaving/erasing you. Your best bet would be to join the Tau as they're about the only faction that accepts outsiders. You would have to follow the tenets of the Greater Good and possibly have second-class citizen status, but at least you would be left alone for the most part.

Actually, planetary defense on a civilized world well away from border, may be the best place to be in the WH40K universe.
Ordinary citizens have no rights. Space marines are sexless monks who only get to see battle in their lives. Guardsmen get to experience battle very briefly and painfully.

An ordinary soldier on a relatively safe world, would prolly have more of a life under such a fascist regime. Just aslong as they don't excel enough to be transfered to the imperial guard.

And when the aliens do attack your planet, atleast you die with a flashlight or an equivalent assault rifle in your hands.

 

[Navarone9942]

Deus Ex, nuff said. You can keep your spaceships, sexy aliens and space marines. I'll be content with running at 60 mph, jumping 100 ft and turning invisible at will...

 

[ManicMedic]

Yeah, Star Trek all the way, it's the most peaceful with the best living standards.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Um, can I say none?
All of them are full of danger and war and stuff.
I like my earth.

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

If a Steampunk setting counts, then yes please.
Otherwise, the broken, smashed up world of the DNA Cowboys. Sure, it all goes to shit, what with pre-teen dictators and undefined monsters/machines called Disruptors eating everything up.
But there's whores and booze and drugs aplenty. And that's all we really need
The list has me a bit torn... Mass Effect, Star Wars, or Star Trek?
I love all three!