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That’s a mouthful, isn’t it? If you don’t know, Recursiverse is one of the
most popular franchises in history, spanning several books, dozens of TV
series, and hundreds of movies (depending on your definition). It follows
thousands of characters living fantastical lives in two parallel universes. In
the modern age, the fantastical elements that they explore in the stories can
be recreated using real technologies, but back when they were first being
written and distributed, they were exciting to a huge audience. There’s still
some soft scifi in there that we can’t do for real in this dome network.
That’s right, it’s not just one dome. You couldn’t fit all this in the area
covered by a single dome, so it has to spread out. I don’t even know how many
domes there are, because you don’t always know when you’ve moved. You can
travel to other planets with vastly different geographies, and you do
this using faster-than-light technology that doesn’t allow you to see exactly
how you’re moving in realspace. I think you’re sometimes moving along the
z-axis, onto upper levels hidden behind the holographic sky on the ceiling of
the layer below, which isn’t as high as it looks. I’m not going to go into any
specifics, because it won’t mean anything to you if you’re unfamiliar with the
canon. But there are alien races, and they’re perfectly recreated by the
androids. You can also choose your own substrate, and it doesn’t have to look
like you, or even human at all. Other domes do that, but this was once
protected intellectual property. The creator gradually began to release his
rights to the public, so others could explore the stories and themes that he
conceived. The law didn’t require that he do that. He’s still alive today. By
current laws, he could still retain the rights. That’s assuming he
continued to make new contributions, or he would have lost them eventually.
Some of them would be under the public domain regardless, though, as he shared
his rights to them with a corporation, such as a movie studio. They never
retain their power for long, especially not since all those financial-based
companies are now dead. I know it sounds like I’m getting off topic, but it
explains why this is such a big franchise on this planet. By the time the
creator published a single word of his work, Recursiverse was a well defined
universe—or biverse, as it were—full of a solid foundation of rules,
conventions, and histories, and even contingencies. The creator could have
made every decision, but he chose to let them be free, first by collaborating
directly with others, then by deliberately relinquishing his control. If you
want to enjoy this dome network in full, you’re gonna wanna catch up with what
has come before, but I promise that it’s worth it. I don’t ever want to leave.
