This is setting information that's good to know and/or common knowledge. Use it to add to your character's backstory or motivation - or familiarize yourself with it for general RP. I'll mostly feed you information if necessarily as we go along (or make you roll for it, if it's a little more obscure), but if you just want to doublecheck what kind of religion is most prevalent in X space port, here's your port of call.

The galaxy is at peace. Allegedly.

There are three great powers who vie with one another for supremacy and greatness:

The Dominion (often called The Empire, Those fellows, Oh No)
The Serene Republic of Dawalnujum (often called Sereneness, Serenity, Fancyland)
The Cthonissel-Cervantes Confederation (often called The Confed)

Each of these three great powers holds sway over multiple star systems and a myriad of planets and space stations and star fleets.

There is also: Uncivilized space. Here be serpents, monsters, who knows what off the edge of the map. Those who think of themselves as colonists or missionaries would love to go there, but there are plenty of mysteries in what is nominally 'charted' space.

Technology

People may have cybernetic implants and realistic-looking (but not perfectly seamless) replacement limbs. There are freakin' space ships, cities floating in space, three Dyson Spheres (and only three), some planets and moons terraformed once long ago (this technology has been lost and attempts to duplicate it have been disastrous, see also the Lost Moon of Serenis) and run on ancient generators.

Communication between star systems is not instantaneous, and there are many messenger ships which flit between carrying important news. To captain one of these messenger ships requires membership in the Guild of Spacenautics [name possibly to be changed], and they are pretty darned jealous of their rights. There are of course privateers.

Holographic messages a la a certain space opera we all know and love work about as well as they do in that space opera (i.e., the recordings are finicky and easily damaged).

There are robots, androids, and AI, but robot rights are not something humans or any other sentient species in the galaxy concern themselves with. If robots, androids, or AI concern themselves with this idea, they're keeping it to themselves for now. Historically speaking, there may have been a few tense moments here and there, depending on the planet and the war, but there are always tense moments in history.

Medical technology is good, but the secret of immortality has not been unlocked, consciousness cannot be uploaded to a virtual reality (although there is a cult that believes they're getting close), and how good it is depends on how quickly you get to it. War technology has, unfortunately, outpaced medical technology.

You cannot download information directly into your mind. You have to learn it. You also can't download martial arts or any sort of physical activity directly into your mind and then expect to be able to do that physical activity. However, there are certain ways to enhance your ability to learn and of augmenting your physical body...
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:57, Mon 28 Dec 2020.