Create the most generic sci-fi setting possible

Create the most generic sci-fi setting possible

I mean... which genre of sci-fi? Space Opera? Post-apocalyptic Teen Romance? Futurism? Bradbury-esque post-modern? 1950's pulp sci-fi?

Men In Black.

It's set in space. Battles have sound. The bad guys want to take over the entire universe and only a few people in the space resistance can stop them.

All the sentient aliens with a culture/society look like recolored humans.

Space opera/fantasy

There are logical space elves. The good guys shoot blue, the bad guys shoot red.

>generic
>scifi
Needs a race of humanoids whose only differing physical characteristic is strange-coloured skin, and whose entire culture is based around romance and sex.

All aliens speak English, even in situations where the technobabble explanation is impossible, such as a species that's been extinct and forgotten for millions of years whose only surviving recording is 25 words long.

>Space Opera?
That is the most generic type of sci fi.

>It's set in space. Battles have sound. The bad guys want to take over the entire universe and only a few people in the space resistance can stop them.

Maybe that was true a hundred years ago, but today the diverse democratic societies of the Enlightened Stellar Commonwealth stand strong against the tyranny of the P'Murt Empire.

>The good guys shoot blue, the bad guys shoot red.

Well of course. Weapon plasma is blue by default. Only the P'Murt are evil enough to use Seletimeron ions to enhance their weapons (hence the red color). Once most races learned Seletimeron was extracted from the peaceful cloud-lings of gas giants it's use was banned

The Eknamro are a race of humanoids with red to orange colored skin. Their hair is either jet black or silvery white. Though brilliant and accomplish scientists they are also capable warriors. Their culture considers sexuality to be the highest form of art and entertainment, and they take great joy in sharing this culture with other species. They are considered very effective diplomats and are one of the bulwarks of the Commonwealth.

>All aliens speak English, even in situations where the technobabble explanation is impossible

Everyone knows universal translators use interplexing quantum processors, which innately resolve all computations to their most probable solutions and hence are always right. Combine those with co-axial tachyon data busses, whose signals arrive before they are sent, and you've got a translator which makes no mistakes and can provide translations of words and phrases not yet entered into it.

Stop, you're making it less generic.

You're a crew of guys who own a space ship.
The racial options are humans, smart logical aliens, strong warrior type aliens, and sexy female aliens, as well as animal people.
The weapons of choice are laser swords and laser guns.
There's a scummy sector of the galaxy that all the space pirates and bad guys inhibit, the home sector that has earth and the good government, and the enemy sector that houses the evil alien empire trying to conquer the galaxy.

Your job is to go from planet to planet and have adventurers that are all self-contained and do not connect to each other in any way other than the fact that you're playing the same characters and have the same ship.

Also there's psionics.

Mass Effect but bland?

Transhumanism is evil, and cybernetics steal your soul, also transhumanism tend to go for military augs rather than mental Augs.
Robots are treated as second class citizens, despite them having near human intelligence.

Those that rise above are seen as evil

There are billions of sentient life and the main bad evil is a human white man.

Sound in space + everyone speaking English
Humanity is the focus.

The timeline is considered to be only a few hundred years into the future, maybe just a single hundred to justify having low tech and using ak47's in space and Kevlar armour.

All the bad guys are a dime a dozen that are not intimidating in any way and die from nothing. They also wear an iconic helmet

doomsday devices are also a dime a dozen, where the evil villain can and often will blow up a planet with a contrived number of alien life.

The views and ideals of the villain aren't even mentioned or shown. He's just doing what he's doing.

Congratulations!
These are all terrible.

One of the only nonhumanoid species is an insectoid hivemind, despite being a collective, they have a centralized queen for the entire fucking species. Also they are evil because they are bugs.

Mass Effect is already bland.

That's terrible, but also good in context of the thread.

psionics and other magical spells

Honestly anything that claims to be sci-fi and then has straight up magic can fuck off, im sick of this fucking meme.

I can easily deal with 'technology' which operated entirely on made up principles, but when some nigga is fucking using telekinesis or some shit becayse hes 'more evolved' or whatever im gonna go nuts

What's the point of this thread, other than making otherwise creative people sad and depressed?

Infinite Warfare?

Next Hive Queen Quest when?

Look at 40K. Bam, there you go. Sure, it gussies it up with a 14 year-old metalhead's idea of good aesthetics, but it's extremely generic at heart.

Age of Discovery. In SPAAAAACE. Not!European nations are competing with each other within the solar system using starships that sail using solar wind. Each planet has their own race on it. Venus is Africa, Mars is the Middle East, The asteroid belt is the pacific ocean (not in the first edition), Jupiter is the americas, Saturn is China. Past Saturn is the stars, where ancient gods and long forgotten civilsations are but wont be reached until several splatbooks.

A crew aboard a NASA space station get caught up in a mystical phenomenon that requires them to think about and try to answer very basic philosophical paradox/theorem/question.

Some yes, some no. Buy trying to wrap a blanket in it is retarded

I would play in every one of the settings made so far. They're generic, not bad.

7 Meter long Robots fighting in interplanetary war.
Setting is Hard Scifi.

The warring nations probably include Space Nazis, Space Commies, Space Vatican, Space Roman Empire and Space Chinese with their honorabru samurais.

And add some humanoid aliuens who attack all of them until a twist reveals they are descendents of old army who left solar system ages ago.

Godlike precursors who solved science and mysteriously disappeared aeons ago. Their tech is powered by glowing crystals.

those stars are oddly well aligned