What would a space opera setting based on Chinese culture be like?

A definite distinction between the empire and barbiarians, but there also giftgiving "minor" kingdoms inspired by the system
It's not unheard of pretty different ethnicities living in the empire, as much as they know their place and use the "high" imperial culture as, well, high culture and official stuff.
Rituals are the glue of the spacempire. Funnily enough, even smaller, day-to-day rituals. Religion per se is more different, less monolithic. Possibly there is a taoism equivalent which is more magical and personal (transhumanism?).
It's possible that merchants are considered the worst class in the empire, in theory, but maybe that's too literal.
People would tend to think more collectively.
Evertyhing might explode.

Legacy of a Thousand Suns main faction was a chinese empire analogue.

Then again that game main party only allowed a kid to go with them on prostitute gang wars planet with a pair of googles that turned everything into low-poligon models.

Dat's racist. Daoming in BE was better.

>Sochua: The people who will build these colonies on the new worlds, they are the future of the human race. The PAC has a choice to participate in the future. The emperors of China who banned their subjects from leaving the borders of the kingdom, they are dust in their lost tombs and we don't even bother learning their names. I will not allow you to damn humanity to dust. [At this point, she gets up and leaves the panel session.]

I mean, Star Wars is already basically a (bad) wuxia film in space

Outlaw Star is the first thing that comes to mind, but that was mostly only some of the magic shit and the major pirate faction. I'd be lying if I said that sounded particularly appealing to me though

Wh....why did I read that in the voice of Skeletor?

Maybe you're thinking less Skeletor, more Steven Colbert voicing that shrink gun guy from Harvey Birdman. It's a pretty similar voice, and the character in question kind of looks like that

>really ass-backwards steel manufacturing.
What?

WTF did I just watched?
Man, never imagined they can even Wuxiafy a snowball fight. It is silly and awesome at the same time.

Probably Journey to the West IN SPACE or Three Kingdoms IN SPACE.

What about removing communism?

There would need to be greater empires for the Chinese to steal from and subsist on their crumbs. There also needs to be total disregard for safety, they should eagerly strip all life and value for planets while gleefully filling the skies with poison and the water with filth. Also entire planets should be dedicated to animal torture ruled by Chinese traditional healers making boner medicine.

Chinese steel is of legendarily bad quality. Also, /pol/ managed to blow up Tianjin a few years back. Imagine if Praxis blew up because it was an industrial waste dump.

>Avatar The Last Airbender
>The Lost Footage

Didn't Chinese write space opera novels based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Historical dramas are big there, so it wouldn't surprise me

Just imagine the Battle of Hu Lao Gate in space.

>tfw your armada arrives in tight formation due to an asteroid field but the enemy launches a small attack ship that detonates a thermonuclear device in a nearby sun, resulting in a solar flare that disables your ships electronics and a heightened solar wind that allows them to rapidly move their own ships concealed in said asteroid field out of place

FUCKINNNGGGG ZHUGE LIAANNNNGGG

Something like this, save the small attack shit, happened in LOGH at the end of the FPA.

hell it happened at the very beginning of LOGH. space kraut traps the space murricans into the atmosphere of a gas planet and fires a nuke into it

During Mao's Great Leap Forward, iron and steel production was mandated to be a literal backyard industry, collective farms were suddenly making iron themselves. There were lots of injuries and accidental deaths, and huge quantities if terrible iron.

>Chinese steel during Great Leap Forward is of legendarily bad quality
FTFY. Otherwise they made okay steel.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, although written by a Japanese author, is legitimately good and the closest thing we have to a "Three Kingdoms in Space".

The author is a bit of a Sinophile and heavily referenced Chinese classical works.

Firefly is just cowboys but sometimes the cowboys swear in Mandarin.

>What would a space opera setting based on Chinese culture be like?

Probably derived from the Warring States period, but with laser guns, because most writers interested in the concept enough to formalize a setting for it are plebeians.

What's this from?

They currently deliver shitty steel because they lie about quality checks and so on. It is a known thing, but people still risk it because it's cheaper to buy from them.

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Despite the name, some of this might apply.
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>Chinese Fantasy and Mythological tips.

Chinese distinctions of mythological creatures might become alien species. There was a thread about it that might be in the archives.

A cesspool pf pollution, everyone out for themselves, no one helps anyone, but their leadership only cares about a handful of achievements saying they're equal to real stellar civilizations, when in reality those civilizations achieved the same and better centuries ago.

Read Liu Cixin. Not quite cosmo-opera, but a damn interesting read anyway.

Syndics from the Lost Fleet series. Vaguely "communist-egalitarianist" but lost in trying to turn a quick buck, authoritarianism and nepotism.

>If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
>Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.

Chinese create an AI that's on a genocidal quest to turn every planet it conquers into a giant shoe factory or parking lot. The Chinese laugh as neighboring colonies are invaded by robots and the inhabitants are skinned alive and turned into a mediocre meat product.

The AI is in the end defeated by a last alliance of Japanese, Koreans, Manchus, Zhuang, Mongols, and Tibetans.

Oh, that is a modern problem, not a historic thing.

>Everyone is a complete asshole
>There's a ton of really old people that go out of their way to spit on you for no reason
>Everything is a cheap knockoff of something else
>Everything is dirty
>Socialist propaganda

I watch a lot of Chinese drama because my girlfriend is an exchange student who barely speaks English, but the plot is often on the nose and not very deep. I imagine it would be purely functional, little fun, with a flair of Chinese superiority.

It wouldn't be very fun outside idea of an overwhleming hatred of the individual, which can only be appreciated from a Western perspective.

I love the Chinese Historical Dramas. I'll agree the plots are rarely very clever, but they seem just to be there to move the characters along and be more character driven.

Literally Three Kingdoms in space.

Ain't nothing in video gaming better written than SMAC. That game is a work of art.

For every spaceship manufactured that works as advertised, there are 99 others with varying levels of bootleg, from "semi-functional replica of legit model with centuries-older internal parts and no safety features" to "literally empty casing weighted with rocks".

And if there is it certainly ain't BE.

It's time to take off the rose tinted glasses you hipster piece of shit.

China makes a lot of steel. A lot of it is absolutely crap and a fair bit of it is good. The problem is that the Chinese have no sense of business ethics especially when selling abroad and will sell you bad steel at good steel prices.

Of course, this isn't universal, but it's damn more common than not.