What sort of culture and traditions would develop among the inhabitants of nomadic city-sized starships who spend 99...

What sort of culture and traditions would develop among the inhabitants of nomadic city-sized starships who spend 99.5% of their lives in space? Space opera is fine, no need for hard sci-fi.

Depends on the setting.

Extreme planetary simulationism. People go to parks and pretend they've crashed on some semi-habitable planet and must survive there. Scary!

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Oh, so you want to be a faggot.

Mongols in Space that raid for resources

got one

Holy shit, please stop false flagging. There is a time and place for "depends on the setting" and this isn't it.

lots of incest orgies.

While that sounds nice, not everyone is an Eldar, user.

Lets assume they are peaceful and self sufficient. Such that things like food, air, most maintenance, and such wont need an outside source for help. Then lets say they keep peaceful and have enough auto-mated defense to keep away pirates but not aggravate new groups they meet.

They would have ample opportunity to develop a nice and "lazy" culture. I like the idea that to keep self sufficient they make an effort to focus on good education, things like maintenance, farming, health care.
being such a culture with such a focus on education they would learn to be stick and quick due to learning at such a young age.
So they would enjoy more fine arts with more focus on doing it with excellence. But they would still keep humble and not arrogant (gotta avoid making space elves).

I can think if several ideas. One is a sort of AI nany state. The ship has an AI on it that operates drones that farm and work and keeps the humans healthy. Trick is the system wants to control the amount of unknown factors so it keeps all the citizens seperate from each other and supplies what it thinks entertainment is. Formulaic TV shows, simple non narrative driven games, etc etc. Groups secretly meet and pull people from their entertainment pods in order to form a resistance and take back control of the ship from the AI.

To be honest they'd probably be slave traders or raiders something. Probably gladiator pits ritual scarring that sort of thing.

If anything there would hardcore eugenics program to avoid inbreeding and subsequent degradation of progeny's genome.
That doesn't rule out recreational activities among couples unsuitable for procreation.

Recycling would be a huge thing, including fluids. Think Fremen from Dune. You spill blood needlessly, or bleed everywhere yourself (or worse, bleed in space), you're wasting water and nutrients that can not be recovered.

Technical competence might be valued highly. Only YOU can stop feed line breaches if you're the only person there.

>self sufficient
Boring, and very unlikely.

Beats me

Assuming it's a repurposed generation ship, it could be like a lite-mechanicus. They worship the old machinery and the long-dead designers of the ship. Your power in society is proportionate to what rank your ancestor was when the ship first launched and how much you know about how the ship works.

Otherwise, something like a very conservationist, communal, traditionalist tribe of nomads/traders and engineers. Archaeologists who peddle oddities they dug up on Xabrod IV, or a fleet of dependable freight haulers on a triangular trade spanning light-years.

Upscale the problems from Battlestar Galactica. Even without super hot robot angels, there's bound to be religions and cults that pop up, garnering political power through social manipulation.

>It would never be quiet, there will always be some sort of background noise from the ship
>Space is as a premium, it is likely crowded
>Recycling is ubiquitous and omni-present, for everything from fluid to fecal waste to food scraps
>there would be places on the ship with complete and total darkness when the lights are off, and no gravity

Can you even begin to imagine how that must be?

"You're not worthy of passing on your genes, while the laws of the ship are sacred you're allowed to debase yourself because ultimately you're not of worth to create the next line of kin to inhereit the ship"

So you have a tiered society where people who will breed the next generation are defended at all cost and they are expected to be pure and all that while everyone else is allowed to essentially be extra lite dark eldar (at least to everyone not them)

If you have breeding programs it's unlikely you started with inferior stock.

Maybe, but that doesn't mean every one is going to have traits you want to pass on to the next generation. This may also shape how they handle the individuals they do want to breed like all of the best medical tech goes to them first to ensure maximum health and well being as well as an expectation for maintaining their health and well being so it'd be like being a professional sports player except you're prepping your body for parent hood. This may be more a thing for females rather than males but good health an diet is important to maintain healthy sperm and sperm count if doing it all natural is the way they want to go.

Really the only thing that would need screening is genetic disease and why would you bring those in the first place.

It's not about introducing them. People can still develop such problems over time. I mean we're on a space ship and probably don't leave it that often. Even if it's a soft sci-fi setting you still have shit like radiation and possible mutation you have to deal with especially if they do leave and come back to the ship on occastion, who knows what sort of shit you pick up from meeting other people or going down on planets or what sort of shit forms on your own ship

>So you have a tiered society where people who will breed the next generation are defended at all cost and they are expected to be pure and all that while everyone else is allowed to essentially be extra lite dark eldar (at least to everyone not them)
reminds me of my ERP fetish where the genetically deficient are sent love androids to take care of their needs and make sure they can't accidentally breed by leaving them constantly exhausted and drained

Even so, they're not going to be common enough to create a social striation and if they do you've got big problems. Classism is a bad idea in that small of an area.

Two words:
Space Jews

What specific parts of Jewish culture would you emphasize? How does the sabbath work when you don’t have days or nights?

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