3. TIL about the term 'Paracosm' which means a detailed imaginary world, thought ge...

TIL about the term 'Paracosm' which means a detailed imaginary world, thought generally to originate in childhood and could last well into adulthood. It could have its own history, geography, and language and continues over a long period of time.

Oh my god... I thought I was the only one. This is how I go to sleep every night. My world is a mash up of Star Wars, our real world history, Warframe, Game of Thrones, Kaiserreich and other scifi plus fantasy things that I pick along the way from reading. My world is stuck in a state of never ending war and whenever I get bored irl, I just go to my world. Because I hate being limited, my scenario is comprised of multiple universes, with galaxies interspersed. Each galaxy has multiple systems which contain multiple planets. Some of my Empires are composed of multiple galaxies while some only have a few systems or even just a few planets. Sometimes I go really in depth and each planet might have multiple nations. Each nation has multiple towns and I love imagining elaborate defense systems. In my spare time I design armor, weapons, flags, and languages for my worlds. Every single Empire and nation must have different armor which becomes really tiring to remember. It might sound excessive but I assure you, I have been working on this since I was in lower school and watched Star Wars for the first time.

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Right now I'm in the middle of a story line of a socialist uprising in the Empire of Aibara (reverse of Arabia) which is a desert Empire that stretches around 5 planets plus a colony on the jungle planet Tarfal (After the Portuguese prison Tarafal) that was a penal colony for political prisoners. It is located in the Ag-Dagu system in the Auxpex Galaxy in Universalis Prime. The Interuniversale (space Internationale) and the Syndicalist Union (syndicalist space Internationale) is helping the revolutionaries by blockading Aibaran Empire controlled planets and not allowing the Imperium, which is a fascist state that broke off from the Eternal Empire (Rome splitting in two) and now wants to create a fascist empire. The Republican Pact, consisting of the Universal Republic (Galactic Republic from Star Wars) and its satellite states, is supporting the Interuniversale because it is against the Galaxienreich (essentially WW1 Germany) and the Galaxienreich is allied with the Dominion (space technocracy) which is nominally allied with the Meridian (essentially an Orokin Corpus fusion) which supports the Federated Corporatist States (essentially corpus).

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There are countless other factions and nations and I have gone through countless wars and battles in my head. It feels good to share one with other people. I got so many I wish I could tell other people irl about it without myself sounding weird lmao.

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