Return of the Space Opera (Male lf F mainly)

[Leon Weber]

Return of the Space Opera

For this particular prompt, I am looking for a specific sort of writing partner to help me tackle it. I am looking for a partner who is willing to write multiple perspective characters, from multiple different walks of life. To explore the lives and times of multiple characters who have very different views of life, society, and the wider universe. From normal every day people, to soldiers and warriors who fight from the ground, to daring pilots who brave the skies and vast emptiness of space, officers and commanders of mighty ships, to politicians and aristocrats playing the Great Game at the highest levels.

I am looking to craft a universe on the brink of war, and to explore the tension and gamesmanship that occurs beforehand. Then to eventually explore that world once the die has been cast and the fighting begins. To take a look at this universe when there is still some normalcy left in it, and then to see what it looks like once the peace is shattered and the stakes are higher than ever.

What this universe looks like, and the context of the conflict, are things that I am entirely willing to work out with a writing partner. Whether its the idea of opposing human nations that occupy the stars, or an alien threat. Though admittedly I am partial to the ‘lost colony’ trope in which when humanity first started to understand how to traverse the stars they sent out a colonial expedition that they lose contact with and ends up developing on its own course, and becoming its own galactic power, before coming into competition with the humans from Earth for territory in space.

And of course I wish to explore this universe through many different perspectives from both sides of the conflict. But also from within each power. The happily married young couple, enjoying their last days of peace before being drafted into a conflict they have no interest in. The Captain or Admiral who finds an ill-advised lover from among his crew or staff. Members of government who stand on opposite sides of the aisle, yet cannot resist they pull they feel for the other in spite of their difference in politics and life philosophies. Perhaps even the trope of spies and espionage agents from opposite sides who tangle with each other both with weapons and in the bedroom.

Plenty of opportunity for love, and sex, enemies to lovers, and perhaps even lovers to enemies.

But all around these stories is the backdrop of inevitable war, and eventually war itself. The spectacle of massive space battles between vessels and ships of grandiose power. Fighting in the trenches of frontier planets, urbanized worlds, and industrial stars. The culmination of powers throwing at one another everything they have and the stories of the people big and small that are affected by these events.

And perhaps even, should things click well enough, the aftermath of such a thing. The rebuilding, the healing of wounds and scars between peoples, the trying to return to a normal life after a conflict so large it reverberated across the stars themselves.