Questions to Define A Culture

1. What key concepts describe these people?

2. What is their genetic legacy and how does it affect them?
3. For what tasks are they especially suited or unsuited?
4. How might they use their strengths?
5. How might they compensate for their shortcomings?
6. Where do they live? What is their primary habitat?
7. What are their homes like? How does the habitat affect their dwellings and lifestyle?
8. What is their level of civil construction and what are its characteristics?
9. What is daily life like?
10. What do they eat and drink? How do they react to other foodstuffs?
11. How do they express themselves artistically? What are their styles of music, sculpture, poetry,
painting, plays?
12. Do they farm? If so, what? For what purposes? How is food distributed?
13. What does a farm look like? How is a farm organized?
14. How do farms operate? What farming techniques do they use?
15. What are their primary enemies, natural and cultural?
16. How do they defend against them?
17. What is their culture?
18. Their government?
19. Their politics?
20. Their economy?
21. What is their history? What's the real story, and what is misunderstood or misremembered?
22. Who are their allies?
23. What are their dreams, goals, myths, legends?
24. What are their religion/spiritual beliefs?
25. How does it affect their daily lives?
26. What do they consider “taboo”? What would make one a social outcast?
27. What crafts/technologies have they mastered?
28. What special abilities or knowledge do they have? How do these impact their lives?
29. What is the criminal code and how are crimes punished?
30. How do they travel? Do they trade? With whom? For what? Are they good or bad at it?
31. Do they use psionics? What is their attitude to psionics?
32. Do they use advanced technology? What is their attitude to science?
33. How do they react to outsiders?
34. What are their top 5 Praises and Curses?
35. What weaponry do they use?
36. What are their personality archetypes? What are their cultural blind spots? What are the
unspoken absolute beliefs that give society its foundation?
37. How can you sum up these people into a first impression?

Defining the Celodus Star System

1. What kind of star is Celodus? What size is it?

2. How many planets are in the system?
3. What are their names?
4. What are their environments like?
5. How many are being terraformed?
6. Do they have moons?
7. Are there any asteroid belts?
8. What are some of the unique aspects of this system (Nebulae?)
9. What are the distances between planets?
10. How many space stations are in the system? What are their purpose? Names?
11. How many worlds are lost to the Verti?
12. Where does the war border exist?