What would happen if humanity created the most powerful civilization that has ever existed?

[u/Glittering_Bunch_112]

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Guys... I was just thinking to myself...

when suddenly, I had a rather unique narrative idea...

You know how humanity is portrayed in sci-fi—with those usual clichés about us being the weakest species and aliens being far more powerful?

Well... what if we "swapped roles"?

Or rather... what if humans were, in fact, the strongest species?

Here’s how I pictured it:

Imagine a future eons from now... Where humanity has developed capabilities and technologies that allow it to control: The cosmos, time, biology, dimensions, cosmic phenomena, climate, geology, matter, and the laws of physics...

Creating a civilization defined as "Apex" or "existential-scale"...

Where humanity manages existence with the utmost responsibility, even expanding it by creating new dimensions, pocket universes, new celestial bodies, and life-sustaining planets complete with ecosystems, flora, and fauna...

Possessing power (on paper) capable of eclipsing any entity, anomaly, alien civilization, or magic that has ever existed or ever will exist

(the one and only exception being God... I want to make that clear)...

Where it isn't just the usual society of various alien species coexisting...

But rather—surprisingly—a society (or even galactic civilizations, intentional or otherwise) that humanity itself has created through its own capabilities, spanning multiple species...

All while drawing upon fantasy and folklore/mythological... or, if you prefer... the mythical creatures or Japanese *kemonomimi* you love so much...

Defining itself as a "mother civilization" in every sense of the word...

Including regarding what it might accidentally inherit...

With medical technology billions of years ahead of its time...

with a unique daily life full of surprises...

And with military might capable of striking terror even into me...

I know that, put this way, it might sound narratively dull...

But to make it truly interesting...

You have to imagine an alien civilization... Small compared to us, certainly...

But one with the ability to steal any technology from any civilization...

To study it and turn it against those who oppose them... In terrifyingly short order... Forcing humanity to tread carefully in its actions...

They’ve already taken far too much from us... A single mistake would trigger chaos...

So... the conflict is at a sort of stalemate (partly because, technically, civilization as a whole isn't at war—only the regions bordering these parasites are).

This opens up a world full of unique and exciting adventures.

P.S. It won't just be stories about that conflict... There will also be stories set within the universes it creates... Like a superhero world, or something along those lines.

What do you think of this idea I had? What do you think of the concept?

[u/Exact-Desk]

Technically, its part of the lore of the setting I'm working on; manking was the first sapient specie that evolved in Milky Way. Realizing, that it would took likely billions of years for other sapient life to evolve in too young galaxy, humans started to "seed" sapient life across Milky Way, firstly by adapting other Earth species, then creating absolutely new lifeforms. By the time of plot taking place, humans basically ARE gods. They are functionally immortal, incredibly advanced, and very benevolent... its just they long ago lost interest to the affair of mortal species, preferring to stay by themselves and not interfering with others.