User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-4123215-20131228113021

I got sort of an idea for a story, but since I can't write, I'll let you guys see if it's any good, and if you want to write a story based around it, go ahead. It's not P&F related, but oh well.:

It's sometime in the future, maybe 800-1200 years ahead, and shortly before, a deadly virus breaks out. It's slow, takes a good amount of time to actually kick in, but is airbourne, so just breathing makes you come into contact with it. So, humanity is forced to wear full-body suits, similar to astronaut suits. So basically, in this world, appearance is no longer a factor. Everyone has the same suit, so the only thing humans have left to distinguish themselves is voice and language.

Society, due to Earth being completely inhabited by the virus, has resided in space. Of course, the virus is still apparent, but since the large spaceships used are easy to maintain, when a cure is found, the spaceships can easily be wiped of the virus, unlike Earth which is too large.

Overpopulation is a big deal, however if you are a worker in one of the many spaceships, you are given much more benefits than those still back at Earth, trying to regain society, in a Soylent Green type environment. Murders, crimes, etc, are not monitored by the government down at earth, but they are up in the spaceships, so if you want to safe, you work up in the spaceships, with the only downside being insanely long hours. So while life back on Earth is more familiar to 2013, it's also far less stable.

Many species immune to the virus are still on earth, but several of them are also raised and protected in the spaceships, keep their species thriving.

Life expectancy is much longer on the spaceships thanks to medicine, with humans not reaching old age until their 160's, with death coming around the 200's. On Earth, death comes at around the 110's, since it isn't as properly maintained as the spaceships.

The spaceships are similar to countries in a way, though much more compact and maintainable. There are about 600 of them which grow to very large sizes, and keep about 20000 people each.

Each person gets a locker sized room to sleep in and keep their belongings. This is to fit as much people in the ship as possible. Work times are from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with two one hour breaks. Jobs range from mechanics and engineers to scientists and strategists.

With this story, I feel it has a lot of possibilities for the protagonist, possibly a single father down at earth, a young adult worker, a young child from being raised on the ship, to becoming a worker, and then finally his death, I think it has a lot of potential. But what do I know.