Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20170728193412/@comment-5496489-20170730210656

Interesting and I'd say a pretty good reason for lack of cultural diversity. My main fiction the Stellar Outreach Sovereignty is multi-species and anarchic, so as you can imagine there is a lot more cultural diversity. Even then there are very noticeable trends that are near universal in the SOS due to the sheer level of interconnectedness granted by technology Stellarians enjoy. Media enjoyed in the Cyrannian Brigades is just as available to the Mirusian Brigades and vice versa.

Now on a species by species this gets a bit more tricky. Key things to understand is that the species of the SOS were all created rather then evolved (often for a purpose, and thus did not develop normally), and/or were originally nomads who were forced to live as such after a serious cataclysm or attempted genocide (sometimes both).

Take the Vanara for example, all modern Vanara are descend from only the three percent of their race that survived a massive genocide. For the longest time their only home was three World Ships each about the size of Europe. Even then though the different Worldships and even areas of the Worldships developed in distinct ways from one another culturally. Still many Vanara tend to hold similar ideals, practices, religion, etc. Same goes for different Boyk Clans, Verasien Pirate Fleets, Kelkate Tribes, and so on and so fourth.

Now there is one aspect of the SOS that would fall into this trope, Avaruhiism, the main religion of the Stellarians. Still Avaruhiisim is merely the most widespread religion, not the the only and there are plenty of atheists or other forms of irreligious members of the SOS. Avaruhiism is very popular and widely accepted because of its nonabsolutionist, nonliteralist, and henotheistic belief system. Avaruhiism basically considers all gods real, with the bigger question being whether or not they deserve followers. As a result Avaruhiism tends to blend rather well in other belief systems. It is entirely feasible for one to pick up Avaruhiism and still practice their old beliefs at the same time. Add this on to a religion that emphasis doing good by others and yourself, and you have yourself a rather attractive option as far as religions go.