Sci-Fi World Building

As much as I like the idea of writing, I'm really not very good at it. Often, I get bogged down in the world building process. I'm no good at writing in the real world, since I haven't really had any good first hand experience of any of the interesting bits. That leaves me with either trying to build a functional quasi-historical fantasy setting or a plausible futuristic sci-fi setting. Today I'm puttering with the latter.

( Crunchy Bits (warning: long) )