Scifi Novel idea that needs reality check.

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This idea reminds me somewhat of the "Mote in God's Eye" series by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

The fantasy tech allows interstellar travel and some kind of electromagnetic shields that can protect a ship while it travels inside the photosphere of a red giant star. No one who reads those books cares that such technology is pure fantasy.

The part that is like the original idea here is the civilization of the "moties" the intelligent, multi-species civilization on worlds and in space in the vicinity of that red giant. It would be a spoiler for anyone who hasn't read the book to go into too much detail about why it's like the idea here, but I think it can be said that Niven and Pournelle imagined a plausible scenario in which an intelligent, technological species would evolve through natural selection into many sub-species with a variety of characteristic adaptations to very different conditions.

They propose a good reason for strong evolutionary pressure after a civilization achieves technology at our level and beyond. It is not clear, but it seems likely that some of the observed difference in the resulting species and sub-species are the result of engineering on top of prototypes that evolved in very stressed environments.

Just start writing. Details fill in after the storyline. First the result, then the Radioactive Spider.

How does not interest me, what sub species, description, traits, does.

Accidental or Intentional?

Northern Europeans share 96% DNA with Chimps, also with current Africans. In all three, most DNA is non coding. It was left from some Flu an ancestor of all got.

European evolution seems to be by subtraction. It is the most inbred line.

Intentional reduction of non coding DNA, which we think does nothing, could produce results.

This is forbidden research, playing God, so good story material.

There's a lot of ideas that spring to mind, my first were to do with biomelecular motors and such (e.g. super strength). Those thoughts led onto things which could be most easily surmised by all the abilities in the series Heros...


However an old book I'll never forget is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick...

I do if its billed as fantasy

Explaining the technology depends if you are wanting to go down the Hard Sci Fi route or the Soft Sci Fi route.
An example of Hard Sci Fi is "The Expanse" series of novels as a lot of the science is explained and is quite realistic.
Soft Sci Fi I been told is something like the the novel "Dune" where the technology is either not explained in detail or is under the guise of "It just works" the focus is more on the story or in Dune's case also the social elements.

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