When the worldbuilding is actually insane...

Have you watched Scavengers Reign?

I´ll never forgive Max for canceling it

I feel like the reason why the world building feels so real and complete is because it seems like the world was created first, and then the characters were built to fit in it, rather than the other way around as many other do.

It's a shame it wont be getting a second season on Max I loved everything about Scavengers Reign. It's one of the most unique shows I've ever come across and the fact that nothing about the Flora and Fauna is explained makes it better!

The manly urge to make a bewildering nature-filled creature-eat-creature world with no reason specified.

I so desperately want a no man's sky / Minecraft style survival game set on Vesta with a minimalist art style that pays homage to the animation ahhh

It is the most wonderful love letter to ecology I have ever seen.

at the start of the video you describe Vesta as, among other things "lacking in artificiality". However as a biologists I got an intense feeling that the ecosystem is artificialy designed. Vesta is clearly a gaia world and may itself be designing the creatures but it's very clear that few things here are the product of natural evolution. In essence the world feels like biology based technology without the chaos of nature

Wow the production quality is unmatched for such a small channel, can't believe this has less than 1k views at the moment.

GOD scavenger’s reign is so good..

The greatest single example of 'show dont tell'

I saw the short film 6 years ago but was unaware of the TV series.

Scavengers Reign for me is one of those stories and settings that comes along and pops the bubble of cynicism that grows as fiction writers disrespect your capacity to take in what they really want to create. Not that there isn't genuine wonder in others between it, but compromise is built into so many settings and stories to make them accessible, and every now and then a group just lets their world run wild in a literal sense and makes a place you might genuinely yearn to inhabit - danger, horror, and all.

I didn't watch it while it was on Max, I binged it last night on Netflix and it's by far one of my favorite things I've seen in recent memory, the ecology and worldbuilding is so unsettling and fascinating, loved it the whole way through.

Scavengers Reign is absolutely brilliant. They painted an intriguingly terrifying universe. A masterclass in world building.

I hope everyone will watch it on Netflix when it comes out there. We need a S2 of this.

This show was so good I went from “I need to pass a bit of time before I go somewhere for dinner” to me never leaving my couch until I watched all of it at once

Maybe its just how alien and hostile it is to the outsider but Vesta has always felt like a realistic deathworld. You won't find anything like this on earth and the way characters talk about it, it does feel like the "hostility" of its nature is very feared or atleast well known. Its not some over the top deathtrap like something 40K would portray as a deathworld but its still very hostile to the point where it does truly feel like it would have a pretty low survival rate if you aren't properly equiped to deal with it.

THE MOST UNIQUE WORLDBUILDING EVER. I WAS SO INVESTED that I made my own collection of photos of the flora and fauna and have them all my own names. My favorite is glugslugs, the white slug-like creature that eats fruits.

i will come back and watch the video when i finish this film thank you for the recommendation