Content Warnings

These Sundered Stars centres its narrative on the value of wonder amid a diverse universe, but wonder is an imperfect thing and the universe remains saturated with threats. As such, These Sundered Stars carries the following content warnings:

 

• Ongoing themes of colonialism and disregard for indigenous cultures.

• Ongoing themes of environmental destruction and alteration.

• Ongoing themes of corporate imperialism and greed.

 

• Frequent overt media bias and sensationalism.

• Frequent media-led generalisations about alien cultures and species.

• Frequent depictions of cultural appropriation, both wilful and unintentional.

• Frequent depictions of an imperial civilisation.

• Frequent descriptions of scientific analysis, including of animals.

 

• Occasional censored swearing.

• Occasional descriptions of food and drink.

 

• Description of dark and confined spaces.

• Description of inhospitable environments, including vacuum.

• Description and mention of insect-like animals.

• Description and mention of rodent-like animals.

• Description of large-scale, voluntary emigration.

• Description of large-scale death caused by animals.

• Description of animals behaving agressively.

• Descriptions of religious paraphenalia and practices.

• Descriptions of mineral-based excrement.

• Brief description of cruelty against animals.

• Brief description of an out-of-body experience.

 

• Depictions of political corruption.

• Depictions of compromised or negligent political systems.

• Depictions of mass resource extraction.

• Depictions of mass destruction, including planetary destruction.

• Depictions of toxic workplace culture.

• Depictions of corporate negligence, including wilful negligence.

• Depictions of private security organisations.

• Depictions of people choosing to conceal their faces.

• Depictions of the sale and purchase of items appropriated from foreign territories and cultures.

• Depiction of negligent childcare.

• Brief depiction of threat to a minor.

 

• Mentions of alcohol and the consumption of alcohol.

• Mentions of deliberately-triggered explosions.

• Mentions of harmful chemicals.

• Mentions of animal hunting.

• Mentions of the sale of animal products.

• Mentions of species extinction.

• Mentions of military research and development.

• Mentions of violence against indigenous peoples.

• Mentions of individuals deriving monetary profit from death and harm to others.

• Mention of attempts to commercialise religious paraphenalia.

• Mention of large-scale death caused by deliberate planetary destruction.

• Brief mention of imaginary consensual kissing.

• Brief mention of religiously-motivated violence.

• Brief mention of poisonous plants.

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This list will continue to be updated as new chapters of These Sundered Stars are released.