My conversion story

[Gemini]

For fun. I like to set them in a fictional star system that's been in a fusion age for countless millennia. It's kind of like an ageless, mythological era.

Interesting. So what's the conflict, the stakes for the characters in such a world?

The conflict is driven by the necrotics. I'm stipulating that the limit of life extension is neural degeneration, and there's a cybernetic procedure that can potentially evade this, but at the cost of potentially causing insanity. At the point of time I'm writing, the unipolar polity that once ruled for the star system for millennia has collapsed. It falls apart in much the same way as the Roman Republic did...but with evil, insane, immortal cyborgs (necrotics) driving the conflict.

Anyway, the resulting dark age sees the emergence of a several plutocratic polities, as well as the remnants of the original governing republic, and the necrotics.

Re: stakes for characters: the protagonist is a refugee from the origin planet (Haven, homage to Asimov), who chooses to to risk her life in a futile war against the necrotiics.