The Two Types of Sci-Fi Worldbuilding

Little does type 1 realize, every other species in their universe is telling themselves the exact same thing

Type I: humans harbor the author's political views Type II: aliens harbor the author's political views

I love the idea of asymmetry being explained by "A demon stole all the antimatter."

The real two types: 1) no it's not magic, there's some science I can't explain 2) first, read my physics thesis, then get doctorate in engineering

"You're saying all aliens are evil? I can't believe only humans are good" "Oh no, humans are evil too"

"The aliens are evil" "What?" "Yeah they're all communists"

“It’s best to share resources, we figured that out day one” Well clearly azorgalel didn’t!

Somehow Doctor Who does both.

"Did you know that you're the only species in the universe that invented racism." - "You... really don't see what you're doing, do you?"

I can't tell which type annoys me more: the "humans are glorious wonderful benevolent creatures with a special undefinable wonderfulness that sets them apart" OR the "fictional aliens are better than humans because the author made them that way."

There is a Type 3 "Where are you from?" "I'm from Luna, the moon of Terra in the Sol system"

"We've literally been crashing our ships onto your planet so you could have access to it." okay, but like-- why would you think that's the most efficient way of sharing knowledge?

I thought it was going to be something like Type I: My world is not realistic enough... I've consulted biology experts to simulate how a species would reasonably evolve and shape themselves into a civilization, but I don't have the molecular theory down, people are going to laugh at my work! Type II: So... This species of alien are cat people... And this one are lobster people... And this one is squid people. And the fact that they resemble earth animals is completely by coincidence don't think about it.

2:34 There's a Harry Turtledove short story called The Road Not Taken where humanity is probably the only intelligent species not to have obtained faster than light travel through gravity manipulation. However, this is because the technology is so simple that almost every other species works out how to do it at about a 15th century level of technology, which means that they go off to conquer space and all other technological development stagnates. So we have a situation where aliens arrive on near future earth and try to awe the primitive natives by attacking them with their most advanced weaponry: matchlock muskets. You can imagine how well that goes for them.

"Earth is the only place in the universe where beings evolved to have empathy. All the other beings have is horniness--where are you going??"

Type 1 - You need a PHD in physics to even understand it Type 2 - yes it is science, but i won't explain it. Look at that cool battle instead I love both

Star Wars is the only fantasy/sci-fi universe I’ve come across that tries to treat every species relatively the same. Humans are most common due to budgetary reasons and for the sake of resonating with viewers.

Settings with multiple sentient species usually fall into one of these: - humans are the best - humans are the worst - everyone is the worst - everyone is bad at something - Lovecraft was sugarcoating the bloody cosmos any of them may or may not contain one or more alien groups classified as "Mary sue, the species", which may or may not be a race of prehistoric superbeings that somehow just all died one day.

One uses reality to prove fantasy the other uses fantasy to prove reality

"you're like the only species to invent racism" continues to bash someone for the species they belong to with literally zero reference to the individual talked to.