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Scale of Things That Happen (or don't)

Scale of Things That Happen, from impossible fiction to real-life history.

Scale Description Examples
Impossible / Fictional Future Events or worlds that could never exist or are purely imagined. ???
Made-Up / Creative Fiction Imagined, but internally consistent within a story or game. Could exist in a fictional universe. Magical schools, dystopian societies, alternate history novels, role-playing game quests
Possible / Speculative Could happen, but hasn’t yet; relies on current science or trends. Colonizing Mars, AI achieving general intelligence, futuristic technology prototypes
Real-Life / Current Things that are actually happening today in the real world. Everyday events
Concrete History / Past Events that actually happened and are documented in history. World War II
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