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They work a lot better in fantasy than in Sci-Fi actually. Being fantasy you can throw on all kinds of mystical reasons for agri-worlds. Sci-Fi you just run headlong into the inconvenient fact that O'Neill cylinders in close orbit around the local star are basically better in every way. Well...

What if you replace your Appendix with a micro-Fusion reactor that only requires you consume elements lower on the periodic table than Iron so that the nanites in your stomach can break the food down into base elements for fusion? Maybe the skin gets replaced by a cybernetic variant that...

If you are actually doing interstellar shipping at any kind of scale then you should have a method of getting things into orbit besides ships. I mean we could make a space fountain today, as could basically anyone who could even contemplate serious space exploration. Making a vessel that is...

While most sci-fi transport ships are shit designs, an internal cargo bay is pretty much the only way to go that makes any sense in most of them. Any kind of external cargo hauling requires that the cargo and/or cargo containers be able to handle the rigours of transport. But yes, the lack of...

It depends largely on the technology of a given setting/polity and what its concerns are. I mean realistically speaking, most all Sci-Fi is absolute shit. Stellar mining, for example, should be much more prevalent. In 40k, one use of agri-worlds is to control Hive Worlds. Say Sagely-2 is a...