Hi everyone!
I’ve been having a few ideas over the last month, and I’ve also been more than a little shocked to find that I have the mental bandwidth to maybe think about running a second thread. So, naturally, I thought I’d see who might be interested in what’s been floating around my head. :3
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Don’t you see? Now is the time to strike, to change everything. The old world is dying - what we’ll do can only be called mercy.
A story-focused, character-driven cyberpunk conspiracy thriller. This world would look a lot more like Blade Runner or Ghost in the Shell than The Matrix. If anyone’s read Chuck Wendig’s excellent new book, Zer0es, there might be some influences from there, too. :3 The characters will have to cut through a web of secrets and lies not only for their own sake - but for stakes larger than any of them likely could have imagined. The world will be filled with artificial augmentation, synthetic intelligence, pervasive technology, and maybe even a little body horror. You’ll dodge corporate goons, chase government agents, find unlikely allies and, if you survive, change the world. But will you change the future - or only delay the inevitable?
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Two
…We must no longer be defined by our memories of that great conflict. A generation ago, we were explorers. Today, we continue that legacy.
This would be a continuing series of stories set in the Star Trek universe, considerably after any of the TV series, and not in the new films’ alternate universe. Decades ago, the major powers of the galaxy were collectively involved in a protracted, wide-scale war with an implacable enemy that they only barely defeated. Now, a generation later, the governments and infrastructure of those once-powerful nations have finally recovered to the point where some of them are preparing to explore the territories, colonies, and bases that they’ve lost, and discover a galaxy both familiar and alien. Your characters will be the likely-somewhat-irregular crew of the (shrunken, battered, but still extant) Federation’s first new starship in the better part of a century, on a mission to extend the edges of the map. The game world will feel like a gentle mixture of 90s-era Star Trek with a measure of Firefly and Oregon Trail thrown in, along with whatever else we collectively make of things.
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All of these would not be first-come first-served; like the thread I’m running right now every character submission would be more like an audition. I also expect all of these ideas would have fairly small casts - likely not more than 6-8 people. That is, course, provided there’s enough interest to even start one of them. :3 I'm really only going to take on one of these ideas right now - as other things wrap up or come to the end of their stories, I might start others, though.
Let me know!
