Utterly Mad

Here we shall discuss the setting, theme, and other important topics for the the potential large-scale RP.

To begin, I'd like to put my own idea forward. The setting would be in the Star Citizen universe where humanity is expanding rapidly into the universe and had just fought its first inter-stellar war against the Vanduul Swarm. New Planets, trade routes, and technologies are constantly being found on a daily basis and offers an almost unlimited potential for RP growth and expansion. Players could submit new races, planets, and technologies to be added to our fan-canon but would have to go through a screening to make sure it wasn't too OP and/or didn't fit well.

Comments? Questions? Let us come together to make something wonderful.

While I don't like freeform too much I can see its uses though I think we should nail down when free-form is exceptable and when it isn't. Also I'd rather just use Star Citizen's lore because I understand it very well and it saves time. Plus, it's pretty goddamn unique on its own.

The joys of fan-canon is that we can change stuff about it, like an alternate time line.

Yeah, I'm siding with Vulnus on this. While we're probably protected under some subsection of Fair Use, and we're still really obscure as it is, the possibility of getting into some kind of legal kerfuffle is still dangerous. A new, completely homebrewed lore following the vein of "humans expanding into the universe, finding weird ass aliens in space, digging up even weirder shit elsewhere" seems like our safest option, and allows for the most freedom when changing and expanding the lore.

Oh, I just want to have something we can change and alter without having to go 'would this invalidate something previously done in this universe that's core to it' rather then thinking 'oh this could get us in legal trouble' Hibou.

For me its both. Plus, I like making shit up, a lot of people here do. I'll put up a poll here in a sec, and then once it is decided I will make a little subforum for it, so we can create it. I think we are kinda trending towards the do it yourself option lork, sorry.

I will leave the poll open for until like 3pm ish tomorrow, at which point I will set the boards up.

I will leave the poll open for until like 3pm ish tomorrow, at which point I will set the boards up.

I'm gonna start spitballing ideas for the in-house universe, if that's okay with everyone. I'm not gonna get home tomorrow until about 5, but I still wanna put some of my work into the creation of the universe, y'know?

So, my first question is: How hard is our sci-fi? Like, are we going for infinite density, provide citations for everything that you say, hardest of the hard sci fi or "it works because i say so" sci fi? Ooor (and probably the most likely) something in the middle?

okay, going to state this now: No one person has absolute say over anything. The GMs (which I need to compile a list of willing GMs) will discuss most content and determine whether it's lore or not. For other things we will get the community involved.
This is supposed to be something people can join in rather easily, and something that people can freely contribute to as they feel they want to. This is supposed to be a community thing so I think the control needs to be with the community.
I saw a question about 'is this going to be GMed', well I think the best answer is yes and no. I think having a general ability to free form RP at leisure is a good idea, and then have more structured GMed events. Just my thoughts on that particular question.

Note to GMs/GMs thinking of signing up: This is going to end up a commitment for all GMs involved, so please keep that in mind. The reason I wanted more then one GM to begin with is that my schedule is different from most of the other users here (I'm not in too much during the night), and I realize people will want to RP through out the day. Another reason is that I realize a single GM can only handle so many events at one time, so having a pool of GMs to help run things was going to be necessary if this succeeded in growing the community.