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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Mon, 29 January 2007 16:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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The question is ... who is interested in working on it. Can I have a "show of hands" please.


*Raises hand*

I'm willing to learn new skills for helping make this work, whether that be some programming or web page design or something . . . however, my forte (IMO) has always been in my writing. I've written a few books, many articles for a local newsletter, and in recent months I've taken contracts as a copywriter. I've actually been playing around with an idea for Stars!

Briefly, the original Stars! had next to no plot. The Sznip and Fermis finished a war and threw the universe all out of whack, so all that's left is the too-small bubble of space for you and competitors. I read the plot for Supernova Genesis on Saturday I think. Your home system star is going to blow up and you need to leave the system. That's a pretty commonly used plot . . .

Anyway, the plot I'm thinking is Stars! Revival. I think that would be an excellent name for the game, combining the idea of the plot with the attitude we want to nurture among the players.

Stars! Revival
For years the Stars! community has been dwindling away, almost to nothing. All around are questions about the future. Where have the Jeffs gone? Empire Interactive? Will there be another game? Have we been abandoned? This game can revive the dying spirit of Stars! players everywhere. It will require some work. For instance:

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There's enough people out there willing to help. They just don't read the forum...


Then let's find them. I've visited many different Stars! websites in the last month or so, learning plenty of interesting things. Let's scour those websites and contact the operators. Let's look at old mailing lists (or newsgroup lists) and find people who might still want to participate. Etc, etc.

What we will do is make it so that what happens in game will run parallel, to some degree, to what's happening out in the real world, in the Stars! community. From the manual:

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Once upon a time there was a
Theory that said the Universe was made up of interconnected bubbles of space/time. The Sznip and the Fermi War proved it. The detonation that
destroyed both these super races also caused these bubbles of real space to pop (actually a simultaneous replacement of real space with null). All
the bubbles but one. This bubble of space/time, your bubble, is all that remains. And it's small (too small) and full (too full) of sentient species, each
on the verge of colonizing other planets and traveling between the stars. Each race hungry to control the little bit that's left.


Now, your civilization has long since conquered all those weakling races. You have spread throughout your bubble and colonized the vast reaches of space. You have expanded so far, in fact, that it has gotten overcrowded . . . your people's fighting spirit begins to fade. Populations on planets die out of boredom, research and technology dwindle, ships are mothballed and begin to go into decay, and industry fails all over the civilization.

But somewhere, in one corner of your bubble, a small group of energetic researchers has found the key to solve all these problems . . . the Stars! Revival. Nervously, in uncertainty, they band together and find out some amazing truths: using advanced equipment, they have detected extra-bubbular signals. This can only mean one thing: somewhere, on the outside, are those who have survived. These individuals unite their common interests and resources and to construct the Stars! Revival, an incredible device that can bend the folds of space and time around a spacecraft, allowing it leave the confines of the bubble. The journey is long and arduous, but as they work forward more supporters who had nearly given up all hope join them, and their momentum builds and builds. Finally they complete their research, and the Stars! Revival system is fitted onto every craft possible, which then launch forth throughout the universe, and find that as they had thought not every bubble is gone . . . some still remain.

A new era dawns. Your people begin talking, trading, learning, and warring with the other races of the universe. It truly is a Stars! Revival.



Yeah, bread too.

Don't Let the Stars! Fade Away

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