The Galaxy Project

[:| Undying |:]

Mwahaha, , I'm starting the Galaxy Project today.

Earlier, I posted the "coming soon" banner for this. It's intended as a world-building community project set in a massive region of space surrounding the Earth, and unless I'm mistaken, it's the first on RPN. Yay!

All members of the community are invited to visit this thread and post concepts concering anything, ranging from races, civilisations, planets, colonies, star systems, nebulae, budding mad scientists, black holes, space pilots and pirates, all the way to murderous religious groups that don't believe in apples. They don't even have to be sci-fi. A bit like posting an OOC without necessarily posting an IC.

I'll mark the location/territory of each concept on a galactic map such that they can all interact; or not, if you want them secluded to a star system or planet or somewhere. Here's a drastically shrunken version of this map:

Spoiler: The Galaxy Project startup 

There's practically nothing on this map at the moment, but this is where the contributors come in. The original concepts are: Cosmopolis (center), the "Rome" of the galaxy and it's protectorated territory, and Earth (bottom-left), included for reference only and standing as a blank slate. When contributors feel it's suitable, I'll post a massively scaled-up version wherein we can appreciate it's scale.

There are two things worth mentioning before I let you loose on it;

//// Territory Sizes ////
If introducing a nation, I personally would advise keeping it's territory within a max of several times larger than Cosmopolis' protectorate. It leaves room for other contributors while still having a substantial number of colonies. If you do choose to make a massive empire I'll enlarge the map boundaries for you, considering this map is just a fraction of the galaxy.


//// The Galactic Senate ////
Political entities are advised to have a delegation on Cosmopolis if they want to be part of the wider galactic community. It's entirely optional but this tends to ease diplomacy and trade.

That's it! I hope you have a fun time coming up with ideas, I know I'm looking forward to hearing them.

[Biophysicist]

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting, and riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight up my alley.

Let's see what I can come up with. ;0

EDIT: If you'd like an interactive version of the map (like scrollable and stuff), I can make you one. ;}

[Omega]

World building on an epic scale? My interest has peeked the highest it has ever gotten. I will be certainly be hoping to contribute to this in the very near future.

[Atrum Daemon]

Consider my interest piqued, good sir.

[Gunnison]

:Rolls fingertips against each other:


Excellent...

[Sigma]

This intrigues me. hehehehe...

[:| Undying |:]

Alrighty, I'm happy to see everyone. I was planning for you to post your ideas in this thread.

EDIT: If you'd like an interactive version of the map (like scrollable and stuff), I can make you one. ;}

Thanks, I'll see how the map turns out.

[Omega]

I have the beginning of an idea that might be interesting.

Theological fanatics who worship their technology with cyborg implants being very common in order to bring them closer to that which they worship and the most enlightened among them have their minds uploaded into machines. They are spread loosely across around a dozen worlds though only 3 of them are fully terraformed the other are in various stages of development and the populaces often use special implants on those worlds to make life easier.

[Sigma]

I've got loads of ideas for various factions and races, and other stuff.

[:| Undying |:]

Theological fanatics who worship their technology with cyborg implants being very common in order to bring them closer to that which they worship and the most enlightened among them have their minds uploaded into machines. They are spread loosely across around a dozen worlds though only 3 of them are fully terraformed the other are in various stages of development and the populaces often use special implants on those worlds to make life easier.

Cool. I'll draw up some scattered star systems when I have the opportunity.