Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:00 am
FUTURISTIC CONCEPTS NEEDED!
This post hasn't much to do with Freelancer, but because of the game's nature, it seems to attract a certain kind of audience whose input would be very helpful for me.
I am writing a story entitled Aurora Storm. Its setting centers around THE SOL SYSTEM!!! This is unlike other stories and computer games that generate a generic excuse for not taking place near Earth, such as SLEEPER SHIPS! GREAT, GOOGAMOOGA! WHAT ORIGINALITY HAVE WE? I'd prefer to keep the exact year the story takes place in as vague as possible, but let's say it's more than 500 and less than 1000 years into the future. Humanity has developed "casual spaceflight", i.e., everyone has spaceships and use them regularly to conduct their business or pleasure, like in Star Wars.
What I request of you are concepts; things like:
Enormous factories deep within the bowels of Jupiter which siphon the atmosphere, refine it to produce hydrogen gas, and fuse the atoms in collosal reactors to produce fusion power . Then, this electricity is transported throughout the solar system via microwave radiation and satellites for widespread usage.
Another one might be:
Planets rich in carbon dioxide, such as Mars, have, once again, giant factories which suck up the atmosphere and chemically detach the oxygen. The carbon is then supercompressed in other factories to form diamond, which is shaped appropriately to form ammunition for spacecraft (lasers aren't the only/major weapon)
I wouldn't mind having some possible names of planets (such as Torteris and Crusciendo), people (such as Salkha Yultaz), names of ships and their descriptions, names of space-flung factions or corporations, and so on. Any input you may have may prove very useful.
I am writing a story entitled Aurora Storm. Its setting centers around THE SOL SYSTEM!!! This is unlike other stories and computer games that generate a generic excuse for not taking place near Earth, such as SLEEPER SHIPS! GREAT, GOOGAMOOGA! WHAT ORIGINALITY HAVE WE? I'd prefer to keep the exact year the story takes place in as vague as possible, but let's say it's more than 500 and less than 1000 years into the future. Humanity has developed "casual spaceflight", i.e., everyone has spaceships and use them regularly to conduct their business or pleasure, like in Star Wars.
What I request of you are concepts; things like:
Enormous factories deep within the bowels of Jupiter which siphon the atmosphere, refine it to produce hydrogen gas, and fuse the atoms in collosal reactors to produce fusion power . Then, this electricity is transported throughout the solar system via microwave radiation and satellites for widespread usage.
Another one might be:
Planets rich in carbon dioxide, such as Mars, have, once again, giant factories which suck up the atmosphere and chemically detach the oxygen. The carbon is then supercompressed in other factories to form diamond, which is shaped appropriately to form ammunition for spacecraft (lasers aren't the only/major weapon)
I wouldn't mind having some possible names of planets (such as Torteris and Crusciendo), people (such as Salkha Yultaz), names of ships and their descriptions, names of space-flung factions or corporations, and so on. Any input you may have may prove very useful.
