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Post by elizar on Oct 24, 2007 14:45:07 GMT -5
And now I am creating in my mind possible dreadful opening for exploration/colony story or RP. Yes, dreadful, negative, personality check and the whole shebang.
I have been having too many plot attacks recently. I don't get to focus on the stuff I wanna focus on.
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 24, 2007 14:48:57 GMT -5
An opening like in the beginning of one sci-fi movie (Apocalypse, I think) I saw where something blew up the space shuttle?
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Post by Evangeline on Oct 24, 2007 14:56:35 GMT -5
Wouldn't want that getting TOO downbeat though. Enough disaster to make things interesting but not enough to be a plot-killer.
I'm OK with a Firefly-type situation, if we can get a bit more of an explanation for the FTL system. Perhaps the FTL can't be engaged right in the solar system (requiring also in in-system propulsion system) which would pose certain challenges.
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Post by elizar on Oct 24, 2007 15:01:43 GMT -5
Gravity! That is the main reason we can have the FTL not engaging in the solar system. I actually used that, though on lesser extend, in my sci-fi. And as for the downbeat story, I can abandon it, though I will write it up and put on DA. I like downbeat things, even though I may not be continuing it. I am just strange in that way.
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 24, 2007 15:03:45 GMT -5
It could be a number of AUs (Astronomical Units, can be translated into Miles or Kilometers and such) from a planet's gravity well before it can be engaged or something.
And if Firefly was airing then, I didn't have the proper channel. All I was able to get was Farscape on WB.
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Post by elizar on Oct 24, 2007 15:32:12 GMT -5
Firefly is a sci-fi western. It follows the story of Mal, an ex-soldier from a war his side lost. He is the captain of a Firefly-class ship which he called Serenity. The movie based on the series, to give it proper ending, was named after the ship. The FTL is never really explained in the series, though we see different ways of propulsion. Firefly-class ship propulsion system uses aft-burners. The movie however abandoned the FTL and said that they series and the movie happens in one solar system. Most fans disregard that theory because of the actual inconceivability of it. There are simply too many planets, while only one or two planets can sustain life as we know it in a single star system. And it clashed greatly with the several references to the rim or the void, which was unspoken as the edge of the galaxy or the world itself.
FTL did exist in the Firefly series, it was just left unexplained. It took about four to seven days to go from colony to colony.
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 24, 2007 15:40:31 GMT -5
Okay... that sounds reasonable and plausible...
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