We don't give up that easily

After reading McCormic's thread and Oztwo replies at work; I got thinking.
One that lingers into the past, and one that wants to reach to the Future. The past was great and the state of story now is bleak, incoherent, a shadow of its past.

For all, it is only to guess what has happened back at MA. Once there was a dream, a story, a concept of a world. But as time went by the story faded and quite abruptly ended not too long ago.
Maybe the last one that shared that dream went? I don't know. there is still a small team working on maintaining Calypso; and while they work hard, there is something missing. A poetic soul, a storyteller, a narrator. Someone that can dream together a story. An Isaac Asimov (foundation trilogy), a Tolkien of SciFi, a real writter, a dreamer, a child in mind.

I have the impression that this is what there is missing. Maybe FPC is suck with only technical employees. Maybe there is no time to dream up a story. Maybe the architect has left the building, and they makeshift try but fail.

No, I'm not someone that will absorb myself in nostalgia; because this only brings melancholia in mellow shades of sepia.
No, I am someone that want to build the future; and while I don't know how to make 3D models, and I don't know how to script an engine; I do know I am a dreamer; a writer at heart.
Maybe it is time we write a story about the past and future of Calypso and force it upon FPC. Let us dream and work something out. Let us be creative and push that creation come to life in the world we all know by heart. I know this forum to be a place of people that are creative, dream and love the story PE once had.
Let use rise as a phoenix from the ashes and restore the flame, the soul this game once had.

So I give you the choice to linger in the past, to stare with sadness in your eyes to what rubble is left from the dream we once lived.
Or you can act, dream again, fight, build and create. Will this be your credo for 2014?

Regards
Acronoid

 

Tesla, maybe you put your hopes into Project Ion; but I'm not giving up yet. Ofcourse if FPC/MA would keep being blind and deaf to our efforts, I can assure you that I come to PION to build something there.
Funny thing is, from the moment I saw you online, I knew you where going to reply this :) Not that it is a bad thing. We might be both dreamers, I just can't let PE go just yet. you can call me naive or foolish; but dreamers most often are. But without dreamers we might still living in caves socialising and praying to the sun.

 

In concreto

To give you a little backstory. Over half a year ago I was watching Lorfat's Stream. Now, afterwards twitch featured a DnD campaign. I got drawn into the genre. Those DM's build whole worlds in which characters could freely navigate and explore. A good DM/GM creates a world through time; like a painter painting the backdrop of his canvas, followed by the sketch of the image and working out details as time goes by.
A storyteller is a painter with words, that knows how to react on developments from its players.

Now what I want to realise is dream up a world; all together. Each make a piece and place it together in a framework. then connect those pieces together and offer it to FPC/MA

If this fails, I might solicit myself to do some charity work as storyteller for FPC. Than build the story as Game Master would; by listening and picking in on the interactions with the community.

Ofcourse this is but a dream at the moment; but everything man has ever done or build started with a dream.

 

Razor, the yearly migration always makes me think of the perfect normal beasts (hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference)
especially since they come from nowhere on an island and leave to nowhere; and they can't swim

 

Well actually I was going to expand on this in my diary project.
As I see it, humanity created the robots. While they did create them to do tasks; some sinister had the thought to create an enemy. Thing was, society was hard to control, into the space era we had not encountered any new treats yet; and humanity needs an enemy else they become their own. So there was a plan to make the robots go rogue; only that plan did go somewhat too well...

Now, while the robots spread to other parts of space to regroup and gain strenght, humanity found planet calypso amongst other planets. Now since Calypso was too hostile to make a new colonial planet for the Empire/earth federation; and humanity still in cling with socialism versus capitalistic ideals in an unified world; mega-corporations seized the opportunity to create a world on which capitalism ruled. Those corporations where Omegaton, Genesis and NeoPsion. Ofcourse alot of smaller corporations seized their opportunity (dura tech, solomate, DOA,...)

The first part is layed out it my diary. It is the background to which the main character utters her cynical thoughts.

I envisioned the Empire after both the Isaac Asimov and StarTrek. A sort of semi capitalistic militairy governed interplanetary system. Of-course it is corrupt as every mayor goverment through time has been. And most power is wielded outside the congress halls...

Okay, yes; books like 1984 and such build up the mood and political background. It is actually a very complex world, full of intrigue on all levels. It is like earth, where every party, be it big companies, goverments, black nobility, big trusts, religions, Rothchilds and whatnot all try to shift reality to their vision. And that makes a nice backdrop.

In Concreto; what I like is a place to write down dreams. Well not only me ofcourse, I want a place where I can read dreams others have written down.
Even if it is only the story of Billy; chased away from Scillia mountains to his spaceship afterworld. Maybe you know something more about smugglers and pirates. How did MindForce came to be?
Every input is a pleasure to read.
Maybe we can make a sub forum for idea's; collect them; go to FPC and say; look that is what we made, we give you a complete world, all you have to do is implement it. Give discriptions again to the tp's. think about the settlements. There are more types of events possible. Maybe add some little role play and such.

Let us dream; and let us create