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any one mind if i do a sort of running social commentary that follows the SO story line in the form of a relatively short novel (probly 75-100 pages when i'm done). i want to submit it for a finale english assignment at the end of the school year and it would be cool to get some new feedback.

lol sounds cool to me, i dont think anyone would have a problem with it...

Haha, your teacher may

HAHAHA it meets project guidelines and they encourage creativity/originality... besides i've been working on short lil bits for i dont know how long. i'm kinda just gunna throw them together and make it follow SO. i have the first chapter nearly done and i still cant introduce the main character... rly starting to make me angry. ideas for killing off a supporting character?

Lol sounds cool got some ideas for killin the supportin character. 
i need some details first but hers some starters

His cryo pod malfunctiond while in warp cutting of his life support and thawing him pre-maturly causing the others to find a half rotted corpse.  it gets worse from here! lol

He was reparing the hall of somthing in space when his  tether released, or metors, or he punctured his suit causing him to rapidly decompress making him exploed and covering the inside of his space suit with pulpy flesh!  hows that for a death

he gets into an affair another character kills him.

OR maybe he was in a shuttle craft with some other characters that you want dead the thrusters on it break causing the craft to plummet towards the planet in a firey ball of death being boiled alive the occuponts flesh begins to melt the ones left screem in aggony as they see there death aprroching fast.  To much?

he is a character back in 20'th century earth Seattle Washington area in his junior year of high school. he is currently in a coma caused by a bus crash. later he will develop a theoretical ai as a method of making up his missed school years to gain early admittance to college. he needs to die after he submits his paper... and i cant think of a way that doesnt sound corny/create plot holes.

The ai evolves past his capacity, he loses himself and becomes a computer

Is he crippled from the crash or is he perfectly fine

you could have some anti tech guyor religios nut or something that blows him outa the water

count me in.. (wants a big role... mmm the guy who startes everything.. over and over again.)

character is in a coma but comes out a couple years later perfectly fine otherwise due to an experimental drugged that the doctors used to try and save him. additionally, he developed a "split personality" that tutored him while he was in the coma that was unimaginably intelligent (not to mention that some time dilation occurred and he spent what seemed like decades learning). ai "never actually works" and the idea is shot down by some professors. not gunna give anything else away until i actually finish chapter one :)

*note* there will be a surprising amount of plot depth for an online posting and that my sentence structure is much better then that of my postings
*also note* i need help patching together the timeline because i took a year+ vacation from the game and that anyone who helps will get input on the story/a part if they want one
*final note* as of right now the story will revolve around my character, Project RS, Emi and TH (when i first started gunfighter frank and emi were pretty much everyone i talked to)

-edit-
will be reminiscent of Card's Xenocide (borrows some theories and follows a similar format) + i figured out how to "kill" the character off :)

hmmm card is a great autrhor i read all the ender series.. rock on!!

but really how far can you go back? not as far as frank who is making one i geuss from really old times in spaceo :p

it goes back to late 1900's then it gets weird because main character takes a break for a LONG time and some side stories develop. after about 22-2500 (depending on what frank is doing) and then it will pick back up on main and skip around for a while getting in to the beginning of inter stellar star-flight. after this SO will pick up and main character will come back in as a major component and myself + frank will make our appearances (in addition to anyone that helps). after this it will continue in to the near SO future and then sort of go back and forward to all times at once finally concluding... (not gunna give away ending).

*note* i will release basic outlines as story develops and the first chapter as a sort of teaser as soon as it is done/refined. also note that i am only a soft-more (with no knowledge of english grammar) and it will take a LONG time to get decent quality writing out of what i do. additionally note that this is much less a story about SO then it is a story set in the SO universe.

cheak emi's really old guides it shows dates and you can go off thouse, 2500.. it more like 10k something :p and each time dday restarts its like 100 or so years..

http://forum.spaceo.net/index.php/topic,105.msg1721.html#msg1721


reamber this was posted march 2006 on this fourm older on the previous fourm so im geussing posting around the 3rd round.. take in to concideration every round in that AD time could be counted as 100 or so year.. untill dday starts (or you can think of an equivlent day to year ratio... longer rounds longer time frame)

2500 is when it will speed up/ jump to where SO starts

75000 years speed up then :p and you need to make up some reason why the commanders age slowly :p

dont worry. its covered. thank god for relativity jkjk but it will be explained

funny emi posted that randomly soo long agao.. and everyone who knows how to find it uses it as a reference to around what time it is in the game :p emi should actally do another update were it will compare years with days (2 weeks = a year?) or something like that lol and make the years start off at some number around 75-76k 's and have the years slowly pass by though the rounds, so when people make storys or go back to times in the game they can reamber what year it was.. so instead of you making up dates the guy could say "Dooms Day was started in 75908 AD but failed and restared yet again a month later. :p

oh oh 1 day = 1 month :)

ingame time is going to be VERY loose. as far as the relativity thing... i have never seen that line b4... i thought it was original :(

Why don't you base it off of the main story line that i posted?

good effort in a time line but...


http://forum.spaceo.net/index.php/topic,105.msg1721.html#msg1721

you really should adjust your time line to match up with the dates emi gave so long agao.. emi made the date up in the 3rd or 4th round, a long time agao... if anything you should try to stick to his dates, that date on his post is around the time allainces were first introdsued so if anything the time line for allainces should start their, then make it more intresting make 1 day in real time = 1 month in the game so rounds will take a while to finish a 4 month round = 120 days or 10 years in the game :)

well lama if u r so concerned, compile the timeline u wanna see and i'll probly end up using it.

it would take time and i never have been that dedicated to notice events that dont effect me (sorry) i just dont care :) not to mention i wouldnt go back as far as some others would.. and i could really care less if you havent noticed im trying to start dday while i still have a high rank so i can stop playing already :)

bad news, i have run it by my counselor and this book has turned in to my senior project (i'm only in 10'th right now). this means that it will take MUCH longer for me to complete but that the quality will be better... sry for the wait, but hey, it should be pretty dang kick @$$ by the time i finish it and a full copy will eventually posted somewhere in the forum. also note that the scope of the project has expanded dramatically, the name has changed and the finished product will be a college/high school level full length novel (complete with room for spin offs, sequels and prequels).

again sry for the let down, i know that its no longer rly appropriate to be kept in this forum branch especially considering that a finished product wont be posted for years.

i will be looking for help and ideas. if some one ever has some decent/relivant input i would much appreciate it getting tossed around in the forum.

well if you ever need anything in the "evil" point of view or often of from the guy noone likes on any round after the 4th round you can talk to me, and if you ever need anything from the better or "good" side you can try to contact Frank..

i wouldnt mind reading this if its good :p

btw how many words do you have so far (cheer to microsoft's word count!) i enjoy writeing too and have storys of 12.000 and 11.000 words (not at all relivent to spaceo) but i wouldnt want to post them for there left unfinished and the first one (bigger) is in such a rough draft form only i can read it and understand what i was trying to say.. :p the second was is better by alot but has a ton of minor spelling/grammer errors (ugh finding the right word is hard sometimes.. i just found out the english vocab has over 700.000 words...)

currently, it just broke 5k and i am probly 3/4 the way done with chapter 1 (of 15-20)

thats a good lenght :)

i've got 2+ years left to be working on it... so who knows, maybe it'll change

*note* plot has expanded significantly in a way that shifts away from SO and more to the near future... this near future should mesh with Frank's book though so we'll see how it works.

again sry for continuing this thread, and thank you for not penalizing me moderators

*edit* i will place the rough draft of chapter one here when it is completed  and continue to throw out tidbits later on so that im not in total violation of the forum's intent

its a story weather in the making or done calm down the moderators are human to not assholes lol...


writing is fun i enjoy doing it too, but the stuff i been writeing is more Fantasy/Sci-Fi .. a bunch of Fantasy Creatures but in a Futureristic world.. nothing to do with spaceo.. :P

the hardest part i think is after you finish the rought draft of a section editing it over and over again to get what you wanted to say to come out right... i completly changed the first page of my story 3 times before i settled on a hook that seems intresting. but if thats what it takes so be it, bring the reader in fast and get them begging for more!

or second hardest is grammer and spelling :p

grammar is a verb. last year on my first english test i circled the word grammar as the verb. it is one of the 6 times eeny meeny miny moe has ever failed me on a test.

i failed english once and failed 4th grade completly but conviently "lost" my "you failed and have to re-take 4th grade" papers somewere in the move back to the states :p

and english is my worst subject.. but its not slowing me down on writing! i still love it :p