Alrighty, here's the new thread for those who were interested in a collaboration on creating a new universe- "writing/starting something massively creative." If you were interested in this thread, this is for you. [url]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUit94OcMmuj_0FwGJlOIw8IlrSTFvIynRez_XeTbAdoEp9_kV[/url]
Feel free to jump in and add your ideas and examples. I'm gonna try to dig up some of my examples as well.
Okay I'm going to get to work on some shit, In the morning I'll hopefully have some coherent stuff
I'll dump a couple ideas if you guys are serious
Yeah, looks like straye and I are actually gonna try this. So please feel free.
I am serious at giving it a go, I'm just working on some ideas, are we still sticking with the sci-fi genre?
I don't see why not. Well I guess it can be whatever we want it to be, but sci-fi gives us a huge playing field, so we might as well stick with it.
I'm definiatly going to work on a world of my own now too.
I was thinking Sci-fi, somewhere in the future. Mankind have started to spread throughout the universe and there are alien races, both humanoid and animal-like.
Mankind finally united themselves around 2060 when natural resources were becoming increaseingly rare. They had to do so to finally catch up on the space race, and set their goals on starting to mine comets and asteroids.
Their first successful comet was Hayleys comet, which they successfully brought close enough to the earth to cause it to start orbit around earth.
It was there they found a previously unknown material that were twice as strong as steel yet lighter than aluminum. They called it Saganium.
This material was perfect for building space shuttles and in 2065, the first attempt att colonizing the moon began. It was a success, and deep within the core of the moon were even more Saganium.
The abundance of this material and several other resources with properities that resembled resources on the earth such as oil and uranium propelled the spacefaring technology even further, and a new goal was made ; To make Mars hospitable for man.
Terraforming Mars proved to be extremely difficult, and all tries failed with a various degree of disaster. It wasn't until a large asteroid coming from seemingly nowhere struck the surface of Mars that it finally worked.
Scientists were sent to investigate, and it appeared that the impact of the asteroid released various natural gases, creating an ozone layer.
Mars became self-sufficent in 2154.
Mankind had finally made their first baby steps into the universe.
Reading it makes it seem kinda... retarded, although I guess it's a start and a little background on how mankind became a spacefaring race.
Does it sound good or is it balls out-retarded?
The asteroid and the saganium seems a little too convenient. And the background's rather optimistic, I don't see mankind binding together in 50 years time.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;27085148]The asteroid and the saganium seems a little too convenient. And the background's rather optimistic, I don't see mankind binding together in 50 years time.[/QUOTE]
I guess my own optimism shines through too much, and yeah I can definiatly see what you mean with them being too convenient. I was thinking of having some sort of gigantic natural disaster causing every country in the world to work together to survive and have them finally realize that they all need eachother to live to see another day (even more overly optimism), and that is what finally brings mankind together. It is, however, going to be pretty damn bleak later. Atleast that what I've got planned in my head.
Although I could probably go with some more 'bleak future of tomorrow' in the beginning of mankinds rise to interstellar travel.
It doesn't sound retarded. :) The important thing is for everyone to throw their ideas all out onto the table first, and then we see where to go from there.
I guess it's a little silly as well, but I always had an idea of this hollow planet that these creatures lived in. Similar to humans, but obviously blind, very pale... with all other senses heightened. They were actually in a state of hiding from the more aggressive creatures living on the surface of the planet, as well as the awfully dense vegetation and almost constant state of rain.
The fun thing thinking about how it would be to actually live inside of a planet is the change of gravity, the effects it would have on the creatures (with about as much sunlight as there is at the bottom of the sea, where we don't even know what's down there) and how society would change.
And then I thought about what it would be like to have humans come, traveling in the same way- hey, maybe to begin looking for resources outside of earth, for them to come and discover the creatures on the outside of the planet, and then finding the entrance to the inside of the planet.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;27085446]It doesn't sound retarded. :) The important thing is for everyone to throw their ideas all out onto the table first, and then we see where to go from there.
I guess it's a little silly as well, but I always had an idea of this hollow planet that these creatures lived in. Similar to humans, but obviously blind, very pale... with all other senses heightened. They were actually in a state of hiding from the more aggressive creatures living on the surface of the planet, as well as the awfully dense vegetation and almost constant state of rain. [/QUOTE]
Sounds like a warped version of H.G. Wells creatures in "The Time Machine".
I'm very shamed to say I've never read it. :<
My idea is science fiction, but doesn't involve outer space.
Humans never make it off of Earth, apart from herding some people on a rocket, telling them good luck, and launching them towards the nearest, possibly hospitable, planets. But not much beyond that. People are content to continue growing on Earth, conflicts are still going on and we're still fighting amongst ourselves.
Biotechnology has been a science on the rise since the 2030s. A man-made algae has replaced the need for fossil fuels. Even more applications have been made in medicine and many fields of engineering. However, one thing that is forbidden by almost every superpower nation is the modifying human DNA or researching immortality.
After that and I'll be getting into the main plot line.
Ooh, you should continue. That sounds really neat.
Alright.
2046, along comes EDEN, a supercomputer capable of simulating organism growth down to the chemical level. It cut out what would otherwise be a dozen years of trial and error and allow human to engineer their own creatures. The governments across the world pull the reigns on it, telling scientist to not mess with human DNA, or introduce engineered creatures into the environment.
But still, this technology give humanity huge insight on the mystery of life. The technology is applied to a variety of things, curing cancer. The technology is as closely guarded by superpower governments as nuclear technology itself, if not more so.
Other stuff happens, but it's irrelevant to the plot.
The US government commissions biological armor, that can protect and augment the soldier wearing it. They put together a top team of scientists and bioengineers to make it happen.
It's a success, apart from the mysterious disappearance of two of the scientists on the team.
But that's not important right now
The bioarmor, despite being somewhat controversial, blows all the combat armor before it out of the water. The military orders about a thousand of them.
A few years later, the US in involved in some conflict in Africa or something. the bioarmor is being used. Then shit happens.
All the soldiers wearing the bioarmor turn rouge, turning on their squadmates (who aren't wearing them) and killing them before disappearing retreating into nearby city and hiding in the slums.
What had happened is that the biosuits had been sabotaged by the scientist who made them, capturing the poor souls wearing them and taking control of their bodies, forcing them to turn against their friends as they could do nothing but watch.
The head scientist was, for lack of a better word, mad. He was obsessed with remaking humanity into something perfect. The other scientists joined him in his delusion, enticed by the thought of immortality or utopia. The two missing scientists were killed for refusing to take part in it. The research team had become little more than a cult in the time they worked together.
So, as the phrase "oh shit what just happened" swept across the world. The scientists themselves had retreated to a third world country near where the conflict was happening, promising the secrets of biotechnology in exchange for security.
Then the bioarmored soldiers appeared again, in groups. Raiding outposts and bases outside the city, havesting inactive bioarmor and killing surprised soldiers. Along with the bioarmors came other things, alien beasts made in the labs of the twisted scientists.
Frightened civilians of the city are harvested, to become more bioarmors or organic matter is used to grow more beasts.
The Bioform threat shows itself.
Oh god I think I got a bit ahead of myself.
Anyway, this idea's been in my head for at least a few years, I guess it's good to write it down for once.
Very niiiice. Seriously, that was fun to read.
So guys, uhm. What are we going to do? How do you wanna do this? Do you want to mix all of our ideas together, combining the best, if not all from them? Are we going to pick one and roll with it? And if we're combining them, how long do you wanna wait to see if more ideas get posted?
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;27087829]Very niiiice. Seriously, that was fun to read.
So guys, uhm. What are we going to do? How do you wanna do this? Do you want to mix all of our ideas together, combining the best, if not all from them? Are we going to pick one and roll with it? And if we're combining them, how long do you wanna wait to see if more ideas get posted?[/QUOTE]
I think if we got together a database of ideas - like factions, planets, themes, technologies, what have you - then we can weed out the unbelievable/unsuitable for the rest. I think something I'd like to get down first is what the themes are going to be - like, is it going to be anti-authoritarian, or deal with body-modification or something?
As an optimistic old anarchist, I like the idea of an evil authoritarian vanguard - whom for the time being I have named 'The Corpus' - who basically have a rather Machiavellian hold over the majority of humanity, never doing anything directly controversial, but having their hands in the pockets of every major government. Their end by which they justify the means is a sort of authoritarian, faux-marxist eutopia, where there is happiness and productivity, but at the cost of personal freedom. I'm not sure what form the opposition to this would take yet, whether it be a little band of anarchists, or whole countries' governments, abjuring the proposed ideals.
I understand that sounds a bit like an illuminatus conspiracy theory, but it's still early days. I'll get my ideas man in on it as well, he'll probably have some handy theories.
[editline]31st December 2010[/editline]
also I was thinking that 'the corpus' could speak a sort of bastardised latin.
Only way mankind can be bound together is by totalitarism and military regime.
I'm more or less working on it.
[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;27096299]Only way mankind can be bound together is by totalitarism and military regime.[/QUOTE]
I don't think mankind could ever be bound together.
Sure thing stray. I think I'd post a better answer but I'm super tired from New Year's.
Oh yeah, what are we going to do with this? Old OP said he had money to make a website and stuff, but now are we just doing this for fun?
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;27128473]Sure thing stray. I think I'd post a better answer but I'm super tired from New Year's.
Oh yeah, what are we going to do with this? Old OP said he had money to make a website and stuff, but now are we just doing this for fun?[/QUOTE]
It is still international hangover day, everyone's beat.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;27104243]I'm more or less working on it.
I don't think mankind could ever be bound together.[/QUOTE]
Not with anyone oppsing alive, of course.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;27085446]It doesn't sound retarded. :) The important thing is for everyone to throw their ideas all out onto the table first, and then we see where to go from there.
I guess it's a little silly as well, but I always had an idea of this hollow planet that these creatures lived in. Similar to humans, but obviously blind, very pale... with all other senses heightened. They were actually in a state of hiding from the more aggressive creatures living on the surface of the planet, as well as the awfully dense vegetation and almost constant state of rain.
The fun thing thinking about how it would be to actually live inside of a planet is the change of gravity, the effects it would have on the creatures (with about as much sunlight as there is at the bottom of the sea, where we don't even know what's down there) and how society would change.
And then I thought about what it would be like to have humans come, traveling in the same way- hey, maybe to begin looking for resources outside of earth, for them to come and discover the creatures on the outside of the planet, and then finding the entrance to the inside of the planet.[/QUOTE]
I like the idea, although I'm not sure how it would work with them being completely blind and living in the hollowed earth and still have to go out in the wild. I can't see how that would work from an evolutionary point of view, but as I mentioned earlier it's a good idea nonetheless. :)
Just like other animals at night- using other heightened senses. Superstrong hearing, smell, touch, etc. etc. and thanks. :D Just throwing it out there.
I think everyone has literary strengths. I have a funky imagination. And other people are much better with the technical stuff. I made the thread, but I'm just planning on helping out however I can.
A hollow planet would collapse on itself in an instant.
However, a massive cave system that netted across the entire planet I can get behind.
Also, what if the humans that found them also happened to be hiding from something (like a totalitarian military regime or something), that would be interesting.
That would be interesting.
Wait a minute, are you sure about that?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon[/url] ;)
Nahh, I know. But if it was a planet we'd never heard of with new material, it could work because of how little we could know about it.
I like the sound of an subterranean society, that cave system idea sounds kind of like 'eon' by Greg Bear, where there's a bigass asteroid with rooms in it. Which inspires me to think, maybe if we did go with a network of tunnels and halls underground, one of the draws could be that there are still unexplored areas, which the locals are afraid to venture into because of a primitive fear of the unknown. It could get across some good themes of wilful ignorance as opposed to the horror of knowledge.
Ooh, that sounds fun. Maybe there could be one particular adventurer who tries to go against instinct and see what's up there, but he's held down, so he has to escape to the unexplored places in secret.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;27159791]Ooh, that sounds fun. Maybe there could be one particular adventurer who tries to go against instinct and see what's up there, but he's held down, so he has to escape to the unexplored places in secret.[/QUOTE]
I like that, it shows the importance of insight and knowledge, and the restrictions placed on it by fearful ignorance of the masses, as well as the stigma that comes with some areas of research (Stem cells and what have you).
I've noticed that whenever I write a story, I seem to overanalyse the themes of everything
[editline]3rd January 2011[/editline]
and as J. Krishnamurti once said "[I]I can only dispel[/I] the [I]darkness through insight"[/I]
Coolio. :) Yeah, sometimes you just need a fresh pair of eyes to look at your story, so you can see how much depth and morals and such are actually being recognized.
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