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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

World for 9-22

instead of a 'world', per se, this instead will be sci-fi set on a generation ship.

A brief explanation of a generation ship:
Usually it is a gigantic ship, made to be a world in and of itself to sustain the beings put on it until their destination is reached. It does not travel light speed, or anything near that fast, it travels at the fastest speed it can, which usually is very slow compared to LS. It is called a generation ship, because when the ship reaches the supposed saving planet, it is the next generation than the original one, their children, grandchildren or others, straight down the line. No magic this time. Remember: THESE SHIPS ARE HUGE.

Here're what I'd like each of you to think of this time:

Hans: Please think of the religion of the place, do they believe in Christianity, Islam, some combination of the two, or do they come to worship the ship? Or is it a form of religion not necessarily started on earth?

Angel: Have the humans, or their animals mutated at all, since coming on the ship? Perhaps a radiation storm they passed through changed them to some extent...

Stephen: What does the ship look like on the inside and the outside? On the inside is it actually tried to set up like earth's fields and rivers are, or is it pure technology, ie. starwars/startrek?

Jason: Is the ship sentient? If not, what kind of goverment has grown up among the peoples of the ship? Do they put the captain and crew in control, or is it some other form, ie. democracy, monarchy, whatnot?

Grubbs: Why'd they leave the original planet? Was it because of famine, death, doom in the first place? Remember, this doesn't have to be earth, but it COULD be.

I'll cover the technology of the place, what they use to harvest, farm, fight, live in, whatever.

This world will by NECESSITY have to have cooperation, as in an enclosed ship like this, none of these will come to be separately from the others, but at least have some idea that you can think of before you show up.

See you guys tomorrow night!

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