Guh.

This blog is kind of a place for me to put my thoughts on stuff when I’m not working on any particular project. Unfortunately for it, I’m working on two particular projects right now, so that’s not working too well. I suppose that if I had any knowledge of our friend Mr. HTML I could create seperate folders for Zalamar, Urallia, Europa, writings, and other stuff, but I don’t. I could delete this blog, and nobody would care or notice, but for one, I’m not going to, and for two, I still haven’t given up hope on a cult following developing.

Just musing. Anyway, here’s the little update. I’m working on a science fiction series thing with a friend. It’s totally speculative, but it’s still fun, so I’ll tell you about it.

It takes place probably about six hundred years in the future. Mankind has developed space travel and formed a loose coalition of systems, some of which have seceded or been conquered by others. There’s no big galactic empire as of yet, so they’re pretty much on their own.

The series takes place in a large independent system (no, this isn’t Firefly. Independent is just there because it applies), populated by a lot of pirates and other nasties. Our heroes are a band of four mercenaries who take jobs and basically try to keep themselves alive when there are dozens of others horning in on the same things. They’re all pretty desperate, so they’ll take just about any job.

The spin on the “spaceship” idea is that they don’t all live on one ship. They live on fighters, each of which is personalized by its pilot, and all of which are pretty beaten up. In the first episode, however, they run into a job telling them to capture science vessel for reasons that aren’t explained. They storm the ship, but their leader dies in the process. However, they’re still able to commandeer it and fly it to the lowlife space station where they can drop it. However, the guy they were going to give it to attacks them, saying that they can’t know what was on it. They escape, after picking up a few new crew members by accident, and find that there was an important military official on the ship. They can’t return him to the police, because they’d know that they stole the ship, and they can’t kill him without risking the police finding out, so they just have to run. However, they have a base camp now, as well as a new pilot and a mechanic.

So, that seems like a solid plot. Max, feel free to comment and make any changes that are necessary.

~ by pieboy on January 21, 2006.