Space Voyage #1 Chatter

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone

Chat agent? Where's that?

TFS

New feature. At the top of the HypoForums page there is a chat link. Give it a shot!

Bill

[TheBigDog]

Long post in process, please stand by...

[Janus]

Is it just me, or does it seem that all this cloak and dagger "Spy vs.Spy" stuff is just dragging us further and further away from what this whole project was supposed to be about, space voyage and exploration?

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by Janus

Is it just me, or does it seem that all this cloak and dagger "Spy vs.Spy" stuff is just dragging us further and further away from what this whole project was supposed to be about, space voyage and exploration?

The solution is at hand. Stand by...

[Edella]

Just a note to tell you guys that you you are doing a great job with the story.With so many people working on it,it is amazing that its as coherent as it is.I look forward to every new "installment."

Can anyone say Philip K. Dick Award?

[TheBigDog]

For those playing along, we are heading back to the earth to drop off our guests who came with us too the moon (at least some of them), and to replenish propellent in the main reserve tank to make up for what we used during the moon missions. Then we leave for the moon to recoup all of our stuff and head off to....

Bill

[TheFaithfulStone]

Originally Posted by Janus

Is it just me, or does it seem that all this cloak and dagger "Spy vs.Spy" stuff is just dragging us further and further away from what this whole project was supposed to be about, space voyage and exploration?

I disagree. I've already had enough flowery prose about how cool space is and what a great moment and blah, blah, blah. And technical descriptions about interesting things about the spaceship are cool, but kinda dry.

I have zero interest in reading a story without any conflict, and only slightly more in reading a story where the conflict is with technical problems. I don't want to get into a soap opera in outer space, where all of our conflicts are internal (Battlestar Galactica already does that so well...) I think we need an external threat to make it an interesting story.

Since I doubt we want to fight aliens or rouge AIs, we've got to have something.

I mean, we could couple technical mishaps with major interpersonal conflict, but who wants to be the jackass who accidentally crashes the main computer, and dooms us all to a violent crash into something?

I guess it depends on whether we're trying to write an interesting story, or fill in every detail about a "real" space mission. If the latter, then yeah, I guess it should be boring.

TFS

[Jay-qu]

I agree, the story cant just be the trip, its not like we can draw any conclusions from our made up results from any experiments we do..

[KickAssClown]

Originally Posted by The FaithfulStone

I don't want to get into a soap opera in outer space, where all of our conflicts are internal (Battlestar Galactica already does that so well...) I think we need an external threat to make it an interesting story.

The term is Space Opera. Excellent examples of Space Opera are:
Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune and Battlestar Galatica.

And yes we could have a story completely about internal conflict. However external influences are likely. However not nessessarily directly. There are a few stories out there that are based on our particular idea. Admittedly, without complications a story is dry, and when a plot device is developed to suddenly solve a problem, then the problem is solved and that plot thread is resolved.

So the question is:
Are we telling a Sci-FI story here?
Or
Are we telling a Non-fiction fiction story?

[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by KickAssClown

So the question is:
Are we telling a Sci-FI story here?
Or
Are we telling a Non-fiction fiction story?

I like that, although I know the difference your talking about, semantically there is no real difference