Thread:Spluff5/@comment-28305200-20160708121844

I'll write our ideas for collaboration here so that we don't need to check the IRC logs:


 * This would probably be set tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.
 * I would prefer to have my own empire near to where the Talven Empire is now, so we should probably be in the Milky Way (and Andromeda, if we are able to interact with the Draconid Imperium).
 * If you don't want to write ancient fiction with me, you could decide where to settle by making your location unclear, interacting primarily with intergalactic empires, before settling near the empires that you have interacted with most.
 * As you are creating a collective of empires, perhaps they could have united against my empire, which would be slightly more powerful than any of your empires on their own.
 * When/if you interact with the Talven Empire, it is currently Tier 3.2.
 * In recent centuries, technology has spread a lot through trade, meaning that infrastructure is now more important. This would probably not affect our ancient empires.
 * We could assume that the differences in environments (eg. lack of trade, exploration, networks of alliances, etc.) will impact on our cultures and the way that we interact.
 * We could build up to a war between our fictions, in which they mostly wipe each other out. However, each side could have left behind structures with suspended animation chambers. In recent years, we can have some form of 'awakening', in which these structures become active again. We can, of course, continue writing things before the war, as long as we leave a long period of time for things to happen. This means that we could be simultaneously writing fiction in modern and ancient times, with the same empires.
 * I definitely want to go with suspended animation, but you might want to consider other options like having your empire staying isolated in a few systems that survived the war, waiting for my empire to return.
 * Perhaps if the war lasts for long enough, we could have evolution of technology - i.e. our empires develop our weapons and defenses to a point where we are the only ones able to easily defend ourselves against each other (at least, locally). 