Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140901204342/@comment-1073312-20140905170601

I'm not sure I want to be a coordinator, partly because I don't think I have the time, and also because lets face it, it would better for someone newer than me to have a chance.

Let us not forget what we doing for the record. Popular vote has chosen coordinators to only have a minimum ability to retain consistency and organise discussions, it has also chosen coordinators who can actually keep up, with their stories chosen by their own merit. That is not unlike my proposition, namely, everyone to write stories to develop the fiction, with the more active ones being prominent and becoming the foreground (without a peer review of sorts). Now, we are choosing those ideas that are more interesting and more active, although it seems, we are choosing them before we start.

I'm fine with this, as long as we stick to what has been decided. I still suggest we keep the background open for new or additional content, with the foreground fiction having limited coordination.

Now, whether or not I coordinate will depend on A) how I feel in the future, B) your vote. But I don't actually want you to choose me for coordination, I want you to vote on my concept and outline for Uncharted Expanse. I am currently discussing ideas with Hachiman, Ghelae and The Randomness, plus I'm incorporating ideas from GD12 and Panda.

1) 2 '''3 At the moment, I have several real life things going on at once including my degree, several wiki-fictions and plans to build a personal website/blog. This is why I wouldn't make a great coordinator anytime soon.  Perhaps mid-late October and onwards things might cool down a bit and I can coordinate.
 * The metric warfare in Attero Dominatus between the DCP and Tyranny has severely bruised space, especially around the Ossuarium Sector (a huge battleground). The Randomness wants me to consider the anomalies around his homeworld Excereta, so there could be scattered anomalies everywhere.  Hyperspace too has changed slightly, bringing the new Uncharted Expanse closer.
 * The new region has new discoveries and new physics, hyperspace, possibly consisting of squashed extra-dimensional wormholes. The recent devastating wars has meant more rapid advancements allowing more powers to explore hyperspace.  Exploration and perhaps industrialisation begins.  Here there are opportunities for diverging storylines as well as a central one.
 * The actions of the Gigaquadrant powers disturb the lifecycle of native hyperspatial lifeforms/emergent entities and vise versa. They do not immediately understand each other, indeed the actions of Three-space powers (Gigaquadrant) might even be mis-interpreted as saying something along the lines of "Eat me!".  Whatever happens, hyperspatial travel ends up becoming very difficult (though not impossible), maybe even effecting warp drives and wormholes.  Suddenely everybody is cut back a tier or two, chaos ensues and changes are made on the political/socio-technological landscape.  More opportunity for plot divergences.
 * A Gigaquadrant-wide war effort begins to push back the hyperspatial life which may also act in kind (a bit like Panda's monoculture?), eventually mutual understanding is made and there is peace.
 * I really really really want some more deeper mystery in this fiction. It's hyperspace afterall, there could be hints that it has artificial origins, that the numerous Tier 0's left to it (and moved on), that there is some special relation to essence in this realm.  I suggest we include elements of the Dominion, how would a story pan out with them as a factor?
 * I want the story to not completely consume the whole project. There should be more than one plot or story.

What would the hyperspace natives be like? They could descendants of ancient wild sentient and/or living spacecraft, they could be creations of the Precursors, or they could have an exotic, hyperdimensional biochemistry and structure. Or maybe they are more like Lovecraftian horrors? One thing for certain, they are not evil, just operating in error as are the Three-Spacers (realspace might not be the best term to use anymore).

Finally, I do not oppose the vote or wish to argue. But in future, especially for important votes I suggest we please don't use polling templates for reasons I've stated, but instead poll with our reasons. Its fairer, more constructive, impossible to abuse, and means people actually involved vote, and is more rational. I fear that using political words like "anarchy" and "tyranny" can strongly bias opinions about untested proposals.