Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-47205-20160329150225

On IRC, we've discussed the idea of what the fiction universe would be like if, rather than each of us focusing on building our own fictions, we had all pooled our abilities together and specialised on aspects of the same fiction(s). Perhaps it would make the fiction more detailed and fleshed-out than any one of us with our limited skills and knowledge could do individually.

We've also considered whether we could even make a new fiction or adopt an existing faction to try this idea out on. There is the issue of practicality: could we get everyone to agree on everything? What is the balance of advice to control that each person has when it comes to fiction written about their specialisations? How would people feel about not having full control or ownership of their writing (people seem to cope well enough with the shared fictions we currently have)? We haven't even started thinking about what the fiction would actually be like.

Here are some of the ideas mentioned for what some of the most active users here could specialise in (if this were to happen and they were willing to take part):
 * Creatures and characters: Imp, Oluap and Xho
 * Spaceships: Cyr and Dino
 * Culture: Hachi and Imp
 * Linguistics: Imp and Xho
 * Politics: Charles
 * Military: Drodo and Monet
 * Science and technology: Ghelae and Wormy
 * Making pages look nice: Cyr and Jo
 * Telling people to get stuff done: Oluap

So if people want to discuss this further, there you go. 