Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20180127221921/@comment-1892820-20180128012608

I think this is a good change.

The original purpose of the 'no new galaxies' norm was to prevent newer, less established users to suddenly have an entire galaxy of their own or to prevent established fictions from casually swallowing entire galaxies for breakfast. Requiring a group effort to start a new galaxy carries on the current spirit of forcing new fictions to be in a place where they can collaborate with other fictions in this Collaborative Fiction Universe, while also allowing new settings to be introduced as there are ultimately only so many stories that can be told with the lore and settings of the existing galaxies (even if we're nowhere close to the actual limit, a change of setting can be refreshing). Plus, having it be a group effort from the start ensures some amount of mutual investment from all users involved such that we likely won't end up with the same problem of unused single-fiction galaxies condemned to forever silently drift the cosmos after their main user and their fiction goes inactive.

I think the Tuuros Galaxy project should serve as an ideal model for how a collaborative galaxy creation might work (even if technically it's not a new galaxy). I imagine Tuuros is one of the main factors influencing this decision to relax the policy anyways, considering how successful it was and how similar the new amendment is to Tuuros' project trajectory.

We would need to determine how to smoothly integrate new galaxies into the post-Annihilation canon, since considering the status quo following the Annihilation, new galaxies outside of the original Annihilation survivors should be groundbreaking discoveries (like, again, how Tuuros was handled). However that's more of a bridge that will be crossed by the galaxy's creators when they reach it.