Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140828233804/@comment-1370845-20140829141828

Alright, based on comments so far, I've got some more concrete ideas. Every seems to say that they would like some idea, but not sure what. Universal threat on the level that everyone would think is a no. Something that does not hurt the uninvolved, or force anyone to be involved (or worse, have the fiction make no canonical sense if they are not involved) is a bad idea. But we could still make a threat to the universe that empires across all tiers could face. Dominion of the Xhodocto or not. The Dominion and the Xhodocto are very different, let me point that out, but I keep going back to the War of Ages because that was when collaboration existed. And I think I know why.

It's not the premise, and it's not the concept, it was the page format. This was back in the day when we had this sort of page. Just "[Empire name] story", and everyone threw everything under subheaders. It was dropped because of lack of chronology. We can solve that this time, probably by adding after everything so people know when a story was submitted so it can be put into chronology, better still, I can make a template that each new story should be added into, which can arrange everything by date so it can ultimately be condensed into one chronological story.

More importantly, this should not require much commitment of anyone's time. Stories can be rp'd or written. And they can be done solo or with multiple people. No one should be forced to commit too much time that will distract from everything else they will have to do. Just writing something in your empire's story, and you're sorted. Nothing to it. It gives the feeling of co-operation and collaboration without taking too much time. We just need a canon threat that will not force people to be involved - though with little commitment required, there's less reason to not be involved this time around - and can be challenging to empires of all tiers.