SporeWiki:Fiction Universe

This page serves as an overview and introduction to the extensive fictional universe created by SporeWiki users. This page was initially created by Technobliterator, although Wormulon made some major improvements.

History
Introduction ''The SporeWiki Fiction Universe is a collaborative universe made by many users on the wiki. It has expanded into Spore (like creations and adventures) as well as documentaries, Nationstates and hopefully in time animations. It has a growing popularity on the Sporepedia, with a few non-wikians making creations and playing adventures. Most Creations are simply tagged "sporewiki" or "seven starr alliance". The theme is mostly science fiction, but fantasy, supernatural and hard science settings are also common. There is generally little pressure or limits for the SporeWiki universe, and it has few rules so there is lots of potential for imagination. However, there are some standards to follow (see below).''

To get information on joining the universe, please go here!

Origins
The wiki has always had fiction and concepts dating back to when it first began (Natrian Empire and Naucean). However, they rarely interacted with each other much.

The origins of the SporeWiki universe goes all the way back to the the end of 2008 and the early months of 2009. Some of the empires already existed back then, but they weren't very united, and often adhered directly to the game, instead of interacting with each other. However, Captian Zaco and Wormulon founded a fictional organization called the Seven Starr Alliance, to fight vandals and report community based stuff, as well as fiction. Soon, many users joined, and with the advent of Spore Galactic Adventures, by the end of the summer users were making SSA-related adventures. In the months from then on, fiction became more and more united, especially when The Valader and Xhodocto3546 started one of the first big fictional events on the wiki - The War of Ages. By early 2010, these fictions were getting very popular, and by the summer of that year, the lore of the SporeWiki fiction universe began to tie all these fictions neatly together. 2010 ended on good terms with the majority of the fiction community, after a turbulent series of months. By the start of 2011, the wiki was home to many weird and wonderful fictions, with the arrival of new fictions and the development of old.

On the 30th of November 2010, the Seven Starr Alliance entered the Nation State's Universe.

In recent times, a massive attack by the Xhodocto cleanslated the system, destroying all unneeded and unwanted fictions and galaxies, as well as some that were wanted. The entire fiction universe shuddered from the impact, but everything has been settling ever since. (June 2011)

Timeline

 * The current date is: 2783

Under construction

Joining
See here, on how to formally join the fiction universe!

Rules
As described above, there are few rules, but we ask a few things of you, which are really quite obvious anyway.
 * 1) That you be polite and considerate to other users (and if conflict arises, settle the dispute rather than argue). Constructive critism is okay.
 * 2) That it does not interfere with the article namespace (likes links).
 * 3) That your empire doesn't look like the Bad Starter Example, it must be well written, detailed and not overly powerful without any weaknesses in comparison to others (fair basically) before it enters the fiction universe.
 * 4) Fixed features - Some parts or rules of the universe are "fixed", decided by the community. These are things like 'the Xhodocto are the most powerful empire'. Make sure your fiction doesn't conflict with those constants.
 * 5) Deadlocks - To make fairness, you cannot involve any more supernatural forms, galaxies or Tier 0 civilizations
 * 6) Fanfiction - We allow Fanfiction from other sci-fi's to a certain degree, but they must not be more important than SporeWiki ones. They can be mentioned, but if they are to be included in fiction it must be decided by several users first (like the Imperial Civil War, and attempt to kill them off).
 * 7) You cannot create new galaxies, use the Milky Way, Cyrannus, Quadrants, Mirus, Andromeda, Kraw, Bunsen or Borealis galaxies as your beginner location.
 * 8) There is a colony limit of approximately twenty million inhabited star systems that your empire can inhabit. This is implemented as to make the Fiction Universe fairer for all users.

Userbox
There is now a template you can add to your user page to be a member!

To use this template on a page (user page, subpage or fiction page), simply add   to it.

Movie

 * Animation - The SporeWiki Movies are animations created by users of SporeWiki. They are based off wars in the SporeWiki fiction, voiced by users, and created
 * Shorts/Machinima - These are short skits that can be either animated or using game footage (Machinima) to create humour. May or may not have voices. The SporeWiki shorts/machinima is based on 2 creatures, that will be decided soon.

Separate domains
Fictions do not have to be a part of the SporeWiki Fiction universe. As a simple rule, a fiction is set in it's own universe until the point where the creator contacts or responds to contact from other fictions. Very old fiction on the wiki is either considered in another universe, or simply part of mythology from ancient times. If a user's fiction is not compatible with this universe, then it exists in its own domain.

Universe' surrounding metaverse
Also, surrounding the Fiction Universe is a entire omniverse. All rules for the universe apply in this omniverse, but the fiction centres mainly around this universe, which is where the majority of empires are based.