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Astral Tide; Online Fiction Project
Topic Started: 19th September 2011 - 12:39 AM (225 Views)
Morkskittar
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Let's start this out by saying that this is not a commercial venture, we make no money off of this, and if the good Council sees fit to remove this for its advertising nature then I would completely understand. :P However, I feel like a large portion of the Underempire might be interested in this venture and might want to read along. :)

That said, myself, blader, Quetzl, and daemonic badger are collaborating to create an online flash fiction webseries, free to access, just for the sake of writing. Every week, a new story is released from each author, in which the author advances the series-wide plot and deals with subplots between his own characters; it is in many ways like a fancy roleplaying game, with each writer commanding a set of characters interacting with eachother and external situations.

The world is what I like to describe as a "post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian space opera." The series begins in 2486, following the collapse of the Empire of Man - and everything else. Following a technological singularity in 2042, the human race began to develop and expand at an alarming rate, conquering all of existence in less than a hundred years, becoming, essentially, gods. For the next two centuries humanity ruled the universe... until all of the rules began to change.

First the digital matrix collapsed. Then the laws of the universe changed. Then the universe itself began to collapse, its borders rushing inwards, hypserspace melding into reality, and all the while a second, darker dimension began to merge with our own, bringing something else into contact with our reality...

Ten years have passed since the universe began to collapse. Eight years have collapsed since Earth, the last outpost of life in the universe, was consumed by a monstrous extra-dimensional being. All that remains of the old universe are five brave vessels: the flagship Victory, the science-ship Radiance, the shieldship Solfyre, the repairship Astral Dawn, and the scoutship Eclipse. Sent out before the destruction of Earth to uncover the nature of the Cataclysm, they are now alone in the universe, their home destroyed. These five ships are all that remain the universe - and they will do whatever it takes to discover what caused the collapse of reality and fix it.

The year is 2486, and everything is gone. Enter the world of Astral Tide...

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