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I'm not writing a fanfic yet, but I'm going to release ideas I had for 14 factions. For the faction backgrounds, I wanted them to stay as close to the original game and storyline as possible, so it won't be too weird like many of the factions in networknode.org (Mantis-Aliens? A previously undiscovered tech group? CYBORG-ROBOTS?!?) So, what is considered canon? Michael Ely's story? The character profiles on Firaxis site? I heard that the characters' ranks are all mixed up between two sources, and there's all these little contradictions (having read Centauri Dawn, there's a part that refers to a Seven-Minute War, whilst in the character profiles there's a Twelve-Minute War). Those are little inconsistencies, true, but which sources do you consider to be the original storyline?
Also, I don't feel like going through 21 pages to find the good stories on this board. Are there any good ones you can recommend me right away? And about the Beyond Alpha Centauri story, what's the background about how all the factions got into space?
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Mellian
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oh come on, just because i haven't posted in a while doesn't mean i don't lurk 
-mellian
Last edited by Mellian on 23-02-2004 at 05:19
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Alinestra Covelia
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I sense the dodgy presence of Bing - a presence I've not felt since...
Feb 2000
time: 00:34
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Welcome! It's good to see new blood in our tired old veins...
Generally speaking, the "Journey to Alpha Centauri" story is seen as canonical. Michael Ely then went on to write three books, which resulted in death/incarceration for some or all of the faction leaders (Yang and Santiago) so because of this limiting factor, they're not really considered 'canon'.
As for my fanfic "Joe", I tried to keep it as close as possible to the "Journey" story, and to the excerpt found in the SMAX game manual. Don't feel you have to write canonically, by all means - but if you do adopt the events background from the Ely short story, it does save you from having to reinvent the wheel.
I originally started writing in order to make a political statement. That sort of got lost in the middle of the story when I realized I was having fun. Judging from your flag by your username, SMAC fiction forums may be a good place for you to put out a persuasive argument, hidden in the form of a story!
(At one point, my username flag was the PRC flag.)
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Mellian
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i wouldn't say i am new....just an old voice that hasn't spoken in a while.
-mellian
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Mellian
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for me personally, when i get involve in some multi-author story or make some half attempt at writing some SMAC/X fic, which tend to not go all that far and never gets posted.....i try to keep true to the characteristics of the leaders and factions portrayed in the SMAC/SMAX official stories, their profiles and descriptions and in the game.
then as for the story, how things will result depends on the locations of the factions, who they are neighboured with and etc...and then also depends on the kind of plot you try to make. like, each play of the game is always different, like they are alternate realities of Chiron and what happens.
-mellian
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Mellian
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well, the only other thing i participated on Apolyton was the Apolyton Empire cooperative story i ran and let died from a year ago.
as for anywhere else on the net, once tried participating in some Total Annihilation co-op story, which i stopped as it was just some **** fest with lack of realism balancing.
also tried participating in some 'story debates' at spacebattles, but it did not work out...tend to just died due to lack of interest or joining some better SDs being started out. in their fiction section, i started some story using some people of the board as characters, but haven't been past the initial beginnings....like, i have the story in mind, and occasionally try to write it out on paper, but i keep messing up character interactions, which i suck at.
thats about it....
-mellian
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Mellian
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i may have taken some offense from some things back then, but i pretty much got over it and forgotten about it.
-mellian
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Mr. President
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The leaves that are green turn to brown
Jul 2001
time: 15:34
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Edited. Right about you, wrong about me.
Last edited by Mr. President on 05-04-2005 at 17:35
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