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This is indeed this thread that inspired me to give it a shot. In [url=http://zero-k.info/Forum/Post/202174#202174]this post[/url], I try to describe what I had in mind, though it may be a bit muddled. Basically:
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This is indeed this thread that inspired me to give it a shot. In [url=http://zero-k.info/Forum/Post/202174#202174]this post[/url], I try to describe what I had in mind, though it may be a bit muddled. Basically:
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- The story is entirely told first-person, though the briefings (and hopefully codex entries). No info is given on the player character (PC): in this grand tradition of videogames in general and RTS in particular, having a non-descript PC allows for the player to more easily identify with it. Think about the success of Gordon Freeman, for example. So maybe the PC is human, or a gene-tweaked posthuman, or a cyborg, or a free machine... This is not the important part. What's important is what happens to the PC once awoken.
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- The story is entirely told first-person, though the briefings (and hopefully codex entries). No info is given on the player character (PC): in this grand tradition of videogames in general and RTS in particular, having a non-descript PC allows for the player to more easily identify with it. Think about the success of Gordon Freeman, for example. So maybe the PC is human, or a gene-tweaked posthuman, or a cyborg, or a free machine... This is not the important part. What's important is what happens to the PC once awoken.
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- The PC wakes up after a long time, for so long that what's left of star maps on the Commander are obsolete due to star drift - so much that it cannot even give a good estimation on how long has passed. The PC itself may suffer from memory loss, but this would probably be hinted at, at most. The Commander's memories are in ruin, though.
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- The PC wakes up after a long time, for so long that what's left of star maps on the Commander are obsolete due to star drift - so much that it cannot even give a good estimation on how long has passed. The PC itself may suffer from memory loss, but this would probably be hinted at, at most. The Commander's memories are in ruin, though.
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- The Commander seems to have been a prototype, the PC don't remember seeing anything like it. Nothing like waking up from half an eternity in an unknown machine with no idea how you ended up there, with automated defense systems fighting over your glitched, immobile rustbucket.
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- The Commander seems to have been a prototype, the PC don't remember seeing anything like it. Nothing like waking up from half an eternity in an unknown machine with no idea how you ended up there, with automated defense systems fighting over your glitched, immobile rustbucket.
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- The galaxy is empty, with only non-sapient automata mindlessly following decayed programming and fighting each-other in meaningless battles. The problem is, most of them identify the PC as something to be eliminated. So the PC has to jump around the galaxy, recovering lost tech for its Commander, trying to figure what happened and generally trying to survive local bots.
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- The galaxy is empty, with only non-sapient automata mindlessly following decayed programming and fighting each-other in meaningless battles. The problem is, most of them identify the PC as something to be eliminated. So the PC has to jump around the galaxy, recovering lost tech for its Commander, trying to figure what happened and generally trying to survive local bots.
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The spolier parts are work-in-progress. Most of this assumes that codex are available:
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The spolier parts are work-in-progress. Most of this assumes that codex are available:
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[spoiler]
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- Last time there was people, the main polity was the Kadesh Empire (random WIP name, I haven't decided how to call them). They controlled most of the galaxy, though the corner where the PC starts in was on the other side of the galaxy. Was this one of their prototypes? Was it a rival power?
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- Last time there was people, the main polity was the Kadesh Empire (random WIP name, I haven't decided how to call them). They controlled most of the galaxy, though the corner where the PC starts in was on the other side of the galaxy. Was this one of their prototypes? Was it a rival power?
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- There was a rebellion at some point, and they fought across half the galaxy. Everyone is long gone, but some IAs are still fighting it.
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- There was a rebellion at some point, and they fought across half the galaxy. Everyone is long gone, but some IAs are still fighting it.
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- The top-right boss planet
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- The top-right boss planet
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[spoiler]The final bastion of the Rebellion. The Empire built two Zenith to raze the planet, but the Rebels managed to seize one. They are fighting since then, slowly destroying the planet. The PC has found old IFF rebel codes and assist them, hoping to find anything left in the ruins of the rebel HQ. There is codex info, but nothing about where everyone went. Maybe hints that someone else prepared a nasty superweapon, not sure about that yet.[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]The final bastion of the Rebellion. The Empire built two Zenith to raze the planet, but the Rebels managed to seize one. They are fighting since then, slowly destroying the planet. The PC has found old IFF rebel codes and assist them, hoping to find anything left in the ruins of the rebel HQ. There is codex info, but nothing about where everyone went. Maybe hints that someone else prepared a nasty superweapon, not sure about that yet.[/spoiler]
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- The bottom-right boss planet
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- The bottom-right boss planet
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[spoiler]Homeworld of the Free Machines (WIP name, included cyborg posthumans). They had managed to stay independent of the Empire, but then they suddenly collapsed, some time before everyone else. There may be hints that they saw it coming and attempted to GTFO, unclear whether any made it.[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]Homeworld of the Free Machines (WIP name, included cyborg posthumans). They had managed to stay independent of the Empire, but then they suddenly collapsed, some time before everyone else. There may be hints that they saw it coming and attempted to GTFO, unclear whether any made it.[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]Homeworld of the Empire. The Empire itself collapsed soon after beating the rebellion, exhausted beyond hopes of survival. The remnants kept control of the sector for some time, until everyone disappeared. It was the last place hit, and they seem to have seen it coming and prepared, but archives are incomplete.
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[spoiler]Homeworld of the Empire. The Empire itself collapsed soon after beating the rebellion, exhausted beyond hopes of survival. The remnants kept control of the sector for some time, until everyone disappeared. It was the last place hit, and they seem to have seen it coming and prepared, but archives are incomplete.
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A few centuries after everyone seem to have disappeared, someone left a tag on their ruins:
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A few centuries after everyone seem to have disappeared, someone left a tag on their ruins:
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"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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Who was this Ozymandias? What did it mean? With no context, the PC has no idea.[/spoiler]
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Who was this Ozymandias? What did it mean? With no context, the PC has no idea.[/spoiler]
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- Final codex entry
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- Final codex entry
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[spoiler]After beating the Empire homeworld.
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[spoiler]After beating the Empire homeworld.
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Most rogue AIs have been beaten. The PC left beacons all around the galaxy, but there seem to be nothing left. It prepares to enter hibernation in the middle of the Empire's capital, with AIs set search the galaxy to wake it up if someone else was detected. After all, who knows, if there was one, there may be others.[/spoiler]
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Most rogue AIs have been beaten. The PC left beacons all around the galaxy, but there seem to be nothing left. It prepares to enter hibernation in the middle of the Empire's capital, with AIs set search the galaxy to wake it up if someone else was detected. After all, who knows, if there was one, there may be others.[/spoiler]
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[/spoiler]
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Editing the campaign