Star Wars - Rebuilding of Empires - a collaborative fiction
Posted: 2011-11-28 01:45pm
I don't know if you guys had already heard about this, but while I was surfing the net about Star Wars I stumbled upon this massive collaborative fiction project:
Star Wars - Rebuilding of Empires
[http://rebuilding-of-empires.wikispaces.com/]
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 ]
The premise is one of Alternate History: As in the Dark Empire EU comics, Emperor Palpatine was reborn as a clone on Byss, and managed to unite ALL the Imperial remnant factions and launch a massive offensive at the New Republic, with the goal of retaking Coruscant. In the massive climatic battle that followed, all the major characters were killed off: Han, Luke, Chewie, Admiral Ackbar, Leia, Mothma, Palpatine, Thrawn, etc everyone.
Without its leaders on both sides, the entire Galaxy fell into chaos, and from the ashes rose of many new galactic factions and nations, and new leaders to lead them, all trying to assert dominance across the Galaxy.
All authors collaborating in this project were instructed to pick a handful of planets, choose a leader and a form of government, a small fleet that reflected local economies (in other words, no one starts out with Super Star Destroyers and massive fleets of regular Star Destroyers) and maybe a couple Force users, and build from there.
It started in 2004, and it had been going ever since. The Galaxy is now dominated by a dozen great factions and many unaligned systems. The future of the Galaxy remains uncertain.
I read through it, and it looks quite nice. Loads of ideas about new Star Wars factions, new technologies, ships, social and political struggle and what not. The story, if any, looks seriously epic. Has anyone here heard of it? If so, what are your comments?
Star Wars - Rebuilding of Empires
[http://rebuilding-of-empires.wikispaces.com/]
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 ]
The premise is one of Alternate History: As in the Dark Empire EU comics, Emperor Palpatine was reborn as a clone on Byss, and managed to unite ALL the Imperial remnant factions and launch a massive offensive at the New Republic, with the goal of retaking Coruscant. In the massive climatic battle that followed, all the major characters were killed off: Han, Luke, Chewie, Admiral Ackbar, Leia, Mothma, Palpatine, Thrawn, etc everyone.
Without its leaders on both sides, the entire Galaxy fell into chaos, and from the ashes rose of many new galactic factions and nations, and new leaders to lead them, all trying to assert dominance across the Galaxy.
All authors collaborating in this project were instructed to pick a handful of planets, choose a leader and a form of government, a small fleet that reflected local economies (in other words, no one starts out with Super Star Destroyers and massive fleets of regular Star Destroyers) and maybe a couple Force users, and build from there.
It started in 2004, and it had been going ever since. The Galaxy is now dominated by a dozen great factions and many unaligned systems. The future of the Galaxy remains uncertain.
I read through it, and it looks quite nice. Loads of ideas about new Star Wars factions, new technologies, ships, social and political struggle and what not. The story, if any, looks seriously epic. Has anyone here heard of it? If so, what are your comments?
