Thinking About SF 34: End Of Line

Whew. That last one was long. With it, I've said roughly everything that can be said about Galactic Age (and yet, I still didn't ever come up with a better name). I've created what I think is a flawless physics system, smashed bad biology, and explained away a whole load of common sci-fi glitches. I'm very, very proud of my accomplishments in this world's science, technology, warfare, history, and politics. But it's still just a “world.” There's nothing in it for people to consume other than a long string of pontificating blog posts. True, I did write a short story or two in the setting, but these were heavily based on other works I've read and I consider them more personal practice with writing than anything suitable for a larger audience. That may change- I'd love to tell the story of soldiers in the Conclave War, or the operatives of Allied Command once that war was over, or for that matter the wars and tribulations that led up to it from the Trilateral War all the way back to the earliest space travellers, or for that matter the histories of the five species before space travel. But one of my bigger ideas was to make Galactic Age a tabletop role-playing game using the D20 Modern system, which could go in one of three directions. The first would be to make an adventure-based game, wherein the players would control a single military squad. The second, a tabletop starship simulator (somewhat similar to this game), with the players controlling the senior officers of a war or exploration ship, either attached to a government or freelance. The third, a game not dissimilar to Galactic Civilizations, with players representing the high-level officials of one or more species governments. I don't know. What I do know is that making a game would be a lot more work than I am willing to commit on my own, so unless I find some more like-minded people, Galactic Age is officially wrapped up. I hope I've been informative.