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What We Need
| ART |
They don't have to be
cinematic masterpieces... really. In particular, we need
good, solid artwork to use in the webpage as illustrations
of the descriptive text. We can always use good
"character", vehicle, and interior/exterior building
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| STORIES |
Ultimately, that's what this
is all about. Taking the background and spinning it into
great, original stories. Short stories, novel-length
works, serials, and great ideas for storylines and ways to
weave complex stories into online games. |
| IDEAS |
Bring 'em on. |
| SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY |
Science fiction ain't much
good without the science. We need impassioned experts and
laymen alike to tell us what the future will be like. What
technologies will prevail and how will they affect the way
we live? What is possible and what is likely? What will
propel the races between the stars? What will provide the
power? What will they use to blow each other to bits? |
| DETAIL |
While we don't want to stifle
creativity by spelling out every detail, we do need a
great, original, captivating backdrop full of detailed and
developed planets, cities, and cultures. How will products
get made and distributed, by whom, and why? What is each
planet like and how has civilization evolved on it? How does
each empire function and what drives it along? |
| STUFF |
Detailed starships, weapons,
equipment, corporations and organizations, factions,
politics, history, creatures, races, and just about
anything that interests you. |
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Participation Guidelines
Art & Story Submissions
Send us your ideas, your stories, your artwork... anything
relevant to the Black Admiral universe.
- Submissions can be sent to: contribute@blackadmiral.com.
- Include a subject to
distinguish your e-mail from spam, like "Black Admiral
Contribution"
- Please include some contact information and
feel free to tell us about you.
- We won't post anything without your express
permission.
- We can provide no-charge space for
"about the artist" pages.
- We review submissions primarily based on
continuity and content. We may make suggestions prior to
posting but, in
general, if you create it we'll post it here.
- We will post
"non-canonical" or experimental works that
purposely twist, alter, or ignore parts of the mythos.
Use the background material as you see fit. We'll often
adapt the "official" background to fit contributions.
- Again, we welcome and encourage interactive
or speculative fiction. We fully intend to explore new
styles of fiction that go beyond traditional print media,
such as hypertext fiction where hyperlinks can be used to
diverge between concurrent storylines or to tell a single
story from multiple points of view.
- Don't get too hung up on these guidelines.
Make contact, make art, have fun!!
Submitting Ideas and Content to the Shared
Universe
The idea is that everyone should contribute ideas, big and
small., and make Black Admiral grow. There's room on the
dev team for whatever skills you've got!
- Ideas and background lore can be sent
directly by email
- Include a subject to
distinguish your e-mail from spam, like "Black Admiral
Contribution"
- Don't get too hung up on these guidelines.
Make contact, make art, have fun!!
Writing and Art
Basically, we're trying to develop an exciting universe
created for the good of all. Common sense should prevail. You
own the rights to your work, we have the right to use the
content within the Black Admiral universe.
- You still own your characters, creations,
and ideas. We will post what you send us, which constitutes
First Internet Publishing Rights but all other rights remain
your own.
- There are really no guidelines
to limit your contributions beyond the background material
provided. It should fit at least loosely within the details
provided but you're free to explore and modify to make the
background fit the story you need to tell.
- Don't get worried or caught
up in the details. There's a lot of pseudo-science mumbo
jumbo. The really big intent is to create a workable,
plausible terminology that everyone can use as a basis to
setting stories in a world that "works and sounds good". If
you need a hand getting the gobbledy-gook right, we're here
to help. Or just gloss over the details and it'll sound fab.
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