[OOC][PLOT] Galaxy Building (Where we make Magrathea look like small potatoes)

[robkelk]

So I am a bit concerned about Rob's questions, and how we can answer them.  There's an old saying in programming, worse is better, which means that sometimes it's just better to have a working implementation to draw adoption.  But I... don't really know where we're going yet.

Which is why I asked in the first place.

Working out the overall outline isn't something that needs a real-time collaboration tool; a wiki page will do just fine for hammering things out. I've taken BA's 50,000-foot-view that's posted above and put it on a wiki page, adding some bullet points to the sections for Arcs 1 and 2 to help bring the first half down to where we can actually use it as an outline. It needs a lot of work, from all of us.

Rough Outline of the Overall Plot

EDIT: I'm not used to writing to an outline - I'm a seat-of-the-pants writer by preference. But seat-of-the-pants doesn't work too well in shared universes, so... outline.

(My workplace is pretty amazing, if you have technical skills appropriate to an online service, we're hiring remote, PM me.)

(As a coder, I make a good documenter... and I'm so close to a pension that I have it marked on my Outlook calendar, and my boss doesn't want me to retire. So I'll stick where I am, thanks. Yeah, I know how lucky I am.)