The Convention was weary - physically weary from fighting the Boskone War, emotionally weary from being treated as criminals by so much of the 'Danelaw, and mentally weary from realizing that life in space still involved dealing with all the little annoyances of daily life. They were ready for a change.
And they got one, with the news that the Miranda had discovered evidence of extra-Solar intelligence.
The Convention started to spread out in earnest. The Artemis Foundation send a manned mission to Barnard's Star and found native life there. A group of Vernor Vinge Fen visited Lalande 21185, and was amazed to discover Gatewood, a planet that could (just) support human life. And everybody knew about the wonders discovered by the Soviet Air Force's mission to Delta Pavonis.
Thus did the second half of the century's second decade come to be known as The Great Age of Exploration, with Fen of all nationalities and factions working together to find their own wonders.
Certainly, not everyone was willing to leave the Sol system - some people had put down roots on Luna, Mars, Ceres, Ganymede, or Mimas, or above Venus, and they weren't about to pick up and leave right away. And somebody had to stay behind and pay the bills.
But there were enough people who were willing to see what was out there to make this half-decade one of the most vibrant in Fenspace's history.
-- from the introduction to "The Great Age of Exploration", by Jon Helscher, published 2023 by Kandor Press
I'm assuming we're ready to lift the freeze on advancing Fenspace's "now" - we seem to have done enough work to establish at least in broad strokes the pivotal moments in Season 1. So, what to do about Season 2?
I'd like to get back to exploration - what Fenspace was about before Haruhi called the SOS-Con. After all, there's plenty to explore...
If we go with this proposal, here's how it would work:
Folks who don't want to leave Sol (including Noah and Leda, but not including at least two of Noah's "angels") would stay home and explore the Main Belt, Luna, Mars, and the Jupiter and Saturn subsystems, or support the peope who are doing the exploration.
The only downside I can see to this proposal is that it might invalidate The South Is Rising, Someone Get a Hammer, depending on how people write their stories. But minor changes can be made to TSIR,SGAH or the other stories if we really want to incorporate that Infinity into the main timeline.
Thoughts? Opinions? Rotten tomatoes?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
And they got one, with the news that the Miranda had discovered evidence of extra-Solar intelligence.
The Convention started to spread out in earnest. The Artemis Foundation send a manned mission to Barnard's Star and found native life there. A group of Vernor Vinge Fen visited Lalande 21185, and was amazed to discover Gatewood, a planet that could (just) support human life. And everybody knew about the wonders discovered by the Soviet Air Force's mission to Delta Pavonis.
Thus did the second half of the century's second decade come to be known as The Great Age of Exploration, with Fen of all nationalities and factions working together to find their own wonders.
Certainly, not everyone was willing to leave the Sol system - some people had put down roots on Luna, Mars, Ceres, Ganymede, or Mimas, or above Venus, and they weren't about to pick up and leave right away. And somebody had to stay behind and pay the bills.
But there were enough people who were willing to see what was out there to make this half-decade one of the most vibrant in Fenspace's history.
-- from the introduction to "The Great Age of Exploration", by Jon Helscher, published 2023 by Kandor Press
I'm assuming we're ready to lift the freeze on advancing Fenspace's "now" - we seem to have done enough work to establish at least in broad strokes the pivotal moments in Season 1. So, what to do about Season 2?
I'd like to get back to exploration - what Fenspace was about before Haruhi called the SOS-Con. After all, there's plenty to explore...
If we go with this proposal, here's how it would work:
- Pick a group of characters - established, new, or a mix.
- Pick a destination http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... stinations that hasn't been visited yet.
- Come up with a ship or a flotilla that's big enough to support an exploration mission. (Artemis went to Barnard's Star and back with two Shuttles.)
- Write stories about exploring that star system! (But remember that we've already established there aren't any civilizations within easy reach of Fenspace.)
Folks who don't want to leave Sol (including Noah and Leda, but not including at least two of Noah's "angels") would stay home and explore the Main Belt, Luna, Mars, and the Jupiter and Saturn subsystems, or support the peope who are doing the exploration.
The only downside I can see to this proposal is that it might invalidate The South Is Rising, Someone Get a Hammer, depending on how people write their stories. But minor changes can be made to TSIR,SGAH or the other stories if we really want to incorporate that Infinity into the main timeline.
Thoughts? Opinions? Rotten tomatoes?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012