Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:50 am
Enough dicking around with TEO, time to go back to the homeland, the mainland, back in the USS-OZ.
Siege and I had a good run there, and a great part of it involved rekindling old OZ classics in the principle actors of old old old ridiculously old SOTS - the Sovereignty, the Brags, the Karlacks, the Apexai, and the likes of John Baylor, the Duke of Death, Isabella Noguiera, the eminent Ceasar Jorge Motonow, Doctor Wesley Prefect Birkin, and all the other great stuff. It was remarkable how these old works, contributed by the old veterans, not just yours truly but also including Siege himself, Arty, Peregrin and so many others, have held up so well due to the good spirit in which they were made. It was great seeing these things again. Some of them, I wrote when I was just a wee teen, and yet! They still make me smile. Touching these old roots was a wonderful experience. I almost forgot how wonderful worldbuilding was. Flexing the old worldbuilding mojo, beholding our works, man.
Siege and I have pondered on resurrecting Sovereigns of the Stars with gusto, taking the old concepts, putting this revolution into overdrive, going to places that we've touched in the past but now without the boundaries or limits imposed on us by circumstances, and with widened perspectives and horizons that comes with the years, as well as incorporating new things and ideas that we've encountered into the old faithful 'verse.
Changing it entirely.
Recent exploits in examining fiction, art, sci-fi, analyzing themes and symbolisms, might give us new ideas on how to pursue this and breathe new life into the old. One of the things that I loved most, and still love most, about the old 'verse was how alive it was. Despite the amateurish attempt to write sci-fi military stuff, outside of that we were able to imbibe into the 'verse a very weird idiosyncratic loony sense of life - it was alive, with all the paradoxes and weirdness and insanities that comes with it. One of the best things, I think upon reflecting back on it, was how we probably spent more time trying to figure out what kind of hedonistic debaucheries, fine delicacies, and moronic entertainment the peoples and cultures of the SOTSverse indulged in rather than concentrating on technobabbulations and weapons yields and joules (although it was still there, but thankfully we never turned ourselves into human calculators but instead reveled in all the crazy shit and laughed). We have Peregrin to thank for that.
I have to say that PREGRIN was right. He was so very right. And so very before his time. His ideas of pushing the boundaries, of indulging in the weird and the strange, are something I've grown quite fond of and have been pondering for a while. It was a profound influence. I'd love to have him back on this. This is for you, mang.
Old SOTS was about taking a picture of the modern day with all its flaws, all its ugliness, all its wonders and glories, and transpositioning it into the future. It was an old and semi-conscious attempt at depicting the human condition, from our then-limited understanding of it, and how that condition, how that humanity and humanness, is both unchanging throughout the ages, so same, and yet so dynamic and ever changing and evolving.
Well, actually a lot of it was just going "oh this looks cool and/or stupid, let's put it in the blender!". Most of it, actually. Yeah. The sense of humor was one of the best parts.
So anyway, I think we're going to be making some revisions in the old baby. And this thread is for figuring out and discussing and maybe ultimately article-ating the results of that.
And lastly, it's good to be back. I missed you guys.
Everyone's invited to partake in this thread and the eventual madness we'll hopefully excrete from the loins of our imaginations.
Siege and I had a good run there, and a great part of it involved rekindling old OZ classics in the principle actors of old old old ridiculously old SOTS - the Sovereignty, the Brags, the Karlacks, the Apexai, and the likes of John Baylor, the Duke of Death, Isabella Noguiera, the eminent Ceasar Jorge Motonow, Doctor Wesley Prefect Birkin, and all the other great stuff. It was remarkable how these old works, contributed by the old veterans, not just yours truly but also including Siege himself, Arty, Peregrin and so many others, have held up so well due to the good spirit in which they were made. It was great seeing these things again. Some of them, I wrote when I was just a wee teen, and yet! They still make me smile. Touching these old roots was a wonderful experience. I almost forgot how wonderful worldbuilding was. Flexing the old worldbuilding mojo, beholding our works, man.
Siege and I have pondered on resurrecting Sovereigns of the Stars with gusto, taking the old concepts, putting this revolution into overdrive, going to places that we've touched in the past but now without the boundaries or limits imposed on us by circumstances, and with widened perspectives and horizons that comes with the years, as well as incorporating new things and ideas that we've encountered into the old faithful 'verse.
Changing it entirely.
Recent exploits in examining fiction, art, sci-fi, analyzing themes and symbolisms, might give us new ideas on how to pursue this and breathe new life into the old. One of the things that I loved most, and still love most, about the old 'verse was how alive it was. Despite the amateurish attempt to write sci-fi military stuff, outside of that we were able to imbibe into the 'verse a very weird idiosyncratic loony sense of life - it was alive, with all the paradoxes and weirdness and insanities that comes with it. One of the best things, I think upon reflecting back on it, was how we probably spent more time trying to figure out what kind of hedonistic debaucheries, fine delicacies, and moronic entertainment the peoples and cultures of the SOTSverse indulged in rather than concentrating on technobabbulations and weapons yields and joules (although it was still there, but thankfully we never turned ourselves into human calculators but instead reveled in all the crazy shit and laughed). We have Peregrin to thank for that.
I have to say that PREGRIN was right. He was so very right. And so very before his time. His ideas of pushing the boundaries, of indulging in the weird and the strange, are something I've grown quite fond of and have been pondering for a while. It was a profound influence. I'd love to have him back on this. This is for you, mang.
Old SOTS was about taking a picture of the modern day with all its flaws, all its ugliness, all its wonders and glories, and transpositioning it into the future. It was an old and semi-conscious attempt at depicting the human condition, from our then-limited understanding of it, and how that condition, how that humanity and humanness, is both unchanging throughout the ages, so same, and yet so dynamic and ever changing and evolving.
Well, actually a lot of it was just going "oh this looks cool and/or stupid, let's put it in the blender!". Most of it, actually. Yeah. The sense of humor was one of the best parts.
So anyway, I think we're going to be making some revisions in the old baby. And this thread is for figuring out and discussing and maybe ultimately article-ating the results of that.
And lastly, it's good to be back. I missed you guys.
Everyone's invited to partake in this thread and the eventual madness we'll hopefully excrete from the loins of our imaginations.