Hey guys, I love the background stories and extensive lore you are building. Do you expect we can see some type of origin story, like early Messer days, in novel format? Given such a huge universe, there must be serious potential for interesting stories.asked by Drugh

So, sorry I thought Thomas was flagging us down for something, he's just yawning cause this is so entertaining.

You're boring me to death.

Yes, to a certain degree we do want to explore times in the UEE or in the history of this universe that came prior to the current date in the game. Novel format...that would maybe an ambition way down the road after we have a very entrenched universe and we have a game you guys are playing and fully involved with.

Is he asking if we're going to write a novel?

Yeah, he's wondering if we can actually do a novel and we absolutely could.

Yeah.

There's enough stuff there and I think there's enough prime real estate of events in the past we can go back to and give a fuller treatment for. Right now, it's far from a focus, just trying to get the current world set out, Squadron 42...

Still have a game to do.

Exactly, exactly.

Now it's like, we want you to make a game and now I want you to write a novel, make a movie, do this kind of stuff, but I would read it.

Yeah, good to know people are into that kind of stuff too. It's...

I bet a fan has already wrote one, there has to be like a tome of fan fiction out there.

There some pretty good fan fiction. There's stuff on INN, there's even some specific subreddits that focus just on role playing or fan fiction and stuff like that. If you have any interest in that, you should definitely check those out, you should contribute. I know every once in a blue moon too if you do like fiction, if you like writing fiction we sometimes look for people interested in writing fiction for us. For Jump Point and things like that, so always keep an eye on our website too to see if that pops up.

Do you incorporate official fan...or like fan fiction into the official lore of the game if someone has a good idea, would you guys ever sit down and be like, 'I think we should incorporate what this person was talking about cause this is pretty dope'.

There are a lot of really great ideas that pop up on fan fiction forums. We always need to take it with a step because we know so much more about the universe and kind of where we want to go with it and what is kind of planned for it. So, sometimes that has to fall online. A lot of the fiction in Jump Point that you read has been written by other authors and fans of the game. I think technically we haven't ironed this out for sure, like technically we're spinning it as that's fiction that exists in the universe at the time.

Ah, I see.

So, it's not necessarily...

Fiction within fiction.

Yes, yeah exactly.

Fic-ception.

Fic-ception, I like that. Tough to say.

I couldn't even say it.

Yeah, I think it's truly cool we're creating a world that has so many different possibilities to it but you know, novels out of it is down the road at some point but lots of good fan fiction and everything like that is already going. So yeah.