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Title: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Snail on December 23, 2009, 11:03:45 am: Was wondering which period in FS history people found the most interesting. It might be helpful to take into account your favorite campaigns while voting.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Dragon on December 23, 2009, 11:09:58 am: Post Capella, but I think that TCs are the best thing you can get on FS engine, as you don't have to keep your campaign compatible with FS canon.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: BengalTiger on December 23, 2009, 11:37:37 am: Post Capella. Probably because I'm working on something that's set in that period :p
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Spoon on December 23, 2009, 11:49:40 am: I personally think Post Capella is one of the more boring periods, the shivans are gone and its just going to be about rebuilding, civil unrest etc.
Voted for the Second Shivan Incursion btw
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Commander Zane on December 23, 2009, 12:42:32 pm: The Shivans don't HAVE to be gone, look at AoA, Inferno, Warzone, TotT, they have Shivans.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Droid803 on December 23, 2009, 12:46:25 pm: Post Kaperla. Because you can make up the most crap XD
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Rodo on December 23, 2009, 12:50:32 pm: Post Capella, Pre contact or TC.

Eras which are not delimited by canon stuff
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Vip on December 23, 2009, 04:55:42 pm: Great War. Nothing's better than uniting with a long-time enemy in order to face an unknown menace that has been wiping civilisations for millennia.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: SypheDMar on December 23, 2009, 05:38:39 pm: Reconstruction because ~~is one of the more boring periods,~~ the shivans are gone.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Scotty on December 23, 2009, 08:22:19 pm: Second Shivan Incursion. Just as bleak looking as the first, but with MOAR FIREPOWAH!
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Thaeris on December 24, 2009, 01:14:41 am: I voted Post-Capella just because my own fiction ends up beyond that point.

However, I usually consider story possibilities that start at the end of the Reconstruction Period/Beginning of the NTF Rebellion and often tend to finish up right after the Capella Incident. That area's a gold mine for campaign stories...

Otherwise, I'll often think of "expedition" stories which happen after the Capella Incident.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Killer Whale on December 24, 2009, 03:30:52 am: Quote from: Rodo on December 23, 2009, 12:50:32 pm
...which are not delimited...
You mean "are limited"? ;)

Yay, I'm the first person to vote pre-contact. Cause I'd like to get round to write a Freespace story for fun, and that's where I'd start. So far I've written a couple of pages a couple of times and gave up.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: headdie on December 24, 2009, 05:41:11 am: I went reconstruction period but post Capella is about equal in interest, I love the opportunity for rebellion an intrigue
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on December 29, 2009, 11:53:42 pm: No preference here.
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 01:41:07 am: The Great War for sure
Just because of the story, and (wow, i never thought i would ever say this) because this really looked "serious".
But once you enter FS2 Universe, it's just "Hostile Configuration!" "Commence Plasma Core insertion!" "Oh noooez they killed us!"

Edit: Yo, how about adding Ancient-Shivan war :P ?
Title: Re: Poll: Historical Periods
Post by: TopAce on December 30, 2009, 07:55:16 am: It's the Great War Period to me. Post-Capella and Pre-Contact would be the most creative periods, though.