Thanks Zeronet, I forgot about that anti-lurker device. You and I will have a talk about that later heretic.
Anyways, yes, it is my own universe, and has little or nothing to do with Freespace. In a sense, its like Node Wars, but there are no empires and such, just great factions which you can belong to, but don't expect to be giving orders to the whole faction.
And if you can't join in when it begins, you can slip in as it moves along. I have an open door policy, where authors can come and go as they please. It should be interesting to try, I haven't run one of these stories since NHOL 3.