So after saying a month ago that I would do a scenario based mostly upon exploration, I have actually put some work into it while juggling my classes as well. Below are pictures of the galaxy so far and one of the explorer's docks.
So far, I have four governments defined: The United States of Earth, the Alliance, the Alliance Explorers, and the Taurans. USE only controls Earth and one other outpost. The Alliance is the huge federation of all the outlying planets in human space. The Alliance Explorers are what you, the explorer character, belong to, but all three of these Governments are allied. The Taurans are an alien race found by the explorers a while back. Through miscommunications and hostilities, the two species are now at war. Humans have not yet made any other contact with another race other than the Taurans. Finding those other ones and having various storylines by doing so is the main part of the gameplay.
I will be developing some of my own planetary graphics with Bryce, and I have some ship designs that I have drawn out over the years that I will be including. My friend is a computer graphics major at college and he volunteered to help me with making the ships a reality over the summer with Lightwave 3D. What i will need help with eventually is the missions, mission bits, etc. But this is what I have so far and I am working on it a bit at a time. Hope some people find this interesting.
-John
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