I know there are about a million and one utterly amazing TCs out there that y'all are working on, and while some of it is vapourware, I'm sure some of it is just hidden away. However, as a new guy, I don't know exactly what they all are. The only time I hear about a TC is when somebody posts an update log.
Therefore, I thought this topic would be appropriate for making a giant list of all the TCs out there - incomplete, complete (crosses fingers), nearly complete, vapourware, just started... whatever your excuse is! So how about it? I'll list two TCs I'm starting on to start this list off, but I'd much rather hear from some of the other members out there who are pouring sweat and blood into TCing. And hey, if you want to brag about some features, do that too!
My TCs:
Name: Wally World TC
Status: In Development ((font color=red)5% Done(/font))
Description: Why pilot that Kestrel when you can have the true beauty of artisan craftsmanship? Thats right, a Wal-Mart Forklift! Work your way through the different positions at Wally World, get entangled in a web of corporate intrigue (aka misns!), buy 7 new 'ships' to fly around in, and engage in martial arts to destroy those pallets and, ahem, "work the freight." Learn intricate trade routes, from the televisions in the Electronic Department, to the swimming pools in the Toys Department. And when your mom tells you to stop being a computer-bound bum and get a job, tell her right back that you already have one. You, my proud coleague, work at Wal-Mart. Give me a W! Give me an A! Give me an L...
Name: Five Families TC, The
Status: In Development ((font color=red)3% Done(/font))
Description: In a desperate time in Earth's past, resources were running low... a man named Samaritan created an engine that allowed incredibly fast speeds... after many trials, he eventually was present to witness the first launching of man into space. These gates would launch a ship a considerable distance, where the ship would immediately imbark upon building a duplicate gate on the other end.
There were five fleets.
The first was sent to orbit around the Sun, with orders to create a space station to collect the energies and retransmit them back to Earth.
The second was sent to scout out Jupiter, in hopes that the gasses present there would prove useful in technological developments.
The third was sent to Mars, in an effort to terraform it and relieve the Earth's population, which was exceeding its fourth billion at that point.
The fourth was sent to Pluto, with orders to scout and gather any and all useful materials, and to establish a "Human Border".
The fifth was ordered to scout beyond known space, to fly as far as it could before constructing its gate, at which point, it could return.
The total cost of these fleets were
- 80,000 men and women
- $700,000,000 USD
- 1,000,000,000 gallons of methane gas
- 30,000 tons of aluminum
These were resources that could have aided the recovery of Earth, if redirected. Instead, the fleets were sent.
And lost.
For 260 years.
Man struggled to grow to its former glory, but with that last push to the stars, humanity fell down and inward on itself. Wars were declared, fought, truced, declared again. The gates were explored, rudimentary ships sent through, lost as well, finally declared a lost project, gates shut, war began again. For 260 years, humanity was in a state of permanent war, if not with a neighbor, than with their neighbor's neighbor.
And then the gates reopened.
Many Earth-bound humans looked up to the skies in amazement as a blazing ship flew through the first gate, followed doggedly by three smaller ships, equally blazing. Then, the fourth gate reopened, and what many took to be a giant slab of ice drifted out. As the pyrous ships flew towards this cube, it slowly melted down into a fleet of its own. Then the dogfight began.
Many humans lost track at this point, for two of the other gates sprung open at the same time, and from one, a ship seemingly composed of electricity darted, while the other launched what could be mistaken for an asteroid... with teeth.
The firey ships attacked the ice cubes, who attacked the lightning based ships, who attacked the earthen ships, who returned fire on the firey ships. Above the Earthlings' faces, four different types of crafts engaged in a dogfight, before finally launching through the first gate again and taking the battle away from Earth... for now.
The fifth gate, through this all, remained shut.
In this plug, you get to chose to be one of the five families. Will you join the corrupt but oppressed Central Earth Group (CEG, the Centralist Govt)? Will you join the strong warriors of the Solarian Army and meet a blazing death in honor? Will you be a Arctician, cold, calculating, and protected in a cocoon of ice? A Terran, with a love of rock unmatched, and the gems and mining skills to prove it? Or perhaps the Tempest, a race of intellectuals with unmatched prowess in all fields, including the manipulation of minds?
And what became of the fifth gate? Who are these aliens? Who will win?
That is where you come in.
