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That all makes sense imo, I can't see anything about it that doesn't fit or wouldn't work well.

It sounds like you've pretty much got it figured out! And if you've got an artist you're able to commission, that's even better. Could you also handle things like layout/graphic design or would you have to get someone else to do that?

As for FTL tech, I completely agree. You'd probably want the characters to get used to the ships for a while anyway before you had an event where they get to a planet/space-station, if only to give them a reason not to jump ship at the earliest opportunity.

I also completely forgot - any ideas for a name yet?

Now the hard part is actually putting it all down in ways that won't bore people to tears.

I'm on fairly good terms with one or two artists, so I should be able to snag some commissions from them. Maybe one or two a month, my income is limited and my bills come first. Ship layout, page layout and graphic design... Well, uh. Nope. I got nothing there. One of my friends was big into it, created some pretty awesome custom DW layouts, but I haven't talked to her in a few months, so. As for ship and city layout, I'm going to have to just bullshit that. I'm terrible with maps.

I'm drawing blanks on names. I'd like to name it after the fleet itself, but I keep coming back around to something involving Orion. And then I realize that I'm only pegging on that because I read Atomic Robo recently. That, and Masters of Orion, but I don't wanna steal that name.

~~Actually, thanks to the accusation down there, I'm half tempted to call it Transmigration 7 as a joke~~

as long as you put it in bite-size chunks, make it easily navigational (so if someone's looking for a particular fact, they can easily find it) and don't use pointlessly complex words, i think it'll be fine! maybe a basic page with main information points if people need to quickly scan (this is the tech level; this is what the fleet consists of and looks like, etc) with links to more detailed information pages for thorough reading.

for page layout, as long as it's functional and decent-looking, i doubt people will care if a standard DW-layout is used, at least to start. it'll need a banner of course, but profile-coding is easy to find. do you want something with original artwork as a banner? if you're okay with credit-sourced, non-original artwork, i have a good selection of fonts and i've made a couple of banners for games before; if you can't get an actual artist on the case, i wouldn't mind having a go myself.

ship and city layout, i... am actually fairly good at if you want a logical breakdown of what would go where when it comes to actual layouts, and amateur sketching. for making maps actually look attractive and professional, i'm absolute crap, so no help there.

~~Transmigration 9.5: Revenge of the Spawn of the Fleet~~

if you call it 'space cowboys' you could bring in the cowboy bebop crowd. KIDDING. but seriously, whether it just has a cool name based on the fleet or something with actual meaning (like a synonym for journey or something), i don't think it really matters. well, it needs to not sound awful, obviously, but still. any other planets/deities/cool-sounding foreign words that catch your fancy? as long as it's not the eris fleet...

A basic page with more complex things explained in a different slot is a good idea. I should have thought of that earlier. I really do like sorting through technobabble myself, so yeah. But I can put up a basic FAQ and setting page, I guess, and then having sections of that link to more complex explanations in other places.

I know someone who's done great work on communities before, and is probably gonna help me if I ask nicely. I don't remember if she does banners, though, so I may need to take a rain check until I get all that figured out?

I've got a basic idea of how I want the ships and such to look, but honestly? A general layout is probably all I'd really need.

~~Transmigration 10: The Entanglement of the Cowboy Bebop Wars~~

Eris fleet?

I'm considering just saying that the capital ship escorting the fleet is an Orion-class ship and calling the fleet (and the game itself) the Crux Fleet, since they'd be heading for the Scutum-Crux Arm. And, let's face it, no one would join a game called Scutum Fleet. We'd end up as Scrotum Fleet within a week.

I love it when a game comes together.

~~Transdigimongration 42: Lyrical Magical Madoka versus the Bebop Cowboys - The Musical!~~

Eris as in the goddess of discord and strife, which would probably be a bad omen to have a fleet named after. And to be honest, my immediate thought on 'Scutum' was 'Scrotum' (followed by Sputum), so I think it would be far less than a week before it got called that.

Crux Fleet sounds good, though! I'd never actually heard of the Scutum-Crux Arm before now (thanks, Wikipedia). The more you know!

I think I've pretty much exhausted my meager uses now, but good luck with it! I'll be impatiently waiting for the comm and reserves to open ~~so I can snag a mecha~~ for however long it takes. :)

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