Elite has been fallow for a good long while and the copy right is a bit fractured anyway. Derivative works are tricky at the best of times so. It's gray area enough for me and people who have a passion for the subject matter to have a bit of non-profit fun with it.
After asking about several possibilities relating to cross overs most of them have fallen through so it looks like we'll be pure oolite mining for stories (which to be honest isn't a bad thing). So yeah I prefer original ideas (because the creatives own them) although getting an original takes a lot more effort not only to create but also promote.
Vapor is such an idea. I'm just putting the finishing touches to the world and the mechanics of the world now. Then I can pick out some stories. Hopefully if I can get the uk steampunk scene behind it it could really go places. But yeah whilst tagging your name onto something that already exists is always fun. As I chart my way through my 30's I would feel cheated if, by the end of my life parodies and fan fics were my total creative epitaph to the world.
So yeah Gimlet is a nice intro, it's easy (or as complex) as you want to make it. It can be slapped on the front of the wiki and it gives people a taste of what could be done. From there if the bug bites people there's really no limit to what idea you can produce in audio. But fair warning I'll do a few but after that, I really Really have to get on with Vapor.
