Hello everyone. It's been a while.
I see many posts about OXPs and resurrecting old ones. For posterity I am more than happy for people to play with, update, modify or otherwise abuse anything I've created for Oolite. I'll even provide an open letter to that effect if it's a "legal" requirement. All I ask (as ever) is that an "original work by Selezen" line is added to whatever descriptions or pages go with that work. Kind of like a CC BY-NC-SA thingy.
Ok - to address some of the stuff mentioned in April about the Seosu/Capisastra OXP.
Seosu as a world can easily exist in the Ooniverse without being on the maps. My personal Elite/Oolite headcanon is that the galaxy maps in the games are "censored" by GalCop to show ONLY GalCop members. Other planets (and note these are planets not systems) are obviously there hiding in the darkness but can't be accessed unless someone hacks the database or the hyperdrive. Likewise, obviously, there are going to be THOUSANDS of planets not shown in the map because either these are not member worlds or they have been removed for other reasons. Canon supports this, as the original Dark Wheel novel mentions one such planet. In game this is more or less "supported" as only habitable planets are featured in Oolite/Elite AND they are all around the same distance from the star (the goldilocks zone, if you like). Travel to other planets near an accessible one is not possible as there are no waypoints and no "jump drives" that allow fast enough travel to get to one in a reasonable time
If you want to expand the Seosu OXP to more than just a fun space invaders reference, then yeah - there could be legs in creating a story or mission set where the aim is to find the homeworld. In that case the "rogue planet" option would be best in my opinion - add a wandering world and give it a history. Sun went nova, Capisastra thrown to the stars becoming a race of reviled nomads. I have no issue with this.
There was a comment made about whether Capisastra ships would look like "space invaders" if they had advanced their technology to the place where they could hide the planet or some such. Well, did you wonder whether maybe that particular species has the same aesthetic drive as humans? Maybe blocky shapes are their preference - some visual or cultural drive tells them that blocky and simple designs are cool and appropriate
I didn't read through the whole thread afdter page 15, so apologies if I missed anything relevant here.
Just for info, and given that this site is currently taking approx 3 minutes to load every page I'm hoping that someone might be able to copy this to other relevant places on the forum for reference, I don't come online much any more due to work and personal committments. Best place to get hold of me if you want me is on Facebook Messenger (Selezen Lake) or through my website or by email - those things go direct to my phone now so I can get back to you about anything you need. Oddly, I'm not getting email notifications from this site anymore for PMs so apologies for missing them all recently.
Take care and see you in another fifteen years
