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Voting and story discussion has moved to the Creating a plot for the 1.3 Community Project: Part 2 topic.

[I'll go ahead and summarize what's been said so far:]

It appears that voting has homogeneously stabilized for the first round.

Clavin's, BBB's, and Fall of Empires have been removed from the lineup.

The rest stay around for further discussion.
Mr X's Time story
AHadley's Perfidious story
General_Hoohah's FE Sequel
ScrapPool's Full Circle story

NOTE: I'm not saying that you CAN'T discuss any of the other stories. If you find some good ideas to use or even ideas that shouldn't be used, to make a point, then by all means...

This topic and what ever is discussed in it should be used as a means of determining the general disposition of the community. Note that only one story can be the plot for the 1.3 CP. It's possible that this story may not be any of the ones selected so far - but a combination of them or plot ideas related to them.

If a story falls out of the community's favoring, it'll be removed. If an idea for combining the stories is suggested, it'll be added to the poll options.

I'll go ahead and summarize what's been said so far:

Some users appear to be "torn" between Mr. X's and Ahadley's story, so the actual number of users who would like to see either of the two stories is probably higher.

Time travel and how to make it work well is a main discourse here. Although public opinion appears to support using time travel as a story device quite positively. Mr. X's and Scrap Pool's stories rely on time travel for the story but do it in different ways. It is also possible that users are torn between Mr. X's and Scrap Pool's stories, so the actual number of users favoring both stories may be higher.

General Hoohah's story appears to have received some interest, although it isn't as widely accepted as the other stories. I am unsure as to whether there should be any bias to the votes for this story.

Users are also suggesting combining the stories (namely Mr X's, AHadley's, and Scrap Pool's stories).


If Gen_Hoohah's FE Sequel does not receive more attention, it may be dropped from the line-up!
If you want the story to stay in, please say so. It would do better for you to present a case as well.
Otherwise, please nominate for the story to be dropped.

The paradox here is that the cause and effect relationship is broken. Event A - Adam and Eve, should be a cause. Event B, time travelling, should be an effect. But both events cause and effect each other. This is okay, though, since it is a state of equilibrium. Babylon 4 Babylon 5 did this so it should be okay for the story to do this as well.

Depends on the theory. In quantum mechanics, I  believe, at any one time there are an incalculable number of possibilities happening at once. Being an observer, we only get to see one outcome while all the other outcomes "stem off" into alternate universes.

With time travel, you'd go back in time and create a essentially create a new universe exactly like the one you intended to travel back to, because due to quantum mechanics a different event would result in a different universe by the perception of the observer. There would be no paradox because no matter what you do, you' never affect your own past. Just don't try and kill your own grandfather - that's despicable .

That's an excellent idea: The master minds behind these great stories to jointly discuss combining their stories.

I'm sure the final product would be awesome, but the discussion should be public as much as possible. The community is the only possible entity that can decide which ideas are wanted most.

A time traveler might just travel to a parallel universe, so that a paradox would not be possible - as the future would not have happened yet in said parallel universe.

Lets hope not, as we don't want anybody reacting foolishly and starting any flame wars here. The peace so far is as savory as lobster  .

Indeed. Although I'd like to see parts of the your, Mr. X's, and Scrap Pool's stories to make up the final story  .

Would it be possible that entry into FTL travel takes a tremendous amount of energy, and doing that over and over would be infeasible?

Looks like we've come full circle now with 21 votes  .

I'm assuming that since this is new technology, that feature wouldn't be implemented yet. It probably would be assumed unnecessary because telescopes and advanced algorithms would be able to plot a path through space safely (at least for the most part).

Secondly, the chances or running into objects are extremely low because space, for the most part, is very EMPTY. The solar system is fairly crowded, but still quite empty. Even emptier is inter-stellar space. Even emptier than that is intergalactic space. Emptier STILL are the great voids in the universe that contain few - if any - galaxies.

Thirdly, imagine how dangerous it was for the first astronauts to make it to the moon. This is similarly epic (actually, more), so the risks would be worth it.

I'm still holding firm to my current vote, but I'd sure hate to see Scrap Pool's story eliminated from the CP in this round. His story is at a developmental stage that exceeds others, so it'd be interesting to see the other stories at that stage and then compare them against SP's story.

I agree. A biometal space ship plowing a hole through the moon and destabilizing its orbit - all without receiving any significant damage. I don't see even anti-matter warheads denting that armor. Was the reactor vulnerable to attack or something? Of course it's possible that the ship never actually touched the moon and thus wouldn't need ultimate biometal armor to plow through the moon. Perhaps the gravitational field in front of the ship behaved like a black hole and ate through the moon. Though in that case, the ship should have had an easier time traveling as the mass of the moon would be gravitational energy for the black hole... A black hole is the only gravitatoinal phenomenon that seems strong enough to plow through a moon at speeds exceeding light.

Sure it may need a little work to better fit in with the BZ story line or the Universe's story line (I thought Earth was only about 4.5 billion years old and am unsure as to how it could be two billion years older). But, a story like this going through the CP's meat grinder (i.e.. myriad of changes and suggestions from a large number of users) would make a delicious meatloaf of a plot (assuming no fingers, toes, hair, or other strange objects don't get accidentally included  .

For yours, and everyone else's future convenience, I went ahead and put that compilation in the topic post. If everyone does this, it'll make it not just easier on readers, but a lot easier!