kiniki
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eilys, your MW sounds very much like one of the students works from last year. She did 'The Seven Ages of Woman'. just a warning, or take a look at her work in the 2009 Showcase thread to get some inspiration
Me again, I was just curious to get some people's opinnions on my ideas for my major work.
The basic idea is that the Imperials (they are getting renamed, i'll worry about that later), have been laying siege to the sunken world of Ryek for some 7000 years. The planet of Ryek is home to a powerful warrior race called Arkonnians. All children in the Imperial sectors are taught from a young age to hate Arkonnians, most of these children will then join the Imperial Regiments to go off to Ryek to fight against them, usually only to die. However, the real reason for the siege is the rare metal Psichon. A green-grey metal that possess some rather extraordinary qualities. Firstly, its incredibly durable, harder than diamond. It's also capable of surviving anti-matter blasts (still working on that bit), but its true value is in the ability that it can withstand the pure and raw energy of hyperspace, enabling any craft coated in Psichon to safely enter and exit Hyperspace without the use of Quantum Gates. And Ryek is basically covered in the stuff.
Im thinking, correct me if i'm wrong, this presents a few major reasons to want to control the Psichon mines:
1. Military - as the ships of this universe use experimental anti-matter weapons, as well as using anti-matter drives for high speed travel, they can safely destroy enemy ships without threat of the anti-matter ripping their own ship apart. Also as it's extremely durable it can withstand a lot more damage of conventional weapons.
2. Trade - On trade grounds, Quantum Gates are no longer required to be built around planets so trade ships can move far more freely about the galaxy, so the owners of trade companies can get richer, faster.
3. Colonisation - colony ships can just in a sense 'aim and click' use their anti-matter drives to arrive randomly anywhere in the galaxy, colonise a planet, and move on, without the logistics of building Quantum Gates.
Let me know what you think XD XD
Sicarius
Great story, but I see no research, no attempt to incorporate various literary schools, no purpose to your work.
Sounds like a slightly more sophisticated version of Avatar
Realistically, you want to have some literary inspiration, not just political, if you want a better mark.
thanks will doRead the Showcase. Check the marker's notes.
ThanksGood luck all, hope y'all remember to breathe.
I'm Sabby! I'm doing a Critical Response, and it shall be epic.
My diary is pretty effing sexy. I hardly ever write in it, but hey, what is the week before the major work is due for? Not the major work, the journal fakery.
shit.. are you serious?? i think ill just keep it to 2 texts then..Yeah have fun fitting that into 4000 words. I did two texts and I struggled to keep it to 4k (I did terrorism in literature).