# Life of a Space Force Captain **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosted Games\ **Tags:** nonbinary-inclusive, gender-choice, science-fiction\ **Created:** [March 9, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205 "2020-03-09T15:58:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Zen1](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Zen1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/42 "2020-03-20T14:22:52Z")
> [@Lucid](#): > > So, in a nutshell, what does Mass Effect have that makes it great? Simple what mass effect have to be great is space ship and the weight of the choice we cannot save everyone ---
**Author:** ![Lucid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lucid/32/39775_2.png) [@Lucid](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lucid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/43 "2020-03-20T23:10:38Z")
> [@derekmetaltron](#): > > Lockheed is actually a character from the X-Men comics! He definitely fits the space dragon type. But anything Star Trek’y is awesome. Ahhhh… I see now! A teeny tiny space dragon. :). Very cool. Did I mention that you can have a robotic pet with a few customizable features that will evolve though the game? Not quite a space-dragon, but you can make it fly, if you want. 🙂 > [@derekmetaltron](#): > > Ensign Tilly is in _Star Trek: Discovery_ I totally recognize her now! I like nervous brilliance and a chatty nature too. 🙂 You know, I don’t think I’ve seen season 2 yet. Hmmm, I’ll have to do something about that. 😃 > [@derekmetaltron](#): > > Also can we have achievements for playing the game like iconic captains of science fiction? Make it so! There will be a lot of achievements, and yes, there will be some in-jokes there too. I’d like to make this one absolutely FILLED with hidden achievements. So yes, if a series of things fits a famous fictional captain, that would be fun. > [@Ramidel](#): > > Deep Space Nine was actually Star Trek’s attempt to do Babylon 5. You’re absolutely right. I’ve combined these two shows in my head for years, although I knew they were different. > [@Ramidel](#): > > One of the best things about it is how it handles alien races. There’s a bunch of them, they hit all the expected tropes, and yet each has a fairly well-realized and examined culture I like that. I hope to find the perfect balance between giving a lore-filled game, but not letting it feel like it’s an info-dump. I don’t want anyone to feel that they have to read a manual before playing, but at the same time, I want people to be able to search out and submerse themselves in a fully developed world at their leisure. Ya, that’s all. No biggie. 🙂 > [@Zen1](#): > > the weight of the choice we cannot save everyone I’ll have this, for sure. :). I’ve been trying hard to put several big choices through the game. It’s so important for both replayability and for being able to do as you want. Our poor hero can have a very tragic life with lots of loss. 🙂 * * * Well, my kids love Animal Crossing. It’s nice that you can’t rush ahead. Hopefully it’ll give them a little something to look forward to each day during these extended isolation days. Lets them run around, catch bugs, and fish, so far. Hopefully the real weather catches up and we can do it in the real soon enough. 🙂 Now comes the real trouble. I can’t let myself play it too much. Must keep writing! ---
**Author:** ![Zen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Zen1](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Zen1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/44 "2020-03-20T23:47:38Z")
Yup this isolation also offer good thing, now i can talk a lot with my father because recently i don’t have much time to talk with him ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/45 "2020-03-21T00:13:15Z")
> [@Lucid](#): > > Did I mention that you can have a robotic pet with a few customizable features that will evolve though the game? Not quite a space-dragon, but you can make it fly, if you want. 🙂 Love it! On the Star Wars side having something like R2, BB-8 or BD-2 from Jedi Fallen Order would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![idonotlikeusernames](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/idonotlikeusernames/32/5993_2.png) [@idonotlikeusernames](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/idonotlikeusernames)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/46 "2020-03-21T13:46:43Z")
> [@Lucid](#): > > You know, I don’t think I’ve seen season 2 yet. Hmmm, I’ll have to do something about that. 😃 The main attraction of season 2 discovery for me was [this guy](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/anson-mount-reflects-on-his-dream-like-journey-in-star-trek-discovery-season-2). I mean I don’t really like those slang terms but damn he’s hot even if he isn’t exactly 20 anymore. Which brings me to my point, instead of romancing crew members I guess I’d rather have a super hot fellow star ship captain. Short Discovery rant. Other than that discovery was never my favourite because I never connected quite well with its lead character and the show was less of an ensemble than the Next Generation that I grew up with (Yes, Picard was the lead of the Next Generation but to me it never felt as forced as Burnham and I likely connected more with Picard too). > [@No\_This\_Is\_Patrick](#): > > Will we be able to choose the gender of the ROs like all your other games, cause that was always one my favorite things about your games. Good point, given this author’s previous games I simply assumed that, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. ---
**Author:** ![No\_This\_Is\_Patrick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/no_this_is_patrick/32/223713_2.png) [@No\_This\_Is\_Patrick](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/No_This_Is_Patrick)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/47 "2020-03-21T13:53:39Z")
Will we be able to choose the gender of the ROs like all your other games, cause that was always one my favorite things about your games. ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/48 "2020-03-21T18:25:18Z")
> [@idonotlikeusernames](#): > > Which brings me to my point, instead of romancing crew members I guess I’d rather have a super hot fellow star ship captain. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/original/3X/f/a/faa4e9e653bee1899df20564929ae39d17f51b33.gif) I mean one can occasionally debate the morality of a space captain dating any of the crew under their command… but then that never stopped James Kirk or Jean Luc Picard or Commander Shepard. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![wasara\_15](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/wasara_15/32/112819_2.png) [@wasara\_15](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/wasara_15)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/49 "2020-03-21T19:35:15Z")
Hi, I really love rest of your games and I’m sure you will make an amazing one again, good luck ✌. ---
**Author:** ![Epic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/epic/32/101646_2.png) [@Epic](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Epic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/50 "2020-03-21T21:17:35Z")
Can you be evil in this game? ---
**Author:** ![AllenGies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/allengies/32/18564_2.png) [@AllenGies](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AllenGies)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/51 "2020-03-22T08:09:45Z")
> [@Lucid](#): > > No holo-decks here, although there is still a VR option. No transporters either, we use fightercraft and shuttles. That’s a good choice. IIRC, transporters were a way to move characters around in The Old Series without having to spend a lot of money. But later on they always had to come up with a reason that transporters wouldn’t be a solution to certain plot problems. “Lock onto their signatures and transport them into deep space. Yes, you have my permission to remove the safety interlocks.” On the other hand, the holo-deck seemed like a way to change up the genre but keep the same show. If a player wants that then they can just go play a different hosted game. Heck, maybe you want to subtly steer them via VR to your other games. ---
**Author:** ![Lucid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lucid/32/39775_2.png) [@Lucid](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lucid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/52 "2020-03-22T14:13:01Z")
> [@derekmetaltron](#): > > Love it! On the Star Wars side having something like R2, BB-8 or BD-2 One of the options has a definite BB-8 quality to it. 🙂 > [@idonotlikeusernames](#): > > Which brings me to my point, instead of romancing crew members I guess I’d rather have a super hot fellow star ship captain. We’ll see, but with a long-spanning timeframe, I think that this will happen. > [@No\_This\_Is\_Patrick](#): > > Will we be able to choose the gender of the ROs like all your other games, cause that was always one my favorite things about your games. Absolutely. There are 6 main friends/RO, and I’ve wrote their intros in a special way to organically allow the 6 characters to have multiple genders. It might need a little tweaking so that it looks good, but I’m trying and I have a good start. > [@derekmetaltron](#): > > one can occasionally debate the morality of a space captain dating any of the crew under their command That’s true, but it’s just gotta happen anyway. 🙂 > [@Epic](#): > > Can you be evil in this game? Yes, although I don’t have a good/evil stat. I hope to have some choices that will be pretty evil, but it has to fit within the scope of the game. So, evil actions, but either getting away with them or not being bad enough to get fired. So, we’ll have to see how it goes. > [@AllenGies](#): > > Heck, maybe you want to subtly steer them via VR to your other games. Okay, I’ll mention it, just because you nailed it. 🙂 A popular VR game in the future is Heroes of Daria. It’s an optional storyline, but it has a lot of VERY familiar situations in it. 😃 * * * Now, back to work with me. I’ve reread/edited chapters 8 and 9, and now I’m back to writing chapter 10. I see this being either 12 or 13 chapters in total at this point. I just haven’t decided whether to split up the last two or keep them together. I’ll have to see once they’re written and then decide if I put a chapter break in there or not. ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/53 "2020-03-22T15:14:59Z")
Sci Fi often has macguffins which were designed to move the plot around. See the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who. Any of the following sci fi tropes likely? - Aliens or advanced humans with psychic powers - Alien ruins implying all life came from one source - Space pirates! - Uploaded Human Consciousness to AI or robot gone wrong - Central genocidal alien/robot race threatens all others with extermination or conversion - Old alien doomsday device gone amok - Getting zapped to unknown bit of space and ‘voyaging’ home - Evil parallel universe! - Clones or doubles - Time travel mishaps of the week (probably with some references to Paradox Factor) - Implication that the Daria games are on an as yet undiscovered planet! - Misunderstood aliens who are actually nice, the humans are the bad guys in this case! - Super secret underground organisation that does all the dubious stuff the squeaky clean guys won’t! ---
**Author:** ![lokidemon007](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lokidemon007/32/5596_2.png) [@lokidemon007](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/lokidemon007)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/54 "2020-03-23T02:25:13Z")
Section 51 antics? ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/55 "2020-03-23T07:34:45Z")
You mean Section 31? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Voldy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/voldy/32/146053_2.png) [@Voldy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Voldy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/56 "2020-03-23T08:35:50Z")
> [@Lucid](#): > > Did I mention that you can have a robotic pet with a few customizable features that will evolve though the game? …Did I mention you’re a god, Lucid? ---
**Author:** ![Koda222](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/koda222/32/107422_2.png) [@Koda222](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Koda222)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/57 "2020-03-23T15:13:02Z")
So teal’c is like an enhanced human how has a like a parasite like aline living in him that grants him a long life and slightly enhanced strength. But the aliens are more in control basically the human is just the vasel for them. But some live in harmony together and switch out control. Their is alot more to it but it would be alot to explain so ill leave a link. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology\_of\_Stargate#Goa’uld](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Stargate#Goa'uld) ---
**Author:** ![lokidemon007](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lokidemon007/32/5596_2.png) [@lokidemon007](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/lokidemon007)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/58 "2020-03-23T16:03:43Z")
> [@derekmetaltron](#): > > You mean Section 31? 😁 Thank you! Definitely meant that! ---
**Author:** ![Lucid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lucid/32/39775_2.png) [@Lucid](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lucid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/59 "2020-03-24T15:04:49Z")
> [@derekmetaltron](#): > > Any of the following sci fi tropes likely? Wow, it’s practically a To-Do list for any respectable space-faring game. 🙂 I have to admit, I think I have a little over half of these things occuring. 🙂 > [@Koda222](#): > > So teal’c is like an enhanced human how has a like a parasite like aline living in him I kind of remember that now. I think I watched a half-season, or maybe a full one or two, way WAY back. * * * So, I’ve started a project on NaNoWriMo. **#stayhomewrimo** Thanks for the idea, @poison_mara [https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/county-fair-writing-wrimo-write-a-game-to-keep-the-mood-in-this-times](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/county-fair-writing-wrimo-write-a-game-to-keep-the-mood-in-this-times) I want to write 50k by the end of April. It’s hard to tell for sure, but I think 50k could finish this game. Finish the rough draft by the end of April? Why not! I’m at home with time. This might help me overcome distractions, although the first distraction is setting up this goal. 🙂 So, if anyone wants to be my Buddy and see my wordcount grow, feel free to add me, I’m “Lucid” over there too. ---
**Author:** ![EarnBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/earnboogie/32/90555_2.png) [@EarnBoogie](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/EarnBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/60 "2020-03-25T21:05:33Z")
I’m a big fan of Mass Effect and anything similar to that type of story. ---
**Author:** ![Lucid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lucid/32/39775_2.png) [@Lucid](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lucid)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205/61 "2020-12-31T17:06:08Z")
Guess what, everyone? I finished it! Took me until the last day of 2020, but the rough draft is now officially done. Don’t forget to look back at the first message in the post for more details. Happy New Years, everyone! [Previous page](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/life-of-a-space-force-captain/75205.md?page=4)