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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2009 15:35:02 GMT -8
Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:32 am papa nurgle wrote: So just like the topic says, why set the 'Prime Time' world of Mardi Gras 3000 in these forty years of time? What makes this specific selection of time so interesting? Prehistoric animals, everybody's happy as the dead come home... Listening to alternative rock (old alternative at that) at the moment and it is overwhelming my typing a little.  |
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2009 15:35:52 GMT -8
Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:42 am AreaneCreator wrote: In all honesty, Matt, I think Prime Time became Prime Time simply because, as the official writers started turning in their storylines, a lot of them were setting their stories in this time period. Because of this, a lot of MG3K history was written for these forty years, like the Neroian Nights and Arch Angel and so on. I think this focus got this period in time affectionately labeled "Prime" because it was going to be so popular in early fiction. That, of course, has been mixed up now, but the name stuck.  |
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2009 15:36:16 GMT -8
Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:59 am EJ wrote: Launa is very right, Matt. In addition, this time period was pegged as easy to write in, and easy for readers to identify with. Of course, we have stories all over the timeline from before 300 BC up until the eve of the year 3000 AD, but I think Prime Time became a common denominator. Even when writers had flashbacks or flashforwards, they were returning to Prime Time because so many of us are writing there. If we spread out too much, we can't run cameos or cross sell our titles... we wind up writing all alone. Readers really like it when their favorite character pop up unexpectedly and by tagging those forty years as Prime Times, we all have an easy way to work together. Make sense? EJ |
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2009 15:36:41 GMT -8
Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:59 am
Cris wrote:
The dates of this also allowed us to extrapolate from current technology and current political environments. It gave the official writers a common jumping off point so that creating the universe wouldn't be completely overwhelming. The forthcoming sourcebook will have a large section of Prime Time Tech. It basically gives us some common technology, terminology, etc.
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