"This ship has no windows. It was not built to look out at the stars, to explore unknown reaches of space. The universe in all its vastness is only a technical incovenience, an uncontrolled variable, for the Eliza’s grand introspective experiment.
The Eliza’s inhabitants careen through space without any line of communication back to Earth. When they return, five years of history will have passed, and they will face a planet restored or destroyed. There is no way to know which it will be: they can only complete their small mission… to remember and to recreate."
Upon reflection, my Atlas felt a little bare... there's a lot of essential information that doesn't fit neatly on a map. Some compulsive tendency took me back to the drawing board: I grabbed some old writing and typed up some new supplemental text to fill in what I perceived as "gaps" in the project.
So this is the final document: an atlas of textual information centered around six images. Pretty traditional in the end, consideration the headaches I put myself through to get here.
If it feels like a little too much, try checking out the pictures instead, they're still online.
I'd love any feedback, as I'm soon going to be moving back to the characters that populate this strange little near-future experiment and the game underneath it.
Comments (1)
Purty purty.
But, if I understand things right, Eliza's crew careens in an orbit around Sol, and way outside Pluto's orbit. Pluto's year is heinously larger than your ship's 5-year journey. You might want to re-think the Eliza's speed...unless it has warp capability.
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December 20, 2007 3:38 PM
Posted on December 20, 2007 15:38