Final Concept/ Basic Story ...

On Wednesday, we finally had a chance to again discuss our ideas with each other.

It was clear that the 2012 Mayan concept was the stronger idea out of the two we had, but we needed to work out the specifics.

Our concept already seems complex enough, but when we have to clarify everything and explain why things work the ways that they do, things just become more and more complicated.

Basically, this is what we came up with...

Concept/basic story:

On the 21^st of December, 2012, planet earth was obliterated and the Mayan doomsday prophesy had come full circle. In the months leading up to that dreadful date, billions of human beings had built bomb shelters or had devised other means of survival and escape from the looming apocalypse. A vast array of spaceships had been built by those who believed that life would have to be continued on another planet. Only one of these ships was successful, and the captain was to be the only human survivor.

Basically, following the destruction of Earth, the character spends some time exploring space in an attempt to find a new place to call home. He (could be a she) ends up finding 4 planets that seem to be habitable, and after spending some time on each of them (maybe doing some missions?), he realizes that they all seemed to be linked to Earth...

Each of the four planets found by the character seems to be in a different stage of development and civilization - and these match up quite nicely with Earth's past, making them somewhat recognizable to the character...

1. One planet seems to be existing in an ‘ancient’ time, where technology hasn’t yet left its mark.

2. Another planet seems to be in a stage of development and civilization similar to that of Earth’s 1900’s.

3. Another planet seems to be on the brink of their 2012 apocalypse, and everything is in chaos.

4. The last planet sits on the edge of the solar system and seems to be drifting into the wider universe, having transcended into a state of perfection. Technology, development and civilization have evolved into something that is absolute.

Basically, the character realizes that each planet seems to follow a sort of life cycle similar to that of Earth - except for planet number 4, which seems to have transcended into a state of complete perfection in all stages of development, civilization and technology.

The character also eventually realizes that these life cycles are monitored by a committee of Aliens who have the responsibility of giving the lifeforms on each planet a certain amount of time to prove themselves before they are detonated.

The character then has the mission of trying to prevent this happening to the four planets so that he can at least permanently settle down somewhere without having to face the apocalypse again. Perhaps planet number 3 gets detonated, and perhaps he can't live on planet number 4 because he is an imperfect being - but who knows!

I guess further story can be developed later, but we had decided on this being the basic storyline of the game.