=][= Winter 2010 Community DIY Challenge =][=

[Brother Tyler]

Our poll has concluded and we have selected both the final Chapter badge design and colors. The colors was a very close race, but the design was a runaway victory. In both cases, we've gone with:

So congratulations to Codex Grey for the submission that gave us both aspects. He may now use the "Contributor" banner image:

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Our other entrants were:

• Battle-Brother Ludovic
  
• Brother Cambrius
  
• elohimalpha
  
• Tybalt Russ
  

Each of these members is entitled to use the "Participant" banner image (assuming they aren't already using either that badge or the "Contributor" badge):

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[Brother Tyler]

Element 5: Homeworld

T

he feudal world of Illustris in the Segmentum Tempestus near the Veiled Region was selected as the homeworld of the new Chapter. With a technology level that included mastery of blackpowder weapons, the inhabitants of Illustris provided a strong population base from which to recruit prospective Adeptus Astartes.

CHALLENGE: Provide a basic description of the new Chapter

[Dosjetka]

Congrats Codex Grey ! A great submission indeed :P

 

And yeah, I'll try and get something up for no. 5, of course :blink:

 

Ludovic

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Ah, good. I love homeworlds.

[Ecritter]

•China during the Warring States Period

•The Delaware Indians

•The Kalevala

•The Kree from Marvel comics

•Naboo from Star Wars

•The Oz books by L. Frank Baum

•Wild Wild West (the TV show, not the movie)

 

Are you completely insane?

[Brother Cambrius]

Cor that's a lot to include! worst thing is I know nothing on any of those subjects to a degree on writing about them! ;) Good luck to all who take part in this next challenge and congrats to Codex Grey on the new refined design of my symbol. It looks spiffing. :to:

 

Cambrius

[Brother Tyler]

•China during the Warring States Period

•The Delaware Indians

•The Kalevala

•The Kree from Marvel comics

•Naboo from Star Wars

•The Oz books by L. Frank Baum

•Wild Wild West (the TV show, not the movie)

 

Are you completely insane?

 

If you're not up to the challenge, just say so. :D

 

Remember, you don't have to include elements from each of the sources. I just gave you a range to choose from. The ... eclectic ... range of potential sources should lead to some ... interesting ... results.

[Ferrata]

I'm guessing the influences can be extremely subtle. For example, if we taking inspiration from say the Morlocks from X-Men, we could have a chapter that prefers to keep away from the Light of the Emperor and instead do its own business for right...

[elohimalpha]

Congrats Codex Grey! Really nice job

 

This home world is bound to be... interesting. Warring states of steampunk flying monkeys? Yes please

[Ace Debonair]

Requirements: Submissions must include at least one thing derived from three or more of the following:

[*]China during the Warring States Period

[*]The Delaware Indians

[*]The Kalevala

[*]The Kree from Marvel comics

[*]Naboo from Star Wars

[*]The Oz books by L. Frank Baum

[*]Wild Wild West (the TV show, not the movie)

Eclectic selection - no kidding. :D

Couldn't you have picked at least one thing I know something about? :lol:

 

Well, if I get time to take part in this one, then I'll give it a shot.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Completely incapable long-tongued Marines who are all investigator types who run around with pistols and get locked up by the girl who is always a traitor. They all can shoot two bows at once. :D

[Tybalt Russ]

Congrats Codex Grey!!!

 

[*]China during the Warring States Period

[*]The Delaware Indians

[*]The Kalevala

[*]The Kree from Marvel comics

[*]Naboo from Star Wars

[*]The Oz books by L. Frank Baum

[*]Wild Wild West (the TV show, not the movie)

I have no clue on this one.

Guess I'll be doing some research for the next few days. :D

[Brother Tyler]

I'm guessing the influences can be extremely subtle.

That's exactly what I'm hoping to see, but since I don't get to vote it's not up to me. My intent wasn't for all of the influences to be overt, though.

 

Eclectic selection - no kidding. :whistling:

Couldn't you have picked at least one thing I know something about? :thanks:

Guess I'll be doing some research for the next few days. :yes:

See, you get to goof off in a hobby and learn all at the same time. Perhaps there is a method to my madness. :thanks:

 

Keep in mind that the influences can be very subtle and you only need a minimum of three from different sources. You don't have to find something from each of the sources I listed. I just wanted to give you guys a wide variety of things to choose from in hopes of seeing some variety in what we develop (while still limiting things a bit - there's more of a challenge that way).

[NightrawenII]

I'm the fourth, who has no clue about the selection possibilities, bar the Naboo and China. And since the end of term, Christmas and New Year's Eve are drawing near, good luck to anyone in this part.

 

BTW, why Naboo? Kashyyyk would be far better choice. Of course, if you want the fish-xenos with funny way of talking... :tu:

[elohimalpha]

For this section, are we writing as though the Chapter has been there a while (and purged any heretical/xeno natives), or are we just setting the stage and later we'll determine what the Marines will do once they take charge?

 

I've got an idea or two, but if the Chapter is already running the show, things could get... messy

[Brother Tyler]

Nothing about the Chapter should be included - you're focusing solely on the planet (pre-Space Marines).

 

I'm surprised at the responses. I gave a wide variety of sources from which to draw elements, but you're not limited to those sources. Most of the sources also provide a wide variety of things to draw upon. And for those of you that don't know anything about one or more of those sources, there's this nifty thing called the Internet and it has cool things like Google and Wikipedia. I'll be sorely disappointed to see a tribe known as the Gungans or warrior lodges such as the Lollipop Guild or the Hammerheads, but there are little things (and big things) in each of those sources that can easily be incorporated into an overall whole that is unique without being obviously patterned on one single source.

 

Remember - if it were easy it wouldn't be called a "challenge". Man up. :(

[elohimalpha]

At the risk of sounding like a total kiss-ass, I like the broad range of stuff we can/need to draw on. This is gonna be fun! Oh, and when we send in our backgrounds, do you want us to point out which "idea seeds" (stupid, I know, but that's how I think of them) we used, just in case it's subtle (ninja on a moonless night subtle)?

[NightrawenII]

I'm surprised at the responses. I gave a wide variety of sources from which to draw elements, but you're not limited to those sources. Most of the sources also provide a wide variety of things to draw upon.

Well, I'm not American nor British, thus this singles out the WWW, the Oz books and the Marvel comics.

 

The Delaware Indians are too specific and the Kalevala is too obscure for the *normal* knowledge.

 

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Also don't forget the "wide variety of sources" is relative, brother. Not everyone enjoy or know the things you do.

I, for example, know the books of Holdstock, Lumley, Sapkowski or Herbert.

I'm familiar with the Story of 47 Ronins, Arts of War, Go Rin No Sho and Sengoku period.

I like to read the Manga.

 

 

I can dig out even more obscure things, but I don't expect people to know them though.

[Ace Debonair]

I'm surprised at the responses. I gave a wide variety of sources from which to draw elements, but you're not limited to those sources.

 

Now that is what I was hoping to hear. :blush:

Suddenly this challenge got a whole lot easier, from my perspective at least. :P

[Brother Tyler]

At the risk of sounding like a total kiss-ass, I like the broad range of stuff we can/need to draw on. This is gonna be fun! Oh, and when we send in our backgrounds, do you want us to point out which "idea seeds" (stupid, I know, but that's how I think of them) we used, just in case it's subtle (ninja on a moonless night subtle)?

No, don't point out what comes from what. I think it will be more fun for the rest of us to try and figure it out on our own as a sort of game.

 

Well, I'm not American nor British, thus this singles out the WWW, the Oz books and the Marvel comics.

 

The Delaware Indians are too specific and the Kalevala is too obscure for the *normal* knowledge.

 

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Also don't forget the "wide variety of sources" is relative, brother. Not everyone enjoy or know the things you do.

I, for example, know the books of Holdstock, Lumley, Sapkowski or Herbert.

I'm familiar with the Story of 47 Ronins, Arts of War, Go Rin No Sho and Sengoku period.

I like to read the Manga.

 

 

I can dig out even more obscure things, but I don't expect people to know them though.

Who said I know anything about the subjects I picked? I just picked a wide variety of things. I would have to do research on all of them myself if I was going to participate. And for what it's worth, I'm fairly well informed on a number of the things you listed for yourself, especially the Japanese stuff. It was a toss up between the Age of Warring States in China and its counterpart in Japan, but China won the coin toss. And Naboo could just as easily have been Macross or Appleseed. :P

 

 

I'm surprised at the responses. I gave a wide variety of sources from which to draw elements, but you're not limited to those sources.

 

Now that is what I was hoping to hear. :lol:

Suddenly this challenge got a whole lot easier, from my perspective at least. :D

Just be sure to get at least the three things from the different sources that I listed incorporated into whatever you come up with (and you can add whatever else you want).

[Brother Tyler]

And one more thing before people get too wrapped up in writing stuff ...

 

We're not looking for a finished product here. We're just looking for a first draft that covers the basic concepts. We will refine it further once we've collected all of the other elements in order to create a final product that is cohesive. What you're aiming for here is a unique coverage of the homeworld that provides the various aspects in a plausible manner that meshes with the established background material of the game universe.

 

So no one should be devoting extreme amounts of time in writing up a college-level dissertation. The extra time was given in order to give everyone time to do a little bit of research, pick at least three different elements from the list (one each from a different source), and put them together. I also expect that many of us are a little short on time due to the holidays, so a little extra time to put things together shouldn't hurt. Also, 1,000 words is (I think) fairly do-able. If anyone thinks that is an excessive minimum for a basic description of the concepts, let me know.

[Ace Debonair]

Also, 1,000 words is (I think) fairly do-able. If anyone thinks that is an excessive minimum for a basic description of the concepts, let me know.

Actually, I think that might be a bit on the large side.

 

It's do-able, true enough, but if we saw someone out in the Liber with a thousand words on their homeworld that didn't include the words "Astartes" "Recruitment" or "Fortress Monastery", I think the average Liberite would probably be moved to ask them to cut it down a bit and tell us what effect all this has on the chapter.

 

...Or maybe that's just me. :lol:

 

Either way, I've sorted my outline, complete with drawing from three things (one of which I did entirely by accident, it turns out :lol: ) and I can write as much as is required about it.

It'd just be a shame to put effort into a thousand-word version only to have to cut it down later. ;)

[Octavulg]

That's definitely not just you, Ace.

 

That said, I'd assumed this wasn't going to be the actual Home World section (since it doesn't mention the Chapter). This is basically a pitch for the Chapter's home world.

[Ace Debonair]

That's definitely not just you, Ace.

 

That said, I'd assumed this wasn't going to be the actual Home World section (since it doesn't mention the Chapter). This is basically a pitch for the Chapter's home world.

 

Oh, right.

Basically a thousand words to say 'Come to Illustris - we have suitable recruits for an Astartes Chapter and may be influenced by Star Wars and Comics'.

 

I think I can do that, albeit without the Star Wars or the Comics. :D

[Octavulg]

Naboo is one of the easiest ones up there, man! ;)