IIS sci-fi - who will help me?

[fringe_dweller]

I want to write the greatest sci-fi in history, with the awesome unrivalled astronomy brains trust of IIS - you know like those threads were you start the story and everybody adds a piece, any takers, need to get the ball rollin here - setting first please (has it been dont here before?) but using our unrivalled knowledge of all things extra terrestial here, surely we could nail it? it will astronomically accurate to within a parsec thats my only stipulation

[dannat (Daniel)]

why not start in the kuiper belt? I'm sure few have seen what lies out there

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

Kearn

the clouds will eventually go away

trust me

geoff

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Once upon a time...

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

in a place called 'Snake Valley'

[fringe_dweller]

ok we have a setting first manned mission to the Kuiper belt - once upon a time the craft has landed on site named snake valley on Pluto

[h0ughy (David)]

MMM wait till ken gets a hold of this one. I want a parrot and a pirate in it, and maybe a ship called the Mary Rose......

[Kokatha man]

Really brother, if we're gonna be really OTT and (astronomically) "factual" shouldn't that read"

"once upon a time as Kuiperkraft 1 settles down on Pluto's moon Hydra (more correct and poetic than "snake valley!")......and as the intrepid voyagers shut down their retros.....navigator Norm(?) lets out his obligatory (expletive deleted) "Holy **##@%* Captain, I musta stuffed up the co-ordinates - we're on the wrong moon - and I think we've used up too much fuel!"....to which Captain Charisma responds cooly...."I trusted you Norm, and now look where you've put us, at the edge of the Solar System with next to Nix...."

Cheers (this is not Kokatha man but his idiot half-brother...)

[fringe_dweller]

lol KM! this is a harder caper than i thought, yes a factual science fiction is an oxymoron perhaps, fiction being the operative word possibly wouldnt work

[Kokatha man]

Originally Posted by fringe_dweller

ok we have a setting C

ok ok, but you've really hurt my half brother's sense of wit - how about just.....

"first manned mission to the Kuiper belt - once upon a time the craft has landed on site named snake valley on Pluto The crew stare out the porthole, but there's only Nix to see....."

....says if he doesn't get to put his Nix joke in he's not playing anymore......I've told him he's not playing anymore regardless.....

[xelasnave]

to continue then...

" but as the silience starts to become overpowering the crew are starled by a low rumbling sound..they look at each other each wondering if anyone else heard what they did"...
Finally one crew member peers out the port hole (it is a ship right) and to his amazement notices only meters from the ship a.............."

to be continued by the next writer....

alex

[xelasnave]

...a whole family of nix or an angry group of them maybe...

... a large hole leading to...

... their wives of the crew members running to the shops..

... a Big Mac outlet..

... a Nigerian flag..
alex

[xelasnave]

those are choices not a sequence

alex

[Kokatha man]

Alex, you've got my half brother really depressed now.....he may be an idiot but he's not stupid...(?)....wishes me to point out that Nix, along with Hydra, are the moons of the Pluto/Charon dwarf duo......zounds! this gets stupider and stupider by the minute - I've suspended his pc rights (and him from the ceiling) till further notice....

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Large icy body. with a flashing sign "Humans Go Home"
Or
"You are Parked in a restricted orbit, please move on".

Bill

Originally Posted by xelasnave

to continue then...

" but as the silience starts to become overpowering the crew are starled by a low rumbling sound..they look at each other each wondering if anyone else heard what they did"...
Finally one crew member peers out the port hole (it is a ship right) and to his amazement notices only meters from the ship a.............."

to be continued by the next writer....

alex

[xelasnave]

Kokatha Man ... she spells it Sharon.. she is one of the wives ...
alex

[fringe_dweller]

'but as the silience starts to become overpowering the crew are starled by a low rumbling sound..they look at each other each wondering if anyone else heard what they did"...
Finally one crew member peers out the port hole (it is a ship right) and to his amazement notices only meters from the ship a.............."'

"You are Parked in a restricted orbit, please move on".

but they just simply crossed themselves, and ignored it, as they are used to seeing the terrible flotsam and jetsam of Solar Councils workcrew ships out here in the never never of Sol's domain, destroyed by ...

[spearo (Frank)]

Ok...here's my suggestion:

Gazing into the interstellar void before him, his mind filled with memories of a future that could have been, he reached for the lever. In an irreversible move he pulled it resolutely.

The end

Frank

[spearo (Frank)]

Of course, this is but a suggestion for an ending, so we now have a beginning, a setting and an ending (of sorts).
Up to all of you to fill in the rest of the story.
cheers
frank

[astro_nutt]

Hi everyone!!..I thought I'd add a little something!
" notices only metres from the ship an enormass swirling cloud of total darkness, an erie void, which moved like gigantic bubble changing shape.."Captain! you should see this!!" cried out thr crew member..The Captain looked with astonishment...years of space exploration haven't prepared her for something as bizzare as this. Navigator O'Reily calls out.."Our scanners didn't show it Captain!..for all intent purposes it doesn't exsist!..I don't believe it..Sir!..it's starting to glow!...it looks like...a star map!!...it's our Solar system!!..con't
Cheers!