It's still in the works, so don't be expecting anything wonderful.
For those
of you that aren't on Ansible Moo, here's a little background info. It is a
text-based roleplay game (kind of like a super super spiffed up chat room, but
not really. We all have characters and there are rooms and objects and fun stuff
like that . . a programmer could explain it better). The setting is a space
station orbiting earth 10 years before Enders Game. If you haven't read it,
do so. It's one of the best books ever. Anyway, the space station acts as a
training school for young, exceptional children that the army is training to
create one of the best fighting armies in the history of the world. When their
training is finished they will command, control or work inside massive interstellar
battle-ships as part of a defensive fleet. They all think that they are going
to defend the world against the buggers (or formics, to use the scientific phrase),
an alien species that nearly annihilated the human race years ago. What the
students at the school don't know is that they are being trained to be part
of an OFFENSIVE fleet against the buggers, an invasion of the buggers home planet.
They have
school just like normal children, but even the younger students operate on a
high school level in maths and sciences (all the students selected for battle
school have to be exceptionally gifted) They also have free play and different
games, but their lives revolve around a mock-army and battle game setup . .
. The children are soldiers in armies, command armies, and fight against other
armies of roughly 40 students each. The battle set up is kind of like team freeze
tag, with laser guns (not REAL laser), null gravity style. To learn more, visit
www.ansible.org to check it out. My character
is Sahara, a 10 year old girl, a proud member of Condor army.
For those
of you that ARE on ansible, this is a place where you can contact me to put
up IC drawings/stories/poetry/or whatever about anything on the moo (although
preferentially your character) With luck, in a few weeks this site will give
some good background info on Ansible and the people who connect to it.
Very sorry,
but Personally, I'm not even finished with the stuff I intend to put up for
my character (I'm a terrible artist . .so don't be expecting drawings for a
while). I do have the first segment in kind of a mini-series about my characters
life before and during battle school.
Have fun!