User blog comment:SupcommMonroee/News, News, A Tapestry of News!/@comment-5135903-20150122164151

Well, the bulk of my work involves having an idea, working on it with great enthusiasm and meticulous detail for a few weeks, then petering off. This has resulted in creations such as the Portal:Zambarau Concord Mbili, which on one hand is patchy, but on the other hand has a lot of space for adding new ideas. I'm happy for you to include the ZCM; it's pretty weird, though, because I designed it as an ultra-compact, high-energy, high-technology, high-population civilisation that sprang up over just a few centuries (from just a single 'seed' starship weighing about an ounce).

Anyway, the ZCM has really freaked out the nearby civilisations such as the Portal:Communion of Worlds, another of my flash-creations which petered out after a few weeks (I originally created the COW in protest to constantly seeing humanoid aliens being created without anybody thinking it was unoriginal; instead I made dinosauroid aliens and, as I expected, people complained). Anyway, the COW is a relatively young spacefaring civilisation which is still finding its feet on the galactic stage; they were obviously shocked when they noticed that nearby stars were 'going out' as the ZCM built its Dyson swarms, before seeing thermal output from those systems skyrocket again as the ZCM started mining stars to fuel planet-sized fusion reactors in its constant thirst for more power. The ZCM, controlled by super-AI, is totally incomprehensible to them; they don't know if their systems will be next, any signals they have sent have been returned with garbled nonsense and any missions they have sent have never been heard from again. Though day-to-day life must inevitably go on, frankly they're terrified.

Finally, there's the Khoikapek. Do not be fooled by any pages labelled 'Khoikapek' - they're all being revised! You probably won't find the Khoikapek much use for inspiration because most of the information I have on them is written in physical notes on my desk. The only canon information I have on them is in Story:Diaspora, and that's set in their early history before they've even left their home system. All I really have apart from that is Amocci from Naval Station Isemacai and a rough drawing...



Anyway, if you want any help with anything else, just ask, especially anything to do with planets or ecosystems (I love that stuff! I'm even slowly designing an alien ecosystem in detail on ). Oh, sorry about the funny links on this comment; I'm having problems with wikia.