Talk:United North American States/@comment-5870856-20141021210252/@comment-1743498-20141025001349

I've always sort of seen GC as 70's - 80's sci-fi mainly because of its roots in Spore which had that Star Wars/Star Trek sort of feel to it. So I'm with the idea of making this retro-futuristic. And while we're on that topic, just to throw out an old idea to provide some inspiration. We don't have to use it, but this was the original purpose for humanity:

In the very first draft of GC, humans and the Omni were one and the same. Humanity was the precursor race that traveled the galaxy uplifting various civilizations with their artifacts before being destroyed by the Grox/Harbingers. The original intent was that GC was set thousands of years in the future - Earth would have remained the same continentally but would be a wild, uninhabited planet with an atmosphere toxic to present day life forms. This backstory held for some time until we decided we wanted humans interacting with our creations more directly, and thus, we had the (former) War on Gaea.

As for writing stuff down on another word processing program, that's fine, but it would boost activity if you were to release bits of info in chunks at a time just so that the rest of us have something to look at. Even if it's not completely finished, it's perfectly fine if you post what you have so far.