EVE Fiction

A while ago I posted a rough idea in the EON fan fiction thread. It was a rough idea that has been bouncing in my head for a while. The almighty Zapatero has said that if good enough it will be considered so it is now down to us.

The idea is to get a group of individual to fight a series of snapshot that take place in a massive fictional battle. The goal is to create a story that sort of shows how a battle is fought, won or lost based on individual. The whole “one man can make a difference” stuff. Anyway this is the difficult bit. Since each snapshot is written by a different writer it would be put together and submitted as a whole with each writer getting an equal share of the credit.

The post after this one will include the rough timeline of the battle, which I will edit and fill in the details as we suggest them and write the snapshots. Once we have enough that might be some specific bits needs which I will post out requests for, but basically you are on your own.

If can be any style; POV, descriptive or narrative. It can be pilots or crew or even a drone. The more variety the better. I would suggest not too much back-story and time jumping. Each snapshot should be pretty short a few paragraphs, but they should appear at least twice at different times in the battle.

I will post a few examples of what I mean, after the timeline. If possible can you post each snapshot to a separate post with single line to say where it fits and if one of multiple (e.g. 1/x) so we can ensure they are in the right order. Once we have something workable I will try to edit it into a story and submit the result to EON.

So writer lets show CCP what we as a Community can do...

{ Defenders wait for battle 1/2}

The bright red light of the nebula shone through the porthole of the ship, illuminating the panel in front of her. Her fingers poised above the button to activate part of the heart of this capsuleer's ship. Her heart thumping out a war beat in her chest, like those thousand aboard the ship waiting. Needing that rush as they waiting to keep them fixed on the task at hand.
A thousands souls depending on the pilot at the heart of the ship and the instant choice they made when the expected fleet arrive. She felt a thumb in her chest and between it and the next all hell arrived.

{No specific time but before drone 2. Drone 1/2}

Drone f3V3s21 receiving updating priority. Modifying route and target acquisition. New instruction integrated to landscape. Protect vessel named thunderrun, class logistics. Provide shield support. Keep it alive.

{Attackers second fleet jump in, it was a TARP. Frigate 1/2}

The FC sends instruction to me and I rush to obey. My mind links in automatically finding the target, locking and plotting a cause. I chose to manually override, flying beneath the carrier between us, twisting as I go to maintain my orientation. I need more speed if the plan is to work, and as quickly as I can think it, it happens. The impulses firing the microwarp drive into action, catapulting me forward so much so my mind flinches at the rush of information. The gap closes and I check and confirm my ECM.

Within seconds we are in battle with the ship. My friends around me swarm around it, pecking at it like insects until one of us pecks a little harder and the target judders to a stop. The webs are holding. Our big guns turn and fire. We stay in tight formation. I can see the scorch marks rip across the shields as the epic firepower of our fleet tears it apart. Within moments they are down and we disengage and move to the next target. I hardly notice as the ship explodes beside me. I chose years ago to limit my vision to only those things that could harm me. That was probably why I never notice the drone close range behind me.

Giving this a quick bump in the hope someone will respond. Looks like no one in interested. Boffles is SAD

Thanks for your comments. If anyone can point out where editing is required I can use that knowledge, please evemail me with examples. After all if you never point out what is wrong, how do I know that it is wrong. If you or someone else would like to step in to edit the final result I would be delighted, as I was only suggesting myself to get it started.
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The main purpose of this thread was to try to get the community to support EON which does not seem to be happening in terms of fan fiction. I guess I should go back to my silence on the forums as I am not a perfect individual.

Would suggest 'intact' or something instead of 'alive'.
I think it would be better to replace 'never' with 'did not'.
Some things appear to be missing in this sentence, it does not make sense to me. But at least 'That' should be 'That is'.
Same here. But I'm guessing it should at least end with something like '...that is what it's like to lose a frigate'.
Guessing it should be 'now' instead of 'know'.

I for one think this is an interesting project. I'll submit something if I have some time to write it. Don't put it off just yet. Give it some time to get the ball rolling.