Edmund wrote:

> The web site again...
>
> This is what Kenny's suggested to me; that we write the web site from the
> point of view of an organisation, rather like a tourist pamphlet or
> undercover secret service knowledge base.  This gives the information an
> appropriate perspective, rather than trying to relate it to the real world.
>
> I *really* like this idea and am going to use it.  But deciding what kind of
> 'organisation' would be suitable to use to write the web site from their
> point of view presents some problems, and I'd like to hear other people's
> ideas.

A great idea.  But I see one problem, the human and alien situations will be
sufficiently different that a presentation for the first might not work for the
second.  Solutions include splitting the two at a high level, as we're doing in
play, and coming up with something exceedingly sweeping.

>
>
> The way this will probably be done is to have a NPS that has very little
> impact (ie totally none) on the game but that I (and others) can hijack to
> create the website with.  Probably their only purpouse for a culture is to
> collect information on the universe and other societies.  But the human
> political situation makes a kind of 'galactic records office' difficult (as
> well as boring).

Or something that has opinions on a lot of things.  Material could be presented
as a flowing from or a reaction to that something.  Marxist ideology is a recent
example of such an opinionated critter.  Personally, I'd like to see an art
movement.

>  Not to mention the fact that this NPS will have to have
> knowledge of alien races as well.
>
> One way of solving this problem is to make the NPS alien themselves, perhaps
> hidden from other societies.  They could even have 'infiltrated' people
> solely for the purpouses of gathering information.  Although there are
> probably other, less threatening solutions :)
>
> Any ideas?

As mentioned above.  For the Humans, a Museum of Home, part of the reclamation
for Home tries to have information about all humanity.  More specifically, the
Arts College at such a place would have that information as a way of explaining
the things present in each cultures way of viewing the world.  Presenting their
cultures in part through their arts would strengthen the impact of the
Humanities determiant and provide a vehicle for the flow of attitudes and ideas
between societies.

As a solution to the Human / Alien divide and to secret activities, this place
could exist in the future after alien contact.

Rylen

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