10-13-2024, 11:28 PM
(10-13-2024, 10:13 PM)Drashner1 Wrote: Hi - Welcome to the Forums!
I'm not entirely clear on what you're requesting/suggesting here so please consider this answer to be preliminary and subject to change as we learn more about what you're wanting to do.
If you are wanting to write up something for your own setting/project that includes concepts and/or terms from the OA universe, we have an attribution requirement/process that would most likely apply. Basically, you would have to include a statement somewhere that gives credit to the OAUP/OA setting for the relevant concepts/terms. Details on what that would look like would be something to discuss.
If you are wanting to write up something for the OA project/setting, but want to host it on your own computer/system while making it look like it is part of the EG that would not be acceptable.
If you are wanting to write up something for the OA project/setting, but want to host it as a Google Doc or the like on your computer/system and have links from the EG/OA website to it, that would not be acceptable.
If you are wanting to do something else that is totally different or partly different and I've misunderstood what you're asking, please say so and explain your idea further so we can properly consider it and how/if it might work with OA.
It would also help to have some idea of what you actually want to write up as an 'overambitious newbie project...etc.' so we can better judge for ourselves whether it is something we would be willing to help you attempt as a contribution to the setting (if that is the goal here).
Hope this helps,
Todd
Administrator - Orion's Arm Universe Project
Thanks for your quick reply, it helped a lot- apologies for the confusion, as well; I have a bit of a bad habit of hedging my bets out of a fear of causing offense and that can sometimes get in the way of being clear.
Specifically, and with your responses in mind, what I'm asking whether it's permissible is (...apologies if my list format is itself confusing, I understand things best in that way but others might not):
- a self-hosted page, whether a google doc or a personal website page
- of an article in the style of but not entirely fitting Orion's Arm, probably plaintext or my own unique CSS styling
- in the Orion's Arm setting, or one very much like it, or an 'anonymized' setting (like published SCP Foundation writing, although I understand the SCP Foundation has a very different copyright paradigm)
- with a disclaimer to promote understanding of the fact that this is effectively a fanfic that borrows ideas from Orion's Arm, and a link to OA but not from OA to the website
Reevaluating the concept, I think there are definitely parts that could be reworked to actually fit in the EG- I've been fiddling with the idea of some early ahuman AIs stopping somewhere very far away, leaving later to avoid being caught up in the wave of Terragen expansion and leaving behind their 'toys' and perhaps some lesser intelligences; and that remnant being found much later by Terragens in the Periphery. I think it'd help flesh out the idea of the Light Speed Frontier.
That's the part of the idea that's probably fitting- the rest is an open cluster-spanning mini-empire in the early stages of forming a cluster brain with high archailect interest in modosophonts, which as I understand it is ground already well-tread by the Archosaurian Empire and to a lesser extent the Red Star 'M'Pire.