With the increased availability of playable endgame ships from various different Star Trek eras, I've been thinking about how to promote and collect role-playing missions set in these eras, for players who want to do more missions appropriate to their ship (and the crews that go along with them). These would not be missions that use time travel, holodecks or other devices to take a player to a selected era, but rather missions explicitly taking place completely within that time period. An example would be the Star Trek Continues mission series.
I figure the best way to get the missions that are already out there collected so people can find them, and encourage authors to make more, is to start an open project along the lines of the Iconian War Anthology and Alliance Exploration Initiative.
We would create tags for the different Trek eras, which players could put in their mission titles, and create a master list, either here or perhaps foundrymissions.com could host it for us. Like the previous open projects, there wouldn't need to be any curating of missions. You put your mission in the project if it fits and you want to.
I'd like to hear any ideas anyone has to flesh this out. "Eras" is a working project title, there's probably better out there. Here's the preliminary list of eras. Some have no-brainer tags. For other's I'd love to have suggestions.
Enterprise - [ENT]
Original Series/Animated Series - [TOS]
Post-TOS to TMP - [TMP]
Wrath of Khan to Undiscovered Country
Lost Era (post-Undiscovered Country to pre-TNG)
Next Generation (TNG to Nemesis) - [TNG]
26th Century - [26c]
29th Century - [29c]
31st Century - [31c]
I figure the best way to get the missions that are already out there collected so people can find them, and encourage authors to make more, is to start an open project along the lines of the Iconian War Anthology and Alliance Exploration Initiative.
We would create tags for the different Trek eras, which players could put in their mission titles, and create a master list, either here or perhaps foundrymissions.com could host it for us. Like the previous open projects, there wouldn't need to be any curating of missions. You put your mission in the project if it fits and you want to.
I'd like to hear any ideas anyone has to flesh this out. "Eras" is a working project title, there's probably better out there. Here's the preliminary list of eras. Some have no-brainer tags. For other's I'd love to have suggestions.
Enterprise - [ENT]
Original Series/Animated Series - [TOS]
Post-TOS to TMP - [TMP]
Wrath of Khan to Undiscovered Country
Lost Era (post-Undiscovered Country to pre-TNG)
Next Generation (TNG to Nemesis) - [TNG]
26th Century - [26c]
29th Century - [29c]
31st Century - [31c]
