I've been dreaming of this for awhile and I want to share this dream with you guys and see if anyone else is interested in playing something like this in PA. The map would start out with the Sol system replicated to its best facsimile possible. Including (as accurately as possible) The inner planets (with their geography), Asteroid Belt, Outter Planets, Kuiper belt and scattered disc. Outside of that will be our local group (with stars named appropriately, seeded by the structure of our own solar system but with randomization and tweeks where appropriate based on our knowledge so far of those systems). Basically I want to replicate the local solar group (or as many solar systems as PA will be able to handle in a single game) as closely to reality as possible. Then, I want to put all the starting locations of all players in the game on Earth exclusively and set a Big asteroid (maybe moon size) on a 1 hour collision course to earth from deep space moving very fast! I will position players (and ideally assign names) to them based on real world countries, such as Canada, USA, Britain, Australia, India, China, Russia, Japan, etc... This is where the game begins. I imagine the game to play out a bit like the hunger games novels in the beginning. An initial bloodbath as people scramble for resources, or make allies and try to either escape or save the planet in order to continue fighting if they can't escape. Then as the game goes on the "Country" forces begin colonizing the surrounding space and starting intergalactic wars. Imagine the Russian Empire's surprise when their Saturn moon colonies get attacked by that under dog Republic of Madagascar's battle moon they flew in from another solar system after escaping the destruction of earth unnoticed by the lager super powers! So many possibilities...
