Bogged Down In Science Part 1

It’s old news that the video game industry has completely blown past both the movie and music industries in the US. So there really should be no shame in saying that a lot of my own writing was originally directly inspired by video games. But what’s that one quote that so often gets repeated and changed? Oh yeah. “Good artists borrow; great artists steal.” Yay! Legitimized and vindicated in one fell swoop.

This particular short story was written as a trial for a project I was doing for The Repopulation (https://www.therepopulation.com/), a sci-fi MMO currently in beta but soon-to-be-released. The contents were under NDA until just a few months ago, when that agreement was lifted and much of the game content became publicly accessible per the game designers. I believe some of the original world timeline that I based this story on may have changed since then, but the sci-fi spirit remains!