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18th Dec 05, 8:58 PM

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The5thElephant

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Aborted Homeworld script by Peter Watts!

Hey guys I just found something pretty cool in _Agent_'s Rifters link from my Awesome Pictures thread. He posted a website by an author of the Rifter's series of books. The author is a quite good sci-fi writer (I read Starfish, the first of the series) and he says that he was writing a script set in the Homeworld universe for Relic!

If you go to the Gallery section in the NOW part of the website you may see something pretty familiar. To be quick here is the gallery section. Look at the 3rd image in the second column. That's Karan S'jet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter Watts (Author of the quite excellent series of which I only read Starfish)

Rob Cunningham rendered this character for Relic Entertainment´s RTS computer game Homeworld 2. Her name is Karan S´jet, and while she doesn´t appear in any of my fiction (except for an aborted script I worked on briefly for Relic a few years back), Rob tells me the look was inspired by Lenie Clarke´s diveskin. So what the hell; it qualifies (for the gallery)

RELIC WAS HAVING A NOVEL WRITTEN IN THE HOMEWORLD UNIVERSE BY PETER WATTS!

I want more information on this!

Can one of the moderators e-mail this guy and find out more about this "aborted script"?

So coincidental that his website is posted here and that I randomly go to that section.

EDIT -----------------------------------------------------

Just found something cool on the Rifters site. He has the full text of Starfish and Maelstrom on the site for free. These are the first 2 books in the Rifters series. I own Starfish but I don't have it with me and I haven't read it in a while so this is awesome that I can still read it without having to buy it again. I hope some of you guys read it and get a taste of the style the aborted Homeworld script could have been written in.

Here is the link.

Be warned these are full novels and if you print it out do two pages per sheet and have lots of paper ready.

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18th Dec 05, 9:06 PM	# 2
the_sidewinder Bleek! Join Date: May 2000 Location: Chrome's right shoulder	Spiffy stuff I want more HW __________________

18th Dec 05, 9:08 PM	# 3
Verrin resident nuisance Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario.	Holy shit. I would totally buy a novel set in the Homeworld universe. Why would they abort it? AND WHY WEREN'T WE INFORMED OF THIS? __________________

18th Dec 05, 9:08 PM	# 4
Starfisher I suck at jumping in Doom3 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Budd Lake, NJ	Because it was aborted. It probably started a stem cell line somewhere. __________________

18th Dec 05, 9:16 PM

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Tails

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Because it was aborted.

Looks like the pro-life people have a case.

18th Dec 05, 9:18 PM	# 6
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Guys, please don't make my thread crash and burn before the first page is over. I think this is pretty cool and I think we should pursue it a bit.

18th Dec 05, 9:19 PM	# 7
Dj Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: St. Joseph, MO	Seconded! We must have the HW novel... NOW! * Dj utilizes his trikki ninja skillz to go kidnap the author, and force him to write. __________________ "Sanity... Now why would I want an annoying thing like that?"

18th Dec 05, 9:29 PM	# 8
the_sidewinder Bleek! Join Date: May 2000 Location: Chrome's right shoulder	A good HW novel could really garner interest in the game, to bad Sierra killed both

18th Dec 05, 9:53 PM	# 9
KON Air Member Join Date: Oct 2004	"aborted script" doesn't mean an aborted novel. It might have been a HW expansion or HW2 (hmm... come to think of it HW2's script has been aborted but the game lived on... Lemme fixxit...) __________________ Imagine you noticed some termites over at your neighbors house, and instead of warning him about it, you just burn down his house because of the slight possibility that those termites might someday move over to your home. That's the Eldar for you. -Aquila

18th Dec 05, 9:58 PM	# 10
the_sidewinder Bleek! Join Date: May 2000 Location: Chrome's right shoulder	Sadly, HW2 had many aborted scripts, my favorite being Dustwars, all were better than the actual one that came out with the game. The problem was that they never finished those story lines because Sierra/VU rushed the release

18th Dec 05, 10:25 PM	# 11
_Agent_ Guest	Okay...cool. Glad someone found a use for that site. Oh, and I know I mentioned it before...but if you want really, really intense sci-fi...read the Rifter Series. Peter Watts is a god among mortals. For those who have read it (or at least Starfish)....did anyone else feel sorry for Gerry? Or am I just wierd? I feel so bad for the man, despite everything else. Poor Gerry. To say nothing of the sh*t Lenie went through. Out of the four books, the first two are, IMO of course, the best. Number 3 and 4 just didn't have the same...rugged...feel to them. They were good, do not doubt...but not in the exotic and captivating style of the first two. Peter Watts.....very, very cool man. He got me intersted (er obessed) with the deep ocean. And my god, is there alot to learn. There is even a greater among to discover. /end

18th Dec 05, 10:31 PM	# 12
molo zoom zoom Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Aloft	I'm always a bit skeptical of gods among mortals. We'll see.

19th Dec 05, 5:16 AM

# 13

Moe

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Quote:

Can one of the moderators e-mail this guy and find out more about this "aborted script"?

Why don't you email this guy? We're not any more special then you are. Well, I'm "special", but that's something else really

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19th Dec 05, 5:48 AM	# 14
ceejayoz SPAWN OF SATAN Mostly on break Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Rochester, NY, USA	As others have said, games have scripts too, not just movies. I'd imagine that's what he was talking about. If Serenity can't do well in the theatres, I can't imagine Homeworld being much of a winning movie proposition. __________________ Relicnews · RelicWiki · IRC quotes · Relic SETI

19th Dec 05, 10:57 AM	# 15
Captain Pierce You'd do it for Randolph Scott Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: I'm from Iowa--I only work in outer space	I believe Peter Watts was the writer of the so-called "Homeworld Empire" script that was, at one time, scheduled to be HW2. A bit of it was released by Rob C. (IIRC) a while back with some other pre-HW2 stuff (don't know if that's all that was completed, or if there's more out there than what was released), and it formed the basis for my sig. __________________

19th Dec 05, 11:12 AM	# 16
Kheturus YARRR Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The Canadian Arctic	I seem to recall that there was an entire forum devoted to Homeworld fiction. Hmmm.... must have all been a dream.

19th Dec 05, 11:41 AM	# 17
NovaBurn Now with more surfing Cylons Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Fort Worth, Texas	NOVA DEMANDS AN ANSWER FOR THIS. Get uber's ass in here we demand an explanation. But seriously, a homeworld novel would seriously kick ass; more room for story detail on event of the whole plot of the original homeworld. It could open a whole new perspective on the game. __________________ "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein

19th Dec 05, 12:16 PM	# 18
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Moe - Well I was thinking that since some you mods have connections at Relic (i.e. Uber has lots of connections) you would have a better chance of getting more out of any contact with him than I would. But if you insist I'll email him. He seems to be a really cool guy, read his quasi-blog thing it has lots of awesome developments in science. Oh and judging by what WAS released by Relic in terms of the Empires script (for example what is in Pierce's sig) it would have been fucking amazing.

19th Dec 05, 12:21 PM	# 19
Nurizeko I haz nori, u want? Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scotland	They shoulda completed it in time for my flight, it woulda been the perfect distraction on a long flight. __________________

19th Dec 05, 12:22 PM	# 20
Fiirks Never thought I'd be on a boat Join Date: Feb 2005	A Homeworld novel would be plain sweet. There are lots of ways you could write it too. Imagine a book written from the perspetive of a scout pilot, or the commander of say an assault frig. It could start out as thier childhood on Kharak, being chosen for the pilot academy, the grueling training etc. Finally getting thier ship and doing the practice runs around the Scaffold. The first jump, engaging the Tauranics etc. Could be a very massive novel by the time a good author was done. __________________ Buddhanet

19th Dec 05, 12:25 PM	# 21
ÜberJumper www.relicnews.com Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: South Surrey, BC Canada	I should release that other script stuff RobC got to me a while ago. I keep forgetting about it. __________________

19th Dec 05, 12:39 PM	# 22
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Are you kidding!?

19th Dec 05, 12:50 PM	# 23
Mac_Bug senile member Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Caprica	he has a kid, if that's what you mean __________________ Flash your BIOS Fight the Future

19th Dec 05, 1:08 PM	# 24
ÜberJumper www.relicnews.com Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: South Surrey, BC Canada	Kidding about what? Forgetting stuff? I usually have a really good memory, but in the last couple of years I'm getting more and more forgetful. I think it's the anesthetic. I always feel dumb after surgery.

19th Dec 05, 2:06 PM	# 25
Fiirks Never thought I'd be on a boat Join Date: Feb 2005	*stares at uber in disbelief You have scripts!?!? Release them man, are you crazy? Seriously, you have some scripts? Awesome.

19th Dec 05, 2:09 PM	# 26
KON Air Member Join Date: Oct 2004	Dispatch ninja pirates, and let them know about ÜberJr and the grenades.

19th Dec 05, 2:27 PM	# 27
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Well I said "Are you kidding!?" because I wasn't sure whether he was kidding or not. Uber - Do you really have some more Homeworld script stuff? And if so please release it!

19th Dec 05, 2:44 PM	# 28
Starfisher I suck at jumping in Doom3 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Budd Lake, NJ	If Uber posts a "PWNED" picture right now, he'd have game-set-matched the entire forum.

19th Dec 05, 2:46 PM	# 29
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Except that your post would steal some of its pwnedness being a forewarning.

19th Dec 05, 3:06 PM	# 30
JAL-18 Evil Dr. Porkchop Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Twin Cities	Minor plothole.

19th Dec 05, 3:07 PM	# 31
ÜberJumper www.relicnews.com Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: South Surrey, BC Canada	Oh, yeah, I've got some unreleased stuff. I've had it for a year or so.

19th Dec 05, 3:13 PM	# 32
JAL-18 Evil Dr. Porkchop Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Twin Cities	Will it remain unreleased for long?

19th Dec 05, 3:58 PM	# 33
ÜberJumper www.relicnews.com Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: South Surrey, BC Canada	Depends if I forget again or not, and if I can find it.

19th Dec 05, 4:17 PM	# 34
KON Air Member Join Date: Oct 2004	That's it! Charge!

19th Dec 05, 4:22 PM	# 35
Elixir I can smell the sea! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The city of students! UK	Ubers a tease.

19th Dec 05, 4:22 PM	# 36
Mac_Bug senile member Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Caprica	what he really means is he'll have to email rob to confirm that he could release it without getting into doodoo

19th Dec 05, 4:56 PM	# 37
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Uber - Move hell and Earth to get this stuff released please.

19th Dec 05, 5:06 PM	# 38
Fiirks Never thought I'd be on a boat Join Date: Feb 2005	Yes, please release this stuff uber

19th Dec 05, 6:55 PM	# 39
ÜberJumper www.relicnews.com Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: South Surrey, BC Canada	They're the HW2 game scripts. 2 different versions of the HW2 script... one from November 2002 (version 4) goes 106 pages, the one from July 15 2003 (Version 9.9) goes 159 pages. I think they already may have been released though. Oh, and I remember why I didn't get them released, RobC was confirming with Ron Moravek about releasing them.

19th Dec 05, 6:59 PM	# 40
Mokona Daemon Prince Join Date: Sep 2001	They don't call him the Relic Stalker(tm) for nothing. I'd better make sure I hide the script for ForestrySim 2: The Great Softwood Lumber Dispute from his prying eyes! :sprint:

19th Dec 05, 7:07 PM	# 41
Mac_Bug senile member Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Caprica	Uber moonlights as a relic janitor, that's how he has all the goods

19th Dec 05, 7:23 PM	# 42
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Uber - A bunch of info on the story and artwork from the beginning of Dust Wars was released but not those scripts (I remember nothing nearly that many pages). Please show us!

19th Dec 05, 7:25 PM	# 43
JAL-18 Evil Dr. Porkchop Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Twin Cities	Uber, we haven't gotten any releases over 15 pages I don't think. Two novel sized documents would probably cause a forum wide Homeworldy orgasm.

19th Dec 05, 7:41 PM	# 44
_Agent_ Guest	Or a forum wide apoplexy.

19th Dec 05, 8:00 PM

# 45

Verrin

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Location: Toronto, Ontario.

Quote:

Two novel sized documents would probably cause a forum wide Homeworldy orgasm.

This thread just got x-rated. hawt.

19th Dec 05, 8:16 PM	# 46
Tails Trusty Sidekick Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California	I call Uber's bluff.

19th Dec 05, 8:30 PM

# 47

ÜberJumper

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Location: South Surrey, BC Canada

I think this bit, had it been left in, would have helped close one of the percieved plot holes with Makaan trying to get to Sajuuk.

Quote:

Letterbox on
Pride of Hiigara hyperspaces in at the gate. Makaan is present and heading into the center of the gate as we watch.
FLEET INTEL
Sensors detecting a massive quantum wave effect forming in the center of the Gate. Makaan is activating the Progenitor Gate!
MAKAAN
You’re too late, Karan. Sajuuk denied my ancestors their destiny. Now, I will deny you Sajuuk.
Even as he speaks, Makaan’s ship enters the hyperspace portal and disappears with an escort of Vaygr ships. The Gate closes and immediately falls under attack by remaining Vaygr units.
FLEET COMMAND (CONTD)
Makaan! No!
Letterbox off.

Not so sure about this bit though...

Quote:

6.13 ANI 06-07: TRINITY ENGRAVING
FLEET INTEL
While examining the Lighthouse formation, our Research Division found several key indicators linking it to similar ruins at Tanis. They believe both formations are relics of the Progenitors, a highly advanced civilization that existed before the First Time.
No written records from this Empire remain, but artifacts scattered across the galaxy hint at unimaginable advancement. If the weapon the Oracle mentioned was indeed made by the Progenitors, then the location to which we are heading may be its Foundry.
FLEET COMMAND
An engraving is of particular interest:
‘Trinity sequence’. Shows three hyperspace cores. As the narration progresses, the Vaygr, Hiigaran and Bentusi cores are lit, in that order.
The narrator is an echo of the prophecy, in the voice of the Oracle.
PROPHECY
The Fate of the Three is thus:
One will be found and then lost.
One will be lost and then found.
One will be hidden and then sacrificed.
These are the Sigils of the Great Maker, Sajuuk.

Anyway...

19th Dec 05, 8:31 PM	# 48
NovaBurn Now with more surfing Cylons Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Fort Worth, Texas	i think a raid of uber's house is in order.

19th Dec 05, 8:44 PM	# 49
Tails Trusty Sidekick Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California	Uber's house is an impregnible sci-fi fortress.

19th Dec 05, 9:20 PM	# 50
The5thElephant Atmospheric Entry Elephant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alphabet City (NYC)	Uber this is cruel and unusual.

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