Bogged Down in Science

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!