Darkness Rising - Please download and enjoy

Da Boss

Mongoose
Dear All

The first main draft of Darkness Rising is ready - please have a look and let me know what you think :) Its a work of Love like all these things - so be kind about the inevitable typos etc. It is a draft however, so will be looking at feedback to improve the project.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gregsmith/Darkness%20Rising.pdf

Its presently about 6MB as a PDF / 6+ MB as Word and should be about 74 pages A4.

Darkness Rising is an alternative setting for the Babylon 5: A Call to Arms game where history first diverged in a significant way a thousand years ago. The Shadows defeated the Minbari, razed their home world and were only stopped from annihilating that race by direct intervention by the Vorlons.

The Minbari recovered but became an insular, defensive race, full of anger at their humiliation and awaiting a chance for revenge. A violent encounter with an overconfident Earth Alliance threw them into a state of rage culminating in an assault on the human home world.

This time it was the Shadows that saved their chosen inheritors and in doing set the stage for a final galactic war between the two ancient powers and their philosophies. The Vorlons and Shadows continue to strengthen their pawns ready for this conflict and soon the galaxy will burn with their fury.

The project contains some great original artwork from friends on the net.

Full fleet lists for the EA (with lots of lovely Shadowtech), Minbari, Shadows and Vorlons - all with new ships and Unique Personalities. There are new ships and unique personalities or ships for all the league and the same for Narn, Drakh and Centauri. Also variant fleet lists for Psi Corps/Rebels and the Anla’Shok (ISA).

I had great fun making it and I hope all will enjoy it:)
 
M1ndr1d3rs said:
Sweet alternate story Boss...

Just wondering: which actress do you think should play Chloe Morden? :wink:

Hmm now theres a good question - I like the way you think! not sure - Famke Janssen, Gina Bellman, ohh a another sexy dark/gothy role for Kate Beckinsale maybe 8) maybe Lexa Doig................
 
Funny thing is, I also thought of Kate Beckinsale at first. :wink:

But age-wise, she's not that much younger than Ed Wasser. Not young enough to be his daughter. We may need one in her twenties. Maybe Olivia Wilde (House MD), or Christy Romano (Cadet Kelly)?

Come to think of it, this universe of yours does have a similar feel as Underworld. A gothic B5, imagine that... 8)
 
hmm interesting choices - (Kim Possible!)

- I love Underworld, so Kate sprung to mind and her gothic look would fit wonderfully to Chloe 8) - however........... see what you mean about age (not that she looks anything other than wonderful :) )

will have to think more about this ! :D
 
Oh yeah, forgot Kim was voiced by Romano... (Chloe should be more like Shego, though :wink: )

Maybe what we need now is a photoshop master :lol:
 
Hmm sounds good - will go and search my Actress database for suitable ladies (although I think Kate is still my first choice at present) Chloemay not have aged at a normal rate - al al the Adira, Chosen of the Ori in SG1 - now theres a thought - how about Morena Baccarin - she would be great, even if it is a bit similar role? :)
 
Well, there's the de-ageing technology now (again, not that Kate really need it).
Or... you can make Morden Sr older (maybe in the B5 canon he was granted eternal youth and all that by the Shadows)

Adria daughter of Vala? Haven't got that far with SG-1 yet. Kinda hard to come by here :( She looks hot though :wink:
 
Well of course B5 was made in 1994 when Kate was 21..........If she was a beautiful Goth early?................ :D

Yeah Adria is lovely - cool character - you will enjoy when you get there - where are you ?
 
Indonesia. Sci-fi is not very popular here.

I have a partner in collecting sci-fi. He's responsible for collecting the Stargate series, I'm responsible for B5. We split Star Trek. We're waiting for SG-1 season 10. Hallowed are the Ori! :twisted:
 
You should enjoy it - its fun even if they are cruising a little - but well worth a watch and as ever the characters are good :D
 
Yeah, SG1 does have an edge when it comes to performance. B5 and Stargate are pretty much overshadowed by Star Trek here. Don't know when it will be available.

That's why I have no one to play ACTA with here (most people here won't appreciate the complexity of the rules anyway).
 
@ M1ndr1d3rs - have you tried the Vassel thingy - it supposed to be good?

@ Knight - Well only just finished that one :shock: :wink: Still I stopped beacause I need more feedback and I kept adding things here and there:) I may well finish off the timeline at least? Is there something you felt it was missing?
 
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