[Erax]

Hello, welcome to the forum.

I haven't seen this topic before. It's been mentioned before, but never in a dedicated thread.

Before my own 'war for the stars' story, I had never written any fiction. I had written a few articles for local game magazines and translated some game-related material. About the closest I had come to fiction was a few introductory paragraphs for homemade game scenarios.

Then I read Sachmo's "Rise of the Remorhaz Society". It gave new depth to the game. This was a typical standard SEIV game, but with real, living characters to which you became gradually attached. And you knew that this wasn't a television series or movie in which the main characters never die. On the contrary, they may die suddenly and unexpectedly the next time the author clicks on the 'next turn' button. This was something I could get into.

But I didn't start writing right away. This idea took shape over several months, until one day I woke up and said to myself, "I can do it. I can write a Space Empires story."