Also a possible idea: playing Lexicon with an ATU or an alternate subsector. 
For those not familiar, Lexicon is a world building wiki game. Play starts with assigning a theme (an area or era typically), then designating the alphabet to use (and how many articles per letter per player). Players write their first article, then link to two (at the time unwritten) articles, usually one letter along in the sequence. Subsequent rounds follow by choosing an unwritten article, then linking to an already written and an unwritten one. Play continues until the entire alphabet is completed or the required number of articles is reached.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 19:36 Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 7/20/2018 8:47 PM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> I'm sure many of us are fantasy fans, if perhaps less so than SF or Space
> Opera. I'm equally sure that many of us have read at least part of the
> Thieves' World series, and know the genesis of that project.
>
> So...
>
> Suppose I were to propose a similar project for Freelance Traveller: You
> come up with a character, and you write stories. After other characters
> appear, you can use them in your stories, but you can't kill them (unless
> you own the character) or do permanent physical damage (unless the
> character's owner allows). More-or-less everything would happen in a city,
> general TL of 8 (no grav control), but commo, medicine, and computers can
> be as high as TL10. The city is the "port city/startown" of a downport that
> handles mostly ship's boats or modular cutters coming down from skyside,
> with perhaps the occasional scout/courier (Type S) or free trader (Beowulf
> or Marava).
>
>    1. Who would be interested in participating (and willing to commit the
>       time to actually write)?
>
>    2. How well should the city be defined before getting started?
>
>    3. Would people be interested in_reading_  this?

I would be interested in both participating and reading.  The city
should be defined with key NPCs (government, police, military, etc.), an
outlined civic structure/social contract of how things fit together to
remove cultural issues from distracting from the prose, and I think it
needs to be higher tech.  Speaking personally, if I wanted to read about
current tech and reasonable future tech, I can read a techno thriller or
near-future speculative fiction.  I'd like to see the full panorama of
what the OTU has to offer, not something that my simple TL8 mind might
be able to grasp.  :-)

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