Darth Voracitos
Chaos-God of Gluttony
So the Oblivion Map was originally introduced for the site-wide Oblivion Event, where an ancient Machine managed to invade the Netherworld and create its own kingdom in the afterlife. I have always thought that map was super cool and underutilized. We've got hyper gates on the map, but they don't have much substance to them because, as beautiful as the Oblivion map is, it's empty. Some time ago, I participated in a race thread where I traveled through Oblivion as a short cut and I was going to submit Codex Locations for all the hexes I visited, but the race died out. Then, like most of you, I forgot about it.
However, with the recent map clear and a new set of Mandates, I saw an interesting combo I really wish someone would end up using: Starting their faction in Oblivion and using the Vassal States Mandate to make outposts on the main Galaxy Map over all the Hypergates. Yet, I feel that by throwing that suggestion out there (as cool as that would be for me to see), I'm putting the cart before the horse. So far, there hasn't been much impetus to use this beautiful piece of art, but reading the townhall transcript, it doesn't seem like it's out of the realm of possibilities if there were enough people who wanted to use it.
Thus, I would like to poll how many writers would like to see factions make use of the Oblivion map. That could be anything from making Codex Submissions fleshing out the empty map to claiming territory there. Interpret the question as you will.
However, with the recent map clear and a new set of Mandates, I saw an interesting combo I really wish someone would end up using: Starting their faction in Oblivion and using the Vassal States Mandate to make outposts on the main Galaxy Map over all the Hypergates. Yet, I feel that by throwing that suggestion out there (as cool as that would be for me to see), I'm putting the cart before the horse. So far, there hasn't been much impetus to use this beautiful piece of art, but reading the townhall transcript, it doesn't seem like it's out of the realm of possibilities if there were enough people who wanted to use it.
Thus, I would like to poll how many writers would like to see factions make use of the Oblivion map. That could be anything from making Codex Submissions fleshing out the empty map to claiming territory there. Interpret the question as you will.