The Race to 2048

Hello! This is the official account for an object show called The Race to 2048, in which 18 people have become stranded on a desolate planet and are trying to not only get back home, but return with a critical resource that their home planet is nearly entirely out of.

In an effort make escaping more efficient, the objects 'compete' to see who can help the most in getting them off the planet by collecting resources and completing challenges to survive.

There are no recovery centers, nor magic powers, nor even a lifeline home. The most everyone has is themselves, their skills, eachother and the supplies on the ship.

The story is primarily centered around the characters and the worldbuilding, with the competition only serving, to the viewer, as a means of conveyance.

Among the additional pieces of content is a diegetic conlang (in which canonically the characters speak as opposed to the English that the viewers hear!) and a developing pantheon of gods.

There's a pilot class system that gauges the maximum powered aircraft/rockets a pilot is allowed to fly. Higher ranks can fly lower rank craft.

.. It's on Twitter. Turns out it's really annoying to try and make a new account there now. Nothing different to see there that you won't get here, though!

Good evening! It's occurred to me I've not posted here in three months. Whoops! Progress has been slower lately than I'd want but I've a new light and flame for getting a show to people now! So. What have I done in the while?

1) I've been chipping away at Aera-Nea"Ain (the conlang I'm making from the ground up as supplementary content for the show) and mulling over how to approach the written form because what I have right now is only the spoken form. I've got general ideas, but that's all they are and my design skill is.. lacking. I'd love some help!

2) The scripts (yes, plural) are my big holdup. See, for some strange reason I've decided not only to make a canonically pre-show supplemental episode (🤫!) before I've even got the pilot laid out but then I split it into two. I'm spreading myself a little too thin because of my excitement to let people into the vast world I've spun in my mind!

3) I've bit off more than I can chew in trying to weave together not one but two separate star systems and think about how I'm gonna handle the concept of Faster Than Light travel + communications. Literal rocket science! Which, now that I'm putting it out into writing, seems so outrageous to expect myself to do for an audience that I don't expect to get on my ass for getting the facts wrong.

Key: Pink = Dating - 3 Points | Dark Green = Close/Best Friends - 2 Points | Light Green = Friends - 1 Point | Yellow = Neutral - 0 Points | Orange = Enemies - -1 Point | Red = Hatred - -2 Points

In place of specific pronouns, (he, she, they, etc), people have the option of using a prefix to imply a sliding scale of femininity, androgyny and masculinity to anything of choice – more of one ≠ less of another.

Of the cast, Crash Cymbal has the most conflicting relations between himself and the other members of the crew. 10 people don't share the general opinions of him that he does of them.

The mission that the cast goes on is called the Xyphris (of which they're on the 14th ship), named after Xyphrete, the god of the Cosmos.

Canonically, what's spoken by the cast is in Aera-Nea’Ain (their global language) and the show is just dubbed into English.