Continuity

When reading the stories and articles on this wiki you may realize that the world is a mish mash of different timelines and technologies. The ships are described as being warp or hyperdrive vessels but the Midnight Raiders and the Doombringers are battlemech units. Some characters wield lightsabers and the force. Technologies and species from a variety of universes coexist and no one bats an eye.

The facts: We're just not that creative...
We've been writing these stories for a long time, but we've drawn on various source materials, including Star Trek, Star Wars, Battletech, Farscape, Firefly, The Wheel of Time and others. But not Babylon 5. Screw that. :P

The writers of these stories got their start on the Free Form Gaming Forums on AOL. RhyDin served as a sort of temporal nexus where all realities coexisted. Characters flowed into RhyDin and then got together and did stuff. This resulted in a Battlemech Unit made up of mostly non Battletech characters, including a Jedi, an Aiel warrior, and a large talking mouse.

After the wind down of the AOL days some of those writers moved to the-writer.com and took their characters in different directions. This was the genesis of the Vextis, the Krita and the Colorado. These ships were more generally inspired by a Star Trek like sensibility, but remain crewed by peoples from all over the different realities of the multiverse. The Vextis is the most original of the three but still manages to have a Klingon tactical officer and is crewed primarily by Orions (but not Star Trek Orions... I think...).

Now the multiverse aspect of Rhydin is downplayed, fading into the background. RhyDin itself has been replaced with the planet Galiese, providing us an original world to write about. Over time the universe these characters inhabit has begun to gel into a world of its own. The elements of the other universes are still there and we won't try to undo what has already been written, but going forward we'll try not to rely on them too heavily.

The settings may be borrowed, but hopefully we're bringing the characters to interesting places and in interesting directions.

A Note on Dates
You may find various dates in this wiki that don't always mesh well with each other. This stems from the multiverse nature of the world our characters inhabit. Please see our timeline article to get a better idea of the "when" of things. The timeline article will serve as our master timekeeper for events working back from the "present" day. This will be a work in progress since we have a lot of historical material to review to build this timeline.

Enjoy!