Hi everyone, La Inquisidora has asked me to post some of my ideas that we've been PMing back and forth. 

First, I'd like to say I don't think we need more people working on this for now. With me, we are five people strong and that is more than enough minds to get a solid vision going. Many more and we will be hindered since we aren't able to get together in the same room and brainstorm. Later, we can always find, hire, and expand talent once we have a moving solar system to work with. 

Second, currently Google Docs is public, anyone can follow that link and read what is posted. We should fix that. 

Third, I've used an online service called TitanPad before and it worked really well and is more real time, and even keeps a history of each document so all edits and changes are colored and marked by who makes the edits, and it can be scrolled backwards to see the evolution of it. I don't want to undo work on the Google Doc, but if we can't make it private and we decide to use TitanPad anyway, that is better to do sooner than later. 

Fourth, we need to get in the same book before we worry about what page we're all on. I have a few questions to get us started. So I have some questions that I think we need to establish answers to, together, before we head off into the great abyss of our made up universe's details: 

1. How expansive is Space Travel and how often are planets hospitable to life? Are there one or two main solar systems with life on most of those planets (Think Three Milky Ways with eight to ten livable planets)? A whole Galaxy, including countless solar systems and planets (One or two 'Earths' every few solar systems)? Or Several Galaxies, where life is only found REALLY far away? 

2. What kind of space travel does this system use? Is a course set and the ship flies at super speeds across great distances? Or do ships go 'behind' everything in a worm hole sort of space travel and spit out at the new location? or something else entirely? 

3. Does everyone have space travel? Is it expensive? What is the government influence on space travel? Is technology to a point where non-hospitable planets can be inhabited because the hostile environments can be overcome (like if we expanded life to the moon)

4. What is going to make our Space Story different from all the other stories about space out there?