Comments on: Announcing “Numereji 2421″ at BrickCon 2011 [News]

By: Thanel

Thanel — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:39:27 +0000

With hover/repulsorlift technology roadways could be dual-use as solar cells or gardens as well as thoroughfares. All kinds of potential.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:06:56 +0000

@BreadMan: Tan and gray seem achievable baseline colors for the terrain, yes. Great suggestion.

@Creative Anarchy: Yes. :-)

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:37:18 +0000

I’m curious about the Fauna too. Did settlers bring Cattle or maybe ostriches in the ship or dogs? Are there indiginous animals that the Settlers were able to use? Can I make a TaunTaun cart? Are there any bley parrots roosting on com towers? Is there maybe a chance to use some of the new exotic colored frogs?

By: BreadMan

BreadMan — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:24:22 +0000

Sign me up! I think establishing a base terrain color would be a key first step. How about tan? Tan baseplates are more widely available than most other colors. Could also do city blocks in grey and use roadplates.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:54:55 +0000

Good questions and discussion so far — thanks, guys!

The orangey hue implied by the images I happened to grab wasn’t intentional, as was the ambiguity of the description; we want to leave the possibility open for other terrains and a variety of construction styles. But yes, something like “A Brief Natural History of the Planet Numereji, with an Appendix of Recent Discoveries” might be in order. We’re certainly open to having just about anybody write that, if there’s interest from outside TBB contributors.

By: worker201

worker201 — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:03:23 +0000

This idea sounds like it requires a lot more cohesive design than the past few BrickCons. It’s sorta like Moonbase, except you’re trying to create a particular aesthetic. One art deco community hot-tub can throw the whole thing into chaos.

Can we have some details about the geography of Numereji? Does it have oceans? Does it have copious free-flowing lava? Does it rain? What’s the daytime temperature like? Nighttime? How many moons are there?

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:51:27 +0000

As distictive as it would look I’m opposed to red-brick MoC bases if I get to sway a vote. It’s hard to come up with that much red. A Large Brown layout could look cool. We could do tire-track styled roads out of 2-wide dark brown or black.

Also I’m thinking it would help us make a more united looking display if we had some idea of what the immagrant ship originally looked like. It would give us a greater sense of what the shape and color of the salvage-built buildings look like.

By: proudlove

proudlove — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:32:35 +0000

Another very good resource for this theme is “Our World in Space”, a coffe table book written by Isaac Asimov and illustrated by Robert McCall. http://www.amazon.com/World-Space-Asimov-Robert-McCall/dp/0821204343