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 ====== Science Adventure ======
-Science Adventure is a genre term for fiction I am coining for my own personal use. It is directly inspired by the game franchise of Nitroplus, as described here: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Adventure|Science Adventure Franchise]]. I first encountered the concept in an anime called Steins;Gate which is based on the game of the same name from Nitroplus. Steins;Gate is described by its creators as a "hypothetical science adventure game" which I feel is pretty accurate, but falls quite short on what Science Adventure implies as I see it. I was puzzled at first on how to define what I mean by the term, but then a show called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape|Farscape]] rescued me.
+Science Adventure is a genre term for fiction I am coining for my own personal use. It is directly inspired by the game franchise of Nitroplus, as described here: [[wp>Science_Adventure|Science Adventure Franchise]]. I first encountered the concept in an anime called Steins;Gate which is based on the game of the same name from Nitroplus. Steins;Gate is described by its creators as a "hypothetical science adventure game" which I feel is pretty accurate, but falls quite short on what Science Adventure implies as I see it. I was puzzled at first on how to define what I mean by the term, but then a show called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape|Farscape]] rescued me.
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-===== Implications =====
+It is important to note the concept of drama here is not the theatrical definition, but the common language one: turmoil in real life. The issues and drama of a character within the fiction, the matters that way on them and press them into action. If a character was shot through a wormhole into another galaxy and forced to find a way to survive, that part of their drama.
+On the sides of the triangle above are moments of the fiction of interest, where Risk meets Drama and Knowledge meets risk and so on. The center of the triangle is the center of everything, a basic idea that spurs action in the fiction. In the anime Steins;Gate, it is "choice of Steins;Gate" as Okabe calls it. You could say it is the central focus of the fiction, and while it may never directly be addressed, it is explored through all the intersects on the sides of the triangle. I'd call this the Fulcrum of the fiction, it is what gets the story going and influences everything. The central focus of Steins;Gate is "the choice of Steins;Gate" or put in specific terms: the ideas of choice and worldlines in one particular view of time travel. Let's ditch the triangle and look again at all the concepts:
+{{ :cgg:science_adventure_orbit.png?direct |}}
+Alright, looks good. Fulcrum is the central idea that interacts with everything that orbits it. What is that while line that orbits it? The moments where the fulcrum and concepts interact to create dramatic situations in play, Crises. Each of these a dot somewhere on that line that is a specific moment of intense instability that leads to decisive change in the fiction. In the TV show Farscape, the Fulcrum would clearly be "The implications of wormhole technology". When Scorpius learns that John Crichton has  such knowledge locked into his brain and captures him, that is a Crises in this sense.
+===== Implications =====
+(To be written)
 ===== Usage =====
-Science Adventure is the basis of the [[Centaurus Gate]] roleplaying game.
+Science Adventure is the basis of the [[Centaurus Gate]] roleplaying game. All of the concepts above and tied directly to the game: Fulcrum, Risk, Drama, and Knowledge.

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