From: Dean Gundberg <dean.gundberg@n...>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:10:33 -0500
Subject: Andromeda Ascendant
You may have heard of the new series debuting later this year called 'Andromeda' staring Kevin Sorbo and based off of some concepts from Gene Roddenberry. They finally unveiled the main ship, the Andromeda Ascendant. Pics are available here: http://www.andromedatv.com/anpics.html Also I found some interesting bits of info about the series on space.com Space.Com: You go into great detail about the relative strength of ships and their armaments. It reminds me of manuals for some roleplaying games. I easily see this as the basis of a great strategy/simulation game. What sort of influence has gaming had in designing this universe? Co-Exec Producer RHW: Well, some of our writers and our technical consultant played a lot of strategy games in our college days. Again, strategy and tactics aren't the primary emphasis of the show, but we do want to give our ships and space combat a realistic feel. and in another article RHW: One of our first episodes is, "hereÂs how space combat works in our universe," and we sort of lay it out there. And we needed to do that. But it Âs not like we sit down and stop the movie and say, "that person out there shooting us is bad, and they have this technology and we have that technology and this is why their technology is giving our technology problems." We just play the scenes and sprinkle in the exposition a little bit.