DylanW said:

Also, the less we discuss details, and the sooner we just start it, the better shot we have of it taking off. :)

This. We're all likely pretty rusty so something loose and fun works for me.

The NES universe was vaguely Star Wars themed, but was really populated with a lot of random inside jokes, so there's no reason we have to change everything. I don't remember half of what I used to know about Star Wars, but we can always throw in a few references for old times' sake.

If the last NES ended with everyone sucked into limbo, why not reboot the NES with the people who are still around re-emerging/reincarnating into a new universe several years later? This gives us the ability to vaguely refer to older NESes without being bound by them, and it also gives us a gap of several years (that the characters themselves can't remember unless it's important to the plot) to explain the evolution of our characters.

The space travel concept would help the disparity, I think--multiple planets means we can go different directions. Now, whether that's purely Star Wars space travel, or whether it's Trek/Galactica/Firefly/Stargate-styles of space travel or even magic would be up to what the writers introduce.

I don't hate sci-fi, but I hate a lot of the tropes I see in sci-fi TV/anime now. I think they strike me as unrealistic/unnatural ways for people to behave. So I'm not sure what direction my character would go. I imagine he would not be happy and carefree and stereotypical-fanfic-Mary-Sue-ish.

My preference would be to start with the traditional NES. Go with that for a few posts, and once we get back into the swing, then maybe go for style-specific NESes. The thing about StyleNESes is they're a little bit narrower in appeal, since you're locked into writing in a certain style.

Since we can subscribe via email/RSS, I think we have a better shot of people not completely forgetting the NES this time around. Maybe.

Also, the less we discuss details, and the sooner we just start it, the better shot we have of it taking off. :)

Jeff has been whining about a new NES for awhile, and since I finished the last one, apparently I get to start the new one.  I've been kicking around some ideas on what to do with it, but Arby's being all grizzly about it (you see what I did there) and not helping.  So public forum time!

If you've been taking notes, (aka giving a shit) at the end of the last NES Juztyn basically ended up erasing the entirety of the NES and throwing everyone into a vortex limbo.  It was all an elaborate plot by Arby and myself (real life plot. not story plot) to reboot the NES and update it since, let's face it, we're not all 16-ish anymore, and our tastes have changed and matured (in some cases) and we've all grown up and moved on to different things. (in some cases)  So now the question is what do we actually do for a new NES?

I was operating under the impression that we'd be keepiing it relatively sci-fi, even though Arby is all anti now and hates SyFy.  I was envisioning something much broader than just Star Wars, but ultimately drawing from lots of different inspirations and not going for some crazy original universe with its own narrative, since half the point of the NES has always been its referential humor.  A key facet of any new NES is that all of our characters, while possibly keeping the same names, if you want, would be different... or you could keep yours the same, but that's BORING.  Then again, SyFy could also be considered BORING.  There's also the issue of how do we refer to the previous NES, namely... we don't.  Fresh start, clean slate, etc etc... if it devolved back into old archetypes and characters, then what's the point of starting over with something fresh in the first place?  I do believe we're all a bit more creative than that.  (except Nob, who will probably still write 2000 word narratives about some far off space battle that has nothing to do with anything but is pretty well written)

Another option is to just keep away from the old NES mould for now, and write a little one-off like one of the many others we've done before.  The problem with that is that... yeah, like every one-off NES other than the SS2NES ended in utterly miserable failure because people got bored and stopped writing.  Actually, that happens to most NESes in the last 6 or so years.  But we could still try something different... I had this idea for a StyleNES, wherein we each pick a specific writing style (for example Gritty Noir, Hollywood Blockbuster Screenplay, 80s era Sitcom with laughtrack, etc) and then we each stick to that style throughout the entire narrative, all continuing each others' story.  The odd juxtaposition of style could be entertaining, or it could be a horrible failure.  Who knows.

So yeah.  Think up some shit or vote or whatever.