Star Trek: Centauris

Star Trek: Centauris is the newly revised saga of the adventures of the 'last-chance' crew of the U.S.S Centauris NX-A in the late 24th century from 2381 onward. The story itself operates via the PBEM (Play-by-Email) system in which all participants contributing various short stories or chapters known as posts or logs. However, quite unlike it's predecessor, the new Star Trek: Centauris incorporated an additional forum for it's members in order to accommodate a shorter waiting period and to maintain the flow of posts.

Much like it's predecessor, it is inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation, the "retrofitted" Centauris continuity as it stands began in August 2007, with a Star Trek timeframe of 2381. The original storyline that preceded the current storyline was kept while a more 'solid' premise was established in order to promote a stronger sense of direction than was afforded by it's predecessor.

Focused on the concept of being more than merely a "sim", the Centauris primarily relies on the concept of quality. The primary focus of the sim revolving around exploration of the human condition with emphasis on drama and character development along with plot, quality writing and motivations of characters which are unique in their own way and break the traditional mold of Trek characters. In this sense, it can be stated that the current model of Centauris is inspired from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine method of operation, as each character on the sim has an implied darkness about them regardless of their intensity.

This therefore allows the ship upon which the sim is based to become a plethra of 'human' fallibility and thus allows for it's exploration, a fact that most sims tend to ignore while other sims attempt to push the 'darkness' fact far too high.

This is further balanced with a majority of aspects taken from the fan series Star Trek: New Frontiers. The key to Centauris is balance, there is darkness and there is light in reality thus a balance is attempted to be maintained within this sim to promote a somewhat realistic sounding story.

To that end, the overall story is developed strongly on the concept of subplots forming the whole. Unlike other sims where a GM attempts to run the entire game, the writers of Centauris are encouraged to help guide the story from themselves, to give the story a life of its own as it were. Part of the overall goal of the Centauris is to create a thought-provoking story in both the positive and negative aspects of the Trek universe are highlighted.