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<div>'''News.py In-Game Static News Scripts'''<br />
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= Introduction<br />
This is a list of news scripts taken from news.py. It is provided as a reference for voice actors producing broadcast audio per the instructions located on this page: [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio#News_Items]]. See that page for an updated status of which news items have been recorded for VegaStrike's Audio System.<br />
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= News Scripts<br />
TEENAGE BOY OUTSMARTS SYSTEM: <br />
A teenager from the Draul Bisa Habitat was caught redhanded on New Poona Mining Base last week, as he was trying to sneak past security without proper identification. The young human male, identified as Kinneas Pinman, somehow managed to make it past spaceport security on Draul Bisa and stow away on a passanger transport bound for the mining base in the Celeste System. While the motives behind Pinman's actions remain unknown, redfaced spaceport officials are hard-pressed to explain how the cheeky computer whizkid managed to elude all their security precautions. Pinman was detained by police on New Poona and will be returned to Draul Bisa within the week.<br />
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CONFEDERATION SENATE CONVENES TO PONDER BORDER SECURITY: <br />
The Senate of the Confederation of Inhabited Worlds convened earlier today at the Confederation Center on Mars. On their agenda, possible military intervention to protect human interests in Uln space because of the increased number of pirate raids launched from behind Uln borders. No decisions were made in the heated debate that followed, with the representatives from several LIHW worlds leaving the Confederation Center in disgust.<br />
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SLAVER GUILD EXPOSED: <br />
An operation lead by the HCS Illustrious working in conjunction with Confederate Special Forces uncovered a Slaver Guild in the Rigel System last week. The slavers were based off an outpost inside an asteroid field, and though they had managed to avoid detection by Navy patrols up till now, they had no such luck this time thanks to intelligence forwarded by the local militia. After the Illustrious overcame the outpost's defenses, the Special Forces unit moved in and secured the station, liberating over a hundred slaves, killing close to forty slavers and capturing twice as many. A large number of Uln were discovered on the outpost, and while they will be turned over to Uln authorities, a formal complaint is expected to be issued by the General Secretary to the Uln government within the week.<br />
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MISSING SHIP STILL MISSING: <br />
The mysterious disappearance of the HCS California continues to puzzle naval investigators. The Confederate missile cruiser's last known position was in the Axis System, but all contact was lost with it two days ago. Fighter patrols dispatched to search the area, that was reported to be clear of pirates and other hostile elements after extensive sweeps by the military two months ago, came up with nothing. Mutiny or alien intervention cannot be ruled out, according to sources inside the Navy.<br />
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FREIGHTER MISSING: <br />
The freighter Grizzlebane disappeared earlier this week in the Axis system. The freighter was scanned in Calimanchus by the HCS Isengard as it entered the system, but it never arrived at its destination in Rigel. The Grizzlebane was reported missing by the Targas, a reputedly shady trading group based in the Rigel system. While Confederation authorities have written it off as another pirate attack, the Targas insist that the Grizzlebane had enough armaments to stave off any attacks or at least fire off a distress signal before losing integrity. No debris was found at the site.<br />
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STARSHIP SIGHTING: <br />
The Targas trading clan has reported a sighting of an alien craft in the Axis system where numerous craft have been reported missing in the recent months. The alien starship of unknown design apparently appeared from within a bluish cloud and destroyed several craft before the clan had the ability to repower their jump drives and exit the system. Scans of the area reveal the debris of the destroyed starships. Confederation officials remain silent on the issue, and neither confirm nor deny the Targas report. Interestingly, no debris has been discovered from previous starship disappearences, so whether this is or is not linked to the previous disappearences in the Axis system remains to be seen.<br />
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RACENE STAR SOON SECURED: <br />
The battle across the single continent of the habitable moon rages on, as the forces of the Confederate Army continue to push forward towards the 'Devil's Fort', the Aera's largest military outpost in the system. Last month, relieved military human strategists removed a significant Aera army from their battle maps, after its positions were broken on the anvil of the 93rd hovertanks under the command of General Sulimani Abdullah. The Army expresses hope that the moon, a strategic target in the push against Aera space, will be secured before the end of next month.<br />
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TIDE TURNS ON RACENE STAR - FOR THE WORSE: <br />
After a large battle in the space surrounding the moon of racene Star B, the human fleet in orbit was forced to surrender its position and flee back towards friendly space, taking heavy losses in the process and effectively stranding over 75,000 soldiers on the surface below. In the last couple of weeks, things were looking up as Confederate forces began advancing through the lines of the Aera, but military analysts are certain that the troops will be butchered without space support. Scouts also reported that Aera capital ships immediately entered a close orbit around the moon and began bombarding the human positions below with heavy photon disruptor fire and space-to-surface missiles.<br />
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VICTORY AT RACENE STAR: <br />
Troops have taken Devil's Fort after a number of privateers and other civilians heroically stopped a key recon wing that would other wise have discovered the Terran Relief Fleet. With the cover of the far moon, the terran fleet swooped in and delivered a close range bombardment to the fort. With the TRF support from the air, Terran Marines flattened the military outposts, causing remaining Aera civilians to abandon much of the planet and retreat to Aera Space<br />
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CONFEDERATION ARMY LOSES RACENE STAR: <br />
After days of intense fighting, the Terran marines failed to hold off an advancing Aeran drone army and lost their main command center. It was not long before the scattered, disorganized band of remaining marines were singly tracked down and destroyed. Coordination between the offworld starbases and onworld establishments spelled disaster for these stranded marines in enemy turf.<br />
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RLAAN RESCUE OPERATION ON HUMAN COLONY: <br />
The human settlers on Keppler Colony experienced a strange incident three days ago, when two Rlaan fighters seemingly on a reconnaissance mission swept in low over the settlement. Then, as they started to gain altitude again, one of them suffered what seemed to be engine trouble and proceeded to crash into the ground, but not before its pilot managed to eject. Less than two hours later, just as the colonists were organizing a rescue party to search the dense forest, a Rlaan assault shuttle appeared and dropped a heavily armed commando team equipped with hoverbelts. While six of the alien troopers kept the humans at bay by aiming their weapons at them, the others managed to extract the downed pilot and within fifteen minutes the Rlaan shuttle was on its way again. No shots were fired, and while the condition of the Rlaan pilot remains unknown, no one else was hurt.<br />
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ABU DHABI EMERGES: <br />
The HCS Abu Dhabi, presumed lost 89 years ago when it failed to emerge in Sirius after having jumped from Sol, baffled the galaxy yesterday by suddenly appearing again. The crew of the now-obsolete frigate were in perfect health, but were naturally shocked to learn that almost a century had passed since they entered jumpspace, in what they experienced as a perfectly normal instantaneous jump. They have been transfered over to facilities on Holton Station where the General Secretary will meet with them tomorrow. Scientists and engineers are currently busy studying the Abu Dhabi's jump drive in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. This is the only recorded incident of its kind in the history of the Confederation.<br />
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ISO DEMONSTRATION ON NEW BREMEN: <br />
The ISO (Interstellar Socialist Organization) organized a demonstration at the University of Terra, Berkeley today in the Defiance system, protesting against the planet's economic policies and for being 'an Earth puppet'. A large number of police monitored the demonstration which never escalated into violence. The ISO calls itself a political organization, but it has been branded as paramilitary by the CSP. Though it deploys a significant fleet of mostly civilian spacecraft, the ISO has rarely used them in any recorded assaults against Confederate military or civilian targets. The ISO enjoys a strong following primarily from students and workers on the frontier colonies.<br />
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THE SKULL ARRESTED! <br />
Christopher 'The Skull' Thorne was finally arrested today in the Draul Bisa Habitat after an interstellar manhunt spanning seven systems. For three years, Thorne was the leader of one of the cruelest and most vicious band of pirates on the frontier, charged with over a hundred counts of murder and space piracy. In light of the Navy's failure to capture Thorne and his lackeys, a group of wealthy merchants banded together and with the help of a powerful mercenary squadron, they were able to decimate Thorne's armada. Thorne himself managed to elude his hunters, until today. He will be transfered to a prison ship until a trial can be scheduled.<br />
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MINERS EXPOSE RLAAN SPY: <br />
Miners in the Novaya Kiev System were in for a surprise earlier today when they drilled their way into the core of a recently discovered asteroid. The rock wall collapsed only to reveal a small communications and sensor room and a lone Rlaan operating the controls inside it. Before the miners could react, the startled alien scrambled into a small escape pod and launched into space through a narrow tube. The slow mining ship was unable to intercept the pod before a Rlaan fighter de-stealthed and retrieved it. The Navy has now invoked a policy to thoroughly scan all suspicious asteroids near military installations and important jump routes in the space adjacent to the Rlaan border, should they contain Rlaan sensor posts. In addition a hefty price of 200,000 credits has been placed on this spy's head should he be discovered before escaping Confederate space.<br />
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ASTEROID STRIKES CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY: <br />
Disaster struck the Callimanchius colony yesterday when an asteroid the size of a small freighter somehow managed to make it past the planet's satellite defenses. The asteroid hit ground not far from Port Bernard, the second largest settlement on the planet. Casualties are expected to be tallied in the hundereds of thousands. The asteroid was large enough to have a profound impact on the enviroment of the entire planet, and as a result, a complete evacuation has been ordered by the local authorities. The Confederation Navy is diverting ships to assist in this endeavour. The colonies in Callimanchius are relatively young, and it does not enjoy the same satellite protection from interstellar projectiles as the more heavily populated inner worlds do. Still, an investigation will be launched to determine why the two defense satellites in orbit did not react to the approaching danger.<br />
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SURVIVORS FROM CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY:<br />
With the death count from the Callimanchius disaster still climbing, it is reassuring to hear of some of the more remarkable survival tales that are beginning to emerge from the debris. All settlements near Port Bernard were expected to have been obliterated. So the Confederation Navy was quite surprised when it started picking up a distress signal identifying residents of the Port Bernard regional area who had been unable to escape the planet before the impact. The survivors, three humans and their assistant droid, had been unable to start their antique "Azimuth" class puddle jumper in time to escape. With some very lucky timing on their part, they were able to activate their shields just as the shockwave hit. While the shields, as expected, rapidly failed when activated planetside, they survived just long enough to protect against the shockwave.<br />
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MARINE COLONEL TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNAL: <br />
Colonel Bert Thompson of the Confederate Marine Corps was detained by the CSP earlier this week. He is to stand before a military tribunal where he will be put to trial for his actions on the HCS Coral Sea two months ago. As stated in reports, the Coral Sea had managed to disable and tractor in an Aera transport after having destroyed its escorts. Colonel Thompson and his marines proceeded to board and secure the alien ship, encountering only light resistance. They took 22 prisoners, which Thompson himself interrogated. After Thompson had deemed the interrogations to be finished, he had the prisoners placed in one of the airlocks and then ejected them into space.<br />
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HOLMANS REACHES TWENTY-FIVE BILLION: <br />
In the Alpha Centauri System, the population of the planet of Holman is estimated to have exceeded the 25 billion mark today. Holmans was the third planet to be colonized outside of the Sol System, and has been the human planet with the largest population aside from Earth for over five decades now. This rapid increase of population has caused housing to be ever more important. With Holman's second moon, Hart, housing close to three billion people, it is a densely populated area of space, and standards of living have not improved since the onset of the Aeran conflict.<br />
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CORPORATION SUFFERS PRIVATEER ATTACK: <br />
The Cruyff Corporation suffered a minor setback today, when it lost two transports and eleven employees at the hands of an enraged privateer. The mercenary had recently fulfilled a contract for the corporation, and authorities speculate that he attacked the transports when Cruyff agents refused to give him the payment he felt he rightfully deserved. The two transports were part of a convoy of four, but fortunately Militia fighters managed to destroy his ship before the mercenary could cause any more damage. Representatives of the Cruyff Corporation have refused to comment the incident.<br />
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AERAN PRISONERS ESCAPE: <br />
Four weeks ago, the prison ship HCS Zhu-Jiang which was scheduled to transport Aeran P.O.W.s from the frontlines, failed to report in to the local Confederate Tracking Station as it entered the Zelmeny System. The ship then deviated from its assigned route and continued out of sensor range, not to be heard from again. Today the Navy finally released the details concerning the mysterious behavior of the Zhu-Jiang. The vessel did relay a brief message to the Tracking Station, indicating that the Aeran prisoners had somehow managed to seize the ship's armory and were fighting to reach the bridge. Since nothing was heard from the Zhu-Jiang again, it is assumed that the Aerans were successful in their goal, and flew the ship back into their own space. There are no details available regarding the fates of the 174 humans that were on the ship at the time of the rebellion. The Navy is launching a full investigation into the matter.<br />
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SETTLEMENT UNDER ATTACK BY LOCAL FLORA: <br />
A small settlement on a remote island on the moon of Xugen was the scene of unspeakable carnage last week. After contact had been lost with the village, a detachment of soldiers from the local garrison flew over to investigate, only to find the entire population lying butchered on the ground. Some of the victims appeared to be half-eaten, so the troopers immediately suspected that a local, previously unknown, predator was behind the murders, but thermal cameras deployed from the air did not show anything unusual. Then, without warning, the Birrhes Trees surrounding the settlement suddenly leapt at the soldiers, emitting high-pitched shrieks and slashing at them with their sharp branches. Two soldiers were killed, but the rest managed to retreat off the island, and though the Birrhes Tree is native to that island alone, biologists will conduct an investigation to determine if there is any more lethal flora turned fauna on the planet.<br />
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BUGLE BROTHERS STRIKE AGAIN: <br />
Infamous for their bank heist on New Bremen two years ago, when they made off with over fifty million credits in a daring coup, the 'Bugle Brothers' selected the headquarters of the Cruyff Corporation as their target this time around. The enigmatic brothers somehow managed to infiltrate the corporation's vast office complex located on Nova Jolandria, and then proceeded to crack the main computer system where they used their superior programming skills to rewrite security protocols for the entire building. After having transfered sixty million credits into an unknown account, they vanished without a trace. Some people speculate that the brothers are the result of a genetic mutation project instigated by the Army, but military officials deny all involvement.<br />
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HOFFMAN'S BLOBS SPOTTED: <br />
A flock of the strange space creatures known as 'Hoffman's Blobs' were observed in the Galileo System, resulting in the sixth sighting of these bizarre interstellar beings since they were first seen by Bruno Hoffman in Barnard's Star 53 years ago. Scientists are now flocking to study the questionablly non-sentient creatures before they leave, attempting to determine how it is that they are able to sustain themselves in the void of space. From previous observations, it appears they travel in flocks of about a dozen units, often varying in size with the largest being as large as a space cruiser, and the smallest only the size of a shuttlecraft. The creatures migrations from system to system take thousands of years, and the creatures are presumed to be dormant during the interstellar portions of such voyages.<br />
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PROTESTS IN HOLLAND: <br />
Anti-war protestors on Earth staged a large demonstration today in Amsterdam, Holland. The protestors marched up the streets of the city, demanding that the Confederate Senate immediately call an end to all hostilities on the front in Forsaken space and explore diplomatic solutions to end the war against the Aera. Furthermore, they accused the Rlaan of having forced a human entry into the war by a secret pact signed by the Senate to aid them as cannon fodder in their already senseless interstellar conflict. Several members of the Senate dismissed the accusations as 'preposterous', stating that 'there was not, and has never been' any pacts or military agreements between the human race and the Rlaan. Senatur Mueller was particularly critical, noting that a proper military alliance between the two groups would have them invading Aeran space and not the other way around.<br />
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ROBOT ATTACKS HUMANS: <br />
An experimental Robot Maintenance Unit went rogue after it became self-aware near the University of Polusand on the planet of Feldham earlier today. The robot attacked several unsuspecting pedestrians on the street by ramming them with its 500 kg heavy frame before it was destroyed by local authorities. Two women were severly injured and had to be taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but their condition is now reported as stable. Computer technicians are hard at work trying to determine what made the unit disregard from the fail-safe programming designed to prevent it from ever harming a human being, and subsequently all units of the series have been shut down until the investigation is finished.<br />
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THE BEAGLE RETURNS<br />
The HCS Beagle returned to a human port this afternoon after having finished its six-year exploration mission in an unknown region of space. The Beagle's 68 crewmembers expressed great relief at being back in human space, and it will be some time before the ship leaves on another mission to map unexplored systems. The Department of Space Exploration revealed that the Beagle had not made contact with any new sentient races, but that it had gathered an 'impressive' amount of data, mostly regarding habitable planets and the locations of new jump points.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Static_news_items&diff=17999Static news items2011-02-18T16:47:37Z<p>Turbo: </p>
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<div>'''News.py In-Game Static News Scripts'''<br />
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This is a list of news scripts taken from news.py. It is provided as a reference for voice actors producing broadcast audio per the instructions located on this page: [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio#News_Items]]. See that page for an updated status of which news items have been recorded for VegaStrike's Audio System.<br />
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TEENAGE BOY OUTSMARTS SYSTEM: <br />
A teenager from the Draul Bisa Habitat was caught redhanded on New Poona Mining Base last week, as he was trying to sneak past security without proper identification. The young human male, identified as Kinneas Pinman, somehow managed to make it past spaceport security on Draul Bisa and stow away on a passanger transport bound for the mining base in the Celeste System. While the motives behind Pinman's actions remain unknown, redfaced spaceport officials are hard-pressed to explain how the cheeky computer whizkid managed to elude all their security precautions. Pinman was detained by police on New Poona and will be returned to Draul Bisa within the week.<br />
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CONFEDERATION SENATE CONVENES TO PONDER BORDER SECURITY: <br />
The Senate of the Confederation of Inhabited Worlds convened earlier today at the Confederation Center on Mars. On their agenda, possible military intervention to protect human interests in Uln space because of the increased number of pirate raids launched from behind Uln borders. No decisions were made in the heated debate that followed, with the representatives from several LIHW worlds leaving the Confederation Center in disgust.<br />
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SLAVER GUILD EXPOSED: <br />
An operation lead by the HCS Illustrious working in conjunction with Confederate Special Forces uncovered a Slaver Guild in the Rigel System last week. The slavers were based off an outpost inside an asteroid field, and though they had managed to avoid detection by Navy patrols up till now, they had no such luck this time thanks to intelligence forwarded by the local militia. After the Illustrious overcame the outpost's defenses, the Special Forces unit moved in and secured the station, liberating over a hundred slaves, killing close to forty slavers and capturing twice as many. A large number of Uln were discovered on the outpost, and while they will be turned over to Uln authorities, a formal complaint is expected to be issued by the General Secretary to the Uln government within the week.<br />
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MISSING SHIP STILL MISSING: <br />
The mysterious disappearance of the HCS California continues to puzzle naval investigators. The Confederate missile cruiser's last known position was in the Axis System, but all contact was lost with it two days ago. Fighter patrols dispatched to search the area, that was reported to be clear of pirates and other hostile elements after extensive sweeps by the military two months ago, came up with nothing. Mutiny or alien intervention cannot be ruled out, according to sources inside the Navy.<br />
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FREIGHTER MISSING: <br />
The freighter Grizzlebane disappeared earlier this week in the Axis system. The freighter was scanned in Calimanchus by the HCS Isengard as it entered the system, but it never arrived at its destination in Rigel. The Grizzlebane was reported missing by the Targas, a reputedly shady trading group based in the Rigel system. While Confederation authorities have written it off as another pirate attack, the Targas insist that the Grizzlebane had enough armaments to stave off any attacks or at least fire off a distress signal before losing integrity. No debris was found at the site.<br />
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STARSHIP SIGHTING: <br />
The Targas trading clan has reported a sighting of an alien craft in the Axis system where numerous craft have been reported missing in the recent months. The alien starship of unknown design apparently appeared from within a bluish cloud and destroyed several craft before the clan had the ability to repower their jump drives and exit the system. Scans of the area reveal the debris of the destroyed starships. Confederation officials remain silent on the issue, and neither confirm nor deny the Targas report. Interestingly, no debris has been discovered from previous starship disappearences, so whether this is or is not linked to the previous disappearences in the Axis system remains to be seen.<br />
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RACENE STAR SOON SECURED: <br />
The battle across the single continent of the habitable moon rages on, as the forces of the Confederate Army continue to push forward towards the 'Devil's Fort', the Aera's largest military outpost in the system. Last month, relieved military human strategists removed a significant Aera army from their battle maps, after its positions were broken on the anvil of the 93rd hovertanks under the command of General Sulimani Abdullah. The Army expresses hope that the moon, a strategic target in the push against Aera space, will be secured before the end of next month.<br />
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TIDE TURNS ON RACENE STAR - FOR THE WORSE: <br />
After a large battle in the space surrounding the moon of racene Star B, the human fleet in orbit was forced to surrender its position and flee back towards friendly space, taking heavy losses in the process and effectively stranding over 75,000 soldiers on the surface below. In the last couple of weeks, things were looking up as Confederate forces began advancing through the lines of the Aera, but military analysts are certain that the troops will be butchered without space support. Scouts also reported that Aera capital ships immediately entered a close orbit around the moon and began bombarding the human positions below with heavy photon disruptor fire and space-to-surface missiles.<br />
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VICTORY AT RACENE STAR: <br />
Troops have taken Devil's Fort after a number of privateers and other civilians heroically stopped a key recon wing that would other wise have discovered the Terran Relief Fleet. With the cover of the far moon, the terran fleet swooped in and delivered a close range bombardment to the fort. With the TRF support from the air, Terran Marines flattened the military outposts, causing remaining Aera civilians to abandon much of the planet and retreat to Aera Space<br />
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CONFEDERATION ARMY LOSES RACENE STAR: <br />
After days of intense fighting, the Terran marines failed to hold off an advancing Aeran drone army and lost their main command center. It was not long before the scattered, disorganized band of remaining marines were singly tracked down and destroyed. Coordination between the offworld starbases and onworld establishments spelled disaster for these stranded marines in enemy turf.<br />
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RLAAN RESCUE OPERATION ON HUMAN COLONY: <br />
The human settlers on Keppler Colony experienced a strange incident three days ago, when two Rlaan fighters seemingly on a reconnaissance mission swept in low over the settlement. Then, as they started to gain altitude again, one of them suffered what seemed to be engine trouble and proceeded to crash into the ground, but not before its pilot managed to eject. Less than two hours later, just as the colonists were organizing a rescue party to search the dense forest, a Rlaan assault shuttle appeared and dropped a heavily armed commando team equipped with hoverbelts. While six of the alien troopers kept the humans at bay by aiming their weapons at them, the others managed to extract the downed pilot and within fifteen minutes the Rlaan shuttle was on its way again. No shots were fired, and while the condition of the Rlaan pilot remains unknown, no one else was hurt.<br />
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ABU DHABI EMERGES: <br />
The HCS Abu Dhabi, presumed lost 89 years ago when it failed to emerge in Sirius after having jumped from Sol, baffled the galaxy yesterday by suddenly appearing again. The crew of the now-obsolete frigate were in perfect health, but were naturally shocked to learn that almost a century had passed since they entered jumpspace, in what they experienced as a perfectly normal instantaneous jump. They have been transfered over to facilities on Holton Station where the General Secretary will meet with them tomorrow. Scientists and engineers are currently busy studying the Abu Dhabi's jump drive in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. This is the only recorded incident of its kind in the history of the Confederation.<br />
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ISO DEMONSTRATION ON NEW BREMEN: <br />
The ISO (Interstellar Socialist Organization) organized a demonstration at the University of Terra, Berkeley today in the Defiance system, protesting against the planet's economic policies and for being 'an Earth puppet'. A large number of police monitored the demonstration which never escalated into violence. The ISO calls itself a political organization, but it has been branded as paramilitary by the CSP. Though it deploys a significant fleet of mostly civilian spacecraft, the ISO has rarely used them in any recorded assaults against Confederate military or civilian targets. The ISO enjoys a strong following primarily from students and workers on the frontier colonies.<br />
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THE SKULL ARRESTED! <br />
Christopher 'The Skull' Thorne was finally arrested today in the Draul Bisa Habitat after an interstellar manhunt spanning seven systems. For three years, Thorne was the leader of one of the cruelest and most vicious band of pirates on the frontier, charged with over a hundred counts of murder and space piracy. In light of the Navy's failure to capture Thorne and his lackeys, a group of wealthy merchants banded together and with the help of a powerful mercenary squadron, they were able to decimate Thorne's armada. Thorne himself managed to elude his hunters, until today. He will be transfered to a prison ship until a trial can be scheduled.<br />
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MINERS EXPOSE RLAAN SPY: <br />
Miners in the Novaya Kiev System were in for a surprise earlier today when they drilled their way into the core of a recently discovered asteroid. The rock wall collapsed only to reveal a small communications and sensor room and a lone Rlaan operating the controls inside it. Before the miners could react, the startled alien scrambled into a small escape pod and launched into space through a narrow tube. The slow mining ship was unable to intercept the pod before a Rlaan fighter de-stealthed and retrieved it. The Navy has now invoked a policy to thoroughly scan all suspicious asteroids near military installations and important jump routes in the space adjacent to the Rlaan border, should they contain Rlaan sensor posts. In addition a hefty price of 200,000 credits has been placed on this spy's head should he be discovered before escaping Confederate space.<br />
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ASTEROID STRIKES CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY: <br />
Disaster struck the Callimanchius colony yesterday when an asteroid the size of a small freighter somehow managed to make it past the planet's satellite defenses. The asteroid hit ground not far from Port Bernard, the second largest settlement on the planet. Casualties are expected to be tallied in the hundereds of thousands. The asteroid was large enough to have a profound impact on the enviroment of the entire planet, and as a result, a complete evacuation has been ordered by the local authorities. The Confederation Navy is diverting ships to assist in this endeavour. The colonies in Callimanchius are relatively young, and it does not enjoy the same satellite protection from interstellar projectiles as the more heavily populated inner worlds do. Still, an investigation will be launched to determine why the two defense satellites in orbit did not react to the approaching danger.<br />
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SURVIVORS FROM CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY:<br />
With the death count from the Callimanchius disaster still climbing, it is reassuring to hear of some of the more remarkable survival tales that are beginning to emerge from the debris. All settlements near Port Bernard were expected to have been obliterated. So the Confederation Navy was quite surprised when it started picking up a distress signal identifying residents of the Port Bernard regional area who had been unable to escape the planet before the impact. The survivors, three humans and their assistant droid, had been unable to start their antique "Azimuth" class puddle jumper in time to escape. With some very lucky timing on their part, they were able to activate their shields just as the shockwave hit. While the shields, as expected, rapidly failed when activated planetside, they survived just long enough to protect against the shockwave.<br />
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MARINE COLONEL TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNAL: <br />
Colonel Bert Thompson of the Confederate Marine Corps was detained by the CSP earlier this week. He is to stand before a military tribunal where he will be put to trial for his actions on the HCS Coral Sea two months ago. As stated in reports, the Coral Sea had managed to disable and tractor in an Aera transport after having destroyed its escorts. Colonel Thompson and his marines proceeded to board and secure the alien ship, encountering only light resistance. They took 22 prisoners, which Thompson himself interrogated. After Thompson had deemed the interrogations to be finished, he had the prisoners placed in one of the airlocks and then ejected them into space.<br />
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HOLMANS REACHES TWENTY-FIVE BILLION: <br />
In the Alpha Centauri System, the population of the planet of Holman is estimated to have exceeded the 25 billion mark today. Holmans was the third planet to be colonized outside of the Sol System, and has been the human planet with the largest population aside from Earth for over five decades now. This rapid increase of population has caused housing to be ever more important. With Holman's second moon, Hart, housing close to three billion people, it is a densely populated area of space, and standards of living have not improved since the onset of the Aeran conflict.<br />
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CORPORATION SUFFERS PRIVATEER ATTACK: <br />
The Cruyff Corporation suffered a minor setback today, when it lost two transports and eleven employees at the hands of an enraged privateer. The mercenary had recently fulfilled a contract for the corporation, and authorities speculate that he attacked the transports when Cruyff agents refused to give him the payment he felt he rightfully deserved. The two transports were part of a convoy of four, but fortunately Militia fighters managed to destroy his ship before the mercenary could cause any more damage. Representatives of the Cruyff Corporation have refused to comment the incident.<br />
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AERAN PRISONERS ESCAPE: <br />
Four weeks ago, the prison ship HCS Zhu-Jiang which was scheduled to transport Aeran P.O.W.s from the frontlines, failed to report in to the local Confederate Tracking Station as it entered the Zelmeny System. The ship then deviated from its assigned route and continued out of sensor range, not to be heard from again. Today the Navy finally released the details concerning the mysterious behavior of the Zhu-Jiang. The vessel did relay a brief message to the Tracking Station, indicating that the Aeran prisoners had somehow managed to seize the ship's armory and were fighting to reach the bridge. Since nothing was heard from the Zhu-Jiang again, it is assumed that the Aerans were successful in their goal, and flew the ship back into their own space. There are no details available regarding the fates of the 174 humans that were on the ship at the time of the rebellion. The Navy is launching a full investigation into the matter.<br />
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SETTLEMENT UNDER ATTACK BY LOCAL FLORA: <br />
A small settlement on a remote island on the moon of Xugen was the scene of unspeakable carnage last week. After contact had been lost with the village, a detachment of soldiers from the local garrison flew over to investigate, only to find the entire population lying butchered on the ground. Some of the victims appeared to be half-eaten, so the troopers immediately suspected that a local, previously unknown, predator was behind the murders, but thermal cameras deployed from the air did not show anything unusual. Then, without warning, the Birrhes Trees surrounding the settlement suddenly leapt at the soldiers, emitting high-pitched shrieks and slashing at them with their sharp branches. Two soldiers were killed, but the rest managed to retreat off the island, and though the Birrhes Tree is native to that island alone, biologists will conduct an investigation to determine if there is any more lethal flora turned fauna on the planet.<br />
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BUGLE BROTHERS STRIKE AGAIN: <br />
Infamous for their bank heist on New Bremen two years ago, when they made off with over fifty million credits in a daring coup, the 'Bugle Brothers' selected the headquarters of the Cruyff Corporation as their target this time around. The enigmatic brothers somehow managed to infiltrate the corporation's vast office complex located on Nova Jolandria, and then proceeded to crack the main computer system where they used their superior programming skills to rewrite security protocols for the entire building. After having transfered sixty million credits into an unknown account, they vanished without a trace. Some people speculate that the brothers are the result of a genetic mutation project instigated by the Army, but military officials deny all involvement.<br />
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HOFFMAN'S BLOBS SPOTTED: <br />
A flock of the strange space creatures known as 'Hoffman's Blobs' were observed in the Galileo System, resulting in the sixth sighting of these bizarre interstellar beings since they were first seen by Bruno Hoffman in Barnard's Star 53 years ago. Scientists are now flocking to study the questionablly non-sentient creatures before they leave, attempting to determine how it is that they are able to sustain themselves in the void of space. From previous observations, it appears they travel in flocks of about a dozen units, often varying in size with the largest being as large as a space cruiser, and the smallest only the size of a shuttlecraft. The creatures migrations from system to system take thousands of years, and the creatures are presumed to be dormant during the interstellar portions of such voyages.<br />
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PROTESTS IN HOLLAND: <br />
Anti-war protestors on Earth staged a large demonstration today in Amsterdam, Holland. The protestors marched up the streets of the city, demanding that the Confederate Senate immediately call an end to all hostilities on the front in Forsaken space and explore diplomatic solutions to end the war against the Aera. Furthermore, they accused the Rlaan of having forced a human entry into the war by a secret pact signed by the Senate to aid them as cannon fodder in their already senseless interstellar conflict. Several members of the Senate dismissed the accusations as 'preposterous', stating that 'there was not, and has never been' any pacts or military agreements between the human race and the Rlaan. Senatur Mueller was particularly critical, noting that a proper military alliance between the two groups would have them invading Aeran space and not the other way around.<br />
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ROBOT ATTACKS HUMANS: <br />
An experimental Robot Maintenance Unit went rogue after it became self-aware near the University of Polusand on the planet of Feldham earlier today. The robot attacked several unsuspecting pedestrians on the street by ramming them with its 500 kg heavy frame before it was destroyed by local authorities. Two women were severly injured and had to be taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but their condition is now reported as stable. Computer technicians are hard at work trying to determine what made the unit disregard from the fail-safe programming designed to prevent it from ever harming a human being, and subsequently all units of the series have been shut down until the investigation is finished.<br />
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THE BEAGLE RETURNS<br />
The HCS Beagle returned to a human port this afternoon after having finished its six-year exploration mission in an unknown region of space. The Beagle's 68 crewmembers expressed great relief at being back in human space, and it will be some time before the ship leaves on another mission to map unexplored systems. The Department of Space Exploration revealed that the Beagle had not made contact with any new sentient races, but that it had gathered an 'impressive' amount of data, mostly regarding habitable planets and the locations of new jump points.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Static_news_items&diff=17998Static news items2011-02-18T16:46:58Z<p>Turbo: Created page with "'''News.py In-Game Static News Scrips''' This is a list of news scripts taken from news.py. It is provided as a reference for voice actors producing broadcast audio per the ins..."</p>
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<div>'''News.py In-Game Static News Scrips'''<br />
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This is a list of news scripts taken from news.py. It is provided as a reference for voice actors producing broadcast audio per the instructions located on this page: [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio#News_Items]]. See that page for an updated status of which news items have been recorded for VegaStrike's Audio System.<br />
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TEENAGE BOY OUTSMARTS SYSTEM: <br />
A teenager from the Draul Bisa Habitat was caught redhanded on New Poona Mining Base last week, as he was trying to sneak past security without proper identification. The young human male, identified as Kinneas Pinman, somehow managed to make it past spaceport security on Draul Bisa and stow away on a passanger transport bound for the mining base in the Celeste System. While the motives behind Pinman's actions remain unknown, redfaced spaceport officials are hard-pressed to explain how the cheeky computer whizkid managed to elude all their security precautions. Pinman was detained by police on New Poona and will be returned to Draul Bisa within the week.<br />
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CONFEDERATION SENATE CONVENES TO PONDER BORDER SECURITY: <br />
The Senate of the Confederation of Inhabited Worlds convened earlier today at the Confederation Center on Mars. On their agenda, possible military intervention to protect human interests in Uln space because of the increased number of pirate raids launched from behind Uln borders. No decisions were made in the heated debate that followed, with the representatives from several LIHW worlds leaving the Confederation Center in disgust.<br />
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SLAVER GUILD EXPOSED: <br />
An operation lead by the HCS Illustrious working in conjunction with Confederate Special Forces uncovered a Slaver Guild in the Rigel System last week. The slavers were based off an outpost inside an asteroid field, and though they had managed to avoid detection by Navy patrols up till now, they had no such luck this time thanks to intelligence forwarded by the local militia. After the Illustrious overcame the outpost's defenses, the Special Forces unit moved in and secured the station, liberating over a hundred slaves, killing close to forty slavers and capturing twice as many. A large number of Uln were discovered on the outpost, and while they will be turned over to Uln authorities, a formal complaint is expected to be issued by the General Secretary to the Uln government within the week.<br />
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MISSING SHIP STILL MISSING: <br />
The mysterious disappearance of the HCS California continues to puzzle naval investigators. The Confederate missile cruiser's last known position was in the Axis System, but all contact was lost with it two days ago. Fighter patrols dispatched to search the area, that was reported to be clear of pirates and other hostile elements after extensive sweeps by the military two months ago, came up with nothing. Mutiny or alien intervention cannot be ruled out, according to sources inside the Navy.<br />
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FREIGHTER MISSING: <br />
The freighter Grizzlebane disappeared earlier this week in the Axis system. The freighter was scanned in Calimanchus by the HCS Isengard as it entered the system, but it never arrived at its destination in Rigel. The Grizzlebane was reported missing by the Targas, a reputedly shady trading group based in the Rigel system. While Confederation authorities have written it off as another pirate attack, the Targas insist that the Grizzlebane had enough armaments to stave off any attacks or at least fire off a distress signal before losing integrity. No debris was found at the site.<br />
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STARSHIP SIGHTING: <br />
The Targas trading clan has reported a sighting of an alien craft in the Axis system where numerous craft have been reported missing in the recent months. The alien starship of unknown design apparently appeared from within a bluish cloud and destroyed several craft before the clan had the ability to repower their jump drives and exit the system. Scans of the area reveal the debris of the destroyed starships. Confederation officials remain silent on the issue, and neither confirm nor deny the Targas report. Interestingly, no debris has been discovered from previous starship disappearences, so whether this is or is not linked to the previous disappearences in the Axis system remains to be seen.<br />
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RACENE STAR SOON SECURED: <br />
The battle across the single continent of the habitable moon rages on, as the forces of the Confederate Army continue to push forward towards the 'Devil's Fort', the Aera's largest military outpost in the system. Last month, relieved military human strategists removed a significant Aera army from their battle maps, after its positions were broken on the anvil of the 93rd hovertanks under the command of General Sulimani Abdullah. The Army expresses hope that the moon, a strategic target in the push against Aera space, will be secured before the end of next month.<br />
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TIDE TURNS ON RACENE STAR - FOR THE WORSE: <br />
After a large battle in the space surrounding the moon of racene Star B, the human fleet in orbit was forced to surrender its position and flee back towards friendly space, taking heavy losses in the process and effectively stranding over 75,000 soldiers on the surface below. In the last couple of weeks, things were looking up as Confederate forces began advancing through the lines of the Aera, but military analysts are certain that the troops will be butchered without space support. Scouts also reported that Aera capital ships immediately entered a close orbit around the moon and began bombarding the human positions below with heavy photon disruptor fire and space-to-surface missiles.<br />
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VICTORY AT RACENE STAR: <br />
Troops have taken Devil's Fort after a number of privateers and other civilians heroically stopped a key recon wing that would other wise have discovered the Terran Relief Fleet. With the cover of the far moon, the terran fleet swooped in and delivered a close range bombardment to the fort. With the TRF support from the air, Terran Marines flattened the military outposts, causing remaining Aera civilians to abandon much of the planet and retreat to Aera Space<br />
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CONFEDERATION ARMY LOSES RACENE STAR: <br />
After days of intense fighting, the Terran marines failed to hold off an advancing Aeran drone army and lost their main command center. It was not long before the scattered, disorganized band of remaining marines were singly tracked down and destroyed. Coordination between the offworld starbases and onworld establishments spelled disaster for these stranded marines in enemy turf.<br />
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RLAAN RESCUE OPERATION ON HUMAN COLONY: <br />
The human settlers on Keppler Colony experienced a strange incident three days ago, when two Rlaan fighters seemingly on a reconnaissance mission swept in low over the settlement. Then, as they started to gain altitude again, one of them suffered what seemed to be engine trouble and proceeded to crash into the ground, but not before its pilot managed to eject. Less than two hours later, just as the colonists were organizing a rescue party to search the dense forest, a Rlaan assault shuttle appeared and dropped a heavily armed commando team equipped with hoverbelts. While six of the alien troopers kept the humans at bay by aiming their weapons at them, the others managed to extract the downed pilot and within fifteen minutes the Rlaan shuttle was on its way again. No shots were fired, and while the condition of the Rlaan pilot remains unknown, no one else was hurt.<br />
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ABU DHABI EMERGES: <br />
The HCS Abu Dhabi, presumed lost 89 years ago when it failed to emerge in Sirius after having jumped from Sol, baffled the galaxy yesterday by suddenly appearing again. The crew of the now-obsolete frigate were in perfect health, but were naturally shocked to learn that almost a century had passed since they entered jumpspace, in what they experienced as a perfectly normal instantaneous jump. They have been transfered over to facilities on Holton Station where the General Secretary will meet with them tomorrow. Scientists and engineers are currently busy studying the Abu Dhabi's jump drive in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. This is the only recorded incident of its kind in the history of the Confederation.<br />
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ISO DEMONSTRATION ON NEW BREMEN: <br />
The ISO (Interstellar Socialist Organization) organized a demonstration at the University of Terra, Berkeley today in the Defiance system, protesting against the planet's economic policies and for being 'an Earth puppet'. A large number of police monitored the demonstration which never escalated into violence. The ISO calls itself a political organization, but it has been branded as paramilitary by the CSP. Though it deploys a significant fleet of mostly civilian spacecraft, the ISO has rarely used them in any recorded assaults against Confederate military or civilian targets. The ISO enjoys a strong following primarily from students and workers on the frontier colonies.<br />
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THE SKULL ARRESTED! <br />
Christopher 'The Skull' Thorne was finally arrested today in the Draul Bisa Habitat after an interstellar manhunt spanning seven systems. For three years, Thorne was the leader of one of the cruelest and most vicious band of pirates on the frontier, charged with over a hundred counts of murder and space piracy. In light of the Navy's failure to capture Thorne and his lackeys, a group of wealthy merchants banded together and with the help of a powerful mercenary squadron, they were able to decimate Thorne's armada. Thorne himself managed to elude his hunters, until today. He will be transfered to a prison ship until a trial can be scheduled.<br />
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MINERS EXPOSE RLAAN SPY: <br />
Miners in the Novaya Kiev System were in for a surprise earlier today when they drilled their way into the core of a recently discovered asteroid. The rock wall collapsed only to reveal a small communications and sensor room and a lone Rlaan operating the controls inside it. Before the miners could react, the startled alien scrambled into a small escape pod and launched into space through a narrow tube. The slow mining ship was unable to intercept the pod before a Rlaan fighter de-stealthed and retrieved it. The Navy has now invoked a policy to thoroughly scan all suspicious asteroids near military installations and important jump routes in the space adjacent to the Rlaan border, should they contain Rlaan sensor posts. In addition a hefty price of 200,000 credits has been placed on this spy's head should he be discovered before escaping Confederate space.<br />
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ASTEROID STRIKES CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY: <br />
Disaster struck the Callimanchius colony yesterday when an asteroid the size of a small freighter somehow managed to make it past the planet's satellite defenses. The asteroid hit ground not far from Port Bernard, the second largest settlement on the planet. Casualties are expected to be tallied in the hundereds of thousands. The asteroid was large enough to have a profound impact on the enviroment of the entire planet, and as a result, a complete evacuation has been ordered by the local authorities. The Confederation Navy is diverting ships to assist in this endeavour. The colonies in Callimanchius are relatively young, and it does not enjoy the same satellite protection from interstellar projectiles as the more heavily populated inner worlds do. Still, an investigation will be launched to determine why the two defense satellites in orbit did not react to the approaching danger.<br />
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SURVIVORS FROM CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY:<br />
With the death count from the Callimanchius disaster still climbing, it is reassuring to hear of some of the more remarkable survival tales that are beginning to emerge from the debris. All settlements near Port Bernard were expected to have been obliterated. So the Confederation Navy was quite surprised when it started picking up a distress signal identifying residents of the Port Bernard regional area who had been unable to escape the planet before the impact. The survivors, three humans and their assistant droid, had been unable to start their antique "Azimuth" class puddle jumper in time to escape. With some very lucky timing on their part, they were able to activate their shields just as the shockwave hit. While the shields, as expected, rapidly failed when activated planetside, they survived just long enough to protect against the shockwave.<br />
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MARINE COLONEL TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNAL: <br />
Colonel Bert Thompson of the Confederate Marine Corps was detained by the CSP earlier this week. He is to stand before a military tribunal where he will be put to trial for his actions on the HCS Coral Sea two months ago. As stated in reports, the Coral Sea had managed to disable and tractor in an Aera transport after having destroyed its escorts. Colonel Thompson and his marines proceeded to board and secure the alien ship, encountering only light resistance. They took 22 prisoners, which Thompson himself interrogated. After Thompson had deemed the interrogations to be finished, he had the prisoners placed in one of the airlocks and then ejected them into space.<br />
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HOLMANS REACHES TWENTY-FIVE BILLION: <br />
In the Alpha Centauri System, the population of the planet of Holman is estimated to have exceeded the 25 billion mark today. Holmans was the third planet to be colonized outside of the Sol System, and has been the human planet with the largest population aside from Earth for over five decades now. This rapid increase of population has caused housing to be ever more important. With Holman's second moon, Hart, housing close to three billion people, it is a densely populated area of space, and standards of living have not improved since the onset of the Aeran conflict.<br />
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CORPORATION SUFFERS PRIVATEER ATTACK: <br />
The Cruyff Corporation suffered a minor setback today, when it lost two transports and eleven employees at the hands of an enraged privateer. The mercenary had recently fulfilled a contract for the corporation, and authorities speculate that he attacked the transports when Cruyff agents refused to give him the payment he felt he rightfully deserved. The two transports were part of a convoy of four, but fortunately Militia fighters managed to destroy his ship before the mercenary could cause any more damage. Representatives of the Cruyff Corporation have refused to comment the incident.<br />
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AERAN PRISONERS ESCAPE: <br />
Four weeks ago, the prison ship HCS Zhu-Jiang which was scheduled to transport Aeran P.O.W.s from the frontlines, failed to report in to the local Confederate Tracking Station as it entered the Zelmeny System. The ship then deviated from its assigned route and continued out of sensor range, not to be heard from again. Today the Navy finally released the details concerning the mysterious behavior of the Zhu-Jiang. The vessel did relay a brief message to the Tracking Station, indicating that the Aeran prisoners had somehow managed to seize the ship's armory and were fighting to reach the bridge. Since nothing was heard from the Zhu-Jiang again, it is assumed that the Aerans were successful in their goal, and flew the ship back into their own space. There are no details available regarding the fates of the 174 humans that were on the ship at the time of the rebellion. The Navy is launching a full investigation into the matter.<br />
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SETTLEMENT UNDER ATTACK BY LOCAL FLORA: <br />
A small settlement on a remote island on the moon of Xugen was the scene of unspeakable carnage last week. After contact had been lost with the village, a detachment of soldiers from the local garrison flew over to investigate, only to find the entire population lying butchered on the ground. Some of the victims appeared to be half-eaten, so the troopers immediately suspected that a local, previously unknown, predator was behind the murders, but thermal cameras deployed from the air did not show anything unusual. Then, without warning, the Birrhes Trees surrounding the settlement suddenly leapt at the soldiers, emitting high-pitched shrieks and slashing at them with their sharp branches. Two soldiers were killed, but the rest managed to retreat off the island, and though the Birrhes Tree is native to that island alone, biologists will conduct an investigation to determine if there is any more lethal flora turned fauna on the planet.<br />
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BUGLE BROTHERS STRIKE AGAIN: <br />
Infamous for their bank heist on New Bremen two years ago, when they made off with over fifty million credits in a daring coup, the 'Bugle Brothers' selected the headquarters of the Cruyff Corporation as their target this time around. The enigmatic brothers somehow managed to infiltrate the corporation's vast office complex located on Nova Jolandria, and then proceeded to crack the main computer system where they used their superior programming skills to rewrite security protocols for the entire building. After having transfered sixty million credits into an unknown account, they vanished without a trace. Some people speculate that the brothers are the result of a genetic mutation project instigated by the Army, but military officials deny all involvement.<br />
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HOFFMAN'S BLOBS SPOTTED: <br />
A flock of the strange space creatures known as 'Hoffman's Blobs' were observed in the Galileo System, resulting in the sixth sighting of these bizarre interstellar beings since they were first seen by Bruno Hoffman in Barnard's Star 53 years ago. Scientists are now flocking to study the questionablly non-sentient creatures before they leave, attempting to determine how it is that they are able to sustain themselves in the void of space. From previous observations, it appears they travel in flocks of about a dozen units, often varying in size with the largest being as large as a space cruiser, and the smallest only the size of a shuttlecraft. The creatures migrations from system to system take thousands of years, and the creatures are presumed to be dormant during the interstellar portions of such voyages.<br />
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PROTESTS IN HOLLAND: <br />
Anti-war protestors on Earth staged a large demonstration today in Amsterdam, Holland. The protestors marched up the streets of the city, demanding that the Confederate Senate immediately call an end to all hostilities on the front in Forsaken space and explore diplomatic solutions to end the war against the Aera. Furthermore, they accused the Rlaan of having forced a human entry into the war by a secret pact signed by the Senate to aid them as cannon fodder in their already senseless interstellar conflict. Several members of the Senate dismissed the accusations as 'preposterous', stating that 'there was not, and has never been' any pacts or military agreements between the human race and the Rlaan. Senatur Mueller was particularly critical, noting that a proper military alliance between the two groups would have them invading Aeran space and not the other way around.<br />
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ROBOT ATTACKS HUMANS: <br />
An experimental Robot Maintenance Unit went rogue after it became self-aware near the University of Polusand on the planet of Feldham earlier today. The robot attacked several unsuspecting pedestrians on the street by ramming them with its 500 kg heavy frame before it was destroyed by local authorities. Two women were severly injured and had to be taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but their condition is now reported as stable. Computer technicians are hard at work trying to determine what made the unit disregard from the fail-safe programming designed to prevent it from ever harming a human being, and subsequently all units of the series have been shut down until the investigation is finished.<br />
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THE BEAGLE RETURNS<br />
The HCS Beagle returned to a human port this afternoon after having finished its six-year exploration mission in an unknown region of space. The Beagle's 68 crewmembers expressed great relief at being back in human space, and it will be some time before the ship leaves on another mission to map unexplored systems. The Department of Space Exploration revealed that the Beagle had not made contact with any new sentient races, but that it had gathered an 'impressive' amount of data, mostly regarding habitable planets and the locations of new jump points.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17997In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2011-02-18T16:42:30Z<p>Turbo: /* News Items */</p>
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Music. Regular news uses news1.ogg (reduced in volume) and sports uses CLoneWolf's "sports jingle." The link below includes both with the volume already set low:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_news-music.zip <br />
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* Introduction. One second after the music comes a voice introduction, something like "The following is a GNN special report," that could also name the anchorperson. In some cases, it might be appropriate to fade out the music at the end of the introduction. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the music playing but while the anchor is reading th story, change the music's amplitude by -2 to -4 dB. If the story is more complex, such as including reporters on the scene, audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or an interview, it might be better to fade the music out completely. Interviews or sound bites should be done in a different voice. If desired, the anchor can sign off with an identification, like "this is (name) for GNN." <br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music resumes normal volume or fades back in if it was stopped, and a voice gives a GNN sign-off, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] recorded 21 GNN footers taken from the game's news.py and posted them at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 [[Static_news_items]] which, in the base news interface, are mixed in with dynamically-generated news items from in-game events. The voice work for those items has begun. Lisa Willadsen played news anchor "Jenny DeWilde" and recorded 4 stories:<br />
* TEENAGE BOY OUTSMARTS SYSTEM http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* CONFEDERATION SENATE CONVENES http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
* FREIGHTER MISSING http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_freighter-missing.ogg <br />
* SLAVER GUILD EXPOSED http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_slavers-guild-exposed.ogg<br />
Unfortunately, she is not available for any more voice work, so we need a news anchor. The following canon (from news.py) stories need to be recorded and edited:<br />
* MISSING SHIP STILL MISSING<br />
* STARSHIP SIGHTING<br />
* RACENE STAR SOON SECURED<br />
* TIDE TURNS ON RACENE STAR - FOR THE WORSE<br />
* VICTORY AT RACENE STAR<br />
* CONFEDERATION ARMY LOSES RACENE STAR<br />
* RLAAN RESCUE OPERATION ON HUMAN COLONY<br />
* ABU DHABI EMERGES<br />
* ISO DEMONSTRATION ON NEW BREMEN<br />
* THE SKULL ARRESTED<br />
* MINERS EXPOSE RLAAN SPY<br />
* ASTEROID STRIKES CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY<br />
* SURVIVORS FROM CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY<br />
* MARINE COLONEL TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNAL<br />
* HOLMANS REACHES TWENTY-FIVE BILLION<br />
* CORPORATION SUFFERS PRIVATEER ATTACK<br />
* AERAN PRISONERS ESCAPE<br />
* SETTLEMENT UNDER ATTACK BY LOCAL FLORA<br />
* BUGLE BROTHERS STRIKE AGAIN<br />
* HOFFMAN'S BLOBS SPOTTED<br />
* PROTESTS IN HOLLAND<br />
* ROBOT ATTACKS HUMANS<br />
* THE BEAGLE RETURNS<br />
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As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit VS by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_shmrm-mc.ogg<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Music. Regular news uses news1.ogg (reduced in volume) and sports uses CLoneWolf's "sports jingle." The link below includes both with the volume already set low:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_news-music.zip <br />
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* Introduction. One second after the music comes a voice introduction, something like "The following is a GNN special report," that could also name the anchorperson. In some cases, it might be appropriate to fade out the music at the end of the introduction. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the music playing but while the anchor is reading th story, change the music's amplitude by -2 to -4 dB. If the story is more complex, such as including reporters on the scene, audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or an interview, it might be better to fade the music out completely. Interviews or sound bites should be done in a different voice. If desired, the anchor can sign off with an identification, like "this is (name) for GNN." <br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music resumes normal volume or fades back in if it was stopped, and a voice gives a GNN sign-off, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] recorded 21 GNN footers taken from the game's news.py and posted them at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 static news items which, in the base news interface, are mixed in with dynamically-generated news items from in-game events. The voice work for those items has begun. Lisa Willadsen played news anchor "Jenny DeWilde" and recorded 4 stories:<br />
* TEENAGE BOY OUTSMARTS SYSTEM http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* CONFEDERATION SENATE CONVENES http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
* FREIGHTER MISSING http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_freighter-missing.ogg <br />
* SLAVER GUILD EXPOSED http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_slavers-guild-exposed.ogg<br />
Unfortunately, she is not available for any more voice work, so we need a news anchor. The following canon (from news.py) stories need to be recorded and edited:<br />
* MISSING SHIP STILL MISSING<br />
* STARSHIP SIGHTING<br />
* RACENE STAR SOON SECURED<br />
* TIDE TURNS ON RACENE STAR - FOR THE WORSE<br />
* VICTORY AT RACENE STAR<br />
* CONFEDERATION ARMY LOSES RACENE STAR<br />
* RLAAN RESCUE OPERATION ON HUMAN COLONY<br />
* ABU DHABI EMERGES<br />
* ISO DEMONSTRATION ON NEW BREMEN<br />
* THE SKULL ARRESTED<br />
* MINERS EXPOSE RLAAN SPY<br />
* ASTEROID STRIKES CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY<br />
* SURVIVORS FROM CALLIMANCHIUS COLONY<br />
* MARINE COLONEL TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNAL<br />
* HOLMANS REACHES TWENTY-FIVE BILLION<br />
* CORPORATION SUFFERS PRIVATEER ATTACK<br />
* AERAN PRISONERS ESCAPE<br />
* SETTLEMENT UNDER ATTACK BY LOCAL FLORA<br />
* BUGLE BROTHERS STRIKE AGAIN<br />
* HOFFMAN'S BLOBS SPOTTED<br />
* PROTESTS IN HOLLAND<br />
* ROBOT ATTACKS HUMANS<br />
* THE BEAGLE RETURNS<br />
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As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit VS by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_shmrm-mc.ogg<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 static news items which, in the base news interface, are mixed in with dynamically-generated news items from in-game events. The voice work for those items has begun. Lisa Willadsen played news anchor "Jenny DeWilde" and recorded several:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
* Freighter Missing (recording done, editing in progress)<br />
* Slavers Guild Exposed (recording done, editing in progress)<br />
Unfortunately, she is not available for any more voice work, so we need a new anchor.<br />
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As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit VS by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_shmrm-mc.ogg<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= ''Example Station 2'' =<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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<div>=Introduction=<br />
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Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
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For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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=Sound Requirements=<br />
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The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
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=Music Requirements=<br />
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= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
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The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
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.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
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Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
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* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
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Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
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Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
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Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
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* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
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== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
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Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
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== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
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This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
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Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
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<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
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Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
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If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
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* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
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Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
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* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound like a computer (flat in dynamics and pitch) while remaining clear and understandable; more on the work done up to now in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts. This helps the player hear the alien voice before the translator kicks in, and the delay represents the translator's need to build context before commencing translation.<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 dB to make the translator easier to understand; exact amount to mute depends somewhat on how "noisy" the alien voice is, so try higher values if -7 dB is enough.<br />
** Also provide a few alien "fixer" lines, i.e. alien jabber without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars or splice into future campaign fixers if we need them<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how the alien voice was made, in case we need more of it later.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the transmission was interrupted while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line. One of the militia lines talks about sending data to player, so we did something similar -- a modem "negotiate connection" sound, at double normal speed.<br />
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File locations are as follows, so you can test your sounds and hear them in-game before submitting:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file goes in /data/communications/ (it is already there, you are just updating it with the sound files)<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file goes in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files go in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
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=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
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Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
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* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar Church of True Form's Return|Interstellar Church of True Form's Return]] aka Luddites<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral: This faction has a full range of lines, though the items said tend to be short. We are not sure what ships or bases would use these lines.<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction; wingmen you hire can be from different factions so they use their "native" voice<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]] <br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09. Currently, the unadorned citizen uses exactly the same lines, so we use the voice set for both.<br />
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== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
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For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
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Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
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This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
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* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
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The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
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== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
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This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
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To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17974Development:Audio2011-01-05T00:39:36Z<p>Turbo: /* Ship to Ship Radio Communication */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound like a computer (flat in dynamics and pitch) while remaining clear and understandable; more on the work done up to now in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts. This helps the player hear the alien voice before the translator kicks in, and the delay represents the translator's need to build context before commencing translation.<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 dB to make the translator easier to understand; exact amount to mute depends somewhat on how "noisy" the alien voice is, so try higher values if -7 dB is enough.<br />
** Also provide a few alien "fixer" lines, i.e. alien jabber without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars or splice into future campaign fixers if we need them<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how the alien voice was made, in case we need more of it later.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the transmission was interrupted while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line. One of the militia lines talks about sending data to player, so we did something similar -- a modem "negotiate connection" sound, at double normal speed.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows, so you can test your sounds and hear them in-game before submitting:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file goes in /data/communications/ (it is already there, you are just updating it with the sound files)<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file goes in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files go in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar Church of True Form's Return|Interstellar Church of True Form's Return]] aka Luddites<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction; wingmen you hire can be from different factions so they use their "native" voice<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]] <br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17973Development:Audio2011-01-02T04:05:01Z<p>Turbo: /* Faction Voice List */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar Church of True Form's Return|Interstellar Church of True Form's Return]] aka Luddites<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction; wingmen you hire can be from different factions so they use their "native" voice<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]] <br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17972Development:Audio2011-01-02T04:04:29Z<p>Turbo: /* Faction Voice List */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar Church of True Form's Return]] aka Luddites<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction; wingmen you hire can be from different factions so they use their "native" voice<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]] <br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17971Development:Audio2011-01-02T03:59:19Z<p>Turbo: /* Faction Voice List */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' except for one line, by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17970Development:Audio2011-01-02T03:58:19Z<p>Turbo: /* Faction Voice List */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] in discussion here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15206<br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17969Development:Audio2011-01-02T03:41:30Z<p>Turbo: /* Ship to Ship Radio Communication */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
If you only have time to make the recordings, we appreciate your help. But if you have time to help integrate them into the game, that is even better. A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the OGG files plus the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, listed in VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17968Development:Audio2011-01-02T03:39:42Z<p>Turbo: /* Ship to Ship Radio Communication */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names should clearly indicate which line it is, using the following format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<FIRST-FEW-WORDS-OF-TEXT>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished." In this example, "the" was omitted from the file name.<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
A complete ship-to-ship faction communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* '''The "bounty text" line''' from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically. '''Please do not forget to record this line; it is not listed in the <faction>.xml file.'''<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17967Development:Audio2011-01-02T03:34:49Z<p>Turbo: /* Ship to Ship Radio Communication */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
{{fixme}}<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17966In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2011-01-02T01:33:58Z<p>Turbo: /* News Items */</p>
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun. Lisa Willadsen played a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde" for the first two drafts:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
Unfortunately, she will not be available for any more voice work. <br />
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As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_shmrm-mc.ogg<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_shmrm-mc.ogg<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life!<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_travel.ogg<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_tripezian.ogg<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life!<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_confed-navy.ogg<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you.<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. In some cases, background music might be appropriate. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...the flavor of the frontier!<br />
* Shmrn Medical Consortium -- save life, prolong life, simplify life, enjoy life!<br />
* the Confederation Navy. Join today; space has never been this big!<br />
* Confed Pleasure Planet Travel Consortium...beautiful landscapes, diverse climates, incredible night scenes, and spectacular people, all waiting for you.<br />
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* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* Tripezian Premium...taste the frontier!<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice. If the news story is simply the anchor reading the story, keep the news1.ogg playing and during the period the anchor is talking, change the music's amplitude by -4 dB.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in or returns to full volume, and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
<br />
'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
<br />
* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
<br />
== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
<br />
= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
<br />
Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
<br />
**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
<br />
= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
<br />
= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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<br />
= ''Example Station 2'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== Phone Calls ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== News Items ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= ''Example Station 3'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== Phone Calls ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== News Items ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= ''Example Station 4'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= ''Example Station 5'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17404Development:Audio2010-01-15T02:25:22Z<p>Turbo: /* Ship to Ship Radio Communication */</p>
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<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
FIXME<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and<br />
we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
File locations are as follows:<br />
* the <faction>.XML file must be put in /data/communications/<br />
* the <faction>_it-appears-we-have.ogg file is put in /data/sounds/missions/<br />
* the remainder of the faction ogg files are put in /data/communications/<faction name>/<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
<br />
Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17403Development:Audio2010-01-13T23:51:05Z<p>Turbo: /* Sound Requirements */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 22kHz sample rate<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music, composite (music plus other sounds) and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
FIXME<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
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Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
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* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
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== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
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Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
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== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
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This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
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Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
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<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
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Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
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A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
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* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and<br />
we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
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* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
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=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
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Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
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* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
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== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
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For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
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Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
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This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
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* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
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The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
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== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
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This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
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To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
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The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
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The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
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Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
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Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
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== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
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Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17402In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2010-01-13T02:19:49Z<p>Turbo: /* Sponsorship Snippets */</p>
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsor_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio (or lift it from the product's commercial above) and mix the two. <br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
* http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
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http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
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As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." The first two drafts are done:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_teenage-boy-outsmarts.ogg<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/gnn_confed-senate-convenes.ogg<br />
As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
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<div>=Introduction=<br />
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Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
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For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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=Sound Requirements=<br />
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The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 44kHz sample rate (the best that most microphones under $200 can produce)<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
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=Music Requirements=<br />
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FIXME<br />
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= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
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The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
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.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
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Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
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* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
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Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
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Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
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Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
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* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
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== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
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Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
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== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
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This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
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Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
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<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
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Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
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A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
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* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and<br />
we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
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* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
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=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
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Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
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* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
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== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
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For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
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Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
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This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
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* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
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The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
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== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
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This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
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To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
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The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
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The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
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Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
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Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
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== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].<br />
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Once files have been tested, [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] can commit them to SVN.</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17396In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2010-01-08T23:49:41Z<p>Turbo: /* Generic Public Service Announcements */</p>
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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== Phone Calls ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === <br />
by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel === by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation === by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]; first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' ... first draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' ... first Draft: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest''' '''First Draft:''' http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/call-in_fuzzys-chicken.ogg<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>=Introduction=<br />
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Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
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For information on the broadcast project, in which we hope to emulate radio-station-like entertainment in addition to music, see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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=Sound Requirements=<br />
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The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 44kHz sample rate (the best that most microphones under $200 can produce)<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
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=Music Requirements=<br />
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FIXME<br />
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= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
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The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
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.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
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Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
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* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
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Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
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Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
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(information provided by klauss)<br />
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= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
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Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
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* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
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== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
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Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
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== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
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This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
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Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
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<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
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Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
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A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
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* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and<br />
we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Development:Audio&diff=17387Development:Audio2010-01-08T01:56:53Z<p>Turbo: /* Sound Requirements */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Thes guidelines standardize the sound and music in order to achieve equal quality for different contributions throughout the game.<br />
This standards are applicable for:<br />
* music<br />
* voices for intership radio transmissions, and perhaps campaign fixers<br />
* other sounds<br />
<br />
See Also [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
=Sound Requirements=<br />
<br />
The following quality settings apply:<br />
* 44kHz sample rate (the best that most microphones under $200 can produce)<br />
* Mono for voices and for sound effects that have no associated location<br />
* Stereo for music and for sound effects that have a location relative to the listener<br />
* Vorbis OGG format for the final production version<br />
<br />
=Music Requirements=<br />
<br />
FIXME<br />
<br />
= Music Engine =<br />
The soundserver (integrated in VS) handles playing songs, while the Vega Strike engine handles sequencing them using the defined playlists (which are selected according to the situation by dj_lib.py).<br />
<br />
The soundserver uses SDL to play them, which supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, I don't think it supports flac (perhaps on Windows), and it does support .mid (but I have the feeling it will get dropped, at least temporarily, during the soundsystem rewrite, as supporting midi with only OpenAL is simply impossible - we'll get something later, though, don't despair).<br />
<br />
.m3u lists are just like winamp lists, which are a bunch of files, each on its own line (relative paths are computed against where soundserver.exe is, which is usually inside the bin folder - and usually you want to always say ../music/something ), and you can add comments (on their own line, I don't think it works on the same line) by starting the line with '#'. <br />
<br />
Playlists are stored in the user-data folder (usually under ~/.vegastrike), inside their own folder hierarchy (~/.vegasrtike/playlists).<br />
Inside playlists, you may find additional grouping, by situation:<br />
<br />
* battle<br />
* peace<br />
* threat<br />
<br />
Inside each, you'll find a playlist for each faction. Usually, the faction is selected according to the system owner at the time battle/threat/peace happens, though inside peace you'll have also around_sig and away, which get selected according to whether you are near a significant unit (base or planet - dockable) or not.<br />
That all gets configured in dj_lib.py, so if you add playlists, you have to add them to dj_lib.py as well - I doubt anyone will have to add playlists, though.<br />
<br />
Inside playlists, you can (currently - until the extension commands get added) bias the frequency of some tracks by simply repeating them on the playlist. The engine will avoid playing the same track over and over, having a record of recently played tracks.<br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
== Music Engine Future Plans ==<br />
Eventually, we'll add sequencing commands to playlists, disguised as special comments (probably '#!<command>') - that will allow us to specify a bayesian network for the tracks, with (potentially) custom transition - that means, each track can have a certain subset of tracks follow it, with a certain assigned probability. That's not that far in the future, it needs not wait for the rewrite, as it's doable as an enhancement to the current engine. <br />
<br />
(information provided by klauss)<br />
<br />
= Voice Acting =<br />
Voice acting provides in-game voices for ship-to-ship radio transmissions, and perhaps some day for campaign fixer conversations. Ongoing projects are discussed here http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29<br />
<br />
Current voice acting projects are as follows:<br />
<br />
* Oswald "flight tutorial" mission: '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] for [[User:Pyramid|Pyramid]] Dec 08<br />
* Ship-to-ship communication: '''ONGOING''' see below for the faction list.<br />
* In-flight entertainment (news, etc) '''ONGOING''' see [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
<br />
Voice acting is easy to learn and fun to do. For instructions on voice acting, see [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]'s [http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial].<br />
<br />
== Fixer Voice Lines ==<br />
<br />
Eventually, as campaign missions are written and finalized, we hope to produce voice acting for them.<br />
<br />
== Ship to Ship Radio Communication ==<br />
<br />
This type of voice acting provides audio to go with the faction-specific ship to ship communications that lend fun and atmosphere to the game. <br />
<br />
Broadcasts are keyed to events in the game, so each line must be in a separate file. To aid integration, the file names must follow this format:<br />
<br />
<FACTION>_<OPENING-TEXT-OF-LINE>.OGG<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
aera_lesser-being.ogg for the Aera broadcast, "The lesser being is always vanquished."<br />
rlaan_boring-boring.ogg for the Rlaan broacast, "Boring, boring, tiny one! You bring us no tupperware."<br />
<br />
A ship-to-ship factional communication voice acting package should include the following:<br />
<br />
* Documentation: a text file that names the voice artist, lists the lines spoken, and provides any technical details about how the voice was created, edited, etc, to aid future updates.<br />
* All the faction's speech, one voice line per OGG file, from VS/data/communications/<FACTION>.xml <br />
* The "bounty text" line from VS/data/modules/missions/bounty_leader.py, which reads: ''It appears we have something in common, privateer. My name may be on your list, but now your name is on mine.'' This voice line's file name must be '''<faction_name>_it-appears-we-have.ogg''' in order for the code to call it dynamically.<br />
* The updated <faction>.XML file that tells the game to play the sounds, by adding the SOUND FILE tag after each node's text comment and before the EDGE INDEX tag. If the node contains two sets of text, just add two SOUND FILE tags one after the other. Here is an example of the SOUND FILE tag and where it goes:<br />
<node text="Make room for your betters, friends. Room for your betters." relationship=".03125"><br />
<nowiki><!-- node 4(random good chatter)--></nowiki> <br />
<sound file="communications/sounds/highborn/highborn_make-room-for.ogg" sex="0"/><br />
<edge index="4"/><br />
<edge index="5"/>''<br />
Note: Currently the game code that assigns gender to ships does not function, but when it does and<br />
we get enough voice acting for both genders in all factions, female voices will use the tag '''SEX="1"'''<br />
<br />
* If the faction is an alien language, the following additional guidelines apply:<br />
** the translator's voice should sound flat in dynamics and pitch, while remaining clear and understandable; more on that in the next section<br />
** The alien voice should speak for 1 second before the translator starts<br />
** When the translator is speaking, the alien voice should be muted by -7 Db to make the translator easier to understand<br />
** Also provide one or more alien "fixer" lines, without the translator overlay, that we can use for randomly generated fixer conversations in bars<br />
** Ideally there should be 2 versions of the package, one with the translator overlay for the English version of the game, and one without the translator so that voice actors can eventually create versions of the game in other languages. For alien voices that were created via some mathematical or logical algorithm, include information in the documentation about how it was done.<br />
* For communication lines which end in "[garbled]", indicating that the ship was destroyed while the pilot was broadcasting, use a 1/2 second burst of white noise, at 70% volume, at the end of the spoken line.<br />
<br />
=== Faction Voice List ===<br />
<br />
Here is the list of the production status for each faction's voice. If a faction's "citizen" variant has the same lines as the base faction, it is not listed:<br />
<br />
* [[Faction:Aera|Aera]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Dec 08 <br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Andolian|Andolian Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Confederation_of_Inhabited_Worlds|Confed]] <br />
* [[Faction:Dgn|Dgn]] <br />
* [[Faction:Forsaken|Forsaken]] <br />
* [[Faction:Highborn|Highborn]] DRAFT by [[user:Turbo|Turbo]] is in SVN but [[User:rivalin|rivalin]] has offered to redo this faction's voice <br />
* [[Faction:Homeland_Security|Homeland Security]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Hunter|Hunter]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Feb 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Socialist_Organization|ISO]] in progress by [[User:MC707|MC707]]<br />
* [[Faction:Klk%27k|Klk'k]] <br />
* [[Faction:League_of_Independent_Human_Worlds|LIHW]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Dec 08<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Mechanist|Mechanist Citizen]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild]] '''DONE''' by [[User:CLoneWolf|CLoneWolf]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Interstellar_Shipping_and_Mercantile_Guild|Merchant Guild Citizen]] '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Jan 09<br />
* Militia '''DONE''' by Lisa Willadsen Feb 09<br />
* Neutral<br />
* [[Faction:Pirates|Pirates]] are under discussion, but no one has offered to record them yet<br />
* Privateer is the player's faction, we are not sure if this needs voices (wingmen perhaps?)<br />
* [[Faction:Purist|Purist]]<br />
* [[Faction:Rlaan|Rlaan]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Fendorin|Fendorin]] Feb 09, with postproduction and XML editing by cLoneWolf<br />
* [[Faction:Shaper|Shaper Citizen]] (currently the same lines as the Shaper military)<br />
* [[Faction:Shmrn|Shmrm]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln]]<br />
* [[Faction:Uln|Uln Citizen]]<br />
* [[Faction:Unadorned|Unadorned]] '''DONE''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] Jan 09<br />
<br />
== Creating the Voice for the Ship's Translator ==<br />
<br />
For aliens which speak a non-human language, the ship's translator will provide a "voice-over" of the alien speech. To make the alien speech easier to hear for gameplay immersion, and to account for differences in grammar, the translator voice-over begins one second after the alien voice broadcast.<br />
<br />
Some translator lines are the same for all the alien races. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already created those and posted them in the Aera thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311. What remains to be decided is whether all the translator voices should sound the same.<br />
<br />
This took some experimentation to get a good result. Our first attempt used MicroSoft Narrator's "Michael." MS Narrator's voice meets the criteria for a cold soulless machine voice, but he was too hard to understand. We also tried applying a "vocoder" to a human voice, but it was also difficult to understand. What we settled on, to represent 1200 years of voice-generation and translation technology, was the following:<br />
<br />
* record all the translator lines in a flat, emotionless voice<br />
* edit out unwanted noises like lip smacking, breathing, etc<br />
* apply noise removal and click removal effects<br />
* apply a low pass filter for 15K Hz, other values default<br />
* apply a high pass filter for 1000 Hz, others default<br />
* apply the leveller (heaviest setting)<br />
* if desired, adjust pitch<br />
* if desired, repeat the click removal, filters, and leveller again<br />
* make other edits as required <br />
* amplify to full volume<br />
<br />
The effect of all these transformations, including the repeated ones, is to make the translator's voice as clear as possible but still sound a bit mechanical. You can separate each translator line into a separate file for editing, or keep them in one larger file and cut and paste the translations into the individual alien voice lines.<br />
<br />
== Creating Alien Voices ==<br />
A subset of voice acting is the creation of alien voices. The short tutorial below describes how [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created the voices for the Aera and Rlaan ship-to-ship communication.<br />
<br />
This is the process I used to create alien-sounding speech without actually developing a language. If someone wants to do this for another race, please do, and start a new thread in http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php to get feedback on your work. <br />
<br />
To begin, you should look at my voice acting tutorial to get some basics about sound editing tools and how to use them:<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm tutorial<br />
<br />
The aera speech is based on humpback whale songs I found on the Internet. I used whales because they came to mind when I read that aera have vocal resonators ([[Artstyle_guide:Aeran]]) in their heads, instead of vocal cords in their throats. I plan to use insect sounds for the Rlaan. Other alien races' speech could be created with similar techniques, using different animal sounds or your own voice as the basis for each species. I modified the raw whale sounds by removing noise and clicks, then adjusting the tempo to 350% and the pitch down an octave. Audacity makes this easy. For example a tempo change in Audacity will not change the pitch, so you avoid the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect. Then I saved the individual bits of modified whale sound into different files so I had a variety of tones, growls, and grunts from which to choose. <br />
<br />
The Rlaan voice was a combination of 3 different insect noises, reduced in pitch by different amounts, and DTMF tones (using the first 8-12 letters of the translated line) adjusted in pitch by -87%. These 4 tracks were split among the left and right stereo channels to simulate Rlaan having 4 mouths spaced several feet apart.<br />
<br />
Once you have the alien voice lines created, open each translator's line one at a time. Mute the translator's speech so it will be silent while you work with the alien speech. Import the alien speech bits into a separate track of the same file. For the Aera I used tones to represent positive feelings, growls for negative feelings, and grunts as modifiers. Different aliens may do it differently. Change some individual parts to add variety: change pitch here or there, reverse a few parts if it sounds good, and add silence. It is best to do this with the (muted) translator speech on the screen so you can see how the patterns line up, and it is easy to select a few seconds and play it to see what it sounds like without the voice over the top. For silent portions of the translator speech, put a particularly interesting part of the alien speech there. If the translator is difficult to understand for a particular word, make the alien speech pause at that time. There is no reason an alien language would have the same tempo as its translation. The translator and alien can be approximately the same length, because when you go with the final OGG format both will be mixed into stereo anyhow.<br />
<br />
Finally, deamplify the aera speech by -3 to -7 Db, whever sounds good without making the translator difficult to hear. Do this by selecting that track and the Amplify command. Then, unmute the translator, and listen to the alien voice and translator together. Make any final edits to the alien speech. If you can play the result with your eyes closed and understand the translator, while being aware of the alien voice behind it, you have it right.<br />
<br />
== Voice Acting Uploads ==<br />
Once you have created a voice set, compress it into a ZIP file and upload it to the web, then post a link in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=29| Music and Sound forum] to get everyone's comments. If you do not have web space of your own, we have an FTP site that you can use. The public URL for downloads is http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice but to get upload access, go to the VS forums and send a PM to [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] or [[User:Loki1950|Loki]].</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17386In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2010-01-04T02:34:48Z<p>Turbo: /* Sponsorship Snippets */</p>
<hr />
<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
<br />
what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
<br />
''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
<br />
= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
== Phone Calls ==<br />
{{FIXME}}''Please help sorting material here.''<br />
<br />
'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
<br />
* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years. '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.<br />
* Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!<br />
* BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!<br />
* The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
* GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years '''Done''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] already recorded by "sponsored by" part at <br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by.ogg<br />
so all we need is to record the product-specific audio and mix the two.<br />
* '''Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.'''<br />
* '''Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!'''<br />
* '''BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!'''<br />
* '''The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!'''<br />
* '''GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years ''' Done by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/sponsored_by_GNN.ogg<br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by [[User:Mc707|MC707]]<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. The nice thing is, we need only record the "sponsored by" part once and use it for all the products.<br />
* '''Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.'''<br />
* '''Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!'''<br />
* '''BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!'''<br />
* '''The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!'''<br />
* '''GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years ''' <br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
''Will probably start adding these once we get a good ammount of audio material.''<br />
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= ''Example Station 1'' =<br />
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= ''Example Station 2'' =<br />
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= ''Example Station 3'' =<br />
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= ''Example Station 5'' =<br />
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<div>* Callsign: '''Turbo'''<br />
* Why did you pick this callsign? '''There are two speeds in combat: stopped, and as fast as you can go. Unless you run into something, going fast keeps you alive.'''<br />
* Favorite quote: '''I prefer to work behind the scenes. The rewards are almost as great, and the risks far less. (Londo Mollari, Babylon 5)'''<br />
* Favorite VS ship and why: '''stock Lancelot with razors, ktek beams, and cloak; it has a great balance of speed and firepower which is essential to my flying style'''<br />
* Name of your ship? '''none, but I did make a highborn-inspired heraldic paint job:'''<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/vegastrike/lancelot-turbo0.PNG<br />
* Favorite trade cargo and why: '''AI Cores and Specialty Wines -- small package, big profit'''<br />
* Favorite type of mission: '''initially I trade on my own, and when I can afford the Lancelot I start taking bounties and clean sweeps'''<br />
* Favorite upgrade and why: '''overdrive, for reasons explained above, followed by the cloak, because it allows me to avoid fights for which I am not getting paid'''<br />
* What faction do you prefer to fight, and why? '''initially I take on the Luddites because everyone hates them, later the Aera because they offer a challenge. I don't seek to fight the Uln, but until I find a cloak I always end up having to splash hordes of their dodo ships'''<br />
* What's the coolest vehicle you have sailed, driven or piloted in real life? '''US Army M1A1 Abrams tank'''<br />
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Contributions to the VS project include: <br />
* Voice acting for Pyramid's Oswald tutorial http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Two cargo images http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Working on voice acting for intership comms, starting with the Aera: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311<br />
* General organizing of the voice acting efforts [[In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio]]<br />
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My Web pages:<br />
* Voice acting tutorial: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm<br />
* 3D Models: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/models.htm</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Turbo&diff=17381User:Turbo2010-01-04T02:22:46Z<p>Turbo: </p>
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<div>* Callsign: '''Turbo'''<br />
* Why did you pick this callsign? '''There are two speeds in combat: stopped, and as fast as you can go. Unless you run into something, going fast keeps you alive.'''<br />
* Favorite quote: '''I prefer to work behind the scenes. The rewards are almost as great, and the risks far less. (Londo Mollari, Babylon 5)'''<br />
* Favorite VS ship and why: '''stock Lancelot with razors, ktek beams, and cloak; it has a great balance of speed and firepower which is essential to my flying style'''<br />
* Name of your ship? '''none, but I did make a highborn-inspired heraldic paint job:'''<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/vegastrike/lancelot-turbo0.PNG<br />
* Favorite trade cargo and why: '''AI Cores and Specialty Wines -- small package, big profit'''<br />
* Favorite type of mission: '''initially I trade on my own, and when I can afford the Lancelot I start taking bounties and clean sweeps'''<br />
* Favorite upgrade and why: '''overdrive, for reasons explained above, followed by the cloak, because it allows me to avoid fights for which I am not getting paid'''<br />
* What faction do you prefer to fight, and why? '''initially I take on the Luddites because everyone hates them, later the Aera because they offer a challenge. I don't seek to fight the Uln, but until I find a cloak I always end up having to splash hordes of their dodo ships'''<br />
* What's the coolest vehicle you have sailed, driven or piloted in real life? '''US Army M1A1 Abrams tank'''<br />
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Contributions to the VS project include: <br />
* Voice acting for Pyramid's Oswald tutorial http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Two cargo images http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Working on voice acting for intership comms, starting with the Aera: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311<br />
* General organizing of the voice acting efforts http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio<br />
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My Web pages:<br />
* Voice acting tutorial: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm<br />
* 3D Models: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/models.htm</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Turbo&diff=17380User:Turbo2010-01-04T02:21:12Z<p>Turbo: </p>
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<div>* Callsign: '''Turbo'''<br />
* Why did you pick this callsign? '''There are two speeds in combat: stopped, and as fast as you can go. Unless you run into something, going fast keeps you alive.'''<br />
* Favorite quote: '''I prefer to work behind the scenes. The rewards are almost as great, and the risks far less. (Londo Mollari, Babylon 5)'''<br />
* Favorite VS ship and why: '''stock Lancelot with razors, ktek beams, and cloak; it has a great balance of speed and firepower which is essential to my flying style'''<br />
* Name of your ship? '''none, but I did make a highborn-inspired heraldic paint job:'''<br />
http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/vegastrike/lancelot-turbo0.PNG<br />
* Favorite trade cargo and why: '''AI Cores and Specialty Wines -- small package, big profit'''<br />
* Favorite type of mission: '''initially I trade on my own, and when I can afford the Lancelot I start taking bounties and clean sweeps'''<br />
* Favorite upgrade and why: '''overdrive, for reasons explained above, followed by the cloak, because it allows me to avoid fights for which I am not getting paid'''<br />
* What faction do you prefer to fight, and why? '''initially I take on the Luddites because everyone hates them, later the Aera because they offer a challenge. I don't seek to fight the Uln, but until I find a cloak I always end up having to splash hordes of their dodo ships'''<br />
* What's the coolest vehicle you have sailed, driven or piloted in real life? '''US Army M1A1 Abrams tank'''<br />
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Contributions to the VS project include: <br />
* Voice acting for Pyramid's Oswald tutorial http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Two cargo images http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11512&p=106838#p106838<br />
* Working on voice acting for intership comms, starting with the Aera: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13311<br />
* General organizing of the voice acting efforts<br />
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My Web pages:<br />
* Voice acting tutorial: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/voice/va_tutorial.htm<br />
* 3D Models: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/us/don/ttlg/models/models.htm</div>Turbohttp://wiki.vega-strike.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=In-Flight_Non-Musical_Audio&diff=17379In-Flight Non-Musical Audio2010-01-04T02:19:28Z<p>Turbo: /* News Items */</p>
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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= ''Starter Station'' =<br />
== Music/Songs ==<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by Boaal<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?''' by Boaal<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
These are similar to news, but with music other than the "news" music, or none, playing in the background. They are also similar to commercials in that every station could play them, except possibly some faction-specific stations if there were any. Therefore, they are semi-generic or fully generic, depending on if they play in every station or more specific ones, as stated above. They have an intro using a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then someone else doing the body of the PSA, but no footer. Here are two headers available to use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/PSA_header.ogg<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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== --Station Specific Public Service Announcements-- ==<br />
''For now they are just an idea. If we do have station specific PSA, then they should be located here. Otherwise, when the project is done this section should be deleted''<br />
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= Commercials =<br />
Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by MC707<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by MC707<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by MC707<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. The nice thing is, we need only record the "sponsored by" part once and use it for all the products.<br />
* '''Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.'''<br />
* '''Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!'''<br />
* '''BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!'''<br />
* '''The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!'''<br />
* '''GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years ''' <br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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= Radio Stations =<br />
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<div>A new item being discussed [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 here] is non-music in-flight audio. The ideas being kicked around involve making voice recordings of non-music items, to play during flight (perhaps between songs) like the pilot was listening to the radio. The key to such content would be to have it explain, amplify, or describe some aspect of the VS universe. The storm of ideas has still not settled but, while we talk through our ideas and work on details, we decided to collect the items here for later editing and recording. <br />
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what's needed for the radionet project:<br />
* writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)<br />
* music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...<br />
* ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life<br />
* voice actors (everything! :D )<br />
* post producers<br />
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''As suggested by Turbo, we will begin with one station, then progressively start adding radionet stations. For starters, this will be the section for just that. Then, we will use the template I posted lower in this page. The template will also allocate music/songs, which are a little bit apart from the main idea of this project (In-Flight Non-Musical Audio duh :P), but will be there for organization's sake. Music will be "dumped" into the first sole station, where after that music will be "sorted" to the decided station (probably 50% artist decition, 50% community opinion decition). If you have any ideas/recommendations/constructive criticisms, post it in the [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14815 appropiate forum thread] or in the discussion page of this wiki page.'' --[[User:Mc707|Mc707]] 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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See also [[Development:Audio]]<br />
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'''Fuzzy's Chicken Call-In Contest'''<br />
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* DJ: OK folks, today's write-your-own-punchline question is "Why did the chicken ''(play chicken sound effect)'' jump through the unstable wormhole ''(wormhole sound effect)''?" Our winner will receive chicken dinner for two at Fuzzy's Chicken. That's Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the Crucible Sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best! Let's go to our first caller. Caller, what is your name?<br />
* Aera voice, with translator overlay: ''Leafblighter''<br />
* DJ: Well Leafblighter, it sounds like you are Aeran. Before you give your answer, can you even eat chicken?<br />
* Aera: ''Silly monkey. While my biology is superior to yours, my nutritional needs are the same.''<br />
* DJ: '''All righty then, what is your answer to why did the chicken jump through the unstable wormhole?'''<br />
* Aera: ''The inferior poultry always vanishes.''<br />
* DJ: Judges? ''(whispering)'' We don't want to piss him off, he's Aeran for Pete's sake... ''(normal voice)(play laugh track sound effect)'' Congratulations! Your punch line was very funny, in the context of your race, so you win the chicken dinner! Since you might scare the other customers at Fuzzy's Chicken, please stay on the line so we can get a location and have that Fuzzy's Chicken shipped to you right away. And please don't shoot the courier when he arrives (''forced laughter)'' ha ha ha...<br />
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This call introduces several things about the VS universe, in the context of a very familiar radio concept, the call-in contest. First, it has an Aera character "Leafblighter," whose name hints at their hatred for nature, who sees himself as biologically superior to humans. Second, it makes a play on words with two ship-to-ship Aera broadcasts, "The inferior opponent is always vanquished," and "Silly monkey, making monkey sounds." Third, it reminds us that Aera biology is similar to humans and therefore in competition for resources. Fourth, the DJ views the Aera as violent and unpredictable. Finally, the chicken restaurant sponsored the contest to get low-cost air time so each time the DJ says the name of the restaurant, he would say it in a positive tone. Writer: [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
Here we list each news item, with comments to explain it. <br />
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In most circumstances, news items should follow a pattern similar to what the text-based news system uses in bases and starports:<br />
* Introduction. This could be something like "The following is a GNN special report," appropriate music (news1.ogg for regular news, the "sports jingle" for sports, etc) playing then fading out as the news anchor starts talking, or both. [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]has created these news headers you can use: http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_header.ogg<br />
* Story. The news anchor reads the story. If appropriate, the anchor might talk to reporters on the scene, play audio recorded at the scene (sound bites, noises, or music), or even interview someone. If a news article provides a quote, we prefer to do it in the form of a sound bite in a different voice.<br />
* Footer. As the anchor finishes talking, the news music fades back in and the sequence closes with a news footer to identify the source, such as "GNN -- We care." [[User:Turbo|Turbo]] created some GNN footers at http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/news_footers.zip <br />
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'''News Items: Pre-existing news from news.py'''<br />
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The game file news.py contains 26 news items already. The voice work for those items has begun, with Lisa Willadsen playing a news anchor named "Jenny DeWilde." As more news items are added below, we also should consider adding them to news.py if possible.<br />
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'''News Item: Aeran Architect Humiliated''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The famous Aera architect, GwukkRahrrk, was publicly humilitated today when his design for the new Central Government Archives was unconditionally rejected by the Aeran Oligarchy. He had recently gained fame for some creative designs for local planetary governments, but Minister of Public Works Khragkoohr described the proposed archive building as, "like the scribblings of a mad human, but then I repeat myself." The minister then put forth a motion that GwukkRahrrk be sterilized for the good of the species, at which point the Supreme Councilor reminded the others that the architect was, after all, mated to Lady Rglarakk, and thus there was little risk of offspring in any event. The disgraced architect departed the capitol immediately, announcing through an agent that he will retire early, and the Minister of Public Works has been charged to find a new designer.<br />
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''I envision two possible approaches to alien names in a newscast, relating to the nature of the news anchor. Either the newscast is translated by computer, in which case the names would be rendered in the original language only (remember that for the alien languages, the guideline is to make a sound file without translator overlay to use for fixers, so we could use bits of that), or there is a human reading the news in which case the voice actor could either attempt the names in his own voice or use the alien voice for the name. '' <br />
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'''News Item: Union Dispute Turns Violent''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Anchor: A labor dispute at the Jacobs docks in Bernard's Star erupted in violence yesterday, leading authorities to discover a large smuggling operation. The local dockworkers saw a Mule cargo ship unloading without the use of union labor, and when they confronted the ship's crew were fired upon by the ship's private guards. The union members returned fire and called homeland security forces, who arrived to restore order. The subsequent investigation discovered the Mule to be carrying over 100 tons of nerve stimulators, black market organs, and other medical contraband, and homeland security impounded the ship and imprisoned its crew. The dockworkers were determined to have acted in self-defense and were released at the scene. Local union leader Joey Piccolo had this to say, "Ya don't mess wit da union."<br />
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''This concept, while borrowed from a 1996 movie, is a fun story. I made it fit the VS campaign by placing the smuggling activity at the same planet to which a certain merchant, pawn of sinister forces, asks the player to make a delivery.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Spy Arrested in Regallis''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* The secretary of education for Mummu in the Regallis system, Ann Bates, was arrested today on suspicion of spying for an unknown alien government. Authorities started watching her after a coworker reported her frequent trips to outlying systems, strangely worded netcasts in educational forums, and a change in her financial habits. When further investigation revealed that she had gained access to information above her clearance level, the local counterintelligence branch put Bates under surveillance and observed her leaving a data chip containing some of the information at a suspected drop site on one of her trips. Bates' attorney has stated that the evidence against her is circumstantial, and that she is the victim of a witch hunt fueled by a war-worried public. Her netcast postings, if they are coded messages, remain thus far unbroken.<br />
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''Historically, Ann Bates was a school teacher who spied for the British in the American Revolution. At the time, women were not considered intelligent enough to understand military matters, so she was able to gather extensive data on American troop strength, equipment, and movements in her disguise as a peddler. The methods mentioned in this news story are all real "spy" techniques.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Hunter Griez Killed in Battle''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Famed hunter Gregor Griez was killed in action today, after a bounty on a wing of Nicanders turned out to be a vicious trap laid by the Aeran Merchant Marine. Apparently, Griez had amassed enough kills to gain the attention of the Aeran guild, who set up the bounty to lure his Vendetta fighter into the Heaven's Gate system, where a fleet of dozens of Aerus waited in ambush in a nearby asteroid belt. The Hunter's Guild Memorial Fund then posted an unprecedented 1-million-credit bounty on the Aeran fleet, to be split among guild members according to kill count. A large force of Hunters Guild members responded, destroyed the Aeran fleet, and retreated to friendly space. The Rlaan Hunters' guild has protested, saying that keeping a bounty internal to one's own guild is unprofessional and disrespectful to the principles of hunters everywhere.<br />
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''I can't guarantee that any particular iteration of VS will make Heaven's Gate a system in or near Aera space, but it sounds good as the site for a Hunter's last battle. ''<br />
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'''News Item: Aera Spasm''' by FIXME<br />
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* Reports of a deranged Aeran have surfaced not long ago. Allegedly the Aeran was given a large dose of steroids. As the drugs took hold, the ensuing 'roid-rage' drove it into a fit of mindless violence. The Aera, already known for being excessively aggressive, seem to react unpredictably to drugs. Witnesses watched as the alien accused a toaster of flirting with it, before stamping the offending appliance into the ground, and picking a fight with a Mule class trading ship owned by an up and coming merchant. Once it had tired of beating the space ship with a metal pipe, it charged off and attempted to stamp a hole in a suspended metal walk-way several hundred feet above ground level, which it found "too insulting to ignore". It has since taken off in a Nicander fighter and has been flying around the Holmann system, insulting and shooting at anything that crosses its radar. Until the drugs wear off, system authorities advise you give this ship a wide berth.<br />
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'''News Item: Luddites Threaten to Bomb University Graduation''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Graduation ceremonies at EUGENIC, the Enigma University of Genetics In Creiddylad, were marked by increased security today after University officials received a bomb threat from suspected to have come from the Interstallar Church of Man's True Form. After receiving the threat, University Chancellor Ramon Lafayette announced plans to continue with the ceremonies, saying, "Zeese terrorists, zey take ze concept of 'art critic' entirely too far, and we will not be held hostage by zer criminal threats." Authorities conduced extensive sweeps of the campus, but have declined to comment whether any explosives, Luddite or otherwise, were discovered. Aside from the heightened security, the graduation ceremonies concluded without incident.<br />
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''Don't think it was easy to find a system/sector/planet whose names allowed me to use EUGENIC as an acronym (which was how my idea for this story started) for the name for a university of genetics. Creiddylad [pronounced "Crie-thi-lad"] is not specifically a university planet, it just has a university there in this news story. Even if the system in question does not end up being in Shaper space, the chancellor could still be a Shaper with appropriate (French) accent.'' <br />
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'''News Item: Live Coverage of the War''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* ''(Play "news" music)'' Narrator: The following is a GNN special report. ''End news music''<br />
* Anchor: This just in -- fighting has broken out in ''<system name>'' between the Aera and the Andolians. We now go live to our GNN correspondent in the field, Earnest Rigor. Earnest, what's going on there?<br />
* ''(battlefield noise: wind, weapons fire, explosions, etc)'' Reporter: This is Earnest Rigor for GNN. The Aera attack took everyone here completely by surprise. The system was thought to be far from the front lines and was lightly defended as a result. The Andolians have called in all available forces and requested support from the Conderate forces as well. But, as you can hear from the fighting here on the outskirts of the capitol, the Aera have already established a beachhead on the surface. <br />
* Anchor: Earnest, how did this happen?<br />
* Reporter: Well it's too early to tell, and the local government is too busy with the battle to address that now. But I am sure that this incident will raise serious questions about the state of the human defenses, how the Aera forces got through the detection network, and about the government's ability to protect colonies further from the front lines. (''End battlefiled sounds'')<br />
* Anchor: Well please stay safe, and we hope to hear from you soon with updates on this situation. <br />
* ''(fade in "news" music)'' Narrator: GNN -- we care.<br />
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''We already have the dynamically-generated text GNN feed available in starports, most of which report on in-game battles. This type of news item reports on a ground battle so it is possible that, whatever system is chosen, any given instance of the single-player VS universe might not have Aera or Andolians in the system named. It is provided for color and interest only.'' '''This news story is done''': http://www.willadsenfamily.org/VSvoice/GNN_beachhead2.ogg<br />
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'''Sports Item: Buzz is Back''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* Buzz Donaldson is returning to the repulser-beam ball field this season to resume playing for the Vega sector franchise, the Fire. Buzz spent the last year recovering from cranial injuries sustained in the first half of last season's championship game against the Centauri Alphas. Buzz is reportedly performing well in preseason practice and his accuracy is said to be as good as ever. Stay tuned for more pre-season repulser-beam ball news and exciting coverage of all your favorite sports.<br />
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''The repulser beam is a ship upgrade, so maybe a smaller version could be used to throw a ball (or an opposing ball player) around a sports field. '' <br />
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'''Sports Item: Fast Eddie Scandal''' by [[User:Turbo|Turbo]]<br />
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* In sports today, pilot Edward "Fast Eddie" Wilson won the Regallis 4000 but was immediately disqualified after it was discovered that his customized Schroedinger had been illegally modified for increased fuel capacity. Fuel management is always a concern for pilots in the racing circuit, requiring careful use of the ship's overdrive to prevent premature flame-out in a tight race. Race fans will recall pilot "Turbo Ted" Baker's embarrassment three years ago, when his fuel ran out just after he gained the lead position, leaving him stranded at the final nav point. In addition to being prohibited from racing for the rest of the year, Wilson will be fined 1 million credits, which is approximately half his winnings and sponsorship income from the season. Wilson is expected to issue a public apology later this week, and his sponsors are doubtless deciding whether to terminate their contracts.<br />
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''Here we have embedded some flying advice for the player into a sports scandal story. By the way, it would be really cool if VS could include competition racing as a mission type, like a long patrol mission that you have to finish before other AIs who spawn from the same starting point as soon as you launch. Can the mission engine do that?'' <br />
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'''News Item: The Uln, Stupid or Insane?'''<br />
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* In other news, investigations and debates still continue as to where the Uln get the pilots and money to fund so many crazed, possibly suicidal, tractorbeam weilding Dodo's. It is common knowledge that hoards of Dodo's are sent out on bounty missions after enemies of the Uln, the idea seemingly being, that where one pilot might fail, at least 30 should probably succeed. Many people have pointed out that those Dodo's could be put to better use as cargo tugs, but the Uln's insistance on using this ineffective tactic remains.<br />
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== Shows/Segments/Programs/Talk Shows ==<br />
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= Public Service Announcements =<br />
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== Generic Public Service Announcements ==<br />
Generic Public Service Announcements will appear in every Radionet station.<br />
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=== PSA: Say No to Biomimetic Gel ===<br />
Hello, I'm ______. You may remember me from such movies as 'Perilous Frontier' and 'Ernest Goes to the Vega Sector.' But today I want to talk to you about the dangers of biomimetic gel. Except for authorized medical uses, biomimetic gel is dangerous with prolonged use and can develop into a psychological addiction. The entertainment industry, formerly the largest user of this product, is curtailing its use as the medical and psychological dangers become apparent. Even I, _______, was briefly addicted to this dangerous material. So, don't be tempted by illegal offers to improve this or that part of yourself -- just say 'NO' to biomimetic gel. Thank you.<br />
* The PSA intro I envision as a soft dry NPR-announcer-type voice, then a different voice for the famous person doing the PSA itself. The product referenced is a type of contraband, and one of the movies mentioned is a VS splash screen, so depending on the gender of the actor who will record this spot we would pick one of the 3 names from the splash screen. In memory of Phil Hartman and his character Troy McClure's public service announcements on 'The Simpsons' TV show, the two movies mentioned contrast greatly -- an action/drama and a comedy, and the person voicing this spot would say the movie names in a tone appropriate to each. The actor admits being a victim of the product, which implies that recording the PSA may be a form of community service awarded by a judge after conviction for possession or use of the contraband.<br />
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=== PSA: Organ & Tissue Donation ===<br />
This is _____, on behalf of the Confederation Medical Consortium. I want to urge all of you to give the gift of life in these war-torn times. Your organ or tissue donation could save someone else's life -- an innocent child injured in an Aeran attack, or a brave pilot mortally wounded while defending a critical supply convoy from vicious pirates. Last year, thousands of people died in accidents and attacks without leaving their donation consent, depriving hundreds of other victims of a second chance at life. Won't you please help? Just log your donation consent at any public BBS terminal before taking your next trip, and if the worst should happen to you, you can still be a hero and save others. Thank you so much, and stay safe.<br />
* My intent for this one is similar to the PSAs that featured actress Sally Struthers crying her eyes out in the early 1990s for the Christian Children's Fund or, later, the Save the Children charity. A female voice actor would be best, since women tend to have a broader vocal and emotional range than men. But, a less emotional approach would also work. The ad implicitly reminds the player that space travel is dangerous.<br />
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Commercials are more generic items. They will play in every Radionet station, in a random order.<br />
== Generic/Station Independant Commercials ==<br />
Generic commercials which appear in every station available. These help a LOT for bandwidth, as having ONLY station specific commercials would take a lot more disk space.<br />
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'''BJ's Used Ships''' by Loki<br />
* Hi. I'm BJ loki, tight end for the Cephid Mammas and proud proprietor of BJ's Used Ships. Ships from all over the milky way come to find a new home in Cephid 17, just like you. I moved here after I left the Forsaken, to join the pirate…brr I mean the Confed. Even though they do have a lot in common, I noticed there was one thing missing from this great system: a celebrity endorsed used ship shop. That's why I founded BJ's Used Ships. Every one of these beauties is freshly painted, they look brand new. We have new models coming in every morning, usually around 2 AM. We can get you anything! And if you see a ship of your dreams, tell us, we can acquire it for ya! I've taken the skills I've learned as a pro interstellar football player to the used ship business: snatch, grab, and run like hell. BJ's Used Ships. I'm takin low prices, with hot ships!<br />
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'''The Confed Military''' by MC707<br />
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* Man 1: A career where you’ll never be unemployed. A career that lasts a lifetime. A career where you’re –always-on the winning team. Put your skills to work, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 2: I was a pirate, in a gang that shoots civilians and runs illegal cargo. Now, I am someone, making something of myself. I kill aliens and escort cargo ships for the military!<br />
* Man 1: This is a job where you don’t only help yourself. You help your faction. Only in the military would a teenager be given responsibilities like piloting a capital ship, maneuvering a fully stocked Pacifier, or dropping anti-matter ordnance explosives. Make a change for yourself, in the Confed Military. ''[Sound of ship passing by]''<br />
* Man 3: I used to study in a university planet. I constantly got into pointless fights I didn’t understand about creating new FTL travel systems or securing applications from crackers. I got tired of arguing about what’s right. So I dropped out of the university planet and joined the military. Now, I –know- I’m right… in the Confed Military!<br />
* Man 1: Learn confidence!<br />
* Man 4: I started having fantasies about killing people. Now, I can do it for my faction!<br />
* Man 1: Live the warrior life. Positions are unexpectedly vacant every day! In fact, I’m about to give up my well-paying job as a voiceover actor in order to sign up! I want excitement, and what could be more exciting than fighting enemy ships while your hull surrenders to the vacuum of space? Be number one - turn your *life* around, in the Confed Military!<br />
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'''Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet''' by MC707<br />
* Father: What happens, kids? You look like you are going to planet School!<br />
* Kids: Dad, we’re bored!<br />
* Narrator: Your kids go to school. They’ve learned the golden rule and valuable Confederate values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that lasts forever, head over to the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet in Cephid 17. Your family deserves this kind of fun. Currency Betting! Slots! Shooting range! And the kids love the mini-jack pots! [sounds of fun]<br />
* Narrator: Plus, we’ve got the hottest gaming in system! No other planet offers more bucks for the game. And you’ll teach your children some important lessons about real capitalism.<br />
* Boy (crying): Dad, I bet against a Shaper woman and lost all my money!<br />
* Father: You’ve learned a valuable lesson. Son, it’s time for your first pilot bombing.<br />
* Boy (giggling): Yeah, bombs!<br />
* Narrator: Time is priceless in the land of gambling. It’s the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. Mom can spend all night on the one-armed robots, while your larvae visit the Fanboy Junkies Betting Shop.<br />
* Mom: How did you do, Alice?<br />
* Girl (sad): I busted my game against a Mechanist man and sold my third kidney.<br />
* Mom: That’s my hatchling!<br />
* Narrator: Share the love- the love of money! Plus, the Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet has the best fodder in Cephid 17! Featuring our galaxy-famous genetically modified radioactive boar, courtesy of the Aera chef Gromnnch! [pig snort sound, then pig squeal and chop sound]<br />
* Narrator: The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!<br />
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'''Li’l Bob’s Warez''' by MC707<br />
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* ''[sound of glass shattering]''Woman (horrified): Oh no, my children, my family! They’ve got guns!<br />
* Narrator (low serious tone): A group of pirates break into your home orbital station. What do you do? Call 199? It takes the homeland security an average of 25 minutes to respond to a 199 call. In the meantime, a pirate could have his way with your wife, smoke an ammoniate, fill his cargo hold, and escape. Don’t let the worst happen to you. It is –vital- that you protect yourself! Do it - the Li'l Bob's way. ''[Explosions and gun sound effects]''<br />
* Li'l Bob: That’s right! Li’l Bob’s Warez has the entire inventory you need to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society! We got everything from phazers, electrothermal guns, plasma chainguns, lazer surface-to-space battery-guns, and all sorts of heat-seeking torpedo batteries! And just to celebrate the Aera War Conflict, pink and blue tracer-bullet mini miniguns your children will love to play with in the dark! Get the Monday’s fever with offers on land mines! Got the Aera War Syndrome? Get ten credits off on any order of ten thousand credits or more! But why not protect your ship too? Get discounts on any energy mount or new autotracking systems, courtesy of the Confed and our ISO spies! Plus, get free shipping and installation if you buy four capship-size turrets or more for your home or ship! <br />
* Narrator: You love your family? Prove it – with a gun. Li’l Bob’s Warez, we arm your family, to protect your rights! ''[explosion sound]''<br />
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== --''Station Specific Commercials''-- ==<br />
''Maybe some members can suggest station specific commercials, I don't personally condone this but this is an open project, open for suggestions.''<br />
== Sponsorship Snippets ==<br />
These are short, 10-15 second sound bites, nothing more than "This portion of our program sponsored by..." and then the product name and, perhaps, something about the product. The nice thing is, we need only record the "sponsored by" part once and use it for all the products.<br />
* '''Galactic Radionet, the station that allows you to be entertained in your home or ship, by people you'd never allow into your home or ship.'''<br />
* '''Fuzzy's Chicken, with locations all over the sector. Fuzzy's Chicken, it's the best!'''<br />
* '''BJ's Used Ships, with low prices and hot ships!'''<br />
* '''The Grandeur Sublimity Resort and Casino Planet. This kind of fun should be banned!'''<br />
* '''GNN -- Emulating journalistic integrity for 72 years ''' <br />
* ''keep the ideas coming please!''<br />
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= Material =<br />
This is the 'main hold' of ideas for the Radionet project. Material will be added here, so then it will be 'put in crates' (sorted). You can sort this material to the relevant section, copying and pasting the material from the Material section to the relevant section. This section will probably be temporary, only for organization purposes.<br />
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Some possible types of programming mentioned include:<br />
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**A inter gelatic ISP that support RFC 1149, RFC 1313, RFC 1437, RFC 2322, RFC 2549, RFC 2795, RFC 3251, RFC 3514, RFC 4042, RFC 4824.<br />
**open space map(a parody on openstreetmap.org)<br />
**Reprap (a 3d printer)<br />
**Blender 3D<br />
*Pimp my spaceship (A holo tv show that pimp a space ship like in the "pimp my ride" but in stet the show pimp up a car the show pimp up a space ship.)<br />
*Space busters (a Mythbusters like show that test myths like "can a human do a space walk with out a space shut" or "can your survive a Aera spasm")<br />
*Pop Culture references:<br />
*injokes:<br />
**SPAM<br />
**stunk-cow (a hybrid of a stunk and a cow that use for milk and very hi qalty leader. and come from a chat log Pimp my space ship)<br />
*propaganda: agents iso, pirates, Aera and Rlaan<br />
* Luddites and ISO breaking into the normal channels with some propaganda, followed by "we apologize for this interruption in broadcasting, we now return you to our regular program"<br />
*radio talk show or call-in show<br />
**How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call<br />
** talk radio ("'''This is Burch Lumber, of the EIB Network (that's 'Excellence in Interstellar Broadcasting'). We have Turbo from the Crucible Sector on the line; Turbo, what's on your mind?''' ''Well Burch, these Uln defy all logic. No matter what I do they attack me...are they insane, or just stupid?'' '''Well Turbo, I think it's a bit of both...'''") We have plenty of material for the talk radio bits right here in the forums.<br />
* emergency broadcasts keyed to scripted events ("WARNING: <faction> ships have been sighted in this system, use extreme caution")<br />
* generic news broadcasts on the war efforts (not tied to any specific locations)<br />
* public service announcements<br />
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