Drew Wagar - Revision history

Murgh: mistakes

2026-01-08T15:16:15Z

mistakes

Murgh: ok, tie up the status quo unveiling bit

2026-01-08T15:12:27Z

ok, tie up the status quo unveiling bit

Murgh: add the kickstarter story and bb explanation

2026-01-08T14:54:54Z

add the kickstarter story and bb explanation

Murgh: mend, useless lktrgt

2026-01-08T14:07:42Z

mend, useless lktrgt

Murgh: add v#

2026-01-08T13:27:28Z

add v#

Murgh: add a nostalgia pic, replace deadlink

2026-01-08T13:26:37Z

add a nostalgia pic, replace deadlink

Murgh: a little tidy, some current links

2026-01-08T13:00:39Z

a little tidy, some current links

Phkb: Updating BB links

2024-02-29T01:36:20Z

Updating BB links

Cholmondely: Tagged as OXP author

2021-12-03T11:24:23Z

Tagged as OXP author

Cholmondely: /* Links */ Added another

2021-03-18T18:10:13Z

‎Links: Added another

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 Somewhere in the open ended game play, the vast nature of the universe portrayed, the encouragement for the player to put their own imagination into the game and the novelisation that set the scene... he discovered the magic that is Elite. Drew considers that the game, combined with some of the TV and books of the time (Ulysses 31, Hitch Hikers Guide, Blakes 7 etc), was a perfect moment in time.
-He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an 'Elite' that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] early in 2006. This would result in a body of Oolite fiction, starting with the chapter-by-chapter publication of ''[[Status Quo]]'', which was  [[Aegidian_devlog#June_26th.2C_2006|shared during the final months]] of Oolite's first programmer [[Aegidian]]'s tenure.
+He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an Elite that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] in early 2006. This would result in a body of Oolite fiction, starting with the chapter-by-chapter publication of ''[[Status Quo]]'', which was  [[Aegidian_devlog#June_26th.2C_2006|shared during the final months]] of Oolite's first programmer [[Aegidian]]'s tenure.
-In 2012 during the [[Elite: Dangerous]] kickstarter drive, he [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=185646#p185646 came upon the idea] of writing official E:D fiction, though it was later revealed that this privilege would be offered to the party [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186954#p186954 willing to pay £4500]. When suggested to him that he too should in turn use kickstarter to fund this goal, he was [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186991#p186991 initially pensive], [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=288612#p288612 gave it serious thought], and finally declared that he would [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13013 go for it]. The target amount was [https://community.elitedangerous.com/de/node/315 raised in 9 days]. Having become an author of official E:V fiction author, gradually his Oolite work became difficult to access. He explained in a 2023 BB post,
+In 2012 during the [[Elite: Dangerous]] kickstarter drive, he [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=185646#p185646 came upon the idea] of writing official E:D fiction, though it was later revealed that this privilege would be offered to the party [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186954#p186954 willing to pay £4500]. When suggested to him that he too should in turn use kickstarter to fund this goal, he was [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186991#p186991 initially pensive], [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=288612#p288612 gave it serious thought], and finally declared that he would [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13013 go for it]. The target amount was [https://community.elitedangerous.com/de/node/315 raised in 9 days]. Having become an  official Elite: Dangerous fiction author, gradually his Oolite work became difficult to access. He explained in a 2023 BB post,
 <blockquote>Hi Folks,

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 Somewhere in the open ended game play, the vast nature of the universe portrayed, the encouragement for the player to put their own imagination into the game and the novelisation that set the scene... he discovered the magic that is Elite. Drew considers that the game, combined with some of the TV and books of the time (Ulysses 31, Hitch Hikers Guide, Blakes 7 etc), was a perfect moment in time.
-He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an 'Elite' that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] early in 2006. This eventually resulted in a body of Oolite fiction.
+He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an 'Elite' that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] early in 2006. This would result in a body of Oolite fiction, starting with the chapter-by-chapter publication of ''[[Status Quo]]'', which was  [[Aegidian_devlog#June_26th.2C_2006|shared during the final months]] of Oolite's first programmer [[Aegidian]]'s tenure.
 In 2012 during the [[Elite: Dangerous]] kickstarter drive, he [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=185646#p185646 came upon the idea] of writing official E:D fiction, though it was later revealed that this privilege would be offered to the party [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186954#p186954 willing to pay £4500]. When suggested to him that he too should in turn use kickstarter to fund this goal, he was [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=186991#p186991 initially pensive], [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=288612#p288612 gave it serious thought], and finally declared that he would [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13013 go for it]. The target amount was [https://community.elitedangerous.com/de/node/315 raised in 9 days]. Having become an author of official E:V fiction author, gradually his Oolite work became difficult to access. He explained in a 2023 BB post,

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 Somewhere in the open ended game play, the vast nature of the universe portrayed, the encouragement for the player to put their own imagination into the game and the novelisation that set the scene... he discovered the magic that is Elite. Drew considers that the game, combined with some of the TV and books of the time (Ulysses 31, Hitch Hikers Guide, Blakes 7 etc), was a perfect moment in time.
-He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an 'Elite' that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] early in 2006.
+He was never too enamoured with computers in the 16 bit age, and pretty much ignored the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. His next machine was a 386 SX PC. He enjoyed [[Frontier: Elite II]]. As an astronomy buff, the realistic physics was actually more fun to him. Drew considers [[FFE]], however, to be a backwards step in many ways. In any case, neither FE2 nor FEE were 'Elite'. Elite didn't come back into his conscious thought until he came across "The New Kind" a few years ago. He was very disappointed that the Palm version of Elite was never released. Then on a search for an 'Elite' that would run on Linux he discovered [[Oolite]] early in 2006. This eventually resulted in a body of Oolite fiction.
 == Contributions to Oolite ==
 [[File:DrewwagerOoliteBanner.PNG|thumb|right|250px|Archived banner from when ''The Oolite Saga'' was visible among the work of Drew Wagar (ca.2014).]]
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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140305170932/http://www.drewwagar.com/books/oolitesaga/ Drew Wagar's Oolite fiction] as archived by the Wayback Machine
 * [http://www.drewwagar.com/ Drew's website/blog] (he has removed the Oolite content - presumably due to ED breathing down the back of his neck!).
-* [http://www.facebook.com/drewwagarwriter Drew Wagar Facebook fanpage] for his stories is located at  (He has removed the Oolite content).
+* [http://www.facebook.com/drewwagarwriter Drew Wagar Facebook fanpage] (He has removed the Oolite content).
 * [https://www.twitch.tv/drewwagar Drew Wagar Twitch stream channel]
 * [https://www.youtube.com/@drewwagar/featured Drew Wagar YouTube channel]

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 * [http://www.drewwagar.com/ Drew's website/blog] (he has removed the Oolite content - presumably due to ED breathing down the back of his neck!).
 * [http://www.facebook.com/drewwagarwriter Drew Wagar Facebook fanpage] for his stories is located at  (He has removed the Oolite content).
-*[https://www.twitch.tv/drewwagar Drew Wagar Twitch stream channel]
+* [https://www.twitch.tv/drewwagar Drew Wagar Twitch stream channel]
-* [https://www.youtube.com/@drewwagar/search?query=oolite Drew Wagar YouTube channel - Oolite content]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/@drewwagar/featured Drew Wagar YouTube channel]
-*[https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/04/how-a-video-game-community-filled-my-nephews-final-days-with-happiness-elite-dangerous "How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy" ''The Guardian'']
+* [https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/04/how-a-video-game-community-filled-my-nephews-final-days-with-happiness-elite-dangerous "How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy" ''The Guardian'']
 [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:OXP authors]]

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 === Game contributions ===
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160414101037/http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/software/oolite/Tianve1.3.zip Tianve OXP] [archived link] creates the features mentioned in ''Status Quo'' and the player can thus go sightseeing in the [[Tianve]] star system in the North East area of Galactic Chart One
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160414101037/http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/software/oolite/Tianve1.3.zip Tianve OXP v1.3] [archived link] creates the features mentioned in ''Status Quo'' and the player can thus go sightseeing in the [[Tianve]] star system in the North East area of Galactic Chart One
 * Drew also contributed the Tionisla Chronicle articles for [[Snoopers]].

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-[[Image:Drew_Wagar.jpg‎|right|thumb|150px|Drew Wagar, courtesy of www.drewwagar.com]]
+[[Image:Drew_Wagar.jpg‎|right|thumb|220px|Drew Wagar, courtesy of drewwagar.com]]
 Drew Wagar is an author of [[Oolite]] stories.
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 == Contributions to Oolite ==
 === Literary ===
-Inspired by the Oolite game, Wagar has written an Oolite novella named [[Status Quo]]. Status Quo was an attempt to provide a link between the back stories of Elite, Oolite and the later events of FE2/FFE, giving a newcomer to Oolite some information on how things differ from Elite in a narrative context, reminiscent of the original Elite novella, 'The Dark Wheel' by [[Robert Holdstock]].
+Inspired by the Oolite game, Wagar has written an Oolite novella named ''[[Status Quo]]''. ''Status Quo'' was an attempt to provide a link between the back stories of Elite, Oolite and the later events of FE2/FFE, giving a newcomer to Oolite some information on how things differ from Elite in a narrative context, reminiscent of the original Elite novella, ''[[The Dark Wheel]]'' by [[Robert Holdstock]].
-Drew has now written four sequels to Status Quo.
+Drew has written four sequels to Status Quo.
-Drew has also written a short story about the Generation Ships called [[Schism]], a very short story about an attempt to travel to the 'ninth chart', called [[Nine]], a further very short story called [[Ascension]] and another called [[Replay]].
+Drew has also written a short story about the Generation Ships called ''[[Schism]]'', a very short story about an attempt to travel to the 'ninth chart', called ''[[Nine]]'', a further very short story called ''[[Ascension]]'' and another called ''[[Replay]]''.
 === Game contributions ===
-Drew has also written a small [[OXP]] for Oolite which features the [[Tianve]] Star System in the North East area of Galactic Chart One, where some of the action in Status Quo takes place. This OXP creates the features mentioned in the story and the player can thus go sightseeing. The Tianve OXP can be downloaded [http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/software/oolite/Tianve1.3.zip here].
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160414101037/http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/software/oolite/Tianve1.3.zip Tianve OXP] [archived link] creates the features mentioned in ''Status Quo'' and the player can thus go sightseeing in the [[Tianve]] star system in the North East area of Galactic Chart One
-Drew also contributed the Tionisla Chronicle articles for [[Snoopers]].
+* Drew also contributed the Tionisla Chronicle articles for [[Snoopers]].
 == Stories ==

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 === External ===
-* Drew's website/blog is located at http://www.drewwagar.com/ (he has removed the Oolite content - presumably due to ED breathing down the back of his neck!).
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140305170932/http://www.drewwagar.com/books/oolitesaga/ Drew Wagar's Oolite fiction] as archived by the Wayback Machine
-* A Facebook fanpage for his stories is located at http://www.facebook.com/drewwagarwriter (He has removed the Oolite content).
+* [http://www.drewwagar.com/ Drew's website/blog] (he has removed the Oolite content - presumably due to ED breathing down the back of his neck!).
-* He has a page on YouTube with snippets about Oolite hidden away in it (try his histories of the game if he has not taken them down yet).
+* [http://www.facebook.com/drewwagarwriter Drew Wagar Facebook fanpage] for his stories is located at  (He has removed the Oolite content).
 [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:OXP authors]]

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 == Links ==
 === Internal ===
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=21896#p21896 Ah.. how I came across Elite...] (2006)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=21896#p21896 Ah.. how I came across Elite...] (2006)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2524 The Oolite Saga] Note his post of Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:22 pm
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2524 The Oolite Saga] Note his post of Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:22 pm
 *See discussion in [[Lore]]