User blog comment:BloodPony/An Introductory Post/@comment-1441429-20120923231443/@comment-5400287-20120923233950

thank you - I wanted my story to be about choices and rather than have super-powerful cosmic entities I wanted it to focus on humanity (both the good and bad parts), the alien element will be secondary to the main "chunk" of the story - which would be character progression.

Derek would start as a wanderer with little ties to anyone and change as he gained and lost allies - as would every character in the group, their would be no outright villains or heroes, at least at first.. just people who clash much as we do in the real-world, only later (when things get worse) would factions really start to show their different approaches to life.

The three main "camps" I was working on was those who want to survive by any means necessary (the desperate) those who wish to help everyone (the selfless) and those who are purely out for themselves (the criminal).