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“If you have questions, I have answers. I can't promise they'll be good answers, laden with wit or wisdom, but they'll at least be marginally more intelligible than those given by the Oracle at Delphi.” Ibrahim S. Amin

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Hello Ibrahim! Hope you're well and safe during these times. As a player for both LotS, Dawn and Clash, I never really bothered to read the lore. I was hit by nostalgia and decided to read and couldn't help but notice how Clash is set after the events of Dawn. Do you remember exactly how long after? As for LotS, does that take place in the same planet/solar system as Dawn and Clash, or another universe entirely?
Ibrahim S. Amin If I recall, we set Clash 250 years after Dawn. All the games I worked on at 5th Planet Games took place within the same fictionalised version of our own real-life universe. The idea was that Tor'gyyl, where Dawn and Clash happened, was originally the fifth planet in our solar system (hence the name of the company) -- between Mars and Jupiter, where the asteroid belt is now. The asteroid belt represented some of the debris from when Tor'gyyl exploded. Hence Suns did take place in the same universe, just far into the future, and on various worlds / systems, since the protagonists travelled around the galaxy a lot.
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Hello Ibrahim, how are you? Could you please give me a link to the game story and lore text from LoTS ? Thank you very much !
Ibrahim S. Amin Hi. I'm okay, thanks. Hope you and your friends and family are staying safe and healthy. For Suns, the best place to access the lore is the player-made wiki (the zoywiki one; I think there's a different one out there which doesn't contain as much of the material). That has all the art / images, as well as the story text and lore blurbs, whereas I don't have any of the art at my end, or the content James (Stranger) wrote for the game after I left 5PG.

Link:
http://zoywiki.com/LotS
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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?
Ibrahim S. Amin She has the cutest little nose you've ever seen. I'll eat that last.
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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?
Ibrahim S. Amin Odysseus and Penelope. Everyone remembers Odysseus lying and scheming his way back home to Ithaca, but we often forget that Penelope had cunning of her own -- as demonstrated by the trick she pulled with her weaving (undoing the work in secret each night, as a delaying tactic). The two of them aren't shown together that much during the poem, but I've always enjoyed the hint that they were kindred spirits in the "many ways" (to use the Homeric expression).
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Hi Ibrahim, Is there anyone i can personally contact you about getting some rights to adapting one of your short stories into a film? If you could get in touch asap that would be fantastic. Thank you
Ibrahim S. Amin Hi. Which story did you have in mind? If it's something I wrote for 5th Planet Games, you'd have to speak to Rob Winkler -- their CEO. I could put you in touch with him if you like.
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What was in the box that Lu Bu opened in the final battle against Noir? And how did they get a Kasan banner ??
Ibrahim S. Amin The box is the Ark of the Covenant. It's first alluded to in some of the angel faction lore blurbs. Since it's "magic", much like the Sword of Conquered Kingdoms, it has the power to destroy Noir.

It's been a while, so I don't recall the Kasan banner off the top of my head. Did I throw that into the game as a crafting ingredient or something? If so, it wasn't meant to be an actual relic from Tor'gyyl. It's just a Suns-era representation of the captain's heritage.
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Can you provide a link to one of your works? The one with .la TLD, I can't remember it the link I saw in LoTS chat.
Ibrahim S. Amin Sure. Here you go:

http://philome.la/Ibrahim_S_Amin/spit...
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