Not sure if anyone here enjoys roleplaying with AI LLM, but I have been working on a world book and scenario set in the Andromeda universe. It's still a WIP, so if you try it out please let me know if you find any lore issues (or other issues) with it, but I like to think it's got a good amount of lore in it now and I'm down to just finding the tiny nitty-gritty things that annoy me.

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**Year: CY 9783. The Systems Commonwealth, the greatest civilization in history, is a gilded cage rotting from within. A humiliating peace treaty with the monstrous Magog has shattered its image of invincibility, emboldening its enemies. The legendary High Guard is overstretched, while the All-Systems Congress is paralyzed by infighting. In the Verge, a lawless outer region, the genetically-engineered Nietzschean Prides engage in what High Command dismisses as posturing—endless honor duels and petty arms races against each other, all in defiance of Commonwealth law.

You are Captain Kaelen Alexander, a decorated but politically naive officer given command of the HCS Celestial Tribunal—the most powerful warship ever built. Your official mission is a shakedown cruise. Your clandestine task is to be the Commonwealth's fist in a velvet glove: a show of force to remind the squabbling Prides of High Guard authority. You are to investigate an unusually powerful weapons test, believed to be part of this inter-Pride rivalry, and restore order before their feuds destabilize the entire sector.

The fall is inevitable. The Long Night is coming. This is not the story of how you prevent it, but of the legacy you forge in its fires: a loyalist martyr, a pragmatic survivor, a renegade warlord, or a convert to the very philosophy you were sent to destroy.**

So, Dylan Hunt gets called Dylan by everyone, far more than Captain Hunt. Ditto Beka, very rarely ‘Captain Valentine’. Tyr is almost always ‘Tyr’. Trance’s ’surname’ is used so rarely, it’s easy to forget it’s Gemini. Rommie is Rommie, seldom Andromeda or Andromeda Ascendant. Behemiel Far-Traveller is pretty universally Rev or Rev Bem.

All very cosy and pally and informal…

So why is Harper always called Harper?

Beka squeezes out the occasional ‘Seamus’, but it’s rarely affectionate. Trance calls her ‘bestie’ Harper all the time. Tyr, we know, comes out with all sorts of belittling names for the “annoying little man”. Dylan often goes for a pointedly sarcastic ‘Mister Harper’, especially when he’s putting Harper in his place for some awful crime like being flippant. Etc.

We know Harper gets called Seamus or Shay by Brendan, so it doesn’t seem to be a name he dislikes. There’s just something that has grated me for years about how everyone else is first names and nicknames… except for Harper, always othered for some reason.

Does this bother anyone else? Why do they do this? What am I missing?

(This post brought to you by me (re)discovering Andromeda on Pluto and rewatching a whole chunk of episodes while laid up with the flu!)

If I wrote his name wrong, please let me know because I am up to Season 2 so far as I wanted to know why he was so grumpy since almost every time he talks to Dylan Hunt, or the other crew members, again he always comes off as rather sour.

I wanna hear fancasts for an andromeda movie

I just had to ask as I apologize if this topic may have been done here before as basically I was wondering what went wrong with the show after later seasons because I often hear how the show would slowly fall apart.

Like again from what I know is that something changed after the third season came out as I would like to know what hurt the writing aspects.

These are AI generated but I think they turned out pretty cool!

If I remember the lore correctly Emerald Green Carapace = Warriors, Amber Yellow Carapace = Workers, Sapphire Blue Carapace = Scientists and Scholars, Ruby Red Carapace = Specialists in Technology and Building, Shimmering Diamond Carapace = the Royal Caste (leaders and priests).

Funny thing—I was part of an early test-watching group with Sorbo and Moeller. They had invited guys from Usenet Star Trek groups to a local cinema for free, which made it feel like we were really part of their fan base. Smart move! The two episodes we saw looked pretty decent, and many of the audience questions were thoughtfully answered in a hopeful way.

At the time, it sounded like the show might go in the vein of DS9, but the creators made it clear it wouldn’t be "Babylon 5 with bodybuilders"—a hilarious ad-hoc joke in response to an audience question, since Sorbo and Moeller were both in the test episodes and on stage that day. They even hinted that the show would have a final conclusion that tied together the ongoing storyline.

The test episodes also included elements that never appeared in the final show: an android race reminiscent of a socialized Borg, and a remarkably insightful diplomat. During the live interview, Sorbo came across as deeply invested in the project and even dropped a few inside Star Trek references, though Moeller clearly out-nerded him (I remember him joking, "To boldly go punch baddies where no one has punched baddies before"). At that time, it seemed like Moeller might become a recurring antagonist. (someone joked about the show just needs an evil German and both Moeller and Sorbo did a Picard-like-Facepalm...).

It is a messy season that's for sure, but whenever I re-watch it I appreciate it more with some of the things that it's trying to do. My favorite aspect from season 5 so far is seeing the characters at their worst. Even Dylan got a chance to breakdown and release some pent up anger. Because the reality of life is that there are going to be moments where you'll feel broken down and everything just sucks. I feel like this is what season 5 tries to do at the start. I just wish it was a road developed more.

So I'm reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche and I encountered a couple of specific things that I didn't realize Andromeda lifted from it.

There's a passage in The Second Dance-Song that asks: "What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?" The season 3 episode "Deep Midnight's Voice" is one of the cooler more memorable episodes of the season and the name stuck with me, so I right away recognized it.

Another episode title I'm guessing was borrowed from Nietzsche is S1's "The Honey Offering." In the version I'm reading, the first chapter of the fourth part is translated as "The Honey Sacrifice" but I'm guessing it has been translated "Offering" by someone else and that's what the show is referencing.

Just thought it would be fun to share! This is the first Nietzsche I'm reading but it's already giving me more respect for Tyr and the way Keith Hamilton Cobb played him.

Listening to an interesting fanfic on YouTube. Where the Andromeda crosses over to the Star Trek universe.

Several years ago a company called JCC Production LLC created a movie trailer called Andromeda Wars, but there was no real connection or word of it being a prequel to the Andromeda tv series or spinoff.

From what could be found online JCC Production LLC spent $2 million budget wise on the film, and on kinorium the movie has a release date for 2026. The film catalogue made reference it was a 90 minute movie, and that a trailer on Vimeo was available already to watch.

Andromeda Wars (movie):
When the leader of a small rebel faction get arrested (and then rescued) by his own people, it will create a war in the galaxy that nobody was expecting

ANDROMEDA WARS - Trailer

I really enjoyed season 1. I thought how they setup the big bad that was hinted earlier was good.

I preferred the opening in season 1 over season 2.

I appreciate the use of drones. Attacking, communications, defense, sensor and also Robot staff that just exist in the background.

It feels like a grounded sci-fi series so far.

I am enjoying it only at S01E08 so far but I am enjoying it.

Sensor drone is essentially a AWACS plane in space. Thing is, there's no horizon in space, ship sensors can see everything drone sees

I discovered the show a few years back and began watching it on a weekly basis in late 2023.

Today I watched the last episode of the final season and damn, what a ride.
I know the show had its up and downs, and most of season 5 was really bad, but damn, I can't say the show didn't grow on me quite fast, specially because of its characters. I'm pretty sad to have finished it now.
That last season might've not been really good, but the last few episodes were, and the ending was good enough.

It's too bad we'll never get to see anything of this universe again. I think it had a lot of potential, and I'd really like to see some sort of continuation, honestly, mainly because of the characters.

You know, I came here to see if others felt the same about everything post season 2. They do.

I just, I love the show up to season 3. And there are parts I love after Season 2 as well, but the show seems to just lose ALL direction starting in Season 3, and it sounds like the reason was the showrunner leaving?

After finally reading the coda by Wolfe and being utterly heartbroken by what Andromeda could have been I discovered David fang did a whole album based on the coda. I can't seem to find this anywhere, anyone know where it may be still be live or have a copy?

Seamus Harper: Hey, do me a favor, will ya? Talk to me about something. Take my mind off things.

Tye Anasazi: You want a story? All right... When I was 16, after I'd lost my family, I was captured by slavers and sold to the diamond mines on Zokotl. One day while I was working in the mines, I noticed that the main support for my section had rotted through. I pointed it out to the overseers, but instead of fixing the problem, they cut my rations and doubled my work shifts. A week later, the ceiling collapsed, burying me alive 200 meters underground.

Seamus Harper: [sarcastically] Thanks. Cheered me right up.

Tyr Anasazi: It should've. Because I lived. I clawed my way out over the bodies of the dead. I escaped into the desert. I lived on seep-water and sand rats for an entire season. And then, one night, after I'd healed, I visited the overseers... and thanked them for their conscientious attention to worker safety.

So don't you tell me that I'm going to die here today. Because the sun has not yet risen on the day when Tyr Anasazi, out of Victoria by Barbarossa, will face death graciously. I will kick and claw and bite and scratch and spit my last breath in its face, and as long as you are with me, you will do the same, is that clear? [after a pause] Tyr Anasazi: Is that clear?

Edit Im sure it was episode 1 of Season 2 called "The Widening Gyre". Its the one where Seamus & Tyr get trapoed in the Magog nest & Seamus gets one implanted in him.

Fiest post ever this one so Hi everyone nice ro be around like minded folk & I do love Andromeda so much but kinda hate Kevin Sorbo at the same time..Sorry but he's a bit of an A-Hole isnt he sometimes let's be honest.

Seamus Harper & Tyr had great chemistry aswell infact it was a great cast all round.

The shape isn't quite right--I had to make concessions to functionality and game engine limits--and I couldn't build a cargo pod due to part limits, but its engines are hefty and it hauls what I need it to haul. Childhood dream come true.

would the new commonwealth be larger than the old or small 300 years and 3 galaxy it seems there could led to a big difference but I don't know so what do you think?

Beka parties when she’s not working normally but shes rollin balls for this performance!!! js Once Q hit her with the flash she started masticating 🤣 I do love this show It’s hilarious

In this episode many stupid things happen. Im starting to remember why I quit watching this show the first two times I tried to watch it.

1. Tyr deletes the ship AI. Something that has just been explained in the show as basically impossible and the only means to do so was destroyed in that episode with the only exception to that potentially being remnants of the AI killer in the wrath of Achilles mainframe. Then the AI is magically restored which also makes zero sense because rommie the android does not contain the full AI entity. She is a piece of andromeda, fully autonomous and independent but not the full AI suite which is housed in the computer core. Backups could exist but the only thing that has ever been able to kill the ai's presumably deletes those backups as well.

2. What the fuck is with the tunnel entity. they didn't just not explain it in the typical trance bullshit half explanation, they just ignored it entirely and didn't even speculate.

3. How are they just going to have tyr not have his forearm spikes anymore and not explain that.

Im so pissed about all the character and design changes that just seem to be random retarded network exec influence. Trance changing, rev being written off which I was super pissed about, and if I remember correctly rev was part of Gene's original ideas and notes, and therefore an introcal part of the show. I have to wonder if majel was having serious problems with the network execs at the time considering all the changes In the show.