Potential employment looms as a specter over the endless void of my free time. It's dark and not a little scary in such a void, time seems to have no meaning, and consequently what is motivation but a fleeting dream? Thus, having even such a limitation as the mere possibility of a job provides some much needed context.

Furthermore, I've fallen into a very good habit of burning 500-1000 calories a day on exercise. It takes hours of low-intensity exercise, during which I've most recently been watching kids anime I'm not particularly proud to admit I've been watching, but my motivation has sharply increased. Seems a bit of my true self emerges whenever I get myself to exercise.

So I'm going to restart BYOND development. My 4X/RPG hybrid being tentatively titled "Project Cryoship" will fixate on an idea that my mind seems to be returning to often enough that I think it's something I really want to do:

Basically, the player is 20th/21st century people (like you and me) who died and had their remains sent to cryonics. Next thing you know, you wake up in the distant future to discover that you're aboard a ship whose sole purpose is to facilitate the revival of you and your fellow fossils.

From there, the game becomes a full fledged Sci-Fi RPG with some strategic elements. Each server is essentially its own cryoship in its own pocket of the galaxy, enabling players to define their own adventures. Each cryoship will have control consoles to travel around the universe, and a mission: to colonize the sector, beating back an ever-increasing threat to the survival of the human race.

Part Space Station 13, part Star Trek, part Battlestar Galactica. That's the goal, anyway.