Star Atlas Story Writing Competition
We invite you to participate in the (first ever) Star Atlas “Rebirth” Story Writing Competition!
Together with Grape, Aephia Industries is organizing a short story-writing competition set within the Star Atlas metaverse. Now that the Star Atlas’ Rebirth event has concluded and the project is entering a new phase with the GAO and soon the launch of the mini-game, we wanted to take you back to the lore-heavy meta-poster campaign!
The White Paper that was originally presented by the team contained a brief overview of the factions, but it was the Rebirth campaign that provided us with a closer look at the lore that would form the foundation for today’s strive and conflict in the game. Now that the stream of information has stopped (temporarily we hope!), it is up to all of you in the Star Atlas community to deepen the lore from that campaign with your own stories!
In this competition, we ask you to create a short story that directly relates to (one of) the events outlined in the lore attached to the Rebirth posters.
(read on below for the full lowdown)
Participation
In order to be eligible to join this competition you will need to own one of the following NFT’s in your wallet:
- a meta-poster from the Rebirth campaign, or
- the Armstrong Forever poster, or
- the Grape Desert Ape in your wallet
Additionally you will need to have:
- a verified Star Atlas Holder wallet in the Grape Discord
If you do not own a poster yet: You can trade for one at the Galactic Marketplace on the Star Atlas website. Check the wiki for a list of all posters.
If you’re wallet is not verified on Grape’s Discord server yet: Please visit their Discord and follow the following steps:
- Verify your Solana wallet
- Click the wallet and Star Atlas emojis
Submission
In order to successfully participate you will have to post your story submission in the #atlassian-writing-contest channel on Grape’s Discord server.
Note: Due to Discord’s character limit, you likely have to post using a few posts.
Read on below for a full overview of the rules!
Rules
To level the playing field and make sure people do not present us with entire books to read (please contact the team and publish those though!), we apply the following rules:
- Your story’s length should be between 724–2021 words.
- Your story should somehow relate to the lore in one (or multiple) of the Rebirth meta-posters
- You will need to submit your story in the #atlassian-writing-contest channel
- The deadline for this submission is September 21st 00:00 UTC
Note: To see all Rebirth-related lore at a glance, please check out the associated page on the community wiki.
Prizes
1st place:
- 100,000 Grape
- 1 x Pearce X5
2nd place:
- 50,000 Grape
- 1 x Pearce X4
3rd place:
- 10,000 Grape
- 1 x Pearce X4
The bag of Grape will be kindly donated by Grape, and the spaceships are courtesy of Aephia Industries. These ships will be the first ones delivered under the our banner!
Choosing the Winner
Everyone in the community can participate by upvoting their favorite stories until September 23rd 0:00 UTC, 2 days after the end of the submission period.
The top 10 stories (most thumbs-up) will be judged by none other than Santi (Star Atlas’ Community Coordinator), Star Savage (Star Atlas’ Head of Communications) and Pablo Quiroga (Star Atlas co-founder and CRO)! Together they will pick the final winner and the two runner-ups.
Note: We claim no ownership of your work, it remains yours to do with as you like!
This is an exciting time for the metaverse; together we are writing the story of Star Atlas!
ABOUT GRAPE
Grape Protocol is a toolset for building token-based membership communities on Solana. The network’s tools help DAOs and decentralized communities coordinate members, communication, and incentives more effectively. Grape Protocol’s community, The Grape (“Great Ape”) Community, is a token-based membership community focused on accelerating the growth and adoption of Solana. To learn more about Grape Network, please visit https://grapes.network/.
ABOUT STAR ATLAS
Star Atlas is a next-gen gaming metaverse emerging from the confluence of state of the art blockchain, real-time graphics, multiplayer video game, and decentralized financial technologies.
Real-time graphics technology using Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite allows for cinematic quality video game visuals. Blockchain technology using the Solana protocol established a largely serverless and secured gameplay experience. Non-fungible tokens obtained and traded within Star Atlas creates an economy that replicates the tangibility of real world assets and ownership. To learn more, visit StarAtlas.com.
ABOUT AEPHIA INDUSTRIES
Aephia Industries is one the corporations, or player organizations, within the Star Atlas metaverse. Inside the (extended) lore of Star Atlas, its primary goal is constructing, servicing and selling spaceships. In the real world Aephia’s focus is on helping its members reach their full potential in-game and to maximize both profit and enjoyment. Aephia Industries fully embraces the Play & Earn ideal, instead of solely focussing on playing to earn.
Aephia Industries is dedicated to the empowerment of every sentient being — to making interstellar travel accessible to each and every individual so as to help us experience true personal freedom and gain control of our own destiny.
— Aephia Industries — Mission statement
To learn more, visit Aephia Industries’ Discord.
