The mention of the base editor brought a tear to my eye.
I remember the bases I built. The one I was most proud of was my base for The Villains of Paragon City on the Virtue server. You see, Arbiter Fallen's base was taken down in John Starkweather's absence, so it fell unto me, in May, to design the whole thing from scratch.
It was still never completed. I used all 20,000 decorative items and was constantly going in there, substituting one item that could do the work of five, and so on. But in that time, I built some of the most beautiful structures that I ever did, sinking hundreds of hours into it.
I built an arena with at least a hundred seats for spectators.
I built a full medical bay with operating rooms and a holding area for test subjects.
I built a four building barracks with three floors each. It looked like an apartment block from Dark Astoria or Kings Row. about 5,000 items were in that room alone.
I built a tank with a crew compartment that could hold a dozen troops. Battle stations in the turret and in the hull.
I built a small shuttle in our seven room space battlecruiser, designed to go up against Jagged Edge's space station SG base in a roleplay battle we never waged.
And I was even building a new security entrance the day I...heard the news on August 29th.
...I never worked on that VoPC base again after that...
It seems that we had more urgent things to worry about, like exploring content, getting badges, experiencing the game before it went out.
And yet, even though I don't have the base anymore, I can still imagine myself walking through its halls as Femme Fencer. I can imagine with clarity jumping over items, examining every room. It makes me believe what Thomas Hobbes said about the end of the world, that if everything in the universe were destroyed, the human mind would be able to recreate it in every detail.
Indeed, if we ever
do get the game back, I'd redo everything if had to be redone. And, hopefully DrakeGrimm, you'll be able to recreate that roof in your own SG base.
