Welcome to the HoloNet Uplink, citizen. This series focused on Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars Roleplaying Game, with content aimed mostly at the Gamemaster. Threats, adventure seeds, rules supplements, and more are available for those who access The HoloNet Uplink.
Gentlebeings, it has been an absolute honour to run the HoloNet Uplink for the past, three? Wow. Three years. But as they say, all good things must come to an end. Today I must bid farewell to the HoloNet Uplink as I take on new projects.
I’ll take this my farewell article to awkwardly and aimless reminisce about the series. Writers prerogative, I’m going to sneak a few comments about some pre-HoloNet Uplink firsts in as well. Let’s begin with some firsts.
Firsts
First Article: Rules Lawyer – Purchasing Mechanics (July 29, 2015)
From the early times before the blog was cool with using copyrighted imagery. I had completely forgotten my first post was such an academic overview. Reading it now, I don’t remember writing it but I do recognize my own voice.
To my fellow writers, have you ever looked back on something you’ve written years ago? What strange feeling to see this forgotten, yet familiar text.
First Star Wars Article: Black Market – Hunter’s Armoury – The Basics (July 30, 2015)
Ahhh, I vaguely remember this post. I don’t remember the details, but I recognize my earlier trademark style. Three or so section headings, a conclusion, and a call for readers to chime into the comments below. I also see I used the non-American spelling of armoury!
With the sheer number of books out now, I wonder how someone else would tackle an article on the basics of bounty hunter gear! Maybe someone will write that soon?
First Holonet Uplink: Rebellion in a Box Campaign Concept (February 4, 2016)
Hey! Bet you folks haven’t seen the budget matrix binary hallway image in a while. Pretty sure I could’ve come up with something better, but that was the best free image I could find in 73 seconds of searching.
I actually quite liked these campaign outlines, although I never got the sense they were very in demand. One of my regrets is perhaps never “cracking the code” as to how to do these in a compelling manner. Maybe someone can show me how to do it?
Stats
Once I began the HoloNet Uplink, I decided it was best for focus on my own brand of Star Wars content. In honour of this farewell, I decided to run some basic stats on the types of content I posted on HoloNet Uplink. I roughly categorized them and put the data in the table below. Can you tell I’m a social scientist?
While I jumped around a lot at the beginning, I think this table makes it pretty clear I quickly became an “NPC and Ships Guy.” I was surprised by these totals. I guess they really add up over time!
| Total Posts | 150 |
| Ships and Vehicles | 37 |
| NPCs and Threats | 59 |
| Old School Chart Cool | 7 |
| Bounty Postings | 5 |
| Target Packages | 5 |
| Interviews | 6 |
| Campaign Content | 6 |
| Reviews | 6 |
| Gazetteer | 10 |
| Other | 14 |
Final Words
I want to express my thanks to everyone who made my time with the HoloNet Uplink possible. Wayne and Linda, my editors, for their exceptional patience in the face of some exceptionally late turn ins. Friends who I have consulted. The fine folks of course who keep the servers running with their donations to Patreon.
Most of all, thanks to everyone who read my content and left kind (or otherwise!) words. I hope at least some of my content has been useful to you and your games!
Well, don’t get all mushy on me. I’ll be sticking around the Gamer Nation, will be seeing many of you at Gamer Nation Con, and I do I have another article series in mind…. And, I look forward to sharing some upcoming projects with you when I can.
Christopher Hunt
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