BTS:Peace Station Harbinger History and Thoughts

Foreword - History of the Peace Station

It all began when me, Shok and Dalleer were in the elementary school, I think it was the fourth grade. Before that we had been part of other scifi RPGs at the school, mostly Star Wars.
     Before the Peace Station, however, Dalleer and I created the Gigerdians. Dalleer can be thanked for figuring out the name, the story of that is kind of funny. At first the Gigerdians were allies of the "rebels" known from Star Wars against the Empire and Hevoset (horses). Peace Station, the station, was created by Shok independently. I can't remember when the two were merged. Later, the Bacterians, created by Namgron, were added to the Peace Station. Namgron stopped being active in the Peace Station after elementary school.
     Later the rebels and Empire were removed, and some Star Trek races were included. The UFP, Romulans and such. Which still exist in some form or another. So the idea of the Peace Station universe has existed, and expanded, a lot over the years and is still thriving. I don't know are there any other similar "universes". The one thing I also like about the Peace Station is that it hasn't been created by a single person, but there has been several others. Other people have contributed a small amount to the story too, so it's a very large universe with different kind of stories, as we do have our own unique style.

Harbinger - The Beginning

The idea for a Peace Station movie started during the year 2002. I saw a movie made by one of my classmates at the end of junior high (yläaste). A thought came to my mind: We should try doing a Peace Station movie.
     I presented my idea to Shok and Dalleer; at first they both refused to even consider it. They thought it was a stupid idea that would never work. So, I abandoned the idea. This was during the beginning of the summer.
     Then, several months later, during the autumn Dalleer mentioned about the idea and said that it might actually be a good one. We then started to do the necessary planning. We didn't know anything about filmmaking, but that didn't stop us. The budget was decided to be as small as possible and I do have to admit that it was too small.      We then informed Shok about our plans and invited him to write a portion of the script. We decided that Dalleer would write the beginning, Shok the middle and me the end. Later on I ended up writing scenes pretty much all over the script.      It was relatively difficult to figure out a good story with the limited resources we had. We wanted to include the actual Peace Station in the first movie. The reason we included Exploreison was mostly due to the backgrounds for the greenscreens and familiar characters. At first we wanted the story to be canon, later on, mostly due to the inclusion of the "unkown enemy" it was decided to be non-canon. However, later it once again became canon which caused some problems in the main story.
     The initial script was short. I then decided to add some additional scenes that would be filmed if we were to get enough actors.
     We tried to get all the stuff as cheap as possible. The guns were bought from a flea market, the fabric used with the uniforms were bought from Eurokangas, as well as the greenscreen, which was probably the most expensive one. Tricorder and communicators were made from cardboard. The camera was gotten from Työväenopisto. The ears and the unknown enemy cloak were bought from Pilaulupuoti. The eyes were paper and the green skin paint was cheap finger paint from Tiimari, which was probably the biggest mistakes in the movie. Planet battle had a proper green paint. The finger paint was really horrible; the first time you put it it produced horrible feeling of burning on your skin. That lessened on the later times. I still didn't want to put that stuff close to my mouth or eyes, which can be seen well.
     I don't think any of the stuff cost any more than 200 €. So the budget was really small. It was paid by both Dalleer and me.
     Obviously we also needed a filming location(s) and actors. I was able to recruit two people, who in the end didn't really participate in the movie. One was this guy from Kerava I think, who I met in the Jumpgate MMO. Yeah, that's right, I remember you! He seemed interested at first, but never showed up in the filming session 'cause he was "too busy". Well, contact was later lost so I think he just wasn't interested anymore. The second one was this Russian guy who was also pretty interested at first and wanted to get his own ideas to the movie. We weren't too interested in them. He actually even joined on one of our filming sessions.