The Accelerated Racing Association - A Sales Pitch
On December 1st, I will be posting the first of many pieces of media dedicated to a new brand of WSAD content, titled The Accelerated Racing Association.
The Accelerated Racing Association – A Sales Pitch
The Accelerated Racing Association – A Sales Pitch
Since this is such a new brand of content from me, I wanted to describe what the Accelerated Racing Association is. (For the remainder of this document I will be largely referring to it as the ARA.)
It started as a combination of a few different inspirations, mostly originating from my childhood growing up as a 90’s kid. I only played Nintendo, owned a SNES, N64, and then GameCube. I was a big fan of F-Zero, Extreme G, and Star Fox. Most people know about F-Zero and Star Fox, but Extreme G might be a bit of a mystery to some of my younger followers that missed out on the 90’s and some of the early 2000’s. (Extreme G was a science-fiction themed racing game, debuting on the Nintendo 64 before going multiplatform with the 3rd and 4th game. In Extreme G you drove a big tank-like motorcycle at very high speeds. Similar to Mario Kart, you could drive though icons on the track to summon weapon systems to your bike and destroy your opponents.)
The 90’s and 2000’s were also a cornucopia of “furry” franchises, an entire era where a talking fox or raccoon was not seen as weird, but totally normal inside gaming. Star Fox, Sly Cooper, Crash Bandicoot, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Spyro the Dragon, Banjo Kazooie, and even Glover (you played as a sentient glove!). These days a lot of this type of media is sidelined by mainstream game developers and publishers, with them preferring to focus on realism and human characters (TLOU, CoD, et al). Hastag Not All GameDevs. Nintendo still exists even if they forget that they own Star Fox for decades at a time.
But what I wanted to create with the ARA was a sci-fi-themed motorcycle racer with an extensive lore built up behind it. I’m blending together the depth of F-Zero, the motorcycle concept from Extreme G, and the furries from Star Fox. I want it to have a history, a legacy, a set of rules, and an entire world that revolves around it as if it was a truly living breathing thing. Most of my audience is familiar with my San Furnando content, which is set in a fully continuous and interconnected world. I want that same level of detail and world building for the ARA. When you consume ARA media, I want you to feel like it’s a real franchise filled with lore and things to explore.
Now, much of my San Furnando content is NSFW, but my intentions for the ARA are largely SFW. I will be treating it as a brand much like how I handle my fantasy novel, The Silver Sea. You might see some pin-up art appear here and there as advertising, but the focal point and purpose is not to turn the ARA into a porn studio, but to seriously treat it as a Racing league that spans the entire solar system.
So that all answers the question of: What is the ARA?
But the question left unanswered is: But what IS the ARA?
In the far-flung future of 2166AD, The Moto League of Racing was renamed and restructured into what is now known as the Accelerated Racing Association. Under the leadership of CEO Phillip Black, the Association expanded and grew until it permeated every world mankind had settled upon. Starting on Earth, it spread to the Lunar colonies, and then beyond to Mars. As its popularity and revenue grew, a push was made to breach the asteroid belt. Within a few short decades the ARA had built racetracks on Titan, Ganymede, Callisto, and even the sole space colony that orbits Jupiter. Mankind’s population has broken past 11 billion and the revenue for the ARA has swelled to countless trillions of dollars every year, outpacing that of most sovereign nations.
As a result, the Accelerated Racing Association is the largest sports corporation in the Solar System. Nothing comes close to touching it with its size, influence, and popularity. Spanning multiple planets, it sees tens of thousands of participants racing on its tracks every single year. In addition to its professional racing circuit, it even has a juvenile circuit that promotes high speed racing to youths starting at the age of 13. Functionally, the ARA is a mega-corporation that has infiltrated nearly every aspect of society with children going to school with lunchboxes emblazoned with the ARA logo, to families owning home appliances sold by retired drivers (like George Foreman grills), and the news circulating ream after ream of the scandals concerning politicians being bribed and bought off by ARA officials.
The ARA is massive, powerful, and very popular even when it’s controversial. It brings high octane racing to the hungry masses, dangerous death-defying thrills, startling upsets and crazier surprises, and even bigger paydays to happy onlookers. Every day and with each and every race, the ARA delivers on its promise to entertain and enthrall. It’s the single sport that captivates all of mankind in a way that no other sport can.
So.
What I am planning on doing with the ARA specifically, is giving you a steady drip feed of stories and media revolving around a core cast of professional drivers in the ARA. Each driver has a name, an incredible bike, and a story of their own to be told. They all have unique histories, and each has their own drive and motivation to race on the deadliest tracks the ARA has to offer. Some want gold, some want glory, and others have a higher purpose.
And they all want to make it to the Caelum Run, the most important (and deadly) race in the ARA.
My objective as a storyteller is much the same as the ARA’s mission statement. To entertain and enthrall. I hope I can be successful in this endeavor, and I hope that everyone gives the Accelerated Racing Association a chance.
Thank you very much for reading, and happy racing!
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