History
Overview
In 1998, Daniel Quick and Markos Giannopoulos agreed to merge their respective Civilization II fansites and form Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS). The joint press release issued by Quick and Giannopoulos would be the first of many, setting out what the site would incorporate, how it would operate and discussing future plans. Little attention was paid to the roads travelled to get to that point.
Within a year of this time, a general however brief history of how ACS came into being was published on-site. In 2002, a separate but still relativeley brief account of the life of Quick's Ultimate Civilization II Site (UCIVII) was released. That same year, as part of ACS' three-year celebration, ACS staff member and Interview Chief 'Solver' chatted with Quick in an in-depth two-part feature that in part delved into Quick's past and UCIVII's role in it. That Quick was the one who initiated merger talks was revealed for the first time, a question that many ACS fans had been pushing for an answer for years. Many other questions remained unanswered, and others still unasked. Until now.
The first volume in a multi-part serial, The History of Apolyton Civilization Site (THOACS), has been completed. Written by Quick, the nearly 9,000 words in "An Ultimate Journey" go over in greater detail than ever before publicly disclosed the trials, tribulations and triumphs of UCIVII from its founding to its morphing. Nearly 150 endnotes speak to the effort and extent of research conducted by Quick to make this work as comprehensive and authoritative as possible. Readers are also being given the opportunity to ask the author [Preface/Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5] any questions and share any thoughts they may have about the work through ACS' 'Apolyton/Community' forum to allow the greatest exposure to those inquiries as possible.
Each of "Journey"'s five chapters are being released at separate times; as a bonus, its Preface and Conclusion will be published with the first and fifth chapters respectively. The table of contents below provides links to already released parts and *tentative* publishing dates for those not yet released.
A second volume, documenting Giannopoulos' The First Greek Civilization 2 Site (TFGC2S) in similar fashion, is just entering the planning stages. Looking even more long-term, it is hoped that a separate volume for each year of ACS' existence will also be written/compiled and distributed. That said, how well (or not) THOACS' first volume is generally received will greatly influence and perhaps even determine if, how many and to what extent future instalments are written and released.
