We Are The Opal Star

WE ARE THEOpal StarISSUEN.1 // YEARone // May2021

ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN | ART | MUSIC | EVENTS | LIFESTYLE

The Trubblemakers
Interview!

The DEFINITIVE
insight on the Opal Star

49 stunning pages

Interview by
JESSICAx

Opal Star
ISSUE N.1

EDITORIAL

Executive editor
Amy Trubblemaker

Feature editor

JessicaX

Art director

Sinthea “The Huntress” Trubblemaker

Managing director

Sinthea “The Huntress” Trubblemaker

Production manager

JessicaX

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Trubblemaker Industries
Conference Room, Deck A
The HMS Opal Star

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Sinthea “The Huntress” Trubblemaker

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Editorial

While it can be said that the Opal Star itself is
a project of passion and love, this interview and
magazine around it is precisely that. Our project,
our lives, of passion and love.

HMS Opal Star is a great many things. It’s a room in 3DX. Its a world built
around a room. Its story built around a Sci-fi fantasy. Its a story about the
creator. Its an event. Its a party. Its passion project. Its a DJ’s performance
room. It was at the center of contraversary at times. It launched loving
relationships. It drew people together. It made friends. It made a family. Its a
room designed for sex and love making. Its a room designed for the users to
find love. Its for exploration. Its for dancing. All these things and more can
be said about HMS Opal Star.
And while it can be said that the Opal Star itself is a project of passion and
love, this interview and magazine around it is precisely that. Our project, our
lives, of passion and love. This magazine is a peek, a temporary and limited
view into the lives that created (on Amy’s part) and helped propel (both Amy
and myself ) the Opal Star as a fixture in the 3DX community.
It is often said that Amy and I are an anomoly of 3DX, the length and
the solidarity of relationship is by no means unique but is rare among the
majority of 3DX players and how connected we are to each other, how much
our lives have intertwined within and without 3DX is really part of the story
of how and why HMS Opal Star came to be.
One way to put it is like this: The Opal Star is Amy Trubblemaker and I.
Amy and I are the Opal Star. And while our family of crew members have
grown beyond just us two, the story of the Opal Star is us.
We are the Opal Star.
Sinthea “The Huntress” Trubblemaker
Managing Director

Editorial <<< 01

who we are what is the opal star creative process

04 10 18

An Artists Dream

20

The Yin/Yang of Creation

22

Opal Star Fashion

02 >>> Contents

Contents

the dream’s refit roles and family what sets it apart?

24 34 40

The Refit Roles and Family What sets it apart?

28 36 42

Narative & Plot Opal Star Couture Final Thoughts

38

Openings and Events

Contents <<< 03

04 >>> who we are

WHO WE ARE

who we are <<< 05

JESSICAX “ I met Amy…. in Aug
I recently contacted AmyTrubblemaker & We met in Space Girl’s
Sinthea to see if they would be interested in went head to head on S
doing an interview. So after a week or so, we lost but I remember us
finally found some time to sit down and talk.
Here’s is the exclusive interview with the creators/

hosts of The Opal Star.

Jess: First of all, I want to thank you both
for taking the time to sit down with me
and allowing me to pick your brains a little.
Second, I want to admit that I have loved
the Opal Star from the 1st moment that I
entered. I was quite literally in shock at the
attention to detail and the overall design
and ambiance that was created. It truly is a
work of art.

Could you please tell me a little
bit about yourselves?

Amy: Hi, I’m Amy. I live in Canada and
have been playing 3dx for a year and a
half.

The Huntress (Sinthea): rolls my eyes and
giggles Amy is much more than that. She’s
my 3dx wife, my partner both in and out
of crime, she plays Star Citizen with me in
my org, plus a host of other games. Before
the pandemic, she saved lives on a daily
basis and she is a creative genius.

Amy: I saved one thankless life of a bratty
child lol (was a lifeguard)

The Huntress (Sinthea): Hi, I’m The
Huntress. In 3dx, I go by Sinthea, and I
have been playing 3DX for a few fewer
months than Amy. About 4 fewer months

06 >>> who we are

I think. In 3DX, I DJ, and thanks to my
wife here, I now build and of course, fuck.
I’ve been DJing for about ten years now.
My broader gaming moniker has been
The Huntress for about seven years. I’m
Japanese and live in Northern California.

How did you two initially
meet?

The Huntress (Sinthea): I met Amy….
in August probably of 2019? We met in
Space Girl’s space trivia room. We went
head to head on Space Trivia… I think
I lost but I remember us both getting
naked. grins I also noticed Amy, primarily
as a kindred soul, we both had a serious
love of Space. And that’s pretty hard to
find in a sex-game. So I just took a mental
note of her name then. It wasn’t until later
that AmyTrubblemaker came up again in
my life.

gust probably of 2019?
s space trivia room. We
Space Trivia… I think I
s both getting naked.”

who we are <<< 07

What is the
Opal Star?

OK so... what exactly is the Opal Star?

Amy: The Opal Star is a 3dx nightclub room themed as
a spaceship. It is fully realized inside and out, meaning
that it has a fully modeled interior and exterior. It has
everything you would expect of a luxury cruise ship.
It has all the functional stuff: A bridge, briefing room,
captain’s office, captain’s quarters, mainframe, a medical
facility, a shuttle bay, an engine room, engines, and
defenses. It also has all the amenities for passengers:
Private cabins, a massage room, a clinic, a restaurant,
a ballroom, a nightclub, a swimming pool, hot tubs, a
fountain, it even has a park with trees!

The Huntress (Sinthea): shakes my head and smiles 01. The Opal Star
adoringly at Amy It’s so much more than that. The docked at Citadel
build itself pushes the limits of scalability and feature/
function of 3DX. The Opal Star is not just a spaceship. Station near the
Its new worlds, its new adventures. its giant robot fights, gas giant, Sinthea,
its death races, its alien kitties, its omniscient A.I., its
mystery. Finally, its Amy’s very heart and soul she poured where both AIMIE
into it. It has her signature. It beats with the pulse of her and ANNIE were
mind. It evolves. It changes. It explores and travels. It born.
is a personality. It is a story. It is about people coming
together to do something positive. Finally, I think the
Opal Star is more about the people that are touched by
its existence, not least of all, Amy and I. To this point,
the characters she created for the ship, AIMIE, inspired
me to name my Tesla after that A.I.

10 >>> What is the Opal Star?

01.

What is the Opal Star? <<< 11

02.
03.

04.

05.

02. What inspired the original idea for the Opal Star and what
Opal Star Ultimate Fight was your drive to take on such a large project?
Championship Round
Amy: I just always liked science fiction and who doesn’t want their own spaceship
03. right? I don’t really know what my drive was, to be honest. I just wanted to build it,
Ship Scale Fighting I think part of what drove me was just encouragement from people who saw it in
Robots built by Amy progress. I guess I like to please people, or maybe the praise just felt nice.

04. The Huntress (Sinthea): Let me preface this by saying, that there is no other ship,
Captain Amy celebrating starship or otherwise, that I have seen that is like the Opal Star. It is really a unique
Sinthea’s Birthday piece of art and a unique experience. All from Amy’s mind. What is amazing to me
that two separate creative works come together in different ways and yet still have
05. the ability to inspire each other. It comes back to a tour of the Opal Star that I took.
The Opal Star combats During that tour, Amy mentioned some additional things she needed to work on and
an aggressive ancient A.I. things she was not happy with. And that got me thinking…
defense system on an
alien world.

12 >>> what is the opal star?

06.

For seven years, I’ve been a deep backer of a special gaming project called Star Citizen. 06.
In that game, there is a ship called the 890 Jump that essentially has the same function HMS Opal Star visits
as the Opal Star, a Space Luxury Cruise Liner, but just in a different form. I was San Francisco, Earth after
like… this Opal Star is a different shape but it’s a sister ship. So during her tour, she
mentioned she was going on holiday for some inspiration. I linked her to a video a year voyage.
called “An Architect Reviews the 890 Jump.” You see, I do see Amy as an architect.
Her thought process and creative process mimics exactly what architects do. Little
did I know at the time but she watched the video on her trip and this would help
her finalize some part of the Opal Star that was giving her trouble. That connection
with the 890 Jump would stick with us until much later in our budding relationship.
Since that time, we talked a lot about the 890 Jump as it relates to our Star Citizen
experience that we share together. We crew it together in Star Citizen. Have RP stories
going on there. Later on, it would take on a lesser but important role in putting on
the Opal Star experience.

what is the opal star?<<< 13

001.

02. 03. 04.

14 >>> What is the Opal Star?

Who is the mastermind and builder behind the Opal Star?

Amy: “Mastermind” is a bit of a stretch lol. But I am the builder.

The Huntress (Sinthea): It’s an understatement. Continuing off our meeting at
the trivia contest, at the time, my ex pointed Amy out to me as someone building a
“neat” room that we should go meet. It turns out at the time, Amy was opening up
01. the Opal Star for walk-throughs while it was still incomplete, but a good 80% of it
Captain Amy and
Commander Sinthea was done. She met us and gave us a tour and I was star struck. Floored by it. Early
celebrate their renewal on in 3DX, I got a sense of what is possible and what most people were doing with
of vows during their 6th the world editor. This blew away both of those things in one tour.
month half-a-versary

02. I remember walking through it and thinking to myself, this is not my own
Opal Star & Daymar
Rally Cross-over Event imagination but this is an imagination that I have a kinship with. Everything was
(Star Citizen) there, down to the finest details. Color-coded decks, Med-bays, lounge rooms,

03. cuddle spots, and finely tuned opulence, even in it’s early stages. All the details were
The Opal Star visits the focused, not on the convenience of sex-play but on the immersion of the experience
890 Jump (Cross-over of being on an interstella cruise liner.
Event)

04. Right down to Amy’s use of a text to speech program to make announcements
New Years Day 2021 for the ship sound like it was coming from an Artificial Intelligence that was at
Opal Star Event, view
from Ballroom docking the heart of the ship. That level of detail and experience building is what I found
port. unique to what she built. I don’t find it any other place in 3DX. I’ve said this before

and it really is true. Amy is details. You see it everywhere in the Opal Star. Amy is
details.

“...I was star struck. Floored

by it. ...what is possible

in 3DX...This blew away

...those things in one tour.”

What is the Opal Star? <<< 15

05. Ängelhjärta in Hell
The Digital Reality cre-
ated by ANNIE within 05.

Citadel Station 06.
06.

The Opal Star Halloween
Event
07.

The Opal Star prepares for
it’s refit in the Dry Dock
built by Trubblemaker
Skunkworks
(The Huntress)

Opal Star Refit Drydock 07.

The Scale of Amy’s Creations

08.
The view from the port side viewport near the ballroom of the Opal Star with 08.
Captain Amy looking on for scale of what she built for the Ultimate Robot Fight-
ing Championship. The scale of these creations are common at the Opal Star.

16 >>> What is the Opal Star?

09.
09.

Dance Poles on display
10.

AIMIE V1.0 in her
alcove
11.

The New Ballroom Dance
Stage

Misfits dance team take the
10. new stage at the Opal Star

11.

What is the Opal Star? <<< 17

an
Artist’s
Dream

18 >>> Creative Process

Could you please elaborate more about
your creative process?
Amy: I basically just wanted the ship to be easy That was the only real direction going in.
to manage (that meant making it modular), to Before I started getting really comfortable with
not be heavy-handed with the science part of the tools and familiar with the shapes, I was
science fiction, to make it feel like a cruise ship, just throwing shapes together. I still do now
and to make it pretty. I also knew I wanted it actually, but along with more of a mental plan
to have trees in it, like a biodome, just so it since I am more familiar with the shapes and
wasn’t so claustrophobic. tools. Now I can imagine what is possible
Lastly, I didn’t want to add lifeboats/escape much easier. The more familiar you get with
pods. Instead, I wanted each passenger cabin to the tools, the easier it is to be creative. Right
be its own lifeboat, so if there was an emergency Sin?
the passengers would return to their cabins,
and the cabins then detach from the ship.

Creative Process<<< 19

The Yin/Yang of
Creation

The Huntress (Sinthea): Absolutely right. I think our creative process is a bit different though in a good
way. For me, my creative process is less vague in the beginning. But, saying that, I think that Amy is the
true artist. I’m more of a street brawler when it comes to actual art and creation. I actually start with
a clear vision in my mind of what I want and I try to do it in the editor and quickly fuck up and start
over and get frustrated and scream and cry and then Amy comes along to help. Start over and avoiding
the pitfalls, using the techniques she showed me, I’m able to bring it closer to my original vision. Now
I’m at the stage where I am going to be building the 890 Jump from the ground up, mostly on my own.
elbows Amy Using the 890 Jump room as a stage to show off how a build like this progresses to our guests
as well. I intended to open it as the construction of the starship above the sea-going version of the vessel
continues.

Could you please explain more about 890 Jump and how this ties in with
The Opal Star?

20 >>> Creative Process

The Huntress (Sinthea): So jump forward a few months, we eventually got married
in 3DX and started to put on Opal Star events on a regular basis. More on how the
two of us come together on that later. But it was around this time that I was wanting
to give a platform for DJs to shine. DJing in 3DX means that you have to seek your
performance slots, go by the timeframes and time zones of the hosts, and usually
curtail your genre of music to the host’s needs and desires. There isn’t a ton of creative
freedom there. So I wanted to design a room to turn that on its head completely. We
would pick a DJ to “Showcase”. That DJ determines when they can play, how long
their set is, and what genre they want to play. I had this other terrestrial luxury liner
room (sea-worthy vessel) that was part of a publicly shared build. I tore it apart from
its island and changed it around a bunch and called it the 890 Jump, in honor of the
Opal Star and her sister ship in Star Citizen. This also allowed us to schedule “a break”,
once a month for a week for Amy to break from the mad rush of a build and to give
us some time together. So it served two purposes, a simple way to take breaks from the
Opal Star without losing audience/guest interest and to showcase new and veteran DJs
who would, potentially, also appear in the Opal Star line-up.

So for me, this particular build isn’t one where I am free-form creating. As far as free-
form creating, I am doing some free-form creating with our camping ground project
where I am working with naturalistic environments. For the 890 Jump, I even took
01. it as far as building a dry dock inspired by Star Trek for its new construction area and
measured the exact length, width, and height of the ship so that I get it’s dimensioning
01. right. Coincidentally, the actual 890 Jump is pretty close in dimensions to the Opal
Opal Star Episode: The Star. Just differently shaped and designed.
AIMIE Denoument,
the climax of either
the destruction or Amy: Really makes me feel proud to see her grow as a builder and transition from
disappearance of struggling with basic things to being able to transfer ideas directly from her brain
AIMIE. and become a creative builder! She now knows as much as me, but still cementing

what she has learned to memory. Pretty much all my answers to her questions are just
reminders now!

02.
The Opal Star pool room,
one of five total dance
02. areas onboard the ship.

Creative Process <<< 21

Opal Star Fashion

1. 2. 3.
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BUY OFF

4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

1.LIFE GUARD/ Red and White Life Guard uniform, Red Corrupted Amy, Bobby Brackens sold seperately.
2.RED THEMED TEDDY/ Teddy, Red to match the TMI Skycar
3.CAPTAIN AND COMMANDER’S CASUAL BRIDGE UNIFORM/ Captain’s colors are White and Gold. Commander’s are Red
and Black
4.CAPTAIN’S AWAY TEAM UNIFORM/ White theme and blue skirt.
5.VALENTINE’S SEX UP/ Red and as slutty as possible.
6.WHITE AND ROUGH/ White and Sexy for the Captain. Punk for the Commander
7.MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS/ The White theme continous
8.ALIEN DANCE GROUP/ White and blue to contrast with the purple skin with AIMIE glowing in the background.
9.WHITE AND GOLD WEDDING/White theme continues with gold accented by dyed hair. Black accents.

FASHION <<< 23

The Dream’s Re

24 >>> The Refit

efit

The Refit <<< 25

01.
Sesnsor Dish/Particle Beam Cannon

02.
Dorsal Main Engine Particle Scoops

03.
The new aquarium/Ängelhjärta deck

04.
Opal Star Registry Numbers

Have you ever made any accidental The Huntress (Sinthea): The one accidental
discoveries while building? discovery I made when building is that I suck at
building. *grins* Seriously though, who knew
Amy: Yeah for sure! Some good, some bad lol. that city building material textures make solar
Bad: The place you go to when you open the panels look like powered space dry docks!? I’m
editor, and the place you go to when you invite still blown away at how stupid and easy that
someone to your apartment, are two different was. haha.
places. This causes problems when your build
gets big enough, and 3dx will crash trying to Was the Opal Star Refit an
hold both large files in memory (my theory accidental discovery?
anyway). If you are constantly crashing when
building and your room is getting to the 5MB Amy: You don’t suck at building! You’re getting
mark, you need to make sure you hit the little better all the time! Did I discover anything new
airplane and enter the single-player mode to with the refit? Mmm kinda? The big sensor
sync your “apartment” with your build. dish / particle beam cannon on the bottom was
Bad: The sphere shape always has a perfectly something I had played with before but couldn’t
spherical collision, meaning if you flatten get to look right until now. Also the crew area
it or squish it, people will bounce off the below decks, I “accidentally discovered” that that
perfect sphere collision instead of the non- area sucked haha. It never took off as a party
perfect sphere object. That said, with a little place, so I turned it into an aquarium with one
imagination, you can use that effect to your of the dolphin’s I used for the Citadel Station
benefit ;) where we introduced ANNIE. There were some
Good examples: new techniques I discovered along the way
You don’t need the mess around with the “stairs” though I just can’t think of them right now. I do
object to make stairs. You just build your own like the changes a lot, including the added night
steps out of horizontal objects. lighting and registration numbers. Although, to
You can use the shifting color “effect” material be honest, it has impacted performance, thus
behind colored glass to make simple animating limiting the complexity of the environments,
signboards. which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

26 >>> The Refit

“ 01. 02. “
There were some new techniques I
discovered along the way though...
including the added night lighting.

03. 04.

The Refit<<< 27

How do you develop the plot arcs

Fashion Stylistandtimelines?
the fantasy narrative of the Opal Star). Her
power grew exponentially within weeks of being
activated until she was able to “hack” into reality
and timelines.
When I was building the engine room, I was
trying to think of what powered the ship and
borrowed an idea from an old Japanese anime
called Robotech where the power source was
generated by the fission of organic cells held
in stasis. So for the Opal Star, I made a weird
“cell”, but much much larger. The idea being
that it was the cell of a macroscopic celestial
Amy: Well I’ve read and watched a lot of science
fiction. When I was little, my dad exposed me to
a lot of sci-fi in his library cuz he’s a huge dork
and a collector. So a lot of my ideas are inspired
by (or ripped off from) stuff I like.
For the core narrative, I had originally intended

MICAELAto host the room with a sexy blue holographic
alt, an Artificial Intelligence Matrix Interactive being from a higher dimension. Something
which only AIMIE could obtain.
On a week-to-week basis, I don’t have a lot of
time to really come up with anything original,
it’s more dictated by what I can build. It’s all
completely derivative… and not even saying
that to be self-deprecating. I’m proud of what
I like, I respect the creative works of others,
Envoy, or AIMIE for short. She is obviously an
homage to Cortana, from Halo.
I once read in a short story about AI’s getting
absorbed or escaping into a larger, unseen
computer network using the very fabric of
spacetime for processing power. Something also

DEBRINGechoed in other AI stories like in the movie
“Her”. This fascinated me and is why in the and my creativity comes in how I am able to
sample them and combine them into my own
ideas. I would say only 20% of my creativity is
completely original ideas, maybe even less, but I
also think that’s true of a lot of artists.
Opal Star narrative, AIMIE is the first “stable”
AI that didn’t shut down immediately after
activation. The reason why is because a very
real part of her psyche is human since her mind

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in nearby starlight
next to the gas giant,

designated Planet
Sinthea..

29 >>> Narrative & Plot

STATUS BOARD

The bridge, the command center of the Opal Star, is not only adorned
with the Opal Star status board in the conference room but is also
the home of the dedication plaque made by the Huntress herself to
commerate the the one year anniversary of their marriage. Their names

engraved in Japanese, sharing the final character in each.

The Huntress (Sinthea): See! I never knew that about the engine core being inspired by Robotech’s
protoculture matrix concept. It just seemed natural to me as part of the AIMIE story. I would say she
has the talent of seamlessly integrating concepts into her unique lore. And it’s not just the lore, plots,
and timelines where I keep discovering new things. Amy might be disappointed with me a bit but
every time I visit the Opal Star, even when it’s in my own editor to grab a screenshot or something, I
discover something new about it (and Amy) that I didn’t notice before. It’s not just an exaggeration.
She has such a refined process for creating everything down to the little details, it’s like exploring a new
world every time. And I love her for that.
As far as Chapter/Episode collaboration goes, I think one of the first times that we collaborated on a
full chapter was the Citadel Station Chapter, the birthplace of AIMIE storyline where, her sister A.I.,
ANNIE was also created and tried to digitally absorb the crew and guests of the Opal Star. I created
the ANNIE character, helped Amy figure out and design the clues that would leave the guests to
discovering what happened to the station’s human crew and I ended up playing ANNIE and actually
drove the “climax” of the story during one of our openings as ANNIE. And yes, ANNIE took on more
lewd/free-thinking when it comes to sexual experiences. *grins* At one point, ANNIE was going to be
a total whore with all the guests but we shied away from that given that, while kinky, we are not really
like that ourselves. That kind of collaboration doesn’t happen all the time, we just don’t have ourselves
that well organized to do that consistently but I am eternally grateful to Amy for that opportunity to
collaborate in the process.
Since then, I have contributed collaboratively in different ways in the chapters and it’s become part of
our “system” for churning our events out now.





What are your roles for these events Amy: Others we should mention: Obviously
and are there any other people that our DJ’s, we love it when they play for us and
should be mentioned or credited? bring their best, I started the Opal Star with just
my own music, and when Sin got involved she
Amy: In the fiction of the Opal Star, I am the volunteered to DJ and then more DJ’s followed!
Captain, and Sinthea is the Commander (second Also the dance groups: The Dreamgirls, the
in command). In reality, we are both hosts. As Bare Bunnies, The Misfits, The Devil Dancers,
the room builder, my hosting style is getting Flaunt, The TMF Dancers and more joining
bummed when not enough people show up, or I us in the future. It’s really fun seeing them up
see people getting stuck or lost lol. I also love it there dancing! And lastly, there are our regulars
when people thank me for making such a place. who bring their own personalities into the mix.
Makes me feel really good. It’s a good feeling that Bikini Kim, Chief Medical Officer, hosts after-
my room is a place where people are connecting parties in her personal cabin, and also gives us a
with each other, even falling in love :) hand with the occasional poster or photography
As for Sinthea, her role evolved over time. She <3. Errl “swings” by now and then playing the
was my first DJ. Then she helped me greet care-free and charming surgeon. Cuyliebear takes
people. Then she helped me organize more DJ’s, on the role of Xenobiologist, Caren eagerly gets
then started promoting my room across multiple involved in ship role play to hilarious effect, as
discords, making posters, and took over crafting does Etanazzi. Also, I have to give credit to Bobby
the AIMIE announcements! On her birthday I Brackens, a dear friend who got me over some
threw her a party and it was then that I gave her early emotional barriers and kept me relatively
the “keys” to the Opal Star and started sharing sane when building was especially challenging.
the build with her as my partner. The Huntress (Sinthea): More recently Caren,
Her help is invaluable to me, and I don’t even pay SaraBug and PolishPole have taken on the role
her! :P of junior officers, full on creating alien alts
that wear Opal Star unfiforms and everything!
The Huntress (Sinthea): I should pay her to Ensign Lucky, Sploosh and Bumfuzzle reporting!
participate! I can pay with kisses? *beaming* All From bartending to being eating by giant space
that and I think one of the parts that I am most tentacles, they really get into it. And rounding
excited about is that I recently proved, mostly to out our resident aliens, while not specifically
myself, that I can build stuff for Amy’s scene in crew, we have to mention SharaStarfire and
efficient and lightweight (in terms of build load) Shaniah who consistently show up as our resident
ways and they got included in her chapters! Not sexy alien guests! MarcOfCain consistently shows
all the time, it takes the right kind of project up as an resident feline alien. Even you Jessica,
and skill level but that’s a new way that we are don’t pretend I didn’t notice. ;) The list really goes
intermingling together. on and on. At one point, we considered opening
Opal Star as a full on RP experience for at least
Also, recently I started to run Opal Star lore one night for some fun. In fact, we’ve done that
trivia to help introduce the depth of our thought before, credit to Amy’s imaginative work, for
process that goes into designing an event to our Halloween We opened Spooky Star, two years
guests. in a row with great sound effects, ambiance and
even a little roleplay. Really fun stuff.

01.
New Years Day

Celebration.
HMS Opal Star Refit

35 >>> Roles and family

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1.CHIEF MEDIC/ Opal Star White with Medical Red Crosses Bodysuit
2.ENSIGN BUMFUZZLE/ Somtimes it’s what you not wear that says it all.
3.ENSIGN SPLOOSH AND THE OPAL STAR SWIM CREW/ Opal Star White for the suit. Thigh High White Boot and Lace
Gloves
4.ENSIGN LUCKY ALWAYS GETTING.../ The Opal Star White and Yellow reflects well on Lucky’s Blue/Green skin
5.THE SHARA/SHANIAH ALIEN PAIR/ It’s not just about “crew” fashion but resident alien fashion as well. Even so, Opal Star
White is prevelant against the darker melanon of the alien voyagers.
6.ALIEN GUEST OF THE WEEK/Break from tradition is just as important as the tradition itself.
7.BRIDGE OFFICER PROFESSIONALS/ Opal Star White and Command (Huntress) Red is prevelant for form-fitting Couture.
8.COMMAND PEACH/ White for the good Captain, her peach is adorned in white as is the tradition for the Opal Star. And we
love her for it. .
9.OFFICERS AND CREW/It’s not just what they wear, what they are doing is just as important. And that’s being friends.

COUTURE<<< 37

When is the Opal Star usually
open and what kind of events
and music are to be expected

for it’s visitors?

Amy: The Opal Star is open every Friday “Now we are embarking on our seco
at 7pm Eastern Time. Every opening is the Opal Star in drydock (built by S
considered an episode, and every month is upgrades, a starport in Egypt overlook
considered a chapter (or theme). So expect the 20th, a newly constructed starga
the Opal Star to be in a new location each
time it opens! take off to explore g
It’s been a year and a half now since
the Opal Star opened, and it went
from a starport on Earth to the Sun, to
Hyperspace, to a nebula, a science-fiction
version of Hell (for Halloween), an ocean
planet, a planet of dragons, a tropical
island inhabited by cat people (or first
shore leave!), a desert planet spectating
a rally race, a stargate, a space station
(second shore leave), cyberspace, a planet
taken over by an evil alien computer, a
space battle, a sanctioned giant robot
battle, Uranus, Mercury, and finally back
on Earth flying under the golden gate
bridge.
Now we are embarking on our second
journey, and already we’ve seen the Opal
Star in drydock (built by Sinthea!) getting
refitted with some upgrades, a starport
in Egypt overlooking the pyramids,
and coming up on the 20th, a newly
constructed stargate in orbit around
Earth, where we take off to explore galaxy
once again!

38 >>> Openings and events

The Huntress (Sinthea): As far as music
goes, we are both pretty eclectic and
diverse. I think there are few things you
won’t hear at the Opal Star is death/speed
metal and singers who are screaming or
roaring in your ears. You might hear a
dragon roar but not a singer. *grins* Also,
we shy away from Country music since it
doesn’t fit the time period and setting of
the Opal Star (not that Western themes
can’t belong in Sci-fi. I think we’ve all
seen Firefly and the Mandalorian prove
that.) We are just beyond talking about
our pickup truck and making things
“‘Murican”-centric in the 30th century.
Little known facts, but we also have a
collection of theme music, both sci-fi, and
orchestration driven, for the Opal Star
herself. These are often played before the
first announcement rolls.

ond journey, and already we’ve seen
Sinthea!) getting refitted with some
king the pyramids, and coming up on
ate in orbit around Earth, where we
galaxy once again!”

openings and events<<< 39

What sets it
apart?

What would you say sets the Opal Star
apart from other rooms in 3DX?

Amy: That’s hard for me to answer objectively so I will
let Sin answer for me. But let me just say, as much as I
love it when my friends tell me I am a “master” builder,
I am constantly floored by the creativity of a lot of other
rooms out there. There are builders who build rooms
that just shine beauty and craftsmanship. Stuff I can
understand how they were built, but which also I could
never build.

The Huntress (Sinthea): Easy answer for me. First, 01. The ÄngelhjärtA
let’s start by acknowledging reality. In 3DX, a square reactor core
box with dark lighting and neon accents with Rock/
Metal or EDM with good DJs and the spawn is right at the heart of
next to the dance floor is going to get you the most the ship not only
guest visits, period. That’s not the Opal Star at all. powers the Opal
How many rooms in 3DX do you go to that changes
and evolves on a weekly and consistent basis, and not Star but held
just changes and evolves, but comes with a story that special significance
explains those changes? How many rooms guide your
entering experience so that you experience the story of for A.I.M.I.E. Now
what is happening yourself? (sometimes, long walks!) converted into a
How many rooms engage you with layered ambiance,
sound effects, special effects, and vocal announcements party room.
that not only engage directly with the creators of the
room experience but with the DJs and guests?

40 >>>what sets it apart?

01.

what sets it apart? <<< 41

02.
03.

04.

05.

02. Do you have any final thoughts or anything you’d like to say in
The first and only closing?
fully realized wedding
ceremonoy and reception Amy: If you are interested, here is a pictorial build journal I’ve been keeping of the
on the Opal Star Opal Star: https://imgur.com/a/ifNvE7Q
Also, I will say this: I get a lot of people who see the Opal Star and PM me stuff like,
03. “I’m building my own place but I suck at building” or “I’d show you my place but you
Amy and Sinthea’s alter would laugh”. I think I speak for all builders at my level and above when I say I don’t
egos from Star Citizen, want my room to make you feel bad or to discourage you from building. The Opal
Aurora and Rush. Star is arguably TOO big, and sometimes the best rooms are small and simple. Also,
there have been many (many) occasions where a builder who knows less than me has
04. managed to inspire me and put together something really amazing.
Ballroom dance floor If you are struggling with the editor and have questions, hit me up on my discord:
lighting upgrades Amy#1766. And I won’t laugh at your build (unless it is genuinely funny). Just don’t

05.
The Opal Star carries
sensor probes for remote
sensing and detection.

42 >>> Final Thoughts

ask me to make things for you cuz I just don’t have the time. You CAN, however, find 06.
some of my stuff at 3dx modz here: https://3dxmodz.com/index.php?/profile/6874-
amy_trubblemaker/content/&type=downloads_file 06.
:) HMS Opal Star uses a
The Huntress (Sinthea): From the start, this has been and will continue to be Amy’s risky and rare braking
creation. But I also think that most artists want their creation to extend beyond maneuver in the top of
purely themselves at some point. In that way, I think the story of the Opal Star has
increasingly become, over time, more and more, the story about Amy and I. In this the atmosphere layer
way, “we” are the Opal Star. And by extension, our friends and our guests are part of of the gas giant, planet
the Opal Star as well. It’s a story about the sci-fi-loving part of the 3DX community Sinthea in order to slow
and we are just some of the enablers of that love.
the approach of the
ship with main engines

powered down.

All of us. Including you, Jessica. We are the Opal Star.

Final Thoughts<<<43



NEXT ISSUE...MAYBE...

The building of a new ship
The HMS Darastrix Sotsca

The 890 Jump
...Maybe...?