Ultima 7 Part 1 - The Black Gate - Garriott Interview Pt. 2 @ Crispy Gamer

Crispy Gamer writes in to say the second part of their Richard Garriott interview is up, continuing the conversation about Ultima:

Crispy Gamer: I know you’ve talked about it in the past in other interviews, but if you could, would you do another Ultima game?

Garriott: Absolutely, no doubt about it.

Crispy Gamer: So where would you start? Would you want to create a brand-new story with new characters?

Garriott: Well, I’d probably include a number of the key companions, but I probably would star in what I call a brave new world — in the sense that I would build new cities, and new storylines around the same characters.

Crispy Gamer: I know you probably have a design document lying somewhere around your house…

Garriott: While there’s been plenty of discussion on the subject for years, with myself and my team, frankly there’s nothing written — just a lot of thoughtful talk amongst many of us who were involved in the Ultima property who would love to continue to be involved with it. It’s hard to say what the future holds with that.

...and there's a sort of third-part bonus section:

Crispy Gamer: So what are you doing with your time now? Are you taking some time off or planning something exciting?

Garriott: I'm extremely embroiled in the privatization of space travel. Technically I am now a Space Adventures employee. My job title is Astronaut, and I'm now helping them work with other companies that are out building rockets to take people to space -- and that's everyone, from people you know well, like John Carmack of id Software -- who's got a company called Armadillo Aerospace -- and Elon Musk of PayPal fame, who's got a company called SpaceX, etc. I'm a big believer in both the importance and viability of taking people into space and lots of other people in our industry seem to be getting into this these days as well. While by no means is my time in gaming done, I'm spending time on this while it's fresh to me.