Tabula Rasa

Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa was an MMORPG developed by Destination Games and published by NCsoft, designed in part by some of the creators of Ultima Online, including Richard Garriott. The game was a role-playing video game that incorporated certain shooter aspects into the combat system. It was officially released in stores on November 2, 2007, with customers who had pre-ordered the game gaining access to the live servers from October 30, 2007. The development team released updates, called "deployments", almost every month after the release. The game required a monthly subscription. Tabula Rasa was about humanity's final battle against a group of aliens called Bane. The story was set in the near future on two planets, Arieki and Foreas, which were in constant conflict between the AFS (Allied Free Sentients) and the Bane. The term "tabula rasa" means "clean slate" in Latin, referring to a fresh start. According to the developers, the players could influence the outcome of a war between the players and the NPCs.