Lol these posts are incredible. I'm reading them for the first time.
Jock, you should edit your first post to include links to each and every other "tribute" to your style, and include your own posts too. That way we don't have read 16+ pages of a thread, we could just click a link on the first page to take us directly to your (and your fans') wonderful stories.
Oh and btw, this is probably how the Bible was created, seriously. Bunch of people wrote stories to explain things and teach moral lessons, hundreds and hundreds of years later people will forget they were about a video game, and will live by them. You'll see, they'll start calling Earth "The City" and all will hail Statesman and fear/love the Spider. You'll have all your different forms of religion that believe the same thing in different ways: Defender, Blaster, Tanker, Controller, and Scrapper, and the villain ones.
Sounds funny, but in hundreds and hundreds of years you'll see I'm right. Then it'll just be sad...