Hi everybody!
I'm 30-yeared child-illustrator from Russia. I not a programmer (as a lot of others gamers here), but I had some experience in PHP in past. I also never played Master Of Orion before (our ways not crossed in past, unfortunatly), but opened your Universe in a January of this year and... And so, I'm here now.
Actually my husband showed me FreeOrion, cause we both love space and we was searching for a good game of space. We had very hard period in our private life and was need in new impressions. When we found FreeOrion, it made my husband a slave of game for a three days. I was wondered why. He asked me to join for a lan playing. And so, war of our empires was began.
There was not finished russian version of game, so I wanted to help. That was my first experience in Git and that big team as yours. And I want to say, your work are really inspired me - you developing this game from the times since I finished base school and got first slow internet. I want to help you as I can. Everytime I visit your forum I get inspiration.
I have some healf problems now and can't work on freelance (as usual), so, for not losing my drawing abilities, I started to work with those drawings (it's the only my work for now, apart from rare single orders, I have no power for something more ). And, I also have my own site with illustrations and stories I write Don't wont advertise myself - if you are interested, you may take it from my Git account or asking it via PM.