How far is CIG willing to go when it comes to expressing Sci-Fi weaponry? Things like Hi-Tech Boomerangs or Energy Swords?asked by DawnPhantom
TL;DRNo definitive limit: anything that fits the universe and is cleared with the writing team could be made, but not copies of existing franchises' weapons; a boomerang might suit an alien race.
I suppose there isn't really a definitive marker we can put on this. So ultimately, I guess if it makes sense to be in the universe, then it's something that we could make. For the examples you mentioned, a high-tech boomerang might be a good fit for an alien race. But that's the sort of thing that we would communicate closely with the writing team on if we had a cool idea, for example. So we would go to them and talk about it and say, is this a good fit for any of the races that we've got out there? And then they might say, yeah, but we might need to make some alterations to make it make sense for Star Citizen. So we're not going to take an energy sword from Star Wars or something like that and go, hey, I'm just waving this around. It wouldn't really make sense. It's not Star Citizen. If we could think of something that fits our universe, then absolutely, we can do anything like that. I mean, look at the Vanduul lance, for example. People have seen that. That's just a giant sci-fi spear, and it fits completely with the Vanduul race and their way of life and how they work.
Just speaking as yourself: if you had to pitch a sci-fi boomerang as being an alien weapon, what alien would you try to pitch it as? You've got to go to Dave Haddock, you've got to pitch a high-tech alien boomerang. What would be your first instinct?
I don't know. I think I might go to the Vanduul, because I'd want it to look brutal. If I was throwing that boomerang at someone, I'd want to find people with them sticking out of their chest on the floor, looking terrified. So yeah, I love the Vanduul weaponry that we've done so far, so I'd love to see some more of that.
How about you, Chris?
I think I'd go for the Xi'an. It's all a really nice, sleek, high-tech thing going on there. I'm intrigued by the Xi'an, so yeah.
Yeah, they've got really cool grav tech, so that would work quite nicely. It would be like a deadly Frisbee almost.