Will there be cataclysmic events in the PU? Planets / space stations blowing up, stars going supernova, rogue meteor showers, mass migrations occurring, plague, etc. Would one day everyone be talking about a certain planet or place as if it were a distant memory?asked by Thunder_Kraken

So we are definitely going to do cataclysmic events, acts of God. That will be more us on the PU, whatever you want to call it, sort of "game master" side, where we'll look at what's happening around in the universe and then we'll create occasional pockets of chaos - maybe there's a famine over here, maybe there's a bit of civil war breaks out over here - that will create events and missions for the players and the AI to participate in.So we'll look at it and there will be places where people may have to give aid, or come into fight off a Vanduul incursion or all sorts of stuff, and potentially space stations or who knows, a planet, could even get raised. But that would all be, I guess overall manipulation of the full PU to riff off what all the players are doing out there, kind of what the AI is doing in it's sort of systemic way, and then we sort of - like throwing a pebble into a smooth pond - put a few pebbles here and there to create ripple effects to create a little interest. So yes we will definitely be doing that.