When playing as a bounty hunter, will we have access to our target's known associates? If so, will we have auto-access to that based on the contract that we accepted, or will we have to buy it?asked by Kore

If you're playing a bounty hunter, you'll be taking a mission from somewhere, and typically with the package you'll get some details, perhaps some known associates, so you'd have all these pieces of information, some on you persons of interest list etc, and you'd have to go and track down your bounty using those. Maybe you track down one of those associates, and he gives away a bounty's location. As you go about your job of tracking this person down, you will potentially gain more information about him, sometimes even a new bounty or associate that you'll have to move on to. The system is really fluid, and is build for the fidelity of this world. Even in our early prototyping, the conversation system is looking really cool. I think SC as a space sim is doing it a dis-service, where a First person world makes more sense given all the fidelity. Nothing has done this to our level of fidelity before, transitioning smoothly from certain types of gameplay to others, all simulated in the back-end by the universe simulator, all reactive to actions of you and other players. It'll really feel alive, it's up to you to choose what you want to do in this universe, there really isn't a win-condition or an end-game as you'd normally think in a typical MMO, with a level cap and end-game content. We just have a big huge sandbox you can play in, you might have different definitions of success in the universe, with both non-combat oriented roles as much as combat oriented roles. I can see it all coming together, not as quickly as I'd love, as I really want to play it as much as you guys. That's really what's happening this year, is getting all these pieces together to form a cohesive structure onto which to build SQ42 and the PU.