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What is your biggest fear related to when citizens get a hold of a large potion of the lore, such as with the Galactapedia, and start dissecting everything you've written?

Dave Haddock: That already happens, doesn't it?Will Weissbaum: Heheh. I think everything we do gets dissected.DH: Pretty much dissected as is, but, yeah...WW: I mean, there is that kind of hope that everything we've written - and we try really hard - is consistent. Internally it has a logic that flows from piece to piece, and I'm sure once the Galactapedia-... I mean every day we realize that we've written ourselves into a corner, or we have a tight spot to kind of go at, or something that we really wish we could do if this one little piece of information we threw out casually had been different. And then we have to sit and think, "alright, is there a way we can do this without changing that story..?"DH: Yeah. It's that weird fine line that we're sort of running into where it's like, we're embracing the fact that we're in open development so this is the time for things to change, but at the same time we want to avoid retconning stuff because, you know, you guys are getting used to this universe and this world, and stuff like that. And having to kind of go back and go, "oh wait, is that planet still exist, or have they said that it doesn't exist?" or, you know, whatever - we're trying to minimize that to make it as painless as possible.WW: Yeah, there's so much to wrap your head around already, without changing things on you mid-stream, and even though we're in development we're trying to...[camera cut]WW: What's your biggest fear in general? Just in life... like, spiders?DH: Uhh, the ocean.WW: Oh! That's a good one...DH: Yeah... 'cause that's where Cthulu lives.

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