For us explorers out there and those who like to live on the edge of the galaxy. How will new systems be handled by the lore writers? Will you already have lore written up for those systems and just copy and paste them in after X time passes? Or will plater interaction in the system dictate how the lore is written for it?asked by Chiffre

When we are ready to release new systems to you guys, we will definitely have a firm idea of any lore that's behind that to certain degree: if there's any secret places; or if it was maybe formerly inhabited or not; or visited by a different species. We'll probably have, at least at the beginning, a good idea of that but I think where the system goes from there will depend a lot on who finds it and how they present it.Some people may want to keep the system for themselves; for their org; for their pirate group and use it as some kind of black market hub for certain things. Others may just turn around the information; give it to the UEE; sell it off; and then invite people in. So there's definitely going to be an element where you the players will be able to help determine it. If there are any important story points that we want to get across there that's probably something we would have figured out before you get to it.

Yeah, I mean until we have procedural generation of systems up and running it's all going to be lovingly handcrafted. Which means we'll work with Design and talk to them and come up with and idea for the systems. And it will definitely be interesting to have the systems that have had zero human interaction, or at least probably that mysterious human interaction, I don't know, like there's interesting things we can do where you find remnants of a old civilisation of humans that you didn't know had been there.

Potentially! Potentially!

So that'll be very different from a lot of the system lore we've been developing which is "right, what has the impact of humans been on this system?" But starting in fresh it means the backers will get to have a say in all those possible directions and what ends up winning out; or how that planet it either terraformed or not; or who are the settlers that take a ride on your Starliner out to that system. So it'll be really cool to see.

yeah I fully expect we might have an idea about what a system is going to be and then you guys will get in there and do something to it that we just never expected. That's going to be kind of fun I think!