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Will the initial launch of the Galactapedia contain only infos we have received so far and you add new stuff when you release a new spectrum dispatch? Or will it already contain most of the historical and social infos we need for the start of Squadron 42? How difficult is it to get enough information outside to keep the crowd busy, but also keep enough secrets for future surprises? Do you have a release plan to tackle this problem?asked by DocAndy

TL;DRThe Galactapedia will aim to be comprehensive but not complete at launch, growing based on demand, and it is meant to be the definitive source whenever lore details disagree.

It is a big challenge that's looming up that we've already started to work on, we're already trying to gather and organize all the information we have out there already, and there's a lot of information, that's been something that Adam's been awesome about tackling.

Yeah I've been building a lore canon document, at the moment trying to track every single character that's been mentioned, every event that's been mentioned, where they're mentioned, it's quite the task, and it's something I try to do one or two a day and keep chipping away at it. And obviously Cherie's here to kind of help us push that ball up the hill too, but yeah, we're starting to collect all the information to be able to get out to you guys.

I think we're going to try to be comprehensive, but we're not going to have everything there at the first push, it's very much going to be an ongoing project and a lot of it is going to be need based, so if there's really a demand to have this question answered, or know more about this, or a lot of times like with SQ42 when you come across the specific company or object, that's what's going to inspire us to write a post or to inform more on it, vs. just trying to sit down and fill in everything we can, I don't think it'll be possible to be that complete.

And I do think there's more than enough information out there to keep you guys entertained, to keep you guys busy for a while. There's so much stuff that's already been generated that maybe not everyone has caught up on, so to be able to put it in a format that'll make you guys easier to access it I think could keep you busy for ages. It's definitely going to keep us busy for a while, just even trying to get int in a format that'll be presentable, so it's going to be a fun task to kind of upll it all together. So we're all working towards it, I know Cherie's super excited it's like her dream project.

Yeah, and then also what's really exciting as well is kind of this... consolidation and streamlining of information, cause i know right now we have bits and pieces all over the place, so it'll be great to pull it all together, as well as to have a definitive source. One of the problems that's risen from us being in live development as we release this information is that things have suddenly shifted over the course of two- three years we've been working on this, so some stuff from the very beginning whereas the spirit of it is still guiding us is very much true, we've had to adjust some of the details, and it's a little hard to keep that all up to date. So the Galactapedia, when it launches, will be our go-to source for if anything disagrees, the galactapedia is right, kind of thing, so that'll be helpful.

10 for the Writers›Episode 05·
Published on this date.5 Oct 2015
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