When will we get more back story on the Vanduul? Leaders, motives for attacks, what kind of people are they? Do they just move through space decimating all in the way, taking what they want? Or are they just mindless slaves held by a bigger and greater power we do not know about yet?asked by Jmojo
TL;DRMore Vanduul backstory is promised only as a slow trickle through the game, since the team avoids giving players more knowledge than their in-universe characters would have, and the UEE has never communicated with the Vanduul.
We do know more about the Vanduul but again that's something we can't tell you about at this point except it is something we are going to be slowly trickling out to you guys throughout the whole of the game.
One thing we are careful about is meta knowledge. We don't necessarily want you going into the game with more information than your character or reasonable character in the universe would have. So knowing all this deep history about the Vanduul isn't something the UEE itself has learned yet. Hopefully when you're going in and discovering and interacting with them you're learning about who they are, it's one of the points of tension when we first encountered the Vanduul there were no diplomatic ties at all. We could not make any kind of headway into dealing with them.
in the context of the game The UEE has never talked to the Vanduul has never been able to address grievances with them or even figure out what's going on or why they're motivated to do what they're doing. Even if we may have an inkling or we may know its not something that makes sense for us to pass on to you guys because when you do the start the world in the PU we want you guys to be coming from the perspective of someone from that eraWW: But hopefully as develop more cool Vanduul ships and stuff we'll have more reports from the UEE government and stuff that will leak out that we've been doing so far. Those are always fun.