I have heard that the overall story arc of the UEE in the PU will be inspired by the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Will the PU progress to a state closer to the 3rd Century AD, a time of unrest and civil war but ultimately resulted in stability for several decades, or the early to mid-5th Century AD when the Western Roman Empire was basically beyond saving?asked by Far-seeker

So, yeah.

This is a great question.

It is a great question, and I... It's why I chose it, and I love Roman history, and I love that this game is inspired by Roman history. That being said, the game is not a mirror for Roman history. If it was, it'd be pretty anti-climactic, because we'd all know where this would be going. The game does have elements... the Roman empire did inspire different systematic problems that did come up. In the reference here to the 3rd Century, that was Diaclesian basically ended up dividing the empire, and there is a bit of internal discussion within our universe whether Sol should stay the capital of the UEE or whetherCH: Terra! Terra!

Terra supporters, whether it should be moved there, a more progressive capital, so again, that is inspired by the Roman Empire. The 5th century is the Roman empire really came to a close, with the Barbarian and Vanduul raids of the Empire, and we do have the Vanduul that are consistently pushing into UEE territory, so that's something that we also have worked into the game. Again, there's nothing saying that they're going to take over, to be quite honest that's what the backers and the players are here to do, is help write the history of the UEE, and maybe steer it on a different course than was set by the ROman Empire. So, good question, good inspiration, but yeah, we're not opening the timeline and planning stuff out bit by bit. We're using it to kind of set up the system, set up the parameters, and then hopefully creating the sandbox that'll be a lot of fun for you guys to go in and play in and have some fun effect in.

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