Is it possible for a human to gain citizenship in one of the alien civilizations, or vice versa? Will we perhaps see Xian/Banu/Tevarin serving in special capacities within the UEE military or government, either in SQ42 or in the Persistent Universe?asked by Monk
TL;DRIn the first version aliens appear mainly as NPCs for trading and interaction, with no deep integration or citizenship; playing other races is only a possible later expansion, while Squadron 42 involves the Xi'An and Vanduul.
In terms of the alien civilizations in the 1.0 version of the game, you will interact with them, but we're not really gonna have the abillity for you to go deep into the civilizations. Those are sort of areas of expansions that we're thinking once the game is up and running we would concentrate on and eventually allow you to actually even play a different race, rather than just the human race. So at the beginning we probably wouldn't have those abilities but as the game progresses, and everyone's having a good time, and hopefully we're doing well, those will be the kinds of things that we will be adding down the road. Cos it would be pretty cool.You will definitely see Tevarin around the UEE universe. You'll see some Banu and you'll see some Xi'An, but they will be more in NPC capacity and for trading with. There is involvement with the Xi'An as well as the Vanduul in Squadron 42, so that's pretty cool, and the story I think is pretty fun and interesting. So I think you guys will like that.