With regards to characters retiring or dying, will you be incorporating something to track the history of the characters?Or some way of creating an ancestral tree?asked by Bayladon
TL;DRChris Roberts says yes: notable characters would get Galactapedia entries and a personal journal and family tree, possibly visible to everyone at a certain fame level, to give a sense of family history.
Absolutely, that's the whole idea I talked about in Death of a Spaceman which was to give a sense of history and identity to your family tree. I would see that you would, if you do some notable things, you would get an entry in the galactipedia, and the galactipedia could probably talk about what your tree or family has been doing.And you certainly would have some level of that in your own journal, but I'm actually thinking what would probably happen is that you would have your own entry in the galactipedia and it would talk about your family tree and maybe when you become a certain level of fame, that becomes available for everyone to see, but until then, it's just your own personal log of what your family history has been up to.So yes, the idea is to look back and say "my great, great grandfather did this, my grandfather did that, my father did this, and I've done this." That would really be kind of cool.