Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I would call them a security company. I don't think they're solid enough to be a PMC.

Will Weissbaum · Assistant Narrative Director

Yeah, it's part of our 1.0 alignment. As we head towards that goal, for the major landing zones, it was causing potential issues for players to be able to earn negative rep with these companies and seeing how... like, oh, I worked for Crusader Security, I pissed them off, I attacked them, what does that mean for me accessing the content in Crusader now? And it had a lot of knock-on ramifications. It was really complicating things having the four corporations who control these planets also be reputation factions. So we're going to slowly start changing towards them being more local factions, where you can work for them and earn money from them sometimes, but not necessarily keep a long-term reputation with them. Instead, those beginning security jobs are going to be given out by Foxwell, and sometimes the four corporations hire Foxwell as a contractor to do the work for them.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

And Foxwell, because they're not so obviously linked to the Stanton system... You talked earlier about being able to continue your relationships with some of these people as you progress to different systems. Again, at CitizenCon, we revealed the first five systems. After Pyro is Nyx, after Nyx is Castra, and then after Castra, Terra. So a relationship with Crusader when you're in Castra doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense, but Foxwell is somebody that you can build a relationship with and take with you as you progress.

Will Weissbaum · Assistant Narrative Director

Yeah, one of the earlier ideas was, oh, you're going to have to rebuild your reputation. And we kind of decided that's not what we're gearing for. So we want that reputation to have continuation across systems. So yeah, you start working for Foxwell in the Stanton system, and you'd be able to continue working for them in Castra and Terra and stuff like that, until you graduate up to a higher tier of security company who wants to work with you now.