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One of the principal stories for Hurston is the Hurston family versus the activists. What would you say is the principal story for ArcCorp? Does ArcCorp have a story like that?

TL;DRArcCorp's story is less defined, but it involves a crime element and a free-market-gone-wild theme where workers get stuck on the planet in low-paying jobs.

Dave HaddockNarrative Director

Yes. It's not as defined, because it's much more of a weird melting pot, because they bring in a bunch of different companies. But yes, there's a crime element going on there that Twitch is a part of.

Will WeissbaumLead Writer

Stanton as a whole has all these different takes on capitalism, and we've talked about this before a little bit, but ArcCorp is like the free market gone completely wild, is kind of the idea. And so we hinted at in one of our short stories the idea that people can get stuck there, because there's so many people going there for work, and it's a hiring market, so people arrive there, can't find work, and get stuck on the planet because they can't get anything other than low-paying subsistence jobs, and end up there a bit destitute. Even though they're working, they can't afford to get back out, which is a different kind of entrapment than Hurston's tight contracts. And so we're trying to play around with the idea of that. And you have microTech, which we just dropped, and we're starting to hint that they're a company that means well, but this is kind of what happens when they're making their own laws as this corporate entity. And so you start seeing this party scene developing and these more liberal attitudes, and what's going to come out of that. Versus Crusader, which is a company that really tries to care and take care of people, but maybe they're not equipped to be a government. So it's interesting.

Star Citizen Live›The Story Behind the Universe·
Published on this date.10 Apr 2020