What is the role of the cartography station holosphere in the 600i or Carrack if you can do everything from your mobiGlas? Will it sync with your mobiGlas, or does it do something different?
TL;DRZane Bien says ship hologlobes are meant to favor physical interaction, such as combining crew data on one display and scanning, with the gathered data then saved to the mobiGlas.
So I think the main thing is, as we mentioned in the Hold the Line video, we're trying to really emphasize the physical interactions with the world. And that makes the experience a lot more immersive and engaging. Because obviously, if you can do everything from the mobiGlas, how compelling is that? It's not far-fetched to imagine in the future we might be able to control everything with AI and brain chips and stuff, but it doesn't really make for compelling gameplay. I think with the hologlobes, the big thing about it is there should be certain benefits to using something that's specially geared towards the ship you're using. For instance, networking. If you have a lot of crew members that you're working with, I think it would be really nice to be able to amalgamate the data onto one display, like one hologlobe.
Everybody's standing around holograms.
Yeah, so it's amalgamating their individual data into one sort of display, and then they can do strategic planning and stuff around that. And then the same goes for the cartography deck or anything. Also, what I kind of want to do as something really cool is to have a Prometheus-style terrain, like a cross-section of the terrain on a hologlobe. So that when you're scanning for resource deposits and things like that, it's something that the ship specifically does. And then obviously I think that information would then be able to be saved to your mobiGlas. Because I think your mobiGlas really is about displaying the data that you've acquired over time through the use of various equipment, and the other displays are about actually gathering that data.