We're in this map here at Demien. Is there a backstory to this station?
TL;DRThe Demien map is set in the Nexus system, where pirates took over and a massacre was meant to have happened, with Marines sent to clean up; blood effects are still planned.
Yeah, so basically this is supposed to be taking place in the Nexus system, which is where Arena Commander also takes place. So the idea is that there were pirates in here, and they'd kind of taken over the system, and actually this was supposed to be a massacre that happened here. I don't think that we have all the blood effects and everything, blood smears that we need in here, but that's one of the things that we're going to be adding. But the idea is that the Marines were sent to come in here and clean up the system. And so that's kind of the basis for the game mode as well as for the story in Echo 11 as well as Demien. So Echo 11 was supposed to be more like just a built-up area that had been surviving for quite a while. There was a walled city in China, and that was kind of the inspiration for Echo 11 as far as the art theme goes. From a gameplay standpoint, Sean had started working on that one. That was his original map. We had talked about a mining colony on a ravine, and then from our design standpoint, we always have things that we need to get in there. And then from there, we start adding believability passes, and that's working with Ian and Eddie and the team.