What kind of storyline are we looking at in the Persistent Universe? Is it Privateer style, where you fail one mission and you're done, or a Wing Commander web of missions? And how many endings are we looking at? Is it just one win and one lose, or more choose-your-own-adventure style with dozens of endings?asked by Travis T

Okay, so on the Persistent Universe side, in terms of storyline, in the initial launch of the game, Squadron 42 is going to be the bigger, more involved one with the branching storyline. And then when you get into the Persistent Universe, there are going to be story threads, but no big overarching story à la, say, Privateer. We'll basically have a five-mission thread in this side of the galaxy, a three-mission thread in this side of the galaxy, two over here, six over here. And it will be more a general sandbox environment where events are happening. And then part of our plan is that we'll be changing and adjusting that as the game's live, adding more stuff in. So it'll feel like it's an ongoing experience and it won't feel like it has a final end. But we will probably, as we go along and once we're live, release some bigger, more involved story-driven missions, and they will not all necessarily be military the same way Squadron 42 is. So there very possibly could be a more involved Privateer style or Freelancer style story, where you're not in the military, you're more of a kind of space entrepreneur, so to speak, getting involved. So think, for instance, if you read any of the fiction that we're doing on the site, something like the Tanya Oriel story that we're doing right now is a pretty good example, or the Kid Crimson we did before, would be examples of more involved narrative stuff that potentially will be down the road later. But in the initial Persistent Universe release, all our single story care and attention is going to the Squadron 42 side, and then there'll just be flavor missions or scripted story stuff in addition to all the user-generated style missions and the dynamic universe-generated missions.

Kind of call those small side quests out there?

Yeah, I mean story-driven side quests. So they'll have small arcs, but they obviously won't be as big and involved as something like Squadron 42.