Lore

The Regen Crisis is a storyline where the regen technology is failing for much of the NPC population but not players, sending the UEE scrambling for a fix, and it will keep unfolding in later months.

The Hold the Line opening music was written for that cinematic as a UEE Navy theme that will recur in the game, bagpipes included, while the rest of the video's music is Squadron 42 score not used thematically.

For now the star map will keep core functionality like the current one with a better interface, with extras such as Galactapedia-style details possible later once it is usable.

Story and lore shape the work through close collaboration, with narrative involved early to build on concepts and placeholders, and sometimes the art team sends its own ideas to narrative.

Derelict or crashed stations have been discussed, including possibly crashing the old Port Olisar onto a planet, but this is only talk; the intention is to end it eventually, with how and when undecided and possibly years away.

A good ship can look ugly or brutal if its looks follow its function, but each manufacturer should keep a recognisable identity, with sleekness suited to role, such as workhorses versus fighters.

The lore post revisits the original Death of a Spaceman idea, defining regeneration as bioprinting someone with memories and sense of self intact, stored as an imprint, unlike cloning.

Damage carries over so regeneration isn't immortality: the brain is tricked into thinking it suffered the injury, and the imprint captures far more than DNA, such as scars.

The panel recaps the lore election process: open entries from any adult citizen, a public vote narrowing to ten candidates, months of campaigning, then a longer secondary vote, with no age limit beyond citizenship.

The team says the community-election idea began in early talks, got moving around the last CitizenCon once the imperator's term limit approached, and was then built into a broad-to-narrow process with contrasting candidates.

Collaborations between manufacturers already exist in the game, such as the Gemini made by one maker and retrofitted by another, and many ships mix in alien tech, though the speakers get some details muddled.

It can be difficult, so artists review every existing ship from the brand for reference and try to break away, and Jared Huckaby argues manufacturers can grow and change over time like real-world brands.

Ship naming is collaborative, but overwhelmingly the lore team decides the names, though others like Jared Huckaby have named some, including the Hercules and the Harbinger part of the Vanguard.

The eventual goal is for lore-based luxury and measurable value to be the same thing, with prices coming from materials, processes and labor all the way down the economic chain, though that will take a long time.

There are different fire types tied to the technology level and manufacturer, varying in color, smoke, light and sparks, and future hazard-zone work may link fire behavior to oxygen in rooms, though not setting the world ablaze.

Science isn't planned as a standalone career, with a science ship more about exploration and scanning, and while players might help introduce new technology longer term, it hasn't been figured out.