Lore - Quick Timeline Update#4247
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Rewrote the Quick Timeline document, with the help of Primrose, to read more like a historian going over the past 50-100 years of history since the NT/Syndicate war. It's rearranged a little bit, and ties the TSF, USSP, CC, PDV together into a fairly neat fashion and explains why they're all there and why there is conflict, without going into the nitty gritty details of each faction. It also loosely goes over the development of the server and ties it neatly together instead of retconning any notable development or event.
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looks good IMO I don't know how to feel about cutting the "confederacy" out of the equation but it makes it easier to explain the lore so I'm all for it. 😄 |
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The 'Confederacy' felt very placeholder like tbh and thrown in. It's just better to say the USSP got mad at the TSF for being control freaks and seceded to make their own government. The TSF's name kinda implies they came from Sol, so it makes sense to me that they would've always existed, but maybe just in the Sol system as a weak puppet government for NT until NT collapsed. And since the split happened 50+ years ago, it allows time for both governments to cement their ideologies until they're completely foreign from eachother. |
Exactly my thoughts, yes. |
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I'm for it, as USSP Guy. I'll have to change what's in the Guidebook for USSP, but that's just swapping Conferadacy schism with Federation. |
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So does this part mean that the game isn't actually inside of the Colossus sector proper, but rather right on the edge? |
The outpost was constructed INSIDE proper. That means it didnt have to come in. It just took awhile but a trade station managed to get put together. Additionally in the future CC is supposedly to be a neutral major faction that ultimately has to pick a fate or roll over and die by the end of the round. Siding with PDV or TSF during the war. |
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Yeah it was constructed inside the sector. We have a lot of civilians that are clearly from OUTSIDE the sector who traveled there and made it in, not just locals, they just can't really make it out very easily. I'm pretty sure nobody knew it was pretty inescapable until they made it inside. Or at least, what I've been told by admins, large groups of ships coming through are more likely to be ambushed by ADC, which is why TSF can't send in fleets. At best TSF can send a small ship with reinforcements and hope it has a low enough thermal signature to go undetected. But without drawing a sector map, I like to think that we're kind of just inside, or a half inside, with the barrier wall of drone space behind us, and in front of us the center of the sector where the Monolith and other entities are. And this area of space just stretching out unknown and getting more fragmented and dangerous with the ADC also there too. And yeah the rework of CC will have them as a major company with basically east india trading company vibes. |
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Most of it looks alright in terms of writing style, but I have a few notes/concerns:
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The TSF is still fairly recent to the current game age, and didn’t themselves experience a schism - The vague Confederacy did a lot of harsh things that may have been covered up, and is functionally supposed to be a “precursor” entity to better differentiate modern TSF to the harsher corporate war era government (keep in mind it has been a while since the corporate wars, in-game)
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I feel like the USSP shouldn’t have an exact reason for separating (it was, like, a while ago) + they probably would have multiple reasons for suddenly going to war with the standing galactic power
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I like the references to previous lore (dynamic history or something), but it feels very confusing since we don’t have the ASR anymore and the USSP are no longer a major faction (there was a time where the USSP was more of a faction, but not anymore and as such including them as a “major power” just obfuscates the actual main opponents in-game)
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I like how the lore primer is set up more towards TSF being the main character as if it’s written by someone from the TSF
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I like the preparations for the CC faction!
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| - Nanotrasen and The Syndicate engage in a conflict known as "The Corporate War", utterly destroying Nanotrasen and crippling the Syndicate. A badly damaged Syndicate battlegroup begins transit into the region of space now known as the Colossus sector, where they ultimately meet their end. | ||
| - Nanotrasen and the Syndicate engaged in a conflict now commonly known as the "Corporate War," which utterly destroyed Nanotrasen and crippled the Syndicate. A badly damaged Syndicate battle group fled into the region of space now known as the Colossus sector where they ultimately met their end at the hands of a local Imperial government. This government seized their technology and used it to advance their development into the current age. |
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“Into the current age” feels a bit weird here
The PDV also didn’t have a hand in syndicate defeat (PDV is also fairly recent in galactic relevance), they just colonized some of the colossus sector and found cool syndie tech
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"The syndicate fleet met their end in the sector" is very vague and obscure though. I figured it could be a good lore reason for them having finally died and PDV having SO MUCH of their technology. But I suppose they could've just died to ADS, it's just..awkward the way it was previously written.
As for the Confederacy thing...it still feels like a vague placeholder. TSF already came from Paradise station and was fairly benevolent existing alongside NT. TSF is named after the Sol system. It feels weird to just split into TSF and USSP later, especially as we still don't have a real reason for the Sol sector dying. They wouldn't just name it afterwards. Governments change ideals and policies over a period of time without changing the name. Why does it need to be a Confederacy? Why confuse people more with that? Why not just underline that TSF has turned EVIL and controlling and the USSP hates that? TSF is the invaders to Colossus, it gives more of a back history.
And yes, I'm sure USSP would have multiple reasons for going to war, but leaving it vague also leads to 'and suddenly war' with no real feeling or meaning behind it, lending to the TDM aspect and nobody RPing. I want to underline that there are massive idealogical differences.
I don't think I named the text mentioned ASR by name, did it? I think it's extremely important to reframe it as dynamic history to encourage people, again, RPing those ideals and a moving sector rather than people going 'well the lore doesn't matter anyway'.
| - Nanotrasen and the Syndicate engaged in a conflict now commonly known as the "Corporate War," which utterly destroyed Nanotrasen and crippled the Syndicate. A badly damaged Syndicate battle group fled into the region of space now known as the Colossus sector where they ultimately met their end at the hands of a local Imperial government. This government seized their technology and used it to advance their development into the current age. | ||
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| - A relatively weak galactic power known commonly as "the Confederacy" rapidly gains power and influence through the acquisition of abandoned corporate technology. They use a significant amount of their military assets chasing down remaining Syndicate affiliates. | ||
| - In the power vacuum left behind by NT's collapse, the Trans-Solarian Federation, a relatively weak Sol system based government, seized NT and other abandoned corporate technology and integrated it within their military. Within half a century, they had grown into a major galactic power as they conquered more than half the galaxy and used their vast military resources to hunt down former Syndicate affiliates clinging to life. |
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“Clinging to life” not really necessary
Emphasize Corporate assets in general, less specifically NT (keep it vague since it doesn’t particularly matter + they weren’t picky)
“…they had grown into a major galactic power, unleashing a great expansion across the galaxy in a hunt for remaining syndicate technology” instead to make more sense as to why they pursued such conquest
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Rewrote the Quick Timeline document, with the help of Primrose, to read more like a historian going over the past 50-100 years of history since the NT/Syndicate war. It's rearranged a little bit, and ties the TSF, USSP, CC, PDV together into a fairly neat fashion and explains why they're all there and why there is conflict, without going into the nitty gritty details of each faction. It also loosely goes over the development of the server and ties it neatly together instead of retconning any notable development or event.
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