No cross species lore seems to be happening. Disagree? :relieved:

[Zundy]

Lore team, what's going on big guy, you don't seem to be doing any cross species lore or lore arcs. Lore team we're talking about our lore here for Christ sake you just don't seem to be doing any cross species lore arcs or lore, it's all individual, I'm watching potential lore arcs pass by with my own two feet. Lore team, our lore is laying here bloody and bashed, c'mon, let's get some cross species lore. When my field hockey wife human lore and corporate lore asked me to be a lore dev years ago, I made a vow to stand by her, so don't you go pulling back and removing cross species lore and lore arcs. 

Are you guys fighting please you need to be friends, make peace. I miss our cool arcs and events. I know some people HATE the arcs but some people LOVE them and miss them. Please. I'm dying I need this please. Thank you for reading. Community, what do you think of the current state of lore arcs and cross species lore? Do you miss them? Glad they're gone? Post below and let's have a discussion.

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[Zundy]

I am serious though, what's going on?

[BurgerBB]

Given the history of lore suggestions by players, loredevs aren't really too keen on implementing lore changes unless they are absolutely 100% on board with it. Combine with the fact that nearly every event or whatever needs to be bigger than the last, I can't imagine really a loredev working together with another loredev on something big if it means one species comes on top of another.

 

The Tajara "Cold War" arc might change that or something, idk. I'm expecting some furry on furry racial tension (my favorite furaffinity category) to come or something. Or it could just be another NPR vs BBC faction war.

 

[Alberyk]

Feels like a shitpost, but there is the Gakal’zaal arc, and the Tajaran arc that is starting tomorrow. We also had the skrell arc.

[Zundy]

These are all species specific tho no?

[Butterrobber202]

i think he wants interspecies arcs.

 

and I for one, approve of driving up racial tension.

[DeadLantern]

1 hour ago, Zundy said:

These are all species specific tho no?

Gaka'zaal is between Unathi and Tajara.

Skrell Arc involved Skrell, Diona, and somewhat Vaurca 

[Coalf]

Also aren't there Vaurca involved in the Unathi civil war? K'Lax play a pretty major role as far as I know.

[Roostercat]

iirc Not’zar utilized a K’lax warform as well as a warrior levy. And the K’lax admiral almost bombed a rebel city on orders if the late hegemon, so yes, I would say they are pretty heavily involved. 

[Faris]

From what I can see, any lore event that happened within a region, involved most if not all demographics in that region. Sometimes it's not possible to extend its influence too far to bring as many people.

The ones that involve the most tend to be ones local to Tau Ceti as every faction has a stake there. The Skrell arc perhaps from an article point of view didn't involve every species, but the events that occured and the time in between had a hook for every character to involve themselves in some capacity if they so chose to.

[BurgerBB]

If the Tajaran arc tomorrow is just another faction war between the tajara factions and don't involve anyone else remotely then I'm going to sigh. Like honest to god, the events sometimes feel like advertisements for the race rather than to get players interested in the lore as a whole.

 

[Coalf]

[Coalf]

15 hours ago, BurgerBB said:

If the Tajaran arc tomorrow is just another faction war between the tajara factions and don't involve anyone else remotely then I'm going to sigh. Like honest to god, the events sometimes feel like advertisements for the race rather than to get players interested in the lore as a whole.

 

On a serious/longer note, tajara were in a civil war for about 7 IRL years, are the most technologically regressed faction, the smallest/least expansionist faction and are the further away from the system where the setting takes place. Basically we were the most screwed in terms of in-setting relevance, outside of the playerbase having a large playercount.

But now the war has ended, and while we are still going to continue the echo of the Tajara conflict we plan to do more "open" events in the future.

 

On 30/01/2020 at 09:34, Zundy said:

Lore team, what's going on big guy, you don't seem to be doing any cross species lore or lore arcs. Lore team we're talking about our lore here for Christ sake you just don't seem to be doing any cross species lore arcs or lore, it's all individual, I'm watching potential lore arcs pass by with my own two feet. Lore team, our lore is laying here bloody and bashed, c'mon, let's get some cross species lore. When my field hockey wife human lore and corporate lore asked me to be a lore dev years ago, I made a vow to stand by her, so don't you go pulling back and removing cross species lore and lore arcs. 

Are you guys fighting please you need to be friends, make peace. I miss our cool arcs and events. I know some people HATE the arcs but some people LOVE them and miss them. Please. I'm dying I need this please. Thank you for reading. Community, what do you think of the current state of lore arcs and cross species lore? Do you miss them? Glad they're gone? Post below and let's have a discussion.

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To answer a bit longer than I had before.
There is a lot of tying up loose ends and trying to actually finish some story arcs we began on our own. The Tajara species has never had a good track record of interacting with other species, even way back when, due to its ass end of nowhere location, little relevance to the universe at large and internal conflict. This year we've finally had the chance to start wrapping that up and shifting our focus outwards into space and towards Aurora.

Further there was a huge amount of restructuring happening in the team with people leaving and coming in.
Human team has two new deputies, Vaurca team is new with Jam taking the lead, Dionaea team is essentially completely new, Unathi team got new deputies, New Lore Masters were selected, Tajara team was shuffled around, IPC team is completely brand new.
People are right now more interested in fixing the holes that previous developers left either due to some obscure piece of lore somewhere in the ass end of the wiki or working on their own ideas. Recently Aut'akh saw a rework, Tajara wiki was shuffled around and some content was cut down to include the more important bits, we fleshed out the notable persons part of the wiki, fixed a few inconsistencies regarding dating/time etc.

Lastly I wouldn't even say cross-species arcs are that important, sure they are nice but Unathi haven't really had a cross-species arc in a while and they saw one of the biggest rises in playerbase recently, same goes for Skrell whose warbling event was majorly skrell based but still got people interested in playing skrell and the universe as a whole.