Tajara Cold War lore Arc: Feedback/explanation Topic

[Alberyk]

With our last news article, the Cold War Arc comes to an official end. We had around eight events, that lasted around two months. The story and the theme were focused around the Tajaran lore. The main objective was displaying the new modus operandis of the adhomian factions after the peace; by making use of proxy groups and their agents to expand their influence outside of Adhomai. To play the agents of each different factions, I decided to recruit on station characters. At each event, those characters were given mission, and gear if they asked, to complete certain tasks with the objective of helping their factions solidify their presence on Tau Ceti and Little Adhomai.

I decided to make it be episodic, so people that were not around for the other events could play them without any trouble. However, I also made sure that they had a theme and elements that put them together into a bigger story; in this case the latest conflict in Little Adhomai. The main in universe change that came from the event is the further radicalization of the tajaran population in biesel and strengthening of the dpra and nka factions in Little Adhomai; they gained more territory and pushed out some neutral gangs during the crsis.

Now, doing a lore arc like this was no easy task. I also never did anything like this before, so I wanted to play safe as much it is possible.  The writing, organization and coding was very taxing, but I believe that was worth in the end. It got people more interested in the Tajara lore, and I was able to expand on biesel lore and little adhomai more.

Anyway, this topic is for the community to give their feedback, complaints, say what their favorite events was, ask questions over things they did not understand or wanted to know more. I will do my best to answer any kind of question, as there is really little left that I could spoiler in relation to future development.

I hope that everyone had fun, and I want to congratulate all my agents for playing real cool spies, the people that played ghost roles during the events, Coalf and Sue for helping me with the writing of the articles and event, Happy_fox and Kyres for helping me with the sprites, I am also planning another arc later this year, but it will be different from what we had.

A small description of the events, their plot, objective and results:

Event Nº1: 

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Plot: Hro’zamal smugglers (the crew does not know of this) come to the station to sell animals under the guise of being harmless merchants. PRA agents have to find evidence of this, and install a tracking device to have the biesel authorities bust them. DPRA and NKA agents can protect/convince those smugglers that their faction is the best one to help the rebellion.

If the pra forces manage to plant the gps in their ship, fib goons will show up to arrest them. DPRA/NKA agents have the option to help the smugglers escape.

Results:

-pra minor victory: pra agents manage to put bugs in the ship but can’t capture the smugglers.

-dpra major victory: dpra helps smugglers escape and donates money to them, smugglers will help them for real.

-nka minor victory: nka donates more money to smugglers, smugglers will give a hand to them.

Event Nº2: 

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Plot: A artifact that was shipped to Tau Ceti, for further carbon/date analysis, was sent to the station either by accident or on purpose. A lot of dynamite is also shipped with it. The museum curator come to rescue the item. The factions are tasked with collecting as much explosive is possible and securing the artifact, destroying if they can’t get away with it.

 

Results:

-pra defeat - pra agents are unable to deploy

-dpra minor victory: dpra secures some dynamite but fails to secure the artifact

-nka major victory: nka secures the artifact and a lot of dynamite

Event Nº3: 

Spoiler

Plot: A reporter from the stories of war and peace project boards the station. Agents are tasked with writing something good exalting the ideology of their faction; or they can sabotage the other competitors. They are also given the mission of securing some info carried by the cameraman.

Results:

-pra major victory: pra gives them a depoinment and secures the pictures.

-dpra minor victory: dpra gives them a depoinment

-nka minor victory: nka gives them a depoinment

Event N°4:

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Plot: Crevus businessmen announces the opening of a space casino in tau ceti. Crew gets to visit it. The casino is nothing but a money laundering scheme for the dpra operations in biesel. PRA/NKA agents have the option of either uncovering this by finding evidence of this during the visit. There is also the option of exploding the place if they want to get risky. DPRA agents will likely try to stop the opposing forces while uncovering the casino’s supossed betrayal.

Results:

-pra minor victory: pra agents recover evidence of the casino being involved in crime but are spotted by the casino’s staff.

-dpra minor victory: dpra agents recover evidence of them working with non-ala aligned forces but they are spotted by the casino’s staff.

-nka defeat: nka agents are unable to recover any evidence.

Event N°5:

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Plot: PRA sends a lot of combat robots and an ai to their gang in district six. Their ship is attacked and docks on the NSS Aurora to get their stuff fixed. PRA must defend the AI, nka and dpra must attempt to steal the AI.

Results:

-pra defeat: pra agents fail to defend the AI.

-dpra defeat: dpra agents fail to seize the AI

-nka major victory: nka agents are able to seize the ai

Event N°6:

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Plot: The Kalmykova Travelling Circus visits the station. One of its member has important information regarding the future of Little Adhomai. Dpra agents have the mission of recovering the intelligence and killing the target. Pra and nka agents have the mission of recovering the intelligence and recruiting the target to their side.

Results:

-pra minor victory: pra recruits the agent

-dpra minor victory: dpra agents deny the intelligence to other forces, but fail to secure the info or kill the target

-nka defeat: nka agents are unable to secure the intelligence or recruit the target.

Event Nº7:

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Plot: A greaser gang visits the nss aurora, they hold an important area of little adhomai. PRA agents are tasked with killing their leadership, dpra and nka agents are tasked with making an alliance with them.

Results:

-pra minor victory: pra agents kill the boss of the gang, but fail to kill his second in command.

-dpra major victory: dpra agents help his second in command even if they can not get them to avenge his boss, the greasers will now join them in battle.

-nka minor victory: nka agents are able to strike a non-aggression pact the new boss but are unable to make any lasting alliance with them.

Event Nº8:

Spoiler

Plot: A Hephaestus Industries cargo ship is attacked by tajara forces, one of the shuttle crashes into the aurora. Tajaran armed groups board the station with the mission of securing the shuttle, that is full of weapons and a tank.

Results:

-pra defeat: pra forces fail to capture the shuttle

-dpra defeat: dpra forces fail to capture the shuttle

-nka major victory: nka agents are able to secure the shuttle.

 

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I didnt partake much but i saw. It looked fun for those involved; i know how hard managing them can be. The very end stumbled for me in one way i already mentioned and the prior events were engaging from what i heard.