Lore team early 2021 update + some ongoing changes!

[kyres1]

Hey hey people, Kyres here. Myself and Mofo have deemed it worthy to announce a small update detailing ongoing lore happenings that will hopefully get some people excited.

Of the goals we intend to pursue in the coming weeks, we intend to start working on goal #1 of NBT (not exactly the primary goal, mind you, but the first listed goal) which, if you do not remember, was to minimize NT-centrism. With the happenings of recent events we’ve very effectively set the stage for some changes in this regard. Most notably, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate now represents a variety of corporations, rather than simply NanoTrasen having an iron fist over the setting.

Also, to ensure minimal work is put forth in the future and as little whiplash is received as possible upon setting shift, here’s said goals.

1. Introduce a brand new replacement outlet to the Mendell City Bugle, previously used for virtually all fluff and major arcs that occurred alongside one another. A second outlet will work alongside this for fluff/secondary articles. This replacement will ICly announce some lore changes in its first post, most notably

• Incentive at long last to swap corporations as the player desires without breaking character
• Oversight of the NSS Aurora swapping hands to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, at least at a higher level for starters
• The relay swapping to SCC oversight
• New contractor goodies incoming, ETA when we feel like it.

2. Fix Zeng-Hu, as in give it players. It presently has little to none, to the shock of nobody, so we’re working on giving it a new foundation to work with without just retconning the whole premise.

We hope you’re as excited to work with what’s become of the universe as we are. Enjoy!

[Chada1]

I'm very *very* happy with this change in direction, but like. Also, the direction it's going is exactly what I attempted to do with Upsilon unsuccessfully, so like. If that's never going to be continued/worked in/expanded on, that could potentially be retconned as well, all existent mentions of it are in the bugle, which is under rework. So it could be done during the rework if desired.

[Cnaym]

I am once more asking for IC coverage of Phoenixport. It is nice to have information on the wiki but please accompany an ongoing lore change with IC news, the change is happening in two days and people currently stumble upon it on accident. This might be a good article for the new outlet  

[geeves]

i am pogging