Kintsugi Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 Let's say that by host decree, a substantial chunk of the lore needs to be destroyed. A quarter? A tenth? It does not matter. What do you think is most superfluous in regards to Aurora's lore, and why? Is it underdeveloped? Isolated? Irredeemable? Irrelevant? Unnecessary? You can remove anything, but you nonetheless must remove SOMETHING.
SleepyWolf Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 if we HAD to cut chunks out - I'd cut out Einstein Engines, Zavodskoi, Hro'zamal, Gakal'zaal, Xanu Prime, Crosk, and Gadpathur. I feel like with all of these, you could use something else we use more frequently. For Einstein and Zavodskoi, their facilities could be transfered into one new thing, or used by one of the other factions. Hro'zamal and Gakal'zaal are cool, and I think they're great, but I had to throw them on the chopping block of 'unnecessary'. Xanu Prime could DEFINITELY just be Himeo, or Himeo could just be Xanu. I feel like they're both good together as feelings. It might be that I don't know Crosk bt Crosk is Crosk, crosk? Gadpathur is a relic of something people don't even use effectively as a theme. Very tonally seperate, but...?? it is SO hard to cut stuff, but these are what immediately come to mind.
Butterrobber202 Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 vox (never forget a species slot is still technically open, with the deletion of the vox) I would delete Purpose, if I was forced into deletion rather than overhaul. It's just vestigial lore right now.
Lucaken Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 From the above two commentors, I would only agree with the Purpose and Crosk removals - Zavodskoi and EE serve their niches well within the megacorp line-up, Xanu Prime and Gadpathur are crucial links to the Interstellar War (and including Himeo, catalysts for a major political overhaul of the CoC!), while Hro'zamal and Gakal'zaal are planets that are definitely needed if the Tajara team ever wants to expand beyond just Adhomai lore. Personally, I'd remove Epsilon Ursea Minoris. I know it just recently got some great lore, and it is written well, but I still hold the same opinion I did months ago - we don't need to make Dionae work the same exact way as all the other races. They don't need their own little capital planet, I think the whole draw of the species is that they tie themselves to whatever civilization they inhabit, forming unique interactions. EUM, as well written as it is, just doesn't fit in with my personal view of the species.
ImmortalRedshirt Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 I believe that most Coalition worlds that have things written about them(yes, even Crosk, albeit with some modification) serve some kind of purpose in the overall sense of things in the "nation", whether to demonstrate its diversity or some aspect that might not be thought about much, like the colony becoming the colonizer(except the Conglomerate, which would need a full-on overhaul in order to actually serve any purpose, compared to other locations, which at the most need some additions and adjustments to get up to somewhere serviceable.) ...yeah, the pretty big sticking point is definitely the Conglomerate. I don't hold a negative opinion of the core ideology, and I like having a variety of backgrounds for Offworlders, but it is...cursed. I've taken some time to rewrite it, see if anything could be salvaged, and soon realized that what I had spawned only bore surface similarities and might as well have been a brand new place. It's just such an anomaly.
Triogenix Posted January 13, 2022 Posted January 13, 2022 Hard question, I think I'd axe Crosk, Assuzione, the Techno-C, Gadpathur, Himeo, Ourea, and then Elyra in that order. For the planets, it's either because I cannot remember people from them recently, with the exception of one or two characters(Hyptia for Assuzione, one of @BunkyB's characters for crosk), or because I don't think they fit well in our setting, Himeo and Ourea. As for Elyra, it's the only major faction I feel wouldn't be missed, it's only importance/interesting thing in my eyes is with phoron reserves not being accessible by Biesel, the rest is just way too perfect for me, and therefore boring. And the other phoron reserves could be taken up by another faction, or also removed to make biesel and the SCC even more important in lore, if wanted.
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