Medina Expansion 2: Magpulse Boogaloo

[La Villa Strangiato]

Lore Impact: Medium

Species: Humans, Synthetics (small), Unathi (small)

Short Description: This heavily expands on Madani (yes, that's the demonym) history, culture, economics, and demographics, including blurbs about human, IPC, and Unathi NCPs. It also rewords a lot of the wiki article to make it more Wikipedia-styled, without changing aspects of the lore that was reworded.

Most of the "removed" text is fairly small, but intends to make Elyra less immune to scarcity, and specify exactly what kind of art is most common for natural resources. In particular I have attempted to emphasize the absolutely massive undertaking that creating city-sized magpulse drives would be, particularly by making the floating cities the only population centers on Medina's surface.

I've also taken the liberty of re-organising the wiki page in general, giving it a more consistent subsection divide that maybe can be replicated across other Elyra pages. Point left emoji point right emoji pleading face emoji.

How will this be reflected on-station?: More backstory, names to drop, and cool little subcultures to be part of (ghoulpunk, baby). This may even cause more than two Elyran characters to be consistently played!

Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: Yes, I think it adds a lot more context, fluff, and interesting material to build a character with on Medina, alongside allowing players to have a more well-rounded knowledge of a planet's history rather than relying heavily on headcanon. With the addition of a counterculture, and a more extensive rework to what an "art culture" is, it also coheres more as a society. NCP lore also adds context to how much of the people in the wider Spur are known by native Elyrans.

Finally, I believe that having a concrete history helps add more depth to Elyran society, and having someone actually die to complete a valued colonization project feels like a reminder that even for citizens, the Republic isn't always a utopia.

Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team?: Yes.

Long Description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vj0Gh6DEKoojmjA49Ot2Y0VKNSk2vFtvnirfe1NcMkI/edit?usp=sharing

I would also like to extend a special thanks to Lain, Schwann, Rusting, and Syc, who gave it cursory glances to ensure I was not cooking anything too wretched. ShakyJake and GrazalThruka also helped me with hashing out some of the Engineering Lore^TM that went into determining the story of the magpulse drives, which is greatly appreciated. I also used some of Faye's ideas to better flesh out the planet's culture, and of course it is her work that I am building off of!

Edited August 24, 2023 by La Villa Strangiato
adds reasons for schtuff

[whitewolftamer]

Absolutely love it. The expansion on the art culture is done in a way that is believable, and having an off-shoot counter-culture only helps to further flesh it out.

Also, Miner Mercenaries? That's cool as fuck!

[The7thLain]

Hi thank you for your application. We will be looking this over and we will get back to you when we have concluded with getting our thoughts together on it.