Lore Development Diary

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I opened a forum poll on the 2nd antag contest and otherwise did administrative things and wrote another news article. My work is going to lull slightly as IRL goes into another busy swing this next week.

[hivefleetchicken]

Almost forgot to do this shit.

New Kingdom notables are completely done. All of the NKA lore is finished, along with the PRA. Now it's just a matter of finding where they want to take things from here.

Next week I want to either start chipping away at the walls of unfinished ALA lore or look into spicing up the worship of S'rendarr and Messa. Could be worthwhile.

[LordFowl]

I will have an announcement detailing the Vaurca promotion process to Head of Staff sometime this week. I have decided to not accompany it to the newsletter, so don't look there.

Afterwards, I may look into created a notable Vaurca page. It seems to be all the rage right now. Along that line of thought, Sedantis may receive its own wikipage.

[Filthyfrankster]

Did some more wiki work, which involved tuning a tad of it with aurora rules/ANTAG OOC

Sprites uploaded too

It's been a rough week, but I'll keep at it coach. (Sorry for the late update)

[Filthyfrankster]

Small wiki things done, updated solars and are currently in the middle of creating a new corporation for Mars.

[CakeIsOssim]

(it's a tad late, sorry)

Finished

-Hephaestus in its entirety. Just needs a bit of a complete proofread and we're golden.

Next Project

-Start work on stuff for Zheng-Hu.

-Still need to find out wudd the fug Xion Manufacturing Group and Bishop Cybernetics is???

[hivefleetchicken]

Forgot to do this.

Continuing work on ALA. Trying to decide the personality between headscarf jihadists and coated Bolsheviks.

Thinking to make it rely on the commanding officers of the ALA. Could make sense since they're barely in touch with one another.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

• The 2nd Antag Contest is now live!
• The Unathi lore arc will slow down slightly to focus on the developments of the antagonist contest.
  
• My focus now is to get the statistics and data the server is tracking from the antag contest and see how to use it creatively to give proper feedback to player actions. The mechanics are still being ironed out, but it's still going to be exciting to see how this all pans out!

[rrrrrr]

Currently living notable synths added to 'notable synthetics' page.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Hired our latest loredeveloper 1138 and outsourced a news article! Other than that it's been a slow week outside management duties while I sit around gathering antag contest data for a bit longer to see what's what.

[hivefleetchicken]

Hi guys!!! I am homeless and have had no cell service since early Friday!!!!

I've only done some minuscule stuff this week because of the

s h i t

hitting the

f a n

for me right now; mostly wiki edits for grammar and better context on stuff.

Still gotta talk to Sierra, Jboy, and Serveris to wrap up their tajaran stuff. I'll get to the trio eventually!

[Shadow]

I forgot to post last friday, RIP.

Random Events wiki page was added.

[Filthyfrankster]

https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Research_and_Development

WIKI PAGE IS ADDED

New corp is in the making, I'll post more details of it when depression leaves me alone

Sorry on forgetting posting

[hivefleetchicken]

So I guess no one posted yesterday. Oh well.

Stuff that I was doing but is done now

Where the fuck is everyone else

EDIT:

NOTABLE TAJ ARE COMPLETELY DONE, GIVE THEM A WHIRL IF YOU WANT TO READ ABOUT THE BIGGEST MOTHERFUCKING SNOWFLAKES EVER

EDIT:

Oh, also, exciting stuff! I'm going to be doing military branches for all three sides this week if I don't get arrested

[Loow]

Dear diary,

-I pushed the Skrell agenda.

-Mobilized the Tup Commandos involved with the ongoing arcs in Elyra.

-I laid out a nice little arc synopsis/story map that I hope will keep the team entertained during the near future.

-Listened to Frank's baller ideas for a corp that wants to sit at the cool kids table. Love it.

-Answered quite a few questions on the Skrell, which gave me an idea of some areas the players might like to see expanded on.

-Discussed the ongoing contest. Lobbying on the side of involved events.

-Moved some of "them themes" forward.

Posted?

- Old man Dohrmi‘Xyla and his delightful sense of humor. What a card.

We might see more of his musings depending on player interest and "if I feel like it."

At least one of those prerequisites must be met.

- Finally have a proper name drop of Synthetic Oppression Era Waifu number 2: The Commander

He should sit nice and tidy next to Synthetic Oppression Era Waifu number 1: The Captain.

#Goals include introducing the player-base to all SOW's gently. Failing that, introducing them at all so I can move the narrative forward.

Sadly, we are currently two for two on interesting folks from that era that happen to have blood relation to the last Wreshin Tup. That's not a common thing.

I guess I'll just have to expand upon the others so I can fix that mildly annoying detail.

What do I want to do this week?

- Wiki work would be nice. Get some postage.

- More articles, of course. Keep the narrative moving.

- Continue abstract planning. Because knowing is half the battle.

Oh yeah, and I forgot to post in a diary or something. Maybe I'll improve on that.

[Guest]

Dear diary,

- Pre-Alliance History done.

- Epsilon Eridani was put on quarantine lockdown. God save them.

- Notable Humans project launched. ETA, eventually.

- Seducing Hive's mother WIP.

- Launched CPAD. Will draft an additional page with notable information on the newly created synthetic. It's so special, it gets its own wiki page, er, well, soon. Will also mention it in Notable Synthetics.

- May potentially begin on a Gibson Gazette tabloid trash "news" thread. Not high on my priorities right now.

- Considering how to present the current state of the contest and how to potentially improve it to Jackboot.

- Consider the meaning of life.

[Filthyfrankster]

Guide to toxins and the singulo (JuST INCASE) have been posted

https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Toxins

MarsSec has its own wiki page but is a large WIP, I also bitched about my ideas and progress for it in the lore chat. I'll work on it more when I get home from work, it has been a busy work week with forced overtime every day. So I'm a little worn out.

https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=MarsSec

Virology guide has been posted

https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Virology ( I need to upload icons when I get home from work)

[hivefleetchicken]

Hi I'm working out the lore canonization applications, not sure where a lot of this stuff can go but I'm trying my best.

All of my work is really disorganized right now so wish me luck in trying to find a way to add a whole new category to the wiki about Tajaran faction militaries and stuff

Complicated stuff and hard to explain, I NEED MORE TIME TO THINK

[Filthyfrankster]

Hi, not enough time in my life to do a lot of stuff.

Guide to forensics and xenoarchaeology posted on the wiki.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Late by a day after missing one!

I've done a major project that's been bubbling on my mind for awhile.

 

• Huge chunks of the Contact War on the Unathi page have been moved to its own dedicated page.
  
• A corresponding Notable Unathi, Don'zai Azarak, was created to help tie a personal touch onto the affair.

 

This will let me start rambling in-depth about the war and its a e s t h e t i c without flooding the Unathi page with fluff that isn't a total necessity to having a whitelist. Hopefully this shows that the Traditionalist Unathi didn't simply start chucking spears at the Izweski. They were just as boring as humanity is and held lots of summits, though hopefully I can make them more entertaining with the usual Unathi flair for the dramatic.

 

• I had a major panic attack over the fact I've been measuring KW to MW conversion wrong all my life.

 

Most 2016 power plants have a capacity of 5,000MW, and the biggest power plant we have, the Three Gorges Dam, generates 22,500MW. Instead of the station consuming 100's of MW it actually consumes something like .7MW. You could power the Aurora with a handful of car batteries. This pretty much undermines the entire foundation of NanoTrasen's monopoly and aggressive phoron energy research due to fusion power's 30kMW power generation not being enough for 'modern' 25th century wowgasm levels of electricity consumption, but since no one has pointed any of this out to me in the year i've been loremaster I'll just cry, quietly, and never bring it up again.

[Filthyfrankster]

Guide to Tcomms been posted on the wiki

Will update with more when I get home tonight from work

[Killerhurtz]

Posted a news article, still working on plantperson lore.

[Filthyfrankster]

Guide to spess and combat posted on wiki, along with a few other things. Will update when home from work

[CakeIsOssim]

No formatting this time because I'm lazy.

-Hephaestus overhaul is basically done for real this time. Just a few more things to buff and sort out and we'll be good to go. Plans to release something at least mildly exciting that could lead to some interesting character development in the future, if all goes well.

-Bishop Cybernetics is now a subsidiary of Zheng-hu Pharmaceuticals. This will likely be included in the Zheng-hu wiki page.

-Xion Manufacturing Group is now a subsidiary of Hephaestus Industries. This will likely be included in the Hephaestus wiki page.

[Loow]

Dear Diary,

- Worked with Nebula quite a bit. Ran an event just a few hours ago. We all learned a bit about what we can improve on in our Lore Event work, and a quite a few people said they liked the event more than having nothing at all. Oh yeah, and it's had an effect on the canon. Maybe we'll be hearing more about that soon?

- I went ahead and made a few changes to the Skrell page's mention of the Weishii faith. For a while, it didn't have much more to it than "it's not Qeblak." I'm hoping the edits I've made catch the interest of a person here and there. It goes rather well with a comment I heard in somebody's app that people liked hearing about that era of rebuilding. Well. There's your context for the rise Weishii and a quick overview of how society changed in that time. Eat your heart out, Aurora. It's a whole couple sentences dedicated just to you.

- I also went ahead and made a small contribution to the University trend. There's more to be said about the Grand University, but waiting until it's perfect is only going to make me feel like waiting around even longer. If people want to hear more about the Skrell Snowflake School, I'll expand upon it more.

Goals?

-More Universities.

-More wiki work.

-More articles.

-More cooperation.

-More feedback.

-Mo'problems.