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00:00:00Grazie a tutti.
00:00:33Grazie a tutti.
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00:01:21happens when you're at home, some
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00:01:28but I do the alien language
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00:01:41have heard of once or twice
00:01:43and I want to compliment you on your
00:01:45Seven Samurai poster in the back
00:01:47thanks, it's vented
00:01:49all right, moving clockwise
00:01:51over, Dave, who are you and what do you do for Star Citizen?
00:01:54I am Dave Haddock
00:01:55I'm the narrative director
00:01:57and do a bit of
00:02:00everything
00:02:02probably too much
00:02:04and also, Jared, just to
00:02:05correct you, I think Saturday would also be another
00:02:07end of the week, it's not just
00:02:09Friday, so
00:02:10it's an option, it's an option
00:02:12just saying, if you wanted to get technical
00:02:16see, I was going to compliment
00:02:17you on your Seven Samurai poster, but now I'm not going to
00:02:20it's not as nice as
00:02:21Sherry's
00:02:22moving down clockwise, Will, who are you and what do you do
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00:02:27Hi, I'm Will
00:02:28I help Star Citizen
00:02:31sorry, which camera should I look at?
00:02:33which, this one?
00:02:35yeah
00:02:35okay
00:02:37yeah, I'm the lead writer
00:02:39here at Star Citizen
00:02:40I do all sorts of narrative
00:02:43stuff, that's one of my favorite things about
00:02:45Star Citizen is, narrative is
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00:02:48yeah, we help write missions
00:02:51we come up with world building
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00:02:55aliens that we're going to talk about today
00:02:56so yeah, it's a really
00:02:59great project to be a part of
00:03:00thanks everyone
00:03:02and excellent work on your Seven Samurai poster
00:03:06I'm thinking
00:03:07about upgrading to an Eight Samurai
00:03:08but I'm waiting for it to come out
00:03:11and last
00:03:13there's Adam
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00:03:16no, no
00:03:17Adam, who are you and what do you do for Star Citizen?
00:03:19I mean, you hit it right on the head
00:03:21I'm Adam
00:03:22and I'm a writer
00:03:23so I work with Dave and Will
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00:03:36I feel your Seven Samurai poster
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00:03:42it's okay
00:03:43it's got a big tear in it
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00:03:48what are we doing this week?
00:03:50this week is the kickoff
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00:04:02what we are doing today
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00:04:11star citizen universe
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00:04:29our community management team
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00:04:46I do want to remind folks
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00:04:53if your questions are
00:04:55when is this ship
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00:05:15from here on out
00:05:17the first question
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00:05:19was one that you
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00:05:24when will we find out
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00:05:26Kurthak
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00:05:30alien races
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00:07:23Kurthak
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00:09:13was it
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00:09:16Jerry
00:09:16yeah
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00:09:46Krathak
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00:10:00that is
00:10:01inhabited
00:10:02by
00:10:03a species
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00:10:07self-aware
00:10:07you might
00:10:08call it
00:10:09sentient
00:10:09in some
00:10:10works of
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00:10:19they will
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00:10:23and the
00:10:23UEE
00:10:24has this
00:10:24law in
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00:10:25called
00:10:25the
00:10:25Fair
00:10:26Chance
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00:10:27prohibits
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00:10:29developed
00:10:30civilizations
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00:10:34massacre
00:10:34of
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00:10:36a
00:10:37genocide
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00:10:40planet
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00:10:42by a
00:10:43terraforming
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00:10:45that had
00:10:45ties to
00:10:46the
00:10:46Imperator
00:10:46Linton
00:10:47Messer
00:10:47the
00:10:4811th
00:10:49and it
00:10:50was the
00:10:51last
00:10:52inciting
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00:10:52that led
00:10:53to the
00:10:53fall
00:10:53of the
00:10:54Messers
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00:10:54end
00:10:54of the
00:10:55Messer
00:10:55era
00:10:55everybody
00:10:56knows
00:10:56the
00:10:57odd
00:10:57number
00:10:57Messers
00:10:57are the
00:10:58bad
00:10:58ones
00:11:00just
00:11:00like
00:11:00the
00:11:00Star
00:11:01Trek
00:11:01movies
00:11:02hey
00:11:03I will
00:11:04broach
00:11:05no
00:11:05ill speak
00:11:06of Star
00:11:07Trek 3
00:11:07it's a
00:11:08good movie
00:11:09that's
00:11:09search for
00:11:09Spock
00:11:10right
00:11:10that's
00:11:10search for
00:11:10Spock
00:11:11that's
00:11:11Christopher
00:11:11Lloyd
00:11:11inventing
00:11:12the
00:11:12modern
00:11:13day
00:11:13Klingon
00:11:15and they
00:11:16found him
00:11:16so
00:11:17mission
00:11:18accomplished
00:11:19it's all
00:11:20good
00:11:20we have
00:11:21a couple
00:11:21of
00:11:21developing
00:11:22civilizations
00:11:22we have
00:11:23you might
00:11:24have just
00:11:25read about
00:11:25the
00:11:25Osoyans
00:11:26because I
00:11:26published a
00:11:27galactopedia
00:11:28article on
00:11:28them
00:11:29we can't
00:11:31get too
00:11:32much into
00:11:33their final
00:11:33design but
00:11:34we do
00:11:34know that
00:11:35they communicate
00:11:35light through
00:11:36color displays
00:11:37like cuttlefish
00:11:39which is
00:11:39fascinating and
00:11:41very hard for us
00:11:41to parse
00:11:42because we use
00:11:43our mouth
00:11:43parts to
00:11:43speak
00:11:44I will
00:11:46throw out a
00:11:47fun behind
00:11:48the scenes
00:11:48trivia thing
00:11:49I had
00:11:49actually
00:11:50when the
00:11:51Osoyans
00:11:51first appeared
00:11:52in the
00:11:53Lost
00:11:53generation
00:11:54story and
00:11:55I had
00:11:56done a
00:11:57rough sketch
00:11:58that I
00:11:59showed to
00:12:00somebody on
00:12:00the team
00:12:01of what I
00:12:02was sort of
00:12:02thinking they
00:12:02looked like
00:12:03and I was
00:12:03told to
00:12:04quote never
00:12:05ever show
00:12:05that to the
00:12:06animators
00:12:07end quote
00:12:08they would
00:12:09cry
00:12:09yes
00:12:10many a
00:12:11bad idea
00:12:13comes from
00:12:13me
00:12:13yes
00:12:18what are
00:12:19your thoughts
00:12:19on Vanduul
00:12:20NPCs in the
00:12:21Persistent
00:12:22Universe
00:12:25watch out
00:12:25for them
00:12:26probably
00:12:28do not
00:12:29interact
00:12:30run
00:12:31yeah I
00:12:32guess it's
00:12:32sort of a
00:12:33two prong
00:12:33question of
00:12:33like you
00:12:34know whether
00:12:34that's
00:12:36NPCs as
00:12:36far as
00:12:36like
00:12:38hostile
00:12:38forces that
00:12:39you could
00:12:39potentially come
00:12:40across or
00:12:41NPCs as
00:12:42like you
00:12:43know hey
00:12:43there's a
00:12:43Vanduul
00:12:44shopkeeper
00:12:45named
00:12:45Jerry
00:12:46that's
00:12:47exactly where
00:12:47I was going
00:12:47is there a
00:12:48Vanduul
00:12:48Jerry along
00:12:49with Vanduul
00:12:50Jerry
00:12:52I mean as
00:12:53it stands
00:12:54now I
00:12:54mean you
00:12:54know the
00:12:55hope is that
00:12:55as you start
00:12:56kind of getting
00:12:56closer to
00:12:57the systems
00:13:00that are
00:13:00you know
00:13:01near the
00:13:02Vanduul
00:13:02border you're
00:13:03going to have
00:13:03to start
00:13:03dealing with
00:13:03them as a
00:13:04possible
00:13:05raiding
00:13:05force
00:13:09but you
00:13:10know and
00:13:11we've alluded
00:13:11in the past
00:13:11that there
00:13:12are certain
00:13:12Banu that
00:13:13have managed
00:13:13to establish
00:13:14you know trade
00:13:15relations with
00:13:15Vanduul but
00:13:18you know and
00:13:19sort of hinted
00:13:19that you know
00:13:20there's a
00:13:21possibility that
00:13:21maybe a human
00:13:22could try and
00:13:23pull it off but
00:13:23as it stands
00:13:24now like no
00:13:24one's ever done
00:13:25it so good
00:13:28luck make sure
00:13:29you wear your
00:13:29armor
00:13:31yeah and
00:13:31with the
00:13:32Vanduuls
00:13:33having clans
00:13:33and stuff when
00:13:34we start getting
00:13:34into those
00:13:35border systems I
00:13:36think you know
00:13:36you'll start
00:13:37seeing kind of
00:13:38the differences
00:13:38start emergencing
00:13:39between the
00:13:40different groups
00:13:41of Vandals you
00:13:41encounter and
00:13:42that might take
00:13:43the form of
00:13:44you know actually
00:13:45having recognizable
00:13:46we don't want
00:13:47them to be a
00:13:47unified just
00:13:49faceless force
00:13:50that attacks you
00:13:51and like all
00:13:52that kind of
00:13:52stuff so there
00:13:53will be plans
00:13:55to develop it
00:13:56but as far as
00:13:57like dealing
00:13:58with them while
00:13:59the act of war
00:13:59is going on
00:14:00you know I
00:14:02think that's
00:14:02going to be a
00:14:03tricky proposition
00:14:03for anyone in
00:14:04the UAE to
00:14:05to accomplish
00:14:06well and
00:14:07also coming
00:14:07on of what
00:14:08Will was
00:14:08saying earlier
00:14:09like you
00:14:09know there
00:14:10is that
00:14:10thing too
00:14:11of you
00:14:12know if
00:14:14say for
00:14:15example like
00:14:15you know we
00:14:16publish a thing
00:14:17next week that's
00:14:17like oh hey
00:14:18you know so
00:14:20and so found
00:14:20Jerry the
00:14:21Vanduul and
00:14:21he's super
00:14:22friendly and
00:14:22stuff like
00:14:22that like
00:14:23that's not
00:14:24that satisfying
00:14:25from a
00:14:25player standpoint
00:14:27like wanting
00:14:27to save the
00:14:28development of
00:14:29you know where
00:14:30the future goes
00:14:30from here in
00:14:31the universe
00:14:32like you
00:14:33know while
00:14:34until players
00:14:35can actually
00:14:35start to
00:14:36theoretically be
00:14:37able to affect
00:14:38that change
00:14:38is much more
00:14:39dynamic and
00:14:40interesting
00:14:41it's it's
00:14:42kind of what
00:14:43you talked
00:14:43about before
00:14:44it's there
00:14:45is in there
00:14:47is a not
00:14:47insignificant amount
00:14:48of lore
00:14:49already out there
00:14:50for Star Citizen
00:14:53and that said
00:14:54it's still I
00:14:55understand the
00:14:56desire to still
00:14:57keep things
00:14:58closer to the
00:14:59chest you know
00:15:00discovery is
00:15:01such a key
00:15:01aspect of
00:15:02Star Citizen's
00:15:03intended you
00:15:05know endgame
00:15:05you don't want
00:15:07to sit there
00:15:07and you know
00:15:08spoil everything
00:15:09on live streams
00:15:11years earlier
00:15:14all alien races
00:15:16are humanoids
00:15:17how do you
00:15:18make them
00:15:18all alien races
00:15:19they know about
00:15:19are humanoids
00:15:20how do you
00:15:21make them
00:15:21different than
00:15:22humans
00:15:23I think that's
00:15:24a species term
00:15:25first of all
00:15:26I don't think
00:15:28we should be
00:15:29calling them
00:15:29humanoid
00:15:31yeah
00:15:31bipedal or
00:15:32die
00:15:35yeah I mean
00:15:36I don't know
00:15:36it's always that
00:15:37thing that the
00:15:39I don't know
00:15:40for me it was
00:15:40it's that sort
00:15:41of weird
00:15:42balance of
00:15:42like trying
00:15:43to I mean
00:15:45we are making
00:15:46a game so
00:15:46there's that
00:15:47sort of the
00:15:47humans of
00:15:49Star Citizen
00:15:50of the UEE
00:15:51and stuff like
00:15:52that like you
00:15:53know how does
00:15:53how do the
00:15:54Shion react with
00:15:55them and stuff
00:15:55like that so
00:15:56you want to
00:15:56build those
00:15:56sorts of
00:15:57conflicts and
00:15:58you know
00:15:58oh humans
00:15:59believe this
00:16:00so the
00:16:00Shion might
00:16:01believe that
00:16:01if we want
00:16:01to make a
00:16:02little bit
00:16:02of kind
00:16:02of head
00:16:03butting
00:16:03there
00:16:05but
00:16:06yeah I
00:16:07don't know
00:16:07for me
00:16:07you know
00:16:09there's also
00:16:09that aspect
00:16:10of like
00:16:10trying to
00:16:12come up
00:16:13with like
00:16:14unique ways
00:16:15that they
00:16:15could have
00:16:15developed
00:16:16like writing
00:16:17out actually
00:16:17we did a
00:16:17time capsule
00:16:18thing for
00:16:18the Shion
00:16:19so writing
00:16:20out their
00:16:20history
00:16:20like big
00:16:21events that
00:16:21happened
00:16:22throughout
00:16:22their history
00:16:22and that
00:16:23actually really
00:16:24helped kind
00:16:24of establish
00:16:26that mindset
00:16:26of how they
00:16:27would approach
00:16:28something as
00:16:28a completely
00:16:29distinct culture
00:16:31yeah I think
00:16:33a lot of
00:16:33things too
00:16:34for me is
00:16:34when we
00:16:35start talking
00:16:35about them
00:16:36and even
00:16:36though their
00:16:37physiology may
00:16:38be you know
00:16:38right now two
00:16:39arms and two
00:16:40legs and kind
00:16:41of a torso
00:16:41and kind
00:16:42of a general
00:16:43shape like
00:16:44that I think
00:16:45a lot of the
00:16:46stuff that we
00:16:46can play with
00:16:47is in their
00:16:48senses and
00:16:49how they
00:16:49experience the
00:16:50world and that
00:16:50gives them a
00:16:51really different
00:16:52perspective on
00:16:52stuff from us
00:16:53like we
00:16:54really like the
00:16:55idea of the
00:16:55Banu are quite
00:16:56a hardy
00:16:57species and
00:16:57they can
00:16:58survive
00:16:58temperatures well
00:16:59in excess of
00:17:00what we can on
00:17:01both sides of
00:17:01the range and
00:17:02different atmospheres
00:17:03and stuff like
00:17:04that and so
00:17:05like them kind
00:17:06of being a
00:17:07little more
00:17:08maybe less
00:17:09cautious and
00:17:10blundering and
00:17:10going forward
00:17:11comes as a
00:17:12side effect of
00:17:13that being you
00:17:14know hardier
00:17:14and you know
00:17:16the Shion have
00:17:16a very long
00:17:17life and they
00:17:19have like
00:17:20dollar senses
00:17:20and so like
00:17:21this kind of
00:17:22more cautious
00:17:23approach all
00:17:23feeds into
00:17:24that and so
00:17:24we try to
00:17:25think about
00:17:25how are these
00:17:26seeing the
00:17:27world and how
00:17:27is that different
00:17:28than humans
00:17:29as we go
00:17:30so I think
00:17:31that helps me
00:17:32a lot as a
00:17:33writer kind of
00:17:33create when I
00:17:35when I'm trying
00:17:35to think about
00:17:36all right what
00:17:37is the Shion
00:17:37way of looking
00:17:38at this what
00:17:38is the Banu
00:17:39way of looking
00:17:39at this
00:17:40that makes
00:17:42sense
00:17:43Jared will you
00:17:44marry me
00:17:45depends on
00:17:46the dowry
00:17:47make your
00:17:48offers to
00:17:48Ulf he's
00:17:49my agent
00:17:51do the
00:17:52Banu use
00:17:53ground
00:17:53vehicles
00:17:55I mean
00:17:56they use
00:17:57they use
00:17:57anything that
00:17:57they think
00:17:58is useful
00:17:58so I'm
00:17:59going to
00:17:59tentatively
00:18:00say probably
00:18:05just to talk
00:18:06about this
00:18:06like I know
00:18:07there's a lot
00:18:07of questions
00:18:07about wanting
00:18:08to expand
00:18:08out the
00:18:09alien ship
00:18:10you know
00:18:11thing and
00:18:11by no means
00:18:12the alien ships
00:18:13that are available
00:18:13for sale right
00:18:14now represent
00:18:14the full range
00:18:16of what alien
00:18:17species fly
00:18:18and drive
00:18:18around and
00:18:19we from
00:18:21the narrative
00:18:21team ships
00:18:22are so important
00:18:23to star citizen
00:18:24that we have
00:18:26to be very
00:18:26careful when
00:18:28using them
00:18:29like we the
00:18:30safer route for
00:18:30us is when
00:18:31we're talking
00:18:31about stuff
00:18:31hundreds of
00:18:32years ago
00:18:32we have a
00:18:33little more
00:18:33leeway to
00:18:34kind of just
00:18:35write for
00:18:35what we need
00:18:36but when we're
00:18:37talking about
00:18:37present day
00:18:38stuff and
00:18:38what you
00:18:38encounter
00:18:39that takes
00:18:40a lot of
00:18:40coordination
00:18:41between us
00:18:42and the
00:18:42ship design
00:18:42team and
00:18:43so it's not
00:18:43something we
00:18:44do lightly
00:18:45so wondering
00:18:46about like oh
00:18:47where's the
00:18:47science ships
00:18:48how come you
00:18:48haven't ever
00:18:49mentioned the
00:18:49Xi'an having
00:18:50a tank and
00:18:51like all this
00:18:51kind of stuff
00:18:52and that's
00:18:52kind of the
00:18:52reason behind
00:18:53there is that
00:18:54we really try
00:18:55to let them
00:18:55take the
00:18:57forward step
00:18:58with introducing
00:18:59a new ship
00:18:59into the
00:19:00universe and
00:19:00then we
00:19:00follow up
00:19:01so
00:19:04are there
00:19:04any alien
00:19:05musical
00:19:06instruments
00:19:06planned
00:19:09the question
00:19:11was actually
00:19:12musical instruments
00:19:13planned or
00:19:14food and
00:19:14we know
00:19:15we know all
00:19:15about food
00:19:16especially the
00:19:18Banu
00:19:19there goes
00:19:21the rest of
00:19:21the hour
00:19:22eventually
00:19:23there will be
00:19:23a Banu
00:19:24recipe book
00:19:25food is a
00:19:27special interest
00:19:27of Will
00:19:28and me
00:19:29both
00:19:29so we
00:19:31we have
00:19:32spent we
00:19:32have spent
00:19:33many
00:19:35work hour
00:19:36like developing
00:19:37the cuisine
00:19:38of the different
00:19:39alien species
00:19:40look forward to
00:19:41learning more
00:19:42next week
00:19:43and it's also
00:19:44one of these
00:19:45things that we
00:19:45have a little
00:19:45more liberty
00:19:46with as a
00:19:48writing team
00:19:48in the game
00:19:49because unfortunately
00:19:50yet we don't
00:19:51have a way for
00:19:52you to taste
00:19:52things when
00:19:54you click on
00:19:54it but music
00:19:55and stuff you
00:19:55can actually hear
00:19:56and someone
00:19:57is actually
00:19:57going to have
00:19:58to build
00:19:58that music
00:20:00the way we
00:20:00describe it
00:20:01so like we
00:20:02inanimate it
00:20:03so we have
00:20:03plans and ideas
00:20:05for that but
00:20:05that'll take
00:20:05coordination down
00:20:06the road with
00:20:07those separate
00:20:08teams but food
00:20:09we can say
00:20:09this tastes
00:20:10like you know
00:20:11spicy beetles
00:20:11and it's and
00:20:13you just have to
00:20:13take our word
00:20:14for that
00:20:15so yeah
00:20:16yeah and even
00:20:17though we
00:20:18haven't specified
00:20:19a specific
00:20:20instrument I know
00:20:20we have called
00:20:21out with the
00:20:22Xi'an that
00:20:23they do love
00:20:24like a certain
00:20:25type of opera
00:20:26which you could
00:20:27almost compare
00:20:28to like very
00:20:28minimalist kind
00:20:30of like modern
00:20:30classical music
00:20:31where it's very
00:20:33droney and drawn
00:20:33out since they
00:20:34have long
00:20:35lifespans and
00:20:36it takes them
00:20:36to a meditative
00:20:37state so we
00:20:38can describe that
00:20:39experience and it
00:20:40would be like a
00:20:42day-long opera
00:20:42rather than like a
00:20:43four or five hour
00:20:44opera so it's
00:20:46yeah it's we
00:20:48have ideas for
00:20:49where we would
00:20:50like to take that
00:20:50and some sound
00:20:51but again it's
00:20:53it's not
00:20:53something we
00:20:53would go out
00:20:54there and say
00:20:54it's got to be
00:20:55this specific
00:20:55instrument at least
00:20:56at this point
00:20:56and we've talked
00:20:57a bit about the
00:20:58Tavarin having
00:20:59this kind of
00:21:00unified chanting
00:21:01system that's
00:21:02kind of like a
00:21:02timekeeping and
00:21:03keeping everyone
00:21:04in lockstep kind
00:21:05of for their
00:21:06for their movements
00:21:07and stuff and so
00:21:08like bringing all
00:21:08their voices
00:21:09together yeah it
00:21:10was about kind
00:21:10of again because
00:21:11the Tavarin also
00:21:12kind of came from
00:21:13a planet where
00:21:13they were you
00:21:15know besieged by
00:21:16a lot of
00:21:16predators so the
00:21:17idea with their
00:21:17music was that
00:21:18they would it
00:21:19would be a lot
00:21:19of like the drum
00:21:20circle becomes kind
00:21:21of the classic
00:21:22example but this
00:21:23idea that you're
00:21:23it's a it's
00:21:24about augmenting
00:21:26your numbers to
00:21:27make it sound
00:21:27like it's you're
00:21:28a really big
00:21:29fearsome thing so
00:21:31it was that sort
00:21:31of coordinated
00:21:32like it's a kind
00:21:33of rhythmic type
00:21:37thing to kind
00:21:38of amplify your
00:21:39size or boast
00:21:40about kind of the
00:21:41size of like you
00:21:41don't want to come
00:21:42over here there's a
00:21:43big thing here that
00:21:43will mess you up
00:21:45I like to imagine
00:21:46that the Tavarin can
00:21:47all harmonize with
00:21:49anyone like John
00:21:50Denver could
00:21:54they are John
00:21:55Denver
00:21:56and the Banu
00:21:57didn't really have
00:21:58much of a music
00:21:59culture before they
00:22:00encountered the
00:22:01humans and so like
00:22:02they've taken yeah
00:22:03they've taken to
00:22:04human music strongly
00:22:05as it's a well-known
00:22:06fact that they enjoy
00:22:07karaoke and also
00:22:09because of their
00:22:11their less sensitive
00:22:13hearing they really
00:22:14like music cranked
00:22:15to 11 and so it
00:22:18can be dangerous to
00:22:18go to a Banu
00:22:19concert
00:22:20that's one more
00:22:24this one seems
00:22:25pretty broad tell
00:22:26us about Tavarin
00:22:27who serve in the
00:22:28UEN
00:22:31are there Tavarin
00:22:32that serve in the
00:22:33Navy
00:22:33yeah absolutely one
00:22:36of the the current
00:22:37senators he's the
00:22:38first Tavarin
00:22:39senator elected
00:22:42was formerly in the
00:22:43Navy and it kind of
00:22:44used had had joined
00:22:46the the Navy to
00:22:47essentially earn his
00:22:48citizenship and then
00:22:51obviously kind of like
00:22:52integrate and a lot of
00:22:53a lot of Tavarin like
00:22:54to join the Navy or
00:22:57stuff like that as a
00:22:57way to better integrate
00:22:58into the society and
00:22:59they see it as a a
00:23:01ladder to maybe kind
00:23:02of to get to better
00:23:04positions and stuff
00:23:05like that I one of the
00:23:06current things in the
00:23:07current election cycle
00:23:08we're dealing with is
00:23:10some of the candidates
00:23:11and their their
00:23:13preference to wanting
00:23:14to encourage more Tavarin
00:23:16to join the armed
00:23:18forces and and and
00:23:19stuff like that as a
00:23:20as a way to kind of
00:23:21like make for
00:23:24give them more
00:23:25opportunities and and
00:23:26kind of a more diverse
00:23:27fighting force for the
00:23:29for the UEE so there's
00:23:31definitely a lot out
00:23:31there but I'm sure
00:23:32there's still plenty of
00:23:33Tavarin that have no
00:23:34interest in joining or
00:23:36or just don't don't
00:23:38don't see the use in
00:23:39it so I think it's more
00:23:40of a personal personal
00:23:41choice yeah there's a
00:23:43sort of I mean there's
00:23:43an interesting split
00:23:45kind of going on within
00:23:46the Tavarin where
00:23:48there's a certain
00:23:50percentage of them are
00:23:52believing that they you
00:23:53know are trying to kind
00:23:54of rediscover their old
00:23:57ways and that they I
00:23:59can't remember there I
00:23:59think they went to
00:24:00Branagh or Bramon
00:24:01yes uh Branagh and
00:24:03Branagh and so they've
00:24:04kind of formed this or
00:24:05trying to kind of go and
00:24:06isolate themselves and
00:24:07kind of start to
00:24:08resurrect kind of the
00:24:09old Tavarin uh Rizora
00:24:11and stuff and then
00:24:12there's another group
00:24:13that sort of Sushkasi
00:24:15who's the senator the
00:24:16Tavarin senator is sort
00:24:17of spearheading of like
00:24:19you know we need to
00:24:21you know play our part
00:24:22we're part of this
00:24:23empire let's act like it
00:24:24uh type thing and and
00:24:26really trying to inspire
00:24:27the Tavarin to really
00:24:29kind of take up their
00:24:30mantle as as members of
00:24:31the UEE and and really
00:24:33do their part and then
00:24:34there's the third who
00:24:35kind of ignore both and
00:24:36are just sort of like
00:24:36still somewhat disaffected
00:24:38and don't want to
00:24:40contribute at all yeah I
00:24:42I think the Tavarin
00:24:43serving in the navy was
00:24:44a it was a big step
00:24:45forward for them in in
00:24:47terms of finding their
00:24:48place within the empire
00:24:50because there was a lot
00:24:51of distrust at the
00:24:52beginning you know we
00:24:53were at war with them
00:24:53they were living among
00:24:54us they were kind of
00:24:55segregated and so that
00:24:57opportunity when it
00:24:59occurred when they made
00:24:59the invitation to allow
00:25:01Tavarin to serve was
00:25:03kind of the first
00:25:04normalizing step for a
00:25:08lot of ways of humanity
00:25:10kind of getting the used
00:25:11to idea that maybe we
00:25:12can trust these these
00:25:14people so it's kind of
00:25:17interesting in the
00:25:17historical significance of
00:25:19it and it still goes on
00:25:20today I think you know
00:25:21Tavarin have a reputation
00:25:22for being fierce warriors
00:25:24so and shedding I made
00:25:30that one up this person
00:25:32has has clearly done their
00:25:34homework so I'm not gonna
00:25:37I'm not gonna I'm not
00:25:38gonna alter this one I'm
00:25:39gonna read it just as it
00:25:39is humanity made first
00:25:42contact with the Banu in
00:25:43Davian which is at least
00:25:45five jumps from Banu
00:25:46territory according to the
00:25:47star map the Banu in
00:25:49question was not an
00:25:49explorer but a fugitive which
00:25:51implies that he knew of
00:25:52those systems already
00:25:53which in turn implies that
00:25:54other Banu knew about
00:25:55them in fact we know they
00:25:57must have because of
00:25:59Treece which lies clear
00:26:00across the star map from
00:26:02known Banu space at least
00:26:03eight jumps by my count and
00:26:04to make the trip in eight
00:26:05jumps from Geddon would
00:26:06mean going through Terra in
00:26:08any case Treece is a long
00:26:09way from Banu space and
00:26:11what's between the two is
00:26:12mostly UEE space or what's
00:26:14become UEE space so the
00:26:15question is if the Banu knew
00:26:18about all these uninhabited
00:26:19systems for so long why
00:26:21didn't they colonize any of
00:26:22them
00:26:25I'm gonna answer this any
00:26:27Banu who knows the answer
00:26:28is dead so we'll never know
00:26:30the end
00:26:33for folks who might not know
00:26:35what the context of that
00:26:36answer is Sherry what why
00:26:38would it why would the bet
00:26:38why do why does that
00:26:39knowledge die with the Banu
00:26:41so Banu don't really preserve
00:26:44historical records that that
00:26:45outline like big events that
00:26:47happen it's not out of any
00:26:49kind of like malice for
00:26:50past events it's just because
00:26:51they it's not useful for
00:26:53them to remember stuff like
00:26:54that you know like their
00:26:56culture is centered around
00:26:57the present moment like
00:26:59making things that have use
00:27:00like tools and instructional
00:27:02guides so yeah they preserve
00:27:04knowledge like yeah they
00:27:06preserve knowledge they don't
00:27:07preserve history so them
00:27:10recording a reason like why
00:27:12why didn't the Banu terra
00:27:13form this random system no
00:27:15banu would care enough to
00:27:16write that down
00:27:19and it's kind of like you
00:27:21know the humans existing in
00:27:23the UE now like they they've
00:27:24kind of noticed this
00:27:25discrepancy of wonder
00:27:26themselves and try to figure
00:27:27it out and and it's one
00:27:28thing that it's hard to get
00:27:33travel information from the
00:27:35Banu the way that we've kind
00:27:36of talked about them setting
00:27:37up their navigational is that
00:27:39it's very proprietary and
00:27:41controlled and so like we
00:27:44we didn't instantly get access
00:27:45to all the Banu star maps
00:27:47when we became friends with
00:27:49them it's been a long
00:27:50overtime trading process of
00:27:52finally gaining access like
00:27:54you have to purchase rights
00:27:55to get their star map data
00:27:58and a lot of them are very
00:27:59carefully held because people
00:28:01want to control trade routes
00:28:02they don't want the humans
00:28:03coming in and you know doing
00:28:05these things and so it's and
00:28:08it's not like we can just take a
00:28:10Banu ship and download the
00:28:11information because of the way
00:28:12that they build their their
00:28:14drives it's all hard-coded
00:28:16into it and you can't remove
00:28:17it out and so it's kind of an
00:28:19interesting thing where they're
00:28:21very protective of that
00:28:22information sort of goes back
00:28:24to the question from earlier
00:28:26about how you differentiate the
00:28:28alien races when they're when on
00:28:30a service level they're all
00:28:31bipedal you know you find ways
00:28:34of differentiating through their
00:28:35culture and through their
00:28:36habits and stuff like that so
00:28:38the Banu don't care about
00:28:40history it isn't good as a
00:28:42mystery let's see how do you
00:28:46work to adapt or limit the lore
00:28:48you write into something that
00:28:50will become possible to actually
00:28:52create in the game we do our
00:28:59best conversations yeah
00:29:03conversations I would say good
00:29:04communication yeah where we
00:29:06brainstorm you know we
00:29:09brainstorm a lot we also it's
00:29:10like if it seems like stuff's
00:29:11going to have like gameplay
00:29:12implications we will try to
00:29:15either get really cryptic in the
00:29:17stuff that we're talking about
00:29:18that's actually directly
00:29:20referencing gameplay or and as
00:29:23well as just reach out to the
00:29:25design team you know directors and
00:29:28stuff like that and just say like
00:29:30hey you know is this roughly
00:29:32accurate is this a completely
00:29:34flying in the face of everything
00:29:35that we're heading towards like we
00:29:38would try to get buy-in basically
00:29:39from the other team members before
00:29:42writing anything because yeah the
00:29:45last thing we want to do is say
00:29:45like you know throw out something
00:29:48arbitrarily that has massive
00:29:50gameplay implications and then have
00:29:53to walk it back because yeah people
00:29:57read our stuff pretty pretty closely
00:30:00yes well that last question
00:30:02evidenced enough a follow-up to the
00:30:04banu question from the chat if if
00:30:07banu doesn't don't
00:30:10savor history they don't write down
00:30:11history anything can there be banu
00:30:13outlaws can you have a banu with a
00:30:15criminal record
00:30:17yes because it's still based off of
00:30:19like if I if I'm a banu and I steal
00:30:22from banu will will remembers that I'm
00:30:25I stole from him and so there's
00:30:27uh I and I would hire a security
00:30:30company to collect you know find
00:30:34track down Dave and that contract as
00:30:36long as it's in existence would mark
00:30:37Dave as a wanted person but how far
00:30:40that knowledge spreads you know maybe
00:30:42it's kind of a personal immediate
00:30:45kind of transgression yeah it feels
00:30:48like the banu there there's less of
00:30:49that next step with the banu as as in
00:30:52they that doesn't just become a general
00:30:54you are now an outlaw for for everyone
00:30:56it's it's a very personal thing at
00:30:58that moment and uh if if will
00:31:01disappears or dies that uh Dave may no
00:31:04longer be a considered an outlaw because
00:31:07no one really no one really cares it's
00:31:09it's not useful to anybody else to go
00:31:10track him down because that uh whatever
00:31:13happened there is uh the contract his
00:31:16contract with you know will's contract
00:31:18with his marks that he hired to kill me
00:31:20would be annulled because will's dead so
00:31:24it's sort of yeah as we've talked about
00:31:27in the past with sort of the the kind
00:31:30of inherent comedy around the humans and
00:31:32banu having to constantly renegotiate
00:31:34their trade agreement uh because yeah
00:31:38good job you passed uh let's talk about
00:31:41the xion how did the xion develop uh
00:31:45this person read that they weren't at
00:31:47the top of the food chain is that is the
00:31:49race that is the top of their food chain
00:31:51still around that's that's really two
00:31:53questions how did the xion develop and
00:31:55then is the top food is that whatever
00:31:58the race that was at the top the species
00:31:59of the top so what 30 000 years of
00:32:02history so yeah we got a very long time
00:32:04so like i i personally have always
00:32:07imagined that the xion were not self
00:32:10aware while they were were prey animals
00:32:13like they maybe maybe in their like early
00:32:16days when they were starting to develop
00:32:18tools the um the predator animals that
00:32:20used to hunt them down and kill them all
00:32:22the time were around and so that's part of
00:32:24the reason why they developed tools and
00:32:26banded together in groups like this this
00:32:29active predation helps them develop as an
00:32:31actual civilization and so i also like to
00:32:35imagine that once they banded together and
00:32:38had tools to get rid of their predator
00:32:41species they just got they just got rid of
00:32:44them like they i don't believe that at that
00:32:46time the predator species were self-aware
00:32:49like the xion were
00:32:50there's something interesting right yeah i
00:32:53would also think the the long lifespan of a
00:32:55xion would probably benefit them because
00:32:56they it there's so much knowledge that they
00:32:59can acquire and then kind of grow over over
00:33:01the the the few hundred years they're
00:33:03living so yeah i could see them very
00:33:07quickly assessing and understanding the
00:33:09the apex predators around them and how to
00:33:11either avoid them or overcome them i could i
00:33:15see them having them like still around as
00:33:19like a zoo type thing of showing like how
00:33:20far we've came like we're not afraid of
00:33:23this um elephant tiger bat anymore um let's
00:33:29don't that's not the avatar universe um yeah
00:33:33like they actually have them on the zoo
00:33:35planet the zoo yeah in the preserve yeah i
00:33:38mean we have the santokai uh that's a super
00:33:42scary uh creature that used to drop down from
00:33:45the trees and kill the heck out of xion so
00:33:47i i got still around yeah and they named a
00:33:50ship death from yeah like to see like aha now
00:33:53we control the santokai suck it
00:33:58i don't know why i yield my time i
00:34:00yield my time yeah maybe uh maybe that would
00:34:03be like the real baller like xion move is to
00:34:05have you know one of those on your compound as a
00:34:07pet kind of oh yeah fancy collar yeah the
00:34:12sort of shion are having hippos and
00:34:14tigers and let's let's tiger emperor let's
00:34:18move along okay uh how did humans learn to
00:34:22communicate with the banu they met during
00:34:24first contact
00:34:27uh it was a really long process it was uh i
00:34:31think it was sokolovich neil sokolovich was
00:34:33the general in charge uh but it was a month
00:34:36several months of them working with the banu
00:34:40uh wait sorry banu or shion uh which one
00:34:43which was the one for first contact banu
00:34:45right yeah yeah okay uh yeah but it was a
00:34:48it was a long a very long weird arduous
00:34:50process uh but many xenolinguists gave up
00:34:55their lives to deliver this information
00:34:57yeah is is there a character in our lore
00:35:00named after britain
00:35:03not yet i do want to cast him as like the um
00:35:07you know if we have like a uh in lore language
00:35:10tutor sort of like there was a rosetta stone
00:35:12and instructor would be my my my goal the
00:35:15britain stone yeah basically uh unless he has a
00:35:18preference of what he would like to appear as but
00:35:20that would be my uh for those who maybe don't
00:35:23know and just heard a name come out of nowhere
00:35:24and you're like who uh britain walkins is our
00:35:27official xenolinguist uh for for star citizen and the i
00:35:32recommend watching his how to uh speak shion videos
00:35:36that's it for us he also actually has a a documentary
00:35:39on constructed language it's awesome uh speaking of language
00:35:44uh some games allow for player characters to slowly learn alien
00:35:48languages to find ruins faster and understand artifacts for
00:35:52better rewards ship items etc with the growing library of
00:35:55languages for the vandu the shion the banu what are your plans for
00:35:59integrating these languages into the game
00:36:04uh i mean the you know as outside of like just sort of pure
00:36:08environmental stuff i mean we started to kind of actually we have started
00:36:11integrating them and like i believe we have banu stuff on the
00:36:14some of the food vendor carts and and stuff like that
00:36:16um no we have banu and shion signage and um
00:36:22area teen has a book yes i was just like oh god are they up yet
00:36:28uh but yeah i mean again it's i think it's a you know the way we'd always been
00:36:32kind of talking about it again like we'll see you know as as they come
00:36:35more online you know i believe the early conversations was always like
00:36:40you know if you take the time to learn this this
00:36:43stuff that it will you know open up some some
00:36:47possibilities and and kind of facilitate some
00:36:50some kind of cool stuff and you might get to kind of navigate
00:36:52some social minefields that other people might fall into because they're not
00:36:56familiar with the language but but it was also trying to balance it
00:36:59because we don't want to be punishing to people who don't have time to
00:37:03learn an alien language like that seems kind of unfair
00:37:06to me because i'm terrible i'm barely speak english uh and
00:37:11so it's like you know making it fun for the people and rewarding them for
00:37:16for learning shion which is impressive uh but not
00:37:20being too crushing to people who have it or make the game unplayable to people who
00:37:25haven't i i can see a mission that doesn't require you to have to
00:37:30read banu to complete it but a secondary objective like an optional
00:37:36objective that would benefit you more if you could yeah or like you you you can
00:37:41read the signs on the ruins and it'll take you down a
00:37:44different path or something like that that
00:37:46you know still leads to the same place but maybe you get
00:37:48quicker or something i don't know yeah we also have to figure out how kind of our
00:37:52you know 30th century tech ties into this because
00:37:55you know we're talking about how your mobiles kind of ar ties into the world
00:38:00around you and what information you're going to be getting for
00:38:02identifying stuff and whether like our whole idea is that if we do
00:38:06end up having automatic translation happening through your mobi glass
00:38:10that it's rough like it is the the bare bones like 70 accurate type
00:38:16you know trying to do a translation online in like 1999 right kind of level of
00:38:21translation maybe it just translates the
00:38:23words in the order that they're written but since that doesn't translate the
00:38:26grammar it's like yeah you're missing out you're missing out
00:38:31on the nuance which might give you some a leg up
00:38:35uh i we haven't talked with the design team yet about the idea that there would
00:38:41be a skill that you could acquire where it's like
00:38:43i know banu now and it like translates it differently or something like that
00:38:48that's kind of a i i don't know where we would fall on that so
00:38:52i want to make sure that folks heard the part we have not talked to design about
00:38:55that just before i mean we could just be flashing the various summaries that come
00:39:01this is all this is all speculation these are all cool ideas you don't have
00:39:05like a pop-up jared you can just hit like a chiron that just sort of like
00:39:08flashes of like have not talked to design that just kind of
00:39:11we are not describing actual gameplay
00:39:17there's so many things i'd like to say right now
00:39:21uh sometimes my life is not my own uh let's see is there anything you can tell us about our
00:39:26beloved jerry hey a question about jerry the banu involved in first contact
00:39:31go on we have some deep-seated backstory for jerry don't we deep love for jerry uh no actually we
00:39:36don't
00:39:36uh i mean just outside of the fact that he he was on the run from from some some banu
00:39:42that's why he came
00:39:44across uh vorn and tar uh but uh yeah i don't think i don't think we've ever really dealt too
00:39:50deep into
00:39:50him it's definitely a good uh short story candidate maybe for something for us fun to do in the in
00:39:55the
00:39:56future yeah yeah as we've been further developing the banu species in general i think it's helped kind
00:40:02of bring a few more specifics so now that we've kind of honed that in a little bit it might
00:40:06be a good
00:40:06time to to revisit and provide a little more color to his journey and a little more context um
00:40:12he should be like a he should be like a con artist trying to sell fake alien relics for any
00:40:18species that
00:40:18doesn't exist yeah it sort of seems like that would probably not be too far from the truth that he
00:40:25would be doing something yeah he was selling fake you know ship reg tags or something like that or
00:40:30or timeshares and bokeh timeshare and pyro or null something like that um uh cathcart cuisinarts
00:40:44um we heard that the banu trade with even the van van duel how did that come about does anybody
00:40:52remember questions there it's one of those proprietary information things where they don't
00:40:58want us to necessarily also have trade with the van duel um where if it's a money revenue stream that
00:41:08they have complete control over now so they're not exactly breaking it down they're also not
00:41:12exactly advertising it it's more just kind of like inferred from the fact that you know maybe you'll see
00:41:20a banu selling vandal made items and you're like how did you get those and he's like i got them
00:41:27they gave them to me for money you got them from jerry so yeah so so we do know from
00:41:34context that
00:41:35they are perceivably have some kind of connection with them but it's unclear what it to what extent or
00:41:41how they did it uh is there anything you can share about the native species of the hades system
00:41:51um they're dead they are dead do you want to give some back context to to what this person's referring
00:41:59to they died sure uh yeah so so for for those who don't know the hades system is basically it's
00:42:08it's
00:42:09kind of a wrecked totally wrecked system there's a planet that's been cracked in half it's basically
00:42:14the only thing that uh humanity sort of learned about it was like somebody used to live here a
00:42:19while ago and they messed each other up pretty bad uh to the point where they basically presumably
00:42:25wiped themselves out uh we've all had that roommate yeah some of those ragers
00:42:33they take my toast wow he's got a sword jared and he watches the show hi toast
00:42:49we'll just move on uh do the tavarans speak their own language or do they now speak human or
00:42:56common languages commonly well um it depends on where you are in the universe i i there are some
00:43:05some tavern in clubs outside of the ue that would certainly still preserve the language but
00:43:10most of the tavern that were absorbed in the ue when they got rid of their culture they most likely
00:43:16threw away their language too they're just like this is shit this didn't serve us well this none of
00:43:21this protected us when it counts so why should we still bother to use it i mean again i
00:43:26yeah i don't know i mean i think it's it might be one of those things that we once we
00:43:30get the
00:43:30language kind of online we've we kind of figure it out because at the same time like i definitely
00:43:35that they were like you know screw rjora it was useless it was stuff but it still feels like there
00:43:41to me that there'd be still patches of like the language is still kind of survived because that was
00:43:45just their way of communication it's out there yeah definitely definitely in brenna yeah
00:43:50definitely like probably the more like like you said the yeah the the ones who were trying to
00:43:54resurrect kind of the old tavern ways would probably adhere more to it but i think there's
00:43:59definitely been renewed interest in recent time sorry adam go for it oh yeah i would just uh it's
00:44:05been like 300 300 plus years since the end of this the the second tavern war and the species officially
00:44:12being integrated into the ue so that's in that amount of time you can see the language has probably
00:44:17dropped off a lot but it's still not so old that it's not like latin where it's completely lost
00:44:22there are still probably people that have been been speaking it and keeping it alive and yeah
00:44:26i believe there is a bit of a resurgence right now i mean one thing that would be really fun
00:44:32you
00:44:32know i mean once we start kind of tackling the the the language itself would be to have the kind
00:44:39of
00:44:39similar what you said with with latin like that it's patchwork integrated into sort of human common
00:44:46that or the that you might get words that carry over they might still speak kind of a dialect of
00:44:52it that's that's a bit more kind of integrated to kind of so the language of the tavern is more
00:44:59an
00:44:59assimilated uee standard old tavern and then you have the purists who are back to rajor speaking pure tavern
00:45:07which is like this the broken one but a little bit more kind of refrain but just to give it
00:45:12that sort of sense of
00:45:13like even their language is sort of assimilating into english uh or the ue standard um based on yeah
00:45:21yeah with the with the big rejection in that whole period of time i think there's a large population of
00:45:27the tavern who only speak ue standard like that's it that's that's their language and now you start
00:45:33getting people maybe who grew up only speaking standard who are like i would like to connect more with my
00:45:39my past i'm gonna take a class to try to learn how to speak tavern again and to adam's point
00:45:45it's
00:45:45real interesting because this isn't like a lost language like we've encountered where we don't
00:45:49understand ancient greek because we have recordings like we encountered them in a digital age so there's
00:45:55like well documentation on on this language you know even though even though they did purge their
00:46:01culture after the second tavern war and tried to clear a lot of that out yeah there still be a
00:46:05digital
00:46:05record and the cobble system was recently discovered which upon a bunch of ancient tavaran
00:46:10artifacts there so that's always a well we can go to and say you know like the the language or
00:46:16things
00:46:16that might have been lost uh have been re-found here yeah and from a linguistics perspective 600
00:46:22years is a very long time like we don't speak the same language like we speak english right now us
00:46:28here
00:46:28but english 600 years ago did not sound like this so like the tavern that exists now even if there
00:46:35was an unbroken chain from the tavern on khalith to the tavern on brahna they're not going to speak
00:46:40the exact same language just because of how language changes yeah you can't read the canterbury tales
00:46:45right now yeah it's like one that up you the shore so the the drop that makes it best
00:46:51the rota and part of everybody and swish the core of which betun
00:46:56well and i've seen the conversation on on spectrum about people being like well in 29 you know 50 humans
00:47:03would
00:47:03not be sounding anything like we like we our writing is pretty present we we have chosen not to do
00:47:11like
00:47:11some authors do that really cool thing where they create you know almost an entirely new language to
00:47:16show how different it's come over the hundreds of years and that's probably that might be more accurate
00:47:22but yeah but we we definitely you know have gone for more of a stylized version of the future so
00:47:30um
00:47:31because i guess i know similar to like the the it's a style the stylistic choice of like the no
00:47:38ai thing
00:47:39like it was sort of a choice to make it not that sort of very you know unusual sounding uh
00:47:47english language
00:47:47to keep it conversational so it still sounds grounded real to us as players uh rather than
00:47:54trying to accurately depict or predict what you know english will evolve to or various languages will
00:48:00evolve to in 900 years which i do not have the brain capacity for yeah like like when you're watching
00:48:06a movie and everyone's russian and you're like why are these speaking with british accents it's one of
00:48:10those suspension of disbeliefs in order to be able to tell the story so um i kind of follow me
00:48:17up
00:48:17on that the the question is hat is do you plan to flesh out multiple religions for each race
00:48:25so it has humans i want to tweak that a bit how do you how do you not go down
00:48:30the rabbit hole like
00:48:31how do you know how far you're supposed you you're supposed to go with this stuff before you're like
00:48:36all right this isn't the core central thing of the entire game here it's you know come back i've got
00:48:42a lot of other things to do how how do you how do you manage not just falling down the
00:48:47rabbit hole
00:48:48and any of these one things who says we ever left the rabbit hole
00:48:55all right it's a lot of it comes from need like maybe we start with the base opposition of like
00:49:03they have a lot of religions like with the banu we said they they're going to have a lot of
00:49:09different
00:49:09belief systems that they try to incorporate in and that's enough for us to start going on and then
00:49:14we start filling that in as we need it so talking about like the god of luck is a very
00:49:19important one
00:49:20and so we've learned a little bit more about how that works um or we decide that they're a little
00:49:26more
00:49:27monotheistic and like you know like the tavarin had this major belief that was instilled as part of
00:49:32their culture and that's kind of surmounted like it was part of their identity and so that focused it
00:49:38in so i think it's usually like that like we can say like even for the human stuff like there's
00:49:44a
00:49:44bunch of sports like humans play a bunch of different sports but we talked about saddleball like you know
00:49:51it's just we just have to pick and choose our battles and a lot of times it's it's that need
00:49:56i'm
00:49:56writing this thing right now and i need more detail about this so i'm going to dive into it because
00:50:00otherwise you'll just go crazy you can just sit forever thinking of bands for hundreds of years
00:50:05and i think it's also one of those things i always kind of try to equate a lot of this
00:50:10to um to drawing
00:50:13a picture where you draw in the sort of like block shapes to to block out your composition and your
00:50:17sizes and your framing and stuff like that and then and then you you fill in the details as you
00:50:23go
00:50:23and you refine down uh as you need it as opposed to like starting really detailed and trying to do
00:50:31a picture it'll take you forever it's like you kind of get what you need to get you through and
00:50:36sell what you're trying to sell uh you know as far as the flavor or a location or something like
00:50:41that and
00:50:42you know and then just kind of move forward because again there's so much stuff to cover that like
00:50:46you know hopefully as we are moving down we're still filling in all these little getting specific on
00:50:51stuff because we go oh we need a new you know tavarin i don't want you know i have this
00:50:56uh banu and i
00:50:57don't want him to worship taren and so i want him to do a new god so i got to
00:51:01come up with a new god
00:51:02i don't know what the hell that was but uh uh but that's it so now we have a second
00:51:06one that we can
00:51:06flop in there and stuff so it's uh yeah it's just about kind of trying to keep moving forward i
00:51:11i think
00:51:12this is a really interesting difference between the kind of non-linear storytelling we do
00:51:15in a more traditional linear storytelling where if you know exactly where you're walking and where
00:51:21you go you can fill in a lot of detail on that path so that your character goes to this
00:51:26one bar
00:51:28and has this one drink and you can describe the full history of that but with us covering anyone can
00:51:34do so
00:51:34many different things it becomes a lot harder to have that kind of controlled and level of detail so
00:51:40like you know dave's analogy was great for that kind of high level you know rough sketch and then
00:51:44filling it in the details as we go okay um are those two two cans on your shirt uh yes
00:51:51okay one two
00:51:56um how let me see what i was really got uh do i really have the uh canterbury tales memorized
00:52:03in
00:52:03the old english yes and because i make bad bets see not shaving until 3.0 comes out
00:52:11uh when i commit i commit people uh how developed are the developing species such as the soans so we
00:52:20talked about them a little earlier uh will we have cities will they will they have cities and forms of
00:52:25transportation uh or how did how developed is developing i mean again originally the the idea was
00:52:34that they were it was anything kind of below space faring uh that the idea that the fair chance act
00:52:40was you
00:52:41know everyone is going to you know all the cultures are going to leave this this species alone until
00:52:47they basically take off and get into space and then they'll be basically met by you know uh some vandal
00:52:53uh
00:52:54like it um but and then they can be sort of integrated into the galaxy as a spacefaring species uh
00:53:02but
00:53:03now that we're sort of able to do full planetary exploration which again back in 2012 was
00:53:13a dream uh you know i think we're probably going to shave it down i don't know it's an interesting
00:53:20question it feels like it's easier to make it not as make them not as developed technologically so it's
00:53:26easier to just make a world and then it's just a type of creature that's sort of running around on
00:53:32the
00:53:32surface of the world rather than like having to develop architecture or vehicles or stuff like
00:53:38that it's like they were in the 1800s or equivalent of our 1800s type thing so uh i don't know
00:53:43it's
00:53:43going to be an interesting question the fair chance act overall is very interesting to me because i don't
00:53:48think it's not everyone agrees with it like there's some people who think it's mean not to lift up a
00:53:55developing species if we have like medicine and they're suffering from a disease is it really right that
00:54:01we don't help them so like that's one of the science fiction kind of stories that i i'm really
00:54:06fascinated by and i hope we get a chance to explore that more as we go yeah there's um a
00:54:11developing
00:54:12there are a few developing species in the genesis system there's um a group of cephalopod like
00:54:19species who are just beginning to explore the surface of their world and they have engaged in warfare with
00:54:26a land-dwelling species who doesn't like them and the people who are observing are like ethically should we
00:54:31interfere in this because there's a good chance that one could wipe the other out and does that
00:54:35violate the tenets of the fair chance act on its own because it's an it's a very murky issue
00:54:43lots of interesting perspectives you're in the ue senate
00:54:48bill comes up to eradicate the fair chance act do you vote to keep it or get rid of it
00:54:53i would keep it
00:54:55dave i keep it will man i would modify it
00:55:04i just basically i would acknowledge that these are claimed planets that we don't have a right to but i
00:55:14i would probably push for opening contact with these species right but the bill the bill up for vote is
00:55:21just
00:55:21to abolish it not to amend it do you keep it or do you abolish it uh because abolishing is
00:55:27the next
00:55:28step to changing it like no i would keep it until i can introduce a new law okay adam
00:55:35i i i would keep it all right personally yeah um but i but i would point out the fair
00:55:41chance act you
00:55:42know doesn't just um apply to developing species it can also affect like mining rights to certain areas
00:55:48and stuff like that so um yeah if a species is developing they don't want people up in the
00:55:53asteroid belt or going down to the planet to pull out these valuable resources and potentially mess
00:55:58with any of the species there so there's even one candidate in the current uh final five of the
00:56:04imperial election paul the sal who one of his core campaign promises is to basically revisit the fair
00:56:11chance act as a way to open it up for miners to be able to maybe use new technologies or
00:56:17access
00:56:17certain areas of the empire that were previously off limits so there is a there is a pro-business stance
00:56:22too it's like maybe it needs to be refined because we can do this in a better way that can
00:56:28benefit both
00:56:29humanity uh you know and the uee and the economy without necessarily affecting the development of
00:56:34these species so there's lots of different areas that it does split up uh into yeah uh were the xi
00:56:42'an
00:56:42actually willing adversaries in the in the cold war or was it just the messers using a
00:56:47conveniently scaring neighbor as a means of controlling the empire someone's done the reading
00:56:56i'd say a little of both yeah i mean you know the what kicked it all off was basically some
00:57:03human terraformers came charging into a system and just started terraforming a planet without checking
00:57:08to see if it was uninhabited uh so that doesn't send a great message uh so there was definitely
00:57:15some antagonism from the xi'an uh on the flip side what's the most petty or silly situation where
00:57:22the xi'an would use anti-grav technology to solve a problem that's a great question do we need to
00:57:28set
00:57:28up the xi'an's uh uh uh uh admiration for anti-grav or is that self-explanatory at this point
00:57:37uh no i mean they're they're highly developed they have they have really good anti-grav tech a lot of
00:57:44the human knowledge of anti-gravity comes from our contact with xi'an and their technology uh i almost i
00:57:52almost want to say that in their time their development timeline like they came up with that
00:57:55before they came up with space travel yes i believe so yeah they're real they're real good at it so
00:58:03what would be the most petty or silly situation they'd use anti-gravity for um let's say uh my idea
00:58:11is
00:58:12that so they use anti-grav at the dinner table such uh to like levitate tables and levitate chairs
00:58:19so uh if uh xi'an comes to join the big family meal and she finds that there's no chair
00:58:25she'd just
00:58:25like whip out an anti-grav device and kind of hover there
00:58:31like those extending seats that people bring to just sit back okay we have talked about like their
00:58:38their kind of like ancestral clothing these really like ornate outfits so it'd be funny to me if
00:58:44something got like a really heavy outfit that has a bunch of intricate things sewn into it that they
00:58:50use a little helper device when they're walking around so they don't get weighed down
00:58:56all right uh we are just about out of time uh so oh no a couple quick ones here with
00:59:02the 2950
00:59:02elections coming around what are the candidates feelings towards the way to varn within the empire
00:59:08have been treated that's your quick last question jeez oh man all right you want to do it i'll
00:59:17get it i'll do it no no we can do it i just don't know no no you're gonna get
00:59:21a bad one next because
00:59:22of that adam go you're you're you're the most fluent and yeah um it's it varies most of them like
00:59:32would like to kind of like better integrate them into the or at least are going to put forward the
00:59:39idea that they want to be better integrated in into the empire because suj koji has become a senator
00:59:44because there does seem to be a rise of uh people of tavaran kind of rediscovering their culture so
00:59:51they're trying to appeal to that voter base um a lot of the more extremist views on tavaran and human
00:59:59alien species didn't make it into the final five though there's people out there that like to see
01:00:03it i think the closest may be like paul assall who thinks they deserve equality but not special
01:00:11treatment is kind of his stance on it yeah both both leilani addison and mira neo have have called
01:00:19out specifically that they would probably create programs that would um aim to better integrate the
01:00:25tavaran into the empire uh mira no i think would even want to set like a certain percentage of each
01:00:31each ue office would have had to have let's say 10 tavaran working in it as a way to integrate
01:00:37their
01:00:37ideas and their influence into the ue so um there are some people that if anything are going to be
01:00:42more
01:00:43proactive about trying to get them to participate uh those those there's no bad will in these final five
01:00:50candidates if anything they're just would raise their hands and be like they can lift themselves
01:00:55up by their own bootstraps and they have the same opportunity as anybody else if they if they want to
01:01:01try to achieve that all right the only guy is here yeah oh all right this last question is exclusively
01:01:08for
01:01:09will uh please do your best banu impersonation oh hello
01:01:21that's about what i've come to expect that worked for me all right guys thank you so much for
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