The Stellar Cloud: Putting the Empire in its Place – 02/12/2015

Have you ever wondered what part of space each NPC empire occupies in the Estra Galaxy? Well, in the original game, empires had no specific boundaries. They were cast across the galaxy like so much sand. Every empire, whether NPC or player, occupied habitable planets discovered as they explored. The NPC empires that were already in place were also spread haphazardly around the hundreds of thousands of subsectors and starsystems.

Takamo Universe, with its history deriving from events in the original game folded into a three millennium long backstory, has borders. That’s right, the galaxy has areas of control that date back to long before cybers were even a glint in a scientists eye. Empires like the Naplians, the Briddarri, Phantatwains and Kvizier all had vast areas of control with thousands of starsystems under their sway.

How does that affect players in the new game?

We are carefully mapping and placing each empire in an area of the galaxy that conforms with the past that is Takamo and the history developed for The Five Galaxies. When the new empires of Estra emerge from their starsystems to explore the galaxy, they will find old maps and remnants of ancient civilizations destroyed in the cyber rebellion. They will encounter survivors who still cling to their old allegiances. They will discover great enclaves of surviving and now thriving cultures left over from ancient times.

Work in progress high level map of some of the empires that existed at the time of the Naplian Wars and the Cybernetic betrayal.
Work in progress high level map of some of the empires that existed at the time of the Naplian Wars and the Cybernetic betrayal.

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