Arne reporting in!
I've been gathering up some of my old sketches and ideas, taking what I like and expanding upon that. Posting as I go.
Coalition Military Forces =CMF=
I'm a fan of light, medium and heavy designs, and I wanted to pronounce the difference in size (light-heavy) more clearly by
using my chibi proportions that I use for pretty much all of my redesigns. These proportions are very close to the CC proportions,
and I think it's a good compromise that shows off both head detail and body detail. Overall the CMF designs are military green
(+white) and jerrycan'y. Their logo consists of a few arrows pointing towards a center (a coalition). I'll be posting some kind of brief
back story ideas for them later.
Techion (Whitebots)
Not sure about the name, but they're tech oriented and ion engines strike me as something white and blue. I don't want these to
be another "humanoids with guns faction", so I'm thinking that they should have a bunch of other more exotic units, like little
hover drones and exotic weapons. Tentacle legs would be neat.
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I might be reworking the intro slides too, so that the characters consistent in proportions.
I wrote a short background story for the slide below:
(The intro can only have a brief sentence though.)
[early-mid space exploration year]. Dignitaries of the Sirius Alliance
meet on the doomed planet Cursa 2c to conclude trade negotiations with
a Wumpus hunt. It's believed that the impressive hexagonal network of
catacombs and wildlife were left behind by the Priorus - a species
which was active colonizing planets in the region some 8000 years ago,
before withdrawing to an unknown location.
Yeah, that was pretty brief. Later I might try to elaborate on some of the aliens.
Flavor text notes: The Sirius Supercluster also contains Beta Eridani,
aka Cursa (in arabic?). Hunt the Wumpus is an old game which takes
place in a dodecahedron maze. Wumpuses can also be found in M.U.L.E.,
Nethack, MtG, and other games. Since the meeting portrayed is
historical, I picked Beta Eridani which is located a mere 90 ly from
Sol (i.e. somewhat closeby in many sci-fi settings). I'm not really
sure how fast space travel is in the CC universe or how much of the
galaxy that has been colonized.
Afaik, Beta Eridani isn't a good host for planets with indigenous
life, so I figured it would be better to use the colonization concept
which is more probable than having each planet teeming with
contemporary indigenous life anyways. I topped it off with a
Precursor/Ancient race, because they create a sense of history and
mystery. Oh yeah, the planet is doomed because Cursa is gonna swell up
and become a red giant pretty soon.
The Priorus are giants wasps (Predators?), a nod at the hexagonal
shapes of the mazes where the Wumpus (Alien?) now lurk. Priorus =
Prior Us. Yeah, Well, everything else is taken (ancients, precursors, etc).
And here I wanted to rework the brain transfer slide which I am particularly unhappy with, but then I realized that the humans doesn't
encounter aliens until later on. The idea here was to illustrate a stash of bodies and the idea that a body could be anything.
Your brain might even be alien. I might use the slide for something else.
The small alien species is kind of like a dog - i.e. they regulate temperature by panting. Unfortunately their tongue is also poisonous
so they have trouble making friends.
Eventually I'll put a design doc / universe guide online. I've already done some work on it, but I need to clean it up and create
a compelling, coherent universe - defined enough to have a fun identity... but vague enough to leave people (including us devs)
room to play around with new content.
I'm working on everything simultaneously right now so I don't know what I will post next (:o
