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Now onto regrets. I do regret how this thread turned out in some places; and I think the ending genocide bit could have been handled better. I think a better solution (though equally cruel) would have been to list all four races (Migrators, Hazaar, Vetuck, Swall) and let the players only pick ONE to save. That would have been an interesting. I also regret not giving the Swall more screentime. I had an entire sidequest planned for them to flesh out their culture and relationship to the Jaxtians- but only after the occupation/next step.
Since I won't get another good time to talk about it; let's talk about the races a little bit. The Vetuck were meant to be the sort of low tech “uplifting” race as people mentioned in the thread. Their whole “thing” is that they are not as smart as the Jaxtians, simple, based on appearances and instincts as opposed to smarts and science, but yet their belief in a higher power seems to keep being answered despite the better, smarter, and more right about everything superiors denying that its there.
As for the Swall, their whole thing is they are you but better. The next time they were going to be brought up was to basically say that the Hegemony's attempt to subvert them wasn't working. The Hegemony was basically banking on them entering their own degenerate capitalist era, but it never happens for them, because they're too morally good and selfless to let that happen. The ultimate irony and tragedy is their race isn't capable of surviving in a brutal an uncaring universe; too slow to reproduce and altruistic. Even if they weren't caught at a bad time with inferior technology, they never would have survived against the Baalathi or the Esaal or the worms or whatever else.
Anyway, that was a doozy. I know not everyone liked what happened at the end of this thread, but I'd like some discussion about how you feel about it now we've had time to cool off and see the full picture. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
