Some real world inspirations for the various game scenarios:
-I was amused to see that the anon missed the missile launch here
>>5833401>>5834433You have to read the press release very carefully to realise something went wrong:
https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3575640/minuteman-iii-test-provides-vital-data-before-termination/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-air-force-blows-up-minuteman-iii-test-flight-after-post-launch-anomaly-2023-11-01/If you look carefully at the pictures I use for that missile launch, they are slightly edited versions of the actual trajectory of Vandenberg launch missiles, hehe
>>5834433Vandenberg / Vertigo Pact is named after not the airforce base, but the Vandenberg Coalition, you may know of it if you are familiar with Elliott Abrams of Iran Contra. The opening intro for that faction was actually more inspired by some unrelated financial news regarding port infrastructure for Adani Group
I named the Gate Of Mandeb
(2023 Nov 15)
>>5831165 after this
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41073It may explain why there has been a lot of war in Yemen, hehe. I thought it might be worth exploring space piracy as I expected a resurgence of real world piracy, lo and behold (2023 Nov 19)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-houthi-rebels-hijacked-ship-red-sea-dc9b6448690bcf5c70a0baf7c7c34b09and bizarrely, this ship has the appropriately sci-fi name "Galaxy Leader"
Qarthadast is of course the New City of Carthage, I actually got this name from Homeworld videogames. Hasdrubal was Hannibal's brother, but the reference is perhaps instead to this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive 