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I'll take a look at that script. I try to avoid publishing things with scripts already loaded into them, as I like to keep my builds 100% vanilla & let people choose scripts & mods for themselves.... but as far as the storytelling goes, it looks like a very useful tool. Also, the idea with the story is to try to incorporate workshop items by other authors so we can all share the exposure of our work, so if I can find a way to tie it in with the lore then I will.
My hope is to foster a new kind of comeraderie between content creators so that all our work can be part of the same "universe", even though it's all so different.
I love your workshop by the way! Your screenshots are amazing & your builds are really well thought out. Your Lore is compelling too. If you'd like your work to become part of the SLV-3R story I'm sure there's a place for it.
It'd be particularly useful to know more about who your people are. Looks like they live on a desert world & specialise in building ground vehicles. Is that a major export industry for them?
Are they human or another race?
Do they live in the same system as my people or another system?
That sort of thing...
(My people come from a kind of "alternate timeline" Earth / Sol where 2077 is about 200 years more advanced than real life tech. We've mostly colonised the Sol system but are only just starting to send manned missions to other systems.)
And yes, by all means feel free to insert my builds in your own lore / universe if you like. If everyone who gets involved creates their own little bits of fiction that fit their view of the universe then we'll get a story being told from lots of different perspectives & it'll start to feel like a living, breathing universe.
Argonaut Industries is Mars based corporation, specializing in civilian colonization solutions including: A) buildings (large scale industrial facilities, colony habitats and space stations), B) ground vehicles and C) small selection of space ships. Argonaut Industries has also established numerous colonies in and outside of the solar system ranging from mining colonies to industrial sites to remote research facilities.
Argonaut Industries is composed of three separate divisions:
A) Argonaut Engineering Division (AED) is the meat of the corporation. Research and development of all buildings, vehicles and ships as well as construction and maintenance of colonies is the responsibility of AED.
B) Argonaut Research Division (ARD) is the nervous system of the corporation and operates unknown number of research facilities in and outside of the solar system, stydying such fields as xenobiology, archeology and artificial intelligence.
C) Argonaut Security Division (ASD) was formed as an exoskeleton on top of the corporation in order to better protect it's growing interests against threats both external and internal.
I see many possibilities how you could use my faction. Maybe in your universe Argonaut Industries is just starting the colonization of other systems with chances of bumping into Silver Dawn. Or maybe Argonaut Industries is antagonistic force for Silver Dawn for some reason. Etc.
I think from SAVTec's point of view, Argonaut would be not so much a rival corporation as an amicable neighbour & bit of friendly competition... Someone they'd worked alongside in the past - maybe on separate parts of the same contracts.
Could be they trade or manufacture components for one another - or maybe they even franchise their designs out to one another when orders are high. They'd almost certainly buy each others vehicles, if only to reverse engineer them or improve the design & sell it back!
Being only the next planet over I don't think they'd be like warring factions or anything. The way I see it, the solar system is mostly unified & at peace (apart from the pirates of course!).
As for how Argonaught might fit in with the story... in Silver Dawns' time there's been no real exploration outside of Sol yet - she's the first major manned mission outside the system.
But I have a plan - I think! I might have several in fact!
The easy way to merge our two timelines would be to create an episode from a joint SAVTec / Argonaught perspective looking back 15 years into the past to around the time Silver Dawn was launched - or shortly after... say on the aniversary of... a certain event (not to give away any spoilers just yet!)
It shouldn't matter that we'd be winding back to 2062-ish, as Silver Dawns' timeline is deliberately made a bit vague & flexible so it can fit around other peoples timelines.
The other way would be when the Silver Dawns story splits into 2 arcs (this is something I'll be doing anyway). One arc will follow the Silver Dawn after she makes "a certain discovery" and the other will return to Sol, where a second mission is being launched in light of the discovery.
Argonaught could conceivably be part of that second mission.
Not entirely sure what the mission will need yet but I can think of ways for it to spotlight most, if not all of your workshop builds.
Nothing to say we cant do both of course!
If Argonaught was part of the second mission it'd lead up nicely to an episode of looking back in time. Could be a great excuse to list all the things that've been showcased so far in the story - maybe write some short editorials from the designers perspectives or something.
Food for thought anyway.
In the future, I'll be probably releasing mostly different buildings as I have dozens of them under work.
I'll probably ask for any specific info I need rather than make things up myself - better that the lore of your work comes from you where possible. I don't like to assume things if I can help it. Plus it'll keep you on your toes! Hehe!
Buildings are somethng I have a serious lack of, so there'll be a huge vaccum there for you to fill!
I really want to start doing some proper graphical storyboards for screenshots at some point & it'll be great to have some ground-based set-pieces for them.
I'm honoured that my builds helped to inspire some of yours. Your work is some of the best quality I've seen!
That's the main reason I build for the workshop too - to give people ideas & encourage their maginations. Very gratifying to hear that it's having a positive effect on people!
Is that a remake of the vanilla Easy Start Green base?
Looks amazing!
And you beat me to it! My EMGC version is still very much WIP & looks nowhere near as good as that!
Gorgeous screenshot too! Shame that KSH screenshot competition isn't still open - reckon you would've won a prize for sure!
Looking forward to seeing this one on the workshop! Excellent job!
If you give me a bit of info on your backstory I'll fit it in with SLV-3R & post some links up for you in an appropriate place.
Mostly need to know where SLV-3R would encounter your station.
In Sol or another system?
Well I won quite a lot of skin sets from the latest screenshot competition, so no complaing from me :P
Quick lore:
Multiple asteroid bases like these were constructed in the Sol system by Argonaut Industries during the intial "gold rush period" to exploit asteroid fields, working as refinery and as a base of operations for mining crews. After nearby asteroids were depleted and mobile refinery base ships started to become the standard of space mining, many of these bases were abandoned, sold or repurposed.
Few of them, like refinery 07 near Mars, still function in it's original role, though mining crews have been outsourced to private contractors, who come in and sell their ore for processing.
It certainly wont be as good looking as yours.
Congrats on the screenshots contest! If your submissions were of this higfh quality it's no wonder you netted some goodies!
Thanks for the lore. Nice! Didn't know if you were calling this one an Argonaut build or something else.
My plan is to release one more build to tell the story of SLV-3R leaving the system (and the various things she passes on the way), then on to the main plot for a few episodes.
I'm hoping to be able to showcase several builds in one go with the next episode. Being only 1 planet over, your Refinery 07 would be a perfect first stop. Maybe SLV-3R would be taking on Uranium fuel there.
Still got quite a bit of work to do before it's ready but I'll hold off publishing til you're ready with yours, then it can feature as a main component straight away without any re-writing.