Barotrauma

Barotrauma

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Dovahkick 4 Oct, 2024 @ 9:01pm
Brainstorming for a new faction.
So in the plans of this mod, there's the mention of a potential new faction, but from what I've read from the mod owner's recent comments, they seem uncertain on what kind of faction they could implement. So here's my take:

A faction of which the people that are part of it, are in fact victims of an old experiment related to genetics which was kept in secret by the Coalition, so they wouldn't look 100% human, instead they look like a mix of crawler / hammerhead / mudraptor / moloch / etc...and of course human.
Because of that, they would have benefits related to the creature they've been mutated into, such as a hardened skull for moloch people, or apendages in the back for hammerhead people, etc...

What would set them appart, would be that they aren't a sect, they don't venerate any god. Instead they are a community who pays respect to a former member, who made the exploit of liberating all the test subjects from the experiment before disappearing. It's said that this person was captured by the Coalition to be executed, so they honor him for his sacrifice.

Years pass, and new problems arise. Their presence to the public eyes leads to conflicts of racism, they're seen as inhuman horrors, ugly beings, etc...and the Coalition is corrupt enough to turn a blind eye towards that kind of injustice.

I could imagine their theme to take inspiration from Martin Luther King's movement, Rosa Parks' activism, and even Malcom X's supremacism for the more extreme cases.

People are welcome to bring up their thoughts about it, and bring up new ideas. They're even welcome to suggest changes and whatnot, or even something completely different too.
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Violet 🐕  [developer] 4 Oct, 2024 @ 9:08pm 
That's a very good idea and something I could see implementing, but it would be a bit of work to make the different mutations. I'm not opposed to it and it's not impossible so I will definitely consider this for a future update. Thank you for your suggestion :GardenLove:
Dovahkick 4 Oct, 2024 @ 9:12pm 
Wow, that was quick. I'm glad you like the idea, but I think people could also contribute to bringing up their own ideas to further flesh it out. What do you think?
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Violet 🐕  [developer] 4 Oct, 2024 @ 11:48pm 
Yeah, I'm always happy to hear people's suggestions and ideas. I welcome any suggestions and feedback
ItzTK 6 Oct, 2024 @ 4:28pm 
Before I even opened this thread I was going to suggest a faction of scientists doing genetic experiments. They could populate science outposts and stuff. But now I think it would be cool if there was an outpost type that was previously a lab for these experiments, but has been taken over by the faction after revolting. Or in a less violent manner, they could have returned to the outpost after it was abandoned due to the project shutting down.
jybil178 26 Nov, 2024 @ 1:10pm 
Random idea, what about a faction or factions from earth?

You could go crazy with a number of ideas, but my first thought was an overly aggressive, corporate conglomerate that is trying to take over for profit. Replace with any number of other ideas, from hyper military government trying to "reclaim" Europa for the motherland, or what have you

Then other ideas started to come into my head, from survivors from earth after some impossibly terrible cataclysm, maybe even turned and twisted from whatever had happened

Maybe the husk infection was taken to earth and experimented upon, only to mutate even further and run rampant across the globe. The last survivors took hundreds, upon thousands of ships that would take years to get to Europa, only to have many of them overrun with the new husk mutation from within and slowly barrel towards Europa; ships being up to a city sized, bio torpedo, slowly but surely making there way on a crash landing impact into the dark oceans of Europa...

Damn, that diverged quickly, but some rather terrifying ideas came to mind on what could have actually happened to earth in the lore of this universe xD
Dovahkick 26 Nov, 2024 @ 4:43pm 
Originally posted by jybil178:
Random idea, what about a faction or factions from earth?

You could go crazy with a number of ideas, but my first thought was an overly aggressive, corporate conglomerate that is trying to take over for profit. Replace with any number of other ideas, from hyper military government trying to "reclaim" Europa for the motherland, or what have you

Then other ideas started to come into my head, from survivors from earth after some impossibly terrible cataclysm, maybe even turned and twisted from whatever had happened

Maybe the husk infection was taken to earth and experimented upon, only to mutate even further and run rampant across the globe. The last survivors took hundreds, upon thousands of ships that would take years to get to Europa, only to have many of them overrun with the new husk mutation from within and slowly barrel towards Europa; ships being up to a city sized, bio torpedo, slowly but surely making there way on a crash landing impact into the dark oceans of Europa...

Damn, that diverged quickly, but some rather terrifying ideas came to mind on what could have actually happened to earth in the lore of this universe xD
Not fitting IMO, contact between Earth and Europa went silent in the lore of Barotrauma, whatever happened with the Earth during that event is meant to remain a mystery.

The Coalition is already a faction with an iron grip on its population, with people living a rough life under its oppression, even drugging themselves with opiates to forget about society. What the Coalition wants is for Europa to be fully independant from Earth, and following the blackout from Earth, allow humanity to survive "at all costs", even if it means erasing entire stations from the map before calling it an "accident" should it be opposed to its ideas (like what the Tormsdale Incident mentions).
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