El-Phil re: Battleships, hmmm good point but I was sort of pressed for what to call a Federal Security ship that is just short of Icaran Capital standards but bigger then anything a civilian (non freighter) would have got any suggestions, especailly since there will also be FedSec battlecruisers.
2. Well I was not going to "overblow" the gore but as the war gets more intense we'll be seing ground actions growing more common, and in fact some other things I don't want to reveal just yet that could be graphic (yet important)
3. Well new tech is going to be introduced (non game tech) as the plot goes on but I wasn't planning on trekkified 'everything is solved by technobabble' approach.
4. Well the Icaran view of religion and how it drives them was going to be made a bit more clear as the story went on, I mean we've already had a peak at their "Path" religion which is a mix of western christianity with asiatic influences.
Slight Spoiler:
The main reason I asked this is because the "Cult of Terra" was going to make another appearance and a much more "in depth" one at that and there may be refferences made to modern religion. And this is also where the Icaran legal system would come in to play.
/Slight Spoiler.
Hmmm well the thing about "expendable" main characters is that I'm already phasing them in a little bit
but slowely as I dont want to pull an ST where everytime you see a new guy you know they're dead before the EP is through. And Sandra Fowler was one of my earlier characters and the story had her for I think about twenty odd years before she and her whole SD division got wiped out heh only problem is that is also when that guy e-mailed me with the "glad she's gone" post and I was unsure of how to bring in replacements without it being obvious that some of them can and will die.
Thats another thing here most of my folks don't have character shields lol if the ship they're on blows up and it seems like it would be unreasonable to have them survive then they won't.
Rukia was a different matter though as I deliberately gave her a "character shield" in that chapter so that we would have a character with personal trauma hiding under the calm jovial exterior, I mean she saw her Admiral and just about her entire crew killed and she herself suffered horrible wounds that took years to recover from even with Icaran technology-not all of it was physical if yah get where I'm going with this- so anyhoo on that area thanks for the suggestions I will definately work on that
Any other advice/suggestions guys?