Elmund Egivand
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Posted - 2017.06.14 01:34:05 -
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Hitsuji Oriki wrote:Hey guys and gals, just trying to get a handle on the Caldari for some exploratory writing, and I feel that the lore gap is almost insurmountable. Reading a bit about them in the Source ebook helps, but there are marked stylistic jumps between it and the Chronicles. Maybe that's because the former is supposed to be more clinical, or due to an author change in the latter. Regulars here know better than me.
So instead of looking for a right answer, I would like to hear from other writers about how they tackled storytelling in the State. Tropes, archetypes, devices; what did you embrace or avoid? My own desire is to emulate the 70s-80s wave of cyberpunk genre fiction, but I feel that the slick canon of Eve renders this a flawed approach. Old future Earth is such a simple place is comparison.
If you have thoughts outside of Caldari, that's fine too, since I don't really think more ideas would be a bad thing.
Oh, you can find plenty of cyberpunk in Caldari and Galllente. Caldari's a megacorp culture, with clandestine corp warfare going on at any given moment as their directors and CEOs smile and shake each other's hands while clutching daggers behind them. Then the Gallente Federation has got this massive income gap between the have's and have-not's despite the available of very advance technology so widespread even your hobo has access to devices considered high-tech by our standards. The richer cities also see heavy automation especially on the upper strata of society, which doesn't help matters. Then we have the part about the One Day War causing the current Federation Administration to become paranoid about spies and collaborators (Red Scare reference) too.
Plenty of cyberpunk opportunities there.
If you like, you could check out my own fic where I attempt to make something cyberpunkish out of the slickness. I let you judge whether it's a passable attempt.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Elmund Egivand
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Posted - 2017.06.15 03:35:33 -
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Veil, I agree with your views. One is consumerism and information obfuscation and social media abuse turned up to eleven and the other is straight up Orwellian. However, I will also include Red Scare elements into Federal Cyberpunk with surveillance and informants and internal security nonsense and such.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Elmund Egivand
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Posted - 2017.06.16 01:16:01 -
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The State are very oriental. I had always compared them to the South Korean Chaebol conglomerates with a Germanic education system.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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