Sorry, life got really busy lol.
Mostly because that was a name that popped into my head when I was first spitballing this years ago and I just through it on there as a placeholder title.
Orion’s Own does have a part to play later on, but I will likely change the title when it comes time to actually look at publishing
I acctually like the name for the game it fits exspecially if you have plans for the merc company beyond the start as you’ve hinted as to being the case.
Hey y’all, just a little state-of-the-WiP message here:
Lots of good progress recently! The gala job is now sitting at ~57k words excluding commands and ~62k including commands. That puts the entire project at a little over 71k words excluding commands (and yes, that means that when the gala job is uploaded there will be 3x the content that is already available).
I am looking to pack on at least another 12k words this month, and ideally finish out the gala job in its entirety so I can finally kick out that update to y’all. I really appreciate how patient you have been with me, I know it’s been a pretty long wait since you’ve seen any changes. But just know that I haven’t left and that I am working hard at making this the best it can be!
Hope y’all had a great New Years, and I can’t wait to show you what I’ve been working on.
Looking forward to it and i had a recent thought and dont know ow how feasible it will be since im not a coding kind of person lol but the thought was in the character creation portion where we select tattoos and scars would it be possible to have a option to select all tattoo we want in a section at once? Cause right now we half to keep going in to get multiple ones.
Yet like said looking forward to seeing what ya got cooking for us 
Yeah I had tried to figure out the best way to handle that section, but unfortunately ChoiceScript is really only meant to have 1 answer per choice presented. That means a system of menus was really the only way I could think of to present all the options I wanted without just being a giant menu you’d have to look through.
It may be possible to do several choices at once by using Javascript directly, but doing that would mean that I probably wouldnt be able to publish this, which I would like to do at some point.
Can you get involved with galactic politics? Like let’s say the PC get the fluff option of being from so and so system, the system is having a political crisis that they want to leave a galactic nation and form their own nation, and the PC can have the option to support the separatists and use their PMC to help the separatists cause as like an personal side project or keep the system in the galactic nation, also idk if this has been asked before so are there aliens in the game or just humans?
There will definitely be some political context to contracts you can accept, but I’m not currently planning on having an expansive, reactive political mechanism in the game right now. There’s already a lot of moving parts and it’s mostly focused on running the company. You’ll see some narrative followups for your contracts, you just won’t be following the impacts closely for an extended period of time.
As for aliens, I am not planning on having any alien species. The galactic societies, as I envision them, are made up entirely of humans - although they will have different cultures, economies and beliefs by the simple fact that they are on other planets and systems.
As an another update here, I haven’t been able to do much work on this since around mid January, unfortunately - just another 5k excluding commands since Jan 4th. My health has not been doing great so I’ve been having some pretty extensive medical testing that may force me into retirement from my current field of work, which has caused a lot of stress on myself and my family. I’ve been spending most of my time figuring out how I’m going to manage this transition and still pay my bills.
The silver lining here is that maybe that means I’ll be able to spend more time writing in the future! I probably won’t be working anywhere near as many hours as I do in my current job, and will be able to dedicate more time to this project. We’ll see, but I am optimistic about it.
Thanks again for being so patient everyone!
I hope your health improves and that the stresses you and your family are facing goes away soon