Star Tours and holovids

[Dunames Lopez]

Star Tours is about to announce, among other things that it is taking bids for holovid concepts so that you can have your own IC idea for a holovid being made by Taking Off on a Star Tour, and the thread also doubles as a shareholder's assembly for Star Tours, held in Avalonia:

IC thread: Make the Best Use of Frequent Flyer Miles

OOC note: I have 32 posts left for the major project to tier-4 since I cannot use the Games for it.

 

[Natasi Fortan]

[member="Dunames Lopez"] - Out of curiosity, what does "PC" mean in relation to the following context?

"Today, we pledge to never manufacture implements of destruction. Too often those people, those who call themselves the player-characters, or PCs for short, who regard themselves as the gods of the galactic game of thrones, also known as the map game, live and die by their implements of destruction. They virtually dominate the defense industries but occupy comparatively little space in service industries and in consumer goods industries. Thank the Force that there are those people, those corporations, to remind those people flying around the galaxy in search of the next excuse to fight, that the defense industries are not the be-all, end-all of the galactic economy. For this reason, while I myself am a PC, I have no problem saying that I am a special snowflake among PCs" "Implements of destruction?" a Hyperspace Traveler journalist asked. "The average PC-owned corporation is part of the defense industries. Implements of destruction are, simply put, any instrument that can be used in combat for either offense or defense" "There are other PC-owned spacelines in the galaxy. I may be struggling to understand how Star Tours is different from the others" that journalist asked again.

 

[Dunames Lopez]

[member="Decima Fortan"] Or should I say privileged caste(s), to which player-characters belong... and NPCs don't. Privileged in the sense that we can fly around the galaxy looking for the next adventures and that said adventures are recorded in the history books of the game.

That, for storytelling purposes, we are the ones wearing plot armor. While plot armor is not invulnerable, it allows us to just sustain injuries when NPCs could be killed outright...

 

[Asharad Graush]

I think what she's saying is why do half your posts contain OOC Information and metagame.

 

[Dunames Lopez]

The only IC way Dunames could know about Justice Shipping and Sif Shipping in the first place is through Hyperspace Traveler; ICly Hyperspace Traveler has remained in business since 1 BBY at a minimum, by virtue of being a canon company, it is also a magazine that pertains to the travel industry as well as developments in that business.

It awards prizes such as the Safest Planet in the Galaxy (Alderaan won it in 1 BBY) and presumably other spaceline industry awards, like the Most Improved Spaceline award, which Star Tours won (compare and contrast the canonical Star Tours with the Star Tours as I write about, and operate it).

She might have had access to other financial publications in the background... FO State Media (in particular the Dosuun Review) and SCNN to name those that she watches on a regular basis. By now, rather than talking about PCs in particular, it's about the bigwigs of the galactic economy, and some category of adventurous people containing the majority of PCs without referring to them as such.