Stellar Networks HQ

[jaghaimo]

Stellar Networks HQ as a station somewhere. Player needs to be within sensors range of it (or docked) to use Queries. Possibly for a fee as well.

[Ontheheavens]

Disadvantage: can reduce immersion by intoducing an in-world entity. This increases surface area of immersion-interactions with vanilla, in other words, increases chance of introducing immersion-breaking text/object/feature that would stand out.

When stellar network boards are confined to intel window, player is able to rationalize away the in-world explanation for those boards as he pleases: perhaps those are just a premium functionality of Tri-Tachyon Tri-Pad. Once you take up the task of giving an explanation, you take away player's freedom to give that explanation himself.

Relevant resources:

• Tynan's talk on Rimworld design philosophy that emphasizes players' imaginative resource as a way to reduce implementation footprint:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqhHKjepiE

• Graham Harman' monography on how Lovecraft masterfully crafted horrors by avoiding the description of said horrors:

https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Realism-Philosophy-Graham-Harman-ebook/dp/B009ODXIH6
(PDF can be found somewhere on the Web)