Spoilers for the Academy Quests
Just wanted to compliment the writing, especially with the newest update. I've always really liked Starsector since it really nails a particular vibe and the writing, even the incidental stuff which most people who haven't had to slave over a Google Sheet of 1,000 random dialogue blurbs that need to be made for the coders don't appreciate, has always really built that up.
Anyway I have been doing the new Academy quests finally and I've actually been extremely impressed with how well it's written and I feel like that hasn't been said enough. As a game writer myself, it is really lovely how well it ties around the universe and makes the whole thing feel alive. Normally I just wipe out pirates and make friendly with the rather faceless factions and *** off to settle colonies till I'm bored.
However, tracking down the scientist for the Academy and having to shake and bake with a who's who in galactic politics has been a blast. I loved actually throwing money around to pirate bosses and sitting down with them for chats, talking to some dock workers about their superstitions about the local calamity that was a huge event to them and is little more than a blip on my radar to me, and then negotiating with the station head and hearing about how byzantine the inner workings of the League are and how her station has its own outlook and culture and dislike of other League planets.
It just makes everything feel so much deeper but I feel almost nobody ever talks about this sort of thing (I noticed the same with Battle Brothers!) so I just wanted to show my appreciation of it in case nobody else had.
