I'm SUPER interested to hear more about this semi-canon universe thing, is there somewhere I can go to read more about what you have planned?



We have a document(that we can't/won't share at this time) with 30 odd pages of this stuff.

<planet primary="TRUE" source="canon">

<name source="canon">Hurik</name>

<type>Terrestrial</type>

<orbitalDist>0.56</orbitalDist>

<sysPos>2</sysPos>

<pressure>Normal</pressure>

<atmosphere>Breathable</atmosphere>

<composition>Nitrogen and Oxygen, plus trace gases</composition>

<gravity>1.02</gravity>

<temperature>27</temperature>

<water>51</water>

<life>Reptiles</life>

<dayLength>20</dayLength>

<yearLength>1</yearLength>

<diameter>10500</diameter>

<density>6.8337</density>

<landMass>Bloomington</landMass>

<landMass>Smith</landMass>

<landMass>Township of Wabana</landMass>

<landMass>Webster City (Indianapolis)</landMass>

<landMass>Smith</landMass>



"But that's not canon, I don't want this, never in my game, you guys suck."

There will be a option to switch to the plain old pure canon universe as it is in MekHQ today.

Final note - the developer working on this is an Associate Professor of Sociology (who studies race, demography, inequality, and religion) and a team of people who are self professed experts in the BT universe.

First change planned is to get away from systems being one planet places. So we are working on creating systems and all the planets and stuff in them.We've started generating systems data for every canon system with no data. Their are some flaws in the Campaign Ops system so we've worked with Cray to better balance the generation.As part of this we are using the data from SUCS to determine when planets are colonized or disappear.With all of this data it has allowed us to to extrapolate the Socio-Industrial Levels for the worlds and generate ratings going forward and back from 2750, our chosen starting point.Generated Industry Ratings 3047Agriculture Ratings over TimePopulation Projections to 3100Once all this data is generated and we feel it's balanced and fits the universe we'll be updating each planet to get an entry like this.Currently we are working out how to generate names for land masses, that would match the ethnic make up of the world based on the world name and house.We are about 1/2 half done the project and we would anticipate having the semi-canon universe complete early next year.For those reading this and starting to sayUpdate Sept 10/2019 - It's looking more like we won't be able to have the ability to switch, so we are looking into ways to tag data as "canon" or "non-canon" with a source.