Dev Diary # 1 - Introduction to the Prun Species
Hey, everyone !
Welcome to our first developer diary post! I am as excited as you are!
We often are asked to talk more into detail about our different alien species and I want to highlight our most iconic aliens: The civilization of the Prun. Have a look at a very early concept of them from our concept artist Anjn Anhut.
These aliens were one of the first creatures we thought of for the game. They evolved from horse-like animals and the are native to the red desert planet Gliese C. Unlike us human mammals they don`t have a biological sex or concept of gender and during their early social structure were wandering herds. This is an example of what we call a balanced species. These are sapient creatures that are interacting in a more harmonic way with their ecosystem before they evolved into a stone age society.
That's how it looks when an evolution event happens in the Gliese system and you decide that the Prun will be the lucky ones to become a civilization.
From then on, the path of this civilization is unclear and you (the galactic gardener) has to make a lot of decisions about how they develop. They could get stuck in the stone age forever, start a nuclear war when they invented nuclear energy or manage to travel to the stars one day.
Let's fastworld a couple of thousands of years into the future and show you into what kind of civilization the Prun could develop (and also explain some of the core mechanics of the game).
The dominant form of government of the Prun is called a Dominion. An important part here is that the aliens of the Gliese system are not ruled by an unified world government but there is potential of conflict and competition here.
The Prun made a lot of technological progress and reached the so called “Solar Age”.
What does that mean? They can build spaceships that can travel all around their solar system and even build settlements on their inner planets. Terraforming these planets can take a very long time and the spacestation that they live in are not very luxurious. Also, they are capable of building all kinds of robots to assist them in their daily life.
As an inspiration for that age we looked at TV shows like The Expanse or Cowboy Bebop and the famous Robot books of Isaac Asimov. This is how we imagine life in that era.
What else is going on in the Prun society? If we look at the population numbers we see that they are only 100 Million people. Compared, for instance, to Humanity, that's not a lot.
In their history, the Prun had several wars and the use of neutron bombs decimated the population and they never recovered from it. This means that any technical progress is much slower if they had enough people to support research, but also the society of the Prun could collapse quickly if something happened that drastically reduces their population, like a catastrophe or a war.
The Prun always lived in harmony with their environment. Growing up on a desert planet, their culture knows the importance of preserving resources and unsustainable growth can quickly lead to ruin. That means that resources for this civilization will not expire for many thousands of years because they are capable of harvesting the valuable materials of the massive asteroid belt of the Gliese system. If the population of the Prun grows a lot they also need more resources, but it is always better to decrease resource consumption instead of trimming down the population numbers.
Let's have a look at the Harm potential. This describes how capable the civilization is to destroy others but also to destroy themselves. A massive navy of powerful warships can fight off an alien invasion but also could blow up the entire planet with plasma bombs if a civil war would break out between the Prun. We measure this destructive power in potential casualties. In our example, the Prun have the technology and military means to kill 25 million of their own in case a global war would break out. That should be avoided …
And the last value that we see is the Ethic value. This describes how they treat each other, how the society uplifts the underprivileged and how they would judge other lifeforms. We describe this in a percentage on how far they are away to create a complete Utopian society or how deep they have already fallen to become a full Dystopia. The Prun in their orbital bubble cities try to build a fair and equal society. They abandoned the notion of money and competition is of no cultural value for the Prun. High ethic values determine positive outcomes to a crisis but also are the decisive factor in the outcome of direct contact with other aliens.
But the history of the Prun is not fixed. Depending on your actions, they could lose their technological advancement and slowly regress back to a medieval society, their robots could malfunction and destroy the peaceful Prun, or a tyrant rise to power and push the civilization to dystopia and builds invasion fleets to conquer the galaxy… All this will be yours to decide.
Thank you very much for reading and I hope you find this interesting! Expect more updates to follow as we continue on development and explore the galactic possibilities in The Fermi Paradox.
See you in the stars, voyager.
Jörg from Anomaly Games
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Welcome to our first developer diary post! I am as excited as you are!
We often are asked to talk more into detail about our different alien species and I want to highlight our most iconic aliens: The civilization of the Prun. Have a look at a very early concept of them from our concept artist Anjn Anhut.
These aliens were one of the first creatures we thought of for the game. They evolved from horse-like animals and the are native to the red desert planet Gliese C. Unlike us human mammals they don`t have a biological sex or concept of gender and during their early social structure were wandering herds. This is an example of what we call a balanced species. These are sapient creatures that are interacting in a more harmonic way with their ecosystem before they evolved into a stone age society.
That's how it looks when an evolution event happens in the Gliese system and you decide that the Prun will be the lucky ones to become a civilization.
From then on, the path of this civilization is unclear and you (the galactic gardener) has to make a lot of decisions about how they develop. They could get stuck in the stone age forever, start a nuclear war when they invented nuclear energy or manage to travel to the stars one day.
Let's fastworld a couple of thousands of years into the future and show you into what kind of civilization the Prun could develop (and also explain some of the core mechanics of the game).
The dominant form of government of the Prun is called a Dominion. An important part here is that the aliens of the Gliese system are not ruled by an unified world government but there is potential of conflict and competition here.
The Prun made a lot of technological progress and reached the so called “Solar Age”.
What does that mean? They can build spaceships that can travel all around their solar system and even build settlements on their inner planets. Terraforming these planets can take a very long time and the spacestation that they live in are not very luxurious. Also, they are capable of building all kinds of robots to assist them in their daily life.
As an inspiration for that age we looked at TV shows like The Expanse or Cowboy Bebop and the famous Robot books of Isaac Asimov. This is how we imagine life in that era.
What else is going on in the Prun society? If we look at the population numbers we see that they are only 100 Million people. Compared, for instance, to Humanity, that's not a lot.
In their history, the Prun had several wars and the use of neutron bombs decimated the population and they never recovered from it. This means that any technical progress is much slower if they had enough people to support research, but also the society of the Prun could collapse quickly if something happened that drastically reduces their population, like a catastrophe or a war.
The Prun always lived in harmony with their environment. Growing up on a desert planet, their culture knows the importance of preserving resources and unsustainable growth can quickly lead to ruin. That means that resources for this civilization will not expire for many thousands of years because they are capable of harvesting the valuable materials of the massive asteroid belt of the Gliese system. If the population of the Prun grows a lot they also need more resources, but it is always better to decrease resource consumption instead of trimming down the population numbers.
Let's have a look at the Harm potential. This describes how capable the civilization is to destroy others but also to destroy themselves. A massive navy of powerful warships can fight off an alien invasion but also could blow up the entire planet with plasma bombs if a civil war would break out between the Prun. We measure this destructive power in potential casualties. In our example, the Prun have the technology and military means to kill 25 million of their own in case a global war would break out. That should be avoided …
And the last value that we see is the Ethic value. This describes how they treat each other, how the society uplifts the underprivileged and how they would judge other lifeforms. We describe this in a percentage on how far they are away to create a complete Utopian society or how deep they have already fallen to become a full Dystopia. The Prun in their orbital bubble cities try to build a fair and equal society. They abandoned the notion of money and competition is of no cultural value for the Prun. High ethic values determine positive outcomes to a crisis but also are the decisive factor in the outcome of direct contact with other aliens.
But the history of the Prun is not fixed. Depending on your actions, they could lose their technological advancement and slowly regress back to a medieval society, their robots could malfunction and destroy the peaceful Prun, or a tyrant rise to power and push the civilization to dystopia and builds invasion fleets to conquer the galaxy… All this will be yours to decide.
Thank you very much for reading and I hope you find this interesting! Expect more updates to follow as we continue on development and explore the galactic possibilities in The Fermi Paradox.
See you in the stars, voyager.
Jörg from Anomaly Games
Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/n5bDJ7pRVM
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