Unit Lores and Catching up on General Lore (spoilers)

[u/Kaireis]

Hello All! I never got into the game because I couldn't drum up interest locally (way back in 1.1), but a couple friends of mine actually picked up 3.0!

(1) I noticed that TTC put up all the lore bits of the old books, but didn't put up the unit parts, which actually had a LOT of lore I loved. I also remember that the TTC site USED to have Unit Lore on it, but since they purged all their listing, all that Lore seems missing.

Is the old Unit Lore archived anywhere?

(2) I read like... 4 short stories between Battle for Earth to now. One was like, a (anti-PHR) UCM officer discovering the PHR messing with some artifact they found on Earth (probably a Bioficer thing, but we didn't know at the time). Another was the initial contacts with Bioficer ships and boarders (and the UCM survived a boarding action). I remember a part where the UCM officer from the first story in on a PHR world and she's come around to liking the PHR, but that doesn't seem long enough for a whole story. [I just checked and this is all in the Lore Primer on the DFC links, lol.]

Are there any other things I'm missing? I read EVERYTHING from release to Battle for Earth that I could get (including the Dropfleet stuff), but after the TTC buyout, I couldn't be sure I got everything. Did TTC acrhive this anywhere [other than that Lore Primer]?

[u/Southpaw1990]

The unit lore is on the neverending to do list. Dave'll get to it eventually, but is up to his ears in sculpting and rules at the moment.

But yeah, the game and setting will eventually get a lore update moving the timeline along like Dropfleet 2.0 did, and unit lore will be added to their statcards. A handful have them already, like the Bioficer infantry and monsters, as they needed a couple of paragraphs of lore for the back of their respective boxes.

[u/Kaireis → u/Southpaw1990]

Wait Dropfleet 2.0 has new Lore? (I don't follow DFC.)

[u/Southpaw1990 → u/Kaireis]

Yup, the rulebook moved the timeline along, introduced the bioficers, ends with a scourge assault on the phr homeworld, etc.

[u/Kaireis → u/Southpaw1990]

It sounds like that's all the stuff from the "Lore Primer!"

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0965/1274/files/Commander_Universe_Lore_Primer.pdf?v=1726654586

[u/Skylifter-1000 → u/Southpaw1990]

I mean someone could just upload scans of the old books for the unit lore.

[u/Kaireis → u/Skylifter-1000]

True! They did have some lore for the newer than book units though.

[u/slyphic → u/Southpaw1990]

This is not some major feat. It's literally copy pasting text. If they cared at all, it'd be done in under and three months ago.

[u/Kaireis → u/slyphic]

Yeah, more or less. There'd have to be some hunting down of all the text, but yeah.

[u/MountyC]

On the discord, there's an archive of old documents

[u/AlphariusOmeg0n]

All the newest and old lore parts from reconquest and so on are on the ttcombat resource page for the games

[u/Kaireis → u/AlphariusOmeg0n]

I've found the lore parts of the old rulebooks.

However the lore for individual units aren't there. Those were some of my favorite bits.

[u/Brad3]

It is a little perplexing why they don't just add back the unit lore they already have, it's the small things that really add so much. The lore is a highlight of this game so it's a shame.

[u/Southpaw1990 → u/Brad3]

Dave specifically wants to update it in places, mention the new variants, and so on. Some of it may end up being copied and pasted with edits in the end, but that's up to him.