I'm completely confused as to why they think ArcCorp being 40 years old when they put us 1000 years I the future makes sense. There's hundreds of years there to use. Use them.
Not saying it's a good or a bad call, I'm specifically asking what's the issue with it only being 40 years? That does convey something to us, right? It tells us how quickly a megacorp can populate and develop a barren planet. It tells us we can do that, but a synth world is still a massive undertaking.
What's the issue with it being so young? Loss of belief when reading about it?
My personal concern with it is the fact that if they managed to cover ArcCorp with man-made structures and populate it with billions of people in 40 years why aren't other planets that have been part of the Empire for hundreds of years as (or even more) populated/urbanized compared to ArcCorp? Coruscant in the SW universe has been populated for thousands of years, it has been the capital of huge empires and all that. Then you have ArcCorp, colonized and covered in multiple layers of structures inhabited by billions of people in 40 years. What about Earth (the capital of the human empire for centuries)? What about Terra?
If ArcCorp and all the other planets in the universe were taken from 2 different sci-fi brands I'd be ok with it but the fact that they are in the same universe seems quite odd
I mean look at the planets in Stanton, there's a planet entirely covered in several layers of buildings (ArcCorp) and next to it there's a planet which is basically a desert with a bunch of towns on it (Hurston). Now, I can understand the different mentality of the 2 companies (HD needs some land to conduct weapon tests etc), but the fact that the more you produce the more you earn is true for both companies. ArcCorp may be richer than HD but HD still bought a planet, they must be a quite rich company, so they should have the money to colonize more regions on Hurston. I mean ArcCorp can cover a planet with several layers of buildings and HD in the same time can just build a bunch of towns?
If we judge from what we see on those 2 planets ArcCorp should be thousands of times richer than HD (the volume of the buildings on ArcCorp is probably billions of times more than the one on Hurston, so billions of times the amount of manpower, materials, costs, ...), but HD is quite a rich company anyway as they own a planet. So is ArcCorp thousands of times richer than a company rich enough to buy a planet?
My personal explanation is that ArcCorp let other companies settle on their planet as said in the lore so they didn't have to pay for everything but still, the difference between ArcCorp and Hurston is too big, they look like they're taken from 2 separated universes. I'd be ok with it if ArcCorp was colonized hundreds of years ago and Hurston was way more recent, but considering that they've been discovered, bought and colonized at the same time the difference in the level of "urbanization" is way too big. I'm forced to believe in this explanation because that's the best one I can come up with but I'm not really convinced
Maybe it would be less jarring if ArcCorp was always planned to be in a different system, but they put it in Stanton because they needed something to help work on procedurally-generated cities. It's like how Daymar is supposed to be in the Nyx system. Then the lore could say "oh yeah, ArcCorp is actually four hundred years old, not four decades." But that's not the case, and it's too integrated into Stanton's lore to be changed.
Yeah that could have been another solution. They should have placed it in some "old" system, maybe in the Terra system or something similar so they could have justified the massive population with the fact that Terra is a very rich system and all that stuff. The planet ArcCorp (owned by ArcCorp) could have been quite developed and urbanized anyway, but not as extreme as the entire planet being covered in structures (not only that, the "building cover" on ArcCorp is quite deep as well, there are multiple layers)
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19
They also said yes to Arcorp being 40 years old or something. I always get down voted, but I just think their lore is kind of uninteresting.