Post by JRavens on May 30, 2017 17:10:26 GMT
Hi all,
Thought you might enjoy reading some of these developer notes on very crew members. One of the joys of modding is finding internal notation like this as it gives an inner glimpse at some of the thought process (and humor) behind various design decisions.
I'll attached the entire readable XML file however the bulk of it is very sundry and has entries like "Dead. His/her body is located at [insert location - like cafeteria or escape pods]" only a handful are very in depth or interesting here are some highlights:
You just can't keep Alfred down
- Name="Alfred Rose" Notes="Normally a patrol officer, but occasionally he does a shift in the Lobby when one of the others has a day off. Alfred hates sitting in one place, so when posted here he tends to wander the entire section. A few times he's been reprimanded for being away from his desk when an Executive passed by, but he persists in his wandering ways. He may have collected notes on the people that work in the Arboretum At game start: in the Cargo Bay with Sarah"
Company Gal - Name="Bianca Goodwin" Notes="Lobby Level 3 - Adjacent to Morgan's Office Bianca Goodwin is the handler for any non-employee that boards Talos. This includes visiting VIPs and Test Subjects for Psychotronics. She has an office adjacent to Morgan. Bianca is fastidious, organized and often thought of as a ball-buster by the people that work closely with her. But when it's time to turn on the charm she handles guests with grace and smiles. Bianca puts a great deal of effort into maintaining her appearance. Her office is decorated with accolades and propaganda that glorifies TranStar. At Game Start: Dead in front of escape pods in VIP Shuttle Bay "
(Note - her body is actually in the lobby near the entrance to shuttle bay along with Jason Chang who appears to be your assistant/secretary)
0MG!hotboss - Name="Jason Chang" Notes="Lobby Level 3 Morgan Karl's Personal Assistant Jason thinks Morgan is the coolest person ever. He is in tight with Morgan and wields a certain amount of authority as his PA. He does not hesitate to drop Morgan's name with veiled and implied threats to get what he wants, and what he wants is always in Morgan's best interests. Recently he had seen distinct changes in Morga's personality, and then Morgan stopped coming back from the Sim Lab altogether. Jason is neat, organized and efficient. "
(Note - they still refer to Morgan and Alex last name as Karl. Seems like it was late in development they switched to Yu)
LOOK OUT BEHIND... - Name="Blaine Cooly" Notes="Blaine, normally working the hardward, went to fill in for Jia while was investigating the disappearance of Grant Lockwood. He locked himself inside the security booth without realizing a phantom was lurking behind him."
Garfield knows people - Name="Garfield Langly" Notes="Lobby Welcome Kiosk Garfield is intimately knowledgeable about all of the "public" areas on Talos. He knows about all of the social and entertainment events, special features and key people on the station. He is tasked with helping crew members with any non-job related tasks or interests. He jots down notes with people's names and interesting facts about them to help him remember who's who. At Game Start: Dead in front of escape pods in VIP Shuttle Bay Edit: Might be a phantom carrying the code to Psych"
Choppa Pilot - Name="Hadley Dalton" Notes="Hadley is also the voice actor that recorded the pilot conversations for the simulated helicopter ride in the Sim Lab. Hadley is the corpse that Helen Croft is looting in the skill recorder. "
So that's where all those damn baseball gloves came from... - Name="Harley Grainger" Notes="Lobby Level 2 Harley was briefly a star professional baseball player. He enjoyed two seasons of fame and popularity before an injury cut his career short. His name is still widely known and he leverages this in his sales pitches. People just seem to like Harley. His dreams of being a baseball star faded, but now he clings to thin hopes that someday Alex may reward him with an athletic neuromod that will restore his lost skill. He dreams that he can once again hear the stadium full of people cheering him on, but each year that passes fades that dream a little more. His office has some select memorabilia from his career, and he uses it to charm clients with tales of his glory days. At Game Start: Holed up in Lobby IT supply closet, but ends up corrupted in Life Support if player sides with Dahl."
Risky Business - Name="Hunter Hale" Notes="Hunter Hale is one of the pilots who works in the Shuttle Bay. Hunter typically transports 'Volunteers' and sales teams to earth and back. Alex recruited Hale to secretly transport some sets of Volunteers back to the psychotronics lab. The are the volunteers that are fed to mimics for replication and production of exotic materials. Hale was transporting a group of volunteers when the outbreak happened. As he swept around the moon and began making his way back to the station, toward Psychotronics, disaster struck. He tried contacting psychotronics, but no response. Then bridge, but no response. Then he contacted shuttle bay to come back for a landing. He was killed at that point by mimics aboard the ship. "
The voice - Name="Izumi Minami" Notes="Izumi is also the voice of all of the Talos public announcements"
No fruit for you - Name="Julien Howard" Notes="Also has invented a formula to make one of the TranStar fruits super amazing. Dr. Julien Howard has come up with a formula (now a blueprint on his body) that is ready to be tested in the Arboretum. This blueprint with create a bio-seed or fertilizer that will rapidly grow a super fruit on the trees in a marked section of trees in the Arboretum. He was on his way to a fabricator to create one but then the alien breakout happened and he tried getting to safety in the Arboretum but met his demise on one of the high up rocks."
Agoraphobia to the max - Name="Kelly Randolph" Notes="Kelly hates being in space. When she went to work at TranStar she never dreamed she would be assigned to Talos. She wanted to say no, but the money is too good. She does everything she can to avoid the vistas of space and forget where she is. Including periodically taking some medication to ease her nerves. She has managed to make some friends in the Trauma Center that have slipped her pharmas before. She almost leaps for joy when it is time to make a trip to Earth for an install, but also dreads the flight. She is contemplating resigning her position after one or two more pay cycles"
Good job Martin! - Name="Martin Giroud" Notes="Day shift Kind and likable, quite the looker and always charming. He chats easily with people passing by his station and manages to talk easily to the "higher ups" that normally ignore security. He has a contraband flower that was given to him as a gift by Iris Stein, a worker in the Arboretum. Martin is tasked with providing information to new recruits and guests aboard Talos. He knows much of the "soap opera" storylines that happen here as well. At Game Start: Dead in the Lobby. Took a couple of mimics with him. "
Bad luck - Name="Mike Turner" Notes="Original wrench wrangler. Not on duty the day Morgan escaped. Usually the wrench wrangler, but he was out sick on the day Morgan escaped. Mike had a nasty shock the day before and Trauma Center cleared him for bed rest."
Uhhh gross - Name="Mitsuko Tokaji" Notes="Psychotronics Lab - Lost parts of her fingers when they were bitten off by Luka Golubkin."
Steve is a bit of an asshole... - Name="Steve Folson" Notes="Steve is a bit of an asshole and challenging to work with. He used to work in Deep Storage but the other data engineers grew to despise him. Danielle Sho transferred him to this post to separate him from the others. Now he works among the executives and sees this as a sort of promotion, which has made him even more insufferable. He ruffled a few feathers in the Marketing Department and was ordered to stay at his post at all times. Danielle began the paperwork to have him removed from Talos and assigned Earthside. Steve suspects this and has really let things go. If he spills coffee he doesn't care. Things are kind of a mess at his post right up until an old stale sandwich revealed itself as a mimic and killed him. At Game Start: Holed up in Lobby IT supply closet, but ends up corrupted in Life Support if player sides with Dahl."
Surf's up! - Name="Yuri Kimura" Notes="Lobby Level 2 Yuri was an avid surfer back on Earth, and every time she goes back she manages to squeeze in some time at the beach before returning to Talos. She has a few wave pictures at her desk. She also has a lucky conch shell that she has taken with her on every trip (she's been into the gravity well and back over a dozen times now - perhaps a whiteboard tracks how many trips the techs have in an unofficial contest) but this time she forgot to take her lucky shell with her. Too bad. At Game Start: Not on Talos. Had boarded a shuttle to make a delivery to Earth "
Thought you might enjoy reading some of these developer notes on very crew members. One of the joys of modding is finding internal notation like this as it gives an inner glimpse at some of the thought process (and humor) behind various design decisions.
I'll attached the entire readable XML file however the bulk of it is very sundry and has entries like "Dead. His/her body is located at [insert location - like cafeteria or escape pods]" only a handful are very in depth or interesting here are some highlights:
You just can't keep Alfred down
- Name="Alfred Rose" Notes="Normally a patrol officer, but occasionally he does a shift in the Lobby when one of the others has a day off. Alfred hates sitting in one place, so when posted here he tends to wander the entire section. A few times he's been reprimanded for being away from his desk when an Executive passed by, but he persists in his wandering ways. He may have collected notes on the people that work in the Arboretum At game start: in the Cargo Bay with Sarah"Company Gal - Name="Bianca Goodwin" Notes="Lobby Level 3 - Adjacent to Morgan's Office Bianca Goodwin is the handler for any non-employee that boards Talos. This includes visiting VIPs and Test Subjects for Psychotronics. She has an office adjacent to Morgan. Bianca is fastidious, organized and often thought of as a ball-buster by the people that work closely with her. But when it's time to turn on the charm she handles guests with grace and smiles. Bianca puts a great deal of effort into maintaining her appearance. Her office is decorated with accolades and propaganda that glorifies TranStar. At Game Start: Dead in front of escape pods in VIP Shuttle Bay "
(Note - her body is actually in the lobby near the entrance to shuttle bay along with Jason Chang who appears to be your assistant/secretary)
0MG!hotboss - Name="Jason Chang" Notes="Lobby Level 3 Morgan Karl's Personal Assistant Jason thinks Morgan is the coolest person ever. He is in tight with Morgan and wields a certain amount of authority as his PA. He does not hesitate to drop Morgan's name with veiled and implied threats to get what he wants, and what he wants is always in Morgan's best interests. Recently he had seen distinct changes in Morga's personality, and then Morgan stopped coming back from the Sim Lab altogether. Jason is neat, organized and efficient. "
(Note - they still refer to Morgan and Alex last name as Karl. Seems like it was late in development they switched to Yu)
LOOK OUT BEHIND... - Name="Blaine Cooly" Notes="Blaine, normally working the hardward, went to fill in for Jia while was investigating the disappearance of Grant Lockwood. He locked himself inside the security booth without realizing a phantom was lurking behind him."
Garfield knows people - Name="Garfield Langly" Notes="Lobby Welcome Kiosk Garfield is intimately knowledgeable about all of the "public" areas on Talos. He knows about all of the social and entertainment events, special features and key people on the station. He is tasked with helping crew members with any non-job related tasks or interests. He jots down notes with people's names and interesting facts about them to help him remember who's who. At Game Start: Dead in front of escape pods in VIP Shuttle Bay Edit: Might be a phantom carrying the code to Psych"
Choppa Pilot - Name="Hadley Dalton" Notes="Hadley is also the voice actor that recorded the pilot conversations for the simulated helicopter ride in the Sim Lab. Hadley is the corpse that Helen Croft is looting in the skill recorder. "
So that's where all those damn baseball gloves came from... - Name="Harley Grainger" Notes="Lobby Level 2 Harley was briefly a star professional baseball player. He enjoyed two seasons of fame and popularity before an injury cut his career short. His name is still widely known and he leverages this in his sales pitches. People just seem to like Harley. His dreams of being a baseball star faded, but now he clings to thin hopes that someday Alex may reward him with an athletic neuromod that will restore his lost skill. He dreams that he can once again hear the stadium full of people cheering him on, but each year that passes fades that dream a little more. His office has some select memorabilia from his career, and he uses it to charm clients with tales of his glory days. At Game Start: Holed up in Lobby IT supply closet, but ends up corrupted in Life Support if player sides with Dahl."
Risky Business - Name="Hunter Hale" Notes="Hunter Hale is one of the pilots who works in the Shuttle Bay. Hunter typically transports 'Volunteers' and sales teams to earth and back. Alex recruited Hale to secretly transport some sets of Volunteers back to the psychotronics lab. The are the volunteers that are fed to mimics for replication and production of exotic materials. Hale was transporting a group of volunteers when the outbreak happened. As he swept around the moon and began making his way back to the station, toward Psychotronics, disaster struck. He tried contacting psychotronics, but no response. Then bridge, but no response. Then he contacted shuttle bay to come back for a landing. He was killed at that point by mimics aboard the ship. "
The voice - Name="Izumi Minami" Notes="Izumi is also the voice of all of the Talos public announcements"
No fruit for you - Name="Julien Howard" Notes="Also has invented a formula to make one of the TranStar fruits super amazing. Dr. Julien Howard has come up with a formula (now a blueprint on his body) that is ready to be tested in the Arboretum. This blueprint with create a bio-seed or fertilizer that will rapidly grow a super fruit on the trees in a marked section of trees in the Arboretum. He was on his way to a fabricator to create one but then the alien breakout happened and he tried getting to safety in the Arboretum but met his demise on one of the high up rocks."
Agoraphobia to the max - Name="Kelly Randolph" Notes="Kelly hates being in space. When she went to work at TranStar she never dreamed she would be assigned to Talos. She wanted to say no, but the money is too good. She does everything she can to avoid the vistas of space and forget where she is. Including periodically taking some medication to ease her nerves. She has managed to make some friends in the Trauma Center that have slipped her pharmas before. She almost leaps for joy when it is time to make a trip to Earth for an install, but also dreads the flight. She is contemplating resigning her position after one or two more pay cycles"
Good job Martin! - Name="Martin Giroud" Notes="Day shift Kind and likable, quite the looker and always charming. He chats easily with people passing by his station and manages to talk easily to the "higher ups" that normally ignore security. He has a contraband flower that was given to him as a gift by Iris Stein, a worker in the Arboretum. Martin is tasked with providing information to new recruits and guests aboard Talos. He knows much of the "soap opera" storylines that happen here as well. At Game Start: Dead in the Lobby. Took a couple of mimics with him. "
Bad luck - Name="Mike Turner" Notes="Original wrench wrangler. Not on duty the day Morgan escaped. Usually the wrench wrangler, but he was out sick on the day Morgan escaped. Mike had a nasty shock the day before and Trauma Center cleared him for bed rest."
Uhhh gross - Name="Mitsuko Tokaji" Notes="Psychotronics Lab - Lost parts of her fingers when they were bitten off by Luka Golubkin."
Steve is a bit of an asshole... - Name="Steve Folson" Notes="Steve is a bit of an asshole and challenging to work with. He used to work in Deep Storage but the other data engineers grew to despise him. Danielle Sho transferred him to this post to separate him from the others. Now he works among the executives and sees this as a sort of promotion, which has made him even more insufferable. He ruffled a few feathers in the Marketing Department and was ordered to stay at his post at all times. Danielle began the paperwork to have him removed from Talos and assigned Earthside. Steve suspects this and has really let things go. If he spills coffee he doesn't care. Things are kind of a mess at his post right up until an old stale sandwich revealed itself as a mimic and killed him. At Game Start: Holed up in Lobby IT supply closet, but ends up corrupted in Life Support if player sides with Dahl."
Surf's up! - Name="Yuri Kimura" Notes="Lobby Level 2 Yuri was an avid surfer back on Earth, and every time she goes back she manages to squeeze in some time at the beach before returning to Talos. She has a few wave pictures at her desk. She also has a lucky conch shell that she has taken with her on every trip (she's been into the gravity well and back over a dozen times now - perhaps a whiteboard tracks how many trips the techs have in an unofficial contest) but this time she forgot to take her lucky shell with her. Too bad. At Game Start: Not on Talos. Had boarded a shuttle to make a delivery to Earth "
