User:Shaps-cloud/Sandbox

What This Is

The SS13 Common Core is a community initiative to crowdsource lore for interested players to take advantage of and incorporate into how they approach the universe of /tg/station's SS13. The idea is to create a curated list of organizations, events, and facts about the universe that players can choose to abide and reference in-game, without the need to obsessively document how every element of the universe works, or seek acceptance from the entire playerbase. If you enjoy the project and the idea behind it, feel free to engage with it and contribute! If you're not interested in it or disagree with the idea of codifying lore, carry on as you did before.

What we are interested in

• Organizations that fit into the CC Universe (Juked Micronics is an electronics manufacturing corporation that helps supply Nanotrasen's Space Stations with circuitry...)
• Descriptions of events that crewmembers of SS13 may have been affected by or be aware of (By 2557, the Syndicate had even managed to sneak an agent into Nanotrasen's regional Central Command facility. The agent was caught and detained within a week, but the resulting restructuring and purges among the upper echelons of NT opened up many opportunities for new faces with less political baggage to rise...)

What This Is Not

This is not an exhaustive effort to catalog the universe of SS13 in great detail, as with Baystation. Rather, it is a collection of ideas and starting points for you to use IC with other players to generate interesting conversations and events. It is also not defined in the code and thus truly "canonical", as Goonstation has done. Unless someone separately decides to submit code referencing info from this project and the separate /tg/station code maintenance team approves it, this is all essentially a shared headcanon/collective fever dream.

There are also a few topics that will likely be intentionally left vague for various reasons, including:

• The nature of death/cloning outside SS13 (including whether Centcom has backups of the crew, and how often SS13 is destroyed)
• Addressing the fact that spacemen often jump between professions