Thanks to Dario Marzadori
for the new art! You can check out his art on Facebook,
ArtStation,
DeviantArt, and
Instagram.
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Now War Machines is more
of a location than a ship (perhaps a place where obsolete technology
has been tossed), so that little quirk of the card has been fixed.
Using this art, I came up with different flavor text, but combine it
with the turn order (red going directly after green), shows that
green thinks a little too much of their strategy.
I always forget Plains of
Filth is a Red location, because Grime is a Yellow location and they
are similar in my head. However, I think I like the idea that with
this card, Earth, and Bottom of the Universe, Red is more the
underground ruler, like the mob bosses and the slumlords. Solidity
might take hold of the government, and they might drag populations
down like Earthlings and The Derelict, but Earth and Plains of Filth
(where I've decided The Derelict are likely from, not Grime), become
the property of Red by virtue of Solidity dragging their populations
down too far. It's a neat
story dynamic, I think. Yellow focuses on Blue as its arch-enemy,
paying little heed to Red or Green, letting Red take hold of the
downtrodden, and Green take hold of the elites. The flavor text is a
bit on the nose in describing that dynamic here, and I may change it,
but perhaps Red doesn't care about letting it be known, because
Yellow has their eyes elsewhere, and Red can hide in plain sight (no
pun intended).
At
first I was a little bummed that the head of the statue would get cut
off by the name “Paradise, the Ice World.” Then I came up with
the brilliant idea of mirroring the image (sorry Gij for the
modification) and... it still didn't work. Then I realized:
“Why have 'The Ice World' at all? Seems obvious by the picture...”
And now, it works! I also changed the flavor text to get away from
the originally concept as a fake vacation destination. Now it's more
of a pilgrimage for Green.
I
decided to change the subtitle of Eclipse from The Infectious Nebula
to The Blinding Nebula, since it's lost its special rules. I had
loved the original name but it never quite went for a Green location.
This makes things a little more in tune. Not 100% happy with it, but
100% better than it was.
