Outpost

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Outpost is a game that combines turn-based strategy and resource gathering from Civiliation or Alpha Centauri, RPG exploration and combat systems, and micronationalistic founding and development of a country. Unlike the rest of the CoD series, Outpost is less of a story and more of a sandbox, allowing the player to essentially make their own civilization with more freedom at the expense of a deep plot and detailed characters.

Basic Plot

You play as Brookshire loyalist exiled from their homeland. The Empire of Khaz Modan invaded Brookshire, sparking a war that went very poorly for the Brookshirians. After the fall of Musica, the Brookshire government surrendered to Khaz Modan, who occupied the country and downgraded it to a duchy in the new Shireroth feudal system. Your group, as loyalists to Brookshire, were exiled from the country for refusing to accept the government's surrender.

With only a few hundred men, women, and childen, you sailed across the poorly-charted seas south of Shireroth before coming across an island. With provisions running low and no place else to go, your ships docked and established the settlement of Arcast.

Main Characters

Ryloth / Paige - the main character of the game. Your hero is an outdoorsman and an explorer and is trusted by Arcast's leader, Forsa. You signed up with the Brookshire army when Khaz Modan invaded and were there all the way until the fall of Musica. Along the way, you met your assistant in Musica. You are deeply bitter over the exile and vowed to do your best to turn Arcast into a thriving colony in the hopes of returning and reclaiming Brookshire some day.

Nixuth / Myrin - the main hero's assistant and a loyal friend. Your assistant and their brother were in Musica when it fell; their brother was conscripted by the Khaz Modan army and your assistant only managed to escape with your help. You've been inseperable ever since. Your assistant is a spirital person dedicated to healing the wounds of war. They previously thought their brother was dead, but the news that their brother has appeared on Outpost Island as a murdering pirate is only slightly better.

Elos - a career soldier and a man of considerable honor and mental conditioning. Your assistant's brother once saved his life and he vowed to protect their family ever since. When your assistant's brother was presumed dead he transfered this vow to your assistant. Elos reacts to your assistant's brother's reappaerance as a pirate poorly.

Garnet - leader of another band of exiles from Brookshire, Garnet's group fled Musica during the siege and landed on Outpost almost a year before your group. Since then they have been harassed by both the Echus pirates and the elves to the south and their colony of New Brookshire has barely grown. Garnet joins your hero as a sign of peace towards Arcast and also in hopes of finally silencing the forces that threaten her city.

Aracast

Arcast is the center of your colony on Outpost Island and is the most important location by far in the game. Managing, supplying, and defending Arcast will take up most of the player's time in the game.

I'll write more later. :p