I’m looking at the preview chapters, specifically Sector 02 – Departures, and I’ve got something thats nagging at my brain.
Why is choosing a Setting after character creation, and Faction-making? I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I can’t see a reason for it. I mean, you’re expected to make your character first — and there are obviously certain character types that work better in some settings versus others — and you have to choose your workspace before you even know how it will manifest, and then you create Factions… which, again, I feel like they could be strongly informed by the setting you choose. Only after these steps do you then pick a Setting, which comes with several campaign assumptions that characters may not fit.
Of course, the intention might be to pick Setting first (and I really think it should go first, personally), but Sector 02 – Departures doesn’t list the steps in that order, which can complicate things for someone just going through the book and hitting the steps as listed.
So, yeah, I’m just wondering: is there a thought process I’m missing, or is this just a case of ‘editing will tweak things’?