#landsbuilding

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

since being a gun for hire is a common profession in the borderlands universe do you think theres like a review site for specific mercs where you can rate them like yelp

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

Pondering the Implications of mercenary day again. Like. How do you de-commercialize a holiday? How do you turn a bland "on this day we defeated the state, buy now" into Christmas 2, in a span of only 100 years or so?

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

anyways pondering mercenary day

like in the lore it was just a day of commemorating the fall of the central government, a cynical corpo holiday of sales and consumerism

but then somehow it was transformed into xmas 2, a celebration of community and cheer with gifts aplenty

that would make it a holiday just over 100 yrs old by the time bl3 rolls around (assuming the "lore book" is correct)

that's... very little time for stuff like traditions to develop. yes yes suspension of disbelief but - still!

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

anyways randomly remembered eden-6 has fuckin witch covens. like . Whats up with that. Especially w the fact that jakobs only settled the planet 300 or so years ago and the implication is that there was no humans on it beforehand. Did their like ship janitors suddenly become warlocks when they landed or was that already established

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

1. For most planets in the Borderlands series, we do not fucking know. Yes, it is possible to somewhat infer where the Bandits of Pandora get their food from, and Kairos has an entire agricultural region, but for the other planets we don't know. You *could* say they "just digistruct food lol" but if food was actually digistructable, we'd have a Star Trek matter replicator situation on our hands and that leads to post scarcity real quick - and Borderlands is still anarcho-capitalist.

2. No clue. At all.

3. I would say "the corporations", but... there's no central government, i.e. nobody to issue and regulate currency. If its appearance is any indication, the universal "dollar" of the Six Galaxies is somehow issued by Marcus of all people???

4. See 2.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

remembered this with a recent BL1 playthrough but skags are livestock on pandora! or theyre implied to be anyway. theres a sidequest where you steal canned skag meat from bandits. so there are Theoretically. Somewhere. skag farms. though whether its fully official or more of a lynchwood situation (proximity/convenience) who knows.

LESGOOOOO

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

hiiii nikolai im sorry sinuses are fucking with you brother i hope u feel better soon <3. did you know there are straight up regular earth crops in BL2. jack's grandmother had just carrots and squash and shit in her yard.

first of all, what

second of all, how in the shitfuck are these still healthy and not wilted or stolen (i know, i know, suspension of disbelief)

third of all, how in the fuck are they even growing

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

society (the borderlands fanbase) if shoebox gave us more "useless" lore like fun facts about the culture or flora of planets