Updated plot book

[IsocratesGrey]

I made some updates to the plot analysis I built based on #7140. The idea of it is that this can help people to create new plotlines that fit into the mold created by the free worlds campaign.

The excel file attached has four sections:
Starting Campaign: an overview of the starting campaign (Free Worlds) broken down into events and missions and how many missions per section. I've also got the story beats listed there.
Quest Lines: an overview of most of the quest lines you can follow in the game, it's not done yet as I haven't added in the Remnant
Plot Beats: a quick overview of what happens in the starting campaign broken into the chapters and connected to major events, this is the main story beats section for those building new campaigns and it also lists about how many missions (including sub missions) are undertaken at each plot beat
Missions by chapter: For those wanting to just know approximately how long each chapter is, it's 30-40 missions per chapter and 10 missions in the prologue.

Please let me know if there are errors. I wasn't sure if I should count sub missions (1b,c,d etc) as a single or separate missions, so in general they're counted individually.

Endless Sky Plot Book.xlsx

Here's the plot beats in a table because that's probably the most important to writers for quick access.

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Major Events	FW Quest Line	# Missions	Story Beats	Plotline Trigger	Plot
Remeberance Day	Intro	0	Pre campaign: Introduce Alphas	Date	Game Intro
War Begins	Intro	0	Pre campaign: War starts, nukes fall	Date	Game Intro
Initial Deployment	Free Worlds Prologue	8	Campaign Prologues	Date	Prologue Body
Capture of Kornephoros	Free Worlds Prologue	2	Inciting Incident: Capture of Kornephoros	Chosen Sides	Prologue Climax
recapture of Kornephoros, Oathkeepers Founded	Defend the Free Worlds	4	Open of Chapter 1	Plot Chapter 1	Chapter 1 Intro
Tarazed neutrality	Defend the Free Worlds	4	Player meeting major players in campaign	Plot Chapter 1	Chapter 1 Intro
fw conservatory founded	Defend the Free Worlds	13	Player impacts galaxy, access to faction weapon 1	Plot Chapter 1	Chapter 1 Body
Wolfpack Reveal, Navy Occupies South	Defend the Free Worlds	7	Close of chapter 1, major reveal of sub factions	Plot Chapter 1	Chapter 1 Climax
navy using mark ii ships	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	9	Open of chapter 2	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Intro
fw southern expansion	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	3	Player climbs the ranks, makes decisions impacting faction, access to faction weapon 2	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Intro
fw occupying the north	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	2	Campaign break	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Intro
fw northern expansion	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	9	Player climbs the ranks	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Body
alphas catpure Poisonwood/Liberation/NPC death	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	3	Return of the Alphas, making consequences real	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Body
Bloodsea joins/taken by FW	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	3	Player impacts galaxy, acess to faction ship	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Body
dreadnought deployment	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	1	Faction gaining strength	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Body
fw expanded and cut	Freeworlds Expansion, Alphas	7	Player climbs the ranks	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Body
FW Defend New Tibet	The real threat	1	Climax of chapter: Potential Nuclear Reveal	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Climax
fw at war with Syndicate or republic	The real threat	1	Close of chapter 2: a new war	Plot Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Climax
fw Syndicate/Republic war	Fight the Republic/Syndicate	15	Chapter 3A: Player fills major role in the war FW/Rp/Sy	Plot Chapter 3	Chapter 3A Body
syndicate occupies/FW attacks sol	Fight the Republic/Syndicate	1	Someone attacks Sol (end ch 3A)	Plot Chapter 3	Chapter 3A Climax
pug invasion	Repel Pug Invasion	20	War with the Pug, access to jump drive and faction weapon/equipment 3	Plot Chapter 3	Chapter 3B Body
battle of algenib	Syndicate Alpha War	4	Ch 3 Climax: Defeat the Alpha Threat	Plot Chapter 3	Chapter 3B Climax
mission "Geminus Rebuilt"	Free Worlds Epilogue	2	Main Plot Epilogue	Plot Chapter 3	Epilogue
	Free Worlds Epilogue	3	Main Plot Epilogue	Epilogue	Epilogue

[Zitchas]

Could be a useful reference.

[dahe-at-google]

Looks great - thanks for doing this.