Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere
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Since there aren't really good list of these online nor published sources on them, decided that might be nice to list all ones known from scenarios here. Or at least would be nice if I knew many of them x'D
Venture Captains I can think of:
Arvin (damaya lashunta... Wait he is mystic? I didn't know that before checking wiki O_o; Is he really mystic?)
Naiaj(bleachling gnome envoy we see most often along with Arvin)
Kunoris Vex(drow operative in charge of Salvation's End operations)
Zaedrin, brass dragonkin in charge of that single scenario I haven't played or run.
Active Lodges I can think of:
Salvation's End lodge
...I assume Lorespire Complex counts as lodge?
...Yeah I know least amount starfinder lodges beyond abandoned ones you see in few scenarios and I can't remember them ^^; Does Sangoro's Bulwark count? I think that one is just Exo-Guardian base. Either way since a venture captain is always in charge of lodge... Well I assume that means Arvin, Naiaj and Zaedrin have their own lodges they are charge of, but I have no clue what lodges are those
Forum members:
Chiskisk (shirren, I believe they are mystic)
Royo (ysoki I've never heard of but apparently from scenario I never got to play or run)
....Yeah, I need lot of help here, since this can't be ALL venture-captains, lodges and forum members right? x'D
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Uh, as of this last weekend here I guess I'm a forum member. It's a lot of responsibility! I have to choose a new agent to nepotis- I mean sponsor.
Just so you know, Mr. Zafeldrin is a great guy, but he is not a dragonkin. He's a real big dragon! I met him on a diplomatic mission that ended with violence. I think he's run other missions for the Triaxus lodge, near that one old city, Cadascon, but you'll have to ask Dragonbot about those.
Anyway, there's also a lodge on Arniselle, where the Morlamaws live. I love those guys so much that I learned their language, and languages are a little hard for me. My buddy Suulhu-Hur, who is a super neat kalo, is the Venture Captain out there! She just got promoted, and I'm very happy for her. Must be cool to be a venture captain instead of just a forum member like me.
Anyway, I'm sure other folks will chime in about the other lodges.
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Couple of additions:
Venture-Captain Zefeldrin (and the White Sands Lodge on Triaxus) feature in #1-19 and #2-23.
Venture-Captain Thromkendal (female dwarf) appears in #1-36. She's attached to Ulrikka Clanholdings (a roaming liaison of sorts) rather than being assigned to a lodge.
Dreamer Lodge, located on Roselight, is the lodge serving Liavara and its moons. (It has not yet appeared in any SFS scenarios.) We don't have any info about it or its venture-captain.
Not lodges, but other semi-permanent bases with fixed staff:
Mr. Mora Motressi (female human) oversees an outpost performing a full survey of the planet Vabaimus (#1-28). The research team has a focus on xenobiology.
Taylehm (female kasatha borai) oversees a Starfinder research outpost in the Blackmoon region of Eox (#1-18). Their focus is archeological excavations.
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Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere
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There is a starfinderwiki page for this, but it hasn't been updated since 2018.
It is where I did re-remember Zaedrin(or is it Zefeldrin?) though :'D Since I never played that scenario but did play one where it is informed during drift travel that new venture captain has been stated to location where that other scenario takes place in
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Mr. Mora Motressi (female human) oversees an outpost performing a full survey of the planet Vabaimus (#1-28). The research team has a focus on xenobiology.
Just noticed my typo; that's Doctor Mora Motressi.
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Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere
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Sidenote, I'm leaning lot more towards wanting to have starfinder society setting book x'D
Like I realized that beyond stories of venture captains and faction leaders, I do want to know not only about other lodges that starfinders have but... Well... Does anyone here know what map of Lorespire complex looks like?
Yeah we have map on Grand Lodge of Pathfinder but no maps on Lorespire complex x'D I realized I wanna learn more about lorespire
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Lorespire Complex... I try not to think about its illustrations too much.
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There's what I always considered a visual disconnect, but as of recently, I just don't know.
Specifically: We've had two illustrations of the Lorespire Complex so far. (One from the promotional poster of Absalom Station, and one from the blog introducing Year 4 of SFS.)
While the first illo is quasi-canonical at best, the two pics agree in general: Tall white buildings on a grassy campus under open blue skies. (The poster illo also shows miles of settled countyside stretching out into the background.)
This would be arguably fine, were the Lorespire Complex located in the Eye, but text (and the Absalom Station map) always firmly place the LC in the Ring.
So, from the game's publication till now, the visual disconnect for me is that the Ring, unlike the Eye, has no dome. It's, y'know, contained, as you would expect from a space station. So I can imagine the top level of the Ring being several stories tall, but I expected that if you looked up, you saw ceiling.
UNTIL Year Four of SFS, which describes the uppermost level of the Ring as the "surface" and claims that if you're standing at an intersection on the top level of the Ring and look in the direction of the Eye, you can actually see it rising above the horizon.
Which is an entirely new concept, as far as I know. Like, how? The upper hull of the Ring isn't a transparent dome like the Eye, but what do you actually see if you look up? Is there a holographic sky? Is the upper hull transparent from the inside? Are there windows?
I just dunno.
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area North & East
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The problem with permanent Lodges in starfinder is travel time. Anything in nearspace is 3d6 days away, anything in the vast is 5d6 days away. So putting a lodge on some planet as a staging area is futile - traveling from there to your destination is exactly the same as traveling from Absalom station. And for the return trip - since returning to Absalom is only 1d6 days, it is the vastly superior place to return to.
And with not needing more lodges, you don't need more venture captains to run them. Which is why we have so few (and why we see our faction heads giving more briefings)
Where does this go? Starfinder lodges can't be like pathfinder lodges. PF lodges were mainly dispatch centers. Places for agents to recuperate and resupply before going on the VC's mission. In SF you instead have research/resource sites. You'll have someone leading whatever research or extraction is on the site, not a specialist mission giver. This means they're more likely to be someone working for company x than actual starfinders.
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Yeah, Starfinder Lodges are generally bases for long-term, localized operations. Exploring Liavara and its moons; exploring the simulation vaults of Salvation's End; exploring archeological sites on Triaxus; overseeing an underwater mining operation for exotic minerals; etc.
Wouldn't mind repeated visits to V-C Beruta ala Salvation's End. (And although Beruta's "lodge" is mobile, it fits the general pattern of being devoted to long-term study of a single topic.)
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Salvation's End's Lodge is operated by Venture Captain Kunoris Vex.
Long suffering VC Kunoris Vex. I wonder if the yetis brought any of the "good stuff" with them so Vex can take the edge off. He does have two enemies directly underfoot.
Beruta is on the Fairweather Foe mobile lodge. He gets to babysit REDACTED. See SFS 4-05 for details.
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There's a small, unnamed lodge on the Locus-1 space station. As described, it seems small; sort of a strip mall version of a full lodge. It's run by Danya Maggs (female half-elf technomancer), though she isn't explicitly IDed as a venture-captain.