Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy includes two new ancestries, and despite this book coming out after Galactic Ancestries neither makes any mention of the Standardised Ancestry Feats, though Stretching Reach appears to have been reprinted in full.
It's a shame, because they're a very slick piece of game design and can save a lot of page space, but I'm a little more concerned if future ancestry entries are also not going to take advantage of them?
It feels pretty obvious that the book must have just been locked in before Galactic Ancestries was locked in, right?
Because the Secrets of the Swarm adventure previewed an ancestry that also lacked standardized ancestry feats, but then the starfinder society season 2 adventure (a much smaller thing to write that was presumably finished more recently) DOES include them with its new ancestry.
It feels like things that were written pre-Galactic Ancestries was locked in don't have it, and things written after do.
That'd make a lot of sense - I hadn't given the Season 2 guide a proper read yet, so I missed those in the skim. Funny how publishing timelines work out, I guess.
I didn't even know this book was a thing until this thread. But yeah, I'd assume they were written concurrently and that this shouldn't be a problem going forward.
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I thought the timing for the Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy was strange at first to have it coming out at Gen Con instead of Tech Core, but then I found out season 2 of Starfinder Socity's meta plot takes place on Absalom Station; there are Absalom Station maps and a novel coming too, so it makes a lot of sense now.
We know that SF1e had some more books planned that got cut short because SF2e came early due to the OGL mess. I'm thinking Absalom Station might have been one of those books, so there might have been some work already started on it. So there's a chance some of it was even written before Galactic Ancestries.
