Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. Tonight, once again, we have my podcasting familiar freelance writer Julian Rabbit Murdoch. Julian, good to have you on the show. You make it sound like I'm a raven that sits on your shoulder or something. That's kind of how I view you, yes. We are also joined tonight by freelance writer Kat Bailey. Kat, great to have you here.

Well, hello.

I get to finally talk about something other than RPGs.

I'm excited.

Oh, my God, that's so fantastic.

We also welcome two other guests tonight,

and you'll probably be able to guess what the topic is when you hear there.

We welcome Ironclads Blair Fraser and Star Docks Chris Bray, who are, predictably enough, here to talk about Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion.

Chris, Blair, welcome to the show.

Good to be here.

Hi.

So this is the third expansion for Sins of the Solar Empire.

It is a standalone expansion, and it's kind of a radical overhaul.

So I guess where I'd like to start is just, why a sense of a solar empire had such an

unusual, uh, development? Usually by now you'd expect to see a full-fledged sequel. It's very rare

you see an RTS sort of incrementally expanded this way.

Oh, wow.

Start right with the hard questions.

After Sins of a Soul Empire original, we weren't even sure what we were going to do.

And, you know, Brad and Brian made a really good case that, you know, people love this.

And, you know, let's just start off with some ideas. And I mean, some of the stuff that came out in rebellion was even talked about

then, but we wanted to stick with really tight themes, something small, and we were experimenting

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