User blog:Cridone/Behind the Scenes of Tacoma

Tidibts about Tacoma's development that I've found, ranging from big story changes to small trivia.

The Original Station Tacoma Concept

 * The Venturis Zenith Lunar Resort is technically a callback to when Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma was more of a posh luxury hotel, as seen in a few early teasers for Tacoma.

Virgin-Tesla

 * Venturis Corporation was originally Virgin-Tesla, a corporate merger of the two real-life companies Tesla, Inc. and Virgin. Note the identical initials between Virgin-Tesla and Venturis Technologies (an alternate name for the Venturis Corporation); this could be the origin of the "V-T" nickname and why Venturis Technologies exists as another name for Venturis.
 * Confirmation of this is that the Venturis logo decal used a few times throughout the station (most notably under the table in the conference room in Administration) is called "decal_virgintesla".

Names
Profiles-resources.assets-806

Bert Roberta Williams Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_Bert

Nat Natali Kuroshenko Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_Nat

Andrew Andrew Dagyab Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_Andrew

EV Evelyn Something Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_EV

Sareh Sareh Surname Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_Sareh

Clive Clive Surname Textures/Crew_Portrait_Paintover_Clive


 * According to an early text file (Profiles-resources.assets-806), the E in E.V. St. James' name was always supposed to stand for Evelyn, however the V standing for Victoria wasn't decided until later, the placeholder for her full name being "Evelyn Something". It's also possible, however this is only speculation, as the text file only says "Evelyn Something" rather than "Evelyn Something St. James", that the V in her name was supposed to be her surname and it was only later determined that it'd be her middle name, with St. James being added on later. Again, this is just speculation.
 * Along with this, the last names of Sareh Hasmadi and Clive Siddiqi were undecided at this point as well.

HEKA

 * HEKA, the AI of Fountain of Paradise Medical, was originally named ISIS according to the files.