Who would be the other parent of your successor?

[Balek Crisp]

I love how no one is mentioning the obvious option of marrying your cousin, taking over MaxCorp after sidelining your other cousin, and forming an interstellar tech conglomerate so powerful that galactic governments must legally recognize "Half-Steele" as a new subspecies. Which, in my save, includes dozens of half-frostwyrms and an exponentially increasing number of cunt-snakes.
Then again, unleashing The Wintertide via Frostwyrm offspring seems like an amazing option, I'm not surprised it's the first one many would go for XD

For me it's because it's kind of just not a normal thing. Usually when one thinks about settling down and passing the torch, they'd want someone normal to spend their life with. A heir would be treated as a direct family member rather than somebody that's either an accident, product of rape, or the byproduct of a pregnancy fetish.

As for the whole cousin thing, this assumes that Jack/Jill actually have a real stake in MaxCorp, and Max isn't just using them to steal your inheritance. The rival also doesn't really have many skills besides piloting a ship from the sounds of it, so they'd have tons of catching up to do either way before being able to become a viable parent.

The dragon thing, well, that's because one would have to spend a whole decade or more before taking over Uveto. And it kinda doesn't protect the Steele Legacy unless you make the Frostwyrm Ichor available. It would be something for later until the company was left in good hands for that period of time.

 

[Gplikespie]

For me it's because it's kind of just not a normal thing. Usually when one thinks about settling down and passing the torch, they'd want someone normal to spend their life with. A heir would be treated as a direct family member rather than somebody that's either an accident, product of rape, or the byproduct of a pregnancy fetish.

As for the whole cousin thing, this assumes that Jack/Jill actually have a real stake in MaxCorp, and Max isn't just using them to steal your inheritance. The rival also doesn't really have many skills besides piloting a ship from the sounds of it, so they'd have tons of catching up to do either way before being able to become a viable parent.

The dragon thing, well, that's because one would have to spend a whole decade or more before taking over Uveto. And it kinda doesn't protect the Steele Legacy unless you make the Frostwyrm Ichor available. It would be something for later until the company was left in good hands for that period of time.

Yeah to be fair, Steele Sr did not do the greatest job. Instead of picking an extant offspring, he decided to custom-tailor an 'heir' who's job was to simply re-live his own glory days.


Captain' Steele's dad was... not a great person. It seems likely that, while he used kindness in business and believed in spreading generous idealism, he ALSO was a selfish and arrogant person who never took into consideration that others had their own lives and adventures.

At the end of the day, I think the best 'partner' for Steele would probably be whichever crewmate they bonded with the most along the way. I'd guess Steele would end up poly, or would eventually just pass the company on to a relative or friend and go back on the adventure after a few centuries.

 

[A1teros]

I love how no one is mentioning the obvious option of marrying your cousin, taking over MaxCorp after sidelining your other cousin, and forming an interstellar tech conglomerate so powerful that galactic governments must legally recognize "Half-Steele" as a new subspecies. Which, in my save, includes dozens of half-frostwyrms and an exponentially increasing number of cunt-snakes.
Then again, unleashing The Wintertide via Frostwyrm offspring seems like an amazing option, I'm not surprised it's the first one many would go for XD

Oh this whole thread is pretty much fishing for alternatives because I didn't think that'd be a possibility but it seems I was wrong about that. Jill is definitely the optimal choice plot wise.

 

[Balek Crisp]

Yeah to be fair, Steele Sr did not do the greatest job. Instead of picking an extant offspring, he decided to custom-tailor an 'heir' who's job was to simply re-live his own glory days.


Captain' Steele's dad was... not a great person. It seems likely that, while he used kindness in business and believed in spreading generous idealism, he ALSO was a selfish and arrogant person who never took into consideration that others had their own lives and adventures.

At the end of the day, I think the best 'partner' for Steele would probably be whichever crewmate they bonded with the most along the way. I'd guess Steele would end up poly, or would eventually just pass the company on to a relative or friend and go back on the adventure after a few centuries.

I wouldn't say that Victor Steele is that bad either. An unquestionable horndog and kind of a huge idiot sending their kid on the most dangerous activity ever, sure, but Captain Steele's classes(except maybe smuggler) all came with skills + job skills that at large made it fairly easy to complete the main quest in a month or less while not having to worry about your deadweight rival or pregnancy generally rearing its ugly head before the quest finishes. And there is merit in being a rusher first: You'd be personally aware of all the problems and huge risks that are out on the frontier + general safety concerns found easiness in the lawlessness of the frontiers, and will have made useful connections on the frontier that can help spread your influence. Also, if you consider the Frostwyrm, training you up to be a worthwhile mate for that dragon ends up working out best for you in the long run.

Though if we're including cut concepts, then yeah, Captain Steele having to go to over a dozen planets would be serious overkill and giving a massive amount of risk for no reason. I'd cross the line after Phaedra; Captain Steele would not need more planets to get the message and experience needed to understand people's problems.