Barotrauma but Bigger™

[little trout]

So this will probably require rewriting almost the entire established lore of Barotrauma, but oh well lmao
So instead of the Earth establishing colonies ONLY on Europa, it established colonies on Ganymede and Callisto as well? What if they found aquatic life on the other moons too? What if YOU could GO to the other moons as well that support totally different (or well, similar at least) alien life with different biomes and dangers and such. I'm not talking about literally simulating the entire thing where you go on a space ship and actually travel on a different moon, it would literally be just an extra selection screen just like the campaign map ingame. You just select a moon and it opens up its map, although when you select a moon it WILL ask you if you really wanna do that, and when you travel from moon to moon it will simulate on the map that some time passed (probably with a cool down and a high cost to travel, after all you're paying for a spaceship to transport you, your crew AND your submarine). So I'm thinking for like, the story:
Basically it's the same thing but Earth discovered that Europa ISN'T the only moon that supported life, so after having some success with colonisation missions they established some sort of supergovernmental entity to manage the colonisation of all jovian moons (establishing space stations and such on the unhabitable moons as well, although not for colonial purposes but like research or military purposes), being called the Jovian Union and basically being the Europa Coalition but... Bigger™. Although this Coalition isn't formed by the colonies themselves but by Earth itself to manage the colonies, so the Union would be loyal to Earth and its rule over the moons. The Jovian Union would rule with an iron fist, not even have some semblance of democracy and just doing everything in its power to keep the status quo alive, to protect humanity and order being its ultimate mission.
Of course, decades pass, and the moons' dissent grows.

each moon would have its own set of major factions and minor factions, with the Jovian Union being the supreme faction being present in every moon (also maybe the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother having some really mild semblance of activity in other moons, maybe the Church of Husk are illegally transporting husk eggs to other moons and establishing Ganymedean and Callistoan branches as well). What I'm thinking for major factions is basically the Jovian Separatists but for each moon, ig the names would be the Europan Republic, the Ganymedean Commonwealth and the Callistoan State, or similar.
For minor factions, I'm thinking of each moon map having, albeit hidden until you join them, pirates.
It would be several pirate confederacies controlling loose territories attacking and plundering Unionist AND Separatist transport submarines, AND attacking other pirate confederacies as well. It would be awesome if you can join of these confederacies and fight for them other confederacies and expanding their influence and control. For names, I honestly don't know, but the story can be that they were inspired by the myths and legends of well known ancient pirates, calling themselves something like the Caribbean Pirate Confederacy and such.
The great thing about this is that if you fight long enough for one of the separatist factions, you can get each of them to take its moon over, making the Jovian Union weaker since there has been a loss of population and resource procurement. Not only, but pirate confederacies can ALSO take over a moon if you fight for them, making the entire moon a pirate haven.
Basically, it's not known what happened with Earth and how contact was lost. It's left ambiguous, maybe the Earth exploded, it disappeared completely or the Jovian Union was deliberately cut off. One thing is certain, the Union has panicked attempting to reestablish contact to no avail, and the separatist groups in each moon took notice of this moment of weakness.

The game would take place after a year or two, and it will be up to you what happens. Will you work for the Jovian Union and preserve humanity and order in this decade of turmoil and crisis, will you fight for independence and freedom, or will ye plunder the booty?

[stuck hare]

so basically create different game?..

[shrewd epoch]

Or it could still be part of the same game

It's what happens when you beat jove and get sucked through a portal or some whacky shit

[little trout]

nah it's the same game but more factions, more enemies and more maps

idk how it would be a different game when all the mechanics, artstyle and etc would be the same

the only difference would be that humanity established colonies on the other moons and not only on Europa, it would be kinda more realistic tbh, it's kinda weird how they ignored the other moons and only went for Europa

[stuck hare]

You do undestand that you suggest adding so much things that it would be barotrauma 2 by this point right?

Not even mentioning that it would take literal years of development considering rate of updates we have now

[little trout]

hmmm

true

although now that I think about it, maybe it can be made to be just said in game hints and dialogues

you know how when you start up a campaign it says all about the lore of what happened up to that point

at the least it can just be changed to say that we colonised most jovian moons

with the Jovian Union replacing the Europa Coalition in name only maybe

now I realise I might've gone really overboard with that whole thing XD

but hey Barotrauma can just take place in Europa, and the devs can have the other moons to work with if there's gonna be a Barotrauma 2 or a different game taking place in the same universe

[pale horizon]

BAROTRAUMA 2🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️😤😤✅

[spring gulch]

Sounds like you want to make Barotrama 2