Question about FD ''Fiction Diaries''

[hems303]

Hi All
I was remembering back to the early days when Michael Brookes (the Exec Producer and Head of Fiction for ED) ran regular Fiction Diaries about the background ''stories'' and ''lore'' in ED. I can't remember just how many there were of his diaries but can only now find 5 such episodes.

Question: Were there only these five diary episodes that were made or have some been ''lost'' to us in 2019?
Question: If there were only five made by Michael, does anyone know why they did not continue as Michael says directly in diary No.5 that certain subjects ''will be covered in the next and future diaries''. These comments he made point directly to a continuation of, or at least an intention to make further Fiction Diaries.

Just for info:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7glm5rbPHKway8jUwKEw6MeWjC4voHD4

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[Vetinari]

I've been watching these recently. not sure of the exact number or if its changed, however, I have seen MB on various vids that arent 'fiction diaries' as such but he still mentions lore and similar. One is the one where they did a 6 hr vid I think when Horizons was being released and the servers were down for updates, hosted by Ed, MB is a fascinating guest on that one (they all are to be honest on that one).

the DB Ask Me Anything has some good stuff as well as do the Kickstarter vids by DB and the 'Dev Diaries' but its not in one place in them its just bits and pieces here and there.

not sure if any of it answers the 'follow on' info you are looking for though, I'm working my way through them all now.

If you have specific questions Ill re-post if I come across them. Maybe we can use this thread to start gathering it all up.

This is my main gripe with ED, Fdev and lore - its not in one place at all, theres bits all over, 10 seconds in one 2hr YT vid thats not anywhere else. I understand DB wanted a multi-media platform for the game but this is just sporadic and inconsistent. At least tie it all up in one place as official Fdev released lore. I know it happened in real-time at the time but I wasn't there and was a new player 6 months ago with none of that history to add to my 'immersion' experience. I now have approx 500hrs of vids to sit through just to catch up (not just Fdev vids but YT vids where MB has been interviewed for example), Id rather read a list of bullet-points that tie it all together. Doesn't spoil the game, I'm not a child, but it does hinder it when I have to keep up to date across different platforms just to get the info that Fdev want to be public!