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# Overview

Planning work for the second iteration of Purlovia, aiming for support of Ark 2.

## Core aims

* Strictly continue to avoid intellectual property issues and be fully open source.
* Move to a more efficient language such as C#.
* Support parsing of Ark 2 assets **plus** savegames. (include Ark 1 assets?)
* Enforce stronger separation of concerns by breaking into separate projects. 
* Use fine-grained dependency tracking and intermediate data caching to allow generating only what has changed.

Together these aims should enable a more efficient bot infrastructure that can support _many_ more mods, allow creation of a dynamic data website, and more cleanly allow extensions such as image extraction for the wiki.

*Reminder*: Name a subproject after the ever-helpful Phorce1.
