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Re: Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, p

Posted By: Forrest of B.org Date: 2/18/08 8:29 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, p (rampancy)

: It was my impression that we jumped forward in time, spanning the
: undetermined time between the apex of the Clan Wars (and the fleeing of
: the Kr) and the Pfhor Invasion. That would explain the Kr in their Royal
: Defender battle forms being present on Lh'owon to fight the Pfhor at the
: invasion. Durandal says that they've been gone for 1000 years (1000
: presumably being the amount of time between M2 and the fleeing of K'lia)
: but that was in the M2 timeline - if you allow for the possibility that
: we're in fact creating our own timeline by jumping around and changing
: things (and God knows how many things we've changed up to this point, not
: including killing the poor hapless S'pht who get in our way), then
: continuity with the canonical Marathon timeline isn't that much of a
: concern.
Well, as you'll find out in the success exit of S'pht Happens, your meddling in the past was actually necessary for history as we know it from M2 to have occurred; so, I do need to stick to Marathon canon.
And in Marathon canon according to Hamish's reckoning, the S'pht'Kr exodus to K'lia was in the year 811 AD, and both the disappearance of K'lia and the invasion of the Pfhor were in 1811 AD. (Incidentally, the Rogue Star began passing through the Milky Way that year too). Of course these numbers were never given as such; they were all "a thousand years ago" from M2 (which was 2811), so that may mean 999 years ago or 1001 years ago.
So anyway, the first part of Eternal Chapter 3 is set in 811 AD; the second half in 1811 AD. (It actually has changing dates in the date field of the terminal borders, if you pay close attention).
: BTW, I'm certain that Yrro knew the Pfhor (or someone else) would be coming
: to enslave and destroy his (her?) creations. I don't think Yrro thought it
: would be precisely the Pfhor, but whenever you set up a paradise in a
: sandbox, you just know some little kid's going to come and mess it all up.
Well, as you're about to find out on the success exit of S'pht Happens, the Jjaro see the universe from outside of time (at least these days... as much as that makes any sense when you're talking outside of time), so Yrro knew precisely what would happen, or at least, knew as much as he cared to know about what would happen.
: I haven't played that far yet, but, what if they were also carrying out
: experiments on how to contain Wr'kncacnters? That would explain why they
: had the trih xeem aboard.
Yeah, that's the one thing I was thinking; there was a W'rkncacnter at this world (this is where it awoke), and they may have been willing to sacrifice it, as important as it was to them, if it meant containing the W'rkncacnter. Not knowing (yet) that blowing up a nearby star won't do you any good there...

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Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, plz.)	rampancy	2/18/08 11:52 a.m.
Re: Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, p	Forrest of B.org	2/18/08 3:06 p.m.
Re: Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, p	rampancy	2/18/08 4:56 p.m.
Re: Oops, I did it again (or: more Eternal help, p	Forrest of B.org	2/18/08 8:29 p.m.



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