User talk:Bryan.christian

On the old Wikia, I used to use the blog function to document retcons and other announcements to my personal lore. As far as I am aware, our much-improved new wiki has no such feature. As such, I will now use the "discussion" tab of my user page to publicly document my retcons. It's less clean than the blog function, but seeing as how it's exactly as functional, this does not bother me. With that out of the way, here are all of the drastic changes I've made to pre-existing content in my lore thus far:

Changes to Lore: February 2, 2018

Humanity

Most of the retcons in this entry pertain to the Keilicaela; however, I had to make some changes to humanity in order to accommodate said changes. To begin, humanity had only one minor war with the Keilicaela. This conflict did not see humans touch Namine's soil. Likewise, no recorded Keilicaela incursions were made against Earth. This sets the two species on more neutral ground, which better reflects their standing with each other as seen in most Unbroken content. Furthermore, this means that humans did not destroy Cryorcia. In hindsight, I find it nigh-impossible to believe that humanity had the technological or military prowess to destroy an entire moon, much less one in orbit over the homeworld of a civilization much more advanced and capable than they. Additionally, if they hypothetically could shatter Cryorcia, the Keilicaela backlash should have seen the so-called "Terran Empire" (a name that I loathe and is in the process of being changed) annihilated from the face of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Keilicaela

Cryorcia

Seeing as how humanity never destroyed Cryorcia, I am introducing a retcon that makes Cryorcia into a celestial entity that has been shattered since before recorded Keilicaela civilization. This solves another problem; were Cryorcia to be destroyed, Namine's tidal patterns should have been altered to catastrophic effect; an event that did not occur in the lore. Removing the destruction event removes the necessity for a global, civilization-threatening natural disaster. Cryorica has forever hanged in the sky as a sundered testament to the wrath of some irreconcilable cosmic Ragnarok. There was no Cryorcia colony. This is how Keilicaela-kind has always known it, and it is how they will forever see it.

Timeline

A look back upon events in the history of the Keilicaela reveals to me that too much happened too quickly. Overhauling the timeline will allow me to space events further apart from each other, making the duration of said events more realistic. Furthermore, it gives me the opportunity to completely adopt the Keilicaela Empire's Reformation Epoch Calendar, which will keep the Gregorian dates of Keilicaela history ambiguous and lessen the likelihood of the timeline overhaul conflicting with another writer's lore.

Before the Reformation Epoch

This epoch lasts 5,244 years, starting at 0 BRE.

• ???? BRE: Ner-Keilicaela driven to extinction by interbreeding and war
• 3,600 BRE: Cult of Namine emerges, rising to prominence amongst the entire species
• 3,740 BRE: Thutria, the first city-state, is founded
• 4,000 BRE: City-states emerge to compete with Thutria, becoming the most prevalent form of civilization
• 4,780 BRE: Cult of Namine loses influence as the last few tribes are consumed by city-states
• 5,000 BRE: Imperium arrives on Namine
• 5,123 BRE: Kycelid is born
• 5,125 BRE: Cythrek is born
• 5,240 BRE: After years of persecution, the Cult of Namine is all but destroyed by the Imperium; 240 years under the Imperium yoke has elevated the semi-primitive Keilicaela societies to levels of technological advancement yet unseen
• 5,240 BRE: Descendants of Thutria created by Cythrek
• 5,244 BRE: Enlightened Ones turn their sights to Namine; final year of BRE

Reformation Epoch

This epoch lasts 573 years, starting at 0 RE.

• 0 RE: Namine formally freed from Imperium oppression
• 0 RE: Cytrhek reorganizes the Descendants of Thutria into the Seething Sting
• 0 RE: Suddenly-independent Keilicaela societies, left with advanced technology that has existed less than an average Keilicaela lifetime, begin to update their infrastructure, vehicles, weapons, and other such installations
• 0 RE: The city-state Verikron enters into a nonaggression pact with the city-states Skopida and Thyste, forming the Verikron Federation
• 2 RE: A state of almost-perpetual war between the city-states of Namine begins, not to conclude until 573 RE
• 3 RE: The Verikron Federation begins reverse-engineering Imperium spacecraft technology
• 5 RE: Kycelid is cryogenically frozen
• 99 RE: Federation reverse-engineering efforts bear fruit with a fightercraft prototype
• 100 RE: First AI prototype
• 101 RE: Cythrek dies
• 110 RE: Keilicaela spacecraft technology becomes viable and is under a Federation monopoly
• 115 RE: City-states hostile to the Federation succeed in espionage efforts and secure the blueprints to construct their own fightercraft
• 117 RE: The city-states of Namine now war in the solar system, competing for asteroid mining rights
• 393 RE: Ferkanid Trinalak is born
• 431 RE: Ferkanid becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Verikron Federation
• 433 RE: Ferknaid begins his push to end the 431-year-long war with the intent of conquering Namine
• 450 RE: The Verikron Federation begins studying faster-than-light travel, opening the door for the advent of Tearstream 154 years later
• 499 RE: Zyrexis Scendtherinae is born
• 570 RE: A grand fleet of Federation fightercraft is constructed under Ferkanid's orders
• 573 RE: The Verikron Federation is the dominant power on Namine; final year of RE

Post-Reformation Epoch

This epoch has been ongoing for 986 years, staring at 0 PRE. 0 PRE: Having conquered Namine, the Verikron Federation reorganizes into the Keilicaela Empire 20 PRE: Ferkanid Trinalak dies; Zyrexis Scendtherinae declared Supreme Commander 31 PRE: Tearstream technology emerges 34 PRE: Universal Tearstream Solutions, a company comprised of the minds behind the Tearstream drive, is formed 50 PRE: Nymerris becomes weaponized 51 PRE: The Empire initiates its agenda to colonize different plantes 113 PRE: Zyrexis Scendtherinae is assassinated by the Seething Sting; his successor is currently undocumented 200 PRE: The Keilicaela Empire expands to 20 star systems and grows to around 60 before the Fall of Namine 500 PRE: Keilicaela AI become self-aware 812 PRE: Cavthiex Aristoptera is born 885 PRE: Cavthiex Aristoptera is declared Supreme Commander 921 PRE: Cosula Underwater Base constructed 929 PRE: Philanthix Sivintalica is born 930 PRE: Eternal Solace constructed; Kycerida is born 931 PRE: Vespid is born 933 PRE: Thisposa is born 940 PRE: Acid Rain undergoes manufacturing 942 PRE: Thegalet undergoes initial development 945 PRE: Angen-2 colony is wiped out by the Death Plague event; Eternal Solace disappears 948 PRE: Universal Tearstream Solutions begins manufacturing the Chasmstrider 949 PRE: Corruption emerges; Fall of Namine; Empire displaced; Cavthiex deposed 949 PRE: Vespid arrives on Terreki 950 PRE: Imperial colonies Balkanize while the sundered Namine enters the Reconstruction; four systems enter into a pact while the other three form the Qualdron Alignment 950 PRE: Keilicaela worlds manage to defend themselves against Corruption incursion; some smaller and more remote systems fall prey and are annihilated 951 PRE: In a bloody coup, Philanthix Sivintalica ascends to the head of the Qualdron Alignment 951 PRE: Vespid founds the Terreki Conglomerate 960 PRE: Stormbound Coalition anti-Alignment insurgency group founded 962 PRE: The Corruption invade Terreki and the Terreki Resistance rises from the ashes of the Terreki Conglomerate 975 PRE: All known Corruption instances become extinct 979 PRE: Reconstruction efforts come to a close with one final, grand push from Vespid's allies and the Ashderian Regime 980 PRE: Second Empire forms with Vespid at the helm; non-Alignment colonies join the Second Empire 980 PRE: Alignment declares war on the Empire 981 PRE: Alignment reverse-engineering revitalizes the Corruption using the Death Plague genome; Vespid sends Imperial war machine into overdrive 982 PRE: Kycelid is unfrozen and recovered by the Ashderian Regime 983 PRE: The Alignment is crushed and the second Corruption driven to extinction; Philanthix Sivintalica dies; Stormbound Coalition remains a lasting power on Qualdron 985 PRE: Crysek arc 986 PRE: Boundary Cataclysm; Princefall; present year

Corruption

I don't like the way the Corruption are portrayed. They're a rather nebulous species. Frankly, it makes no sense to me how a parasitic mutagen that perpetuates itself by infecting other species has within its family species that only occur within the Corruption. I am removing "Corruption-exclusive" species from the canon. Any species within the Corruption can be found in an "un-corrupted" form outside of the Corruption. Furthermore, I want the Corruption to be more than a run-of-the-mill space infection that mutates whatever it touches. I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I am toying with the idea of making "Corruption" an ironic name, as the parasite speeds the evolution of its host to its logical conclusion, creating a "super-organism" that is, for reasons undetermined, unforgivingly hostile. Another idea I am considering turns the Corruption into a semi-machine race that grotesquely fuses whatever it touches with alien, organic robotic components. Whatever I decide, the Corruption will not remain as it is now. Count on it.

Other Notes

• "Keilicaela" is now the preferred term over "Waspcaela." I intend to comb the Wiki and replace most instances of "Waspcaela," save for those that mention "Waspcaela" as a less-common slang term.
• With the changes to humanity's relationship with the Keilicaela, Vespid's father did not die fending off invading human soldiers. Rather, he perished against the Death Plague on Angen-2.