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
???? 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.

Redefining the Corruption: October 4, 2018

As I mentioned in my previous post, I find myself rather dissatisfied with the Corruption as they exist in Unbroken's current lore. I have outlined a potential overhaul of the species that molds them into something I think is unique, memorable, and, most importantly, threatening. I am yet to decide if this will be fully implemented; this idea has problems I will get into once I have laid out its substance.

A Plague of Nanites

A gray storm consumes the Milky Way, converting all organic life it touches into mechanical approximations of what they once were. Fleshly anatomy keeps its structure, but is remade into something utterly metallic and artificial. Hordes of automatons, once people and animals, become unliving hives, manufacturing and spreading infectious nanites from within their own bowels. The android and AI children of organic species are not immune--indeed, they may be even more susceptible--as the nanites transmit their intelligence through comm networks, digitally corrupting organic-produced AI and using them for their own ends. Any passing notion of a cure is whimsical at best; the transformation from biotic matter to metal is complete and irreversible. Through advanced neuroscience and artificial intelligence engineering, it is thought possible to rewrite the consciousness of an infected individual into something resembling what they once were, but their original body would be lost forever and the individual would find himself trapped within a synthetic and twisted mockery of himself. Outside of this, there are no great resurgences of populations lost to the nanite plague. All who are lost belong to the swarm, until the swarm is burned away. Perhaps an individual could be only _partially_ infected--say, with merely a limb of their body converted--but this would require a way to somehow halt the conversion process before it is finished. It is unknown how the remaining organic body would react to the corrupted limb; perhaps outright rejection would occur and it would need to be amputated. Maybe the individual would lack full motor control over the limb. Radically, the limb could be actively hostile toward its host, scratching, clawing, and attempting to replicate nanites until the rest of the host is converted. There can be no surefire conclusion, as even reaching the stage of partial conversion would be a tenuous prospect; the nanite swarm would be nigh-impossibly difficult to halt in the process of conversion and the individual would likely suffer complete transformation rather than a mere partial one. Larger biomass clusters--such as the forests of a planet--would be more easily contained simply due to the sheer volume of matter that the swarm would need to convert, and even then, a forest-sized nanite production factory would easily spell doom for a whole world.

Roadblocks

The first and most obvious barrier to canonizing this would be the origin of this nanite-based Corruption. I have my doubts that the Singularities, known for simply pushing the domino that gave birth to organic life, would give birth to this breed of Corruption. What we consider organic, the Singularities consider synthetic. What we consider synthetic, the Singularities consider to be a byproduct. This is not something that arises of natural causes; rather, a mover from within our universe must have somehow brought this plague upon the Milky Way. What or who that is eludes me. I know it would not be the Keilicaela Empire, who gave their sentient AI full rights and protections under the law. They would have no need of this, and would indeed find it profane. In fact, this Corruption would likely change their perspective on AI and shake their faith in holding solidarity with an AI, which is something I find myself leaning against. I find the Keilicaela acceptance of AI endemic to their society, and the nanite-based Corruption threatens to shatter that. Furthermore, unless they had some way to contain and neutralize the converted matter that produces nanites, Namine (and any other exposed planet) would be completely rendered into a machine world. This clearly did not happen, so either I would have to divine some way for our characters to halt such a process, or I would have to modify this idea. In any case, I still think this is much more distinct than the typical, generic, Flood-like "space disease" that we know the Corruption as now. This is a good starting point.