EVE Fiction

That used to be the problem, sure.

The 'TonyG' era of EVE went to great lengths to portray Amarr as nothing but evil, worse than the Sansha even. Cackling, moustache-twirling, black-hat evil (the kind that takes no talent to imagine, and made me groan to read).

Before all that, for a long time Amarr was the most complex and morally ambiguous nation represented in the game universe. Doing them justice was a challenge.

Now, the problem is that the Amarr as a faction are officially and canonically a f*cking joke. Not just irredeemably evil for the sake of evil, but actually stupid and moronic.

Now, It's not actually possible to be a sane individual and still support the Empire.

Those of us who have been doing so for the better part of a decade sure do feel silly now, don't we?

Nice to throw the starving dogs a bone.


But... perhaps you should not let the dogs be starving in the first place?

Very, very off topic. I try to make a likeable (likeable of course in hollywood-style) character; a character which drop his wife in the scene.... but is still loveable.... I had so far just the idea of David Duchovny end of season 5 of Californication. Where Bates leaves Karen, and she breaks out in happyness Californication : End of Time. I need something like this.... everybody... who is helping me over my little writers bloc gets a 1 mio isk form me.

A brilliant piece of work.

What is disappointing is that there is longer room for items like this in the all new improved (sic) Evelopedia.

In a old thread I played with a simpler variation of this idea. Consider the left-right axis as economic collectivism vs economic individualism and the up-down axis as social liberty.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Gallente=5.0%2C-5.0&Caldari=5.0%2C5.0&Minmatar=-5.0%2C-5.0&Amarr=-5.0%2C5.0&CONCORD=0.0%2C0.0&SOE=-5.0%2C0.0&INTERBUS=5.0%2C0.0&Sansha=0.0%2c9.0&DED=0.0%2c5.0&Serpentis=0.0%2c-7.5

If Amarr uses Orbital strikes against typo's... I'm in trouble!

Story's been edited to fix the '62nd' discrepancy. Thanks all for pointing out the problem and possible solutions




God knows I favor active storyline discussion, but yes, that was a bizarre comment you made and you should feel incredibly silly.

In the past few years we've published The Book of Emptiness, Two Deaths, Merely Disassembled, and King Slaver. Go even further back, and you find my chapter on them in The Burning Life, along with stories like Of God and her Beast. The nuances and moral grey areas of those pieces are arguably deeper than those of any other empire we've ever written about. These stories deal with questions of identity, faith, redemption and death, sexuality and love, and what it takes to destroy and rebuild someone using their faith as a lynchpin. I'm perfectly familiar with existing Amarr stereotypes, and I have never relied on them in my own writing.

So this positing that in recent years the Amarr have been reduced to evil cavemen is quite simply wrong. What I'm seeing instead is a fear from certain corners - and this isn't the first or second thread where it's popped up - that their roleplaying favorites will be cheapened with the addition of levity, humor, and other tones than somber, gloomy reverence.

Greyscale writes in a wonderfully British style, tongue firmly planted in cheek. He's describing orbital strikes against settlements accused of harboring a book. When you read something like that, you need to consider that you may not be expected to only take it literally. After all, if your aim is to see nuance, you need to accept that sometimes your faction will be the source of some of the greatest questions (and hopefully answers) known to Man in New Eden, and sometimes they're just going to do something crazy.

The chronicles aren't presented solely as literal news reports; they are that in part, but they're also, quite simply, a bunch of metaphors and styles and thoughts about the world around you, and they need to be treated like they have more than one layer of meaning. Not unlike most religious texts, come to think of it.

Im going really offf topic here.... sorry about that.

Why I have to think about the dramatic chipmunk? And the backround music? It is psychological interesting, as well that it feels like the most used word here in the topic is brainfart. Im to only one how had that connection. Damn.


First: About:
"He's describing orbital strikes against settlements accused of harboring a book." thats why I have write this. Tip for the future.... you like to do so... just make a do so... CCP just make a Chron about that topic..... (P.S: see the line which I use, desnt even need a faction in it, so that part could than be totally open).


Second:
"The chronicles aren't presented solely as literal news reports; they are that in part, but they're also, quite simply, a bunch of metaphors and styles and thoughts about the world around you, and they need to be treated like they have more than one layer of meaning. Not unlike most religious texts, come to think of it." Yes and that what I see the Chron, a metaphor for Greyscale about a inside CCP topic (a mix out good inside joke and rant about people around.... maybe people which doesnt send the stuff upward (you know, like normal "hard" institutions are doing it , Publius trys to find the chart from Fritz Scharpf in the end of his book "Games Real Actors Play. Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research" about the cost of people in different institutions to go to the their next higher level... aka Boss.
So I see the chron in the same way like my last lines.... it is a inside joke.... which people know/get... which have read the same Books like me; or on your side had the same "stromberg-style" meetings etc..... (P.S. You see how not funny my Scharpf joke is.... arrrg... damn you Abraxas for dont get it or havent the same infos ).....


This was my rand on that topic......

I was going with the idea of:

1. The Pax Ammarria is Bad News

2. The reason it is bad news isn't exactly what is stated in the chronicle, but the story in the chronicle is a theory that has come up, to explain some goings on.

To explain:

The notion of a central press printing everything is somewhat inefficient, given the size and scope of the Empire (40% of all inhabitable space or thereabouts, not including Mandate & Kingdom).

Instead, it is a network of local printers, but it is still "the court chamberlain's personal press", in the same manner of doing things as occurs in one of the Amarr COSMOS missions: Saint Ageroth being wrapped in a few thousand death shrouds, so that many different shrines can have "the genuine death shroud of Saint Ageroth"

So... during the printing process, one of the localised printers, made The Extra M, and as a result there was an Investigation.

And it was found that the local printer was also distributing Seditious Literature (gasp!), including things not too dissimilar to the http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Fraudulent_Pax_Amarria

And, subsequent investigations find cultists, good old Sani Sabiks, hence, the Theology Council assault troopers.

Anyone with the Pax Ammarria, may be a Sani Sabik, according to the Investigation, Or a sympathiser. Or some other kind of seditious person, the nature of their treasonous heresy will be determined when they are found guilty at trial (they are always guilty).

So... the Pax Ammarria is Bad News, but the reasons why it is Bad News are Wildly Speculated About.

Least, that's how I'm interpreting it

Sure, sure, sure.... all a question of taste

On an other topic.... can a actual brit come to this topic and defend the "british style" . i