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Valerie Valate

Church of The Crimson Saviour

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#1 - 2013-08-24 11:59:14 UTC

Insorum, as I understand it, while it cures people of Vitoc dependency, in people who are NOT Vitoc dependent, it acts as a very toxic agent, causing severe genetic damage or death.

Is that right ?

It relates to something about the Elder Fleets and their attack on the Amarr worlds at the start of the Empyrean War.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.

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Rogue Lawyer University of Caille Gallente Federation Likes received: 83	#2 - 2013-08-25 00:04:50 UTC \| Edited by: Rogue Lawyer 1 It might, like with many drugs around today if you take them and you don't really need them they would hurt you . They are side effects to deal with.


Valerie Valate Church of The Crimson Saviour Likes received: 2,408	#3 - 2013-09-07 11:32:07 UTC I would like an answer from Falcon or Eterne about this. https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Insorum " an extremely dangerous genetic toxin for those in otherwise good health" True, or not. Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.

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Eran Mintor Metropolis Commercial Consortium Likes received: 886	#4 - 2013-09-07 16:50:51 UTC Read empyrean age it should answer your questions. Insorum in the proper form will not harm non-vitoc dependant people. However the blueprint is closely guarded and the attempts to reverse-engineer it have resulted in a form of it that's dangerous to those not dependant on vitoc. At least that's what i remember about it.

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Teinyhr Ourumur Likes received: 930	#5 - 2013-09-07 23:12:46 UTC If it's in Evelopedia, then it's most likely true, because it's mostly edited by people in charge of the lore - both the devs & volunteers. There are... Exceptions, of course.


Eran Mintor Metropolis Commercial Consortium Likes received: 886	#6 - 2013-09-08 01:28:19 UTC Thats like saying everything on wikipedia is true because its often moderated and volunteers write the articles... Sadly there is not much merit to that.

Esna Pitoojee

Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque

Khimi Harar

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#7 - 2013-09-08 02:00:56 UTC

If we're going to talk about bias being written in, Empyrean Age is about as slanted a look as you can get. Nothing could dare tarnish the sterling reputation of those daring Matari heroes, after all... Roll

Frankly, I fall into the "toxic when misused" camp, even if for no other reason than that it makes more sense: Without it, Insorum feels like a miracle handwavium drug, a plot device dressed up in science-y clothing.

Eran Mintor

Metropolis Commercial Consortium

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#8 - 2013-09-08 02:32:09 UTC

Though lore is often conflicting and unrealistic i prefer to follow the lore from chronicles and books than conjecture from players.

Its clear in the empyrean age that pure insorum is not toxic. It even mentions the non-pure version is dangerous. Yes most drugs have bad side effects but some drugs have barely noticeable ones. Regardless, im not the one writing lore and theres lots of scientific things in EVE that should be overlooked because realisticly they're impossible.

Teinyhr

Ourumur

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#9 - 2013-09-08 07:05:19 UTC

Eran Mintor wrote:

Thats like saying everything on wikipedia is true because its often moderated and volunteers write the articles...

Sadly there is not much merit to that.

The main difference is, most lore articles are locked and cannot be modified by normal players, only devs and ISD - specifically team Mercury . So, by proxy, yes, what you read from EVElopedia regarding the story is generally true and official canon.


Eran Mintor Metropolis Commercial Consortium Likes received: 886	#10 - 2013-09-08 08:14:45 UTC And a lot of canon is conflicting....so that brings us back to square one in some regards... A lot of the evelopedia tries to avoid "spoilers," as I've noticed. There's some truth to the text but a lot is left out. Anyways, I would also like to see what 'CCP Falcon' has to say about all this. I love the guy, even though I hated his character (IC of course).