Intergalactic Summit

A religious holiday eh? Fabulous.

I remember last year, and the year before that, and probably the years before that as well, everyone's favourite pro-Quafe activist, A. Ixiris, was foaming at the mouth with rage and/or despair, at the existence of this sort of thing.

Maybe this year he'll give it a break, hurr.

St Nicholas the Destroyer judges all equally, and harshly.

Rejoice!

The only thing I can find on a "Saint Nicolas" in various archeological sites would appear to reference some kind of ancient surveillance system.


The problem with the information is that much of it comes from what's left behind of a civilization that was not here to stay. A settler for example brings their family history and historical knowledge of their society with them, and specifically around their origins.

But people who are on the move merely to do a job do not do this at all beyond maybe a calendar from home or a personal journal. But such things tend to be in paper products. Paper does not last 23000 years.

One of the reasons why the collapse of the Eve Gate was so catastrophic is because the arrival of people in New Eden was based mainly on the exploitation of it over production. Mining equipment was brought instead of farming equipment. Ships that haul foodstuffs were brought in instead of ships that can sustain an atmosphere and grow food. Ships full of tools built and maintained at Sol system were brought in rather than equipment that can make and repair tools.

So, once the lifeline was cut, it's likely that a lot of the "paper" evidence - the calendars, journals and photo albums, were burned for heat.

So to find an actual calendar with dates marked on them, or a journal or diary that makes direct references to them, is next to impossible. Only the Amarr have a handle on some kind of spiritual events on a rotating time frame but there's no background information as to what "who God was before God was God" as I put it. (Amarrian priests never liked that one).

So, Saint Nicolas? Who or what was that? A saint is a person, this much we know, but I have also seen ancient references to "persons" without evidence of any such individual existing. "Uncle Sam" and "John Galt" for example. There are scant references to these two people, but nothing to prove it. All I can find is that one of them ran a country at one time, and the other - well even the references to him are a question for those who did were asking who John Galt was.

Saint Nicolas? Well the best I can figure is that this was either a system or a person in charge of a system that had something to do with surveillance. This system/person had the ability to know who was good or bad and maintained a list. How this information was obtained was never speculated and to this day no data core or ancient mainframe has ever produced such a list. It sounds kind of frightening


Now these "elves" - well, that's another matter. I've also seen another label for a similar description to the "elf" - the word was "Vulcan". And of this I have no idea beyond a small note in some ancient source code about a need not to wear a red shirt when working on a space ship.

Archeology never stops being fun.