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Can someone confirm that Sources Achura population figure is wrong?
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Gwen Ikiryo
Alexylva Paradox
#1 - 2014-12-08 11:59:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Gwen Ikiryo
Sorry to be a bother about this, but if any writers are reading, could they please tell me if the Achura figure in the population box in the Caldari section of Eve Source is a fact hiccup? It puts their total population in the State at close to 2 trillion (25% of the whole), a number that is not only basically impossible - Considering the lore establishes elsewhere that they were only discovered in a medieval society by the Caldari about 300 years prior to the present - but massively contradictory to not only the old PF, which described them as a tiny minority at <5%, but to a section a few pages later in Eve Source itself, which under the "Bloodlines" section reaffirms this same fact.

Eve Source wrote:
Ethnic Caldari account for 95-99% of the States registered citizenry.


Eve Source wrote:
Today, the Civire and Deteis make up almost all of the States population, with Achura, ethnic Gallente, and Intaki as the largest minorities, in that order.


I can only assume it's a mistake based on this, and on the fact that it would radically change their position in the State in almost every respect from the previously affirmed one by implication if it were true.
Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#2 - 2014-12-08 14:17:52 UTC
Gwen Ikiryo wrote:
Sorry to be a bother about this, but if any writers are reading, could they please tell me if the Achura figure in the population box in the Caldari section of Eve Source is a fact hiccup? It puts their total population in the State at close to 2 trillion (25% of the whole), a number that is not only basically impossible - Considering the lore establishes elsewhere that they were only discovered in a medieval society by the Caldari about 300 years prior to the present - but massively contradictory to not only the old PF, which described them as a tiny minority at <5%, but to a section a few pages later in Eve Source itself, which under the "Bloodlines" section reaffirms this same fact.

Eve Source wrote:
Ethnic Caldari account for 95-99% of the States registered citizenry.


Eve Source wrote:
Today, the Civire and Deteis make up almost all of the States population, with Achura, ethnic Gallente, and Intaki as the largest minorities, in that order.


I can only assume it's a mistake based on this, and on the fact that it would radically change their position in the State in almost every respect from the previously affirmed one by implication if it were true.


Probably should have been 0,2 trillion and the error was missed in editing. 200 billion Achura, or 2,5%, seems more likely.
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#3 - 2014-12-08 18:46:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
It wouldn't be the first error missed in editing. There were a few in the Amarr population issues on the preview pages that were able to be corrected before publishing, while Karin Midular's assassination date is wrong in the release edition.