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2025-05-28T18:16:09Z

‎Links: Added another

Phkb: Updating BB links

2024-02-29T01:54:46Z

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Murgh: split off to disambig

2022-01-18T19:22:04Z

split off to disambig

Cholmondely: Tagged as Concept

2021-08-15T08:43:10Z

Tagged as Concept

Cholmondely: /* Links */ Added Time

2021-03-05T11:01:24Z

‎Links: Added Time

Cholmondely: Structure!

2021-03-04T18:03:10Z

Structure!

Cholmondely: /* Considerations on Cim's & Selezen's Histories - and a third approach */ Structure

2021-02-15T13:36:31Z

‎Considerations on Cim's & Selezen's Histories - and a third approach: Structure

Cholmondely: /* Considerations on Cim's & Selezen's Histories - and a third approach */ More detail on purism

2021-02-15T13:34:58Z

‎Considerations on Cim's & Selezen's Histories - and a third approach: More detail on purism

Cholmondely: Oolite timeline gives 3147 as date of Oolite

2021-02-03T22:26:33Z

Oolite timeline gives 3147 as date of Oolite

Cholmondely: Tweaked tag to remove pipe/space which makes it a ''master page'' on the category page.

2021-01-31T09:36:40Z

Tweaked tag to remove pipe/space which makes it a ''master page'' on the category page.

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1689 Background story of the Elite universe] - musings of a [[Frontier]] devotee back in 2006
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1295 Some speculation] about history from a syncretist perspective
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 {{QuoteText|Text=I don't really see the need for a timeline or a backstory. <br>
 The way things are is just the way things are; I don't need to know where Earth is, or how human beings got from there (if they did) to where they are now. For me, a large part of the appeal of the game is its vagueness. It's as close to a blank slate as we can get, and it's built to be modded all over the shop to everyone's individual preferences. <br>
-Too much backstory just gets in the way.|Source=([http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273999#p273999 Disembodied])}}
+Too much backstory just gets in the way.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=273999#p273999 Disembodied])}}
 == The calamitous consequences of corporate states ==
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 *[[Time]] - the three-way argument about what the time on your ship's clock really means!
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17671 "Not in the manual" - setting and canon in the eight charts]: Discussion led by Oolite's third Lead Developer, [[User:Cim|Cim]], giving the reasoning behind this history.
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17671 "Not in the manual" - setting and canon in the eight charts]: Discussion led by Oolite's third Lead Developer, [[User:Cim|Cim]], giving the reasoning behind this history.
 *See [[Lore]] for an explanation of the differences between Oolites '''purists''' & '''syncretists'''.
 *See [[Oolite timeline]] for Selezen's opposing syncretist version of the above.
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 '''Discussion threads''':
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11660 What is regarded as canonical in Oolite history?]: Discussion
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11660 What is regarded as canonical in Oolite history?]: Discussion
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20806 Metafiction: Dialogues on the Lore of Xlite]: More recent discussion.
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20806 Metafiction: Dialogues on the Lore of Xlite]: More recent discussion.
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1689 Background story of the Elite universe] - musings of a [[Frontier]] devotee back in 2006
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1689 Background story of the Elite universe] - musings of a [[Frontier]] devotee back in 2006
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1295 Some speculation] about history from a syncretist perspective
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1295 Some speculation] about history from a syncretist perspective
 [[Category:Lore]]
 [[Category:Concepts]]

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- '''Disambiguation'''
+''This is an essay on the history of the Ooniverse, for other perspectives, see [[History (disambiguation)]].''
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+''This essay on the history of the Ooniverse is taken from [[User:Cim|Cim]]'s Ship's Manual, tucked away in his [[Ship's Library OXP]]. As a '''purist''', Cim gives a ''very'' different history to that of Selezen and his fellow '''syncretists''' (see [[Oolite timeline]]).''
 == History ==

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 == Links ==
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17671 "Not in the manual" - setting and canon in the eight charts]: Discussion led by Oolite's third Lead Developer, [[User:Cim|Cim]], giving the reasoning behind this history.
 *See [[Lore]] for an explanation of the differences between Oolites '''purists''' & '''syncretists'''.

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-'''Disambiguation'''
+ '''Disambiguation'''
-<br><br>
+ <br><br>
-''Oolite abounds with histories!''
+ ''Oolite abounds with histories!''
-<br><br>
+ <br><br>
-Are you looking for
+ Are you looking for
-−
-• History of the development of the game
+History of the development of the game
-::*The History of the four games:
+   a The History of the four games:
-:::*[[classic Elite]]
+     •[[classic Elite]]
-:::*[[Frontier]] (FE2)
+     •[[Frontier]] (FE2)
-:::*[[First Encounters|Frontier First Encounters]] (FFE)
+     •[[First Encounters|Frontier First Encounters]] (FFE)
-:::*[[Elite: Dangerous]] (ED)
+     •[[Elite: Dangerous]] (ED)
-::*The History of the development of [[Oolite#A little History & some important early Versions|Oolite]] as a game?
+   b The History of the development of [[Oolite#A little History & some important early Versions|Oolite]] as a game?
-−
-• In-game History
+In-game History
-::*The History from now until the year of Elite: See [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273461#p273461 here] and the material referenced below (but be aware of the two schools of '''purism''' & '''syncretism''')!
+     •The History from now until the year of Elite: See [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273461#p273461 here] and the material referenced below (but be aware of the two schools of '''purism''' & '''syncretism''')!
-::*The History from now until the year of Frontier: See [[Timeline]] ([[User:Selezen|Selezen]]) & [[Chronicles of the Milky Way]] ([[Dylan Smith]])
+     •The History from now until the year of Frontier: See [[Timeline]] ([[User:Selezen|Selezen]]) & [[Chronicles of the Milky Way]] ([[Dylan Smith]])
-::*The History from now until the year of Oolite: See '''below''' on this page
+     •The History from now until the year of Oolite: See '''below''' on this page
-::*The History of the transition from Elite to Oolite to Frontier: See [[Lore]] for discussion, but here is a '''syncretist''' timeline:
+     •The History of the transition from Elite to Oolite to Frontier: See [[Lore]] for discussion, but here is a '''syncretist''' timeline:
-−
-:::::Elite : 3125
+     Elite : 3125
-:::::Oolite : around 3142-7 ('''purists''' will end the history here, and [[User:Cim|Cim]] ''et al'' will insist that 3125/3142 are not in the same timeframe as ours!)
+     Oolite : around 3142-7 ('''purists''' will end the history here, and [[User:Cim|Cim]] ''et al'' will insist that 3125/3142 are not in the same timeframe as ours!)
-:::::FE2 : 3200
+     FE2 : 3200
-:::::FFE : 3250
+     FFE : 3250
-:::::ED : 3300
+     ED : 3300
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 The two schools are doing very different things with their histories.
-* Our '''Purists''', like Cim, look at Oolite's Ooniverse and wonder how it came into being: you can see his approach in Not in the Manual, under '''Links''', below. there are several problems which need to be addressed.
+* Our '''Purists''', like Cim, look at Oolite's Ooniverse and wonder how it came into being. There are several problems which need to be addressed.
 :The first issue is population size: adding up the total population in [[The Eight]] yields a total of 7,100 billion of whom perhaps 4,000 billion are human. That is ''only'' the population of The Eight: ignoring Sol and whatever human populated worlds lie outside The Eight. In 2000 human population was only 6 billion. Given wars, diseases and the difficulties of establishing colonies on new worlds, 1,200 years is not enough time for the population to increase so much.
 :Then there is the second issue of the evenness of distribution and population around The Eight: the species are distributed evenly (there is no insect corner or lobster corner to be found). And each system has a population between 1-6 billion. This suggests that a lot of time has passed since the initial colonisation. See the discussion in ''"Not in the manual" - setting and canon in the eight charts'' linked below.

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