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 *8 non-human races..
-These "limits" are typically dismissed as low constraints of early 1980s computer code, but the numbers are in fact abridged in the ''extreme''<sup>[[#Footnotes|a]]</sup> from their potential immenseness. Thus, to the ''Brutalist'' they are deliberate clues. Why wouldn't the artifice be a clue or a crucial key to the story.
+These "limits" are typically dismissed as low constraints of early 1980s computer code, but the numbers are in fact abridged in the ''extreme''<sup>[[#Footnotes|[a]]]</sup> from their potential immenseness. Thus, to the ''Brutalist'' they are deliberate clues. Why wouldn't the artifice be a clue or a crucial key to the story.
 If you are abruptly dropped into the middle of a maze, and given a limited set of very strange instructions, you have to suspect the possibility that the information is wrong, and that someone is lying to you. The scepticism places the entire universe under a dark, harsh light. If you cannot trust the manual, you are on your own to solve the challenge of <u>''who''</u> is in authority, <u>''what''</u> sinister intentions lie behind, and <u>''why''</u> are we fed false information.
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 ==Footnotes==
 <small>
-*[[#Red flags|a &uarr;]]. As [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
+*a. [[#Red flags|<sup>&and;</sup> ]] [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 Described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
 :# w0 (16 bits)
 :# w1 (16 bits)

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 ===Red flags===
 The unnatural symmetries are the primary "evidence":
 *8 galactic charts/sectors
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 *8 non-human races..
-These "limits" are typically dismissed as low constraints of early 1980s computer code, but the numbers are in fact abridged in the ''extreme''<small><sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup></small> from their potential immenseness. Thus, to the ''Brutalist'' they are deliberate clues. Why wouldn't the artifice be a clue or a crucial key to the story.
+These "limits" are typically dismissed as low constraints of early 1980s computer code, but the numbers are in fact abridged in the ''extreme''<sup>[[#Footnotes|a]]</sup> from their potential immenseness. Thus, to the ''Brutalist'' they are deliberate clues. Why wouldn't the artifice be a clue or a crucial key to the story.
 If you are abruptly dropped into the middle of a maze, and given a limited set of very strange instructions, you have to suspect the possibility that the information is wrong, and that someone is lying to you. The scepticism places the entire universe under a dark, harsh light. If you cannot trust the manual, you are on your own to solve the challenge of <u>''who''</u> is in authority, <u>''what''</u> sinister intentions lie behind, and <u>''why''</u> are we fed false information.
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 :''Main article: [[The Brutalist Axiom]]''
-The '''''Brutalist Axiom''''' details the broad-strokes timeline from humanity's largely inefficient pre-Reform era ''"the Sprawl"'', through ''the Era of Standardization'' triggered by the activation of the [[GalCop Central Mainframe]]. Then follows the various uncompromising [[The Great Standardization|excisions]] and [[Structural Reform Act|reforms]] that it implemented onto the galactic population, succeeded by the initial Thargoid skirmishes, and eventually the insurgent [[Goat Soup Syntax Rupture]] attack on the Mainframe. Finally the ''Post-Rupture Aftermath'' arrives that marked the beginning of the ''Age of Inanity'', along with the coinciding escalation of Thargoid attacks.
+The '''''Brutalist Axiom''''' details the broad-strokes timeline from humanity's largely inefficient pre-Reform era ''"The Sprawl"'', through ''The Era of Standardization'' triggered by the activation of the [[GalCop Central Mainframe]]. Then follows the various uncompromising [[The Great Standardization|excisions]] and [[Structural Reform Act|reforms]] that it implemented onto the galactic population, succeeded by the initial Thargoid skirmishes, and eventually the insurgent [[Goat Soup Syntax Rupture]] attack on the Mainframe. Finally the ''Post-Rupture Aftermath'' arrives that marked the beginning of the ''Age of Inanity'', along with the coinciding escalation of Thargoid attacks.
 Which brings us to the moment a player begins a new game.
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 ==Footnotes==
 <small>
-*[[#Red flags|1 &uarr;]]. As [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
+*[[#Red flags|a &uarr;]]. As [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
 :# w0 (16 bits)
 :# w1 (16 bits)

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-<p>The following text was written ''at least'' 20 years too late. I would have loved to have cooked it up in my ''Elite'' years around 1985-87, probably even more if I had thought of it during the genesis days of ''Oolite'' 2004-06, but I didn't. When it eventually popped up, so much later, it was still from a frame of mind of a "blank slate" player, reluctant, maybe even ''afraid'', to take on much of all the modernity that was now available. Maybe these thoughts come from that, and it couldn't have been written earlier? <p>This is set is far from the world of 20+ years since the birth of ''Oolite'', now rich in progress with more than a thousand of game-advancing OXPs, teeming with spacecraft crafted in the smooth and luscious ([[PROHIP]]) style. It is back to the basic beginning, when the skeleton was still visible. The raw math was exposed, the ships were crude geometric shapes, the text was generated by a wacky formula..<p>It is hard to imagine someone now, booting up ''Oolite'' with no or few OXPs, and deciding to take in the full 8-bit game experience that it was, confronting the game in that nearly "analog" state of mind. But you never know, sometimes revolutions come full circle.
+<p>The following text was written ''at least'' 20 years too late. I would have loved to have cooked it up in my ''Elite'' years around 1985-87, probably even more if I had thought of it during the genesis days of ''Oolite'' 2004-06, but I didn't. When it eventually popped up, so much later, it was still from a frame of mind of a "blank slate" player, reluctant, maybe even ''afraid'', to take on much of all the modernity that was now available. Maybe these thoughts come from that, and it couldn't have been written earlier? <p>This is set is far from the world of 20+ years since the birth of ''Oolite'', now rich in progress with more than a thousand of game-advancing OXPs, teeming with spacecraft shaped in the smooth and luscious ([[PROHIP]]) style. It is back to the basic beginning, when the skeleton was still visible. The raw math was exposed, the ships were crude geometric shapes, the text was generated by a wacky formula..<p>It is hard to imagine someone now, booting up ''Oolite'' with no or few OXPs, and deciding to take in the full 8-bit game experience that it was, confronting the game in that nearly "analog" state of mind. But you never know, sometimes revolutions come full circle.
 |}
 :::::<blockquote>'''''"Where are the people saying that they should stick to the original lore?  And which original lore, anyway, since it's not like anyone agrees on what that is..."'''''<p>[[User:Cim|Cim]], <small><sup>[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=284016#p284016  May 05, 2022]</small></sup></blockquote>
 ==Overview==
 Some narrative ideas are difficult to reconcile with the established "schools" of ''[[Elite]]'' (and ''[[Oolite]]'') [[lore]]. If the ''Syncretist'' concepts repel, and the ''Pragmatist'' approach only provide dissatisfaction, the type of stories that spring from the root narrative of ''Elite'' are left to fall into the ''Purist'' realm.
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 :''Main article: [[The Brutalist Axiom]]''
-The '''''Brutalist Axiom''''' details the broad-strokes timeline from humanity's largely inefficient pre-Reform era ''"the Sprawl"'', through ''the Era of Standardization'' triggered by the activation of the [[GalCop Central Mainframe]]. Then follows the various uncompromising [[The Great Standardization|excisions]] and [[Structural Reform Act|reforms]] that it implemented onto the galactic population, succeeded by the initial Thargoid skirmishes, and eventually the insurgent [[Goat Soup Syntax Rupture]] attack on the Mainframe, the ''Post-Rupture Aftermath'' that marked the beginning of the ''Age of Inanity'', and coinciding escalation of Thargoid attacks.
+The '''''Brutalist Axiom''''' details the broad-strokes timeline from humanity's largely inefficient pre-Reform era ''"the Sprawl"'', through ''the Era of Standardization'' triggered by the activation of the [[GalCop Central Mainframe]]. Then follows the various uncompromising [[The Great Standardization|excisions]] and [[Structural Reform Act|reforms]] that it implemented onto the galactic population, succeeded by the initial Thargoid skirmishes, and eventually the insurgent [[Goat Soup Syntax Rupture]] attack on the Mainframe. Finally the ''Post-Rupture Aftermath'' arrives that marked the beginning of the ''Age of Inanity'', along with the coinciding escalation of Thargoid attacks.
 Which brings us to the moment a player begins a new game.

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 :::::<blockquote>'''''"Where are the people saying that they should stick to the original lore?  And which original lore, anyway, since it's not like anyone agrees on what that is..."'''''<p>[[User:Cim|Cim]], <small><sup>[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=284016#p284016  May 05, 2022]</small></sup></blockquote>
 ==Overview==
 Some narrative ideas are difficult to reconcile with the established "schools" of ''[[Elite]]'' (and ''[[Oolite]]'') [[lore]]. If the ''Syncretist'' concepts repel, and the ''Pragmatist'' approach only provide dissatisfaction, the type of stories that spring from the root narrative of ''Elite'' are left to fall into the ''Purist'' realm.
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 The ''Purist'' makes sense of the Elite game data by absorbing all of it: lobsters, edible poets, unusual mating traditions and all, the yield of the clever maths of [[Ian Bell|Bell]]&[[David Braben|Braben]] that pushed the available technology of its times to its limits. Even more so years on and veiled in nostalgia, a uniquely eccentric curio to be digested.
-But if the willingness to digest the curio balks at the game's outset, the mind maybe no longer adhering to ''Purism''. If your instinct says that the data itself feels corrupted, censored or artificially engineered, and feels in complete conflict with its intent, it could be said that it is ''anti-purism'', or '''''IronAss Brutalism'''''.
+But if the willingness to digest the curio balks at the game's outset, the mind maybe no longer adhering to ''Purism''. If your instinct says that the data itself feels corrupted, censored or artificially engineered, and feels in complete conflict with its intent, it could be said that it is ''anti-purism'', or '''''Iron Ass Brutalism'''''.
 To the '''''Brutalist''''', the whimsical elements of the presented universe are unnatural; they are glitches in a deficient simulation. The tapestry of disinformation, distortions, and deliberate omissions should themselves be interpreted as literally as any flight manual.
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 Where the rational ''Purist'' thinks,
 *''"The universe is weird, so I must find a scientific explanation for the weirdness to make it feel real"''
-The '''''IronAss Brutalist''''' thinks,
+The '''''Iron Ass Brutalist''''' thinks,
 *''"The universe is weird because the machine controlling it is broken or evil. The weirdness is the story."''
 The rational ''Purist'' might say,
 *''"There's no right way to play this game, you have the freedom to roam forth and discover any way you like.."''
-The '''''IronAss Brutalist''''' says,
+The '''''Iron Ass Brutalist''''' says,
 *''"That's what they <u>want</u> you to think!"''
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 This creates a story universe full of absurd concepts.
-Attempting to navigate such a story universe from a perspective of "gritty realism" is a dark, dystopic proposition. This is the '''''IronAss Brutalist''''' mindset.
+Attempting to navigate such a story universe from a perspective of "gritty realism" is a dark, dystopic proposition. This is the '''''Iron Ass Brutalist''''' mindset.
 ==Footnotes==
 <small>
-*[[#Red flags|1]]. As [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
+*[[#Red flags|1 &uarr;]]. As [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=279948#p279948 described] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]], the original BBC Micro assembly code (and preserved in Oolite’s <code>Universe.m</code> / <code>Universe.js</code>), the state of the universe is determined by a seed, a structure composed of three 16-bit integers (words).
 :# w0 (16 bits)
 :# w1 (16 bits)

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-:::::<blockquote>''"Where are the people saying that they should stick to the original lore? And which original lore, anyway, since it's not like anyone agrees on what that is..."''<p>[[User:Cim|Cim]], <small><sup>[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=284016#p284016  May 05, 2022]</small></sup></blockquote>
+:::::<blockquote>'''''"Where are the people saying that they should stick to the original lore?  And which original lore, anyway, since it's not like anyone agrees on what that is..."'''''<p>[[User:Cim|Cim]], <small><sup>[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=284016#p284016  May 05, 2022]</small></sup></blockquote>
 ==Overview==
 Some narrative ideas are difficult to reconcile with the established "schools" of ''[[Elite]]'' (and ''[[Oolite]]'') [[lore]]. If the ''Syncretist'' concepts repel, and the ''Pragmatist'' approach only provide dissatisfaction, the type of stories that spring from the root narrative of ''Elite'' are left to fall into the ''Purist'' realm.

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 :# w1 (16 bits)
 :# w2 (16 bits)
-::3 x 16 bits = 48 bits, 2<sup>48</sup> = 281,474,976,710,656, therefore over 281.4 '''trillion''' more possible systems than the intentional 2048 we're given.
+::3 x 16 bits = 48 bits, 2<sup>48</sup> = 281,474,976,710,656, a formula capable of generating over 281.4 '''trillion''' possible different galactic charts.
 </small>

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 Some narrative ideas are difficult to reconcile with the established "schools" of ''[[Elite]]'' (and ''[[Oolite]]'') [[lore]]. If the ''Syncretist'' concepts repel, and the ''Pragmatist'' approach only provide dissatisfaction, the type of stories that spring from the root narrative of ''Elite'' are left to fall into the ''Purist'' realm.
-But at what point does a sub-branch of ''Purism'' germinate to a schism, and defect to an offshoot of its own, or even merit the suffixes of an ''-ist'' or an ''-ism''? These are the presumptuous seeds of the ''anti-purist'' and "rebooted" '''''Brutalist''''' paradigm.
+But at what point does a sub-branch of ''Purism'' germinate to a schism, and defect to an offshoot of its own, or even merit the suffixes of an ''-ist'' and ''-ism''? These are the presumptuous seeds of the '''''Brutalist''''' paradigm caught in a wind blowing an opposite direction.
 ==Divergence==
-To make sense of the ''Elite'' universe, we are given the peculiar game data, alongside [[Robert Holdstock|Holdstock]]'s ''[[The Dark Wheel]]'' and ''[[The Space Traders Flight Training Manual]]'' to make of it what we wish.  We decide what we take at face value, and some certainly have reservation about the information offered by Holdstock.
+To make sense of the ''Elite'' universe, we are given the peculiar boot-up game data, alongside [[Robert Holdstock|Holdstock]]'s ''[[The Dark Wheel]]'' and ''[[The Space Traders Flight Training Manual]]'' to make of it what we want.  We decide what to take at face value, and some certainly have objections to the information supplied by Holdstock.
-The ''Purist'' makes sense of the Elite game data by accepting it all. Lobsters, edible poets, unusual mating traditions and all, the wonderfully clever maths of [[Ian Bell|Bell]]&[[David Braben|Braben]] that pushed the technology of its day to the limits provide the whimsical world-reality that is there to accept..
+The ''Purist'' makes sense of the Elite game data by absorbing all of it: lobsters, edible poets, unusual mating traditions and all, the yield of the clever maths of [[Ian Bell|Bell]]&[[David Braben|Braben]] that pushed the available technology of its times to its limits. Even more so years on and veiled in nostalgia, a uniquely eccentric curio to be digested.
-But if the information you are willing to accept diverges before any of that, it is no longer ''Purism''. If your instinct says that the data itself feels corrupted, censored or artificially engineered, it is ''anti-purism'' or '''''IronAss Brutalism'''''.
+But if the willingness to digest the curio balks at the game's outset, the mind maybe no longer adhering to ''Purism''. If your instinct says that the data itself feels corrupted, censored or artificially engineered, and feels in complete conflict with its intent, it could be said that it is ''anti-purism'', or '''''IronAss Brutalism'''''.
-To the '''''Brutalist''''', the whimsical elements of the presented universe are unnatural; they are glitches in a failing simulation. The tapestry of disinformation, distortions, and deliberate omissions should be interpreted as literally as any flight manual.
+To the '''''Brutalist''''', the whimsical elements of the presented universe are unnatural; they are glitches in a deficient simulation. The tapestry of disinformation, distortions, and deliberate omissions should themselves be interpreted as literally as any flight manual.
 ===Red flags===
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 The '''''Brutalist''''' breaks it down like this:
-GalCop was an ineffective governing body until it built a machine to help them be better at it. The machine analyzed the chaotic, inadequate human endeavours of the galaxy and went to work. It shaped its dominion into mathematical symmetry and utilitarian structure to achieve its objectives. Its success was certain, by moving with great speed to stun its subjects, and appeal to its subjects' greed to seal the transformation.
+GalCop was an ineffective governing body until it built a machine to help them be better at it. The machine analyzed the chaotic, inadequate human endeavours of the galaxy and went to work. It shaped its dominion into mathematical symmetry and utilitarian geometric structure by law to achieve its objectives. Its success was certain, by moving with great speed to stun its subjects, and appeal to its subjects' greed to seal the transformation.
 This creates a story universe constricted into mathematical order.