I made a little more progress on Daphne’s Chapter 4, but the main thing I did yesterday was resolve a problem with the Tellus Arc timeline that had been bugging me for a while now. You see, there’s a character who is born after the events of the Trident War Chronicles, but to fit in where I need him, I had to send him back in time. However, I don’t want to deal with all the attendant mess of time travel, so I decided to take the events of the Trident War and push them back ten years. This meant that not only the timeline and encyclopedia needed to be adjusted, but also the character database and dozens of other supplemental files. Some characters were pushed back to accommodate the shift and others were kept in place and became ten years younger. Obviously this doesn’t mean much for particularly long-lived species, but now Solon doesn’t reach quite as ripe of an old age (but 72 is still pretty impressive for the equivalent of the 5th Century AD), for instance.

You might be asking, “Why go to all this trouble for one event?” Well, the Tellus Arc timeline is synchronized to Earth’s history. The consequences would be much more far-reaching if I shifted the alignment with Earth, so all the work I did was the least I could do to resolve the splinter in my mind that is timey-wimey rubbish.

So, yeah, this is where my thoroughly detailed peripheral materials can work against me. Still, it’s better to have them than not.

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