Simple question as I noticed this straight off the bat. The dates listed for major events in the TC: Aeon book are noticeably different from the original.
Now I understand changing the Nova/Aberrant era timeline dates as we're now in 2020 instead of 1999 ... but the Aeon Trinity era is so far into the future that it shouldn't matter what the dates are. Yet, they are changed.
- First contact with the Qin: 2107 (first ed) vs 2108 (second ed)
- Qin embassy on Luna: 2108 vs 2109
- The Chitra Bhana Purge: 2109 vs 2111
- First contact with the Chromatics: 2113 vs 2115
- Fall of the Esperanza and disappearance of the Upeo Wa Macho: 2114 vs 2120 and 2116. Okay, this one really pisses me off. One of the big mysteries in the original Aeon was that the Upeo Wa Macho disappeared the very same day as the attack on the Esperanza. When the other orders started to push an attack on the Teleporters' base, the teleporters suddenly received alarming distress calls about the disaster in orbit ... and Proxy Atwan told them to ignore it because she was certain it was a ploy to draw out the Teleporters. It was only years later that they discovered the horrible truth about what happened, and it's this truth that is causing a lot of strife within that order that is questioning Atwan's leadership. Why the @#$%^ was this changed?? Even the 2nd edition states that the Esperanza disaster is eroding at her leadership, but that doesn't make so much sense as the Esperanza disaster happened a full four years after they left Earth. Unless you go by the idea that some Teleporters kept tabs on Earth and hence were aware of the attack happening.
So yeah ... what's the deal here? Did the devs explain why the timelines between first and second edition are so different during the Aeon era? I have pretty much all of the original edition printed books, all with rich history and information. And now it's making me question how much of that to use in any new game because of all the disparities between the two editions.
Out of curiousity, how are you folks handling this?
Now I understand changing the Nova/Aberrant era timeline dates as we're now in 2020 instead of 1999 ... but the Aeon Trinity era is so far into the future that it shouldn't matter what the dates are. Yet, they are changed.
- First contact with the Qin: 2107 (first ed) vs 2108 (second ed)
- Qin embassy on Luna: 2108 vs 2109
- The Chitra Bhana Purge: 2109 vs 2111
- First contact with the Chromatics: 2113 vs 2115
- Fall of the Esperanza and disappearance of the Upeo Wa Macho: 2114 vs 2120 and 2116. Okay, this one really pisses me off. One of the big mysteries in the original Aeon was that the Upeo Wa Macho disappeared the very same day as the attack on the Esperanza. When the other orders started to push an attack on the Teleporters' base, the teleporters suddenly received alarming distress calls about the disaster in orbit ... and Proxy Atwan told them to ignore it because she was certain it was a ploy to draw out the Teleporters. It was only years later that they discovered the horrible truth about what happened, and it's this truth that is causing a lot of strife within that order that is questioning Atwan's leadership. Why the @#$%^ was this changed?? Even the 2nd edition states that the Esperanza disaster is eroding at her leadership, but that doesn't make so much sense as the Esperanza disaster happened a full four years after they left Earth. Unless you go by the idea that some Teleporters kept tabs on Earth and hence were aware of the attack happening.
So yeah ... what's the deal here? Did the devs explain why the timelines between first and second edition are so different during the Aeon era? I have pretty much all of the original edition printed books, all with rich history and information. And now it's making me question how much of that to use in any new game because of all the disparities between the two editions.
Out of curiousity, how are you folks handling this?
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