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[cassandra]

[UPDATE] Perplex City Academy - Museum, War info - Nov 4

[[PCGF]Jay]

Oh bloody hell, now I have to change the DATES too?!?!

Back to the drawing board. Unless someone is willing to fiddle with the dates.

Please?

[Atrophied]

I'm sure a lot (if not all) of it is new, but cannot find the original text...

wait.. google cache rocks...

[Tufty]

For info, as I'm sure most people know about this, but BriEnigma hosts a PXC mirror site (which I use very regualrly as everything is blocked from work!).

[tanner]

so its as we specced ages ago -- they were a bunch of war criminals who destroyed whole cities --- no wonder they wish to forget (out of ancestral guilt).

should we all hit the sentinel with emails asking why a bunch of descendants of war criminals should be daring to criticise earth folks?

[[PCGF]Jay]

Go on. I'll bet they just bat an eyelid and try to come up with some rubbish cutting remark

Hmm, that gives me an idea

[Juxta]

Well...slight brain overload (drip feed us info for months, then open the floodgates - I know your game! *shakefist*)

Perplex City had four neighbouring cities (City-states? If they were at war with them, it would point towards that) which were erased from the face of...erm, I'd say the globe, but with the alternate reality-ness, it might well be a cube that they live upon. The war itself lasted seventy years - that is one heck of a time to be fighting, unless...spec ahoy!

The war lasted 70 years - for a society of the social and technological level of Perplex City (or indeed Earth) this would be unimaginable, us delightful humans have simply become better at killing or subjugating each other faster and faster over the course of the development of our "civilisation". Therefore, speculating completely, PerplexCity's reality was at the point of the war, far less technologically advanced than it is now - maybe feudal (to draw a parallel with Earth), tying in with the city-states guess.

Seventy years is still a heck of a long time, even for a war of attrition such as this one seems to have been, but until we get any more information about the nature of it, my spec is just about spent. I'd guess that the appearance/discovery of the Receda Cube was the key moment, which turned the tide in favour of Perplex City - and by the sounds of things, utterly devastated their enemies.

Loathe as I am to label our new found Cube chasing buddies as "War criminals", the theory about ancestral guilt might actually be bang on the money - certainly the 180 degree about-face to a peaceful society, placing intellectual and aesthetic values above all others would indicate that.

J

[locqust]

If they are all alone it does explain a few things, like why only 3 million or so watch the games (such a low population density) But it does make you wonder why they havent spread out or rebuilt the destroyed areas in their own image, perhaps as some1 suggested before, its all radioactive or desert wasteland.....

[Atrophied]

[Juxta]

Interesting idea - and I'm not referring to Earth conflict at all here - but I hadn't considered that it could have been an ongoing "dispute", rather than an all out military campaign - it just struck me as being a large scale affair, rather then something smaller, which dragged on for decades, and then suddenly was ended (by the Cube, at a guess) - but I'm just speculating.

J

[cassandra]

Perplex City does, in fact, seem to have expanded widely. However, guilt (and perhaps nuclear aftereffects) probably prevented the Perplexians from developing other former city-state kingdoms. Also, whether it's a defensive or offensive war should be taken into consideration.

I can't decide whether PXC developed extremely advanced AI and weapon technology independently and in a reasonable historic progression -- or whether, around 226 BC, a foreign humanoid or AI race came to PXC via space travel (remember that excavation? and spaceport parked link?) with their new technologies and ultimately assimilated into the City (I'm currently thinking of these invaders as the Third Power, though I believe almost all of the Cube-holders derive from this group). Conflict ensued within the City until the accords of 172 BC. Then, perhaps, the Third Power/PXC population desired more power/resources, or perhaps the other city-states attacked them in fear for the state of humanity. The end of the War resulted in vast devastation, then in the exile of the Third Power and societal refusal to employ any more of the foreign technology. This is mirrored in the Academy split (between those who followed the Third Power party? and the antiwar faction, maybe - anyway, the Conservatoire issue), the failing economy, and the strange rise of the (seeming-normal) leader Vianne Adamek - who I believe was Third Power. Enough technology (and the inevitable evolution of scientific thought), however, remained in widespread use to boost Perplexian society until they reached their present state. Hence the modern horror of the nightmare creatures, the Third Power.

If the cultures back then didn't have access to high-speed transport, it makes perfect sense that a war or conflict would take decades, especially if obliteration of a people is part of the strategy.

Thus ends my spec for this post. But I like my theory.

[Scott]

[Scott]

Oh, hm, I see a minor fFlaw in this latest academy update. the year is referred to as 0AC, where as it is usually referred to as 0BC. Effectively the year could simply be "0", neither AC nor BC. so it can just as well be both AC and BC.

My speculation: BC and AC refers to "Before Cataclysm" and "After Cataclysm"

[WolverineFan]

[locqust]

dont remember the spaceport link, what was that about again?
I have a few theories about the cube and the symbols associated with the different cults, and if what I'm thinking about this "spaceport" is right could probably confirm cassandra's spec