Was the outcome of the vote on May 3rd determined by the polls in the articles? What role are these polls playing in determining events in the persistent universe, if any, or do they serve a different purpose?asked by Eschatos

Now for those, I know not everyone stays up to date with the lore but this past, recent Tuesday May 3, is the official election day in the UEE and the weeks and months leading up to that we've been kind of running a snippet of a campaign that was occurring in the Elysium system, where Suj Kossi who it was the first Tavarian to ever seriously run for a senate position in the UEE. So , we were kind of tracking that over the past few months, dropping hints about it and over the past month we've kind of gone pretty hard on showing everyone the ins and outs of that race and the different candidates in it.That includes a poll which was I think a few weeks prior, it was just supposed to... it was written in kind of like this is a poll you would normally send to kind of citizens of a world and asking them their thoughts on a wide variety of questions. Many of you did vote in that and to be quite honest, much like the poll we did on the Polo Initiative a few months ago, we did absolutely take into consideration the way everyone voted and it's something we plan to continue to do and hope to continue to do.We love the participation that you guys give in your responses or in the kind of like role playing that sometimes occurs on the forums or even in the comment thread of the post. So yeah, it's not just something we're doing for the sake of doing it, we're actually looking at how you respond we're taking that into consideration and I know some things have even adjusted because of the way you have voted. Sometimes we have ideas of where we want to take something but we see how you vote and we're like, 'huh, that's interesting to see people concerned about this or kind of focused on that or arguing for this'.It's definitely something we like to do and it's definitely something we want to more because anytime we can get you coming in and, you know, being a part of this world with us, it just makes it a better and richer environment for us to create in. So, it's pretty cool and lot of fun to do.

That's the best part is like talking to everybody and seeing how everybody interacts and kind of making the universe live with the actual citizens, you know, and the subscribers and everything. It makes it fun and it makes it a world.

This process it's something where no one person is creating this, we're all a part of this and it's all bigger than what's immediately at your hands. So, you fans are part of that process so having your input in polls and votes is from our perspective just extremely valuable and awesome on our front.

Let's not have a Tavarian for president, that's blasphemy.

We'll have to see.

It has to be human. Screw those guys.