How do you deal with published textual inaccuracies? Dates that don't match up or something that's just impossible given other lore... is there a certain priority of what is more important to keep in the canon?asked by Vic
TL;DRResolving inaccuracies is a priority; when published text contradicted internal lore recently, they kept the internal lore, and they expect to keep doing this, hoping the Galactapedia will be the final word.
It is absolutely a priority of what's more important to keep. This is a very well timed question, because just last week we noticed - Adam noticed - that there were some published textual inaccuracies concerning a system of planets that contradicted the recorded lore that we have behind the scenes, and we had to engage in a discussion amongst all of us to determine what would be the right one to keep. In this instance, we decided it would be better to keep with the internal lore, because an astrophysicist helped develop this, and so we want things to be just as accurate as they possibly can be for you, and so we went with this choice. And this is the kind of process that we expect to continually engage in in the future, if we spot any more of these innacuracies again. And in my vision, again, I would like for the galactepida to be considered the final word when it's published, and I have a few ideas on how this'll play out. So. Stay tuned for that.
There's so much lore out there, part of, that's one of the main reasons Cherie's here, and why i'm here, is to scour what we have internally, and what we've published to you backers, so that we understand what we have and where we're going and everything like that, and it's, it's a task, and sometimes things slip through the cracks. And that's why we're here, as part of the lore team, is to catch those things, and make sure we do have a process to solve that problem for when the game does go live, and the galactapedia goes live.