Pay close attention to the spelling of the book's title.

The Pax Amarria is a popular, legal, and much praised book. It has gone through many revisions and such, like a college textbook I assume. Or more like The Bible's many versions.

The 62nd edition of the Pax Amarria is the one that contained the typo. "Pax Ammaria" (two Ms) is the one the Ordinators hunt down and destroy. It's also the one we're being given as a gift.

Morwen's news link refers to one of the legal and normal versions of the book, not the heretical typo version.

Yes, but look at the date that it was published.

Whereas the Pax Amarria was published in real-life year 2003.

Pay close attention to the chronicle, Katrina.

It's not the 62nd edition. It's the edition from YC62.

That's forty-three years before the book was published in the first place.

The fact that there is a 62nd annual edition assumes that the book must have been written at least 62 years ago. If that goes against previously established lore, consider it a retcon I guess. You could also consider that there may have been several revisions right after release, like patches to a video game.

And here is the news post that announces the book's publishing.

There's something screwy here...

So it is, therefore, unsurprising that GalNet hosts several distinct, distributed (and GÇô naturally GÇô ideologically opposed) communities whose sole interest is the print history of Heideran's Book. The Theology Council will declaim that Heideran's word is inviolable and unchanging, but the Paxistas (as they are derisively labelled by the wider print-history metacommunity) will quietly but insistently explain, in quite excruciating detail, the history of minor edits and corrections that "their" book has endured over the years.

I think CCP is trolling. Not sure if intentional or not.

Heideran Vii ruled for 300 years he could have writen the Pax at any time during his reign . In the 62Pax chroincle it say that it was at that time printed by the Court Chamberlain's personal press, but no info who released it.

So we can safely assumes that the news item siply refere to the fact that the Ministry of Infomation now publishes the book and untill that time it was published in much smaller numbers along side other obscure religious texts.

The more likely reason is that Abraxas wasn't thinking about dates when he wrote the chronicle. He was thinking about more interesting and amusing stuff like the fact that there's a freaking inquisition against a book typo.

Theres an easy fix to this, and thats to change it to the 62nd printing of the book, published sometime after 2003, rather than having it published in YC62, many years prior to the actual writing of the book.

This chron is ****, and makes the entire EVE IP look like ****.

(Arguably it is at this point, so it's truth in advertising?)

However, since the fiction is dead apart from the occasional demands of the marketing department, I shouldn't get upset at the desecration of a corpse.

are there any ones that explicitly say this is the first and only version of the Pax?

where is the amarr emperor?
2003.09.08 17:31:31
Since emperor Heideran VII failed to attend a CONCORD meeting the other day there has been no signs of him anywhere. All plans for his public appearance have been cancelled, including many book signings of his new book, Pax Amarria. News from the Amarrian authorities have been conflicting, with offices of the Imperial Chamberlain saying he's resting from a slight ailment, while the Imperial Chancellor says he's on a vacation at one of his remote palaces and does not want to be disturbed. The rumor-mill is already at full speed as could be expected and speculations are ripe.

I'd had some general plans for the Pax Amarria anyway, and this slotted so neatly into that that I glossed over it.

Four new chronicles with Crucible - which is after the content department got whittled down and everybody took on double work duty - one new off-expansion chronicle now, more planned for Inferno, new events and a FF roundtable to match, a new CCP-created lore wiki with over a thousand new articles (not to mention a ton of new material, and more being published with every expansion), and a FF roundtable that involved me and Gnauton - the surviving members of the fiction team- outlining a strategy that includes more of the same, plus impending newsposts, thematic plans, and other new things. None of which, I should add, Marketing had any stake in, though we're having tons of fun working with them on other projects that include things like the Fanfest cinematic trailer.

...plus impending newsposts...

By the way (very off-topic, sorry about that).... a big hand to Lyn Farel and the her New Eden global political roster.

A brilliant piece of work.

In a old thread I played with a simpler variation of this idea. Consider the the left-right axis as economic collectivism vs economic individualism and the up-down axis as social liberty.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Gallente=5.0%2C-5.0&Caldari=5.0%2C5.0&Minmatar=-5.0%2C-5.0&Amarr=-5.0%2C5.0&CONCORD=0.0%2C0.0&SOE=-5.0%2C0.0&INTERBUS=5.0%2C0.0&Sansha=0.0%2c9.0&DED=0.0%2c5.0&Serpentis=0.0%2c-7.5