Caspardian
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2011.03.06 18:25:00 -
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Very interesting. I've played EVE for about a year now, and I read this the day it came out, but I just finished a three week long endeavor of reading every chronicle.
I have to say, with the exception of a few early ones, they were all very excellent. However, even though it was fun to read, this one seems out of place.
There have been strange goings-on with this universe before, such as the possibility of Sarum having telekinetic power. But this (to me, anyway) is the one that pushes furthest into the more mystical realm of EVE.
REALLY LONG, PROBABLY ERROR-RIDDEN ANALYSIS WHICH MAKES VERY GOOD USE OF RUN-ON SENTENCES:
In my opinion, it is absolutely clear that this "book" is a product of the Jove or first-generation New Eden inhabitants, since Skar saw Black Mountain, a thing which was also seen when using a piece technology created by the Jove back in the Black Mountain chronicle series. Sure, it could be a mathematical and/or literary method of messing with the human brain, but the fact that this book is mentioned in Amarrian scripture makes this book seem paranormal to me, because that means the book is really ****ing old, and could possibly be so old as to have been around since humans first came through the EVE Gate, since Amarrian religion is based on scripture from that time. If humans at that time had such an intimate understanding of the human psychology, why is it that such knowledge as the BoE was not so prevalent as to have survived as common knowledge with the Jove to the present day? It's clear the Jove had lost this info, and considering the dark age they went through could not have been anywhere near as terrible as the one the rest of the Empires went through... well, it's very curious that the BoE could have been lost at all, and if it had been lost, to have not been buried so deeply as to have been never discovered again.
Pure speculation: I am seeing some interesting parallels between the symptoms of Jovian disease and the results of reading the BoE. Perhaps the depression seen in the disease is actually the effects of the BoE being mistaken for depression, though I don't know how Jovians who haven't read the book could gain the symptoms. Perhaps the genetic code which was damaged is what keeps the mind from falling into disorder. - - - - - - And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust...
Dang, I really need to stop losing ships. |