Metafiction: Dialogues on the Lore of Xlite

[user2357]

Then it sounds just like real life to me, ergodic, self-defining and contradictory as it might be. ...and yet we still insist it it merely a game. ...a simulation...

[Cholmondely]

<chortles> Good luck with that!

Cody: You might just want to check that I'm not taking your name in vain in this and the following discussion!

Just had a natter with Cody.

He was saying that he had argued here some time ago for Oolite-specific lore (and that his fiction was supposed to be a move in this direction).

That the lore that came with Classic Elite was wrong - (Holdstock invented all sorts of things not in the game, and he was a fantasy writer, not a science fiction writer).

And that the lore created by Drew and others, based on Elite or even Frontier, was needlessly including all this stuff (eg: the Dark Wheel/Raxxla) not in the game of Oolite.

(There are of course many OXPs which re-introduce the lore from Elite/Frontier directly back into Oolite.)



Reference: Lore