Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25890179-20180123054836

Since you haven't been on our usual thread for some time, but have made some changes to things I've written, I feel I must ask you this here.

First of all, I'm not being confrontational here. Some of your edits do contribute to the story, but some are rather...well, odd, and I'm not so much angry as rather confused. I'll try to break it down here.

The biggest "problem" I have with your edits is this sudden introduction of the Hive of Mirus. That was a real ninja edit; I didn't even notice until just now. Now, I don't actually have a problem with the Hive, and was thinking just yesterday about asking you for creative control over them, so I could sort of resurrect them and have Chantal leave at least one lasting legacy on this wiki. The big issue I have is the sudden introduction of the Hive as one of the major founding members of the Ultramirusians. Now as I said, the Hive being part of the empire isn't the problem, its that there are dozens of empires who merged to form the Ultramirusians, but the Nothosuars, Quislings, and Mesocampians were by far the most powerful and the ones I intended to put the most emphasis on, so adding the Hive in kind of throws that off. So basically Zeleke can easily be a founding member, but like the Empire from Star Wars, or really any evil empire in fiction or real life, his empire and culture wouldn't be as highly prominent as you make it out to be since there are several empires as big or bigger than his who still receive little attention in my article.

That brings me to my next point, which is that you've added references to things that just aren't part of my empires' stories. Yes, I've heard of the Tyranny, their Overseers, and the Skittering Annihilators, but as you know I've had absolutely nothing to do with the wars and stories written about them, and I've never once mentioned them in any of my fiction. Until yesterday when I read the trial part of Demogorgon Prime, I didn't even known they were native to Mirus. I don't really see a problem with them basing their armor on Tyranny designs, it just felt a bit weird. The Crystalline Hive on the other hand, hell, I've never even heard of those things!

Also, kicking the Nothosaurs out of the Speartip and into the Dysbridge so you can put the Hive of Mirus there... just, why? Its unnecessary and a little bit rude. The Hive of Mirus wasn't on the map you made that I reference every time I settle a new fiction, so the Speartip was to my knowledge unclaimed and I had no way of knowing you intended to put the Hive there. I wouldn't normally care, except that I put the Nothosaurs there for a reason, and had that location marked on the map of Ultramirusian territory I made, which would be very hard to change now due to the shitty paint program I use. You could have just put the Hive in the Dysbridge.

With that grim point out of the way, I can say that one edit I do like is making the Matriarchy an enemy, which I did notice earlier and wrote some plot about it. For one thing its given me an excuse to use those former Unitech archons that Fenric freed from Deephold. I don't have a problem with the relation changes you made, and I rather look forward to more development on the Matriarchy-Ultramirusian rivalry.

The only other things I feel I should mention are that the Ultramirusians never invade the Congregation, and that its just "UME", not "the UME". Just a small grammatical error you made, no big deal.

Like I said, I'm not angry with you. I would just appreciate some collaboration on the changes you make rather than you making edits I don't notice until a day later. I sincerely hope you and I can develop some of the ideas you've added, but in a manner that blends seamlessly into the rest of the narrative. In the meantime, I'm going to smooth over some of your edits, but I'll keep as much as I can.

I hope that didn't all seem like a big imposing lecture to you, and I'm sure we can settle this as amicably as we settled the ICO rewrites. Peace. 