Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25890179-20180123054836/@comment-4960835-20180123094238

First off, great that you clear that up. No, this doesn't sound like abig imposing lecture. I've got abolsutely nothing against you smoothing over my edits and in fact I prefer it. No one knowns your own fiction better than you yourself, after all.

First off, I want you to know that I did not originally plan to make the Hive part of UME. This only happened after I read the astrography of UME and only then realised that the Speartip was not at all uninhabitated before you placed the Nothosaurs there: given the description Chantal gave of their location (the end of an arm), they could only ever be located in the Speartip, the DT and Xonexi being where they were. The reason I had not realised that sooner was because there was still an anti-Chantal backlash going on at the time I made the map of Mirus -thus I left the Hive out- and after that I forgot about them althogether.

Now the Hive predates UME, giving the Hive location priority on the map. So yes, I could have placed the Hive in the Dysbridge, but then that would create the even bigger problem of the Hive not being were Chantal indicated them to be before the Northosaurs were even a thing. Since I did not want to cut out a part of UME's territory, I instead went for the -what I assumed was the most reasonable- solution of moving the Nothosaurs by the smallest possible amount (which still places them in the Dysbridge as the Hive control the entirety of their Sector according to Chantal) and adding the Hive as a member of UME (causing UME to maintain control of the Speartip) which I thought would create a win-win situation as this means the UME effectively grew a little bit stronger. In short, that was an emergecy edit and needless to say, it does not mean that I in any way implicate overship over UME or anything akin to that, merely that I did not seek to harm UME in any way. That said, I honestly don't care about how prominent the Hive is in it. This thing was about preventing UME from suddenly getting a lot smaller and creating a win-win situation instead of making the Hive all-important.

The references to the Imperium of War and the Tyranny were made because, well, these guys were quite frankly a lot more frightening than the Aeba Shuka and Blood Brothers have ever been. The latter two were rebels. The former two have, at various points in time, nearly conquered the entire Enlightenment Collaborative. It is only smart for Durrandon reference their design elements in UME's own. He doesn't even have to he -as- advanced as them: the implications are there and will thus truly cause his foes to shit their pants - at least in the very beginning. Simply using Aeba Shuka/BB armor designs won't do that since they never really endangered the EC. To be honest with you, I wasn't really certain about the CrH reference myself, as only the Raptoraneans briefly encountered them when they first launched a -failed- colonisation attempt into Andromeda and I thus considered that to be too vague myself. I fact I was planning to delete that part today.

I want the MTC in because they have had nothing to do in ages and I can't use the Waptoria in their current, divided, state - which I have nothing against. Feel free to use those Unitech guys, I have no problems with that either, although it should be noted that under the current scheme Cerebellum is on the Queen of Thorns' side (quite to the annoyance of Cerebrum, whom I plan on being one of the resistance leaders in place of Oji'b, who is retired).

As an aside, I plan on updating the main map again in about two weeks and will add UME then.