...So in other words, they get a nook and actually take care and achieve all paper documents to preserve them. THEN assassinate all writers in the galaxy?
Hm, an addendum. I believe the name of the actual library in itself should be something simple englishlike -- The Archive, Codex, The Catalog, etc. As it is meant to be a universal library, I figure that it should be a fairly accessible name to all languages, conceptually. The name of the organization should also be fairly simple. Let's assume for convenience a/some human scholar(s) got there first so we can utilize the Latin because I'm an language nut. Let me spout out some. The overused, if awesome sounding 'Veritas' - truth. 'Naratio'/'Memoria' /'Historia' - Narration/Recollection/History (Archives of Memoria is the name of another server though.) 'Echo' - A recollection of what once was, an image reflected back at you. A pun on the classic phrase: 'Fabula rasa', or 'a blank story' How about this, actually, I just came up with it: The Library organization is actually called the Vades Mecum. (Meaning we can have even more meta puns -- the Library outposts being the Vades Meccas. ) The former 'Vades' can now be called The Grey Men - Grey man - an individual who possesses the skills, ability and intent to blend into any situation or surrounding without standing out, concealing his or her true skills, ability, and intent from others. People who sit outside history, blending in and recording. I would also like to make some non-canon lore assumptions and say that the actual library planet was actually around longer than the current known spacefaring races -- abandoned by an old race -- such as the one that built the Glitch, etc etc. That gives us a lot more freedom lorewise. What do you think of that? The Vades and their Grey Men?
Unfortunately, the vague literal translation of that is 'The obtaining/overtaking of freedom' Not quite what I had in mind.
This upsets me more than it should. I don't have much to contribute, I'm just watching the thread and reading everything.
I just thought it would be interestinglike. An old hollowed out facility from some long-forgotten race as a central library/archive. There wouldn't be much information/tech left, but the little they had would be of some great interest to researchers and historians from all over. Access to this would be restricted, we could have all sorts of obscure information to decode--this would allow for some maneuvering lorewise. Naturally said information would be in a form that wouldn't be easily be or fully understood. I can see how that might be somewhat of an issue, though.
The toned down version is better, but it is a pretty big hindrance to your faction to have their main headquarters sitting on a gold mine of ancient tech and data. If they're not militaristic, how do they keep other factions from taking it? If they are still hidden, how do they interact with others without giving themselves away or leaving suspicions that could lead the curious to their planet?
I'm still in the process of hashing things out/writing backgrounds and conditions/building the library, but yeah. It's not dead, just in a formative stage. You want in?
The only way I'll approve of this group is if they secretly hold DnD sessions underneath their giant library where they use all of their historial know-how to make characters and argue the application of a segment of history in a given character's over-arching storyline with the DM.
