Talk:StarCraft: Evolution

Timeline Issues
There's a bunch of timeline issues that have popped up with this novel, so I thought it best to deal with them in the one place.

First, the 2508 figure, apparently moving the Into the Void campaign into this year. It was my initial inclination to treat this as an error, as it messes up the "two years later" figure in LotV, and while I get that absolute dates usually take precedence over relative ones, this is still a figure from within the game itself. It also arguably raises the question of what everyone was doing in the two year period, but that aside, Psi's made adjustments to the timeline. Psi has final say, but I feel that in this case, the timeline shouldn't be taken as writ. If the figure is repeated, maybe, but for now, use the old one.

In the event of that not happening, it brings us to the second issue, as to whether we should treat Into the Void as part of the End War or not. I'm not sure if we can, because it basically has a two year fallow period followed off by a final conflict that's relatively small in scale. Every other war article we have has more or less been continuous.

Third issue is what becomes the relative date for the End War. Now, I don't have the novel, and probably won't for quite some time, but from what I've seen, the figure given is six years since the end of "the war." From what I can tell, most of the time, they're referring to the End War, with the Into the Void thing being mostly classified or somesuch (which ties in with the above point about treating them as separate conflicts). As such, we can probably treat the book as occurring in 2512 for now, but this will need clarification.

So, TL, DR, the main questions are:


 * Should the 2508 figure be treated as writ, or an error?


 * If treated as writ, should Into the Void be treated as part of the End War, or a separate conflict?


 * Is it safe to treat the book as occurring in 2512?

Discuss.--Hawki (talk) 22:16, November 9, 2016 (UTC)