Jedi Sith Timeline

Now I know this issue has been brought up time and time again. Along with many others, however I feel it should continue to be brought up every now and then. Even if all it achieves is that we are all on the same page.

Now, I think its safe to say we cannot give jedi sith a set time line in star wars because of technology and character history issues.

But do we want to create our own time line for jedi sith, where things are recorded and we create a history that actually moves forward? This brings up a few issues like would we actually progress time that people would have to abide by? How would we do it and how fast would it happen? We would also need a few people to record major events. Though I think this could be done pretty easily. We could even add small events if we just set up a post where people could post so that we could add that rather then do research.

But then do we even want this?

What sort of benefits could come with this? Maybe just a news and roleplay announcement thing would be nice?

One problem is it'll be damn hard to record ome past events because I doubt any of us can remember all the important stuff that happened... As for a time in Star Wars history, I sort of consider JS to be an alternate reality of sorts... Though the idea is useful, helps record...

I found that those weekly "news" posts allowed me to keep track of what was going on alot more So this sort of thing is good, but it needs to be done properly...

Maybe we should add a forum just for the weekly news. This could help keep track of what happened and people can throw in things that were missed in the news post. Then all the important stuff can be added to a time line.

Yeah, as far as past events... we can't really recall very many and if your like me you don't even know what chronological order they went in.

So we should have an events forum (though we should set something up where it can be free of spamming. The heated debate forum didn't last long.)

site staff can update major events and then we could maybe add like a minor events thing where each person can add their own thing?

http://www.freewebs.com/jediarchivessite/timeline.htm

There's a timeline of most of the major events of the forum, compiled first by K1ddy and later by Zalthrax. It's missing the stuff from the past year, though. Someone could probably IM K1ddy and get the password to update it.

As for the news, I don't know how necessary that is at this point and time...at least, not weekly news. How many RP posts have we had in the past week? I count 5 that had any IC replies at all. I don't really know why we'd need a news post for that. Granted, some of the posts that had no replies were fairly important informational posts, but still, when I did the news last summer, we had probably 20-25 stories a week. 5 RPs are much easier to keep track of.

Could set up the events forum so that only certain people can post there and others can just view it if possible.

That doesn't mean we can't plan it now so that we'll be ready for when we do pick up on activity.

Lancer used to do that before gametalk went down.

I agree with that. Too many backup sites and gaps. We all need to work it out.

BEcause George Lucas would rip off our heads otherwise? Had we called it Star Wars RPG, that would be vague... J/S really gets down to the fact that the main problem on this place is the J S fighting. We are the Jedi/Sith. That's that.

There are other places using the "Star Wars" name you know. Jedi/Sith is a unique name among all that though.

We also have bounty hunters and the Vong.

I think what he means is, this forum's characters are not limited to just Jedi and Sith. While the majority of the forum are Sith or Jedi (or something in between), there are bounty hunters and Vong like Richter said, and they are also droids, soldiers, military men and the like. Definitely not exclusive to Jedi and Sith.

Ket Jia wrote:

Now I know this issue has been brought up time and time again. Along with many others, however I feel it should continue to be brought up every now and then. Even if all it achieves is that we are all on the same page.

Now, I think its safe to say we cannot give jedi sith a set time line in star wars because of technology and character history issues.

But do we want to create our own time line for jedi sith, where things are recorded and we create a history that actually moves forward? This brings up a few issues like would we actually progress time that people would have to abide by? How would we do it and how fast would it happen? We would also need a few people to record major events. Though I think this could be done pretty easily. We could even add small events if we just set up a post where people could post so that we could add that rather then do research.

But then do we even want this?

What sort of benefits could come with this? Maybe just a news and roleplay announcement thing would be nice?

From what I've seen, the events that have occurred on JediSith have been recorded pretty accurately from a time when "JediSith" didn't even exist yet (that's approx 6+ years). The passage of time, when recorded, doesn't have to be exact. It's not like its stated anywhere that Merlock, Kain, or Steel ruled for any length of time. Don't stress over it and don't fix what's not broken