Re: (GZG Encyclopedia) Hey how can I contribute?

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> duly crosslinked. there is also an official powers page at:
> 
> http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/gzg/NatStateGZG.html
> 
> which has some overlap with my list.

That's linked to my page as well.  :)  

> > Also note that my current plan is put out an edition of the
> > "Encyclopedia Rhomaioi" which will have articles from the Offical
one
> > edited to the extent necessary to fit in my little Empire.	It would
be
> > too much shoehorning to fit it into the "Real Thing".
> 
> makes sense, given your somewhat liberal revision of the background
:-).
> 
> seriously, though, i feel the Gzglverse should have the NRE in it
> somewhere; they're too detailed (and well-publicised) a nation to miss

Nah. . . not necessary.  And would take too much work (and timeline
abuse) to fit it in.  And the NRE hasn't a hope in hell of becoming
official-official, so any discussion of it in the Encyclopedia would
just hurt the Encyclopedia's chances of becoming official-official.  And
they are only well-publicized among those on the list.	Which doesn't
represent all of GZG-fandom.  Just the fanatical ones who own computors
and are internet-savvy enough to find this. 

> out. i don't suppose we could persuade you to write one or two more
> humiliating defeats and attacks of human weakness into your history?

Hey, we let the Romanovs take down an entire fleet, complete with
Emperor!  Then they nuked 100K of our troops.  Hrmm. . . I'll have to
fiddle with it.  The timeline is a work in progress.  First I came up
with the themes, then placed them on various planets.  Then, for those I
knew I had grabbed from other powers, I had to fill in how and why and
when.  I added in the dates of the Emperor's deaths and names of
sucessors, and sort of stopped.  So right now, except for the Romanov
War which is fairly complete, it's a cataloge of victories.  It looks
bigger 'coz of Noam's additions and our co-authored New Jordanian stuff.

John M. Atkinson