Tabula Rasa Fiction Feedback Friday: battle lines, planet correlations and more

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “There is no knowledge that is not power.” Perhaps that’s why NCsoft has been keeping players of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa in the know with Feedback Friday sessions.

Got lore-related questions? If so, seek empowerment in the full article after the jump.

Feedback Friday sessions of NCsoft‘s Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa are usually informative. This week’s edition, however, involves a different theme: that of lore.

In it, NCsoft’s European Community Coordinator Tia Avatea answers some of the most important lore-related questions burning in players’ minds.

Avatea responded to the following questions:

• Where are the two planets in Tabula Rasa in correlation to each other?: Arieki and Erdas orbit HD 162020, in the constellation Scorpius. Foreas orbits Epsilon Indi in the constellation Indus.
• How are the battle lines drawn out in a galactic level?: While the AFS Forces were transported to Arieki and Foreas, it’s possible that some humans were transported to other star systems via different wormhole connections. The AFS currently has no way to communicate with them, nor does the AFS grasp the full scope of the war or the true size of the Bane on a galactic scale.
• Do the Bane have wormholes of faster-than-light drives on their ships?: It is possible that they do, but the exact nature of it currently remains a mystery.
• Were there any major battles fought with the Bane in the past?:  “The Battle of Concordia Divide” was mankind’s first battle against the Bane forces. It occurred almost five years before the Bane invaded Earth. A platoon of Marines entered an Eloh wormhole and found themselves on Foreas. Foreas Base now stands on that very battlefield.

  A more recent battle involved a brutal surprise attack by Bane forces on Arieki.  “The Attack On Fort Intrepid” left the largest human fort on the planet in ruins. The AFS sustained heavy losses in this altercation.

  Intel reports another major battle taking place at Valverde Plateau on Foreas.  This battle is already being called “The Battle for Trinity Bridge,” though there can be little doubt that the real prize is the Bane installation at Maligo Base.

Tia Avatea also offered answers to questions relating to ammunition, resuscitation and the AFS chain of command in Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa. For the complete transcript of NCsoft’s Q & A session, feel free to click on the source link below.