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Contents 1 About the Carpe Chaos Wiki 1.1 Citations 1.2 Redactions 2 About Carpe Chaos 2.1 General-Purpose Blurb 2.2 Simple Project Summary 2.3 Mission Statement 2.3.1 Several More Minor Goals 2.4 Twitter/Facebook Project Summary

About the Carpe Chaos Wiki

Eric and Jason have been working on documenting and expanding the Carpe Chaos universe since 2006 (many of the core ideas are even older than that), and the equivalent of over a thousand printed pages have accumulated. The Carpe Chaos Wiki is primarily designed as a way to share all of that background writing. Here are some things you should review before using this wiki: our disclaimer, and our privacy policy.

Citations

What is the Citation namespace for? When the Carpe Chaos staff release new articles they are added to both the main namespace and the Citation space. The citation namespace is only editable by Carpe Chaos staff. This way articles in the main namespace can reference the Citation namespace as citations without fear of those citations being vandalized.

The Carpe Chaos Wiki is interactive, which could have a disastrous effect on canon if, for example, someone tried to change something about a critical event in Carpe Chaos history. What we've done to resolve this is to create a separate, protected namespace called Citation that can only be edited by Carpe Chaos staff. This way, everyone can be assured of the veracity of any content on any Citation page.

If you add something to the Carpe Chaos Wiki, you can cite anything on a Citation page as a source just as easily as you could a particular page from a Carpe Chaos comic, blog post, interview, etc. Here are some examples of Citation-article citations: Example 1, Example 2. Citing sources is the easiest way to prove something as canon.

Redactions

Why do some pages have sections missing? Those pages have been redacted, because the information they contain is xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxx.

Across the wiki you'll probably notice blacked-out (redacted) areas like this: xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxx. This is because the hidden information has been intentionally censored.

About Carpe Chaos

There are so many ways to describe Carpe Chaos. A few of those ways are below.

General-Purpose Blurb

Carpe Chaos is an independent science-fiction space-opera webcomic about five alien races who learn to travel between stars, and it focuses on the ways their cultures collide and how they work to solve their problems. Each story stands on its own, but because our stories follow their histories over several thousand years you can get a really wide perspective on their societies and personalities if you read through the archives.

Simple Project Summary

1. We are a webcomic.
2. We start a new chapter at the beginning of every month, and we upload the pages throughout the month so our chapters finish on the 1st of the following month.
3. All of our comics are free. They are indexed here.
4. The stories aren't directly related, usually, but they all take place in the Carpe Chaos universe.
5. We have a Wiki here. It is brimming with background information about the Carpe Chaos universe, and the scripts for our comics.
6. If you make an account on this page, you can contribute to the Wiki, customize your viewing settings, and even use an HTML version of our comic reader.
7. We have a store where you can buy things to support us. It is here.
8. Or, you can just give us money here. That's cool too.
9. We have a blog here.
10. You can learn about the creators here.
11. We've got comics in the iTunes store for iPhones and iPads here, and we're in Graphic.ly here.
12. We've got Twitter, Facebook, and DeviantArt accounts. If you like us, won't you Like us?
13. Our FAQ is here, and it will answer a bunch more of your questions.

Mission Statement

Our mission statement is:

To convey the virtues of thought, knowledge, tolerance, planning, diplomacy, determination, and action through quality entertainment; to convey the horrors of violence, rape, war, and genocide, whatever their motivations, through like means; to explore and ultimately expand the generally accepted potential of comics as a medium while maintaining a symbiotic harmony between the writing and visual art; to tell engaging, gripping, captivating, and well-thought-out stories via this medium; to present detailed, exquisite, developed, and consistent visual art; to present well-defined, multidimensional, emotional, developing characters; to almost exclusively use digital means of production; lastly, to build a greater, fully continuous and immersive universe around our stories.

Several More Minor Goals

We also have several more minor goals that aren't included in the mission statement above. They are:

• To create art that endures beyond the now and does not lose relevance as it ages.
• To present different species of intelligent creatures in complex ways with no single group as "good" or "right".
• To robustly explore religion and spirituality in a futuristic yet realistic setting, in a fair and even-handed manner.
• To inspire and encourage space exploration and, eventually, colonization.
• To spur the advent of rural and low-income data access throughout the world.
• To explore and hawk creative product ideas, from 8-foot-long comics to character gelatin molds.
• To support the development of communal tools and ideas, and to contribute the tools we develop to the commons.

Twitter/Facebook Project Summary

In less than 140 characters:

We are an independent webcomic that tells stories about discovery, tolerance, war, and the politics involved when cultures collide. And space aliens.