Minutia
In production: February 24th, 2010 -
Tagline: TBD
Inspiration: In the same vein as Sharpshot, I began to want a sci-fi series. At first, I had a story called Lotus, but that was created nearly four years prior, and suffered from a few plot and character problems. It eventually fell by the wayside when other things came around. Epoch became my new venture into the genre. The single thing that brought this idea to fruition and got me to begin writing were the ARI segment in the video game Heavy Rain. I liked the look and data provided during that and decided I'd like something like that in a story. A month before, Mass Effect 2 was released, putting me into a sci-fi mood in the first place.
An epoch is "a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc." while eccentricity is "an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct". However, in astronomy, eccentricity is the shape of an orbit. The overlying problem is that someone is warping a planet's eccentricities so much that it catches the gravitational pull of its sun and crash into it or warp it enough to smash into other planets / moons. Thus, the period this takes place comes to be known as an epoch of eccentricities.