BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Focus Date is supposed to be tracked in a second GNDT, but since editing a second GNDT has proved to be buggy, we should probably just stick to a single GNDT whenever it is reasonable to do so.  Kevan has added the Focus Date as its own row in the GNDT, and has initialized it to “-4004/12/31” (to correspond to the values the former Time Travel Variables held at the time Focus Date was created).  At the time of this CfJ, actions have already been taken which have assumed this initialization to be legal (actions by Thelonius and Hix, for example).  To avoid headaches associated with reverting these actions, and to keep the game moving along, this CfJ seeks to legitimatize all such actions.  Until this CfJ is resolved it is recommended that Travellers simply assume that the Focus Date as tracked in the original GNDT is legit (The other option would be to assume that the Focus Date doesn’t exist at all, since it was never officially initialized).

If this CfJ passes:

1)  Rewrite the rule “The Continuum” to read

The time-space continuum is always weakened around one particular date, which changes according to the acts of Travellers - this is known as the “Focus Date”, and is tracked in the GNDT in the “Focus Date” row under the “TemporalLocation” column.

2)  Retroactively treat the Focus Date as if it had been initialized at “-4004/12/31” upon passage of the Proposal which brought the Focus Date into existance.