The OM
contains virtually
all of the technical, galactographic, social, and historical
information
available to the Sophic
League as well as copies of the vast quantity of
religious, spiritual, and philosophical works that League citizens
produce
every year. Duplicated
innumerable times
across the entire League and continuously updated via dedicated
channels on the
Known
Net and Godweb, a link to the OM is one of the first pieces
of Sophic
technology deployed in any newly developed system.
The OM
is at least two
orders of magnitude larger than the Encyclopedia Galactica (due to its
vast
philosophical and spiritual components), and claims to duplicate its
contents in
their entirety. Although
this is an
occasional source of friction between the two publications (Ken Ferjik
has made
occasional claims of memetic slant and bias in past eras, New Taylor
has
countered that the lack of philosophical considerations prevents the
Encyclopedia from providing truly complete information), the majority
of
contacts between the Encyclopedia Institute and the Compilation Masters
of the
OM are friendly and consist of sharing information back and forth or
requests
for confirmation or review.
content
by Todd
Drashner
image by Steve Bowers
