Subject: Continuum Identification Codes.
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Posted on: 2010-04-15 20:59:00 UTC
Found this stub article on the Wiki:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/CIC
What's the formula for creating CICs, if there is one? I was thinking we could possibly do with assembling a few more.
For random chatter and the like. IMO you can just invent your own whenever you need one, I don't see the PPC being so organized as to actually have alphanumeric codes for every single continuity.
It sounds like something somebody used in one story for some plot reason and which never came up again. Weird.
But I know (despite not wanting to know - stupid steel-trap memory...) that "THX-1138" is a series of numbers George Lucas always tries to slip into his movies, so I imagine that if other continua had similar strings of relevant numbers (or letters), they'd be included.
Actually, wait - the last letters are the author's initials. Look:
Harry Potter: GNZ-4138-209-JR - J. (K.) Rowling
Star Wars: THX-1138-525-GL - George Lucas
Batman: FJÆ-4432-120-BK - No idea, but I'll bet "BK" is some original creator's name.
As for the numbers... I only know Harry Potter well enough to guess, but it looks like they're fairly random. The only thing you might do is match up the numbers to the letters on a telephone dial and see if they make any relevant words (JKR did that in book five herself, I believe).
IIRC, THX-1138 was the title of the first movie George Lucas ever made or something like that.
There are no corresponding letters for the number 1 on a telephone dial (or at least, not on my telephone). I think the rule for these is that they're random unless whoever's using them can find a reference or in-joke.
By the way, BK is Bob Kane, the original artist of Batman.
I haven't seen them used in a story, at least not for a while. Isn't the continuum in question usually just named?
What're they used for?