Universal Script

Summary

In most of Hoppist history, written language was absent, and few hops on Karrots did more than outright say or draw their thoughts, let alone attempt a writing method to contain information and thoughts. As the endless lifespan of a hop continues, it is likely they can orally or digitally record what they have to say. Due to this has never facilitated a need for information retention. Universal Script was invented to remedy this, initially by The Council Courts prior to the First Great Hop Expansion. Eventually reworked by Sop and Buddy, as well as other major races in the universe, to accommodate their inability to write or type.

History

Earliest Form

On Karrots, most hops experience their lives long enough to share information, ideas and opinions telepathically. Verbal/auditory communication was rarely used, due to the belief being mute was desired to be a fair citizen, and avoid Court punishment for disturbing the peace. It was taught for a fee by the Courts, but many hops found it to be a hassle, due to it requiring a licensed (and monitored) device to input characters. This was seen as extremely frustrating, but it was needed to conduct proper business throughout most of hop civilization at the time. It opened up jobs for interpreters to communicate with ordinary citizens and input their thoughts for them. They were known as Riners (RIH-NURZ, translated from old Hopspeak). A riner often filed documents to the courts for a smaller fee, as the judges found this to be an opening to further manipulate others through power, creating laws that only could be understood through writing, making riners work very hard for the average citizen, as they had to interpret and translate a nearly ever-changing system. This became known to Sop as he grew, and partially inspired his rise to power and liberation of the hops.

The First Modernized Writings

After Sop demolished the establishment, the script and its early usage was discarded, due to technology to record visual and auditory information became widely available. Many orbits later, once Sop and Buddy met and signed The Alliance Treaty, they concluded solely using K'Ursa's primary language and script format would not suit all body types and races of the universe. Symbols that are easily arranged and readable to represent concepts or objects as a whole were first created, however, this was seen as little more than an alternative to just drawing the idea or thing in question.

Much debate and input from other fluff-kind was brought into consideration, while being a very frustrating process, it was seen as an altruistic and practical goal. Many critics of the time claim that Buddy and Sop should have just opted to use K'Ursan and move on to upgrading it as time moved forward, and other races needed their physical form and visual capabilities catered to. Sop's argument was that this would require numerous translators over time, adapting countless works over history for the foreseeable future, as any number of differences can come in the future that could warrant such an overhaul to the system. Sop claimed it would be far more useful to wait as long as needed for as many races as possible to give the input, so the decision would be near-final, requiring little change. This took place during The First Great Hop Expansion.

Eventually, after thousands of fluff worlds held a vote on K'Ursa with Sop present, the Hoppists and K'Ursan Federation unveiled their simplified writing system. It was to be used for any purpose. This was ensured logically by the formal and practical Declaration of Free Speech and Writing Act, present in both societies. There was a standard format for the presentation of writing held within the declaration itself. Full-time volunteers and members of both the GSA and K'Ursan Federation would assist in teaching the writing, what tools and materials are best used for it, and how to digitally write it, with a custom device that universally installed the language in any terminal or computer for it to display.

Common Uses

Below is a list of times the Script was used in major Hoppist historical events:

• Sop's vow to his wife on their wedding day
• Buddy's brother and Hop's decision to make it the official engraving text on belts held by Hiprscip champions
• It is the official script, language and text of the Book of Hoalmims
• By start of The Endless War for The Eternal Throne, the GSA implemented it into the written version of The Initiate Trials.