SPOILERS! - Multiple endings?

[[CSPV] Nalim27[CZ]]

Hello,
I just finished Ixion for first time and on first run (welll some reload was necessy due bad decisions or lack of game mechanics).

I have ending with colonizing Remus planet with green eco-maniacs and wind power stations completelly unable to defend ourself. OK.

But during playing I got some info that maybe there is more endings? I mean what are those levitating spheres inside some planets, eminating tachyons?

Why some members have different memory e.g. about dead relatives, but those relatives are live, like they come from parallel universe? Or why I found remains of Tiqqqun with dead body of people that are at the same time live on my Tiqquin?

And what about Romulus planet - it was not hallucinate, all saw it, my crew too via Observation .... I want to shut down ship P.A. and examine it - maybe we can colonize it without genetics modificatin? But event that those secret hjackers are warned me about P.A .... I can't found a way how to shutdown it.

Also why I can upgrade Colonizer train facility to 200 people per one batch, so it will be easy to train whole not working population to colonists? But it was completee waste in the game (biggest colonize event required just 150 colonists).

I think that there must be alternative ending , maybe if I did particular event on some order or some correct choices .... what do you think?

Did anyone has different ending?


Or maybe developers wanted to have more endings but due lack of time or money they didn't finished it till relase but still some events and technology remains in the game?

[envLight]

You can colonize Romulus. You need to build module in outside view that shutdown Edem.

It's not much diffrence to be honest. You just got a diffrent image in a game. Honestly, the final chapter was a huge disappointment

[Lui]

You can colonize Romulus, did that in my first playthrough, just finished my second playthrough with the Remus ending.

You should be able to build a module onto your station that disables Edden from blocking you to examine Romulus, which gets unlocked via one of those buttons (crew requiring your attention) appearing at your research building right after a probe reaches Romulus; i believe.

In the second playthrough i received a science ship [including Crew] from the sphere in Chapter 5 that i lost in another Chapter. Not sure if there's more to them.

[[CSPV] Nalim27[CZ]]

Thank you I miss that builds possibility - I tried to found it later, when I still not started genetics modification but I already build the structure, and there is was none possibility to build anything new - probably I must do it sooner (before I agree to join those green elfs)

[ZiggyDeath]

Originally posted by CSPV Nalim27CZ:

Also why I can upgrade Colonizer train facility to 200 people per one batch, so it will be easy to train whole not working population to colonists? But it was completee waste in the game (biggest colonize event required just 150 colonists).
Did anyone has different ending?

Eject the PA, build 2 levels of outpost with various materials, build 20 shuttles, train 3000 colonists

[[CSPV] Nalim27[CZ]]

BTW I agree that ending is little ... meh. At beginning we got very nice and long intro but ending video is very basics and short.
Again it looks like developers do not have money for 3D artists anymore :-)

I was also disapointed when I damaged Pirate ship for first time then there was no video at all - it was main game event but developers just show screen with text - very lazy.

[envLight]

Originally posted by CSPV Nalim27CZ:

BTW I agree that ending is little ... meh. At beginning we got very nice and long intro but ending video is very basics and short.
Again it looks like developers do not have money for 3D artists anymore :-)

I was also disapointed when I damaged Pirate ship for first time then there was no video at all - it was main game event but developers just show screen with text - very lazy.

I didn't understand at all, the peak of difficulty was in the third chapter, and that's only because the game forced me to grab 2 thousand capsules

The next chapter was super easy, I thought it was a shortness of breath before some kind of cruel test, but it turned out that I passed the game in the third chapter, I almost won't change the station in any way

[veryinky]

Originally posted by CSPV Nalim27CZ:

Why some members have different memory e.g. about dead relatives, but those relatives are live, like they come from parallel universe? Or why I found remains of Tiqqqun with dead body of people that are at the same time live on my Tiqquin

The FTL drive is less of a "Faster than light" drive and more of a dimension/timeline hopper drive which locates a universe where the ship is already at its destination, after one hop you're not in your original dimension/timeline and there's an infinite number of Tigguns doing an infinite number of calamity every time they use their drive, which is visible in every dimension/timeline.

[Dr. Gonzo]

It's a pretentious causality loop/multiverse thing. Which is unfortunate because that's some great cosmic horror but in practice the writing is so full of holes that you're not even -aware- of it until the end.

A good example is in Chapter 5 your tech lab says that DOLOS protocols are a century out of date. What? When did we deduce that it's 100 years since we first jumped?

The Jumpdrive being a dimensional drive doesn't make any sense because you follow various other ships and they're able to follow you. You follow the Prothagoras. From there you follow the Etemanki. From there you follow the black ship. Etc.

[envLight]

Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo:

It's a pretentious causality loop/multiverse thing. Which is unfortunate because that's some great cosmic horror but in practice the writing is so full of holes that you're not even -aware- of it until the end.

A good example is in Chapter 5 your tech lab says that DOLOS protocols are a century out of date. What? When did we deduce that it's 100 years since we first jumped?

The Jumpdrive being a dimensional drive doesn't make any sense because you follow various other ships and they're able to follow you. You follow the Prothagoras. From there you follow the Etemanki. From there you follow the black ship. Etc.

I suspect he means that more than a hundred years have passed since our jump from the prologue.

[RobOda]

Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo:

It's a pretentious causality loop/multiverse thing. Which is unfortunate because that's some great cosmic horror but in practice the writing is so full of holes that you're not even -aware- of it until the end.

A good example is in Chapter 5 your tech lab says that DOLOS protocols are a century out of date. What? When did we deduce that it's 100 years since we first jumped?

The Jumpdrive being a dimensional drive doesn't make any sense because you follow various other ships and they're able to follow you. You follow the Prothagoras. From there you follow the Etemanki. From there you follow the black ship. Etc.

The dimensional drive is only used once, though.

For the rest of the game we're using the IXION drive, which is the more conventional drive.

[Dr. Gonzo]

While it's different drive, the principals are the same. It's even in the name. VOHLE drive. VOHLE jump. There is no mentioned difference in operation between the two.

Like I said, you're just trying to fill the Lindlof mystery box here with something because it's empty. But there's not anything there. That's why it's a Lindlof box. A writing device so bad it has its own name.

[LSTM]

Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo:

While it's different drive, the principals are the same. It's even in the name. VOHLE drive. VOHLE jump. There is no mentioned difference in operation between the two.

Like I said, you're just trying to fill the Lindlof mystery box here with something because it's empty. But there's not anything there. That's why it's a Lindlof box. A writing device so bad it has its own name.

There is one very convoluted theory that lasts pages about how the drive works in their discord lore board, and that it is not entirely a timeline hopper drive, but it's just a theory.

I believe there actually is a difference between the drives, I remember there was one event mentioning that the prototype drive(the one only used once) used a particle which basically caused the lunaclysm, and the later drives from the UN doesn't utilize that particle and can jump without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everything up(including your own drive).

The problem is that in this view, since the jump can potentially not ♥♥♥♥ up the moon, maybe DOLOS really is the enemy of mankind by intentionally blasting the moon and consequently destroy the earth and try to force them to have a fresh start. No matter which ending you choose, Remus will have former humans becoming environmentalist walking vegetables which is what the CEO wanted, and even if you fail on your way, Remus is already colonized and the enemy ship will never be awakened so the futuretelling CEO will always have what he wanted, restart humanity as plants at the expense of everyone's life on earth. He is basically a massive eco-terrorist.

[LSTM]

Originally posted by LSTM:

Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo:

While it's different drive, the principals are the same. It's even in the name. VOHLE drive. VOHLE jump. There is no mentioned difference in operation between the two.

Like I said, you're just trying to fill the Lindlof mystery box here with something because it's empty. But there's not anything there. That's why it's a Lindlof box. A writing device so bad it has its own name.

There is one very convoluted theory that lasts pages about how the drive works in their discord lore board, and that it is not entirely a timeline hopper drive, but it's just a theory.

I believe there actually is a difference between the drives, I remember there was one event mentioning that the prototype drive(the one only used once) used a particle which basically caused the lunaclysm, and the later drives from the UN doesn't utilize that particle and can jump without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everything up(including your own drive).

The problem is that in this view, since the jump can potentially not ♥♥♥♥ up the moon, maybe DOLOS really is the enemy of mankind by intentionally blasting the moon and consequently destroy the earth and try to force them to have a fresh start. No matter which ending you choose, Remus will have former humans becoming environmentalist walking vegetables which is what the CEO wanted, and even if you fail on your way, Remus is already colonized and the enemy ship will never be awakened so the futuretelling CEO will always have what he wanted, restart humanity as plants at the expense of everyone's life on earth. He is basically a massive eco-terrorist.

Just saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ixion/comments/zhf009/naomi_protocol_decryption_major_spoilers/
which if assuming Vanir is not a time traveller or legit future teller(the thing is he could be one, considering we did see some time stuff here and there, but any sensible people in the game world won't believe it), then it supports what I theorized above, that Vanir himself, is a eco-terrorist rich crazy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is also full of ♥♥♥♥. He believed that earth is doomed, so instead of blowing it up some time later, he should blow it up RIGHT NOW and sent you to control the ship and kill everyone on earth.

[morgan_iye]

I mean, all this assumes that anything you learn during the entire game is true. Clearly Edden can make a planet disappear, feed you false information, and warp all of your perception....so. Kind of impossible to pull a real story out of it at all. As you need to guess what is true, what is false. For all you know the killer AI ship was actually a peaceful UN ship trying to colonize, and you killed it.

I.E something out of the twilight zone / outer limits where both sides see the others as crazy monsters.

[MOK]

Originally posted by LSTM:

Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo:

While it's different drive, the principals are the same. It's even in the name. VOHLE drive. VOHLE jump. There is no mentioned difference in operation between the two.

Like I said, you're just trying to fill the Lindlof mystery box here with something because it's empty. But there's not anything there. That's why it's a Lindlof box. A writing device so bad it has its own name.

There is one very convoluted theory that lasts pages about how the drive works in their discord lore board, and that it is not entirely a timeline hopper drive, but it's just a theory.

I've been looking for these sorts of theories to read. Is it anywhere outside Discord?