Can someone explain the ending * SPOILERS *

[Wolfie]

So did humanity get wiped out by a plague which originated in the walled city (hence they walled it up to quarantine)?

If so where are all the dead humans? Is humanity beyond the walled city wiped out?

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by Crystal:

plague has wiped the humanity outside of the city, not in. the issue inside the city was trash, so theyve made bacteria that eats trash. this bacteria has evolved into what we know as zurks. apart from zurks, there is only 1 more organic entity in the city. yes, that 'thing', thats what has become of humans

What thing?

Why did the walled city exist to begin with?

[Dellamorte]

Originally posted by Crystal:

plague has wiped the humanity outside of the city, not in. the issue inside the city was trash, so theyve made bacteria that eats trash. this bacteria has evolved into what we know as zurks. apart from zurks, there is only 1 more organic entity in the city. yes, that 'thing', thats what has become of humans

You've missed the rat?
Or did I imagine it...

[Sings in tune]

I didn't see a rat, not yet anyway. But there are eyes that look like some form of organic life.

Besides that there is now a cat.

[VetOnTheVerge]

Originally posted by Hello.Little.Jimmies.:

So did humanity get wiped out by a plague which originated in the walled city (hence they walled it up to quarantine)?

If so where are all the dead humans? Is humanity beyond the walled city wiped out?

A plague wiped out the people in the city. Whether there are humans still alive somewhere else, such as another walled city, is unknown. For that matter, as cats are able to live outside, it's possible humans are again able to live outside.

[TamanduaGirl]

The lore found says people went into the city because the surface was unsafe to live any longer. Could be any reason like climate disaster or nuclear winter.

Humans in this city died from a plague after being locked in. Since this was the 99th city, it's unlikely all cities met the same fate. It has however been millions of years, so a decent chance humans are infect gone but all cities would not have ended in the same manner. There is also the chance humans do still exist. It's open ended there.

And as far as remains it's both been millions of years and the bacteria/zurks eat all organic matter. (zurks however were not what wiped the people out, the lore is clear about that).

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

The lore found says people went into the city because the surface was unsafe to live any longer. Could be any reason like climate disaster or nuclear winter.

Humans in this city died from a plague after being locked in. Since this was the 99th city, it's unlikely all cities met the same fate. It has however been millions of years, so a decent chance humans are infect gone but all cities would not have ended in the same manner. There is also the chance humans do still exist. It's open ended there.

And as far as remains it's both been millions of years and the bacteria/zurks eat all organic matter. (zurks however were not what wiped the people out, the lore is clear about that).

The lore isn't clear about anything. The game doesn't tell much. Is there lore anywhere else?

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by Complete.Global.Saturation.:

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

people went into the city because the surface was unsafe to live any longer.

Humans in this city died from a plague {that happened} after being locked in.

this was the 99th city

It has been millions of years

the bacteria/zurks eat all organic matter.

(zurks were not what wiped the people out).

The lore isn't clear about anything. The game doesn't tell much. Is there lore anywhere else?

What I said can be found in game. I'm sorry if you didn't find it for yourself.

[Kilopede]

the Zurks do not eat all organic material (or they would eat themselves and the wall stuff).
most likely the humans "died out" thousands of years earlier, however it seems likely they tried to upload themselves to the robots which would explain the personalities most of them.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by Kilopede:

the Zurks do not eat all organic material (or they would eat themselves and the wall stuff).
most likely the humans "died out" thousands of years earlier, however it seems likely they tried to upload themselves to the robots which would explain the personalities most of them.

Well of course they don't eat themselves. A fox doesn't eat it's own leg when it's hungry but they still eat meat. The zurks come from the wall stuff and one memory you can find postulates it may all be one entity. Even ants don't eat their own they actually make graveyards where they dump bodies, even the ant species that eat other insects, still don't eat their own.

One scene says how the bacteria the zurks evolved from was engendered to eat all organic material. It's said zurks ate all the organic material in the lost city then evolved to start eating metal.

It's been millions of years because the one paper says it's been billions of days since the companion robots attained sentience. The scientists who did try to load himself into a robot and failed (b12), never alludes to anyone else doing this but does say the companions became sentient and evolved to mimic humans. He's tracked everything from inside the system since near the end of the humans.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

The lore found says people went into the city because the surface was unsafe to live any longer. Could be any reason like climate disaster or nuclear winter.

Humans in this city died from a plague after being locked in. Since this was the 99th city, it's unlikely all cities met the same fate. It has however been millions of years, so a decent chance humans are infect gone but all cities would not have ended in the same manner. There is also the chance humans do still exist. It's open ended there.

And as far as remains it's both been millions of years and the bacteria/zurks eat all organic matter. (zurks however were not what wiped the people out, the lore is clear about that).

It has not been millions of years. it's been about 200 since people have been gone. pizza boxes and books in open air do not last millions of years. Paint does not last millions of years.

[TamanduaGirl]

"At one point in the game, B-12 reads some writing on a wall that says the robots were created to be slaves, but for the past 2,544,875,556 days, they have had souls. Mimo Shikufu did the math and calculated that those 2.5 billion days work out at just short of 7 million years."
https://www.thegamer.com/stray-fans-speculate-game-takes-place-7-million-years-future/

The robots became sentient after or only shortly before humans died.

As for pizza boxes, if we assume it's not been over looked that it would have decomposed, the robots do EAT, the pizza could have been oil and latex, like the "ramen" was wires and oil. They're making things themselves.

[VetOnTheVerge]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

And as far as remains it's both been millions of years and the bacteria/zurks eat all organic matter. (zurks however were not what wiped the people out, the lore is clear about that).

The city would have been reduced to rubble in a million years. Look at some abandoned cities out there today and how much they've deteriorated in just a few decades.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

"At one point in the game, B-12 reads some writing on a wall that says the robots were created to be slaves, but for the past 2,544,875,556 days, they have had souls. Mimo Shikufu did the math and calculated that those 2.5 billion days work out at just short of 7 million years."
https://www.thegamer.com/stray-fans-speculate-game-takes-place-7-million-years-future/

The robots became sentient after or only shortly before humans died.

As for pizza boxes, if we assume it's not been over looked that it would have decomposed, the robots do EAT, the pizza could have been oil and latex, like the "ramen" was wires and oil. They're making things themselves.

There are zero facilities for making pizza boxes or books within the city, and Momo's concept of time isn't based on Julian or Gregorian anything. The game takes place between 23XX to 25XX, and if you'd bothered to actually look around it's rather easy to see. B12 tells you when the game proper starts and he's literally the only one who can because he's the only thing still using current day dating and time measurements.

The robots aren't.

[MajorTom]

Plague happened, humanity sealed itself in a giant metal titty, a long time past. humans died. Companion bots remained and learnt to be human. You are a cat and comes in from the outside. You eventually saved whats left of humanity from the fate of rotting in the giant metal titty and totalitarianism.

[death incarnate]

there are pictures of diplomas from 2199, there is Ronin that has never seen the elevator work in 374 years. Employee of the month is Jacob on Sept xx27.

Without knowing how the bots measure time, saying a brazzilion days is meaningless since calendars start from different points and may have differing measures. There is no way within the walled city to reasonably measure time because it was sealed.