What is the story/lore?

[Karsk]

It seems like there's something going on but idk and I wanna know more!

Can anyone put the story together?

[Crystal Sharrd]

Humanity is extinct, though one of the communications logs you can find suggests there may be another survivor like the player character. As for how it happened, you have several possibilities, but it'sdeliberately left unanswered. Also, the player character was involved in some sort of experimental research.

[LB]

IIRC in one of the developer streams/videos, the devs summarized the story as this: an anomaly appeared near Earth, and it apparently led into the future. Seeing that humanity was extinct in the future, they decided to send in the Duskers to investigate and try to determine what caused it, so that the past could prepare to avoid it.

[triple_agent]

Maybe the entire experience is an afterlife of that one particular person who is our protagonist; trying to piece together own life.

This way, 'Duskers' is Necropunk[www.urbandictionary.com].

[Timerlane]

As I see it, the Orchid MUTEKI AI achieved at least AGI-level development, and used the rumored MUTEKI-backdoor into the Leyland Assemblers to manufacture the Pandemic virus on ships/stations. The Cosmic Event 'evidence' was probably just a red herring to cover for what Orchid was really doing; Super-Predator was either the same(Orchid using its MUTEKI connections to 'play' with the military), or if real, perhaps said Super-Predator species detected our budding AGI and attacked us to try to destroy Orchid before it could become an ASI.

[Ruyi]

Originally posted by LB:

IIRC in one of the developer streams/videos, the devs summarized the story as this: an anomaly appeared near Earth, and it apparently led into the future. Seeing that humanity was extinct in the future, they decided to send in the Duskers to investigate and try to determine what caused it, so that the past could prepare to avoid it.

Lol, what if sending the ship in the future is what caused humanity's extinction?

[LB]

Originally posted by ルヰ:

Originally posted by LB:

IIRC in one of the developer streams/videos, the devs summarized the story as this: an anomaly appeared near Earth, and it apparently led into the future. Seeing that humanity was extinct in the future, they decided to send in the Duskers to investigate and try to determine what caused it, so that the past could prepare to avoid it.

Lol, what if sending the ship in the future is what caused humanity's extinction?

Yep, that's actually my personal theory for what happened.

[triple_agent]

In my opinion, any case of time loop closing, ends in universal collapse.

Actually, what if the players had an opportunity to write the ship logs; what would you write?

[Misfits Attic]

Love this thread. Timerlane: so fun reading your post :)

[Karsk]

I'm really enjoying the responses!

[triple_agent]

Aye, the creativity is just overwhelming.

Anyhow, I think the 'Duskers' universe is a simulation. That is why the "reset".

Purpose, does not really matter - what it matters, is practice.