Ark Overseer Theory

[Shockal]

The final boss is the Overseer. Most players knows that by now, but many see it as an antagonistic entity. Personally, I don't think it is.

It's more of a guider.

Inside the Hall of History (The rooms before the boss fight) you can see multiple phases of the Earth, the last phase being a barren, destroyed planet, superficially resembling Mars. Considering the game is called 'ARK', we can see this as a reference to Noah's Ark which preserved animal life. However, in this case, the entire life on Earth is being preserved - not by the humans but by The Overseer, and possibly even OverSEERS due to the multiple ARKs in space each one of them owns.

A rumbling question always knocked me however: 'Why would the Overseer be so accessible to players? Shouldn't it be locked up and impossible for any human contact to touch it?'. The answer may be no. The Overseer is not trapping you. It wants you to be better. It wants to teach you the harsh way through the Island's many predators and boss fights, hence the name 'Evolved' in the game's title.

A supporting evidence to this theory are the Beacon Drops. It's the Overseer that's dropping them. It wants you to get better.

After all that pain the player has gone through during boss battles and gearing up TEK tier for the final fight, the Overseer welcomes you to its lair. It literally welcomes you. The TEK cave is clearly visible outside the Volcano. It would have been much more hidden if it didn't want players to enter it, but considering it's so easy to spot, it feels like it wants you to know it's there waiting for you.

Once through the cave and into the Halls of History, you can see what the ARK truly is. Not an Island, but an artificial ecosystem. Nothing stops you from learning these, therefore the Overseer might have intentionally wanted to the player to know the truth.

Then, there is the boss battle for the Overseer itself. When approached, it takes the form of a hologram of the Island before morphing into its true self. When defeated, it actually doesn't die. It simply turns into a hologram again. It creates an image of the dead Earth being surrounded by many space machines. The Overseer is informing you what happened with our home planet.

The Overseer WANTED you to come visit it, and prove you were stronger than it. Now it has accepted you have bested it, and warmly teaches us about what the machines have done to preserve the life of planet Earth. This is not like the Matrix where the robots wanted to be the rulers. The robots in this game want humans to become great again.

When its holographic display of the dead Earth finishes, the Overseer flings you into space as an ascended player. It MUST be the Overseer supporting your ascencesion, because theoretically if the Overseer was dead there wouldn't be much explanation to how your player is magically zooming in space.

if you look VERY closely, the ARK your player lands in is not the island. It is Scorched Earth.

You may have bested the Overseer, but you're not done with your evolution yet. A second challenge is given. A harder one.


This part below is pure speculation with no supporting evidence:

Aberration takes place on a destroyed ARK where animals have mutated into twisted forms and Humans have run rabid. Perhaps they sent you there to fix it? Considering Helena the Dossier Writer has lived on the Island and Scorched Earth and is canonically related to this adventure, perhaps the robots sent her (and possibly you, the player) to wipe out the imperfect humans to continue evolution progression (since the mutant humans are signs of de-evolution)

[New]

Yeah I think you are pretty much spot on in my opinion. Very nice and well written

[WrierGold]

Every ARK has it's own Overseer. It manages the entire station, and acts as the final ultimate challenge for survivors. The point of the ARKs, is to evolve the regular ♥♥♥♥ Sapien species into ♥♥♥♥ Deus, whom are eternal beings that don't rely uppon destroying themselves. By putting the Survivors trough extreme challenges, and blasting them with knowlegde and information, will percieve them to evolve. My guess is that the events of the game takes place in the future, where humans have completely destroyed the planet and are extinct. So an alien species arrives, who posses highly advanced technology beyond imagination to save the species. The Overseers are basically just an automatic manager for the ARKs, and the ones behind the creation of it is long gone.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Every ARK has it's own Overseer. It manages the entire station, and acts as the final ultimate challenge for survivors. The point of the ARKs, is to evolve the regular ♥♥♥♥ Sapien species into ♥♥♥♥ Deus, whom are eternal beings that don't rely uppon destroying themselves. By putting the Survivors trough extreme challenges, and blasting them with knowlegde and information, will percieve them to evolve. My guess is that the events of the game takes place in the future, where humans have completely destroyed the planet and are extinct. So an alien species arrives, who posses highly advanced technology beyond imagination to save the species. The Overseers are basically just an automatic manager for the ARKs, and the ones behind the creation of it is long gone.

Phiomia poop farm

[WrierGold]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Every ARK has it's own Overseer. It manages the entire station, and acts as the final ultimate challenge for survivors. The point of the ARKs, is to evolve the regular ♥♥♥♥ Sapien species into ♥♥♥♥ Deus, whom are eternal beings that don't rely uppon destroying themselves. By putting the Survivors trough extreme challenges, and blasting them with knowlegde and information, will percieve them to evolve. My guess is that the events of the game takes place in the future, where humans have completely destroyed the planet and are extinct. So an alien species arrives, who posses highly advanced technology beyond imagination to save the species. The Overseers are basically just an automatic manager for the ARKs, and the ones behind the creation of it is long gone.

Phiomia poop farm

What?

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Phiomia poop farm

What?

The ultimate creation the Overseers handed down to us mortals.

[WrierGold]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Originally posted by Trollphan:

What?

The ultimate creation the Overseers handed down to us mortals.

Don't think the Overseers created anything, they're just the management entity of the Ark.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

The ultimate creation the Overseers handed down to us mortals.

Don't think the Overseers created anything, they're just the management entity of the Ark.

THE POOP.

IT IS THE PERFECT DEFENSE.

[WrierGold]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Don't think the Overseers created anything, they're just the management entity of the Ark.

THE POOP.

IT IS THE PERFECT DEFENSE.

I thought this was a theory discussion...

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Trollphan:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

THE POOP.

IT IS THE PERFECT DEFENSE.

I thought this was a theory discussion...

I'm never a serious person dw

[retsam1]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

The final boss is the Overseer. Most players knows that by now, but many see it as an antagonistic entity. Personally, I don't think it is.

It's more of a father.

Inside the Hall of History (The rooms before the boss fight) you can see multiple phases of the Earth, the last phase being a barren, destroyed planet, superficially resembling Mars. Considering the game is called 'ARK', we can see this as a reference to Noah's Ark which preserved animal life. However, in this case, the entire life on Earth is being preserved - not by the humans but by The Overseer, and possibly even OverSEERS due to the multiple ARKs in space each one of them owns.

A rumbling question always knocked me however: 'Why would the Overseer be so accessible to players? Shouldn't it be locked up and impossible for any human contact to touch it?'. The answer may be no. The Overseer is not trapping you. It wants you to be better. It wants to teach you the harsh way through the Island's many predators and boss fights, hence the name 'Evolved' in the game's title.

A supporting evidence to this theory are the Beacon Drops. It's the Overseer that's dropping them. It wants you to get better.

After all that pain the player has gone through during boss battles and gearing up TEK tier for the final fight, the Overseer welcomes you to its lair. It literally welcomes you. The TEK cave is clearly visible outside the Volcano. It would have been much more hidden if it didn't want players to enter it, but considering it's so easy to spot, it feels like it wants you to know it's there waiting for you.

Once through the cave and into the Halls of History, you can see what the ARK truly is. Not an Island, but an artificial ecosystem. Nothing stops you from learning these, therefore the Overseer might have intentionally wanted to the player to know the truth.

Then, there is the boss battle for the Overseer itself. When approached, it takes the form of a hologram of the Island before morphing into its true self. When defeated, it actually doesn't die. It simply turns into a hologram again. It creates an image of the dead Earth being surrounded by many space machines. The Overseer is informing you what happened with our home planet.

The Overseer WANTED you to come visit it, and prove you were stronger than it. Now it has accepted you have bested it, and warmly teaches us about what the machines have done to preserve the life of planet Earth. This is not like the Matrix where the robots wanted to be the rulers. The robots in this game want humans to become great again.

When its holographic display of the dead Earth finishes, the Overseer flings you into space as an ascended player. It MUST be the Overseer supporting your ascencesion, because theoretically if the Overseer was dead there wouldn't be much explanation to how your player is magically zooming in space.

if you look VERY closely, the ARK your player lands in is not the island. It is Scorched Earth.

You may have bested the Overseer, but you're not done with your evolution yet. A second challenge is given. A harder one.


This part below is pure speculation with no supporting evidence:

Aberration takes place on a destroyed ARK where animals have mutated into twisted forms and Humans have run rabid. Perhaps they sent you there to fix it? Considering Helena the Dossier Writer has lived on the Island and Scorched Earth and is canonically related to this adventure, perhaps the robots sent her (and possibly you, the player) to wipe out the imperfect humans to continue evolution progression (since the mutant humans are signs of de-evolution)

Or you can watch this video where it translates the quaternary coded messages in the space station and see what its all about (Hint, our characters are already not ♥♥♥♥ sapien. they're ♥♥♥♥ deus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqCWbUJSLaA

[Shockal]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

The final boss is the Overseer. Most players knows that by now, but many see it as an antagonistic entity. Personally, I don't think it is.

It's more of a father.

Inside the Hall of History (The rooms before the boss fight) you can see multiple phases of the Earth, the last phase being a barren, destroyed planet, superficially resembling Mars. Considering the game is called 'ARK', we can see this as a reference to Noah's Ark which preserved animal life. However, in this case, the entire life on Earth is being preserved - not by the humans but by The Overseer, and possibly even OverSEERS due to the multiple ARKs in space each one of them owns.

A rumbling question always knocked me however: 'Why would the Overseer be so accessible to players? Shouldn't it be locked up and impossible for any human contact to touch it?'. The answer may be no. The Overseer is not trapping you. It wants you to be better. It wants to teach you the harsh way through the Island's many predators and boss fights, hence the name 'Evolved' in the game's title.

A supporting evidence to this theory are the Beacon Drops. It's the Overseer that's dropping them. It wants you to get better.

After all that pain the player has gone through during boss battles and gearing up TEK tier for the final fight, the Overseer welcomes you to its lair. It literally welcomes you. The TEK cave is clearly visible outside the Volcano. It would have been much more hidden if it didn't want players to enter it, but considering it's so easy to spot, it feels like it wants you to know it's there waiting for you.

Once through the cave and into the Halls of History, you can see what the ARK truly is. Not an Island, but an artificial ecosystem. Nothing stops you from learning these, therefore the Overseer might have intentionally wanted to the player to know the truth.

Then, there is the boss battle for the Overseer itself. When approached, it takes the form of a hologram of the Island before morphing into its true self. When defeated, it actually doesn't die. It simply turns into a hologram again. It creates an image of the dead Earth being surrounded by many space machines. The Overseer is informing you what happened with our home planet.

The Overseer WANTED you to come visit it, and prove you were stronger than it. Now it has accepted you have bested it, and warmly teaches us about what the machines have done to preserve the life of planet Earth. This is not like the Matrix where the robots wanted to be the rulers. The robots in this game want humans to become great again.

When its holographic display of the dead Earth finishes, the Overseer flings you into space as an ascended player. It MUST be the Overseer supporting your ascencesion, because theoretically if the Overseer was dead there wouldn't be much explanation to how your player is magically zooming in space.

if you look VERY closely, the ARK your player lands in is not the island. It is Scorched Earth.

You may have bested the Overseer, but you're not done with your evolution yet. A second challenge is given. A harder one.


This part below is pure speculation with no supporting evidence:

Aberration takes place on a destroyed ARK where animals have mutated into twisted forms and Humans have run rabid. Perhaps they sent you there to fix it? Considering Helena the Dossier Writer has lived on the Island and Scorched Earth and is canonically related to this adventure, perhaps the robots sent her (and possibly you, the player) to wipe out the imperfect humans to continue evolution progression (since the mutant humans are signs of de-evolution)

Or you can watch this video where it translates the quaternary coded messages in the space station and see what its all about (Hint, our characters are already not ♥♥♥♥ sapien. they're ♥♥♥♥ deus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqCWbUJSLaA

THE OVERSEER ROOM AND THE ISLAND SHARE THE SAME MAP PLANE!?

[retsam1]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

THE OVERSEER ROOM AND THE ISLAND SHARE THE SAME MAP PLANE!?

No. Plane would indicate they're even to the ark, This would mean no beacons would drop frm the station down to the ark if they were on the same plane spacially. They are above it. Hence it would be more apt to say they are above and parallel to the plane of each Ark.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

THE OVERSEER ROOM AND THE ISLAND SHARE THE SAME MAP PLANE!?

No. Plane would indicate they're even to the ark, This would mean no beacons would drop frm the station down to the ark if they were on the same plane spacially. They are above it. Hence it would be more apt to say they are above and parallel to the plane of each Ark.

Nonononono I meant by the in-game 3D map model

[retsam1]

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Originally posted by retsam1:

No. Plane would indicate they're even to the ark, This would mean no beacons would drop frm the station down to the ark if they were on the same plane spacially. They are above it. Hence it would be more apt to say they are above and parallel to the plane of each Ark.

Nonononono I meant by the in-game 3D map model

Still not understanding what you're asking.

If because you see the arenas in the station's video that they're on the same map as the ark from a coded/developer standpoint, no. Station is its own seperate "map" just like the boss fights are(and no the arenas you see on the station are mockups not the actual arenas one fights in either from my understanding). You just load to a different map when you "teleport" from the tek cave to the station.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by ⚡Shockal⚡:

Nonononono I meant by the in-game 3D map model

Still not understanding what you're asking.

If because you see the arenas in the station's video that they're on the same map as the ark from a coded/developer standpoint, no. Station is its own seperate "map" just like the boss fights are(and no the arenas you see on the station are mockups not the actual arenas one fights in either from my understanding). You just load to a different map when you "teleport" from the tek cave to the station.

Heyyy don't block me I wanted to discuss about this map thing