The Nameless Theory

[GLS]

We all by this point know about the new DLC coming in October called Abberation. In it will be mutated creatures of all kinds. There are some that we already know of. Namely, the Rockdrake, the Glowpug, the Cave Crestasean, and possibly the most sinister sounding the Nameless.

I have some cool ideas for where the Nameless could have come from. They are described as humanoids, and this gives some obvious clues. But first, I have to go into detail as to what I think is the backstory of Abberation.

I think Abberation is actually the first ARK built. They created many dinosaurs, and a complex cave system underground. They made some new creatures that weren't dinosaurs, and they got too ambitious. The Obelisk design was unbalanced and primitive compared to the ones seen now. And they malfunctioned...

If we look in the Explorer Notes, we can find some more clues. It says in the Helena Scorched Earth Explorer Notes that the larger ruins on the edge of the habital part of the Desert were a great human civilization, but soon they got destroyed by the Obelisks when they became too advanced. The Obelisks in Abberation malfunctioned and did this on a wide spread scale. They warped the very surface of the ARK, widening the already complex cave system, demolishing the Atmosphere and exposing the land to radiation. All dinosaurs that survived fled underground, and learned to survive there. That is why there will likely be fewer of the original creatures in Abberation. Other dinosaurs that couldn't flee quickly enough became horribly mutated. And not just the dinosaurs. There were survivors on this ARK as well... Many fled underground, but those who could not in time were caught in the flares of radiation, others stumbled into the Element caverns. All of them had the same mutation. They became the Nameless, and the one who was exposed to the most became the Nameless Queen. They either have no memory of their past selves, or remember and have a deep hatred for the survivors who were untouched, and have a warped view of humanity.

The Nameless are mutated survivors. Think about that when you have to kill them when Abberation comes out. Thanks for Reading, I would love to hear feedback!

[Astaroth]

do you know what a xenomorph is? i think you missed the part about chest busters and as said xenomorphs. All written by devs,not from my fantasy XD

[GLS]

I remember seeing that somewhere yes. I remember the chest bursters yes, but I do not remember what a xenomorph is. Could you explain?

Edit: You mean this quote from the Abberation page of the Official Wiki?

"Aberration places survivors on a damaged ARK: its internal atmosphere has leaked away, resulting in a harsh surface with intense radiation, and a plethora of lush biomes underground. With the maintenance systems of this ARK malfunctioning, the many hazards, creatures, and nature of the environment present a thrilling new world to explore and master.

The intense radiation of Aberration has led to incredible genetic mutations, resulting in new creatures with amazing abilities! Among others, clamber up walls & glide through the air on the back of a camouflaging chameleon-like ‘Rock Drake’, keep the dark at bay with a friendly ‘Lantern Pug’, grab and toss multiple creatures simultaneously with a massive ‘Cave Crustacean’, or -- if you are talented enough to tame one -- command the vile ‘Nameless Queen’ to impregnate your foes with a horrifying reproductive chest-burster!"

[Ghost]

Just keeping an eye will read soon!!

[Eldrum]

Personally I think the nameless may be from some other ARK/planet. Their noses look like that you would see on a dog, they also have tails and other features; one could argue this was the direct result of hyper-mutation but I don't know, we'll have to figure that one out once the actual expansion ARK is out.

In ARK: Aberration, (from what we've seen so far) there is a broken TEK mega support structure. Whatever happend was probably not inside of this ARK's control. If you look at the debris from the broken TEK pillar, it seems like something hit it at high velocity. I want to say meteor automatically, but looking at the debris from it, it seems like it may of been hit from the ARK itself.
If anyone has further information on what angle the pillar was hit at, please inform me.

Conclusion: Going off of observation, the nameless themselves are either other-worldy or they mutated drastically in the Aberration ARK. They are probably not humans as their features are very, very different and they look smaller. If they came from a meteor (just noticed there's a crater with a glowing object in the middle of this ARK from the final boss's observation chamber) they may of came from the moon (it was broken, may of been launched because of this, very unlikely though) or some other place.

Chances are I'm completely wrong as there's no solid evidence to back any of this up. I'd be happy to hear what anyone who reads this thinks.

EDIT: In the latest survivetheark.com digest (50), Jeremy Stieglitz responded to a question regarding the mutated creatures by saying: "Yes, there will be some indications along those lines. What developed into the Nameless?" Emphasis on the word "developed". Either this means something on this ARK developed into the nameless or maybe some small other-worldly thing developed into the nameless.

[Eldrum]

Another possibilty for how Aberration broke down is maybe since the developers stated "The ARKs aren't perfect" the elemental charge inside of one of the TEK mega-structure for the green obelisk (deduced since the logo is purple which is red + blue) over-loaded and exploded. This wouldn't explain the origins of the nameless though.

[123]

Now here comes the tryhard pvp dude,

I heard something about a elemental chamber?
Can we farm elementium there? ;) game changer amiright?

[Eldrum]

Originally posted by Sneakier:

Now here comes the tryhard pvp dude,

I heard something about a elemental chamber?
Can we farm elementium there? ;) game changer amiright?

According to the latest digest you can indeed farm element in some way on Aberration. Unfortunantly not transfer-able.

Quoting from digest #50 in response to what are Element Chambers "They are zones of intense radiation where it is possible to collect Element Ore, as well as encounter certain hideous, aggressive creatures." He also confirmed in the same digest that we'd be able to farm element in Aberration (assuming he wasn't referring to the traditional boss fight farming)

[Bosskiller]

Originally posted by Sneakier:

Now here comes the tryhard pvp dude,

I heard something about a elemental chamber?
Can we farm elementium there? ;) game changer amiright?

The devs said you will be able to directly harvest element on this map though they haven't said exactly how

[retsam1]

Originally posted by M.R.Smith:

We all by this point know about the new DLC coming in October called Abberation. In it will be mutated creatures of all kinds. There are some that we already know of. Namely, the Rockdrake, the Glowpug, the Cave Crestasean, and possibly the most sinister sounding the Nameless.

I have some cool ideas for where the Nameless could have come from. They are described as humanoids, and this gives some obvious clues. But first, I have to go into detail as to what I think is the backstory of Abberation.

I think Abberation is actually the first ARK built. They created many dinosaurs, and a complex cave system underground. They made some new creatures that weren't dinosaurs, and they got too ambitious. The Obelisk design was unbalanced and primitive compared to the ones seen now. And they malfunctioned...

If we look in the Explorer Notes, we can find some more clues. It says in the Helena Scorched Earth Explorer Notes that the larger ruins on the edge of the habital part of the Desert were a great human civilization, but soon they got destroyed by the Obelisks when they became too advanced. The Obelisks in Abberation malfunctioned and did this on a wide spread scale. They warped the very surface of the ARK, widening the already complex cave system, demolishing the Atmosphere and exposing the land to radiation. All dinosaurs that survived fled underground, and learned to survive there. That is why there will likely be fewer of the original creatures in Abberation. Other dinosaurs that couldn't flee quickly enough became horribly mutated. And not just the dinosaurs. There were survivors on this ARK as well... Many fled underground, but those who could not in time were caught in the flares of radiation, others stumbled into the Element caverns. All of them had the same mutation. They became the Nameless, and the one who was exposed to the most became the Nameless Queen. They either have no memory of their past selves, or remember and have a deep hatred for the survivors who were untouched, and have a warped view of humanity.

The Nameless are mutated survivors. Think about that when you have to kill them when Abberation comes out. Thanks for Reading, I would love to hear feedback!

If you have ascended and you have watched or translated your self the quaternary messages in the ascension station, you'll know that our characters are the evolved/engineered species known as ♥♥♥♥ deus(there are a few videos on this btw as well)

That said, I asked a similar question for the upcomming community crunch weekly news letter but we'll see if we get an answer. An abberation of our ♥♥♥♥ deus species on the ark(something akin to morlocks perhaps) may fit.

[Sir Novaraptor]

How they hopped around and acted, it kind of reminded me of jerboa! I doubt that's what they are mutated from though. I'm still curious on what the abberation boss is gonna be considering it states it as being, "somehow familiar" and is labeled as a "him" instead of an "it" like the other bosses...

[Eldrum]

Originally posted by Sir Novaraptor:

How they hopped and around and acted, it kind of reminded me of jerboa! I doubt that's what they are mutated from though. I'm still curious on what the abberation boss is gonna be considering it states it as being, "somehow familiar" and is labeled as a "him" instead of it like the other bosses...

(Realization hits, rest in peace how I look at jerboas)

I just realized the nameless is probably a 50% gremlins reference if it really turns out to be this. Though, that would only make sense if it was originally a Scorched Earth ARK before things went bad.

Someone said the boss may be Rockwell from the explorer notes but who knows.

[Sir Novaraptor]

I just thought, maybe the nameless are descendents of the beings that built the ARKs and they were present when the Abberation ARK malfunctioned. Over time they became mutants and reverted back to a more animalistic state?

[Sir Novaraptor]

Originally posted by Eldrum:

Originally posted by Sir Novaraptor:

How they hopped and around and acted, it kind of reminded me of jerboa! I doubt that's what they are mutated from though. I'm still curious on what the abberation boss is gonna be considering it states it as being, "somehow familiar" and is labeled as a "him" instead of it like the other bosses...

(Realization hits, rest in peace how I look at jerboas)

I just realized nameless is probably a gremlins reference if it really turns out to be this. Though, that would only make sense if it was originally a Scorched Earth ARK before things went bad.

Someone said the boss may be Rockwell from the explorer notes but who knows.

I actually thought it was Rockwell too, him or Gaius Marcellus Nerva, which was the Roman dude who tried to take over the entire Island by wiping out other tribes.

[Sir Novaraptor]

If it would happen to be one of them, i wonder if they'll happen to be mutated aswell?

[Eldrum]

Originally posted by Sir Novaraptor:

Originally posted by Eldrum:

(Realization hits, rest in peace how I look at jerboas)

I just realized nameless is probably a gremlins reference if it really turns out to be this. Though, that would only make sense if it was originally a Scorched Earth ARK before things went bad.

Someone said the boss may be Rockwell from the explorer notes but who knows.

I actually thought it was Rockwell too, him or Gaius Marcellus Nerva, which was the Roman dude who tried to take over the entire Island by wiping out other tribes.

Didn't even think of Nerva. It would make sense since there's a mystery character that will be present in ARK: Aberration and Mei Yin was in the mix as well. Last time Nerva was seen in the explorer notes was at the observation platform before/after the final boss was defeated (I'm a bit confused as to what happens to Nerva as he says "How could I come all of this way for nothing??" combined with the blood on the pages of the explorer note that he wrote on)