So... What Happened?

[Purrz]

I know that the story is set in post apocalyptic conditions, but do they even say exactly what happened to the world? I don't see it mentioned, but that's probably just me skipping dialog too fast as always

[Adesanya]

They never say why, only THAT. Which is probably a good thing ... imagination can fill i n the blanks .. except for those who don't have one LOL

[David Davidson]

Considering it was literally called "the age of darkness" and there is more saying that "the sun finally appeared after 300 years" I assume it was either a massive pollution issue, a supervolcanic eruption or nuclear winter.
Thefact that church of light blames modern technology (weapons especially) for the age of darkness so I assume I was nuclear winter or pollution-induced smog.

There isn't much info though and you have to assume the church of light is telling the truth, so alot is left to your imagination.

I would assume runaway fusion/antimatter reactions would cause the same damage. Though the mutated species of crops and animals seem to suggest a radioactive disaster, or another one that caused quick mutation via damage of DNA.

Assuming the plants and animals weren't genetically modified to be that way in the first place.

[Purrz]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

Considering it was literally called "the age of darkness" and there is more saying that "the sun finally appeared after 300 years" I assume it was either a massive pollution issue, a supervolcanic eruption or nuclear winter.
Thefact that church of light blames modern technology (weapons especially) for the age of darkness so I assume I was nuclear winter or pollution-induced smog.

There isn't much info though and you have to assume the church of light is telling the truth, so alot is left to your imagination.

I would assume runaway fusion/antimatter reactions would cause the same damage. Though the mutated species of crops and animals seem to suggest a radioactive disaster, or another one that caused quick mutation via damage of DNA.

Assuming the plants and animals weren't genetically modified to be that way in the first place.

Yea I kinda thought the same, considering the sewer dungeons with toxic gas, pollution etc. Also maybe something to do with the technology becoming "too advanced" considering the robots, and they call TVs "old world relics"

[Iyasenu]

I wonder how Peach "brought back the sun", too.

If clouds (or pollution/smog/whatever darkness) had been covering the sky and blocking out the sun, then how could they have fixed that?

Did they just fly across the sky with a giant net or something? :p
Where'd all that go to, as well? Was it just cleansed or was it just moved somewhere else?


Another interesting thing is the Peripheries.
Sounds like Monster Hunter land out there.

And Portia isn't TOO far away from there, it'd be kind of neat to join on an expedition there sometime. Maybe.

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

I wonder how Peach "brought back the sun", too.

If clouds (or pollution/smog/whatever darkness) had been covering the sky and blocking out the sun, then how could they have fixed that?

Did they just fly across the sky with a giant net or something? :p
Where'd all that go to, as well? Was it just cleansed or was it just moved somewhere else?


Another interesting thing is the Peripheries.
Sounds like Monster Hunter land out there.

And Portia isn't TOO far away from there, it'd be kind of neat to join on an expedition there sometime. Maybe.

Does it say he brought back the sun?
I mean it takes a few hundred years for a nuclear winter to clear. Maybe he was just the first guy to point at the sky and say "hey guise, what's that?"

If not maybe he found some sort of transforming tech on the planet.
I mean we don't even know if it's earth. Star Explorers is in game as a relic so we may be on a failed transforming project, or a distant planet where embryos were sent along with AIs to teach said embryos to be human but there was a catastrophic failure on the ship and the AIs killed people instead.

[RAD-82]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

I mean we don't even know if it's earth.

Petra mentions the Hubble Space Telescope, so I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be Earth.

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by RAD-82:

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

I mean we don't even know if it's earth.

Petra mentions the Hubble Space Telescope, so I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be Earth.

Ah. Guess I should have been listening to dialogue more then.

I suppose the buildings and ruins wouldn't make much sense if it was off-world.

[G Willikers]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

I wonder how Peach "brought back the sun", too.

If clouds (or pollution/smog/whatever darkness) had been covering the sky and blocking out the sun, then how could they have fixed that?

Did they just fly across the sky with a giant net or something? :p
Where'd all that go to, as well? Was it just cleansed or was it just moved somewhere else?


Another interesting thing is the Peripheries.
Sounds like Monster Hunter land out there.

And Portia isn't TOO far away from there, it'd be kind of neat to join on an expedition there sometime. Maybe.

Does it say he brought back the sun?
I mean it takes a few hundred years for a nuclear winter to clear. Maybe he was just the first guy to point at the sky and say "hey guise, what's that?"

I think someone at some point mentions they were driven underground for a while, so he may've united some groups of people and figured out a way to clear the atmosphere enough for life on the surface to be possible.

What's also interesting is that some of the dialogues and descriptions imply that all this happened just a generation or two ago, so the skies have likely only been clear for about 50-100 years at this point.

[JVC]

I think it is Lee that mentions a grandmother living underground in darkness. The story about Peach parting the clouds is probably just that he was a pilot, so he travelled above the clouds and saw the sun.

His statue in Peach plaza looks like he is wearing a pilot's uniform and the statue's pillar has a sign on the front that looks like a plane.

[Adesanya]

Could be it was like Logan's Run, also .......

[Molly ~]

There were reliable on technology too much, and maybe it cause the event like Terminator. Because as you see in Ack story, he was sent out in a space by robots, that mean robots already control the world?, human used robots to do everything and he mention that in his time, robots are all around the place.

There are a picture about robots destroy human and city and some about nuclear, so maybe Robots went out of control, destroy human, some human used nuclear to kill them? or maybe robots do trigger nuclear apocalypse like the Terminator movie? So the rest that survive were stay or hide in the cave/bunker and called it "Age of darkness" because nuclear cloud, radioactive world, then sometime pass the world back to normal and so they get out and start the new age, new world.

[Purrz]

Originally posted by ~ Molly ~:

There were reliable on technology too much, and maybe it cause the event like Terminator. Because as you see in Ack story, he was sent out in a space by robots, that mean robots already control the world?, human used robots to do everything and he mention that in his time, robots are all around the place.

There are a picture about robots destroy human and city and some about nuclear, so maybe Robots went out of control, destroy human, some human used nuclear to kill them? or maybe robots do trigger nuclear apocalypse like the Terminator movie? So the rest that survive were stay or hide in the cave/bunker and called it "Age of darkness" because nuclear cloud, radioactive world, then sometime pass the world back to normal and so they get out and start the new age, new world.

Yea!! also its kinda weird, when Ack comes they treat him as if he can feel emotions, but theres some confusion so thats very possible

[Molly ~]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

I wonder how Peach "brought back the sun", too.

If clouds (or pollution/smog/whatever darkness) had been covering the sky and blocking out the sun, then how could they have fixed that?

Did they just fly across the sky with a giant net or something? :p
Where'd all that go to, as well? Was it just cleansed or was it just moved somewhere else?


Another interesting thing is the Peripheries.
Sounds like Monster Hunter land out there.

And Portia isn't TOO far away from there, it'd be kind of neat to join on an expedition there sometime. Maybe.

Nobody brought it back, if you pay attention to the story, it seem like it was just a "magical" tale, like a religions, mythical story. What really happen could be that they are the first to get out there, and see that the sun is out, and safe for other to get out (connect with my theory above).

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by ~ Molly ~:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

I wonder how Peach "brought back the sun", too.

If clouds (or pollution/smog/whatever darkness) had been covering the sky and blocking out the sun, then how could they have fixed that?

Did they just fly across the sky with a giant net or something? :p
Where'd all that go to, as well? Was it just cleansed or was it just moved somewhere else?


Another interesting thing is the Peripheries.
Sounds like Monster Hunter land out there.

And Portia isn't TOO far away from there, it'd be kind of neat to join on an expedition there sometime. Maybe.

Nobody brought it back, if you pay attention to the story, it seem like it was just a "magical" tale, like a religions, mythical story. What really happen could be that they are the first to get out there, and see that the sun is out, and safe for other to get out (connect with my theory above). :csd2smile:

Well that's a theory, but would that really be the case?

Because even Petra says that Peach "brought back the blue sky".
And she's with the Research Center, not the Church.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1646440540
(Ignore that she says "Pique" that's just a typo, same with "Duros")

And she's saying this in relation to smog, so maybe Peach had found some way to clear the pollution from the sky, at least enough to make it liveable again, as apparently there's still smog sometimes in other places of the world.

[Pok]

Wendy does mention being nuked from orbit by rail guns I think.