Is Dark Bramble ever explained? (Spoilers)

[Sasparillafizz]

Like, all the other crazy stuff they go into more or less. Ghost matter, time travel, the eye of the universe, etc.

But a planet destroying plant that's shooting seeds out onto other planets? No one wants to touch this? Where it came from, how it does the TARDIS rooms, what the eff the angler fish are, etc?

All the NPC's, both living or deceased, just kinda brush it off as "Oh, yeah, it's a planet destroying plant. Now about that Ash Twin project..."

[Nert]

It's been there longer than either species, and spacial weirdness aside it really is just a mega-invasive plant

From how much force the seed hit Timber Hearth with it's obviously used to shooting seeds out to infect new planets so that's almost certainly how it came here, the 5th planet just drew the short straw. We know the 5th planet was likely an ice/water planet much like Giant's Deep but had the jellyfish, when bramble shattered it into the broken shell we see now and scattered bits of it across the solar system, it took frozen jellyfish with it to GD. It's likely a seed was shot at Ember back when it had flowing water and died out when the water dried up, but was there long enough for an anglerfish to pop out inside the overlook cave and potentially feed until it was too big to leave?

There's some theorising that dimensionally the space is even weirder, like the deeper you go the smaller things are - since the fish we see in the museum isn't even as big as the eggs we are, but the skeleton on Ember is full sized, and a scout shot into a seed doesn't dramatically grow in size

[CrazyJayBe]

The answer is: there is no answer. What we should think about is not to think about it.

And stuff.

[A1ch3mi57]

The universe is, therefore we are

[Nert]

Originally posted by sursurrus:

I read a LOT of reviews about the amazing deep plot before buying this game, and I have to say those people were weakminded idiots. None of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about quantum mechanics, warp, the time loop, and especially the seed pods makes any sense

"I didn't understand it so it's everyone else that's an idiot"

You do have to read to understand, but it's all in there

[CrazyJayBe]

wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

[hartfdsf]

Originally posted by sursurrus:

I read a LOT of reviews about the amazing deep plot before buying this game, and I have to say those people were weakminded idiots. None of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about quantum mechanics, warp, the time loop, and especially the seed pods makes any sense

Oh how fun you are, are you often going onto the forums of games you didn't enjoy and didn't understand to complain about how you didn't enjoy or understand them?

[Drogan]

I'm fine with Dark Branble nature being the only big mystery left, but I'm kind of let down we never learn how the ♥♥♥♥ the Nomai ended up there. Like what happen between picking up the signal from the eye and getting trapped in bramble, did they wrap directly into the core of the planet ?

[lieutenantkirtar]

Judging from the murals depicting their encounter with the dark bramble it looks like they were drifting in space towards the eye and got too close to either the destroyed planet or a seed and were either pulled in or had it grow around their ship.

[Nert]

Originally posted by Q:

I'm fine with Dark Branble nature being the only big mystery left, but I'm kind of let down we never learn how the ♥♥♥♥ the Nomai ended up there. Like what happen between picking up the signal from the eye and getting trapped in bramble, did they wrap directly into the core of the planet ?

They warped directly into it, there are a lot of theories as to exactly what was wrong, the signal might be quantum and wasn't where they expected it to be, or perhaps Bramble was echoing it and, much like they did at Pod3, they picked the wrong echo


FILIX: This is Escall’s <Vessel>; something went badly wrong during our warp, and our <Vessel> is mortally wounded. We need help as quickly as possible!
FILIX: Our <Vessel> appears to have... has it /fused/ with the local environment, somehow? There are vines that are now part of the <Vessel>! It’s been torn apart from inside itself!

THATCH: I can’t understand. Why did the <Vessel> crash in that place?
PLUME: Was the <Vessel> unwell in some way?
FILIX: We warped to follow that curious signal from the <Eye of the universe>. Where we arrived was wrong; it wasn’t where we tried to go.
THATCH: Suppose it wasn’t a problem with the <Vessel>, but with our destination.

[Raxxit]

My understanding is that for the characters, the Dark Bramble is a wholly new phenomenon, and a lot of the Nomai work done in that solar system was an attempt to understand and interact with it. No one knows much yet, because it's still being researched. Welcome to the team :D

[Frozenstep]

For me personally, I went into dark bramble once early game trying to follow a signal, and soon became hopelessly lost. I realized there was some spacial distortion and warping going on, but had no idea what to do about it. The loop ended with me confused and kinda frightened by the place.

I then proceeded to ignore that planet for as long as I could. I learned everything there was to know about every other planet before finally needing to return. So I emphasize with the Nomai, they had a lot of cool stuff to explore and were quite happy to avoid going back to that horrible place for as long as possible.

[FlynnTheFearless]

Originally posted by Nert:

Originally posted by Q:

I'm fine with Dark Branble nature being the only big mystery left, but I'm kind of let down we never learn how the ♥♥♥♥ the Nomai ended up there. Like what happen between picking up the signal from the eye and getting trapped in bramble, did they wrap directly into the core of the planet ?

"They warped directly into it, there are a lot of theories as to exactly what was wrong, the signal might be quantum and wasn't where they expected it to be, or perhaps Bramble was echoing it and, much like they did at Pod3, they picked the wrong echo"

They didn't warp into it like your theory suggest as you can clearly see in the murals it was absorbed after reaching the location. Upon being absorb they attempted escape with the pods. They also discuss how it all happened here in the hanging city.

[Nert]

Originally posted by uac.flynn.taggart:

They didn't warp into it like your theory suggest as you can clearly see in the murals it was absorbed after reaching the location. Upon being absorb they attempted escape with the pods. They also discuss how it all happened here in the hanging city.

The first part of what I pasted is from the Vessel at the moment it happened, the second is from the Hanging City, they distinctly call it a crash throughout

The mural shows them hearing the eye's signal in panel 1, and then inside bramble in panel 2, they warped between these panels