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Tifu Jul 22, 2020 @ 3:47pm
Question about escape pod 1 and 2 survivors
So I am just wondering if I missed a potentially interesting text scroll. I know escape pod 1 and 2 crashed on Ember Twin and Brittle Hollow, and for a while they weren't in communication with each other due to more pressing survival concerns, and eventually they clearly got into constant communication with one another, sharing research and working on huge projects together - but I am uncertain how long they were not in communication for, was it days? Years?

Is there a text scroll anywhere that covers them meeting back up for the first time/one of the two settlements making the discovery that at least the other escape pod survived?
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Nert Jul 22, 2020 @ 5:51pm 
Years, not quite a full generation but close to one (Filix certainly is a survivor of the crash but is around at the advent of warp travel, as per a conversation near the Brittle Hollow warp receiver)

It's not explicit but you can tell from a few things, firstly they needed to build the gravity cannons to reestablish travel and presumably pair conversation stones, enough time would have had to pass to have a reason for keeping separate cities with schools and so on, but ultimately the story of Poke gives the most concrete clues, you can find some journal notes from her in the Hanging City

She was born on Ember Twin and apprentice to Annona, the warp core architect. By the time they get the Black Hole Forge built and working, Annona has passed and Poke having at least come of age, is the only one capable of operating it, having to recreate Annona's work but having never seen it herself

The logs from when they crash report that the beacons and pods are all at least intact and broadcasting, but we don't discover when exactly they made contact again. It's likely the conversation walls and stones need to be paired before they can communicate so they had to physically meet up first, but they would've at least known which planets to try from the beacons.
Tifu Jul 23, 2020 @ 2:55am 
Thanks! That helps clear up the timeline for me. Glad to know I'm not missing a huge bit of lore there.
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