Is there a plot summary for 1 - 3?

[Lawtonfogle]

I've played 3 some years ago and barely remember anything about the plot. Takes place in the far far future and has some twist, but I don't even recall what the twist is. Haven't played 1 or 2 before. In preparation for 4, is there a plot summary of the first three games? Thanks.

[Dfu]

I haven't finished the third one, but I can tell ya what I recall of the first 2.

Creeper world 1:
you, the mc(named but I forgot his name), are the general of the army and are fighting the creeper, and quickly loosing ground, there is only 1 planet left, the one your protecting.
you hear word of an artifact of some ancient civilization that once fought the creeper. once you reach that planet and activate the relic, you realize that you maybe able to the creeper back and begin reclaiming planets.
soon you make it to the final planet in which you discover that Creeper are immortal and that you can at best suppress them. on the planet where the biggest creeper orb is, you command you army to activate the relic, which is essentially a dimensional transporter. in essence banishing the creeper to some universe it had already destroyed.

Creeper world 2:
The mc returns and is helping reclaim planets, as although the many of the creeper were banished, but alot hid deep underground so during each reclamation, dormant creepers activate in its your mission to suppress them. you have a daughter who is a super genius and a leading engineer and anti creeper weaponry and she is even the inventor of the anticreeper. as the story progresses, the mc discovers that the creeper threat is still very real and that the dormant creeper are trying to open a portal to transport the main creeper back into the mc universe, this is when the mc discovers that the creeper is in fact intelligent, and I believe it is mention that they are something akin to entropy, its purpose is to completely destroy all life.
the ending is a bit hazy but the mc sacrifices himself to stop the creepers advance.

Creeper world 3:
I haven't finished the third but I do know some of it.

the mc wakes up, wondering why he is alive and that is when an Ai in the ship he woke up in begins to talk to him. the Ai explains the ai have returned and have destroyed most of the universe and that many millennia have gone by, the ai tells the mc that he was explicitly choose by the ancient race, the ones who had once fought the creeper, to finish the job. the Ai explains that after the mc's disappearance , his daughter took his place and had even managed to create a device that can truly destroy creeper orbs. I think its also hinted that the ai, is his daughter, or something like that.

anyways, I haven't finished it but I believe the point of the game is to activate the ancient relics and to destroy the creeper once and for all, and also its the most lonely since the mc doesn't have allies, he is completely alone, at least in the first half this is the case.

[Dfu]

all right, finally finished the third one.

in the third one it revealed by the loki, the creatures that created that creeper, that you are their originator, you are the reason that the decided to destroy all of existence. at this point the ai reveals itself to be in fact your daughter, the loki tell you that you are not hum an but rather an immortal entity, your daughter is the same and is why she and you are still alive after billions of years.
your givin a choice to aid the loki, or to remain the man who was a general and fought back the creeper threat. I don't know what happens if you aid the loki, but if you remain who you are you choose to fight back. despite the fact that the Arc eternal has been built and your daughter explains that once its been built it cannot be unbuilt.

anyways, one you defeat the loki, your daughter expalins that although you can't destroy the arc, you can use it to jump realities and perhaps even travel sevearl billion years into the past, the time when the loki first rose to prominence. and then their is a little epilogue that you are plaitus, the guy that created most of the weaponry for game who has aided you through all three installments and who is always a step ahead of the loki to an absurd degree.

like he legit timed the falling of an ancient weapon billions of years in advance.
anyways, haven't played the demo yet and don't know if its continuation. but if it is, the mc will likely be platius who will try to stop the creeper before they even begin.

[evilauthor]

CW1 is the story of Odin City, a mobile city that contains the last of humanity after the galaxy has been overrun by the Creeper which is led by Abraxis. With the help of Platius, they defeat the Creeper. This happens at the end of humanity's first galactic civilization.

CW2 is the story of the beginning of the second galactic civilization. Abraxis actually has a supporting role here as the MC is a subordinate of his commanding a ship charged with removing the remaining Creeper from the galaxy as humanity rebuilds. The creeper attacks again, and the new MC defeats it.

CW3 makes Abraxis the mc again, who wakes up billions of years after CW2 to find the universe dead with only the Loki and Creeper remaining. The story of CW1 and CW2 was apparently repeated countless times over the eons until humanity was FINALLY wiped out for good, which is the condition for waking Abraxis up from cryo. During the climax of the game, it's revealed Abraxis is somehow more than merely mortal because no mortal being could survive billions of years in primitive cryo sleep. Abraxis then fights the Loki for control of the Arc, the thing that would make it's possessor an infinite being able to traverse all of time.

CW3 has multiple endings based on player choice. And I've read some speculation online that all three endings are actually true. And they're all true because the decision moment where the Abraxis decides to be good or bad results in split timelines.

Ending 1: Abraxis beats the Loki without uncovering the Arc. He lives a lonely existance in an empty universe.

Ending 2: The Arc is uncovered and Abraxis decides to be good and becomes Platius, going back in time to help humanity.

Ending 3: The Arc is uncovered and Abraxis decides to be bad, becoming Imperius, who goes back in time to help the Loki create the Creeper and uncover the Arc.

IOW, the entire billions year long war between humanity and the Loki/creeper is really a huge bootstrap paradox war between two different versions of the mc from two different futures that are fighting each other.

There's a spinoff game in the franchise called Particle Fleet. It deals with a group called the "Ticon Corporation" who are part of the 146th civilization, and the Ticon are one of the more militant civilizations mentioned in CW3. And they didn't fight the Creeper itself, but rather a menace known as the "Particulate" which (spoilers!) turns out to be a bad copy version of the Creeper created by the previous 145th human civilization known as the Seloi, which in CW3 were noted to be the only human civilization to figure out what the Loki were really after (ie, the Arc), and that the Particulate was created as an attempt by the Seloi to beat the Loki to the punch.

And hey guess what? The apparent protagonist of CW4? His name is also "Seloi". Coincidence? I think not.

[Khayn]

A bit necro'd but some time ago I found this on official wiki - it's far from complete and full of 'to be done's though
I'm also very interested in this, as player char, at least from demo, is called Seloi. Quite important name in Particle Fleet...

https://knucklecracker.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lore_page

[FroBodine]

A bit necro'd? Hardly. It's only been one month. Even if a year or more has gone by, and your response is still relevant, there's nothing wrong with responding to an old thread. At least in my book it's fine.

[Idlemind]

Creeper bad

[MotS]

Originally posted by Idlemind:

Creeper bad

Guns good!