I’m making this new topic for 2 main reasons:
- only having 3 replies before having to wait for someone else was annoying
- about 50% of the information on the old lore topic was just wrong or misleading
From this point onward, everything on the old lore topic (apart from the wiki and what I bring over here) is to be considered OUTDATED.
With that out of the way, actual lore:
Some time in the past, an ancient dragonlike race sought dominion over all of the universe due to a flawed religious dogma, and in this quest 2 things happen that affect the present heavily. I won’t be revealing these yet though.
Present day humanity knows about none of this. The setting is a cyberpunk style world where humanity is a newly space-faring civilization that is seeking to chart out planets for potential inhabitable worlds. During these expeditions, they find a strange cube shaped alien lifeform that was in some sort of coma, and he doesn’t remember a thing. The story follows our cube, Cobalt, as he tries to figure out what happened in the past, and takes up the role of an historian/archaeologist to hopefully find the truth.
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Now I’ll bring over the useful stuff from the old lore page:
Everything here is still accurate.
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Actually not really much from the old lore page that isn’t on the wiki already, so here’s a quick bullet list:
- all Cubes are ambidextrous, but they do have preferences
- NeoMetal does still take place some time after CT3
- not much else actually
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can cubes have disabilities
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Character info coming soon-ish.
I cannot draw for the life of me
HSS PZ WYVJLLKPUN HZ WSHUULK
AOLF DVBSK UVA BUKLYZAHUK
NPCLU LUVBNO APTL THURPUK DPSS MHSS IF AOLPY VDU OHUK
AOLF DVBSK ULCLY BUKLYZAHUK
PM P KV UVA PUALYCLUL THURPUK DPSS JVUZBTL PAZLSM
AOLF YLMBZL AV BUKLYZAHUK
P HT ZPTWSF JHYYFPUN VBA TF KPYLJAPCL
HUK PM AOLF DPSS UVA BUKLYZAHUK
ZV IL PA
P ZLL AOL ULD VUL JHBZPUN HU BWYVHY
UV THAALY
AOLF OHCL ILLU HJJVBUALK MVY
VUL UHTLSLZZ BWZAHYA DPSS UVA KLYHPS KLJHKLZ VM LMMVYA
CVPK PZ AOL RLF
HUK P ZOHSS LUZBYL PA PZ PU ZHML OHUKZ
a7h
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I’m crying tears of joy from this speech
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You do realize it’s encoded, right?
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If nobody gets it by the end of the week I’ll post the decoded version.
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09/02/2039
Translation of an audio log found alongside the aforementioned alien research notes. Note that due to how recently the language has been discovered they may be errors present.
"Come here, I’ve prepared a demonstration of my design.
Compact, no wasted space. The appendages have been minimized while still retaining full motor control.
Outer casing is durable and flexible, allowing for maximum mobility without sacrificing defensive prowess.
There is no use in mimicking what already exists, these will be being of pure Aether.
They’ve no need for sustenance, they will subsist off of the universe itself.
And lastly, this weapon would be useless without agency. It will be free to make its own decisions without outside orders.
Well, what do you think? Is it not a perfect design?"
This is a very interesting revelation, as it shows that this alien society had advanced to the point of tampering with life and playing God. What could have possibly happened to make them vanish so suddenly?
And why does that design sound…familiar?
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Shoot I forgot
anyways, this was a simple Ceaser cipher.
The a7h at the bottom was meant to convey that each letter of the original message was shifted forward by 7, such that A becomes H, B becomes I, etc.
Decoded message:
ALL IS PROCEEDING AS PLANNED
THEY WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND
GIVEN ENOUGH TIME MANKIND WILL FALL BY THEIR OWN HAND
THEY WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND
IF I DO NOT INTERVENE MANKIND WILL CONSUME ITSELF
THEY REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND
I AM SIMPLY CARRYING OUT MY DIRECTIVE
AND IF THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND
SO BE IT
I SEE THE NEW ONE CAUSING AN UPROAR
NO MATTER
THEY HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR
ONE NAMELESS UPSTART WILL NOT DERAIL DECADES OF EFFORT
VOID IS THE KEY
AND I SHALL ENSURE IT IS IN SAFE HANDS
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Please consult the chart.
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Also yeah minor redesigns to the characters happened.
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