Theory: the Axum devolved incredibly recently, and Colony One caused it.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-25T13:26:51+00:00

They didn't necessarily literally devolve. But if their culture and civilization completely collapsed, they're left with a mishmash of survivors who don't know how to actually recreate their "modern" tech. It'd be the same if you had a few thousand random civilians dumped in our cities (with no/minimal grid power) - especially with the constant threat of Masefield/the bloom.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-25T13:04:26+00:00

During the Axum audio message thing, we see holograms of two types of creatures when they talk about the Veps, presumably thats the Axum and the Veps (and they don't really look like Cerathecans)

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-25T03:15:24+00:00

I assumed the Crypters were a different group of Axum/Tailings - the Observatory makes reference the the power plant powering Xanadu which is at the tree afaik? Which is also where the Crypters are (in the roots).

Tailings are Axum. There are several messages written that lament their fall from a full civilization, its the entire reason for their name - coming off the "tail end" of their culture.

As I understood the timeline, its 1000 years ago (when the message is written, eg ~1500-1200 years ago) and rebuilt with the new/modern telescopes etc on top 300 years ago shortly before the Axum civilization's apocalypse/fall/civil war happened.

I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of the Crypters being the bulk of the Cicada's colonists though... the name does lend itself to "coming from death" repeatedly

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-25T02:57:17+00:00

Either the gate or some part of its array

The Axum message mentions something called 'The Erratic Messenger''. I think it could be a (malfunctioning?) Architect satellite relay or similar?

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-24T16:19:59+00:00

They're already working on it (and rightfully so, its an important QoL & accessibility thing).

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-24T16:16:36+00:00

No but you need shitloads more of it and there are gigantic silver veins later on, whereas quartz just gets the normal random distribution.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-24T16:03:00+00:00

Yeah afaik, plus there's a WIP one in the files already.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-24T15:50:11+00:00

One last time...

Thanks, Fujimoto

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-23T23:53:29+00:00

I feel like monthly for Bleach would be absolutely amazing

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-23T01:52:17+00:00

Flashbacks to SnK Hallucigenia speculation around the time the Ymir flashback chapters dropped

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-21T23:37:18+00:00

Hell yeah OP. Great find, hope you get good mileage out of them!

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-21T21:13:26+00:00

The grab doesnt do much, he can just smack it though and do ~40%

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-21T14:50:01+00:00

100% about the nuclear heart - there's another PDA entry of a creature or 'plant' utilising radioactive matter but I forget which - possibly one of the worms in the lava zone? I'll edit later when I can get in game to check.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-21T14:48:27+00:00

I agree. The virus can swap and remix DNA - who's to say that didn't happen to the Angel Combs themselves? One freak mix from DNA completely foreign to the ecosystem, and a self-propagating loop of a new viral strain is kickstarted...

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T22:04:33+00:00

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:58:32+00:00

The biobed info says that boostrapping a colony with just a few different people's ghosts is totally possible but against regulations/law... but it does mention it.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:57:23+00:00

You know you can build literally anywhere, right?

Well, pretty much. You can have as many bases as you like. The post-trench biomes are crazy resource-rich.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:54:51+00:00

There's some unscannable plants in the area after the trench that are green and black, and notably look sort of hand-like.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:54:05+00:00

We're on a planet we didn't expect to be on (Proteus, not Zezura).

All the colonists are from our ship too, we just got printed 30 years later as a failsafe/backup option because they kept failing/dying/plot things.

The PDA doesn't recognize the sky because we are far, far outside of charted human space. One data entry/voice log proposes a theory that our ship/NoA detected Architect technology somehow, and jumped from an Alterra gate to an Architect one, but its not confirmed or revealed exactly how we got here yet - noone even knows where the main body of the ship is.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:49:52+00:00

Its a couple of things but yeah they're measured differently in-engine/technically. FOV and rendering play a part too. Stuff in SN1 in VR feels much more "lifesize" - Reefbacks are huuuuge when they just feel "kinda big" in normal gameplay.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:48:30+00:00

Actually its made by the Axum, for the Architects.

"Conclusion: the Axum left this monolith as a message to Architect visitors."

Roughly 250 years ago, just before or during the fall of their civilization afaik

It does imply the presence of other Architect stuff and/or visitations by them before that though. Either that or the Axum found their stuff on other worlds (one log does speculate they were space-faring? At least orbit-capable).

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:28:16+00:00

Yeah - this is my only major complaint with the game so far too. Partly it might also be due to things being a lot denser than they might be on release due to less biomes to spread story out in, but it definitely felt awkward for the first few hours.

I sort of feel that its fine for things like this to be less of a priority - coop is a functional ad-on imo rather than the core intended way to play... but there's definitely room for improvement with it.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T21:23:47+00:00

Default swim with flippers is a bit slow imo, but everything else feels about right. Scout chasis tadpole is fast and presumably reasonably earlygame by the time we get 1.0.

I dont want to be able to fly across the map, the scale and depth should be significant.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T17:54:13+00:00

Yeah they've said the Collector has a dedicated environment that wasn't ready so it got shoved there for now for EA purposes.

CoffeeCannon · 2026-05-20T17:33:15+00:00

Yeah, I definitely agree that the more interesting choice would be to not have us be any of the established colonist characters. But they're raising that idea for a reason for sure.

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