I know a lot of folks in here are big lore nerds. I am one myself. In fact, the story and lore was what hooked me to Firefall all those years back.
While we are still in a nascent stage when it comes to Em-8ER, the lore is already taking shape and definitely looks interesting. Most of what we have is currently available in the Vision Book available to backers, and in the Vision Book Proofing posts in The Vault section of the forums (available to everyone). The other lore details are available as part of the Video Update Lore Drops.
While the info in the Lore Drops is mostly derived from the Vision Book Lore sections, there is a lot of additional detail in there that's unavailable elsewhere. It certainly does make for interesting listening.
Some time last year, Markus asked on Discord if there were text versions of the Lore Drops, so that he could make a translated version for his friends. That prompted me to transcribe the Lore Drops from the Video Updates. More lore is always good, and having a written record that's easily accessible is even better.
So, with @Grummz 's permission, I'm posting the transcribed versions of the Lore Drops from the Video Updates. For reference, the links to the actual videos are posted after the respective lore drops.
Video Update #8
Lore Drop #1
Gatestriders
*Jump to 6:40*
Em-8ER takes place after humans have discovered Faster Than Light travel, using D-Gates, four-dimensional wormholes that allow ships to travel instantaneously between vast distances of space. But when a gate is first constructed, nobody knows where it will lead.
This is where the Gatestriders come in, the role that players assume in Em-8ER. Originally founded as a colony of the United Nations of America, the Gatestriders were originally known as the Omega Frontier, but they soon changed their new name to the Gatestriders, after discovery of D-Gates. Born risk-takers, explorers and rugged adventurers, Gatestriders undertook the dangerous task of exploring what lay beyond newly constructed gates.
The Gatestriders are some of the best survivalists and explorers of all the colonies. Their original home-world was harsh, and exposed them to a wide range of environmental conditions, from extreme deserts to frozen wastelands, long nights, hostile environments and predators. The wildly diverse range of conditions made genetic alterations somewhat impractical, and the people of the Omega Frontier tended to avoid genetic solutions as a whole. They preferred to test themselves, as they were, against their new world. They relied on their technology and survival skills to carve out a harsh existence, and still thrive. This made them the ideal forerunners of humanity’s expansion amongst the stars.
But when one Gatestrider ship inadvertently wandered into a region of space forbidden by the advanced human race known only as the Enshigi, the retaliation against their home-world was swift. The Enshigi destroyed the Gatestrider home-world instantly, and without warning, leaving the remaining survivors stranded amongst the stars.
The Gatestriders immediately took to finding a new home-world, and the discovery of resource rich Em-8ER looked to be their last and only hope. It is here on Em-8ER that the Gatestriders have staked their ultimate claim of a new home-world. Organized into clans known as reaper teams, they begin the work of terraforming the icy volcanic planet and mining the rich resources they would need to thrive.
Video Update #9
Lore Drop #2
Saldara Garrack
*Jump to 5:04*
The Gatestriders are the foremost explorers of the universe. They are the daring adventurers who are the first to traverse newly built D-gates, to discover what lies beyond. Each new gate, a new destination, opening randomly in the cosmos, and the discoveries beyond can lead to riches, or quick death. A solar system with lush habitable planets, an asteroid belt or nebula, rich in rare minerals or gases, or the iron grip of a black hole, were just some of the possibilities. And in each case, a Gatestrider would be there, first to dare, first to discover, first to name, and first to claim. A Firstclaimer.
Of all the Gatestriders, Garrack had always been the boldest amongst them. She had a knack for choosing gates. By luck, sheer coincidence or some hidden machinery of cosmic guidance, she would find world after world that enriched her sponsors and grew her fortune and glory. She was Firstclaimer to over two dozen solar systems and was always willing to push farther than anyone else into the unknown reaches of space. One day, Garrack pushed herself farther than she ever had, plunging through the scintillating sheen of a newly constructed D-gate, she arrived at an expanse of nothing, emptiness. This never happens. D-gates always open near gravitational wells with a star and possible solar system always nearby, always within reach of sub-light drive. But this time there was nothing but the cold tapestry of unrecognized stars draped across the distant blackness of space, with absolutely nothing in between. The rest of her reaper team arrived soon after, and they too were puzzled by the lack of anything nearby. They pushed farther and farther into the inky blackness, finding nothing.
After several weeks of this, they voted to begin construction of the return gate, a process that would establish a link pair and allow the Cartographer AIs of both gates o begin churning through the astrological data, and establish their true position in space. But by the time the gate was done and long before the high-speed data chittering of the AIs had finally established their location, the fate of Garracks team and their home-world was already sealed.
They had trespassed.
They were in a black zone. It was forbidden.
The advanced human splinter civilization known as the Enshigi had never been heard from in hundreds of years, but before they ceased communications with the rest of humanity they left one very clear message: ‘Do not enter the black zones’.
Black zones, a seemingly random collection of stellar coordinates, strewn across the universe with no discernable pattern, were a legend, a dark story told in space ports for laughs and shivers over a drink. No one had ever gotten close enough to one before. Nobody knew what they contained or why the Enshigi had threatened destruction if humanity should ever find one.
But Garrack didn’t just find one at a distance, she had jumped right into the heart of one.
Within a week of arriving, the Gatestriders had lost their home-world. The Enshigi destroyed their star, sending it Nova, to smash their solar system. Garrack and her team rushed to return through the gate, only to find it collapsing, dissolving, twisting shut by some unseen force. Desperate not to be stranded they streaked forward in their ships through the dying gate, but the only ship to make it through before the gate folded in on itself, was Garrack's.
The full fury of humanity, and the majority of the Gatestriders, soon descended upon her. She had brought about the anger of the Enshigi, and she had destroyed their home-world. Accident or not, humanity turned their backs to her. She was alone, until one day, she found Em-8ER.
Saldara Garrack, Firstclaimer of Em-8ER, destroyer of the Gatestriders, and their last great hope for a new homeland, a home-world, and perhaps redemption.
Video Update #10
Lore Drop #3
*Jump to 4:35*
-Rework of section of lore drop #2
Garrack and her team triangulated their position and realized they had intruded into a forbidden zone, but pushed on regardless. When they got the signal about their home-world being destroyed, they rushed back to the gate, but only Garrack made it through. She bears the huge burden of the loss of her world, and arrives at Em-8ER hoping to redeem herself, and maybe find an edge over the Enshigi, so that they will no longer hold the rest of humanity hostage to their power.
-Rework end
-New Lore Drop
The Tsi-Hu
The Tsi-hu inhabited Em-8ER long ago, how long is unknown. It is also unknown if they are the original inhabitants of Em-8ER, or merely occupy the planet. But we do know that the Tsi-hu are not from our time.
When the Tsi-hu invade, they do so through rips of reality, portals where we catch glimpses from the other side. Image Capture and Recognition AI of the portals show a night sky different from ours and geography that is wildly varied. Em-8ER is an icy and volcanic planet, but the worlds through the portals seem lush and full of life. At first, we thought it was another planet entirely, but eventually when someone decided to run a regression of stellar data around Em-8ER, and compare it to the skies beyond the portals, it was a perfect match for this planet; only backwards in time by over ten thousand years or more. The exact date is unknowable, but it can be roughly estimated somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago.
We also know that the Tsi-hu are shapeshifters. So far, we’ve only identified them in two forms. The humanoid form is technologically advanced, with beam weaponry, biotech infused grappling hooks and a sophisticated and information dense language. The beast form is four legged with slashing bladed limbs and a ferrofluid-like mane that seems to change based on mood. The beasts are devoid of technology and fiercely feral. The Tsi-hu seem to be able to instantly and effortlessly shift between these forms at will. Their tactics are to lay down fire from afar before shifting to beast form and rapidly closing the distance to go hand-to hand.
The Tsi-hu seem organized as a military, with leaders, squads, platoons, and effective military strategy, but rather than employ aircraft and ground armor or mechs, the Tsi-hu seem to have evolved an entirely different type of heavy weaponry. What can only be described as giant monsters accompany them through the portals, serving as their siege engines. The creatures vary wildly in appearance and size, with squat six legged creatures acting like tanks and even giant fliers that can rain down biological fire upon our reaper teams. There are rumors of even larger creatures, seen through the mists of the portals, towering above buildings and even mountains. We’ve yet to see one of these larger creatures come through a portal, and we dread the day they do.
Taking a name from an ancient Earth language, we’ve called them Kaiju collectively and started to categorize them into ranks based on size and weaponry. So far, we’ve identified five categories of Kaiju, from the swarm like category zero, all the way to the giant theorized world ender category five’s we’ve glimpsed through the portals. All of them seem to be infused with Tsi-hu technology and we know that they employ shields in addition to their natural armor. Striking the vulnerable shield generators atop the spines of the Kaiju seems to be the most effective way of bringing them down.
We don’t know why the Tsi-hu are invading their own future, or why our presence here seems to have enabled these rips in time and space to appear. We looked for answers amidst the ruins of the planet, sifting through the often-beautiful stone and metalwork, what we presume to have been one of their cities. So far, we’ve not found any way to decipher their language. Not much seems to have been written down, and if there are terminals and computers we’ve yet to find them or recognize them. The architecture and technology of the ruins seems much more advanced and elegant than what we’ve observed from the Tsi-hu themselves, but I guess that’s natural since we’re looking at their past selves. Yet, some have speculated, that the ruins are different enough, that they might come from another species altogether, perhaps one settling the planet after the Tsi-hu were gone.
There is just so much we don’t know, but we’re trying to find answers as fast we can.
Video Update #12
Lore Drop #4
More on the Gatestriders
*Jump to 6:24*
Before their fall from grace, the Gatestriders were employed as the foremost explorers and terraformers of all the colonies. They were the vanguard for dangerous exploration through D-gates, and were awarded contracts to exploit what they discovered beyond. Whether it was efficiently strip-mining asteroid fields or entire planets, or setting up vast terraformers to prepare for colonies, the Gatestriders were without peer.
The business was highly lucrative, and the Gatestriders had amassed vast fortunes for their efforts. They employed fleets of ships, orbital base stations, mining mechs, omniframes and even military hardware. The latter came in handy against pirates, or black-op corporate raiders who might attempt to claim jump or steal from Gatestrider discoveries.
The Gatestriders themselves were formed loosely into houses, centered around families and their retainers, as well as the people they were responsible for governing. Everyone in a Gatestrider house was expected to pull their weight and contribute to the business of exploring space and capitalizing upon their discoveries. Houses were essentially extended families, a modern notion of a tribe that blended aspects of military, corporate and even feudal aspects. Gatestriders however rejected the notion of nobility or dynastic tendencies. Leadership was by meritocracy and new leaders were often brought in from outside bloodlines and integrated into family structure by name, either through marriage or adoption of both adults and gifted children.
When Gatestriders arrived at Em-8ER, they came in large orbital arks that housed families, staff and all the equipment necessary for mining, construction and terraforming. What could not be transported would be built on site using advanced construction machines that would take in the raw resources and output anything from omniframes, weapons and even ships, bases or food. Resources would either be mined from the planet below or from nearby moons and asteroid belts and used to construct any additional equipment necessary. The Gatestrider arks from each house would be placed into orbit around the planet and docked together to form a massive city platform. Sorties of reaper teams would be dropped from orbit to the surface below, for scouting, mining, construction or, if necessary, military actions.
To warm the surface of Em-8ER, Gatestriders constructed vast orbital mirror arrays that would focus the light from the system star onto pockets of terrain below. These mirrors would gradually warm kilometers of terrain at a time, starting with the most suitable areas for habitation or mining. As the surface warmed, atmospheric processors would be constructed from raw materials mined from the system. These giant floating gas refineries would begin the work of transforming the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, making it breathable and within human tolerances. Their gigantic air scoops would ingest atmosphere while internal processes refined it and expelled it out another vent. These floating factories would patrol the warm surface area, carving out a pocket of habitable space for crews to work.
Once a pocket was sufficiently habitable, work crews and reaper teams would descend and put in the long hours mining, constructing bases and deploying even more terraforming equipment to further transform the planet. These facilities would be used to bootstrap the pockets into suitable biomes, in order to self- sustain the new atmosphere and begin creating a planetary ecosystem. The process is extremely rapid, on a cosmological scale, taking a century or so to fully transform planets so long as they were close enough to human parameters to begin with. Planets that were unsuitable for terraforming would only be transformed to a degree comfortable enough to carry out large scale mining operations at the richest sites.
Em-8er was both rich in resources, and close enough to human parameters to make it worthwhile to both terraform and mine, and the presence of alien artifacts made it so valuable that the Gatestriders worked very hard to keep this discovery a secret while they attempted to forge a new home-world for themselves.
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These are the four Lore Drops currently available. I'll be updating this post when we do receive more. In the meantime, happy reading.
P.S.: These were manually transcribed, and I've done my best to capture everything accurately. If you feel something is off, please do let me know.
While we are still in a nascent stage when it comes to Em-8ER, the lore is already taking shape and definitely looks interesting. Most of what we have is currently available in the Vision Book available to backers, and in the Vision Book Proofing posts in The Vault section of the forums (available to everyone). The other lore details are available as part of the Video Update Lore Drops.
While the info in the Lore Drops is mostly derived from the Vision Book Lore sections, there is a lot of additional detail in there that's unavailable elsewhere. It certainly does make for interesting listening.
Some time last year, Markus asked on Discord if there were text versions of the Lore Drops, so that he could make a translated version for his friends. That prompted me to transcribe the Lore Drops from the Video Updates. More lore is always good, and having a written record that's easily accessible is even better.
So, with @Grummz 's permission, I'm posting the transcribed versions of the Lore Drops from the Video Updates. For reference, the links to the actual videos are posted after the respective lore drops.
Video Update #8
Lore Drop #1
Gatestriders
*Jump to 6:40*
Em-8ER takes place after humans have discovered Faster Than Light travel, using D-Gates, four-dimensional wormholes that allow ships to travel instantaneously between vast distances of space. But when a gate is first constructed, nobody knows where it will lead.
This is where the Gatestriders come in, the role that players assume in Em-8ER. Originally founded as a colony of the United Nations of America, the Gatestriders were originally known as the Omega Frontier, but they soon changed their new name to the Gatestriders, after discovery of D-Gates. Born risk-takers, explorers and rugged adventurers, Gatestriders undertook the dangerous task of exploring what lay beyond newly constructed gates.
The Gatestriders are some of the best survivalists and explorers of all the colonies. Their original home-world was harsh, and exposed them to a wide range of environmental conditions, from extreme deserts to frozen wastelands, long nights, hostile environments and predators. The wildly diverse range of conditions made genetic alterations somewhat impractical, and the people of the Omega Frontier tended to avoid genetic solutions as a whole. They preferred to test themselves, as they were, against their new world. They relied on their technology and survival skills to carve out a harsh existence, and still thrive. This made them the ideal forerunners of humanity’s expansion amongst the stars.
But when one Gatestrider ship inadvertently wandered into a region of space forbidden by the advanced human race known only as the Enshigi, the retaliation against their home-world was swift. The Enshigi destroyed the Gatestrider home-world instantly, and without warning, leaving the remaining survivors stranded amongst the stars.
The Gatestriders immediately took to finding a new home-world, and the discovery of resource rich Em-8ER looked to be their last and only hope. It is here on Em-8ER that the Gatestriders have staked their ultimate claim of a new home-world. Organized into clans known as reaper teams, they begin the work of terraforming the icy volcanic planet and mining the rich resources they would need to thrive.
Video Update #9
Lore Drop #2
Saldara Garrack
*Jump to 5:04*
The Gatestriders are the foremost explorers of the universe. They are the daring adventurers who are the first to traverse newly built D-gates, to discover what lies beyond. Each new gate, a new destination, opening randomly in the cosmos, and the discoveries beyond can lead to riches, or quick death. A solar system with lush habitable planets, an asteroid belt or nebula, rich in rare minerals or gases, or the iron grip of a black hole, were just some of the possibilities. And in each case, a Gatestrider would be there, first to dare, first to discover, first to name, and first to claim. A Firstclaimer.
Of all the Gatestriders, Garrack had always been the boldest amongst them. She had a knack for choosing gates. By luck, sheer coincidence or some hidden machinery of cosmic guidance, she would find world after world that enriched her sponsors and grew her fortune and glory. She was Firstclaimer to over two dozen solar systems and was always willing to push farther than anyone else into the unknown reaches of space. One day, Garrack pushed herself farther than she ever had, plunging through the scintillating sheen of a newly constructed D-gate, she arrived at an expanse of nothing, emptiness. This never happens. D-gates always open near gravitational wells with a star and possible solar system always nearby, always within reach of sub-light drive. But this time there was nothing but the cold tapestry of unrecognized stars draped across the distant blackness of space, with absolutely nothing in between. The rest of her reaper team arrived soon after, and they too were puzzled by the lack of anything nearby. They pushed farther and farther into the inky blackness, finding nothing.
After several weeks of this, they voted to begin construction of the return gate, a process that would establish a link pair and allow the Cartographer AIs of both gates o begin churning through the astrological data, and establish their true position in space. But by the time the gate was done and long before the high-speed data chittering of the AIs had finally established their location, the fate of Garracks team and their home-world was already sealed.
They had trespassed.
They were in a black zone. It was forbidden.
The advanced human splinter civilization known as the Enshigi had never been heard from in hundreds of years, but before they ceased communications with the rest of humanity they left one very clear message: ‘Do not enter the black zones’.
Black zones, a seemingly random collection of stellar coordinates, strewn across the universe with no discernable pattern, were a legend, a dark story told in space ports for laughs and shivers over a drink. No one had ever gotten close enough to one before. Nobody knew what they contained or why the Enshigi had threatened destruction if humanity should ever find one.
But Garrack didn’t just find one at a distance, she had jumped right into the heart of one.
Within a week of arriving, the Gatestriders had lost their home-world. The Enshigi destroyed their star, sending it Nova, to smash their solar system. Garrack and her team rushed to return through the gate, only to find it collapsing, dissolving, twisting shut by some unseen force. Desperate not to be stranded they streaked forward in their ships through the dying gate, but the only ship to make it through before the gate folded in on itself, was Garrack's.
The full fury of humanity, and the majority of the Gatestriders, soon descended upon her. She had brought about the anger of the Enshigi, and she had destroyed their home-world. Accident or not, humanity turned their backs to her. She was alone, until one day, she found Em-8ER.
Saldara Garrack, Firstclaimer of Em-8ER, destroyer of the Gatestriders, and their last great hope for a new homeland, a home-world, and perhaps redemption.
Video Update #10
Lore Drop #3
*Jump to 4:35*
-Rework of section of lore drop #2
Garrack and her team triangulated their position and realized they had intruded into a forbidden zone, but pushed on regardless. When they got the signal about their home-world being destroyed, they rushed back to the gate, but only Garrack made it through. She bears the huge burden of the loss of her world, and arrives at Em-8ER hoping to redeem herself, and maybe find an edge over the Enshigi, so that they will no longer hold the rest of humanity hostage to their power.
-Rework end
-New Lore Drop
The Tsi-Hu
The Tsi-hu inhabited Em-8ER long ago, how long is unknown. It is also unknown if they are the original inhabitants of Em-8ER, or merely occupy the planet. But we do know that the Tsi-hu are not from our time.
When the Tsi-hu invade, they do so through rips of reality, portals where we catch glimpses from the other side. Image Capture and Recognition AI of the portals show a night sky different from ours and geography that is wildly varied. Em-8ER is an icy and volcanic planet, but the worlds through the portals seem lush and full of life. At first, we thought it was another planet entirely, but eventually when someone decided to run a regression of stellar data around Em-8ER, and compare it to the skies beyond the portals, it was a perfect match for this planet; only backwards in time by over ten thousand years or more. The exact date is unknowable, but it can be roughly estimated somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago.
We also know that the Tsi-hu are shapeshifters. So far, we’ve only identified them in two forms. The humanoid form is technologically advanced, with beam weaponry, biotech infused grappling hooks and a sophisticated and information dense language. The beast form is four legged with slashing bladed limbs and a ferrofluid-like mane that seems to change based on mood. The beasts are devoid of technology and fiercely feral. The Tsi-hu seem to be able to instantly and effortlessly shift between these forms at will. Their tactics are to lay down fire from afar before shifting to beast form and rapidly closing the distance to go hand-to hand.
The Tsi-hu seem organized as a military, with leaders, squads, platoons, and effective military strategy, but rather than employ aircraft and ground armor or mechs, the Tsi-hu seem to have evolved an entirely different type of heavy weaponry. What can only be described as giant monsters accompany them through the portals, serving as their siege engines. The creatures vary wildly in appearance and size, with squat six legged creatures acting like tanks and even giant fliers that can rain down biological fire upon our reaper teams. There are rumors of even larger creatures, seen through the mists of the portals, towering above buildings and even mountains. We’ve yet to see one of these larger creatures come through a portal, and we dread the day they do.
Taking a name from an ancient Earth language, we’ve called them Kaiju collectively and started to categorize them into ranks based on size and weaponry. So far, we’ve identified five categories of Kaiju, from the swarm like category zero, all the way to the giant theorized world ender category five’s we’ve glimpsed through the portals. All of them seem to be infused with Tsi-hu technology and we know that they employ shields in addition to their natural armor. Striking the vulnerable shield generators atop the spines of the Kaiju seems to be the most effective way of bringing them down.
We don’t know why the Tsi-hu are invading their own future, or why our presence here seems to have enabled these rips in time and space to appear. We looked for answers amidst the ruins of the planet, sifting through the often-beautiful stone and metalwork, what we presume to have been one of their cities. So far, we’ve not found any way to decipher their language. Not much seems to have been written down, and if there are terminals and computers we’ve yet to find them or recognize them. The architecture and technology of the ruins seems much more advanced and elegant than what we’ve observed from the Tsi-hu themselves, but I guess that’s natural since we’re looking at their past selves. Yet, some have speculated, that the ruins are different enough, that they might come from another species altogether, perhaps one settling the planet after the Tsi-hu were gone.
There is just so much we don’t know, but we’re trying to find answers as fast we can.
Video Update #12
Lore Drop #4
More on the Gatestriders
*Jump to 6:24*
Before their fall from grace, the Gatestriders were employed as the foremost explorers and terraformers of all the colonies. They were the vanguard for dangerous exploration through D-gates, and were awarded contracts to exploit what they discovered beyond. Whether it was efficiently strip-mining asteroid fields or entire planets, or setting up vast terraformers to prepare for colonies, the Gatestriders were without peer.
The business was highly lucrative, and the Gatestriders had amassed vast fortunes for their efforts. They employed fleets of ships, orbital base stations, mining mechs, omniframes and even military hardware. The latter came in handy against pirates, or black-op corporate raiders who might attempt to claim jump or steal from Gatestrider discoveries.
The Gatestriders themselves were formed loosely into houses, centered around families and their retainers, as well as the people they were responsible for governing. Everyone in a Gatestrider house was expected to pull their weight and contribute to the business of exploring space and capitalizing upon their discoveries. Houses were essentially extended families, a modern notion of a tribe that blended aspects of military, corporate and even feudal aspects. Gatestriders however rejected the notion of nobility or dynastic tendencies. Leadership was by meritocracy and new leaders were often brought in from outside bloodlines and integrated into family structure by name, either through marriage or adoption of both adults and gifted children.
When Gatestriders arrived at Em-8ER, they came in large orbital arks that housed families, staff and all the equipment necessary for mining, construction and terraforming. What could not be transported would be built on site using advanced construction machines that would take in the raw resources and output anything from omniframes, weapons and even ships, bases or food. Resources would either be mined from the planet below or from nearby moons and asteroid belts and used to construct any additional equipment necessary. The Gatestrider arks from each house would be placed into orbit around the planet and docked together to form a massive city platform. Sorties of reaper teams would be dropped from orbit to the surface below, for scouting, mining, construction or, if necessary, military actions.
To warm the surface of Em-8ER, Gatestriders constructed vast orbital mirror arrays that would focus the light from the system star onto pockets of terrain below. These mirrors would gradually warm kilometers of terrain at a time, starting with the most suitable areas for habitation or mining. As the surface warmed, atmospheric processors would be constructed from raw materials mined from the system. These giant floating gas refineries would begin the work of transforming the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, making it breathable and within human tolerances. Their gigantic air scoops would ingest atmosphere while internal processes refined it and expelled it out another vent. These floating factories would patrol the warm surface area, carving out a pocket of habitable space for crews to work.
Once a pocket was sufficiently habitable, work crews and reaper teams would descend and put in the long hours mining, constructing bases and deploying even more terraforming equipment to further transform the planet. These facilities would be used to bootstrap the pockets into suitable biomes, in order to self- sustain the new atmosphere and begin creating a planetary ecosystem. The process is extremely rapid, on a cosmological scale, taking a century or so to fully transform planets so long as they were close enough to human parameters to begin with. Planets that were unsuitable for terraforming would only be transformed to a degree comfortable enough to carry out large scale mining operations at the richest sites.
Em-8er was both rich in resources, and close enough to human parameters to make it worthwhile to both terraform and mine, and the presence of alien artifacts made it so valuable that the Gatestriders worked very hard to keep this discovery a secret while they attempted to forge a new home-world for themselves.
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These are the four Lore Drops currently available. I'll be updating this post when we do receive more. In the meantime, happy reading.
P.S.: These were manually transcribed, and I've done my best to capture everything accurately. If you feel something is off, please do let me know.
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