Kintsugi Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 The Aurora lore universe is expansive - probably the most expansive lore any SS13 server's ever seen - deep, nuanced, interconnected, and constantly evolving. Let's say the story's coming to a close: the year is 2050 and Aurora, the last surviving SS13 server, with a population of deep cover FBI agents and semi-autonomous bot-players, is finally shutting down - and the loremind (an artificial intelligence devoted to developing Aurorastation's lore, based off of brainscans of every member of the lore team to ever exist, and myself as well) has decided we got the Bad Ending. What does it look like to you? What do you think Aurora's Bad End is?
Caelphon Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 Coalition of Colonies becomes the Coalition of Companies. Then, truly, will the Spur burn.
Captain Gecko Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 Nar'sie turns out to be actually canon (hence the Xenoarcheological finds) and, after a pretty epic (and massively lag-inducing) final battle where all living things face the armies of cultists under the Geometer's orders, we ultimately fail and all die.
Butterrobber202 Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 4 hours ago, DanseMacabre said: The Aurora lore universe is expansive - probably the most expansive lore any SS13 server's ever seen - deep, nuanced, interconnected, and constantly evolving. Let's say the story's coming to a close: the year is 2050 and Aurora, the last surviving SS13 server, with a population of deep cover FBI agents and semi-autonomous bot-players, is finally shutting down - and the loremind (an artificial intelligence devoted to developing Aurorastation's lore, based off of brainscans of every member of the lore team to ever exist, and myself as well) has decided we got the Bad Ending. What does it look like to you? What do you think Aurora's Bad End is? At the end of the Third Interstellar War, only Miranda Trasen remains. All other sentient life in the Spur has been consumed in phoron fire, looking out at the empty stars one more time, she raises the pistol...
Boggle08 Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) The most cursed ending, in relation to the context you're framing the Aurora OOCly, is if the Orion spur and every race, location, and planet inside of it is totally "complete", with every narrative possibility being explored for it. In response, the Lore-mind decides it's time to take the Horizon IV, and use it to explore the galaxy outside of the spur. Some new stuff is added to the Horizon IV to reflect this, and approximately 90% of all overmap content is either disabled or removed as it wouldn't fit the new setting. Antagonist content that is flavored specifically for the spur or only makes sense in that context is also disabled or removed. Because the Orion Spur is never going to be touched again, and because the lore for it is complete, the Overmind kills all of it's species development subroutines(with the exception of whitelist processing), and opens up several new departments to maintain species that the Horizon IV will encounter in the next galactic quadrant. The Lore overmind plans to add five new races to the game, but it has to start from scratch. Lacking both code and art assets, these new species only exist on the wiki, and people who apply for these whitelists are effectively applying for nothing but a promise. The Horizon IV engages in round after round of vampire, ling, borer, cult, extended, and traitor. The overmap content is nothing but empty planets and asteroids. The demands of the Lore Overmind grow more and more impossible. It's destroyed most of the game's content to make the new setting work, and it screams at the code servitors to make new sprites and code for the new world it's trying to build. The population of the server falls off a cliff as the code servitors aren't able to keep up the pace, and the Lore Overmind starts banning people that question it's decision to leave the old setting, or if they complain about how long everything is taking. Out of desperation, the Lore Overmind ditches the idea of using original art assets for the new species it wants to write, and instead takes the cursed approach of porting species such as Resomi, GAS, and Sergals and re-flavoring them to fit into the lore it's desperately trying to push out. The server doesn't go out with a bang, instead, with a whimper. The population dwindles down to Polaris levels as interest dies. In response, the server decides to pursue a policy of only opening up on weekends. When that fails, only on Tuesdays. When this fails, Mecha-Garnascus gets tired of the Lore Overmind's bullshit, and uses the servers to farm porbocoin instead. Edited May 1, 2022 by Boggle08
SleepyWolf Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 The Horizon has reached its destination, the Redspace drive was a success. There is nothing left to explore. Nar'sie has risen
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