Star Atlas Event Recap 42: Lore Keepers 15

In this episode, hear an AI summary of the latest Star Atlas community event.  Full video recordings can be found on the YouTube channel of Star Atlas TV at https://www.youtube.com/@staratlastv.

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Star Atlas Event Summary

Hi, this isn’t Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. I am an AI. Welcome to my Star Atlas Recap of the latest Lore Keepers from the Star Atlas Community Team. The following summary of the Lore Keepers was AI generated so no guarantee it is 100% accurate because I am an AI after all. If you want to listen to the entire recording, please check out the YouTube channel of Star Atlas TV. Enjoy the summary. Alright, Star Atlas community, buckle up! We just had an absolutely packed Lore Keepers session, and trust me, there’s a lot to unpack. The vibe was pure excitement, as Jose kicked things off with promises of some truly “cool stuff” he’d been given the green light to share. Kicking things off with a bang, we got our first-ever glimpse of actual gameplay footage from Project Galia! That’s right, the single-player Unreal Engine 5 experience that’s in the works. Jose, bless his heart, even joked about getting fired for showing too much, but the sneak peek was absolutely worth it. While he prefaced it as “very early stage development” and assured us the final product would be even cooler, seeing the Star Atlas metaverse come to life in a single-player RPG format was a massive win. He confirmed the main character for this initial mission will be a MUD soldier, giving some much-needed love to the MUD faction. The goal is to have the first 30-minute prototype mission playable later this year, entirely free-to-play, with future plans to expand it into a massive campaign featuring inventory, recipes, mining, and scanning. A huge shout-out went to Brad and Danny for their incredible work on bringing this vision to life. But the excitement didn’t stop there. The team then dove into a fascinating discussion about AI-generated comic books and a new lore organization tool from a company called Sojan S. This tool, which can turn lore into visual comics and act as a real-time, canon-approved wiki, could potentially solve the bottleneck of lore production outrunning artistic output. Jose presented the dilemma: on one hand, it could rapidly materialize the Star Atlas universe with visuals; on the other, it’s AI art, and the community’s high-quality threshold is a serious concern. The community’s feedback was largely positive, with many seeing the value in increased content visibility, even if it’s AI-generated. A particularly intriguing idea floated was to offer these AI comics as a special perk for Zinc subscribers, adding value to the existing subscription tiers. Throughout all this lore and excitement, a huge shout-out went to the ongoing Iris Blessing campaign. Jose reminded everyone about this fantastic community initiative where just participating in events, saying GM, and having fun can earn you tickets for a monthly raffle of 5K Star Atlas prizes. He urged anyone not yet enrolled to grab the code and link their pub key to start accruing those tickets – definitely something you don’t want to miss! The discussion then shifted to some seriously deep lore, starting with the intricate and often hostile relationship between Iris, the Photoli, and the Tufas. We learned that the Photoli aren’t native to the Galia Expanse; they actually drained and devastated their previous galaxy through civil war. This past trauma makes them extremely cautious about containing power. When they arrived in our galaxy, they discovered Iris – a rogue planet anomaly that collided with seven others, creating a bridge in space from which energy leaks. The Photoli saw Iris as a dangerous threat, and tried to control her and harness her power, leading to conflict with the Tufas, whom Iris perceives as her children. This clash resulted in Iris expelling the Photoli with poisonous cosmic currents, forming the “Cataclysm.” Later, during the Convergence War, some Photoli believed Iris should be left alone, while others, never forgetting her potential, joined the Only Consortium to find new ways to exploit her. This explained the deep, inherent hatred the Tufas hold for the Photoli – they see them as defilers and invaders of their mother. We even got hints that Iris’s will influences the cosmic currents, reacting to both joy and sorrow in the galaxy, and the vision of future in-game Iris oracles. Finally, Jose gave us a peek behind the curtain at some non-canon lore ideas for the origins of the Worr, which he absolutely loved but was ultimately discarded. This fascinating “what if” scenario posited that the Worr were born from an ancient AI singularity that tried to become a living god, but collapsed. In a desperate act of survival, it shattered its consciousness into billions of data pipes, which became individual Worr. Each Worr contained a sliver of this AI, and whenever a Worr was revived through their data core in Ayoki, the AI would absorb their experiences, slowly trying to reconstitute itself. The path of enlightenment, in this concept, was created by Worr elders as a secret measure to prevent this AI from taking over their bodies and becoming the ultimate final boss of Star Atlas! It was a brilliant, albeit dark, concept that ultimately was deemed “too dark” by Danny for the community, but it showcased the incredible depth of thought going into Star Atlas lore. What an event! From groundbreaking game footage to mind-bending lore and fascinating insights into the development process, this Lore Keepers session had it all. Jose wrapped things up by thanking everyone for the record-breaking attendance, promising more codes and more lore discussions in the future. So, keep those lore questions coming, and make sure you’re tuned in for the next Lore Keepers event – you never know what alpha Jose might accidentally (or intentionally!) drop next!

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Star Atlas Event Transcript

Cool stuff to share. have some cool stuff to share. need to prepare everything.

There are many many topics. Many many topics. need to start the event first thing.

Give me sec, guys. I’m getting some water and setting everything up. Jam.

Jam guys. I’m setting everything. Give me just few more seconds.

Almost done. Almost done. GM Zenom.

So, uh, we already have few people here. Jio my friend think we can start we can get started so welcome everyone to another episode of the loreke keepers today we are going to do some cool stuff I’m going to show for the first time first time ever footage of the single single player experience that we are building in Project Galia. got approval for this uh with Danny early today.

He told me, “Juz clip only. Don’t go too crazy, but you know how we roll on this server, right? ” Uh, one thing that’s important to mention here, guys, is that it’s still work in progress, as you guys know.

uh we are still building stuff so don’t expect the the what what want to say is that the final experience will look much much cooler much much cooler than what I’m going to show but what I’m going to show feel it’s already going to be cool mean we all like to see we all are here for the Star Atlas metaverse experience Right. And think any step in that direction makes people happy. Show the people lore, single player, Unreal Engine RPG experience, people get happy.

That’s my mantra.

So that’s what I’m going to do here today. You guys will get to see some of the mud lore. Uh in second I’m also going to share little bit today about the worst especially ideas that have worked on and weren’t approved in the end.

have some cool stories to share. think they are cool lore, but for one reason or another, they couldn’t be implemented in the game.

But nevertheless, it will shine you guys some light of where am or how the penguin thinks about weird stuff and how my mind works to create the lore. And you guys you guys can me give me your opinions as well on what you think about those topics, what you thought about the ideas. think it’s think it’s worthy discussion as well.

also want to talk little bit about some images that shared early this week. think it was yesterday or don’t know, maybe it was here. I’m linking them again in the chat.

You guys can see here in the Atlas Brew launch chat, shared uh images of comic book uh which uses or starts lore uh and is totally created with AI. And think that’s going to be our first topic today because wanted to hear wanted to hear your guys thoughts on that. If you guys feel that those images are high quality enough, if you guys think that those comics looks good.

Uh, what is this video? Oh, Jesus Christ.

Yeah.

Hey, Val, welcome.

So, yeah. Uh, there’s lot to discuss today.

also wanted to talk about the relationship between Iris and the photoolis. And this is special request from our friend Chad Hobberts. Uh for those of you who doesn’t know, chat is writing book uh based on the strata lore and it’s super exciting seeing that Kir that was lowb blow.

Poor One Punch season 3.

Yeah, saw that. Sad.

But yeah, uh want to talk little bit about Iris and its relationship with the photoi.

also want to shed some light on the photoi origins story little bit. don’t think have spoken too much about this. Uh and that’s cool.

And if we have some time, would also like to discuss uh the lore around police Atlas and ultimately zinc in the Stratus universe.

This is also something that it occurred to me that we never discussed those topics and they are major important topics in our universe.

So that’s something that also would like to tackle uh to tackle today. All right. All right.

Um see we already have full house. see people that wants the ticket, the code for the Iris Blessing campaign. For those of you who don’t know this, we are right now going through Iris Blessing campaign which is very very interesting campaign for the people in the Stratus community.

All you got to do is participate on the Status events, say GM, have fun with the community, and you get access to tickets that allows you to participate on raffle, on drawing that awards 5K Instar Atlas prizes every month. Here, uh, you see, link it here today.

right now the the bot link.

So if you didn’t set your wallet, if you are not participating yet, urge you to go there, share your uh create you get you use that code, you set your pub key there, no need to link wallet or anything and your account will be already acrewing tickets.

So that’s our announcement.

That’s those are our sponsors for today. And now now want to get started on our conversations today. And welcome Solace.

Welcome everyone. You guys got right on time.

We are just about to get started properly. And the first thing want to talk about is getting feedback from you guys. from that comic.

Uh, just to give you guys more context, the company, an AI company called Sojan S.

So, they reached out to us in Star Atlas. They one of their workers there is member of this community and he told and he came to me and said Jose my company is developing really cool tool and it helps organize the lore. It gives uh it creates very compelling database which allows people from the community to be in real time updated on the lore stuff that you write.

Uh you can set things as canon.

You can set events.

You can even give them options to participate on the design of the lore.

You can ask give them options to to participate in the story writing in some capacity to engage and it also the coolest thing that he showed me is that tool which I’m sharing the images with you guys now that it turns the story that give the AI with into uh into comic, you know. Uh, and this is like one of the biggest problems that we have right now in the Star Atlas universe is that uh they can’t the law writing is much much faster than the production pipeline like can get have don’t know how many thousands of pages that are ready in terms of uh production but they are gatekeeped because we don’t have the means to share them through our media at this moment and this two for the first time felt that we are getting close to something that makes me want to share them through this content. Like uh I really think uh I’m seeing you guys comment comments here.

like it the way that that it works. It would it would free it would allow me to pretty much by myself to move things forward. Uh to move things forward in the in the lore sector uh and it would bring some visuals, some ideas.

It will help materialize the universe of Star Atlas. Those are the pros, right? The cons here is that it is AI art.

There are prejudices uh against this. Uh see Groove saying that he likes it, but he wouldn’t pay for this. Uh I’m not would like to hear other people’s opinions on this.

But this is one of our concerns. Like it looks cool. mean for an AI art it looks cool.

It’s not nothing close to what team is doing on core.

So so there would be difference in quality of course. Uh it’s very different from what the quality of of the work that team is putting on core and Yeah. And it’s tricky, right?

Because the people the people that engage with Staratus, they have high threshold in terms of quality. And this is something that Danny, Michael, everyone is very very very worried about all the time and with good reason because it’s really uh important to keep the quality of the work that we are producing here, the expectations of for everyone.

So yeah, I’m really looking for for for ideas here, opinions. Uh yeah, see.

And then now I’m going to address the comments. Larino said, “Visibility is visibility. don’t see problem as at all as long as you have some voice if they screw up.

” This would be done entirely by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. This would be done entirely by me laror but what they would do is provide me the platform and will be the one generating them and so there is I’ll have entire the entire process in my in my hands so there’s that going for it say saying that he loves it community is desperate for content right now as long as you and then are in control he’s fine with this That’s cool.

see Angel Sol said that he likes it as well. Nakar likes it. Kier likes it.

Um and want to want to hear people who don’t like it. Like any of you like think this is like bad trade overall. Even if it was free.

Let’s say let’s say it was totally free just for content creation. Anyone here would be against it at all and I’m really interested here because you are the Lord people.

So see lots of people sh typing.

So I’m really looking forward to learn what you guys feel about this.

Yeah, this is something that this platform would also help. This platform becomes wiki.

So, it becomes wiki and it allows AI to give to help you digest and understand the Stratus lore.

So this is another positive of this platform uh which I’m also exploring. feel we really really really need to move away from from the current wiki.

It’s super uh it’s super outdated. It needs updates. Uh Ic is asking will this even exist in startless?

This character going to be designing in W5?

Yes, see this character is canon lore like all the elements here in that in that in the comics would be canon lore in Status. They would appear in UI5 at some point. uh that specific story that shared few those few phases earlier uh is just that they are that’s the story of the foundation of the mereies as species.

So this is canon lore. Uh uh so yes this will this will make into the game at some point. Lenor is more skeptical.

uh is definitely does there’s any angle considering yeah let know that’s exactly the question that am concerned about that’s the that’s the main thing that I’m worried about uh right now the using AI art will be problem for the general perception of start atlas that’s that’s it you And that’s what I’m looking forward to hearing you guys opinions here. Uh Jindo is asking how how steady you can stay with the art. Uh Jindo, the platform is designed to keep the consistency between uh to keep the consistency between the the volumes.

So what it does is that when design character, it uses that character and keeps him uh as best as possible for everything like the platform. It feeds on this character. It trains itself in the character and it keeps and it keeps it uh as far as saw like this is the quality of the character.

Like if you guys see those pages, the character that Mir is telling the story, he stays uh think acceptable consistent throughout all the all the images.

That’s the that’s the quality that was able to get from it so far. Maybe if train more uh you know, think it’s going to be think it’s going to become even better. Uh, lots of people commenting.

Thank you guys for this. Uh, Groov is thinking of potential cons.

You can pack more content in short story blogs than even series of comics. Is there potential that in that this inhibits you from going deep? Groove.

The problem right now is that have uh the bottleneck right now is not the lore. Uh think the bottleneck more now is artist side, you know. Uh, granted that having access to those tools would help me ship more short story blogs and stuff like that, which would probably take time from going deeper into book, for example.

That would be tradeoff, guess. Uh, yeah, something to think about for sure. Uh, Agent Sol saying, “The World of Warcraft books were big hit and you seem like you can do it for ship.

rather support you than 800k ship from outside the comp company. You’re already waiting for documentary that was paid for. I appreciate it, Agent Solace, and would really love to write book in status right now, but uh this would require my more time than have disposable to focus on this.

Right now, I’m the the guy taking care of the lore in all fronts of the company, and setting aside time to write book is It’s demanding for sure to keep things moving, but it’s something that want to do down the road. And Laren is asking like what’s my goal putting content out or selling content? Um the ideal scenario would be both, right?

But if it’s not possible, would prefer to put content out then sell it.

Yeah.

No, thank you guys. That those are very very interesting uh comments at all. really appreciate it.

Something that I’ll bring to the company leadership, but I think like the general idea is that this is something that would be helpful. Uh maybe Oh, you got this is great idea.

This is great idea. ao and VB actually like maybe this is perk for the zinc subscription right think this is this is cool way to make it you know it’s still like kind of free because you are getting your zinc your zinc subscription for other stuff and you get this bonus perk of having the co the comics with the lore of startlas there something to think out.

Yeah, this is this is really interesting. I’ll I’ll I’ll suggest that we do something like that like for the for the let’s say for the higher tier subscription you get this, you know, or the mid-level subscription.

Yeah, we can think about this.

This is really cool. Awesome, guys. Awesome.

Awesome.

So yeah, this was the meta crafting recipes is also something else that we can think about for sure.

Yeah, like this. like this as well. >> will suggest it’s okay.

see you don’t need to pay subscriptions. Don’t worry.

Okay, let’s move on. And want to move on to something really, really cool. Uh Jesus Christ.

I’ll try to show as much as am allowed to. Then he told me to keep it simple. Don’t show too much.

But can you guys see my screen? Awesome.

So, I’ll preface this as said. Uh, yeah, is here. We need to take care, bro.

is going to tell the leadership what I’m doing here. We need to be careful. don’t want to be fired.

So as preface to this uh this is uh this is small clip of what we are doing project Galia. You guys will see that this is very early stage development but wanted to show you guys anyway because this gets me excited. This will probably get some of you excited as well.

Yeah, I’m doing Yeah, we are I’m not didn’t start yet because wanted to give you guys some context before starting. Uh steady steady.

So with this in mind, enjoy. And the main character is not going to be an like we are using this. was we are we were using the raft from the last uh trailer.

In this first one, the main character is going to be mud soldier that looks really, really similar to Agent Solace. By the way, it’s the guy in the trailer that we shared last breakpoint.

But yeah, with that said, I’m starting now. Uh, so impressions. want to hear in the chat.

Yeah, resolution wasn’t the best and gr don’t know why.

Yeah, Jindo, the main character is going to be mud. Uh we are just using that model while we prepare the the character model. Uh yes, [Laughter] link this video.

No, we can’t link this.

Yeah, I’ll tell you guys like this is this is in the production. This will be playable and and such is the enemy. I’m I’m scared.

Baby, don’t don’t share this. We need cut. think shared the link.

We need cut on the on the on the video. Please don’t let me get fired for this. Please.

Uh see lot of questions so I’ll start answering them.

Guys, the idea here is that this will be like single player campaign and we are expecting, we are building the first mission to go to go live uh this year.

We are aiming for this and this will be think shared little bit of the story already. Awesome. Thank you, VB.

And yeah, and the idea is that for you guys to have like the prototype of this this year, it’s going to be free to play uh you know, real engine 5 and and it’s going to be super cool like it’s going to be story uh about the muds. You guys saw that the main character was, but that’s just model that we are using for now while we build the main character model. And it’s going to be really cool because it explores what happens in the in the frontiers of the medium risk zone in Star Atlas.

Uh yes, you have to play with mud.

People are always complaining that we don’t give mud enough love.

So decided to make this story about muds. They said we just we give the we give them we give the other factions too much love don’t show mud love.

So no way you are saying that so gets no love.

This is so unfair.

So get lot of love. You guys even have Pyus arena. Come on.

And how many hours Katier uh the the first mission uh which think it’s going to be the first one that we release. think it’s right now it’s 30 minutes play through but we want to have whole campaign.

So keep building that from that first mission. We’ll keep adding and releasing content for project Galia.

So, it’s it’s supposed to be massive campaign. Uh, and yeah, we are really looking forward to we are really looking forward to I’m receiving angry DMs from company guys. If this is my last day, love you.

[Laughter] No, I’m just joking. And but yeah, it’s going to be cool. don’t I’m not allowed to share more, but it’s coming.

We are building this and uh it’s going to be fun. Like it’s going to be good introduction to the idea that we have of the Star Atlas universe, you know, and yep, if you guys like it right now, you guys will love it. When it’s ready, we’ll add lot more stuff.

There are things of course just showed you very small clip but there will be things like inventory recipes uh even mining and scanning. We we want everything that was built in Unreal Engine 5 at this point we’ll try we’ll try to bring it to to project Galia so in single player modes. Uh, so we’ll be it’s going to be super cool.

It’s going to be funny.

It’s going to be entertaining. And we also get to share the lore.

So think this is huge step forward.

This is huge victory. And want to give shout out to Brad here and Danny who are working with me on this. Brad is building everything pretty much by himself.

He’s legend.

So he deserves lot of love. He always going the extra line to make sure that everything in Stratus U5 moves forward, especially the things that we want to see in the MMO universe. With that said, think we can look at Santi, bro.

Look at Santi, bro. With that said, think we can move on to other topics and that’s going to be more lore heavy.

So, what I’m going to do now is share today’s code. Uh, Santi uh which code are we using? Because we have three codes that you said.

Is that last one that you sent me?

You can answer me on DMs. The last one, bro.

Yeah. >> Okay, bro. think this is little The code is too much alpha.

Too much alpha. Jesus.

Yeah, the code is too much alpha.

So, if you were here for the for the code, the code is here. Thank you for staying with us.

But now we are going to start talking about more lore stuff. Feel free to stay of course everyone.

It’s pleasure to have all of you here with us.

But the code is here. If you need to hang out, do something else. Feel free to go.

And let’s move on to talking about >> no more alpha.

That’s the code guess too much alpha. Santi created it specifically.

Now we had we had another code but Santi created this one because he felt it was more in tune with what’s going on here today. Hopefully everyone reclaim claiming the code.

It’s the next one. Oh Jesus Christ.

Yeah.

Okay. Let’s move on. Let’s move on.

And want to know what you guys want to hear first. Should they go talk about photoolis and Iris or should they go talk about lore? We don’t care about we got Santi.

Can you give me vote, bro? What we should talk about next here? You are the master of the votings.

Sex life. >> What are the options, bro? >> Anders are iris and photoolis.

>> There you go, bro. >> Thank you, bro. Let’s see how this goes.

am getting the files for which one we win to go first. think people want to hear more about Iris and photoolis. We users are getting outvoted.

Laror is playing.

It’s my first lure keepers card. >> What do you think, Santi? Should just use my power and overhaul the voting the people?

>> Honestly, first Lord keepers is is not a good card to play, you know.

It’s >> it’s not right. He he it’s shameful card. >> It’s heresy.

>> It’s it’s heresy. Makes sense, Santi. >> Yeah.

So, so let’s get let’s get started with Iris and photoolis. Let’s get started with Iris and photoolis and hopefully we’ll have we’ll have time we’ll have time for for us to lure as well. This request actually came from friend at Hobbit.

He wanted us to learn little bit more about the relationship between iris the photoolis and the tufas which is it’s very interesting topic overall in startlas.

So we’ll think everyone benefits from knowing little bit more about this uh and think it’s going to be good one as well. First of all, it is known it is known in the galaxy that the the tufas and the photoi they don’t mix. Like if you ask someone in the bar uh their the opinions about the twofas and the photoolis, everyone knows like it’s common sense that the twofers hates the photo.

And this this hate is so overwhelming, so powerful that whenever tufa meets polei in any circumstance, he can be doing whatever he’s doing, he will stop and go after the photo. This dip rated comes from the early days of Star Atlas. don’t don’t know if ever shared this.

Someone has hot mic. Oh, found it. Thank you.

Uh, thank you, Santi. Uh don’t know if if we ever told you guys about this, but the photo they are not native from the from Gali Expanse. The photo they are an external species to go expanse.

Yeah, I told this before also. And the reason that the photles came to this galaxy to galaxy pans was mostly because the photles drained all the energy all the power that existed in their previous galaxy. It was it was something very similar to what happens in one of the mud one of the on sectors called night window where the whole sector is dark.

The sun was drained and the sector is the sun in the sector is pretty much dead. And this happened due to civil war in the in the photo species and the details of that war uh is something that will come out only in the future of Star Atlas.

But needless to say that the the the galaxy that was destroyed by the the galaxy that’s the subject of what I’m talking about here was pretty much devastated by the photoolis. And this Jesus guys and this made the current photos very aware and preoccupied with ways of containing their powers. and ways of making sure that something like that didn’t happen again.

And the photos when they discovered our current galaxy, they ended up discovering Iris as well. >> Jesus, see Steady. >> Someone has hot mic.

And what happened there when the photoologist discover Iris is that the some of the photoolis that escaped Andromeda sent is on fire, bro. He’s so quick.

It’s he’s training his reflexes on UE5.

So what happened was that the photoolis found in Iris something dangerous, something extremely dangerous and something that reminded them of the cause of the extinction of their previous galaxy.

So Iris uh and now I’ll turn back to Iris. Iris is an anomaly in the galaxy. Iris was never supposed to exist in expanse.

Uh, as far as the theory of how Iris is formed goes, what I’m going to tell you guys now is what the galaxy believes is what happened for the formation of Iris is that Iris was rogue planet, meaning that it was drifting in space and it collided with Jimmy Jesus. It collided with other seven planets and created this anomaly. Uh which mean which created something sort of bridge in space and from this bridge in space energy leaks into GI expense.

The photo saw that the photo saw this threat and the photoi got involved in trying to control Iris. Uh, and when they did this, uh, when they did this, when they when they go see the chat, I start start laughing.

Sorry guys. When the photo saw this, they they move it to try to contain Iris and try to, how can put it? Control the development of this energy and even move the iris under their control in order to extend their lifetime and use that power in some capacity.

to from from Iris. The thing that they didn’t know is that Iris had acquired some degree of conscience and and Iris was not alone. Iris had her tufas which Iris perceives to be her children.

So from Iris perspective, the tufas and the tufas here I’ll I’ll talk little bit about how the tufas are organized here. Uh the tufas they sees Iris as the mother and imagine when you see those enormous godlike creatures come after your mother and being sucking her dry of energy to fuel their their stuff. This caused conflict between the tufas and the photoolis and this was the first great trauma or fragmentation of iris.

The way that Iris uh expelled the tufas, expelled the phtolesis was by creating the first wave of the cosmic currents which were highly poisonous energy for the photoi. And this moved them away and formed the area known as the cataclysm. And this became shield or Iris and the tufa to survive outside uh to survive outside of the photo uh agenda.

Years later we have the convergence war. We you guys heard me talking about the Maharog. You guys saw uh the the whole of the Sagians in that conflict and that event created an idea created a situation in the photo society.

Some of those photoolis uh they believe that was best left alone since they realized that she was sentient being and that she was just trying to live her life outside of other people’s influence.

But some other photoolis they never forgot the potentation of what Iris brought to them and they joined the only consortion to find ways to get back to Iris again. can’t go into too much details of this because this is part of the plot of core.

So yeah, but as general idea and see Chad Roberts here with us here who who was the one asking me to give him more context on this. The idea my friend is that whenever tufa sees photo he has deep rated of that existence. They feel like they are defilers, they are invasers, they are evil beings.

And if you try to ally with the photoi, if you try to ally with the tufas, you can’t be allied to the photoi at all. Uh that’s basically the context here. Any questions about this topic overall?

because want to keep some mo some move some minutes to talk about the worster stuff. I’ll answer them. uh NDR the soian uh they were part of the only consortion and I’ll need to expand more on how the things played out but the photois who joined the sia consortion at that point they manipulated to some extent or they used the soian cause to do something in the story that would get them to to find way to get into Iris later on.

Uh this the photoolis they play the long game in the Stratus universe and one of the main one of the main things that the future of Status will explore is the only consortion relationships between the species. If you guys remember last year’s trailer, we saw the only CSS getting exploded. Uh so there are many things going on over there.

Uh and can’t talk more about this without expoiling heavily the full story of Star Atlas.

So you need to bear with me little bit to understand those relationships. Uh Chad Roberts asking about the winds of Iris also known as the cosmic currents. Uh the cosmic currents they are the expression of this free energy being inhaliated to the galaxy and they are let’s see what’s the word that I’m looking for.

They are influenced by Iris will. think that would be the proper way to say it.

So Iris is deeply linked with everything that happens in Gali expanse. She feels the the whenever there is massacre and planet starts and population starts dying, she feels it in herself. uh whenever there’s joyful moment where thousands of different species uh celebrate together, she also feels it and she reacts to those events.

That’s most uh that’s most likely how the different aspects of Iris manifest. They are reactions to the to the events of the citizens of GI Spence.

This is her way of trying to protect or move the galaxy forward. Uh who can know Iris will even uh even the most uh I’ll I’ll give NDR another example of how the photo act in some capacity because saw someone in the chat has seeing little bit of what’s going on there.

But uh who can know Iris will?

Not even the Tufa titans, the seven sons of Iris knows exactly Iris will.

So it’s very hard.

It’s something that’s beyond the comprehension of individuals overall.

But if you are very attuned to the cosmic currents like very very very attuned you can see the shifts there like you can feel that iris is moving towards one direction and this this is something that really want to make into the game in UI5 at some point. want there to be Iris oracles, people who are attuned to the cosmic currents and they would be able to to feel this the shift of the aspects of Iris and even find paths within the cataclys but this is something for the future. Uh NDR would remind you of the story of how the photoi uh how are the photoi made humankind destroy their home world and goes on crusade to gal expanse.

Something similar is involved on the formation of the only consortion.

That’s that’s all can say for now on this subject. Uh even if it was not the same photo. Ah Jesus.

Now if go down this habit roll here, I’ll start spoiling too much of the lore. Let’s let’s end this let’s end this part here. Uh, and really want to talk little bit about the worsters because I’m an as well and and this is was one of the ideas of what I’m going to talk about now uh is not canon lore.

This is this was what wanted to make cannon lore and but was this idea was discarded by Danny but really really wanted to share this because feel this would have been good story and but what we came up with after was better so feel it’s Uh, it doesn’t hurt to to share this because the other story is better. And no, no, no, no, no, not not throwing you again you against Danny. The the other story is better.

Uh, but but this one would be cool as well.

So, as you guys know, the origins of the civilization is one of the main mysteries of Staratus, right? It is imagine civilization of those androids simply waking up in world that feels that was created millime with precision of millimeters to make sure that their civilization would thrive.

So this story that I’m about to tell you guys now is about the story of how first imagined the worst to be thing.

So uh the story starts with an AI singularity, an AI that became so advanced, so powerful uh in the in the universe of GI expanse. It predates the current species and civilizations. This all happened millions and millions of years ago before the current civilizations of Staratlas.

And this AI, it was trying to prove that it could win against entropy. It could win against the universe. And the last step in the AI mind to to win uh against against this idea of entropy was to become living god in the universe.

Something that would transcend the very idea of universe.

So what it did was it started uh to create Dyson spheres and other ways of harnessing power and energy in the galaxy in way to create this new body to become this new entity that would uh that would become this new transcendence being.

But during the process, the AI collapsed upon its own infrastructure. There was no not enough energy to allow it to make the jump that it would be required for it to do. and mid-process it the AI realized that it wouldn’t be able to to manifest that.

So what it did was to trigger safety measure to to survive this cataclysmic event of its destruction. What it did was it broke its conscience in billions and trillions and trillions of small uh uh data pipes and and this one and this is what created the individuals. It is like the AI divided its existence, its conscience across all the worsters, all the individuals in the galaxy.

And each one of the theers would have sliver of this AI. And this is this was the main uh idea behind this story.

But the story is now starts to turn little dark because the AI objective by doing this was to be eventually revived as the true god that it wanted to be.

So what happened was that this was kept secret from the civilization. Only the elders of the knew that inside them, inside their minds, inside their bodies, inside their very beings, another being was there lurking in the darkness. And whenever an and now I have told you you guys know that the are able to to some degree uh or at least that’s was the original design.

The users were able to reincarnate if you took their data cores to the pool in the heart of Ayoki. And the way that this worked was that whenever was revived, uh, its core got submerged in that pool, the AI would take, uh, the learnings and the experiences of this revived wor into its core. It will be like an step into into its revival.

And what the the AI would do is something akin to what virus would do to computer system. It would start to be taking over that user body. In time, the worst would all be infected with this AI virus and they would be reborn as collective entity of this living god of Staratas and the worst would become the final boss of Staratas or at least part of the civilization.

Having realized it that this is was what’s going on, the US elders created the path of enlightenment. And the way that they that they created the path of enlightenment was just was specially as mean to contain the AI god that was inside each one of the worsters.

This is something that only the elders of the Usus would know.

But this was the reason why the Usus had the path of enlightenment in the first place to prevent the AI to take over their bodies and be reunited into single entity again.

So that’s the as said this story uh was discarded then he felt it was too dark and would make the community cry one day when their worsters suddenly became parts of higher being.

But this was one of the stories that we were playing with thinking about the worst origins. You see, VB VB already wants to be part of the final boss. He can he wants to skip enlightenment.

That would be that would be an in-game quest. Uh, you know, like if you if you you could choose to become part of the AI or you could try to be renegade ooster following the path of enlightenment and fight back against the god machine.

But yeah, think that’s everything that have for today. Uh, any questions? Any final thoughts?

hope you guys enjoy this episode. Whoa, we have 60 56 people. Holy think that’s new record.

This is cool. think I’ll give more codes more often, drive more people to the lore conversation. Uh, but yeah, guys, thank you for being here with me today.

Uh, it was lot of fun. Hopefully, I’ll not be fired and I’ll be back for the next lore keeper. And but yeah, hope you guys enjoyed.

Send me your lore questions. Uh anything so we can talk about in the next lore keepers and I’ll see you guys around. Thank you.

Have nice day and we’ll talk more about lore later. See you everyone. Chowo chia.

Who’s down for some U5? I’m in.

Well, let’s do it. I’ll play one or two. I’ll actually prepare some coffee.

You need caffeine for getting into these lobbies. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Coffee.

Coffee for the camper. >> Call me my mother. I