#Primordia goliath free

Metropol launches a First Strike against Urbani and wipes out their human population. Urbani and Metropol remain locked in War. (I don't think we ever explicitly see a robot from Municipa).Ī lonely refugee of Civitas, Gimbal Built-by-Lapita, sets out across the dunes sometime around now, seeking once again to sing with others in Harmony after the Choir at home is silenced. Nice Borg.The Best of Both Worlds.you could say. Honestly, it sounds a bit like the technosocialist utopia MetroMind says she would like to create.except with respect for individual autonomy.something which integrates its members into a quasi-religiously transcendent whole rather than overpower them into a drone hive. Individuals are grouped into “choirs.” Civitas voices are carried along various non audible wavelengths, one of which is radio-transmitted binary. Civitas robot society refers to itself as “The Great Fractal” in which individuals existing in a 'Harmony' of constant “song,” each member using “all of their voices,” to communicate constantly with each other. Possibility: Since human society was absent much longer in Civitas than in Urbani or Metropol, robot society there developed further away from human-friendly methods of expression, for instance, they seem to use the shapes traced by complex quadratic polynomial boundary planes and customary greetings (“May Mandelbrot's bulbs unfurl their spirals for you, Silent one”). The areas between cities are nothing but desolate wastelands, though it is unclear if that is so because of the war or was a condition that long preceded it.Ĭivitas and Municipa are destroyed first (or at least their human populations are). Phrases like “Thousands of Humans” and “Hundreds of Robots” are used, but “millions” never rears its head)Įventually, also for indeterminate reasons, the humans from the Four Cities went to war. (It should be noted, even in the most accurate sources discussing the most idyllic times, these cities are quite small. (The Monocle reveals Metropol had a Starport responsible for launching components for a project known as Luna Station.)įor unknown reasons, possibly previous wars or ecological/climatological disasters, at the end of the Primordium only four human terrestrial habitats remain: Civitas, Municipia, Urbani and Metropol. Other feats of engineering are accomplished in this time such as regular interplanetary (or possibly interstellar) travel. Sturnweilerbuilt - a mildly intelligent Subway Construction Repair And Precision Excavation Robot, used to make subway tunnels for MetroMind. These robots were created directly by the Hand of Man to assist in carrying out important tasks in their builder's lives.including possibly taking the lives of other builders.Īlso possibly included are Sturnweiler – a non sentient automated factory later absorbed by Factor.Īs well as its most notable creation: S.C.R.A.P.E.R. Humans create automated factories and sentient machines, the Primordial Machines, which were able to self-replicate. Alas, I am but a lowly scribal machine, limited in Memory, an imperfect copy of Man.

#Primordia goliath free

Then I looked up and I had typed a whollllle damn lot.Īlso, there probably will be some errors, feel free to point 'em out.

Okay.then I started thinking about it and my mind started wondering about some of the logical ordering the events had to go in in order to consistently make sense across the multiple accounts.I wanted to try and collate all the various fragmented streams of information I can remember while it's still fresh in my mind and present them in a chronological order.hopefully to create a roughly 'objective' timeline of the major events of this world.as well as draw some inferences from it. I was curious how long a stretch of time people thought the game spanned. What really draws me in to any IP is an author who thinks seriously about their worldbuilding.and that's something that simply shined here. While there are some criticisms I could make about some of the gameplay, animations, and tonal dissonance with your sidekick, they are superficial compared to how much I liked the multi-layered reveals, shifting perspectives and almost archaeological quality of the backstory. Finished Primordia last night, I thoroughly enjoyed it.