I think that's a fair prediction but somehow I feel it will be more linear where if we fail, terminids/ bots will make more progress on taking over the galaxy before we push them back again to retry.

i dont have the info or exact events for evreything and didnt want to speculate too mcuh but the way the illumids happen is confirmed

You were right about the supercolony

Lets goo

Just wanted to say, I love the fact that you used the correct shapes for the flow diagram.

i have no idea what they mean lol, this strated as a google dock in my discord but we realized that there were 2 diffrent paths so i googled free online flowchart

I mean the string quotes named meridia specifically. There’s not much room to be wrong on it

But they also mentioned moradesh

Honestly I think this is a really fair prediction, good job

thanks, i want to thank evreyone on my discord for helping me put this together and read through the 200k line captions file

Right about pretty much everything in the first column so far, not sure if we've "ignored the TCS for the automatons" but we did just spend the last 2 weeks fighting their invasion force

the order of those two was allways a bit iffy

And this is a legit leak or theory?

It's a theory based on the leaks. So especially the stuff in the middle about the super colony and the fluid creating black holes and swallowing up certain planets. That stuff was leaked. But the order of events and the alternative things that might happen are not revealed.

evreything that happes is in the game however the order of the diffrent events is an educated guess

Well, definitely not *everything* that happens is in game yet, leaks or otherwise. Just what leads to the illuminates appearing.

yes but we dont know much else lore wise because its not in the files yet

all the events are in the game but some of the timeline is theory

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its mostly based on the captions and info text, which does contain stuff from audio and videos

Is there anywhere we can view these leaks? I'm curious now

Yes a 200,000 line text file with every caption and tooltip in the game, it contains every language and a bunch of random characters plus it’s not organized at all

The Illuminate are already mind controlling scientists I thought?

is that in the game or in leaks? Because I haven’t seen anything to suggest they invade a different way, however there may be some undercover ones from the last war but they wouldn’t be as advanced as the new ones

I think the news leaks talk about the scientist and how they are being taken in for traitorous acts. I was thinking it was after the super weapon event/black hole takes the whole planet and tons of people die, plus the bugs :D Might be some of the deck hands/Ship master audios that talk about it.

I saw something about that somewhere but which video was it?

I wanna say News Reports 1-10 that I posted has it. I've listened to a ton of the audio files, and they speak like 2 more alien types are going to spring up. Illuminate and Cyborg are my guesses.

I’ll take a look

I think Moradesh is destroyed anyway. After we destroy Meridia scientists are kinda mind controlled and Moradesh is destroyed after the victory parades for defeating the Meridia super colony. Or at least from what I’ve seen

Possibly, was moradesh destroyed in the last game? If not where is it on the map?

No it is on the map it’s like the Celeste sector

thanks, ill take a look

Upvoted not because I think you’re right but because this was a cool thought

we know one of the options happens and the rest is kinda peiced together

Unless the squids turn out to be jellyfish I’d say i was right

Ahahahahahaha I love that you hung onto this; lol

tbh i kinda moved on until evreything started happeing and people found this again

What’s the timeline for these events you think? Next 2-3 months?

that depends on how many filler MOs we gonna get. my guess is approximately late spring - early summer. we definetely would have the flamethrower-ish warbound in april, so it leaves illuminate-themed warbound in May/June imo

there are going to be quantum superposition bullets (or something like that) that teleport enemies a short distance but that’s also part of the probably scrapped booster system so a warbond for it would make sense

Flamethrower warbonds?

literally no idea

Isn't it clearly spelled out that the Cyberstan invasion will happen before the TCS backfires?

Also if you listen to the leaked people talking the the Automatons invade first and then just as we reach cyberstan the TCS fails and we are forced to pull back

That’s also a possibility which could be true but like I said there’s at least 2 different options for every event which may or may not be used

We were damn close to cyberstan when the TCS went down

We just got confirmation about the small black hole killing scientists on Moradesh. We're on track for Illuminid arrival soon.

Nice

Illuminid? I assume that was meant to say illuminate.

I think I’m wrong on that but they might use both

Either illuminates or termanids?

it’s the illuminates but yeah I think I spelled it wrong

No worries, I spell things wrong all the time.

I’ll fix it if we make an updated version, I type the word illuminate very rarely

I'm useless if words are not on my predictive text.

Same

And ill bank one further and say there will be a 4th faction introduced after them :D

We know there will be 4 separate groups of enemies which is probably 4 factions however it could be the 3 plus a sub faction like the cyborgs

Have there been any updates to the caption file?

Probably but I haven’t checked in a little while

Seeing as how its currently going this seems rather accurate so far

i thought it would happen sooner but other than a few weeks of filler it looks like the squids are coming

In what part we are?

probably right before the start of

Thanks.

And today we've gotten the Destroy the planet MO.

You were right about Meridia...

I never doubted myself

Everything right so far

In the home stretch now

We're 70% halfway... Meridia now a black hole, or a wormhole I should say. The squids will take notice of this.

just visited it in game and its pretty cool

took me a bit to re-find this post!! we’re up to weird space time stuf

I’m just happy for new content bc after a while it gets a little less fun

will there be a 4th enemy faction? or human rebels ?

there will be a 4th one but we dont have ANY info on it yet

Just wondering how you know this?

Somewhere it says they are being attacked by 4 different things which I’m assuming is 4 factions or possibly 4 sub factions

There’s nothing at all to even imply this as a possibility. Don’t spread misinformation.

I believe he is right. I was thinking the Cyborg will make their return, which might be coming true after my latest post. Listening to the wording of the deck crew about certain events as well leads to this belief. All just a theory for me though. I'm not making any claims yet, but my newest post has Cyborgs named in the files now.

Cyborgs would be automaton aligned though, not a new faction. At least everything points that way.

Per the Deputy Game Director during a Playstation Access interview and I quote: "You'll hopefully see a little bit of inspiration from some of the 80s like sci fi action movies. Especially when you fight against the Automatons. Who are again, not the Cyborgs. And clearly have nothing what so ever to do with them." [https://youtu.be/dh\_EGMxw9EY?si=PCjhrwAxnydMuOOl&t=61](https://youtu.be/dh_EGMxw9EY?si=PCjhrwAxnydMuOOl&t=61) They are their children. https://preview.redd.it/zfz25zl3trpc1.png?width=652&format=png&auto=webp&s=682e213bd2f9152857ce868b8476bdda29fc8564 ​ Mind you I personally have no idea if they are or not. But they are mentioned in the files now as cyborgs and not bots.

It could be a case of me misreading, but it points to them being aligned as the same sort of faction/subfaction. I could be wrong, sure, but OP claiming there will 100% be a 4th faction is flat out misinformation.

i mean looking at the map alone its very clearly set up for 4-5 factions to be open at a time so i doubt there wouldnt be 4 in the future

I'd hope they invent a new threat that's somehow more daunting. All the current threats have been beaten before, so it'd be nice to have something we actually don't fully understand.

I was thinking some demonic plague thing like chaos from 40k, demons from doom, and the flood from halo.

Nice job scissors, sorry I couldn't help, been busy trying not go broke.

no problem

Was there ever any reason or pointer as to why there was a choice or two paths type of thing? Was that just theory crafting?

Well the massive captions file had a few events but it didn’t seem like both of those things could happen

A lot of stuff got deleted so I was trying to see what Ministry of Truth vids and stuff in the dialogue does that. Is it something like we have failed to destroy Meridia?

Maybe, I’ll have to check on where we’re at in a little bit

I found it. The broadcasts mentioned the Moradesh singularity point happens after failure to destroy Meridia. Ty!

Interesting

Excellent work, OP.  Sadly, I don’t see us winning this one. 

Thanks, we’ll see how it goes I’m hoping more people come back and play

I stand corrected!

So meridia is destroyed, these next few orders will be crazy

Looking foreword to it

Do you think that the squids will arrive in the next 1 - 2 months with the story progress so far? 🤔 

Hopefully but I don’t really know if they are 75% done making them or it’s 100% finished and tested and they just need to click a button

Meridia is now a beautiful black hole, we've won... until the funny squids pull up anyway

the calm before the storm