![]() ![]() Multiple factors caused its collapse, from external rebellion to internal strife, but chief among these, it is believed, was the phenomenon known as the Pseudosingularity. The details of its fall, as well, are complex. Technologically, many things developed that were in the past seen as impossible. This was an era stagnant in some ways but vibrantly blossoming in others. This disparity in both force and resources allowed the Empire to rule unchallenged for many centuries, or perhaps even millennia. Coupled with this were many millions of soldiers armed with top-of-the-line Exo-Suits, a type of power armor that could give one protection from most small arms fire and could only be defeated by either luck, another Exo-Suit-wearing soldier, or something beyond them in strength. As it expanded across the solar system, the Empire was careful to ensure that no colony could survive without vital resources shipped to it from the home planet, in order to prevent the threat of independent polities from ever arising. Entire ecosystems were relocated into artificial reserves the size of small countries, and many billions lived and died within its bowels. Much has been forgotten of this period of history, as the digital archives which recorded it fell into disarray or were destroyed outright.Įarth itself was turned into a titanic, sprawling city, its original shape lost under layers of metal harvested from the asteroid belt. The Solar Empire was rife with corruption, discrimination, crime, terrorism, and chaos below its pristine surface, but so vast was its reach, populous its citizenry, and mighty its legions that the true breadth of its rot could not be accurately gauged by any but those in the highest positions of power, the elite of the elite who stood above the rest of mankind thanks to closely guarded secrets of mechanical augmentation and the finest of evolutionary retroviruses. Under its guidance, mankind knew untold prosperity and rose to heights previously undreamt of. ![]() ![]() Built from the ashes of countless civilizations and failed attempts at gene-forged supermen and mechanical gods, it would rise to dominate not just the Earth, but the other planets and moons of the solar system as well. The Great Solar Empire was the dominant civilization prior to the current era. My primary intent with this mod is to really push how far I can take Dwarf Fortress into the future while still having things work in-game and provide a coherent story of humanity and its kindred struggling in a world that is the victim of our own rapaciousness." Clothing and weapon-wise it has the same trappings as more surreal and far-future cyberpunk dystopias tend to lean towards, but it can also be seen as an anachronistic techno-feudalistic setting. "This mod is my attempt at a cyberpunk setting, sort of. All that can be known is that this night will be long and harsh indeed, and only the hardiest and most determined will even stand a chance of seeing a new dawn. Whether it be the great old powers of the ancient Nobles, the first of the new men, the demigod Executors and their slaves, the barbaric Posthumans and their thralls, or even the scattered remnants of true humanity, the future is uncertain. A world of constant, unending warfare as the children of man fight for the chance to rebuild, and establish their own grandiose vision of the future. A hellish wasteland filled with mutated horrors, half-mad cybernetic demigods, and powers greater still. Earth's fall called its wayward children of all kinds back to its shattered surface, and the haggard survivors of the fallen colonies found a realm far unlike what was documented in their own histories. Man's own hubris, maybe, his rapacious lust for more resources sending the world into a death spiral. Or it could have been the radical transhumanists who plunged the planet into a new dark age to fuel their own ascent. Perhaps a war between those who pushed for nanomachines to do away with traditional technology and those who viewed its power as uncontrollable. None know for sure what happened exactly. In its grand, epoch-spanning thousands of years, Earth was the jewel of a great solar empire, its every square inch morphed into a sprawling factory city, pumping out countless advanced resources to supply colonies from the clouds of Venus all the way to the moons of Saturn. Changing game files can sometimes cause unexpected results, and should always be done with care and caution. The content is not part of normal DF as released. ![]()
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