Free golems: Where did they come from?
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:32 pm
So, I'm planning on FINALLY adding a wiki page for the Free Golem role, similar to the page for ashwalkers but less antaggy. The only thing is, obviously, I can't just make it exclusively full of mechanical stuff, I have to include some fluff as well. That's where I run into a problem. From what I can tell reading the available in-game fluff, I can piece together a few things, but the whole story is a bit up-in-the-air. Here's what we know about the free golems:
1) They were created by a research director, through apparently xenobiological means. There were at least four of them to begin with.
2) The research director commanded them all to "yeah, go do whatever" which essentially freed them to their own devices, permanently. The golems worship him because of this.
3) The free golems later gained ownership of a Donk Co. transportation shuttle with two cargo compartments full of NT-standard mining gear, complete with an ORM, autolathe, medical supplies, and point redemption console.
4) The available point redemption console has some extra options, tuned towards research and xenobiology.
5) The golems managed to obtain an autolathe-compatible golem creation disk, which allows them to manufacture golems from raw iron in an autolathe.
6) The golems all have cool names consisting of the material they are made of, and some other mineral-or-lavaland-related name.
7) The golems and their Donk Co. transportation shuttle ended up in lavaland.
This of course leaves some details up to interpretation. Why was the research director making golems? Where did the golems find a Donk Co. transportation shuttle? Was it pre-loaded with NT-standard mining gear, or did they smuggle the mining gear on? Are the four golems on the ship a small regiment of the original group constructed, or were they the only ones? Where did they get a golem creation disk?
I encourage you all to weigh in on this with your own thoughts. Of course, I'm going to share my ideas for how the whole situation played out, but I'd still like to hear some other theorycrafts before I write the actual article. My ideas below are spoilered, so that it's easier to resist reading them if you want to form your own theory completely unrelated to my own.
1) They were created by a research director, through apparently xenobiological means. There were at least four of them to begin with.
2) The research director commanded them all to "yeah, go do whatever" which essentially freed them to their own devices, permanently. The golems worship him because of this.
3) The free golems later gained ownership of a Donk Co. transportation shuttle with two cargo compartments full of NT-standard mining gear, complete with an ORM, autolathe, medical supplies, and point redemption console.
4) The available point redemption console has some extra options, tuned towards research and xenobiology.
5) The golems managed to obtain an autolathe-compatible golem creation disk, which allows them to manufacture golems from raw iron in an autolathe.
6) The golems all have cool names consisting of the material they are made of, and some other mineral-or-lavaland-related name.
7) The golems and their Donk Co. transportation shuttle ended up in lavaland.
This of course leaves some details up to interpretation. Why was the research director making golems? Where did the golems find a Donk Co. transportation shuttle? Was it pre-loaded with NT-standard mining gear, or did they smuggle the mining gear on? Are the four golems on the ship a small regiment of the original group constructed, or were they the only ones? Where did they get a golem creation disk?
I encourage you all to weigh in on this with your own thoughts. Of course, I'm going to share my ideas for how the whole situation played out, but I'd still like to hear some other theorycrafts before I write the actual article. My ideas below are spoilered, so that it's easier to resist reading them if you want to form your own theory completely unrelated to my own.
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