Before long, she’s transported to a strange alien world teeming with physics-defying geography and hostile drones from a war between two long-dead civilizations. In fact, if you’re not the type to sit on the menu screen for a while to wait for the introduction to load up or hunt down scattered bits of lore hidden across the world, you’d be hard-pressed to say there was much of a narrative at all.Īxiom Verge 2 puts you in the role of Indra Chaudhari, a billionaire CEO attracted to a deserted outpost in Antarctica by hints about the location of her long-lost daughter. Though its title implies Axiom Verge 2 is a sequel to the 2015 original, it’s better to see it as a new game in the same family from the same creator (one Thomas Happ). The game got even bigger when I gained the ability to turn my hand into a tiny spider drone, opening up still more possibilities. Then I learned to climb the walls, and the world expanded greatly.
That technology had to come from somewhere, so either the Kazakhs inhabited a world adjacent to Sudra or downstream from it so there were similarities in art and culture and architecture, or the Rebirth Chambers and other advanced technology were themselves brought to Sudra from upstream worlds and simply shut down rather than completely destroyed after the Sudrans nearly wiped themselves out.I thought I had seen everything Axiom Verge 2 when I could jump to my maximum height while underwater, thus becoming able to reach all manner of places I couldn’t before. Some of this technology included Rebirth Chambers - Indra even accesses the Filter through one - which was later destroyed to prevent too much cultural contamination. The only problem with this theory is that long before anyone from earth showed up in Kiengir, the Lamassu had upstream technology brought in to allow the locals to defend themselves, as part of its broader directive to safeguard the Worldstream from disruption. Given how time is explicitly stated to pass at different rates in different parts of the Breach compared to the worlds in the Worldstream, it isn’t out of the question that the Kazakhs were the ancestors of the Sudrans. Here’s the thing: What we see of the world that Drushka is standing watch in, called The Emergence, looks so similar to what we’ve seen of Sudra as to be almost identical. It’s semi-implied but never explicitly stated that there’s a trans-universal system in place to keep the Worldstream stable, and the Lamassu computer network that controls Kiengir is part of that network, and the fact that realities are starting to glitch and break down further implies that this system is damaged or overwhelmed. At least, that’s what normally happens, but for some reason the transmigration of souls was limited or stopped or throttled.
Put it all together and the game all but states that there is an afterlife, but it operates on the same rules as life - it’s an adjacent or related universe to our own and minds / spirits / souls / cognitive algorithms can migrate between those universes under certain conditions even if the material body they used to pilot is no longer functional. Except there’s Trace’s original paper and the axioms he starts with, where reality is described as algorithms running a universal / multiversal simulation, and cognition is a sub-algorithm within the parent algorithm.
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