#canon signalis lore

[e17omm]

No wonder that Storch stabbed the Eule's music player.

[wealmostaneckbeard]

Signalis: Unsubstantiated History Lesson

In the beginning there was the Empress, who had Bioresonant powers and used them to unite humanity. These powers were studied and reverse engineered to create technology that allowed humanities expansion beyond Vineta.

Telepathy industrialized became the production of Replikas. Telekinesis industrialized became artificial gravity. Conjuration industrialized became Klimaforming.

There was a great flourishing of art and culture. Studies of natural sciences and technologies struggled to catch up to the achievements of Bioresonance. Mysticism and esoteric rituals became widely practiced. Every world and several moons within the Sol system were colonized.

...And then the Empress committed suicide.

Why?

Perhaps she realized that she wasn't changing the universe to accommodate humanity. That she was changing humanity according to the whims of an incomprehensible terrifyingly sentient universe.

Perhaps she realized that humanity would never be free as long as she was alive. That the survival of the human species was pointless if every person's individuality was lost due to bioresonant subjugation.

Perhaps She wanted no part to play in the coming future but was trapped by her own supernatural powers in a position of political authority. Unable to retire to a quiet life and finally rest she had no choice but the deadly alternative.

Without the Empress, her empire fell slowly into chaos. Politicians, Corporate Executives, and Bioresonant Cultists formed a new aristocracy while collectively maintaining the veneer of a unified empire. These leaders were mere mortals, their longevity and power was inferior to the Empress. Their cruel incompetence begat competent revolutionaries. So those allegedly in control formed military and police forces to maintain their grip over their subjects.

Then a cult on Heimat successfully cloned the object of their worship, ironically an achievement of practical science. She was raised to do what the Empress would not. She would want to live forever, have absolute authority, and redundantly, even have an heiress.

When she was revealed to the worlds, The War started. The Eusan Empire was fighting for their freedom and the interests of their nobility. The nascent Eusan Nation fought for a future ruled by the Great Revolutionary. It should be spelled out that both sides were hypocrites in this apocalyptic interplanetary conflict.

Humanity was spread too far out and so their re-subjugation beneath a godlike figure was never going to be recreated.

As the war stagnated, The Great Revolutionary became concerned about threats from within her Nation. The cult that had created her could create her replacement if she did not obey them. In the interest of her own survival, she had them and any means of creating a challenger purged from existence. Even with her power, this was not easily done due to the cults integration with the Nation and the vast size of both organizations.

Cultists would purge themselves from the records and continue living under new identities. More intense law enforcement tactics were required to catch them. The Nation's war against an external foe shifted to face an enemy within.

Human suffering continues, and yet in these dark times two women fall in love with each other aboard the low-cost scout ship Penrose-512...

[multitrackdrifting]

I think this kind of take bears repeating but nobody can really take away how you engage with a piece of art from you, but conversely, that does not mean the ways that you connect with it are intentional. I don't mind that some artists will say "I won't clarify shit" (notably, SIGNALIS' lore is not over-explained) and others will have a very distinct and clear-cut idea of what they are saying. There's no right way to go about it but idk, I just roll my eyes at the notion of seeking validation in getting super concise answers as to whether specific things you appreciate about a work are intentional or not. I always say this about Chainsaw Man but CSM pacing is probably a coincidence but I still hold it up as a reason I quite enjoy reading it as time goes on.

So when I read an interview which just reads like "the fandom has these questions", I can't help but feel my skin crawl a little because you've traded journalistic integrity & substance for like, "some people on twitter want to know this" and I don't like that. An author, in my eyes, has a voice that is worth understanding with more salient questions like, the questions that explain different media and motivations are infinitely more interesting than asking "is my headcanon real". Because the way you connect with a work is deeply personal to you, and I don't think it's necessary to have that validated in the way of "oh, this was a little nod towards me and my experiences" because feeling joy or appreciation for the world somebody has made is still the outcome you arrived at.

The reason that so many things have a "universality" to them is that it helps you connect with what is going on, which is why, when I read people think they are above shounen, I think they are ignoring the fact that there is a kind of joy (that isn't escapism) that comes from just seeing a character overcome the odds and do some cartoonishly cool shit. Even if your reading of a character isn't supported by "canon" and it is purely incidental, I don't really see how that's the end of the world, because it's not a warning shot to say "don't do that" - it's just to say that it was not what motivated how they were written. That you still resonate with them despite that has to mean something, I think so anyway.

[paintingchimera]

I wanna ramble about iris and Anja (ariane’s mom and the itou twins mom) they really make me wonder, especially iris.

[also small detail, I saw the signalis wiki said ariane had “premature achromotrichia”! Though, it wouldn’t really make do it being heavily connected to smoking, I don’t think ariane would’ve smoked. I’m researching this as I go, so I change my opinion immediately: she does have it, because: she has a lack of copper in her diet, I did not know we needed to eat copper the fuck, that’s a joke, most likely she didn’t have enough minerals or vitiamins in her diet, considering how she was raised I actually understand. I don’t eat a lot of stuff full of Vitamins…or minerals…I’m next/j]

ANYWAYS, continuing my ramble.

Iris really makes me curious, what was her life like? Who did she fall in love with to have ariane? Plot twist Shes gay /j my brain does this weird thing where if a character barely has any info (aka iris) it will conjure up a whole personality for that character, even make more characters to fit that characters new lore. Its fun to do too, I did it with Anja itou, and Alina seo. I’ve even made some replika neural patterns,

You know the underworld from epic the musical? The part where Odysseus’s mom comes in, that’s how I imagine iris, I bet you she doesn’t even know her daughter went on the Penrose program, now she’s probably waited for her daughter to come back, til she died. In the first place, she just wanted what was best for ariane, now she’s lost her. Do you understand how devastating it is for a mother to lose her daughter? Her daughter— that she thinks left her because she found her own life, to never even get a message?

A Alternative is that kamila knew and told iris, I feel like iris would blame Kamila, I mean, if you had just found out your daughter went on practically a suicide mission. You’d blame someone, and now focusing on Anja. Idk purely based on her name I feel like she’d be more of a strict type of mother, still loving but way stricter, Wanting the best for her kids.

Iris and Anja best friends canon /j [that gave me ideas smh) anyways I’m heading to bed night losers

[hrodvitnon]

Two questions:

1. What’s your preferred SIGNALIS ending?

2. Would you be down with a SIGNALIS sequel?

It's a tie between Memory and Artifact. Memory because it's the first ending I got, so it holds a bittersweet place in my heart and it's still vivid in my mind; I didn't quite register what I saw happen onscreen and silently watched the credits, went to help my mother with something, sat down afterwards, thought about the ending I got, and started crying. Artifact because the mechanics to achieve it and how people figured it out is almost ARG-like, and depending on one's interpretation it can be kind of a happy-ish ending, maybe, or have crazy ramifications.

I feel SIGNALIS works as a stand-alone story that doesn't necessarily need a sequel and I'm happy to leave it at that; at the same time, a tiny part of me would be interested to see just what a sequel would be like. Maybe it can expand on the lore in some respects, and if it makes any mention of the previous game then it's just cheeky nods that doesn't imply which ending is canon, leaving it up to interpretation.

[luetta]

Found your HDG×SIGNALIS Falke and other posts and had to ask how bioresonance would factor into the Affini's domestication efforts

Like there's the rare bioresonant humans, the kolibris, and falkes, plus maybe even a Red Eye if you decide it's canon in your fic. And uh, given what canon displays and tells us about it? it's a question I can't help but wonder about

Like Falke's would def use their bioresonance to resist, Kolibri's there's the question of if they're altogether or not (but iirc correctly their neutral patterns are allegedly unstable + altogether they might be easier to domesticate) humans are mixed bag cuz do they even know if they're bioresonant?

Oh yeah bioresonants connect to and read minds so that can play into how their domestication goes

Totally get if you dunno how to tackle this since lore's vauge af and you need to take your time. Hope your having a good day

aaa this is such a cool ask !! im well into starting to write the story, but im not yet at a point where there's been any domestication yet, so what ive decided is subject to change, but i have definitely been thinking lots about bioresonance and how itll be relevant. first things first is the canon. this is probably affected a bit by my own interpretation of the canon, but, im probably not going to touch the king in yellow/flesh below leng/red eye at all. for me, the whole story of signalis and all it's supernatural elements is essentially contained within a separate mindscape dimension and doesn't really effect the real eusan worlds. it'd also get a bit messy i feel, pitting cosmic horror against affini technological supremecy, cus like, who would win ? i literally dont know, and affini are meant to always win. so i think im just gonna let the flesh below leng chill. outta sight, outta mind. now, for bioresonance, i think it's fair to say there's similarities between it and biorhythms. given the fact that the eusans dont really even understand the mechanics and source of bioresonance, i feel content for the affini to come in and say "oh interesting, theyve managed to artifically (or naturally with rare bioresonant humans) amplify their biorhythms in their replikas" maybe ill add something about how theyve attuned it to idk, specific physical wavelengths, to induce something analogous to telekinesis. for kolibri's being easier to domesticate, you're right on the money for what ive been planning. theyre more perceptive to biorhythms and more receptive to xenodrugs. and virtue of their sharing of emotions and stuff with others, theyre definitely gonna be useful for, at the very least, calming other replikas and gestalts down while they get boarded and interrogated and domesticated EDIT: also with class-f drugs reducing intrusive thoughts/helping 'mind implant fuckery" work better, i think they could also be used to dampen/strength bioresonant effects too. if the affini wanted to i have a really fun plan for falkes, the first falkes to be domesticated are going to essentially be used against the eusan nation and empire, due to their supreme authority and bioresonance, having one telling everyone about the joys of the affini, to throw down their arms and surrender, is probably going to be a pretty huge boon in getting the governments to surrender. a falke unit is probably going to be the main character that ill follow through getting domesticated. i think itll be so fun having a falke be broken. one more thing ive been thinking about is about persona degredation. now, this seems pretty obvious to me in canon that persona degradation simply doesnt exist, and its just a name for any emerging individualism, which would mean a slight decrease in efficience, which means execution. but idk, ive seen a sort of vibe that ppl thing that not having access to fetish objects and strange things happening is gonna make replikes go crazy and corrupted and bluescreen, when thats simply not the case. that only happens in the game, which is definitely not reality. im going to follow this in the story, an affini showing up is going to scare the shit out of replikas, it's literally an alien. but they're not going to turn into brain broken zombies because of it, theyll just get freaked out and diverge from their blueprints. so yeah ^_^ thats some of my thoughts so far for the setting and canon and plans that ive managed to elucidate so far. thnx for asking !!

[optiwashere]

J, L, P, X, Y? 👀

Thanks for asking for these ones!

J. Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)

Signalis. Which is weird because I loooooove that game. Gay robots, psychosexual trauma, and survival horror? Sign me up. I still don't really read for it, which is just because I rarely do for video games.

L. Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

Gortash is actually a very satisfying boss fight because the whole point is that he's a fuckin' dork, not a Ketheric Thorm or Orin. When you fight him one-on-one, he's a complete pushover and he should be. His abilities lie elsewhere.

P. Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Parks and Recreation x Baldur's Gate 3 AU/Crossover. It would let me combine my fandoms and do utterly unhinged shit with both sides of the coin.

X. A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

I'm not sure if it has a solid trope name, but "sad girl with large comfort person" is genuinely so for me it's unbelievable. There's a reason Shadowheart/Karlach is my favorite canon/canon pair.

Y. What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Some of my friends are in the LOTR and Dragon Age fandoms, but I never did anything more than enjoy those series and games. I've also learned more about Destiny lore from following you than I ever did playing those games lmao.