[Arknights] Path of Life Badly Explained

[@seraph_dalgon_9216]

Ok, now that this is out, I gotta ask am I the only one that hopes whenever the next part of this storyline, the whole Aegir sharing info and announcing the rest of Terra blows up in their faces? Cuz I can’t help but have a bitter taste in my mouth when they just essentially just tell Terra to just bend the knee to them. Yes, I know it’s to fight the Seaborn but you can’t tell me that in any world that’s supposed to be taken seriously that any nation with a spine is just going to do that especially for a nation they didn’t even know existed? Ulpianus was right, Aegir’s arrogance is way too much for its own good and I need it to be knocked down a peg before I can buy anything progress with em.

[@magearamil8626]

How can they ever dominate say Yan, I have a feeling even Ling, alone, with her reality bending "magic" would prove them they are not top of the food chain. Or Ursus just sends then few Emperor's Blades, not that would be interesting

[@emperormaxwell432]

Nah, the other nations are too stupid/self centered to realize just how large of a threat the Seaborn are.

[@bionicfactory1]

God I hope so Not that I dislike Aegir but I wanna see them brought down to the grime of the rest of Terra

[@ohthatswild1755]

It is stated and shown multiple times that Ægir isn’t just talking the big talk. They have weapons that far outstrip what Columbia, the most technologically advanced land civilization, even believe possible and their society is united and strong. They are arrogant, yes, but when their warships could very likely delete an Emperor's Blade from existence or plunge a Sui shard into a miniaturized black hole, you can't say their arrogance is unfounded. Afterall, they know of the Collapsals and of the Observers, which is leagues ahead of the vast majority of nations.

[@abdurafiunggang3464]

They be talking ass when everything the doctor is there The rightful owner of the precursor tech.

[@ez9212]

Babe wake up! New arknights lore just dropped.

[@skadoosh3253]

This event left such a big cliffhanger that makes me crave for more. Also, you’re one of the only content creators that goes this in-depth in Arknights lore and it’s really refreshing and entertaining, so keep up the great work!

[@Hindshell5438]

29:30 The person there is theorized to be "Luo" One of the Doctor's colleague mention by the Doctor in the ARG tape recording. It seems that Luo is the creator and person in charge with the Caerula Arbor Project This is tape recording mentioned: "The Fosterer" , TT 23rd December 228, 02.16 Luo, I'm sorry for not replying to you, but this is a belated good news. The environmental adaptability analysis of the living tissue samples of your kilometer-long friends in the Deep Blue Tree has been completed. According to the analysis results, they can survive the destruction. But they also need a lot of time to become the ship that sows new hope. Luo, please don't think that your success is too late for us, let them live. These beautiful marine creatures don't need to join our destruction. In the future, perhaps they will take a little bit of dust we leave behind and take a step into the cold void.

[@bionicfactory1]

Damn that's pretty interesting I really need to look into the ARG's more

[@ImpassiveCanine]

I never cared for the Seaborn/Abyssal Hunter storyline before this event but they kept jingling the keys by mentioning Lone Trail so now they have my attention. Also Muelsyse was there so 10/10 event.

[@bionicfactory1]

Muelsyse/10

[@PlasuMinasu]

I love your lore videos!! keep up the good work

[@bionicfactory1]

If no one got me I know Plus Minus got me

[@Warquest29]

I'm really eager to see how Seaborns storyline will mend with next Main Story Arc, considering threat from above returning. Perhaps Skadi and Doctor will resolve it by making Skadi heir of We Many but without her turning into catastrophe, and then(if PV-4 actually teased Leviathans flying in the sky) they'll be fighting on our side

[@skadoosh3253]

Maybe they get cerulea arbor in their control again

[@bionicfactory1]

That's what I am thinking will end up happening

[@MajorLawliet]

I doubt extremely we will ever fight the Observers, truly. What we know of them is so unfathomably above is, I imagine things may go in a different direction. Not for nothing, I believe, do we know squat about them. From what they are, to how are they so powerful, to why they do what they do, and if they even possess any real goal to speak of.

[@Zeitzbach]

The most interesting thing that will really happen to the Seaborn arc now really is the Unification plan backfiring so hard on Aegis because of how awful they are at socializing and doing PR campaign. The seaborn written as a threat that can keep taking L and still comeback for another round make them too boring at this point because as mentioned in the vid, them ever taking an actual win is the end of Arknight so they will never be that interesting. The people of Terra being pissed at Aegir though? Now that's a lot more fun.

[@bionicfactory1]

Yeah I assume at least Ursus will have an issue with em

[@ohthatswild1755]

At the end of this event Ægir reluctantly allows Kal'tsit to act as somewhat of a middle man between Ægir and land civilizations, as long as it doesn’t mire their plans too much. That should help with future negotiations and PR. As for your take on the Seaborn, I don't really agree. I don't see them as losing constantly, because their goals are not to win. Their goals are their continued evolution and existence. Not once have they ever been pushed back in either of these goals, and with the reveal of the first Seaborn I found myself seeing them in an even more dangerous light. The question of what survival is, the survival of civilization or the survival of life, is the question that marks the very soul of the Seaborn. They are not a faction, they are nature taken to its most extreme.

[@ohthatswild1755]

Tldr, the Seaborn is plenty interesting and very much still serve as a threat outside of just in-lore.

[@Mighty_Dork]

I loved this event's story. It should be an intermezzi

[@rune2ch]

the pink thing is so hot

[@bionicfactory1]

Real and true

[@blitzm4nn511]

I wonder if Mizuki will play an important role later in the Aegir story line. After all, he was a really important figure in the alternate events in IS 3. Its also interesting to see how these characters will interact with him since he is a natural half human half seaborn unlike the abyssal hunters.

[@RuneCarterCh]

i mistake the tittle with "path of exile badly explained"

[@bionicfactory1]

@@RuneCarterCh "damn path of exile lore mad different than I remember"

[@dmar.gar5689]

Cool video!

[@yeenbaby2891]

So apparantly im more terrifying than the literal seaborn lol bruhahahaha

[@Dustfired]

So the Doctor is the Oracle, Luo is the Fosterer (this is mentioned in a another comment) so what is Priestess? The Final Boss?

[@yojo8667]

I think the tyranids are handled a bit more interesting than how seaborn are handled. They dont have characters who can explain their existence or even have any individuality outside their physical observable effectiveness for the hivemind and making them threatening through sheer power and mystery and the sub faction that follows them are more explained to be consequences of the setting and not explanations of who they are. They may not have many on screen Ws but it’s mostly because their Ws are the complete consumption of a world, so when we get a notable story featuring them winning, than it likely means their presence then and there had massive consequences for the setting. The seaborn come very close to this and a part of me feels a bit more unease with their fishy, more fleshy imagery to pair with their hivemind ideology, but they do lack the scope of the tyranids to be as effective and while I don’t mind essentially church villains to explain their existence either, I do think they deserve more on screen impacts to show just monstrous and terrifying they can be, we got a bit of it in this event like the first mission with the abyssal hunters in Aegir, but imagining only the small baby fodder doing a bulk of the work in the story doesn’t really help.

[@bionicfactory1]

@@yojo8667 yeah the nids also got that huge W against the ultramarines at the start of 10th that really cemented they were not a force to be ignored despite not having many on-screen victories Seaborn obviously aren't treated poorly by AK they did get a whole event showing how devastating they can be to Terra if they ever do break containment. It's just something I hope they avoid

[@_unknown123.]

Bro cook

[@jlaz104]

Loooooooooooore!!!!

[@MajorLawliet]

Completely disagree with the Seaborn, simply because it feels to me that you are looking at them from a fundamentally wrong angle. The Seaborn don't simply "get a W" in #IS3, they become far more threatening because the thing at the top of their pecking order is back in action and turning them into the distillation of what they are. No Ishar-mla? No first born at the helm? The fish can stll do things, but they are not at their best and their furthest. And despite that, there's nothing that can be done about them. While they are at their weakest (beyond theoretically resetting them back before all of their adaptation), nobody can get a win. Not a single thing any of the characters have done has been a real W. They have bought time, explored options, broadened choices. They've made it seem more likely that they might _survive._ It is fundamentally pointless as far as I see it to worry about the Seaborn winning, because they've already won. They only get stronger while no one has any real way to get rid of them. That's the same issue as the Tyranids. There's a big difference between wanting the catharsis of a cool and epic scene in which the bugs get a clear W in a story-important moment, and the reality of the setting that unless the Emperor and his super grandiose godly power can exterminate all of them at the same time, the Imperium is fucked. They never win, they can never win, because they cannot achieve a win. They can kill as many tyranids as they want, it won't matter because the march continues. They can nuke as many hive ships as they went, because if there's still biomass, the swarm has had no actual lose. They can throw as many weapons as they want at the masses, because sooner or later, stuff is gonna stop working. It is the inexorable, unstoppable, unchangeable march of death. Inevitably, unarguable. Until the day a semblance of a permanent solution appears, whether Tyranids or Seaborn, the factions that fought them have gained no Ws. They have gained time, and the faint hope that more time will show the way forward to a real solution, all the while knowing that the enemy grows stronger seemingly without end or limit. Every day Aegir fails to find that one correct solution while the weakest form of their enemy advances one inch more no matter what they do, they are losing. They are losing and they know it. Which is exactly why the centuries old record of no suicides on Aegir was broken after contact with the Seaborn, and from how it all looks, it'll get a lot darker before it gets bright again.

[@alexandrelaguna2725]

Dude, love your videos, as they allow me to understand much of Arknights lore that would otherwise be lost to me. But please, speak a bit slower so that us, non-english speakers, can understand you better.

[@bionicfactory1]

I'll keep it in mind for you

[@UriGerhard]

@@bionicfactory1 or perhaps, unless that will burden you with untold hours of tedium, would you mind putting your script into the subtitles?