How Did Rockwell Get on The Ship? - ARK GENESIS PART 2 NEW LORE!

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

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[@dysteiq]

I love the idea that it's the same survivor throughout all of ark. Makes it feel like an epic and wonderful journey

[@DARKdr3dnaut07]

It does help to explain why HLNA picked us out of all the cataloged survivors as Rockwell mentions in one of his Genesis chronicals

[@dysteiq]

@@DARKdr3dnaut07 Is it the genesis 1 or 2 chronicles, do you know?

[@DARKdr3dnaut07]

@@dysteiq Genesis 2 #10

[@dysteiq]

@@DARKdr3dnaut07 Oh yeah! That's so awesome. I always thought HLN-A was given to us by Helena because we killed the king titan rather then HLN-A picking us, but maybe Rockwell doesn't actually know that

[@DARKdr3dnaut07]

Which makes me think my theory that Rockwell was stripped of his mind, or he purposely left his body once he became the new overseer for aberration, was right, or at least on the right train of thought.

[@tobiasosoriov8309]

Rockwell was transformed partially because of element, the arks were made to support the last cleaning of it when the titans where destroyed, I have the theory that maybe the other arks that were not malfunctioning detected Rockwell as element that had to be destroyed and so he had to escape to the colony ship, Just my theory, loved the video

[@slexify]

I like this

[@dystron7401]

I agree with. Earth was no safe place for Rockwell with the Arks that could clean things from Element coruption. So he had no choice but leaving the planet and conquering the Colonyship.

[@Local_pixel_artist]

What if the memories of Rockwell (island) were dropped with the pods Better yet what if gen 2 Rockwell put a backup in a pod so he will survive

[@tobiasosoriov8309]

@@Local_pixel_artist oh, that's a very good one

[@eesamohammed2104]

@@dystron7401 no i disagree element transformed him yes but he was not corrupted by it meaning if he wanted to and i hope hes still alive this way is he survived on earth

[@Daddy-Saxon]

I think rockwell left earth because him himself is made of corruption and the arks were slowly killing him.

[@kaisamuels9382]

But in island he was a regular man who lived hundred of years ago who became corrupt as he attempted to break the boundaries of ark

[@yipyaplol28]

@@kaisamuels9382 you my good sir are very correct

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@kaisamuels9382 he injected himself with liquid element from aberration

[@LolGamer5]

If they can deleted whole element spikes and regreen the whole planet in a few minutes, Rockwell should be dead way before he ever could reach arat prime (even tho he has spaghetti legs and is half dead with a not slowed down orbital crash behind him.)

[@aboomination897]

Music and lore are the best things about Ark.

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

I COMPLETELY AGREE!! P_P

[@TITANUSGOJIRAEDITZ21487]

@@kingepicgg906 lol

[@19kp.]

I wonder what will happen if new Santiago saw his grave with his mek sword

[@aboomination897]

@@19kp. cthulhu

[@crossfire4479]

Since the DLC came out this is the question I've been asking this the whole time. Thanks for the video!! :D

[@SerafinaS8]

When I read the explorer notes I thought that the link from Arat Prime to the Genesis ship was only a data link but now that I think about it it could have been a teleportation link as ARKs made at the same time as the ship and Arat Prime do have their own teleportation systems between places on the insides of individual ARKs (obelisks to boss arenas and TEK cave to Overseer's platform) as well as between different ARKs (lore jumps from the Island to Scorched Earth and to aberration as well as the jump from the Island to Aberration). So really Rockwell could have teleported from Arat Prime to Genesis ship physically not just upload his consciousness.

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

Perhaps!

[@jeffbrownstain]

What is data? What is matter? Why do you assume that players, being clone bodies with cybernetics implants ever 'teleport' anywhere? Some Tek scholars and enthusiasts would even argue that the so called 'Tek Teleporter' is really just a means of bidirectional substance data transmission using the engramatic image of the survivor to open an event horizon beyond the liminal edge of the arks datasphere to allow the 'passage' of matter of one location to another. Not real 'teleportation', in the traditional sense. Smh Bob, go back to the beaches.

[@derlindner2429]

Ah i personally love when some aspects of lore are up to interpretation! This usually serves as a catalyst to many theories and speculations. In this particular situation it probably doesnt matter that much as the outcome is already clear. However it would be great if the writer(s) for Ark 2's lore used this storytelling tool in the buildup story to create a cool plottwist! Very nice video Ned! Remember to not spend to much time working on the Survival Stories for your own health! We are patient.😁

[@Local_pixel_artist]

Just don't make a ark dream theory

[@LolGamer5]

@@Local_pixel_artist it was all in le head

[@peteoj1062]

I would love to see a video of your speculations on what ark 2 might be, lore wise, gameplay wise and all

[@memerminecraft3226]

Possible answer:the colony ship was launched after the ARKs were brought home and Rockwell was brought to earth with aberration and managed to fuse with the ship before it launched, so he could take it over.

[@randomkriegsman8444]

Neddy out here answering the important questions

[@gavinpoillucci4797]

I think that Rockwell made it to arat prime after aberration crashed on earth and beamed himself onto the colony ship.

[@Agent-Ig]

It’s not out of question that Abberation ended up near there. When we see the crashed ark it is in a dark area. If he was close enough, he could of defiantly used the last bits of aberrations functions to transmit his mind to Arat Prime and into space as a last ditched effort to survive while his body was destroyed by the other Arks. From there he would of gone into the Genesis simulation first, then woken his clone body on the colony ship (since presumably everybody logged/saved on the arks were also saved/logged on the ship).

[@rasmusbahnson9467]

I am 99,98% sure that theory is right.

[@TheMalT75]

Great video series! I love the splicing of in-game video/cut-scenes with theories and info. If you go with the version of the epic survivor that retraced the explorers‘ steps, then Rockwell taking over the ship could be concurrent with our exploration of the genesis simulation and building a new biological body. Time in VR is flexible! I love the idea that Element is a commonly occurring nano-scale, medichlorian type of „life form“ that is beneficial in and of itself and can be corrupted by human ingenuity (Rockwell) or war (URE vs Feds). With fantastical feats possible (survivor implant, snow owls / managarmr, arks / hyperspace jumps), as well as terrible and dangerous implementations. ARK lore is great and I hope gets developed further (go Amazon, Disney or Netflix)!

[@JoshSweetvale]

If Santiago, HLNA and Bob managed to upload themselves into the _Genesis,_ Rockwell could've done so as well. Which would imply that Bob and Santiago were asleep for _years_ (in the simulation) while Rockwell ate Ring 2 and the crew.

[@gatorwarrior7557]

You're telling me he ate somone😳

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@gatorwarrior7557 Flood Rockwell pretty clearly devoured the crew.

[@du_nut_tuch_me4230]

and probably turned them into his personal slaves

[@juliastockman1132]

Can we just appreciate how well these videos r made

[@anguirus9260]

I'm glad I finally found someone doing lore videos on genesis

[@CosmicBlitz001]

Thanks for giving it your best shot this is probably the hardest topic to speculate and unpack.

[@OneW1ngedDevil]

This was amazing, this subject has been driving me nuts when the "new map smell" wore off. Some of the explorer's notes raised questions as well so I got to thinking "How did we even end up here? How LONG has it been since Extinction?" Thank you so much for this!

[@lawrence5584]

I think the key to understanding how Rockwell, Helena and the player get on the ship is to remind ourselves of what they are. I think with regards to Rockwell, Neddy is accurate in him reaching the location Mei Yin and Diana reached on the opposite side of Earth. His mind was he understood that to control all the landed Arks and Earth as a whole was too much for him at that stage, and so utilized the Genesis simulation to create an army which he could use to conquer Earth at a later date. As for Helena, she's a Homo Deus, a being for whom space and time are not necessarily barriers. Then there's you. A lot of people seem to forget that at the end of Extinction, you ascend to Homo Deus as Helena did, thus you'd be able to traverse space and time like her. As for your arrival on the colony ship, I think the answer lays in the anouncement trailer for Gen 1. Helena speaks about moving beyond her reach, and how other need her. I think, as Neddy said, that Helena and you could enter the Genesis simulation temporarily, but when you the player enter and stay there long enough to defeat Rockwell, you sacrifice your Homo Deus statis to return to the physical world. This explains why when you come out of the pod having beaten the genesis simulation you have an implant in the cut scene. You've entered a new clone body. It almost reminds me of reincarnation. You ascend, but then return to the mortal realm, and in so doing relinquish the spectral nature of being incorporeal.

[@theepicgamer9845]

so much respect for you, i mean seriously your videos might be some of the most well made iv'e ever seen on this site

[@Nightfang321]

I dont think Rockwell could take over earth physically after landing. Because after defeating king titian all the element starts disintegrating so Rockwell had to flee the planet or risk getting disintegrated since he is made of element

[@scribelord]

Really helps clear things up Anyways my take on it is likely a combination of factors as to why Rockwell didn't stay on Earth 1. The Arks and Survivors landing would prove a significant spike in difficulty with the Arks reseeding life and the Survivors it would likely deter Rockwell from wanting to fight off the large legion of Survivors, that combined with the fact that the player kills the 4 most powerful creatures in Arks lore and he basically pulled a "fuck this shit I'm out", he has a big ego but he's not stupid so he knew trying would likely end with him dying 2. Its from a logical standpoint the better option, like which would you rather have, a destroyed and ruined earth that is going to be extremely difficult to take over, or move to the Genesis Colony Ship which will allow him to not only take over the colony ship but expand to different planets Basically trying to take over Earth just wouldn't be worth it for Rockwell, granted he ended up dying anyways but the Genesis Colony Ship gave him much better odds than attempt to take over Earth and end up like the Titans

[@shinmalestat9272]

I have not read all the notes but when I got through the opening scene and had already known about Rockwell's presence my theory was that after the Ark's seeded Earth there eventually became two primary groups of people, those who were intent on rebuilding and those who didnt think that the Earth could heal. The latter used the TEK to fashion a colony-ship out of the remains of the Arks. The Abberation Ark was used for this, thus allowing Rockwell's genetical presence to stow away.

[@King_SpinoX]

Thanks for this i have this question from long time thanks for give the answer about rockwell

[@GrizzlehhBear]

Incredible Ned, these seem like they could of come straight from Wildcard themselves!

[@LEONDAS-]

Hey ned did you know that mei yin and Diana might be in ark 2 since in Santiago’s notes he menciones a beast queen in the database

[@infinityzer054]

For some reason I thought that the corrupted master control was the closest thing to Rockwell as an identity, since it’s enigmatic and brutish at the same time, much like Rockwell pre-prime with how they behaved around us. Also, you know how the mega fauna on shear immediately responded to human colonization?, I think the new earth might do the same since humans didn’t exist on the planet until we moved in(are we an invasive species?)

[@imperialred5710]

I am very amazed on what wildcard does for Ark and its lore.🤯

[@theaberrantreaper6928]

Nobody: Rockwell: hippity hoppity your ship is now my property

[@mangotap]

ok, i haven't watched the video yet, but i'm pretty sure that he transmitted his consciousness through the fact that element is a hivemind, he could move his consciousness through any remaining amount of element, since element is on the genesis ship, as well as scattered through space, and element has been proven to be capable of instantaneously transmitting any data of oneself near instantly (transmitters, obelisks, boss terminals, etc, this is imo how rockwell had gotten on the ship, by hopping between available terminals, and scattered amounts of element throughout the universe, i'm gonna watch the video now to see if i can get a different perspective

[@BigmanKD]

My guess is that Rockwell fused with Element, unlike King Titan, who gains his power through pure element, Rockwell commands the Element. He is now the beast's master. He tamed King Titan.

[@sawyersnape2430]

I really love arks story, and this helps me understand it more. Great video!

[@pirusaogostoso741]

2:13 maybe we used the link to get on the ship to make it rerout back to Earth since Earth was already OK, and maybe Rockwell chose to contaminate the colony/new planet, because the element purging capabilities of the Arks were weakening him, or preventing him im some sort of way

[@darugger1130]

I would love to see a player made story where a person meets there clone that was made after they flatlined but then came back.

[@animistde]

How do you think that will work if the consciousness was transfered to the clone? 🤔 But after all I guess it's a fictional game soo

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@animistde well i assume the specimen implant just takes a copy of your brain and transfers it to the clone. There isn't really a way to transfer a consciouness from one being to another... Bit like copying a data from one hard drive to another. Same data but different physical things.

[@dbam2814]

A fantastic theory!!!!! (I had a quick little mini theory here, what if seekers are a extraterrestrial of some form explaining why they appear to be fine to lack of oxygen and are just out there in space, only on Aberration as it had a thinner atmosphere.)

[@OnFire944]

Great video!

[@StonedCookieGaming]

What if Rockwell isn’t truly dead but instead severely weakened if not just a consciousness? Santiago shuts down the genesis simulation in ARK 2 and they fought mutated humanoids and one of them growls “You” when engaging in a fight with Santiago. He could’ve found a way to link back into the simulation or worse.

[@LeoTheYuty]

I've being looking for this for a long time.

[@Hazearil]

"It works for the lore if we are either a new survivor, or the same one." Counter argument: right before the Rockwell Prime fight, HLNA says that we are fighting Rockwell again, but this time we have something physical to hit, implying that we didn't fight Rockwell on Aberration.

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

counter: simply because of HLN-A saying that, this does not necessarily prove that the survivor did not previously fight Rockwell.

[@Yewtubing]

Man's a real G for all these vids

[@PenguinApple]

yup, makes sense. If I had to chose I'd say it's more likely it was our memories that transferred into a new body, just seems more plausible

[@jeffbrownstain]

My thought on rockwell on ext is the same as with the arks: he's now destined by Ab to be permanently reset every time he dies, bound to that Ark. That small piece of him planted the seed that allows the Titans to keep living outside of space and time, able to always be summoned by a new survivor to take on. That's assuming they didn't already have that power. Players who Ascend on ext only see one single small preset future, out of many. Even One Who Waits confirms this to be true when she references those 'many futures' in her notes. The concept of the physical and the digital in Ark is a little bit more liminal than current modern scientific thinking would allow. The fact that rockwell is already data (everyone is, we're all Engrams inside of an Implant stuffed inside a clone body) means moving to genesis would be easy for him. Us killing him in genesis sim allowed him to escape from the sim and into the ship. He literally taunts us to kill him nonstop in the sim, constantly warning about the results. We made him more powerful. I still don't think rockwell is dead. If there isn't element-infested flesh in Ark 2, I refuse to buy it.

[@StonedCookieGaming]

I think that Rockwell is dead in the physical sense but his consciousness lives on through the Element’s hive mind. Personally I believe that the infestation still was able to spread to where Santiago and the other survivors landed. In the trailer we see them fighting mutated humanoids and if you listen closely the one that fights Santiago growls “Youuuuuu”. Rockwell also stated in Genesis 2 “surprise! I’ve been making my own people!” so there’s a high chance that these humanoids are his “followers” Also, we see Santiago shutting down the genesis simulation at the end of the trailer. Meaning that either somehow Rockwell infested the Eden ring that was ejected from the colony ship or he was able to link into the simulation again and send his monstrosities to the new world.

[@davidsmith3687]

So I think ON TOP of injecting himself with element and mutating, he got corrupted by the element's hivemind, and then got melded with the ark itself (probably taking in some of the overseer's remnants, further twisting his mind). He was connected to the hivemind of element and tek both. He was defeated twice and crashed with the failing ark however he wasn't completely dead/eradicated, but the element would've been purged by the other arks and that would've finished him (can't survive digitally in a ruined ark that would've only crumbled further over time/destroyed by the survivors just in case, and element was being cleaned up). In short: his body was indeed a lost cause, element wouldn't be around much longer, and he couldn't stay as code in a crashed crumbling ark. Thanks to the ship and the arks using element, and being embedded into the overseer code he transferred to genesis the same way Helena did as something similar to a Homo Deus. From there it was just a matter of infiltrating the simulation, then using the facilities meant to seed the world (grow living oranisms, etc) to regrow a physical body and grow even more rampantly with further element corruption, and fusing himself across the ship. That sound about right?

[@davidsmith3687]

Then the question remains: did Helena jump to the ship and make HLNA to ensure that mission is a success too before jumping back on top of copying the survivor's memories? Don't think she would've faded so soon if others still existed albeit not in great shape and without being sure nothing unexpected went wrong. She returned to earth to oversee the clean up and reseeding. HLNA was what she left because even as code she can't be everywhere at once, ensuring they'd end up pairing up with the survivor, and she didn't know Edmund survived to follow her through to the ship and hide, before slowly and subtlely trying to take over (at first, until he gained a body and critical mass).

[@davidsmith3687]

And at last it looks like Edmund is truly gone, crashing towards another planet and blowing up (then let gravity and momentum do the rest, burning in the atmosphere, and doubt there's two life bearing planets next to each other.

[@rip1597]

I have a big theory - involving Rockwell and the rest of the Gang from The Island being alive. I have evidence, I just cant find it, i wrote it down somewhere, i just need to ifnd it - its alot of effort to find it but I want people to know of this. Ask Nedd or heart this comment or whatever if you wish for me to find it, and reply to your reply on it. Thanks

[@rockdrake9875]

Amazing vid. As for the lore, am a bit confused because the ship and arks were made at the brink of Earth getting corrupted. So once Earth was corrupted, the Arks and the ship were already gone(Read Santiago notes for reference). And we don't know much about the link of the ship to Arat Prime. And, how would something as huge as Rockwell find a way to beam himself to the colony ship? Am supposing the beam is like a transfer, requiring an implant, but at the end of extinction, we have the implant removed. So, either Rockwell was able to keep the implant, or I have no idea. As for the survivor, am gonna suppose we either died and got sent to simulation, keeping our consciousness and once we create our simulation character, we get paired to the most look-alike body and become a colonist. Fun Fact: If you check the explorer notes, there is one named Skye. Shortest lived survivor.

[@TAiiNE]

Here is what I think: As players we are following in all these main characters' footsteps decades after they were already gone. We uncover what they found about the ARK's, and travel between them much like Rockwell, Helena and them did before us so long ago. When we get to AB, That isn't really rockwell we are fighting in the end, but the systems recreation of him, over and over, he took over what the Observer was for the Island. We beat this simulation of him, and prove ourselves going back down to the earth. However: Genesis has us on a space station looking for a 'new planet to inhabit' so it's likly it's own story thats not connected to what is going on along the ARK's. It could be Rockwell had already escaped the ARK's after AB and made it down to earth along with Helena and the rest. Back then they still had no means to clens the corruption. Maybe after Helena transcends those that remain found more people that did make it to the planet, or found a facility already with the transport ship and the 'respawn' system for it's people so it wasn't much to bring forward a few people to run the ship. They set off to find a new habitable world, taking with them parts of the habitats that they could in those biome rings. This could be why that one cutscene of HNL-A's creation, and why it went with the people on the station while it sounded like Helena was staying behind. Because she did. She stayed behind, as we the players that awoke on the ARK's made it back to earth after going from ARK to ARK, found the source of the corruption spread, (the titans), and helped bring the ARK's back down to the world once they were taken out. But by this point, the Gnenesis ship is already well on its way, and Rockwell had been slowly finding a means to take it over. OR that event with the ship already happend by the time we as players awake on the ARK's. So the player in Genesis isn't the same person on the ARK's, it's a split storyline. on Genesis we are our own new person ran through a sim to train us for when we arrive on the new world. Only to be awoken from that sim when the systems start having issues as Rockwell takes over more and more. Thus, ARK 2 is this whole new planet, and Rockwell may still be about if he did keep his threat of coming back.

[@darkkaiju3395]

How do you know the ship was already out in space before the reseed prodicall? Idkk but im a little spectical of some of the info, rockwell said himself that the survivor woke up or "arrived" on the 6th day of his "great work". The devs also said in a gen2 teaser one time, "I wonder what went so wrong on earth to make everyone evacuate into space on the ship" or something like that. I feel like maybe rockwell crashed on earth (the crash is why he says hes survived worse in the ending) and the ship was still there, he maybe began attacking everything and destroying any buildings they made just like the camp he was in on abb when he injected himself. Then in a panic everyone took off on the ship but rockwell got on too without them knowing and immediatly went to the ships main bridge to start taking it over. Rockwell has already taken control or the ship by a good amount and then moved to taking control of the genesis simulation. Thats why there's glitches and why some of the maps guardians are already turned off, and why rockwell can even talk thru HLNA, also why instead of the final boss its just him. I feel that while your in the simulation, he has already taken control of the ship and killed the crew?🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ thats just my thoughts tho :)

[@Chillout18-s9h]

Its cool theory. But here is something that proves it wrong. HLNa said it many times that ship hoped over the galaxy for generations.

[@AlvarenMyras]

In the Explorer Notes from "The One Who Waits" she states the Ark's have been functioning for an Extremely Long Unknown amount of time probably Millions of years as something has gone wrong with them and they are slowly becoming unlivable by increasing their difficultly do to a small bug(a 0.1% of error) replictated millions of times causing Helena to rush us with the helping hand of making us be able to revive so we could learn from our mistakes to become strong enough to cleanse the Earth, and that the Arks was only one answer to the Element that might not have worked (seeing as it nearly didn't) so they came up with another plan along side it and made the Colony Ship and launched it at the same time, as for Rockwell's "6th Day" he's crazy and thinks himself a God and is quoting Biblical lines, "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day" It doesn't mean a literal 6th day just a reference to that meaning he had finished his work here and was ready to do more we don't know the exact time scales but we do know Rockwell and Helena came long after the Arks and the Ship left, we came long after that, Rockwell beat us to the Ship somehow by many years

[@thorfaxdragonkin]

Damnit not a stream

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

Hard at work on the Raia and John Survival Stories! :)

[@thorfaxdragonkin]

Very well I do hope you stream the story vid

[@wren_the_raptor]

@@NeddyTheNoodle I was going to ask how that was going bro

[@lukeleddy]

Amazing video man, keep up the great work

[@SomehowSurviving]

One thing that's really interesting is in the start of Gen 2, Helena says that the Lifeboat must have left long before, probably some time around when the arks left. So... How do you get to the ship after extinction when you're on earth and it's mega far away.

[@coltonmorrison4616]

When Helena ascended, she resurrected Diana. Diana saved May yin from the forest titan, and together, they used the Mega meck to battle the king titan. They managed to wound the king titan, but since then his wounds have healed and his armour is stronger. After that, they went to a facility on the other side of the planet to sanctuary city called arat prime. There, they created a hyper luminal link and teleported Helena into the Genesis simulation. This location was also called the genesis engine. There, she created HLNA before exiting because Rockwell was there too. Rockwell had use this link to gain access to the genesis ship and the simulation itself. Once he has access to the simulation, he changed many systems, turn off the master ais which test the survivors in every biome. These ais can mostly be seen in the gauntlet missions which only allow weapons inside the mission to be picked up and used. He increased the strength of the wild creatures, corrupted survivors, and spread element throughout the volcanic and lunar biomes. He also changed the swamp gas to poison survivors. He also tried to mess with survivors memories, but that attempt failed. In the background, he corrupted an entire ring of the Genesis ship with element and he became too deeply rooted into the systems of the Genesis ship. His destination is earth, his plan is to own an army of corrupted survivors and to be the king of all survivors. He can’t do that unless the king titan is defeated, Rockwell is the hive mind of the genesis ship, The king titan is the hive mind of element on earth. If the extinction ascension is completed before the Genesis simulation and genesis part two, then Rockwell can use his Army of corrupted survivors against those who oppose him. If both genesis part one and part two endings are completed before extinction, then the planet is saved from Rockwell corrupting it further. This link is what survivors use to transfer between arcs.

[@Noam-k]

What i hope the most Is that ark 2's main character is the survivor and not santiego, he's been his own character now and since the beginning and as we played the survivor until now, and if we aren't theb all that's tleff of the survivor is being left in space within a mek with the last message from HLN-A, as well as I really want the survivor to be it's own type of character, similar to for example doktah from arknights, you play as the doktah but they're also their own character with their own story who feels and does their own things, such as eating ramen by putting the ramen cube in the mouth and directly pouring in boiling water, and seeing as ark 2 going to be a campaign style game it would be much better to have santiego as a character we as the survivor stick with rather than play as

[@Serv-ul7uo]

A comment for the algorythm.

[@elite6720]

I would like to think my survivor is a battle hardened bob!

[@ligma4513]

2:26 Rockwell was likely forced to leave as the arks were purging element from the earth and he is made of mostly element

[@m7mdb602]

Finnaly my question got answered

[@TehSymbiote]

Thanks man! Love your work!

[@schmantig5464]

The Vati of ARK

[@chickengirl3025]

Thanks for explaining this!!!!!! And thanks for all the amazing content!!

[@grandwizard2450]

Love the way you tell us the stories of ark

[@jackirish9022]

I mean Rockwell got pretty Krauss I wonder if he did take over her already

[@Chrysaphius86]

Maybe he was created from all the Dino poop picked up by dung beetles and some how merged with element for life. Lol idk.

[@Zamun]

Thanks for the content!

[@glitchyfox8706]

mabey at the end of ark 2 we build up enough and are able to either recover or reconnect that link between the new world and earth? final dlc of ark 2 or just ark 3 could be us reterning to earth after it has been reseeded and we could get some cool new areas inbetween arks

[@troyfred8007]

I took the story beats as, you won and allowed the arks to fix earth, but you are needed elsewhere. Helena split off her consciousness into a simulated her, and shoved that in via the sublight transmission once she became a homodeus to follow the mentally connected Rockwell (the one from ab, that found a way to use the systems to transmit a consciousness). Just like Helena and HLNA, the Rockwell's are of the same mind, but not connected any longer. Sort of like if you made a copy of yourself and sent one down one hall and another down a separate one. The experiences, things you learn about and the outlook can change. I think when you loose the survivor chip, it is allowing you to do like Helena, ascend to her level, split off, and be basically in two places at once, acting independently.

[@updfdrakkell143]

my head canon is that when the best survivors were found they sent there mind to the ship, possibly the body too.

[@jeffbrownstain]

I like to think about the lore of Ark as though it exists outside of its own space and time. Like, HLNA is aware of US: the players. So while the stuff happening on the Arks and in that world has a linear timeline, it doesn't exactly correlate to ours. I imagine a Homo Deus in Ark to be like the concept of an Avatar in Hinduism; Not as though a character is a manifestation of the players, but that these otherwise non-existint entities in the game are the manifestations of higher beings in our OWN reality. The 5th dimensional influencing the 3rd dimensional influencing the 2d. The Arks have a 'Past' and a 'Future' but we're only ever allowed to see it in a fixed place somewhere along that timeline near the middle-end, no matter our changes. Even if we Ascend, no one else on the Ark does unless you lifted them up with you. More specifically, you have to fight your way straight down through the literal underworld before rising up above the world. The whole Ark will continue to reset without you. Man, this game effed me up.

[@CaptainRaptor-jdj]

Im Actually curious what aberration would look like inside when it crashed.

[@slendertubbiegamerpo6139]

I just got gen 2 and I was like wtf who's attacking my ship?!?! I never knew the story of ark

[@TITANUSGOJIRAEDITZ21487]

Rockwell could've been the king titan or his soul was trapped inside the king titan

[@armamint2702]

Good work as always

[@jeal0us539]

I have always wondered this question,thank you!

[@afunnyusername5599]

its an interesting topic with so many potential answers, many explained very well here and in comments - kudos to you all. With my knowledge of ark, more practical than lore I have to regretfully admit, but that experience provided me with a different viewpoint and an alternative theory that I haven't seen expressed here. Sir Edmund Rockwell, like so many survivors who followed after him meshed. Think about it...Its the thing in game that "evil no good" survivors do to cheat the game or other players...you've come this far hear me out...Meshing then becomes a part of ark lore, and an *intended* game feature(!), and it doesn't get more meta than that. unless it does, kinda high rn idk what i'm even talking about really, but thanks for reading.

[@MrSharkSaver50]

HLNA sacrificed herself not just to stop Rockwell, but to give us freedom 😢

[@Bajic07]

U DESERVE MORE SUBS!!!

[@Frogboyaidan]

Yea artist prime I'm pretty sure.

[@funkycup3900]

This is going to be a good one

[@jabrill420]

From evey journey my survivor turok has come so far it's good to finally have an end and and explanation

[@kaneaziz1638]

I wonder what would’ve happened if Rockwell and Helena weren’t killed/transformed. Would they be at each other’s necks and create huge tribe’s and have a all out war?

[@kaisamuels9382]

Tbh ark lore isn’t very consistent, they made the game and just created the lore as they went along they didn’t really think about it

[@ysharros]

These are all sooooo good. Thank you!

[@happypanda5177]

Do you think in Ark 2 we’re just going to be on the alien planet that Santiago landed on or we’re going back to Earth after the Reseed Protocol

[@Damien-be4ox]

Helena was Santiago’s daughter and that’s who’s in the ark 2 trailer or at least a clone of Helena

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

Where is the evidence for that?

[@Damien-be4ox]

@@NeddyTheNoodle not really any but both have brown hair and like nature

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

@@Damien-be4ox With an absence of evidence, you should clarify that you "think" or "theorize" it is Helena, not that it IS Helena. Be clear in your wording, it will help later on in college :)

[@Damien-be4ox]

@@NeddyTheNoodle ok ty

[@PhantomRaven092]

Ark is my favorite game but I have to completed genesis 2 boss fight because I'm going to cry

[@seanpaterson6592]

Thought the arat prime facility was the building that represents the stone in our arm from extinction

[@SerafinaS8]

You didn't add links to previous 2 genesis 2 lore videos, neither in description nor in popups. I had to search for them on my own. Going to watch them and will be back here after.

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

Yeah I did.. you can literally see it right in the description?

[@SerafinaS8]

@@NeddyTheNoodle Ups, you're right, my bad. Must have not noticed the show more option 😅

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

@@SerafinaS8 Apologies for my somewhat hostile response -- I interpreted your comment in a bad way p_p

[@SerafinaS8]

@@NeddyTheNoodle Now that I read through it again I definitely could have written it more nicely, it definitely comes off a bit sharply, so I understand your response.

[@speedyjim6410]

Im starting a play through going around all the story maps in order then to ark 2 once its out that is

[@Saberfighterx]

My theory is that since he is pretty much element now he used the element on the ship to teleport himself to the colony ship

[@bringerd1936]

or when aberration hit earth rockwell became unbinded by its systems and simply downloaded himself just like your character and seated himself in one of the rings

[@Silvershield88]

here's my theory: Rockwell had achieved a sort of immortality with element and turning himself into a viral part of the system, once the survivor activated the reseeding protocol and destroyed all element from all the ark colonies, starting the process of reviving the earth, Rockwell saw his precious element evaporate so he quickly transfered his digital mind towards the only ark that still had element, the genesis ark that had been launched away from the grid using the faster than light link, Helena who was now a homo deus, noticed and realized rockwell did this so she had to stop him, but couldnt leave the earth alone until everythign was fixed and settled so she made a digital copy of herself and the survivor and sent them to the genesis ark, the survivor she dispatched onto one of the cloned bodies, and kept her copy as a digital entity to help the survivor while still keeping track of rockwell., we spend the 1st part of genesis trackign down and trying to stop the digital rockwell from fully taking over the Ark but by the time we defeat his digital mind he had already created a physical corrupted clone in part 2 and taken over half the genesis ship, the survivor then proceeds to defeat the last remnant of rockwell which was stuck in the physical world as a corrupted element-clone of himself in genesis part 2 and as we do so we rid the whole ark of element and kickstart the ark seeding the new planet, a clone of santiago's mind is also on board the genesis ship but he probably doesnt have the memories of all he went through with the main storyline since besides the survivor and Diana, Helena couldnt revive anyone else with their memories intact

[@Croftice1]

That theory has a little flaw. Or a big one, that really depends. Well, the thing is, that Helena was surprised, that Rockwell survived, she didn't expect him aboard the colony ship, so she couldn't go there in order to stop him. She had another reason to board the ship and at the time she did, she discovered Rockwell, so she created HLN-A and infused her with her own personality, some memories and stuff. Then she left the ship. If she really was going there with the intention to stop Rockwell, why would she create HLN-A and why the hell would she exit the ship before doing, what she came for, meaning defeating Rockwell? We know for sure, that she was surprised by Rockwell, that's a fact (not sure, where it comes from, maybe HLN-A told us at some point, or it was in an explorer note, or don't know, but it's for sure), so your theory doesn't fit in.

[@MakeItRain420ify]

Yo loving the ark lore this is so dope!

[@ryanmoore1016]

Great video! You should add these to a playlist if you have not done so already =)

[@somerandomguywholikesULTRAKILL]

Rockwell was actually human and acquaintances with Helena in the island although I don’t know how he got on aberration or possibly scorched

[@ebtheartist3843]

Same way Helena did, they both got to scorched and aberration together but he went crazy and injected element in him on aberration.

[@honzabart12]

Keep up that good work man! :)

[@RUGER5264]

If element is so dangerous, why do we get it from the bosses? And why do we use it?

[@perplexjade]

You are missing the point, it's still bad

[@driftyelssdt4080]

I think we are not the same survivor because rockwell would have know who we are but the thing I donr get its where are mei jin and diana well earth should be fine because titans are dead and the arks are on the earth

[@silent_sniper3304]

He bought the season pass

[@shadowmane6528]

Best comment

[@DarkDao]

I think that every ark before gen1 was virtual retracing of Helena's path and gen1 was she in hlna form testing us before choosing to wake us up in the real ark to fight the rock who got there with other survivors. Not even sure he was a monster then, it's possible that his monstrification was by Helena to prepare us.

[@ross2919]

Ok I have to ask as it seems to keep being a thing, but do they just not know that there is a gen 1 they need to play?

[@MazdaTiger]

Rockwell is Asriel Dreemurr

[@wren_the_raptor]

Xp

[@nevry5604]

I love you neddy