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Ok, so, Ark thread 2, this time we'll be doing some minor general stuff, and some major other stuff. I'm gonna try and keep this as compact as possible, otherwise this thread would be enormous...
1) Titanosaur resistance:
The Titanosaur should get limited resistance to Sleep Manipulation due to Narcotics not working on it, it should be stated in it's weaknesses that enough blunt force/explosive power to its head has been known to put it to sleep
2) Immortality Type 2 & Regeneration:
All Creatures should have at least limited Type 2 Immortality due to being covered in huge cuts and blood during fights, and being capable of surviving indefinitely with spears and arrows through their skulls
- Evidence of this can be found here, here, here, and here, and to prove that this isn't Game Mechanics, here's a canon dossier with the creature illustrated to have arrows and spears sticking in it, not really caring.
Poison Wyverns should get Acid Manipulation
Their Dossier states that what they "unleash poisonous acid"
4) Tek Helmet:
Tek Helmet should give Automatic Translation as it can read the unknown language on Extinction.
The evidence can be found in this image.
The text shown in the screenshot is normally unreadable, the Tek Helmet allows Survivors to read the hidden messages from the ancient ruins.
SPECIMEN IMPLANT POWERS:
Note: A lot of this stuff has a bunch of evidence to go with it. Instead of linking every single thing to the same page, i'll just mention it here. All evidence for the following section can be found in Helena's Explorer Notes. I have noted the relevant notes to the subjects with each point.
1) Dimensional Storage:
Inventories are addressed in dossiers.
2) Immortality (Type 4):
So with all of this evidence, it's pretty clear that the Arks rebuild their creatures if they die (including Survivors), to force an eternal ecosystem, giving Survivors time to ascend to the next Ark. While in any other case this would likely simply be a power of the Arks themselves, the fact that our Survivor Implants keep our memories and attributes (Stats & Engrams in-game), shows that we are not being replaced, but recreated, with our memories and attributes in tact, so it applies to those being recreated, I.E. Survivors and potentially creatures. (Though, we have no evidence of creatures retaining memories)
3) Accelerated Development:
Every creature on the Ark already grows at a much faster rate
1) Titanosaur resistance:
The Titanosaur should get limited resistance to Sleep Manipulation due to Narcotics not working on it, it should be stated in it's weaknesses that enough blunt force/explosive power to its head has been known to put it to sleep
2) Immortality Type 2 & Regeneration:
All Creatures should have at least limited Type 2 Immortality due to being covered in huge cuts and blood during fights, and being capable of surviving indefinitely with spears and arrows through their skulls
- Evidence of this can be found here, here, here, and here, and to prove that this isn't Game Mechanics, here's a canon dossier with the creature illustrated to have arrows and spears sticking in it, not really caring.
- They also regenerate from this over time giving Mid regen
- This isn't combat applicable unless they're buffed, and even then it's kinda slow, so likely warrants a "limited" too.
Poison Wyverns should get Acid Manipulation
Their Dossier states that what they "unleash poisonous acid"
4) Tek Helmet:
Tek Helmet should give Automatic Translation as it can read the unknown language on Extinction.
The evidence can be found in this image.
The text shown in the screenshot is normally unreadable, the Tek Helmet allows Survivors to read the hidden messages from the ancient ruins.
SPECIMEN IMPLANT POWERS:
Note: A lot of this stuff has a bunch of evidence to go with it. Instead of linking every single thing to the same page, i'll just mention it here. All evidence for the following section can be found in Helena's Explorer Notes. I have noted the relevant notes to the subjects with each point.
1) Dimensional Storage:
Inventories are addressed in dossiers.
- Anky and DoedicurusDossiers state they can hold metal and stone "at reduced weight"
- They do this in-game, carrying metal in their inventories at a reduced weight
- These dossiers are written canonically by Helena, so this effect was viewed in the lore by the main characters
- Helena #21 (The Island) - Rockwell finds a way to interact with them
- Helena #28 (The Island) - Nerva's army comes back with the head of the Dragon, meaning they accessed the Dragon arena, something that also happens in Nerva's note #26
- Helena #22 (Scorched Earth) - Helena is aware of the Guardians, so has seen them before
- Inventory animation: When accessing any inventory, including others and Dinos, The Survivor lifts their arm and looks into their specimen implant, which lights up, then the interface shows up, when we leave the interface, the implant dims back down.
2) Immortality (Type 4):
- The Ark creates and recreates creatures to make a forced ecosystem
- Throughout Helena's notes, she consistently realises that the ecosystems shouldn't exist, and are being artificially forced to work
- The Arks control their environment by reincarnating creatures and humans to force a population, if they did not do this then the environments would simply not exist
- (The Island):
- Helena #4-6 - first hints of Arks artificially keeping ecosystems
- Helena #9- The Ocean ecosystem is separate
- Helena #10 - they work the same
- Helena #13 - "The Island is a zoo"
- Helena #20 - Island is too small, population density too high, it should not exist "Someone put them there on purpose"
- Helena #24 - Tries to find what is controlling the ecosystem
- Helena #30 - Helena realises she's on an Ark
- (Scorched Earth):
- Helena #6 - "The station can feed or, replace the Death Worms"
- This is almost certainly what is happening to the Survivor and other creatures too
- (Aberration)
- Helena #17- Recalls that she learned about the station making creatures on the Island, and finds the chambers
- This is evidence that Survivors remember stuff after being recreated
- Helena #18 - Helena and the group find the Human chambers
- Throughout Helena's ascensions, even after being completely deconstructed by the Arks like the Survivor was, she remembers everything she had previously done in the other Arks, including learning how to use firearms, meeting others, and researching dinos.
- More evidence of Survivors retaining memories
- The Survivors Implant also keeps engrams, statistics, and more throughout ascensions and deaths.
- This is further proof that the Implant remembers who you are, and will reconstruct you as you were, not replace you with some other creature.
- The Overseer arena shows multiple chambers, each holding the different species of their Ark, including Humans
- Helena claims that the group realised that the human chambers resembled the group, Helena realises that they are created by the Arks (Helena #17 & 18 (Aberration))
- Creatures in the Arks are completely used to captivity
- Helena #19"Have been domesticated for decades at least"
- Indicates that the Creatures are either altered by Overseers, or are simply used to captivity due to reincarnating from past lives in captivity
- We don't know if creatures retain memories, so I'll admit this one could be either
- Helena #19"Have been domesticated for decades at least"
So with all of this evidence, it's pretty clear that the Arks rebuild their creatures if they die (including Survivors), to force an eternal ecosystem, giving Survivors time to ascend to the next Ark. While in any other case this would likely simply be a power of the Arks themselves, the fact that our Survivor Implants keep our memories and attributes (Stats & Engrams in-game), shows that we are not being replaced, but recreated, with our memories and attributes in tact, so it applies to those being recreated, I.E. Survivors and potentially creatures. (Though, we have no evidence of creatures retaining memories)
3) Accelerated Development:
Every creature on the Ark already grows at a much faster rate
- Helena #17, 19 (The Island)
- Supported in-game
- The Survivor Implant allows Survivors to increase their stats much faster than a normal human
- Survivors can increase the same stats that have been proven canon above, such as weight, which we've proven Anky's and other creatures do have. It would be unreasonable to assume the other stats aren't also canon.
- Survivors can also increase creatures stats, including Ankys, so this is pretty clear cut, as Anky's are our proof that inventories are canon.
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