Welcome to “Captain’s Initiation Program (I): Know the World, Know Yourself”🚀
This is a guide written for new Captains who have just set foot upon the wasteland.
Here, you will first come to understand the world known as Ember—a realm reborn from the ashes of the old civilization, still flickering amidst the flames of war.🔥
You will also come to realize, for the first time,who you are, and why you have become the last commander aboard theLandArk.
📌Please note that detailed information about the world, factions, and human heroes can be found in the Wiki. What follows is a brief introduction.
I. The Current World Background🌎
The apocalypse has come.Nuclear winter, climatic anomalies, and resource exhaustion have brought civilization to its knees.
The hovering Star Colossihave altered Earth’s light and gravity, while ruins and wastelands have become the last refuges of humankind.
The nuclear strikes of The Day of Retaliation, together with The Darkest Hour, resulted in global devastation.Energy and food shortages followed, and national orders collapsed.The world is no longer ruled by nations, but bytechnology, faith, force, and trade.⚔️💰
II. Major Factions and Camps of the Current World🧩
All factions wield control over the world through their mastery of technology, belief, power, or commerce.
Primary Organizations:
1.Metis / Themis WSIC– High technology, order, and justice⚖️
2.The Crimson Pupil– Steelpunk power, ruling through violence and faith🔴
3.“Homer” Armed Caravan Group– Masters of trade, a steampunk civilization💎
4.Neohumans–Psykersawakened by the Voidstone, divided into the righteous and the fallen🔮
Five Major Camps and Their Core Ideologies:
III. What Is a LandArk🏰
During the"New Cold War"period before the apocalypse, in order to sustain safe and continuous transnational trade,Grigoland his friend Sander sinitiated the LandArk Project—the construction of massive self-sustaining mobile platforms capable of long-distance migration, serving as “moving territories” to protect merchant convoys.
After the fall of civilization, the energy field of the Ember Omnicore happened to cover smaller LandArks, turning them into independent and enclosed mobile bases for survival.
As more refugees followed Grigol’s example, various types of LandArks were built.From then on, LandArks not only replaced railways as the new long-range transport, but also replaced fixed cities as humanity’s new mode of life and production.
It is yourfortress, yourweapon, and yourhome.Every Captain of a LandArk commands its energy, crew, systems, and destiny.
Every expedition, every decision,determines whether hope will once again be rekindled upon this scorched land.🌟
IV. Your Identity and Purpose🧭
You are a LandArk Captain, a survivor of the brutal slaughter along the Voidline, striving to become the last survivor and fulfill your wish.
Your former comrades have nearly all perished, and you must recruit new allies along your journey to rebuild your fleet.When the lights of civilization have gone out, only the LandArk continues to move across the wasteland.
🌟Captain, the rules of the world have already collapsed.From this moment on, every step forwardshall be written by you anew.✍️