The most interesting thing is that their civilization may not even be dead. It may live on else where in the galaxy and some twisted horror of it may even live on in the depths of the planet as well but the fact that the scientists hold short of calling the source(s) of movement Kurugallu makes me question that possibility.
@@JosephHarder-q3eI like to think that it is similar to modern theories that Megalodons or Plesiosaurs still exist. We know some sort of creature exists in their habitats that we haven't fully explored yet but the likelyhood they are still around is basically zero. It's just enough circumstantial evidence that a well liked species may still exist in some form that it makes a fun theory but not something scientists would really consider.
The hostile architecture of Nuclear semiotics has honestly always seemed counterintuitive to me. Like if there giant spikes in the middle of nowhere in a perfect circle, I’m pretty sure people would be inclined to go there rather than to ignore it; better to place it in the middle of nowhere and leave it undiscoverable from the surface. Also, the sheer scale of the project gives me a tiny suspicion that it might not be nuclear waste that they’re hiding
@ if it was nuclear waste, due to the sheer scale of the structure described and their inability to open the chamber, there’s likely an incredibly thick layer of radioactive shielding Albeit, there would probably be some radioactive dust in the general area My bet is that is holds a strain of virus which led to the collapse
Honestly I get the feeling it’s linked to the collapse so I’d bet it had something to do with the mass die off that started the downfall. Maybe what allowed them to switch between casts was artificial and/or alien to them. It could’ve been a poison chalice that eventually resulted in said die off as all of a sudden their mass shift resulted in mass casualties.
The idea isn't to keep people away, but just to convey "HEY ITS DANGEROUS." If you just leave it lying around somewhere hidden, then a nuclear war happens, and a city gets built on it 15,000 years later, you don't want to give an entire city radiation poisoning. They kind of anticipate that people might be curious, but that's why they hope you'd look at the very scary spikes, see the basic illustrations showing people dying of radiation, and realize "huh this is dangerous." It's not about preventing people from getting to it, it's about trying to create a DANGER sign that doesn't rely on cultural context or language.
Generally speaking I like my aliens to be very 'alien', but I love basically narratively weaponising the intrinsic spookiness of nuclear waste warnings - something with an almost unmatched unsettling aura that doesn't really ever see much use in fiction, whilst boosting that above and beyond with a menacing mysterious alien backstory. It fits in just so perfectly with the overall tone of the setting. More pls.
I loved the inclusion of the “this is not a place of honor” speech at the end it really just drives home the point of this advanced and clearly alien species was still in a way very human in the way it wanted to protect others.
Well, funny you should say that, that's a wholly human message, proposed in the late 60s as the general message to be conveyed to humans in future millennia, to keep them away from nuclear waste storage sites. The concept is called Nuclear Semiotics, there's some really interesting stuff on it, including the proposal of genetically engineering cats to change colour in response to radiation, combined with a series of fairy tales and songs about places that make cats change colour being dangerous places
I think the key point is that it's the output of a xenolinguistic model which is trying to put something together. So something like an LLM was trying to provide a best possible fit, and picked out nuclear semiotics - with some modifications - as the intent. Which really makes it even creepier: you plug in your super-advanced computer model system, and the output it gives - the best possible fit - is a vague but deliberate warning message from human history. It either fits perfectly, or was the best possible match it had from insufficient points of correlation.
I also like how this is a highlighted that this is the second most popular site of Xeno-archaeology. Implying that something draws more attention than excellently preserved remains of these bug man.
@@MadEyeScienceK While the Scinfaxi are probably a greater focus of xenological studies, in terms of xeno-archaeology there might not be any good sites known to humanity - where the Scinfaxi came from is unknown, and while they undoubtedly were on Earth, Earth was sterilized in nuclear fire and declared a forbidden zone.
Yeah i hope they play upon all the funny tropes of archeology. Like a small reference to a group of archeologists still convinced that everything on Kurugallu is naturally formed that call any other interpretation a crazy conspiracy theory
I really love the nuance in the lore, how they may have a species intelligence, or maybe they don't. Generally just how alien yet believable they are. Its great stuff.
This was a better Halloween story than any creepypasta. It feels more real. Reminds me a little bit of the book Fractal Noise. Mostly the atmosphere and, of course, the giant hole.
Great holes were dug where pores ought to have sufficed, and things have learned to walk that ought to crawl... And of course, on this dead world, we find that which is not a place of honour. The ninth chamber must remain sealed... *_[an ominous crackle intensifies]_*
So I'm just at 29 minutes, and I'm pausing to comment now because this whole piece has just masterfully gone from "scientific curiousity" to "help it's night time and I don't want to go near the windows anymore". Absolute triumph, A+ prefer keeping my eyes in my head to see.
There was so much great lore and production value in this video that I don’t even know how to praise it, so I will just say I loved the video, and it’s definitely my favorite so far.
Late to watch but I just have to say I have no words This is genuinely, truly, one of the best worldbuilding videos I've seen and it just shows what vision and potential Dawn of Victory has as a setting. Despite everything else happening in the world right now, I couldn't be happier to be alive at the beginning of what I hope, and think, will be a truly great setting and universe. Give me more Templin, that's all I can say. This is amazing!
This is the first video from the Orion Arm project that I enjoyed. Though, I'm quite partial to post-apocalyptic settings and am an ecologist focusing on insects so a video on the ruins of a caste-based alien lifeform is right up my alley. The blatant use of the nuclear spike field idea, and its almost verbatim copy of the accompanying warning, did suspend my disbelief somewhat. The league of nations still existing in the Orion Arm was also eye raising. Given how fragile the League was in our timeline, I have a hard time believing that it wouldn't instantly collapse the second humanity left Earth. Overall though, I liked the video. The biology and civilization of the Kurugallu was very well fleshed out and compelling. I particularly appreciated that, while clearly intelligent, the Kurugallu were still distinctly alien and not just a copy and paste of human psychology. Also, unrelated to this specific video, but I still personally can't get past the fact that the Third Reich exists in the present day in the setting. Fascism by its very nature is such an unstable system that the Nazis would have torn themselves to shreds the second Hitler died. I just can't suspend my disbelief that they would have survived as a government, let alone as an interstellar nation. In a setting where the inciting incident is an alien invasion, the Nazi government continuously operating for centuries is still by far the most unbelievable aspect of the worldbuilding to me.
They mentioned in the video that the last message was not a direct translation. I think they're basically saying the sentiment is the same in both messages.
I would note that in the previous incarnation of the setting and likely in this one as well the GGR wasn't ruled by the nazis. In the old version they'd been booted out by the Heer during one of the Scinfaxi wars. Though that also fell for the clean Wehrmacht myth and had an SS government in exile on some planet somewhere. Pretty sure it's been stated somewhere that even here the Nazis are gone though. Also important to bear in mind that the word "Reich", despite it's connotations was used to describe the old Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian and Austo-Hungarian Empires, the German Reich that went into WW1 and other states not just the Nazis with whom it is most closely associated in the modern Western mindset.
I have to say I'm impressed. It would have been easy for the writer to make the aliens bring about their doom by having them dabble in "forbidden things", ala Dead Space.
@@aguspuig6615 My theory? Given the question of whether they were a hive mind or not, maybe the Hive Mind slowly collapsed and subsequently every part of the whole became their own individual, unable to operate together properly?
That message at the end is basically what we write on nuclear waste repositories. "This place is dangerous, but not in a way you can use against your enemies. Do not dig it up. There is no honor or treasure here, only death of the body." We write that in multiple languages and with images.
@@alessiogiovannetti513 I expect it's something more sinister, this not being real life. I'm just recognizing where the authors drew the idea from, I doubt it's supposed to be a direct reference.
Using our own ideas of hostile architecture to ward off future disoverers from our nuclear waste and transferring it to an alien species? I love it, and very haunting.
I love nuclear waste disposal vibes, and the execution here is anazing. But as fun as the mystery is I hope we will get a (well telegrafed for those who prefer mystery of course) answer, can't wait to know what you thought up!
@@DawnofVictory2289 What sets this and the other scripts on this channal thus far apart from other works of scifi is that the iceberg is here, that what wyou've written really are glimpses into a wider world. Warhammer and other works can ramble on about the lives of those with the fate of the plot in their hands but when you focus on smaller glimpses of the world that by their nature hint and branch to other apects of the world, you create a feeling of awe. Secondly, your writing style at base for this peice was incredible. The feeling of dread and wonder imposed by the narrative stlye of analysis, 1st hand acounts, and what "experts" beleive happened based on the evidence available takes - not only writnig an incredible more deal than you show - some real writing talent. It takes work and time to turn your ideas into stories and even more for them to be fantastic. Despite this being the 1st of any works pretaining to dawn of victory, you've showcased some major writing talent and passions that I cant help but want to see more of!
I imagine a video like this, where the audience is aware that the conclusions are flawed based on something we know in our world that never came about in DoV could be done.
It has been a while. I am leaving this comment to remember that this video is here. Looks interesting. Sadly, it is late for me, and I have a test tomorrow.
The societal collapse of the boreholes reminds me of the universe 25 experiments, given the fact that a: happened in stages, and b: happened to a seemingly prosperous civilization.
@DawnofVictory2289 If I had known thr creator himself would reply I wouldn't have done a hasty comment as I ran out the door for work. I really do like the video though, it's a cool view of an alien society that's both strange but grounded, and I love the creepy tone, it really fits my jam. I know Dawn of Victory isn't a horror setting and I totally get that, but personally I would love more stuff in this mystery/creepy vein as well.
Absolute spooky cinema. Truly a great evolution upon the ideas about aliens in this world kicked up to 11. I do wonder if this will be the only species other than the scinfaxi we will get.
Holy shit, the references to current nuclear waste disposal sites was amazing. I’d imagine when our time on earth has come to pass and someone curious like us comes to earth, they’d get quite a big scare from our nuclear waste sites
@ The very end of the video with the spike fields, the idea comes from making warnings designed to last even without language, and the forbidding spikes are part of it. Furthermore “This is not a place of honor” is a direct reference to one concept of long term nuclear warning messages
@@valentine7593 Ah, thanks. I am feeling kinda dumb missing such a reference and instead breaking my brain trying to imagine what cosmic horrors are involved in all of this.
Not only is this an incredible horror story, it's also a perfect depiction of why the nuclear semionics were kind of written off as any sort of usable warning system. There is a reason why the modern containment idea is just burry it and forget about it. Warning signs attract interest.
How many lives lost before they knew to seal whatever they sealed behind that door, How many lives were lost in the endeavor to seal the door, How many lives lost to build the warnings to keep their people and ours away from the door, How many lives are we gonna lose when we think ourselves superior and open the door, And how many lives are we gonna lose before we decide to try to close it again
My only question is, how did the human scientists, archaeologists, and historians find all this out? If there are any writers in the comments, I’d love to see some academics bickering about the details ;)
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Probably the most compelling description of a fallen alien civilization I’ve ever heard in sci-fi. Well done
The most interesting thing is that their civilization may not even be dead. It may live on else where in the galaxy and some twisted horror of it may even live on in the depths of the planet as well but the fact that the scientists hold short of calling the source(s) of movement Kurugallu makes me question that possibility.
@@JosephHarder-q3eI like to think that it is similar to modern theories that Megalodons or Plesiosaurs still exist. We know some sort of creature exists in their habitats that we haven't fully explored yet but the likelyhood they are still around is basically zero. It's just enough circumstantial evidence that a well liked species may still exist in some form that it makes a fun theory but not something scientists would really consider.
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The hostile architecture of Nuclear semiotics has honestly always seemed counterintuitive to me. Like if there giant spikes in the middle of nowhere in a perfect circle, I’m pretty sure people would be inclined to go there rather than to ignore it; better to place it in the middle of nowhere and leave it undiscoverable from the surface.
Also, the sheer scale of the project gives me a tiny suspicion that it might not be nuclear waste that they’re hiding
The fact the LoN has also failed to mention radioactive waste detections is also curious given the message
@ if it was nuclear waste, due to the sheer scale of the structure described and their inability to open the chamber, there’s likely an incredibly thick layer of radioactive shielding
Albeit, there would probably be some radioactive dust in the general area
My bet is that is holds a strain of virus which led to the collapse
Nuclear semiotics also gave raise to an idea of having the site completely hidden, away from anything that might encourage mining or research.
Honestly I get the feeling it’s linked to the collapse so I’d bet it had something to do with the mass die off that started the downfall.
Maybe what allowed them to switch between casts was artificial and/or alien to them. It could’ve been a poison chalice that eventually resulted in said die off as all of a sudden their mass shift resulted in mass casualties.
The idea isn't to keep people away, but just to convey "HEY ITS DANGEROUS." If you just leave it lying around somewhere hidden, then a nuclear war happens, and a city gets built on it 15,000 years later, you don't want to give an entire city radiation poisoning.
They kind of anticipate that people might be curious, but that's why they hope you'd look at the very scary spikes, see the basic illustrations showing people dying of radiation, and realize "huh this is dangerous." It's not about preventing people from getting to it, it's about trying to create a DANGER sign that doesn't rely on cultural context or language.
As soon as I heard of the Field of Spikes I knew that the Gateway to Hell was not a place of honor.
Generally speaking I like my aliens to be very 'alien', but I love basically narratively weaponising the intrinsic spookiness of nuclear waste warnings - something with an almost unmatched unsettling aura that doesn't really ever see much use in fiction, whilst boosting that above and beyond with a menacing mysterious alien backstory. It fits in just so perfectly with the overall tone of the setting.
More pls.
I loved the inclusion of the “this is not a place of honor” speech at the end it really just drives home the point of this advanced and clearly alien species was still in a way very human in the way it wanted to protect others.
Well, funny you should say that, that's a wholly human message, proposed in the late 60s as the general message to be conveyed to humans in future millennia, to keep them away from nuclear waste storage sites. The concept is called Nuclear Semiotics, there's some really interesting stuff on it, including the proposal of genetically engineering cats to change colour in response to radiation, combined with a series of fairy tales and songs about places that make cats change colour being dangerous places
I think the key point is that it's the output of a xenolinguistic model which is trying to put something together. So something like an LLM was trying to provide a best possible fit, and picked out nuclear semiotics - with some modifications - as the intent. Which really makes it even creepier: you plug in your super-advanced computer model system, and the output it gives - the best possible fit - is a vague but deliberate warning message from human history. It either fits perfectly, or was the best possible match it had from insufficient points of correlation.
“A recorded sound resembling sizzling grease has been reported.”
I just finished a reread of Starship Troopers recently. I appreciated the reference.
I read it a long time ago, would you be so kind as to elaborate?
@@Yeerenthe bugs make a sound described as “like frying bacon” when tunneling through rock.
I also like how this is a highlighted that this is the second most popular site of Xeno-archaeology. Implying that something draws more attention than excellently preserved remains of these bug man.
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The more studied aliens being the Srinfaxi (sp?) that we apparently had whole wars with, no?
Scinfaxi are ofc more studied
Being that they invaded earth after all
@@MadEyeScienceK While the Scinfaxi are probably a greater focus of xenological studies, in terms of xeno-archaeology there might not be any good sites known to humanity - where the Scinfaxi came from is unknown, and while they undoubtedly were on Earth, Earth was sterilized in nuclear fire and declared a forbidden zone.
@@LordInsane100 whilst Humans wouldn't set foot on earth. I imagine studies might be conducted remotely via probes or scanners
@ honestly, I feel that the Srinfaxi warrant their own field of study. You’re not just gonna slot them in xenoarchaeology
I love this series so much
Get this man out of here before it turns out we're all in a coffee cup inside a dinosaur mouth inside a cloud inside a different coffee cup.
@@JesseMartin yoooo it’s the zooming image guy
Do you have carpal tunnel from all that zooming?
I am absolutely here for another Dawn of Victory Lore video.
Colony collapse disorder writ large?
"Ceremonial." The archeological equivalent of "we have no idea."
It's ritual!
Yeah i hope they play upon all the funny tropes of archeology. Like a small reference to a group of archeologists still convinced that everything on Kurugallu is naturally formed that call any other interpretation a crazy conspiracy theory
I really love the nuance in the lore, how they may have a species intelligence, or maybe they don't. Generally just how alien yet believable they are. Its great stuff.
This was a better Halloween story than any creepypasta. It feels more real.
Reminds me a little bit of the book Fractal Noise. Mostly the atmosphere and, of course, the giant hole.
“Jeez this dead civilization is rather spooky.”
“They are warning us.”
“What.”
Great holes were dug where pores ought to have sufficed, and things have learned to walk that ought to crawl...
And of course, on this dead world, we find that which is not a place of honour. The ninth chamber must remain sealed...
*_[an ominous crackle intensifies]_*
What are you referencing? That is clearly more than what was in the story.
Looked it up. Figures it was Lovecraft.
@@joshuamueller3206 Yup. It's "The Festival".
Yesterday a Frontier War video from The Sojourn, today a Dawn of Victory video? Awesome
The animation of early human expansion is amazing
A sport called football has been confirmed canon in this universe
Dawn of Victory is an alternate timeline of humanity starting at 1933. Hockey still exists too, if you haven't seen the Fleet Action Off Vega video!
This is peak cosmic horror. It deserves a whole movie.
I'm not the only one who got chills at the final message, right?
I fucking loooove cosmic horror.
So I'm just at 29 minutes, and I'm pausing to comment now because this whole piece has just masterfully gone from "scientific curiousity" to "help it's night time and I don't want to go near the windows anymore". Absolute triumph, A+ prefer keeping my eyes in my head to see.
Love the Animation at the beginning. looks really professional, Amazing job!
Is this based off the one plan for nuclear storage we have? I noticed after the spikes got mentioned and all.
Nuclear semiotics.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
Yes, the last line of the video is nearly 1:1 ripped from the proposed inscription of nuclear semiotics
“What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.”
Excellent warning for sealed evil in a can.
One of the most fantastic sci-fi Halloween specials I have ever heard to date. This video was well done.
Gotta say, I regret not watching this on Halloween, really nailed the lovecraftian vibe with this excellent bit of lore!
This is so good. It feels like something that would be included in an introductory college course in universe.
I am a simple bean. I see a new DoV video. I click. I watch. I like.
That messege at the end... God damn.
What do you think IS in the 9th chamber?
There was so much great lore and production value in this video that I don’t even know how to praise it, so I will just say I loved the video, and it’s definitely my favorite so far.
Productivity? Nah. We watching this
Late to watch but I just have to say
I have no words
This is genuinely, truly, one of the best worldbuilding videos I've seen and it just shows what vision and potential Dawn of Victory has as a setting. Despite everything else happening in the world right now, I couldn't be happier to be alive at the beginning of what I hope, and think, will be a truly great setting and universe.
Give me more Templin, that's all I can say. This is amazing!
This is the first video from the Orion Arm project that I enjoyed. Though, I'm quite partial to post-apocalyptic settings and am an ecologist focusing on insects so a video on the ruins of a caste-based alien lifeform is right up my alley. The blatant use of the nuclear spike field idea, and its almost verbatim copy of the accompanying warning, did suspend my disbelief somewhat. The league of nations still existing in the Orion Arm was also eye raising. Given how fragile the League was in our timeline, I have a hard time believing that it wouldn't instantly collapse the second humanity left Earth. Overall though, I liked the video. The biology and civilization of the Kurugallu was very well fleshed out and compelling. I particularly appreciated that, while clearly intelligent, the Kurugallu were still distinctly alien and not just a copy and paste of human psychology.
Also, unrelated to this specific video, but I still personally can't get past the fact that the Third Reich exists in the present day in the setting. Fascism by its very nature is such an unstable system that the Nazis would have torn themselves to shreds the second Hitler died. I just can't suspend my disbelief that they would have survived as a government, let alone as an interstellar nation. In a setting where the inciting incident is an alien invasion, the Nazi government continuously operating for centuries is still by far the most unbelievable aspect of the worldbuilding to me.
They mentioned in the video that the last message was not a direct translation. I think they're basically saying the sentiment is the same in both messages.
I would note that in the previous incarnation of the setting and likely in this one as well the GGR wasn't ruled by the nazis. In the old version they'd been booted out by the Heer during one of the Scinfaxi wars. Though that also fell for the clean Wehrmacht myth and had an SS government in exile on some planet somewhere.
Pretty sure it's been stated somewhere that even here the Nazis are gone though. Also important to bear in mind that the word "Reich", despite it's connotations was used to describe the old Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian and Austo-Hungarian Empires, the German Reich that went into WW1 and other states not just the Nazis with whom it is most closely associated in the modern Western mindset.
very thoughtfull and honest comment, neither fanboying nor hating, maybe very usefull feedback for them, good job!
How is fascism an unstable system?
@@beepbop6542 Name one fascist government that has endured beyond its founder without either changing radically or collapsing due to conflict.
Quite the spooky Halloween special episode.
An unexpected yet enjoyable story on alien ruins.
I have to say I'm impressed. It would have been easy for the writer to make the aliens bring about their doom by having them dabble in "forbidden things", ala Dead Space.
i wonder if well ever get to know why they had such colapse, or whats inside the sealed room
@@aguspuig6615 My theory? Given the question of whether they were a hive mind or not, maybe the Hive Mind slowly collapsed and subsequently every part of the whole became their own individual, unable to operate together properly?
Not a big fan of live stream videos, so this is a real treat!
Properly spooky stuff for halloween! You guys really know how to write a tragedy...
holy shit
those ruins are a planet size system of mines, uranium enrichment plants and nuclear waste disposal
Love the work, can't get enough of 'em, keep 'em comin' !
Perfection in the lore. Amazing.
Simply amazing and breathtaking artwork. Keep up with the good work! 😁
Ancient Aliens in History Channel at 4:00 pm Earth Standard Time on 2289.(It's actually legit lol)
Absolutely phenomenal worldbuilding
That message at the end is basically what we write on nuclear waste repositories. "This place is dangerous, but not in a way you can use against your enemies. Do not dig it up. There is no honor or treasure here, only death of the body." We write that in multiple languages and with images.
Maybe radiation fucked up their biochemistry?
@@alessiogiovannetti513 I expect it's something more sinister, this not being real life. I'm just recognizing where the authors drew the idea from, I doubt it's supposed to be a direct reference.
just peak writing!
Using our own ideas of hostile architecture to ward off future disoverers from our nuclear waste and transferring it to an alien species? I love it, and very haunting.
I love nuclear waste disposal vibes, and the execution here is anazing. But as fun as the mystery is I hope we will get a (well telegrafed for those who prefer mystery of course) answer, can't wait to know what you thought up!
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This was a very pleasant surprise.
Jessica has a nice voice 😊
Thank you so much!! ☺This was such a fun one to read.
This is wonderfully done. Amazing work as always! ❤
i was extremley hesitant when dawn of victory was anounced. This is lo longer so
what won you over?
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What sets this and the other scripts on this channal thus far apart from other works of scifi is that the iceberg is here, that what wyou've written really are glimpses into a wider world. Warhammer and other works can ramble on about the lives of those with the fate of the plot in their hands but when you focus on smaller glimpses of the world that by their nature hint and branch to other apects of the world, you create a feeling of awe.
Secondly, your writing style at base for this peice was incredible. The feeling of dread and wonder imposed by the narrative stlye of analysis, 1st hand acounts, and what "experts" beleive happened based on the evidence available takes - not only writnig an incredible more deal than you show - some real writing talent.
It takes work and time to turn your ideas into stories and even more for them to be fantastic. Despite this being the 1st of any works pretaining to dawn of victory, you've showcased some major writing talent and passions that I cant help but want to see more of!
@@koozkooz9724 I was not expecting such a thoughtful answer. Thank you very much for your kind words!
You're a great writer, it makes an already very interesting setting even more compelling.
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I feel if we ever do get to head out to the stars, this type of world is all we will find. Long dead civs.
Bittersweet and sad
Man, I love this
I imagine a video like this, where the audience is aware that the conclusions are flawed based on something we know in our world that never came about in DoV could be done.
Alright, this is easily the best entry in the DoV up to date, even though it is somewhat removed from the main themes of the universe.
It has been a while. I am leaving this comment to remember that this video is here. Looks interesting.
Sadly, it is late for me, and I have a test tomorrow.
All the best for that test
Henry! How did you do on your test?!
The societal collapse of the boreholes reminds me of the universe 25 experiments, given the fact that a: happened in stages, and b: happened to a seemingly prosperous civilization.
Very cool to hear about some more aliens
This was really good, I really enjoyed how it described the aliens and the overall sort of creepy tone. I would love more stuff in this vein.
Thank you kindly!
@DawnofVictory2289 If I had known thr creator himself would reply I wouldn't have done a hasty comment as I ran out the door for work. I really do like the video though, it's a cool view of an alien society that's both strange but grounded, and I love the creepy tone, it really fits my jam. I know Dawn of Victory isn't a horror setting and I totally get that, but personally I would love more stuff in this mystery/creepy vein as well.
Absolute spooky cinema. Truly a great evolution upon the ideas about aliens in this world kicked up to 11. I do wonder if this will be the only species other than the scinfaxi we will get.
Holy shit, the references to current nuclear waste disposal sites was amazing. I’d imagine when our time on earth has come to pass and someone curious like us comes to earth, they’d get quite a big scare from our nuclear waste sites
I might have missed that. Where were said references?
@ The very end of the video with the spike fields, the idea comes from making warnings designed to last even without language, and the forbidding spikes are part of it.
Furthermore
“This is not a place of honor” is a direct reference to one concept of long term nuclear warning messages
@@valentine7593 Ah, thanks. I am feeling kinda dumb missing such a reference and instead breaking my brain trying to imagine what cosmic horrors are involved in all of this.
This was really really good. Congrats and keep this up!
Just goes to show that for all the amazing discoveries made to the name of curiosity and/or profit some things are meant to be left buried.
I’m so excited to watch this!
Looks great!
Haven’t watched it yet!
Absolutely chilling. Fantastic work. Poor bugs, what did you find?
Not only is this an incredible horror story, it's also a perfect depiction of why the nuclear semionics were kind of written off as any sort of usable warning system.
There is a reason why the modern containment idea is just burry it and forget about it. Warning signs attract interest.
I love your videos!
Holy shit I got that reference at the end
Fantastic
Nice, great ambience.
0:12 just realized that's the reported sound heard in the caverns
Dang bro. Good job. Loved this.
i like the woman fresenters voice.
Unexpected grimdark is welcome!
I like the choice of the 38th parallel
My sleeping schedule is fuck
Saw the video and I clicked. Sleep can wait.
I feel like we need the recovered logs of a lost expedition into a superdeep borehole. It could be a very spooky story...
*Piles of dead aliens*
Me: "Neat" *Snaps pictures*
The spike field immediately gave me the idea of Semiotics.
Ooooooo a new one !!!
So what did the rescued cargo ship survivors see? The Spikes and the special bore hole? I was confused on that part.
Keep cooking 🔥
poor bugs
How many lives lost before they knew to seal whatever they sealed behind that door,
How many lives were lost in the endeavor to seal the door,
How many lives lost to build the warnings to keep their people and ours away from the door,
How many lives are we gonna lose when we think ourselves superior and open the door,
And how many lives are we gonna lose before we decide to try to close it again
See you lads in 6 months 🫡
oof, that's a bit ambitious.
Wow, worldbuilding in another level...
38th parallel... like in Korea :)
O it’s the mountains of madness in space
Ok, now this goes hard as fuck
I prefer exposition to narrative
This is cool
(I hope Ai hasn't been used and if it hasn't you should make this clear)
Frying greese? You mean sizzling bacon? I think that was a cheeky starship troopers reference there
My only question is, how did the human scientists, archaeologists, and historians find all this out? If there are any writers in the comments, I’d love to see some academics bickering about the details ;)
Soo creepy, damn!