Theories on Rust Lore - Rust

I might be overthinking things, but... I'm curious on everyone's theories on rust pertaining on: - Why are humans on the island? - Who runs the airdrops? - What happened to the rad-towns? And more. We know that: - Humans all wake up naked in random locations on the island. - Still a bit fuzzy on this one, but I'm assuming the humans on the island have knowledge of how to build things, basic crafting & intelligence, and use of modern things such as flares, guns, etc, but with no memory of how they got there or how they know these things. - There are roads. - There are powerlines. - There are monuments of 'past' life. - The small "rad-towns" there are are extremely small compounds. - There are daily airdrops by a military-grade plane, which drops modern & fresh supplies. (Strangely the weapons are hand-crafted ones, but airdrops had military-grade weapons in legacy, so I'll just assume this is an undeveloped thing.) Post below with some facts I can add to this list. - There are extremely quick and sudden biome changes which wouldn't naturally occur on an island of it's size. - So far, it's only been males, though this is probably just a game thing. My theory is something along the lines of The Maze, in which an external force or government illegally, or legally is performing a large-scale experiment for unknown reasons, possible with several islands. I'm also thinking something along the lines of hunger-games sort of monitoring & modification, with the sudden biome changes & respawning of supplies & resources. (That might be overthinking things again, but the biome changes are a big factor in this.) The "experiment" may or may not be monitized. The intelligent humans are probably given some chemical to force them to forget, and dropped on the island. These humans might be volunteers (which is unlikely), part of some gameshow in which they allow their memories to be taken away until they win, in which they win a huge sum of money (idfk), they might be forced by a (possibly Dystopian) government, or death-row inmants. Another possibility is that the island is a quarantine zone, with some sort of radition-incident on an isolated military outpost or the rather, due to the fact that there are no major towns or cities, the existing buildings looking to hold a small amount of either military troops or scientists. The humans dropped there are either survivors without memory, or again, just an experiment as posted above, with the quarantine zone & radiation incident included. What are your thoughts? If you have any "facts" you'd like to debunk below, just post it, and I'll add it to the main list.

You've gotta be kidding me. 1. Name an island that doesn't have humans. 2. Gameplay gimmick. 3. Gameplay gimmick.

This is like trying to put a lore to Minecraft or some abstract game with no discernible features plot-wise. There's so much room for interpretation that any lore thought of is closer to a fanfic than actual material.

Actually Garry has stated he either already has a Lore plan tucked away somewhere, or will get around to it at some point. Granted I expect it to be a pretty loose story that won't get in the way of gameplay, but still, wrapping an island up in a little story makes wandering around in it and investigating ruins a lot more fun.

It is 2273. Humanity's population reached an all-time peak almost 30 years ago, reaching 19 billion inhabitants accounted for, most of them dwelling in Asia. Miscigenation eventually made everyone look similar. The average male was medium-sized, had dark brown hair, brown eyes, scarce beard, somewhat light skin color and unremarkable facial features, although it was easy recognizing different people because of their unique voices, which were not homogenized through the generations. Very unique facial structures were confined to outcast populations in the growing rural parts of the world and smaller islands in developing countries. However, during the cataclysmic events that took place a few decades ago, during which a good part of the world either starved to death or was wiped by unprecedentedly powerful storms, hurricanes, tsunamis and eartquakes, billions of humans perished and entire islands were wiped clean of any signs of civilization. Scientists to this day still debate whether this period was a result of man's influence on the atmosphere and earth itself, or if it was just a natural cycle which could mean the imminent beginning of a new ice age, or at least a radical climate change. Either way humanity knew it had to change the game in order to survive. In the mainlands, smaller abandoned cities were turned into gigantic farmlands to help feed the starving population. The bigger cities sprawled and concentrated refugees from the countryside. In these megalopolises, chaos ensued like never before. People who lost their houses, their wives, their families, who had nothing to eat, started rioting and vandalizing what they could. Most of them eventually turned on one another. Crimes reached an all-time high 12 years ago. Prisons were filled beyond double their capacity, and the government couldn't afford enough supplies for the inmates. Horrible executions inside the prisons, made by the criminals themselves as a means to avoid the excess population therein, and the consumption of human meat by some inmates, profoundly shocked the country. The civilized elite made absolute pressure on the government for a definite solution. 10 years ago, project RUST finished its idealization and began its implementation stage. The premise was simple. Take known wrongdoers, prisoners, people who despite having nothing to lose, had already lost it all, and send them to the devastated islands who were wiped by the storms decades ago. By now, some animals inhabit the wild, and plenty of natural resources are probably to be found. Since resources are so scarce in the mainland, rebuilding them was never considered an option by most countries. The inmates, head shaven every week while in prison, get their memories permanently damaged from current-era technologies that produce strong eletric pulses directed only to the hippocampus, leaving motor, language and thought areas of the brain intact. They no longer remember their past, but they still feel their ruthlessness, their cunning, their mistrust for other human beings, and some, even the taste for human flesh. And so they wake up in one of these islands, essentially a renegade, abandoned by the law, left to their own fates, but no longer a problem in the mainlands. Who knows how they got there? Now they wander, naked, unsure of their purpose, but with freedom to express their hatred of the world in an open environment where the only limit is found when they see each other.

I'm just stoked to see Obama plays Rust.

Frank, your 'expertise' is sorely needed here: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1451645[/url] It is a thread involving drop bears, cave spiders, and dolphins named Randy. I very dangerous thread indeed. Safety videos are needed. ;-)

I'l just drop this for you guys... [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld[/url]

EDIT: I have Oldtimer's disease. Please excuse my confusion. :)

[QUOTE=Dr.R;47171909]It is 2273. Humanity's population reached an all-time peak almost 30 years ago, reaching 19 billion inhabitants accounted for, most of them dwelling in Asia. Miscigenation eventually made everyone look similar. The average male was medium-sized, had dark brown hair, brown eyes, scarce beard, somewhat light skin color and unremarkable facial features, although it was easy recognizing different people because of their unique voices, which were not homogenized through the generations. Very unique facial structures were confined to outcast populations in the growing rural parts of the world and smaller islands in developing countries. However, during the cataclysmic events that took place a few decades ago, during which a good part of the world either starved to death or was wiped by unprecedentedly powerful storms, hurricanes, tsunamis and eartquakes, billions of humans perished and entire islands were wiped clean of any signs of civilization. Scientists to this day still debate whether this period was a result of man's influence on the atmosphere and earth itself, or if it was just a natural cycle which could mean the imminent beginning of a new ice age, or at least a radical climate change. Either way humanity knew it had to change the game in order to survive. In the mainlands, smaller abandoned cities were turned into gigantic farmlands to help feed the starving population. The bigger cities sprawled and concentrated refugees from the countryside. In these megalopolises, chaos ensued like never before. People who lost their houses, their wives, their families, who had nothing to eat, started rioting and vandalizing what they could. Most of them eventually turned on one another. Crimes reached an all-time high 12 years ago. Prisons were filled beyond double their capacity, and the government couldn't afford enough supplies for the inmates. Horrible executions inside the prisons, made by the criminals themselves as a means to avoid the excess population therein, and the consumption of human meat by some inmates, profoundly shocked the country. The civilized elite made absolute pressure on the government for a definite solution. 10 years ago, project RUST finished its idealization and began its implementation stage. The premise was simple. Take known wrongdoers, prisoners, people who despite having nothing to lose, had already lost it all, and send them to the devastated islands who were wiped by the storms decades ago. By now, some animals inhabit the wild, and plenty of natural resources are probably to be found. Since resources are so scarce in the mainland, rebuilding them was never considered an option by most countries. The inmates, head shaven every week while in prison, get their memories permanently damaged from current-era technologies that produce strong eletric pulses directed only to the hippocampus, leaving motor, language and thought areas of the brain intact. They no longer remember their past, but they still feel their ruthlessness, their cunning, their mistrust for other human beings, and some, even the taste for human flesh. And so they wake up in one of these islands, essentially a renegade, abandoned by the law, left to their own fates, but no longer a problem in the mainlands. Who knows how they got there? Now they wander, naked, unsure of their purpose, but with freedom to express their hatred of the world in an open environment where the only limit is found when they see each other.[/QUOTE] That was really well written. Very interesting theory.

Rust Lore. There was a great war between the Gmod players and the Rust Players, The Rust players won, and forced to Gmod players to forever be stuck playing Rust without any memory of their previous life. There is no way out.

[QUOTE=GrymThor;47191119]Rust Lore. There was a great war between the Gmod players and the Rust Players, The Rust players won, and forced to Gmod players to forever be stuck playing Rust without any memory of their previous life. There is no way out.[/QUOTE] So really Rust is just one big game of TTT...

[QUOTE=GrymThor;47191119]Rust Lore. There was a great war between the Gmod players and the Rust Players, The Rust players won, and forced to Gmod players to forever be stuck playing Rust without any memory of their previous life. There is no way out.[/QUOTE] What? .-.

[QUOTE=utilitron;47172990]I'l just drop this for you guys... [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld[/url][/QUOTE] Wow. Just wow. I had never heard of the "Riverworld" books, but after clicking your link I will definitely be looking for a copy to read... Hmm... so people "awaken" naked and bald, on the banks of a river, with no recollection of how they got there? Food and loot mysteriously appears at "spawn" points, at regular intervals, and so does cloth to produce clothing. People spend their time searching for metals and ores. When you die, you are miraculously "respawned" somewhere else on the map, along the shore of the river bank. I wonder if Garry has read this book? ...

I don't know, but the similarities are uncanny.

It all start on prison island with naturally occurring radiation under the surface that seeps to the top when the ground is disturbed. When this radiation was discovered the authorities decided to let all the prisoners out to escape the radiated prison in which they were kept. This was done by blowing up a wall in the prison to protect government officials/soldiers from exposure to the radiation. once the prisoners escaped they made their way to water and threw away they'er radiated cloths because it was burning them. Every one suffered memory loss because of the radiation and the explosion. thus waking up with no memory, no women, naked on the beach, with most human old human artifacts seeping radiation. The air drops are a humanitarian aid, guns for hunting, C4 for.... fun. Evacuation would be dangerous because of the radiation and because the prisoners seem much more aggressive than any normal human being.

Or it could be as simple as being a sociopathic homosexual nudist colony simulator.

[QUOTE=Crunchmeister;47212029]Or it could be as simple as being a sociopathic homosexual nudist colony simulator.[/QUOTE] based inside the anus of the Goatse Man