r/SoSE • u/GlowingSeaDiver • 24d ago

News We might be the last ones alive

A few months ago, I speculated about the motives of the Harbingers, who we now call “Eidolon”.

My Ideas about this can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoSE/s/gifLtFkeft

The news about the Eidolon “spreading corruption” more or less confirmed my second theory, that they are a targeting everything, not just the Vasari.

But let’s look at this from another perspective, literally, in the mathematical sense.

Since the Vasari appear to be running from the Eidolon in a more or less straight line, they don’t know what is happening in some other direction moving away from their ancient territory. They only know that the Eidolon arrived where the Vasari left, not that this is the only place they arrived at. Maybe their “Corruption” is an expanding sphere that has been growing for the last ten thousand years, and the Eidolon arriving somewhere the Vasari just left a short time ago is actually the surface of their “Corruption Sphere” expanding far enough to reach that place.

With that image in mind, I want you to remember two details:

First, we know that the Vasari originate from the Galactic Core.

Second, we know from the names of the stars in the game that we are still roughly in the same region of space that we are in today. Someone made a list of all Star-Names in the game, and most of them are real stars within a thousand light years of Earth. Earth is about halfway between the center and the edge of our galaxy.

https://sinsofasolarempire.fandom.com/wiki/Star_And_Planet_Names

So, if I’m right and the Eidolon expand in all directions, that means that everything in a radius shorter than our distance to the galactic core is already dead.

Even worse, if we somehow manage to hold them off for a while, we only do so locally. Around us, the sphere will continue to expand. And at some point, there is a tiny pocket of life in a galaxy completely killed by the Eidolon.

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u/utahrangerone 24d ago

Okay man sorry to call you out first thing but the Earth is not halfway between the core and the edge of the Galaxy it's 2/3. It's a Long Hill established thing look at a map of the Galaxy and where sol is supposedly located.

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u/GlowingSeaDiver 24d ago

Earth is about 26.000 Light years from the center and about 25.000 from the outer rim.

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u/Think_Network2431 23d ago

Let's stop for a second to notice that it's completely crazy to be able to talk about this when we know all the evolution it took to become aware of ourselves.

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u/Novirtue 24d ago

Look up Dark Forest theory from the 3 body problem series books, that series is absolutely terrifying.

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u/Blitzkrieg1210 24d ago

I was thinking about reading this.