PROJECT DAWN - Ariadna: The Lost Colony - Infinity WarLore 

I like to think that I provide a fairly in-depth description. Thanks!

hell yeah

That was from a weird 60fps commercial for 1080P VHS tapes from the 90s

do you remember what story that was?

@@WarLore 'A Fire Upon the Deep' by Vernor Vinge. It's possible Vernor Vinge got the idea from Infinity. Not sure when antipodes were fleshed out, but infinity was released two years before 'A Fire Upon the Deep' was published.

A fire Upon the Deep is awesome! So was a Deepness in the Sky. I believe it won the Nebula or Hugo award. Good stuff, Pham Nguyen is the man.

Oh yeah! Corvus Beli are all huge history nerds, which helps to give the world a very unique vibe and aesthetic!

“Antipodes” is the term for land masses on the other side of the planet. The term was first used in Classical Greece. Roman thinkers believed that the world had three regions; a habitable zone in the north, the “torrid zone” in the equator, and another zone in the south - this zone was the Antipodes. The romans believed that the equator was too hot to ever sail past, however, and that they would never know what the antipodes were like. Medieval scholars used the term to refer to “antichthones” , which were the inhabitants of those southern climes. Antipode (singular) can rhyme with “honeybeel or “toad” But in general, “antipodes” rhymes with “honeybees”

@@WarLore Thank You! I was trying to make sense using the "direct opposite" definition of antipodes since I started playing infinity and it just didn't make sense to me.

@@iaindrews8709 Yeah, I think the name comes because of the idea that humans just thought they could never understand them.

Antipodes in greek means "reverse leg". (αντι= ante, ποδι= pode, leg). It basically means they have dog legs.

They are VERY cool.

All national Russians, but tot necessarily ethnic Russians. Kazaks and Siberians and others were sent, but no other neighboring countries like NASA, for example. (nobody from Kazakhstan, for instance)

@@WarLore copy that! I played last during N3 and want to get back in, play an Ariadna faction. I want to sort of do a themed sectorial or maybe vanilla but come up with some sort of alternative color scheme and flavor. Trying to stay lore adjacent.

@@cymbolic_space1832 That's a really good idea! I think there's a lot of room to play with Ariadna :)

@@WarLore I wish there were a few more Kossak models available! Im thinking of doing a Black/White/Gold color scheme of Orthodox Christian Ariadna. Some sort of breakaway sect that was formed by converts from all the nations

CB are a bunch of big history nerds. Therefore, information like the star Helios / Delta Pavonis is out there! What did you enjoy? :)

@@WarLore Mostly that it presented the lore in a way that was comprehensible. The material that CB puts out is broken up over in-universe news articles and so on that make it hard to follow sometimes. Plus putting a voice on it lets you sort of... bring it to life more?

Thank you very much! There's a lot to research and I'm never sure if it's worth it, but it's fun.

@@WarLore in Italy, with my Friends and a WarCore we try to do the same thing, but our community is far smaller 😅 we’re TheGotchaProtocol, but our quality is really far from yours

Aww, you're too kind. Thanks! I love the Infinity world :)

Antipode (rhyme with toad) is acceptable. Antipodes is from the Greek.

Awww shucks