The IPC May Be Heading Into A Civil War | Honkai Star Rail Lore 

3:43 the 3rd death is the inevitable Blade's tesla car crash

Don't forget: The Galaxy Rangers returned en masse due to the events of Penacony. From a missing faction at the start of the game, thousands of the Hunt's most... Paladin-like Pathstriders are now back on the galactic stage. And I'm sure they saw what the Trailblazer did, dealing with a threat like Sunday.

Aside from doing trade with other planets, it seems that the IPC also likes to go to war just like they did in Gold and Gears event

IPC civil war will probably involve Architects. To me it always seemed like Architects were actual followers of Preservation meanwhile IPC is just a company that uses Qlipoth as a mascot. I believe Qlipoth also ignores IPC for the most part which supports my thought. Maybe Architects trying a coup with help of some factions (For example Strategic Investment Department).

My hypothesis is that Aventurine is working with Jade to get his revenge on Marketing department or Oswaldo himself. Considering it was implied that Aventurine got in contact with Jade with his scheme on purpose and is really enthusiastic in working for the IPC for some reason, it would make sense. We know that sigonians were under protection from the IPC(I don't remember but maybe even Marketing department in particular) and they, well, didn't protect them, so sounds like a reasonable target for revenge.

I've heard it's implied that Oswaldo was responsible for the downfall of the Avgins and Boothill's planet.

I mean you were already right about the order influencing penacony so I'll let you cook again!

hopefully they'll make Jade's arc (if she gets one) a bit longer than usual. i love evil corporate-type characters and was so disappointed when they just ended Aventurine's arc just because his banner is over. like bro just popped up at the end of the story?? after allat?? the way they had to slap Argenti into the plot just to save his twink ass offscreen (they didn't even voice him 😭)

Blade and Kafka's scripts were in the Luofu and Sam's was in Penacony, so I would assume Silver Wolf has hers in Pier Point - at least based on the last part of her story quest in 1.1. if so, I'm very excited to have that kdrama chaebol business conflict arc in HSR, lmao. I genuinely want to have Pier Point as a "planet" we go to and the entire thing is just one big office 😂 Meanwhile, I'm quite curious about Oswaldo as well since he's a former Nameless and I'm pretty sure Himeko mentioned somewhere that we had some more personal connections with the IPC, I assume that's him. So if they ever dive into that Oswaldo thing with Boothill, we'd probably be involved somehow.

Considering how the Stellaron Hunters were the ones to cause the Jepella Rebellion and also other crimes mentioned in that animation. I'd expect atleast the Stellaron Hunters to have some involvement in the IPC Rebellion.

Okay this is my view in what will happen in the IPC conflict and the 2.3 storyline but before here is some facts: -- Diamond and Oswaldo both want to be board members but there's only 7 spots --Taravan one of the seven board members is supporting Diamond --Boothill is going against Oswaldo --The IPC wants to take control of Penacony --There are various "big shots" in Penacony --The Family was "brainwashing" it's guest and it "stole" Jade's Cornerstone --Everything The Family did and all of Sunday and the Oak Family plans to trap people in Ena's Dream was recorded and sent to Adventurine Now that we have all the facts what I think will happen Jade and Topaz will expose the family for what they did and try to take control of Penacony since it was originally a planet belonging to the IPC and if they succed Diamond will have an amazing accomplishment since Penacony can help ease many of the IPC deals and with the support of Taravan Diamond can be promoted to P47 and become a board member. But what about Boothill well if Aventurine wants we can direct Boothill to go against Oswaldo and end his life and create one less problem for Diamond and if that happens Aventurine with the promotion to P46 might get The Marketing Development Department from Oswaldo but that's only speculative since we don't know Adventurine opinion on Diamond and if we wants to help them.

Maybe Oswaldo is the "good guy". Perhaps Diamond and his associates are not really into serving Qlipoth (just like Sunday and Gopher Wood of the Oak Family, who wants Order instead of Harmony). Maybe they are planning to get rid of the legit Qlipoth "supporters" and run the IPC for their personal goals (while occasionally sending building materials to Qlipoth just to hide their true nature). This is just a "maybe". Great theory from you, just like the last time.

While i agree with IPC heading for somewhat civil war but i don't agree with a few point in the video: - Diamond trying to lead IPC back to it original state like what they were before swarm disaster: i don't think this what he trying to do, imo he trying to remove corruption from IPC, last time they have this level of corruption they cause a huge scale galactic war so Diamond trying to avoid a war not starting another one - Recording Aven got gonna be use to made the family support Diamond: No i don't think so, i think the biggest use for this record is as negotiation chip against the family on penacony coz i think the real objective of Stoneheart member was to retrieve the stellaron or atleast seal it again. Aven was sent in first as a recon to collect the needed evidences to pressure the family which was unsuccessful many time before and if that fail then they will do a forceful extraction which they have already lay the needed work before like sending in more IPC backup from Topaz + smuggle 2 cornerstone into Family ground.

I think you overlook that is that a person can be an Emanator and be against the goals of the Aeon. Acheron proves this. Qlipoth's main goal is separation, not unity, and even if we assume that Diamond wants to change the direction of the IPC, it doesn't at any point suggest it would necessarily be in a positive direction. HSR's writing has so far been very adamant to not ruffle too many feathers with its lore, and tends to go back to the status quo rather than to really question the issues with capitalism. I write capitalism here, because 1) the IPC is the definition of uncontrolled capitalism and 2) because it better captures the power dynamic between people in power and those under them. The main arguments I'm going to use to prove why this is the case is the 1.4 story in Belabog and 1.5 on Herta's Space Station, where the writing had ample opportunity to question systems of power and how to change them, but both stories fell back on reinforcing the status quo. So while you may correct in your prediction that Diamond wants to change the IPC, I don't think this change is going to be something which structurally changes the IPC to the point it will no longer endorse capitalism. Case in point is how 2.2 failed to take the story to its fullest conclusion by shirking the context how wealth distributes power in society. The solution it offers is still very much in line with the status quo, because at no point does it address actual wealth inequality over instead suggesting that people have the right to choose their own paths in life which is true, but it did not address the suffering wealth inequality causes and why escapism may seem desirable in the first place. All it said was that suffering is a part of life and that every person has their own right to decide how to deal with it, despite heavily implying that human suffering is caused by unfairness due to unequal wealth distribution i.e. if people had better access to things such as healthcare or reasonable income, they wouldn't have to go to Penacony to chase their dreams. Consider for example in Sunday's story how the father sold off his children as slaves to afford going to Penacony to work with the intent to buy his children back at a later point in time, and at no point does the story suggest that if society had provided the father with proper income and support in the first place, he would never have had to sell his children. Instead the solution is that the father should simply just accept his suffering from being poor because that's just how life works. To add on this, I'm especially disappointed with 1.4 where Belabog is still indebted to the IPC but they aren't forced to sign a contract to be slaves in order to pay off the debt. It's to be noted here that Diamond has no moral issues with this, because as the head of the Strategic Investment Department, his main purpose is to ensure that those working under him i.e. the ten Stonehearts, do what they're supposed to. He demoted Topaz because she was emotionally swayed to go against the goal of her mission, and Topaz herself is apparently so deeply enmeshed with the IPC that she also can't see the moral implications of her behavior unless it stares her right in the face. How many planets prior to Belabog was she guilty of enslaving? We have no idea. If Diamond was really against the moral pitfalls of capitalism, why would he be the head of the one department that really illustrates the evils of it? The only person we can loosely let off the hook is Aventurine, since despite his position the IPC, is also enslaved, though we don't quite know exactly how it works in practice. Aventurine also has an interesting relationship with money that isn't reflected within the rest of the IPC cast we've seen so far i.e. he's very generous and doesn't seem to actually care about being rich himself, or at least he doesn't think it gives him any particular status over others despite being extremely wealthy. The one criticism of Aventurine I have in this context is that he doesn't seem to connect the wider implications of how wealth distribution affects people beyond an individual or group level i.e. there's nothing which could stop him from spending his money that address actual structural injustice rather than giving it out money to individuals who would obviously benefit from it, but does nothing to address the systems that cause this inequality. So while he seems to not necessarily share the overall capitalist values of the IPC, he's still complicit in maintaining the system of power capitalism has over society, but he's more excused because compared to Topaz who willingly joined the IPC because she thinks the IPC is great, he had no choice in the matter. We also don't know what relationship he has with Diamond, and we know that while he's friendly with Topaz and Jade, he's not close with either of them, and he's overall disliked within the IPC, likely because ethically, he isn't fully aligned with capitalist values like the rest of the IPC cast is. By that I mean that he doesn't seem to value wealth for its own sake and the power wealth provides him over others.

Having an IPC civil war, in the form of a 1980's hostile takeover, seems likely at this point. It's also interesting that Boothill is looking for Oswald. Boothill certainly is a loose cannon but he also seems to be always wanting to help those in need and punishing who he views as evil (even though his methods are certainly questionable). So the question is: is he looking to help Oswald or Punish him? I don't think we have enough information to really know right now and knowing that would help us understand the situation of the possible Civil War. Also from a Meta level I don't know how the IPC and Point Pier will fit into the story. We already got a glance from Qlipoth so if we are going to Point Pier it's unlikely we're siding with the Preservation at this moment. Unless this IPC story is a long term background plot there would have to be more going on then just the Preservation to make it make sense mechanically in game.

What if we have a similar situation in the IPC that Penacony just had, there is another Aeon syphoning the will and support of a portion of the IPC. The question is, what Aeon would interfere with Qlipoth, perhaps we are going to start touching on Voracity lurking in the dark ready to consume what Qlipoth is working so hard to Preserve.

Thanks fir the breakdown and details 👍

Thank you for the video! With every lore and theory video I love HSR even more ❤ such a big universe with so much interesting characters and plotlines 😍🌌💜

Don't forget the Annihilation gang. Ifrit might be gone, but his kids are still around and they have their own agendas.

That's a good theory. 🤔Hmmm... I wonder if they are gonna introduce references from GnG in the next story Arc since the Penacony Arc had many from SD (ie Ena's fall, Knights of beauty, Glamoth's Iron Cavalry etc...) The interstellar trade war in GnG might be a catalyst to your speculation since it involved the IPC. Heck it wouldn't surprise me if they introduced Dr Primitive in the upcoming stories since they are somewhat related to what happened with the Galaxy rangers and currently Dr Primitive is an occurence in GnG.

I mean it makes sense with what diamond seems to be doing

Taravan might be an emanator, but its not confirmed if he actually follows qlipoth. Qlipoth might have given him emenator status since hes the head of the department that actually helps qlipoth

Is the current IPC leaning toward the path of Voracity? That is why Diamond and Taravan are taking action, actively running damage control before everything goes down to chaos?

Nah, the Credit would win The IPC is from its very foundation, is doomed to be a greedy corporate entity. To be able to get those 'materials' for the Qlipoth even though they don't even care for said materials, they NEED to be as big and influential as they are and to be that requires a lot of colonization essentially which is never a good thing. And even if they did reforms to be less shit, their still gonna be shit because the most effective employees are usually the most unforgiving and driven people who get the job done at any cost morality be damned as long as they get those materials and credit scores.

This is just me... But what if... What if... They aren't emanators of qlopoth but emanators of propagation? I mean. Being the building materials head could mean building "nests" for the swarm.

I think diamond just wants to kick Oswaldo out and become a board director

I think Firefly's third death has already been shown to us. In the first trailer, where Aventurine and Caelus were dancing, there's a scene were Firefly is plummeting from up above and Caelus is standing on the Express watching her.

why are we thinking that diamond and company are the good guys that want to bring the IPC back to their roots? considering their department seems to actually be the most greedy of the IPC and in the opposite side we have the department that seems to be more aligned with the original goal of the IPC I feel like we shouldn't assume that diamon's factions are the good guy only because topaz and aventurine are part of it we also know that oswaldo not only he is a formed nameless but he also seems to be pretty loyal to Qlipoth, so to me this make him more likely to be a good guy than a bad guy so i would argue that it's more likely that in the internal war between in the IPC, diamond faction is infact not really the one most loyal to Qliphoth but the one most loyal to the credits

The IPC is heading into civil war Legend of the galactic heroes imperial and alliance civil war: First time?

In the story, Trailblazers still being the Heroes never fade. But again. Idk why I like Sunday. Right after they all kicked out the IPC, it is not finished story. The other trailblazer gone and continue their journey reminds me with UNICEF in real life. But it doesn't change anything. Just look at Yemen for real life example. Conflicts starts from corrupted humans in policitics and use their religion that cause tragic story. IPC is not even that good. But the character isn't that bad. The coorporation and system is bad. In any country, all government has these corrupt people. Boothill looking pretty cool. He represent assasin who eliminate the mastermind. I think Stellaron Hunter should work with Galaxy Ranger. They both get hated (wanted) by IPC. So you can see how bad the IPC.

Besides: we may be thinking that diamond is the only one at the very top of the ipc, but everthing we know leads to there being more people at the top, not only that he is the boss of a DEPARTMENT, not of the IPC

3rd wpuld be yhe end of sam but rebirth of firefly and join astral express

also we'll probably see more from Constance maybe, she just disappeared after talking with Black Swan, and about firefly's 3rd death, I'll talk about her beta kit leaks, so if you're not interested in leaks be warned: Firefly when in combat is only SAM, and she consumes hp when she uses her skill, just like is told in the story, that using the armor degrades it's user, but when she uses her ult, SAM get's a new form with dual blades, in this form, her atks heals her instead, maybe what will happen is that the 3rd death will give her new powers and the new SAM form, which will heal her from her condition, that's my theory.

What happens if diamond is a villain

cook my king

i hate waiting for a new update every 6 months. (i play on mobile)

I'll just leave a comment here just in case this theory becomes true in the future

Boothill is making me so hyped for the development of the lore

There's also sparkles button...but I think it might be a Red herring. It would be funny.

Hot take: the IPC wants to create the Aeon of Capitalism 😂

Honestly I don't understand why sparkle is here, she litteraly did nothing

I'm low-key hoping Firefly actually dies, more than just me hating the character, I just don't want that figurative death as a machine to live on as a human when her human side hasn't been developed enough to care. But if they take the ballsy move of killing her, I will actually be a bit surprised

Never liked the ipc🔥

Colonizers gonna colonize 😅