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finished it. very excellent game both gameplay and story. you have to play detective a bit, but this is one of my favorite scifi horror story tbh.

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1. the general background of the world: the empire and the nation. it seems the empire was tyrannical regime that at one time a civil war broke out and the nation was founded, and the solar system was split. the new nation isn't much better too. they're basically space stalin regime.

2. bioresonance: in this world, some cosmic waves that encompass the solar system or even the universe. some people can control this waves and they're basically pychics. they're also what the royal lineage from the old empire was based on.

3. bioresonance technology: eventually they found out they can use technology to somewhat harness this cosmic radio wave and found they can create robot by copying brain wave pattern into an artificial brain. on the other hand, their computing and digital technology didn't advance much, hence they still use 90's earth equivalent computers and magnetic based computer storage.

3.b from what i process is gestalts are human """Volunteers""" that have their brain waves copied into into replikas. i didn't get any details about the nature of replikas, but they seem to be more organic than mechanical. the gestalt replika also doesn't seem to be a pair for their human copy either. for each model of replika they just pick suitable personality and just mass produce them. maybe gestalts are just umbrella term for humans that work with replikas.

4. Elster and Arianne: they are a pair of gestalt/replika sent on a mission to the edge of solar system to find habitable planets outside the solar system. it eventually "failed" the state just left them to die basically. but they actually found something. it's either in the planet they crashed it, or this being detected their radio waves and decided to check that out.

5. what comes next: basically this cosmic being, it seems either something that can manipulate the resonance on such a massive scale or even the source of the resonance itself. it got ahold of the penrose somehow, and probably able to scan consciousness with resonance psychic ability. it seems to consume consciousness. it's unclear whether this being can affect the real material world, or they absorb consciousness and put them into some silent hill-esque "virtual world", but for all intent and purposes it's real. a dream within a dream within a dream. with elster and arianne are the first people it found, so arianne is the core of the new reality

6. the influence spread like waves, began to absorb everyone in the solar system. without knowing, people got taken to this new reality. it began as sickness. then what seem to be delusion where people experience other people's memories and their reality merge, distort, and broken down they became corrupted. beacuse elster and arianne are the base, it seems with enough time, the memories of elster and arianne became imprinted and it merged with other's. (adler's and isa's especially and falke's) it merged multiple series of separate events (the penrose incident, the deterioration in the mines and the rotfond) into one, very confused chain of events about elster finding arianne to fulfill the event of your ending. the result is countless elsters making the journey you did in the game. you're not the real elster, most likely you're just random unfortunate replikas that got brainwashed into thinking you're elster and got merged into the hive mind. due to the chaotic nature of the hivemind and the new reality, each loop is slightly changed, and it's just a matter of probability until one elster succeeded, and that's the player's.