Valkyrie, Battle Maiden, and Warrior Earth

[Zumberge]

This might be reading too far into things like "reused assets" and "programmers are not writers," but when some bits of lore collided with each other in my head I realized it had implications that I don't recall anyone bringing up, or at least not recently.

 

Okay, so.  Valkyrie got her powers from an old spear which infused her with nanomachines, and her Praetorian counterpart Battle Maiden got her powers in a similar way.  Both of these weapons came from Warrior Earth, and you get several opportunities in high-level content to visit it... and when you get there it's a wreck.  Ruined buildings, rubble everywhere, the locals are armed with swords and crossbows and dressed in metal armor and historically inaccurate Viking helmets.  By all accounts the world is in a primitive state, and they even sound like it when they call Statesman your "clan elder."  So someone clearly made a mistake.

 

...and that "someone" is the inhabitants of Warrior Earth itself.

 

At some point there was an advanced society with incredible levels of technology that reached that given point far before Primal or Praetorian Earth.  But something happened - a disaster, a war, something - that devastated the planet so thoroughly that centuries later it's reverted to (or only managed to climb back to) a feudal society.  The former civilization's scientific knowledge is just straight-up gone, and what remains is viewed in an almost mythic light.  When you go there, you are visiting a post-apocalyptic world.

 

_{(Oh man if someone points to a contact that's been around since like Issue 4 that lays all of this out for you I'm gonna feel like such an idiot.)}

[PaxArcana]

Similar to "The Books of Swords" - "Old World" technology, even as simple a thing as a flashlight, is viewed as being essentially magic.

[Extor Prime]

They warrior'd themselves into the Stone age. One of the oldest tropes ever.

[Zombie Hustler]

Maybe Warrior Earth is really the same world these folk call home...

 

Edited August 16, 2019 by Zombie Hustler

[Heraclea]

Primal Earth is where Heraclea lives and works.  Warrior Earth is where she goes drinking. 

[Wintercat]

Well, if war destroys infrastructure, you can have all the knowledge in the world and still lack the tools to actually use that knowledge to create advanced tech.

[ajax34i]

Yes, post-apocalyptic world.

 

Food for thought:  it's possible to have Skynet act and exert its control through nanotech rather than macro-sized robots.

[Ideon]

I always used to think Battle Maiden was from Warrior Earth and somehow found her way into Praetorian Earth (aka Praetoria) until her bio was updated to just say her weapon comes from Warrior Earth, haha.