Golden Girl

This is an update from the beta - in the later part of the new 1-19 content, Galaxy City is described as undergoing rebuilding, and there's also a mission map that uses a mix of the old zone map, along with the new ruins from the tutorial.

These screenshots have been taken from angles that hide what's going on in the actual mission:











So while the destruction looks pretty catastrophic, some parts of the old zone seem to have survived:











So it looks like the devs might be planning to repurpose the zone into something for to be used at a higher level - possibly even a co-op zone.
There's almost a bit of a Bloody Bay set up forming there - there's a devestated urban area with Shivans still lurking near their meteorites, as well as an Arachnos and Longbow presence - and if you throw in a rescontruction effort like in Faultline, plus the huge amount of items that must have been lost from the M.A.G.I. vault that both Heroes and Villains would want to get hold of, and there's a lot of story potential for a semi-ruined/half-rebuilt Galaxy City co-op zone.

Something else that might give a clue as to just how powerful the Batalion are going to be is that the 3 enhanced Goliath War Walkers on the Undergorund Trial are level 54+1 - so already the "lesser" threat of Tyrant and the loyalists is starting to throw a few level shifted enemies at us.

And putting that together with what Second Measue said in the February producer's letter:

On her First Ward arc, Vanessa gives a neat little bit of foreshadowing:

Some more stuff related to the subject - Vanessa DeVore's updated bio from first Ward:

My answer is "nothing"

It's I21!

Prometheus says the well is being "directed" - but so far, he's not told us anything more than that.

I love the way that completing each Trial gets Prometheus to give us more info - and it also ties into one of my favorite things about the Incanrate system and storyline in general - the way it's broken the security of the 1-50 game.

Before Incarnates, there was a 1-50 story framework for the whole game - even if there wasn't that much endgame content, there was actually an "end" to the game - once you'd hit 50 and run all the arcs and TFs, you'd experienced the full story, from the streets of Outbreak to the portals on Peregrine Island, and while there might be new TFs for 50s from time to time, or new lower level content you could exemplar for, the basic 1-50 story framework remained the same.
But now the Incarnate system and storyline has broken that up - it's gone beyond the 1-50 framework, so we don't have that to put it in context - we can't say "this or that won't or will happen because this or that is the game situation at 50, so it has to sync up with that" - by going beyond 50, the devs aren't required to tie up lose ends and plot threads to make sure they flow into the higher level content, because this is the higher level content - lose ends and plot threads just progress into new stories.
For example, they've just killed off the Praetorian Vanessa DeVore, and Desdemona has taken her mask - but we have no idea where that will lead us, because there's no higher level content to put it in context for us - because it goes beyond the 1-50 framework, there's no limit to where the story can take us - it's like a constant rolling expansion of the game world and lore.

In the Cohverse, I think Paragon replaces NYC in world importance.

I wonder if the Battalion will set up a forward base/staging ground on the moon?

But you don't spend your whole time fighting

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