Okay seriously devs? Just come right out and say you're going to revamp the Shadow Shard and I wont throw these bricks I carved "revamp the stinking Shadow Shard already" into through your windows.
Didn't Posi say that the were not going to revamp the Shards? Something about putting the effort into new zones.
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Didn't Posi say that the were not going to revamp the Shards? Something about putting the effort into new zones.
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*KERRRRRRASSSSSSH!!!!!!!!!* *picks up new brick*. Come on devs. I would really hate to ruin your break room. I think I could even hit the coffee machine from here.
The Coming Storm is accessible through the City Vault by way of the COP.
The coming storm is just the little rainstorm that's going to happen, because we've had a 5-year drought in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles so far. Meteorologists and psychics have prophesized about it for years.
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You think DE is bad now wait till they get rain that doesn't burn or freeze them!
Yep, my guess is it has something to do with Rularuu as well. Aside from the clues others have mentioned, there are some cryptic references in the items you need to grab for the Midnight Club history badge. Specifically:
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Hopefully, when you read this, my name is not forgotten. I don't know why that's so important to me. I guess after all I've seen, a part of me is still human. I wonder if the same can be said for my counterpart, Rularuu.
As I used the blade, I shaved off a piece of myself. I am not the same man anymore. I still work among you - looking for answers. But I've also begun searching in the dreamspace for a way to protect you, and the rest of the world, from a fate that grows closer with each passing day. Something is coming and I must find out what it is before it's too late.
I have never been afraid to ask for help. If you remember anything about me, please remember that. But this...this is something I must do on my own. I'm going to try and save the world... again. But by all means, don't let that stop you from trying to save it first.
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As for who the letter writer is, I'm pretty sure it's not Rularuu. He's more interested in causing apocalypses than preventing them. It could be Faathim though, or the Dream Doctor himself.
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Actually it doesn't rain in Paragon City because Nemesis has a weather machine and for some reason hates rain. If I were a more witty man I would make a joke about rusting here, but there you go.
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Mender Lazarus is from 5000 years in the future, and Mender Tesseract is implied to be a CoH version of Khan Noonian Singh. Whatever the Coming Storm is, it will never occur within the lifetime of our heroes/villains. The only way we'll ever encounter it is if Ouroboros acquires a task force that sends the characters to that time.
For all intents and purposes, the Coming Storm is not actually coming in any way that's relevant to our characters.
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Actually, Silos says he is over "one million" years old, he is probably from much farther in the future than 5,000 years. He explicitly states he has "broken" carbon law.
Also, The Coming Storm is in the near future. Silos probably survived the storm and then came back in time. So, it is going to happen within our character's lifetime.
I'm basing most of this off of stuff from the pilgrims introductory arc. Mainly this quote from Mender Silos himself...
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My name is Mender Silos, and I am over one million years old. I come from the future, near the end of time itself. I created Ouroboros so that we could have a centralized location to try and mend the past.
I am sure Lazarus told you about the Carbon Law, and the tethers we from the future have. Of course, I am far beyond my tether, but this wouldn't be the first law I have broken. I have been planning this for a very, very long time.
This threat... in the near future, I call it the 'coming storm.' Earth will be attacked by it, and will be unable to defend herself due to extenuating circumstances. I plan on changing that. The first step in eliminating this storm is to remove its scouts from a point in your near future. If you would be so kind as to go forward in time and help Mender Lazarus. Once they are defeated, Ouroboros will begin charting the causality wake to determine the outcome upon your time stream.
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A better actress than Halle Berry?
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Perhaps the coming storm is an invasion of Praetorian beings from their universe to the universe of Paragon City.
(Coming Storm = Going Rogue?)
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Spoiler warning.
That might be. But there is a lot of plot threads which casts it into doubt. From the Mendor Silos Introo missions, the Coming Storm uses the Shivans/Meteors as scouts. The Shivans are from space and apparently from the Primal Earth dimension.
So unless one can tie the Shivans to Praetoria, I would discount this theory.
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On a personal level i dont like having a huge number of zones when the playerbase is not that dense that we can get all of them having a healthy player mass, and some of the old zones are really just coat hangers at this point. So my PERSONAL feel is that revamping what we have would be better serving the community than building add ons to be neglected in the future for other new shineys. I mean when faultline was revamped, it may as well have become a new zone, it salvaged a zone that was generally unused and it used an area that already had reasonable connections and space on the map, it just made it usable, and it was an amazing success. now the shard is a good zone already, and the backstory is really a great setup for a story, so the zone could be absolutely freaking amazing with a warwitch style revamp, same with dark astoria and boomtown and crey's folley, and even eden, which tends to be avoided outside of the task force, and lets make abyss/monster island a little more distinct, I mean its freaking monster island, that's godzilla style territory, and all we get are scaled up devouring earth monsters? all of this before we start building another floor of zones
. so lets say i am very on your side of the issue. add more zones when all the zones count.
The Shadow Shard is still the awesomest-looking zone, ever, IMO. They really need to give you a reason to go there other than TFs that nobody wants to do, and which are so long they encourage speeding through rather than pausing to read up on the lore. It's sad, so much potential, totally abandoned because "nobody wants to go there."
Besides, it's got an evil mad god that eats dimensions. How much more epic can you get?
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A better actress than Halle Berry?
*ducks for cover*
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And X-Men movies where the entire cast isn't out of character!
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Official Shivan Backstory
From the outset, the Shivans don't make any sense because they're formed by energy/protoplasm generated by the meteor merging with a human corpse. Unless there's a graveyard under Atlas Plaza, there shouldn't be any Shivans just because a meteor landed.
If we hand-wave around that, then we're left with:
<ul type="square">[*] The Dream Doctor senses Shiva's psychic emanations decades earlier and loses himself while seeking to divine its existence and purpose and a way to defend against it.[*] "Shiva" or one of its cousins/mate is returning to Earth to devour the planet. Most likely explanation is that Team Vishnu did not destroy it, but only succeeded in wounding and disabling it for a time. Alternatively, it died but managed to reproduce beforehand and the offspring is now awakening.[*] Its reawakening disrupts normal gravitational fields in the solar system, causing strange tides and the appearance of odd phenomena in the area of the moon. Whatever physical body Shiva has may be on the moon. [*] The Lost of New Overbrook sense its psychic emanations and welcome it, perhaps worship it.[*] The Heroes of the world are distracted by a concurrent threat from Lord Nemesis^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMender Silos which prevents them from defending against Shiva. Silos more or less admits this, and it explains why the mission to fight the "scouts" in the "near future" is neccesary, given that a meteor landing in Atlas Plaza ought to be drawing the attention of any number of local Heroes already.[*] Terra is consumed by Shiva[*] Mender Silos escapes the destruction of Terra. If Menders from future time streams exist, then clearly other members of humanity also escape and form colonies elsewhere. "Elsewhere" might well mean in other realities rather than on other planets.[*] Mender Silos contrives to somehow live for a million years, long enough to witness Shiva and/or its offspring or siblings consume the entire universe. Rather than having become cynical or pragmatic over the course of a million years, he becomes righteous and founds Ouroboros in the past in an effort to avert the "coming storm" and save the universe. Since he could have just jumped a portal to another universe that didn't have a Shiva, it seems that he's expiating his own guilt though going about it in his typically ruthless fashion.[/list]
Did I leave anything out?
This happens in the "near future" which is sufficiently ambiguous as to be any time at all, given that to a one-million-year-old time traveler, a couple of centuries could be considered the "near future".
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Unless it landed on anyone 
Anyhow, I still think the Coming Storm is a big con job. I think each of the Menders think the Storm they are preventing is something different.
Always remember, we were Heroes.
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Unless there's a graveyard under Atlas Plaza, there shouldn't be any Shivans just because a meteor landed.
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Unless it landed on anyone
Anyhow, I still think the Coming Storm is a big con job. I think each of the Menders think the Storm they are preventing is something different.
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Or....maybe it's ALL OF THEM!!!
Shiva, Rularuu, The 5th, Nemesis, whoever's using Kheldians as rocket fuel, all make their bid for world domination/world destruction either all at once or one right after another (while everyone is still recovering from the last crisis) until the universe implodes in a great big ball of DOOOOOMMMM!!!!
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Each time, you prevent a particular scenario for the coming storm, you change the time stream (that is the idea, after all).
This allows for another menace to come to maturity.
Maybe this new menace then blossoms into a full blown catastrophe that is considered the 'coming storm'.
So, you take care of this particular storm... And allows another scenario to play out and another serie of events to receive the label 'coming storm'.
In this view, each of the Mender is correct and their own particular pet project is/was/will be, the 'coming storm'.
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Unless there's a graveyard under Atlas Plaza, there shouldn't be any Shivans just because a meteor landed.
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Unless it landed on anyone
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Oh noes . . . the biggest costume contest of the year and a meteor wiped them out! Oh, the humanity.
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Shiva, Rularuu, The 5th, Nemesis, whoever's using Kheldians as rocket fuel, all make their bid for world domination/world destruction either all at once or one right after another (while everyone is still recovering from the last crisis) until the universe implodes in a great big ball of DOOOOOMMMM!!!!
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Don't forget the Second Rikti Invasion. Not this namby pamby one we're having now, the one in twenty years that destroyed humanity utterly and chased Holsten Armitage to our time.
I had a piece of fan fic that I ought to finish some day, that had this idea as the foundation. That is, that you could change the nature of the Apocalypse but the Apocalypse itself was inevitable.
If we're really lucky, the "Coming Storm" is nothing but a macguffin explaining the existence of Ouroboros, and it will never actually occur.
If we're not, there is no limit to how badly this could potentially suck.
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I think that Rularuu is the one writing these letters.
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But my biggest guess is that it is Rularuu himself, even if it sounds farfetched.
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Do you realize how big that pen would have to be? Seriously, have you seen the size of Rularuu? He dwarfs Hamidon. In order for him to be writing these letters, he would need both a huge pen and a huge piece of paper. Then he'd have to find a way to shrink it down to fit into a crate. Ooh! Maybe these letters are written on Shrinky-Dinks! That would be AWESOME! I wonder if we'd be able to shrink them further...
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What were we talking about?
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Unless there's a graveyard under Atlas Plaza, there shouldn't be any Shivans just because a meteor landed.
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To be completely honest, there's no way there isn't. The Rikti came and massacred the city and it's defenders, after all. Do regular citizens even have access to the Emergency Medical Transporters? Could they withstand thousands of people being teleported at once for an ongoing period of time? Plus, the Rikti made pushes towards the hospitals once they saw people were making stands there.
To further cite an example.. even before the Rikti came along, Paragon City was a city of heroes. Afterwards, there were EIGHT.
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Shiva, Rularuu, The 5th, Nemesis, whoever's using Kheldians as rocket fuel, all make their bid for world domination/world destruction either all at once or one right after another (while everyone is still recovering from the last crisis) until the universe implodes in a great big ball of DOOOOOMMMM!!!!
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Don't forget the Second Rikti Invasion. Not this namby pamby one we're having now, the one in twenty years that destroyed humanity utterly and chased Holsten Armitage to our time.
I had a piece of fan fic that I ought to finish some day, that had this idea as the foundation. That is, that you could change the nature of the Apocalypse but the Apocalypse itself was
inevitable.
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You wrote Terminator 3?
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Mender Lazarus is from 5000 years in the future, and Mender Tesseract is implied to be a CoH version of Khan Noonian Singh. Whatever the Coming Storm is, it will never occur within the lifetime of our heroes/villains. The only way we'll ever encounter it is if Ouroboros acquires a task force that sends the characters to that time.
For all intents and purposes, the Coming Storm is not actually coming in any way that's relevant to our characters.
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Unless there's time travel involved. My question is what Shiva has to do with this, and when we're going to be getting our ROCKET LAUNCH PADS and EXPANDED STEEL CANYON! D:<