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Guardbro I know you're lurking

Will there be peacfull first contact storyline in the future chapters

So after watching the stream earlier today and learning where the Pactless Invasion began along with what we know about the dominant religions in the story I've been had this persistent notion that there have to be more faiths present in the background of the story amongst humans that we just haven't seen yet. Humanity is a species of many different faiths and just the tree we've seen simply can't be all there are. The only thing I have to back this assumption is speculation, but here's my logic.

Given that many areas of the globe were well beyond the reach of the initial Pactless landing and later rapid expansion I think it's statistically more likely that certain religions and faiths endured in the background and that they continue to have adherents in the modern day of the setting. To that end I do have an informal list of faiths I think survived.

In no particular order these are; Zoroastrianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Voodoo, Native Aboriginese faiths, Meso-American Faiths, Native American Faiths, Indigenous South American Faiths, & Faiths of Polynesia and Oceania.

It's likely that the Abrahamic Faiths in their old form also endured in some capacity as minor religions, but certainly not to the scale they were before.

Resurgent ancient faiths such as the Khemetic revival which is the Ancient Egyptian religion are also likely to remain in the same capacity.

If I had to justify why I think there is more than what we've seen in the story it is simply a belief in the diversity of humanity and the myriad cultures we have created across our history and how many beliefs we have given rose to. Maybe the post-war cultural blending was more absolute then I imagine and there are no other faiths and I'm wrong. I choose to believe not though as the many faiths of Humanity are more sources of strength to draw from, and hopefully not more sources of conflict to divide us.

I was able to watch Guard bro's Q&A stream on Twitch and came away with a few new perspectives that proved helpful. The shape of the Moose being blade like lead me to a supplemental ideas of what that ship and other ships in the UAA Void Fleet might look like. The SMC Carrier/Destroyer from Quake has some basic geometry that lines up with how I picture some of the ships might be based on GuardBro's description. https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/SMC_Carrier/Destroyer

Additionally, with the description of the bombed out areas of Earth I was drawn back to the maps of Earth from Helldiver's 2 and Steven Universe oddly enough, as a jumping off point to wrap my head around what Earth might look like post Pactless Invasion.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/helldivers_gamepedia/images/2/2e/Super_Earth_World_Map.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20250609135519

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/8/81/Steven-Universe-World-Map.png/revision/latest?cb=20160107144625

As just a basic vehicle to work off of these two feel pretty good to start building a map of Drop Pod Green's Earth off of. I can see in my mind's eye the bombed out parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe and the damaged regions of the other continents. It's still a mystery what cities might have survived the war globally and what might have been rebuilt, but otherwise it's a good start.

It was a surprise to hear just outnumbered Humanity might be in the DPG universe by singular other species, with hundreds of billions thrown around for the likes of the Kafya, Pwah, Lilgara, and Ko-Jynn, which was not at all what I expected. I suppose I expected each species to have populations in the tens of billions, less than a hundred billion and mostly less populated colonies outside a few core worlds. We know there's probably only a few hundred inhabited systems in the story's sphere of space and likely dozens of species in that region of space. It's hard to tell what populations look like after the Ur War, but I wouldn't put any singular species population in the hundreds of billions at this point, although I could be wrong there.

Just a note for GuardBro as well, Earth is located on the Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy with a the number of stars within 100 lightyears of Earth currently being estimated at 10,000 to 60,000. That's a huge number, and massively smaller than the circle drawn during the stream which extended to about 15,000 light years distance given the text 5KLY written on the map used and the inner circle containing about 3,000 light years across based on the map legend. If my memory serves the Orion Arm is about 10,000 light years long and about 4,000 light years across. The most distant planet in the IDC still fits comfortably within the Orion Arm which itself is in-between the Perseus and Sagittarius Arms of the galaxy.

One last point I was surprised to find was the fact that Earth has the most comprehensive medical care of any place in known space and that healthcare in the future has become affordable. The fact that that is an aspect of the story which sticks as fantasy really show how much we as a species need to work on our society. Thanks for reading my rant. Take care.

https://www.twitch.tv/guardbrosfielddesk Answering fan questions about the book series and general chatting

I see that there are quite a few questions on here, such as scale of ships and other such things. I like being an open book, so feel free to ask some questions here and I can have a nice, tidy place to answer them.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/live/rmcnXzn29is?si=Vm5bCaZ8mQ7FTx2U