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Originally posted by Krystanova
The understanding I've gleaned on the relation between Rubi-Ka and the Shadowlands is that they were both once one and the same, the location of the Source in the universe. Eventually, a gigantic cataclysm removed the Source from existence in this universe, separating it into the Shadowlands in another dimension, and leaving Rubi-Ka the barren, dead world, removed from the font of life as it was.
As much as I don't like quoting myself (you know, how it's just a fool for a source and all that), but I wanted to emphasize this point in light of something Marius said in
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Originally posted by Marius (RPG Vault)
When "something" happened, this ancient species living on the brink of the universe felt threatened for the first time. As many of their own were mysteriously killed, they started to scan for the cause of this, and quickly saw that Rubi-Ka, the planet where AO takes place, and the Shadowlands had something to do with it. What they found on Rubi-Ka upon closer inspection was not what they expected. In fact, it shocked them. For the first time in thousands of years, they felt fear, and they understood they had to do something about the situation.
This definitely implies that some catastrophe did indeed occur eons ago, a catastrophe so huge that it drew this alien civilization from across the universe. The events that led up to the cataclysm are now of increased importance to the storyline, it seems, because they are the events that brought the aliens in RK's direction (and may be why this thread got rooted, hehe).