Core saves us from the Swarm.
Kill Swarm for 5 hours straight.
OOO releases new accessories :D

The Alpha Squad is enjoying pizza and Coca-Cola down at the core. Screw the Skylark.

Oh yes, spiral spy, did i mention there is also shroom cap model in there?

There's a lot that can be done even after the core opens, Asuka, so the doomsaying I see in every single post of yours is grating on my nerves. Especially now with the mission system. Cut some slack, better to have awesome content later than crappy content now.

From what we have learned is that the Clockworks operate as the tumblers for massive safe that is the core. Prisons aren't always designed to keep bad things locked away but things too dangerous locked away. By sealing off the Core, it may have been a last ditch effort to prevent the Swarm from acquiring something potentially equivalent to a world ender. Also, if you listened to the conversations you've had with the other knights while you are on missions you will learned the crash may not have been an accident but a distress call from the Core. We were pulled down b/c the Swarm has become too dangerous and now threatens the Core itself. The Sanctuary speaks to us that the planet feels threatened that the Swarm will swallow all of the planet if it is not stopped. So our actual goal is to unlock the Core to gain the necessary power to stop the Swarm. To do so, we need to find the correct combination for clockwork levels to unlock that massive safe. We just gotta find it. What follows after depends on what we find in the core. My guess, we find some kind of god-like being who radiates energy from his being (as the opposite to that of the Swarm's demonic-like form). We end up fighting the source of the Swarm in some super battle where this being gives us practically auto revive (since he just is radiating pure energy) and win but of course the enemy has no truly true form and creeps away into the corners of the clockworks and we continue our never ending battle with it. This is all speculative of course.

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You know how cradle is built from patches of different worlds?

The planet will simply grow bigger and bigger while absorbing more worlds to proetct itself and make the gap between the core and haven bigger and bigger making for easy excuses to keep playing in a never ending game -Until it aquires enough mass to collapse itself and crush everything.

The End.

please please pleeaaaase let the future story/path to the Core involve the Arcade/Clockworks gates and not the missions system.

Opening the core will be a mistake.

Why?

Think Dead Space.

Or Halo (The Flood specifically)

*warning SPOILERS on all the Shadow Lair modules*
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/33444

there was a similar thread. some of the feedback was quite interesting.

I think i'll stick with theory = Core houses God or Godlike creature within who doubles as the power source for clockworks.

well maybe after we get inside the core, its a whole new world, like more realistic, and less chibi like characters?, or the elevators were just short-cuts so that we wouldnt have to spend a lot of time trying to connect each elevator to another, but when we get inside the core, there is a core inside the core(coreception?) but the way to the core inside the core is not yet discovered so we would have to make a way, and when we get to the core we could also have different characters,mobs,npcs,accesories,,armors(like head,body,legs,boots,gloves.stuff like in RPG) but still keeping the great gameplay system or changing it a bit and more bosses and quests and pets not the ones that are just for showing off but pets that give you advantages in-game like a love puppy healing you, or a gun puppy giving you firing support (they could be floating around?) and some other types of mobs giving you all sorts of advantages, and probably even pets that boost def, atk, and stuff, and when in the core more places, like the market(for trading purposes specifically),pub(for in game quests instead of the mission hub) and an area to go to for pvp and a map! :D a map for different types of elements and mobs with each zone for a specific type of monsters(they can probably disregard this one) and a bigger haven or probably even upgrade it to a colony :D

IMO, they just wont release the core because of the obvious story-wise dead-end. If they do, they may do more stuff on the surface, they still have to do all of the Nine + Trinkzar (Except, of course, Seerus).

Well with the way things are going, the core DLC will be about $19.95. What do you get? A core crest, a new recon module, and boxes with a chance to get previously rare accessories but will most likely end up being confetti and a UV ticket.

On a more seerus note, there have been countless amounts of threads discussing this and discussing the "story" behind Cradle. We have no real way of telling what is in there, so only time will tell.