What about those noobs in the Rescue Camp? They'll get slaughtered by Chromalisks, because the pros are too busy exploring an alternate pocket dimension.

At least you didn't do a typical yay we fly away thing, as that would make no sense whatsoever since there would still be peeps stuck on Cradle and some off it with no viable means to return and such.

All right, I just ate some coffee. Yes, I ate some. Ready to argue:

If we did decide to explore that alternate pocket dimension, I think we'd first go and, you know, SAVE ISORA? That place where all the knights are all "OmgitssocoolHavenisnotnearlyasawesome". And I don't think they'd place shenanigans in some random derp place ahead of preventing the obliteration of their home.

Don't forget how much work this is causing the devs. They'd have to invent new enemies, not just take models of previous things. They'd need new weapons, and all that stuff. If OOO had its way, it would have an enormous dev team, and probably a heck lot more of lore and missions and enemies and expansion missions.

TL, DR: Shut up. You're too lazy to read about 3 full paragraphs of stuff?

We aren't just powerless anymore, we don't have our Skylark. Even if we reached the core, it's not like it's pure crystal energy that we can mine. If it was a giant orb of alchemy, we'd still need two more to alchemize our ship back.

If we can mine the core, then it will take many teams many trips to bring back the energy. To be honest, if we get some core content, I can imagine something else is keeping us grounded.

It may not mean the end of SK if OOO continues on back to the Morai War on Isora.

We may play through that as well

Spectre-Nova salutes.

plot line way: the main objective change and so we need a new plot. besides, our lore (well, the way you need to get through to know it) is already quite long.
game structure way: the game is structured on an ever shifting world. we explore, we gather info on our lost comrades, but all in a world that is changing constantly. going to another world would mess all this up. the "other worlds" levels would be (for programming's sake) only replicas of what we have on cradle. well, maybe it's the other way round.
LD way: all the LDers will just not care cause LD.
casual gamer way: some players just think of finishing a game and hop to the next one cause of the "I've played it all" factor. with unfinished lore and more content to come, it's not the case. it's better to stay that way so we may tra- I mean, make more players stay here.
(I don't know how to describe this) way: even if we go to other worlds, OOO won't be able to keep up with the community's hunger for moar levels. it's better to stay on things you have worked on than go and make things appear like that.

The core is a trap, we open it, the swarm infected Alpha Squad immediately comes out, kills us, and infects us with the swarm, bringing us back to life, and swallowing us up in the core. Waiting, watching, for the next batch of fools who tries to open it.

Run-on sentences are also fun.

Hmm. But portals are so cliche! Take a look at Stargate, Portal, Portal 2, and so on. There's so many portal things it's getting plain ridiculous.

Although, we could have the Core being an energy COLLECTOR, meaning that it'll gradually give us the Energy we need to return to Isora. This would:

-Give the Devs more time to design and such.
-Not have a plot hole with some knights on Isora and others in the Rescue Camp
-Not introduce anything drastic, like a new entire setting.
-Explain how the Clockworks have been running for so long.

You get my point.

Of course, everyone is curious as to what is inside the Core, but once we know, the mystery factor is gone and all the imaginative games are done. I think I prefer speculation in this case c:

- Araliaggtwo :3

I remember someone had a thread about post-core stuff that involved Isora, the Morai, portals, shuttling back and forth between Cradle and Isora, 6*+ weapons that barely worked on cradle while 5*- weapons barely worked on Isora, and a bunch of other stuff... but I have absolutely no idea where it is. Anyone want to find that for me? :3

hex, wut?

It opened for Alpha Squad, and that's why we have a plot.
And what about that final depth in the Shroud of the Apocrea mission at depth 30?

sorry hex, I still think the sanctuary is right outside it.

Explain why the sanctuary is a giant glowing white skydome and the core door has got bright white light seeping out of it?
Or why the infectuous swarm that seems everywhere else in the whole run isn't in the Sanctuary?

Maaayyybe, for the Apocrea last floor, it is a seperate dimension of the Core. Basically we accessed the Core, but not the Core of the Core.

A final boss is even more cliche! If they add that it'll be something like:

RawrrawrIcreatedtheSwarmrawrIrealizedIhadtostopitrawryoupayforitrawrrawrbluhbluhhugefemaledogohnoIusemyfinalformwaitIdiedanyhowI'msorryIfailedyou[insertsomethinghere].

@Thunder-The-Bright
the sanctuary is close to the core enough to get great light

Nope, the area surrounding the core is very dark. Even more so once the swarm has escaped.

I haven't been in an SL yet, but I have seen videos and screenshots of the background and it seems convex, not concave

The sanctuary is just the inside of a reskinned Skydome. Video from the wiki page

that would be incredibly silly cause the core's core would be the size of a single skydrome

Are you not familiar with alternate dimension physics? Different dimensions don't have directly linked space-time so paralell areas can be of different sizes and can travel through space-time at different speeds. Darnath Lysander was aboard a ship that got lost in the immaterium. When he emerged a thousand years later, he hadn't aged.

Actually, I think we all misunderstood eachother.

@Annilaton
Maaayyybe, for the Apocrea last floor, it is a seperate dimension of the Core. Basically we accessed the Core, but not the Core of the Core.

Yes, it's already established that the Apocreans come from a dimension knitted together using stones created from the souls of their victims. Everything about them screams otherworldly. Even they scream "otherworldly".

If you're meaning in a physical sense, I don't get what you mean by "the core of the core".

all right then. I have changed theory.
basically, cradle:planet = core:realities
I'll explain.
Cradle is built from many planet's surfaces. it's a rip-off of the core. the core is a contact point between realities. this would explain many things: the devilites were brought here by going into the core; kats being here too for the same reason, and a random pulse from their dimension brings black kats back; in one of the conversations with kora, he says that FSC just popped out of the core; the apocrea have their last depth at d30, ect.
still want a straight up finish when the game ends though. not another "your princess is in another castle".