Shadow's theory is better, IMO.

It's pronounced "nuclear".

Nuclear stuffs do not exist on Cradle. At worst, it's 100000000000000000000000000000000 BABs compressed into a small ball, which will probably result in a black hole.

It is 5 blast cubes. Comparing that with a bajillion BABs, 100 trojans, Vog Cubs, and Vog himself, that is a large difference.

It wouldn't be the first game with a sentient nuclear thing. Go google Okuu.

lol, that'd be an epic crossover. A snipe that ate the sun?

In my opinion, its some kind of deity inside a huge metal protection that passed through different worlds taking chunks off of them with some kind of gravity power (like the one it used to pull the skylark). the chunks were then incorporated to the planets structure by either gremlins (since weve seen them repairing skydomes) or by the deity itself (possible worlds- planet where almire came from, some modern devil-run planet where only the administrative section was sucked in, a beastly planet and some place possibly still nearby, since lichens still arrive on meteors, where slimes have a monarchy)till it developed some kind of virus (swarm) and was forced into hiding in the core.
Or it was trapped in the core by pissed off gremlins from gremlinland god knows how.
idk.

From what I've managed to put together, the Clockworks were constructed to protect a powerful, benevolent entity that resides within the Core. This is the same entity that saved the Alpha Squad in their descent into Cradle, and granted players access to the Sanctuary.

Some long years ago, this creature made a pact with the Gremlin King Tinkinzar (the so-called "Architect") to save itself from a dark cosmic forces. In return for allowing the Gremlins to use its body as an unlimited source of Energy for their machinery, the entity was given sanction and hidden away at the center of Cradle. The planet itself was to be devised as a mechanical labyrinth to repel any force that might enter, while entire worlds were drawn in from the stars to shield the entity.

Tinkinzar went mad, turned the Clockworks into a death trap and caged the creature. The darkness then found its way into the lower levels of the planet and manifested itself as the Swarm we know and fear today.

Oh...and then the Knights showed up. That's pretty much all we know; everything else is up for grabs.

Then...isn't he technically in charge of the Forge system, then?

lol

Have you wondered where radioactive gas gets pumped into? Where the coolant systems are installed, and where the excess heat is vented to? And where surcharge of electricity are redirected to? Living in a self-automated power plan(e)t, logical lore is logical.

"If this is a star, there would be very little radiation. People should really educate themselves more about nuclear energy before commenting on it."

Depends on what you consider radiation or 'very little'. UV rays or just the light itself is a type of radiation.
And considering how bright it is today here, the sun is surely emiting lots of radiation!

Educate yourself here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation#Non-ionizing_radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight

I think it was pretty obvious from the context of that conversation that they were talking about nuclear radiation, not radiation as a broad term.

That said depending on the star, gamma and x ray radiation is also created which can be pretty nasty to have to deal with. But it is true, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a star without protection from the UV either, I've gotten more than my fair share of uv burns just from welding and they certainly aren't pleasant (and it only take about 5-10 seconds of exposure to burn you pretty good, arc eye is also pretty unfun to deal with)

I don't believe it is a star though, because then we'd have the huge gravity to contend with as well.

As far as OOO lore being "messsed up", that's an easy one to explain and stay with the lore depending on how they do it, the core opened up, whatever energy contained within it comes out more easily thus taking away the need for our armor suits to absorb mist energy from the air. Or core has a powerful energy signature inside of it, who's to say the core itself isn't also consuming a huge amount of energy just to keep whatever is inside of it inside of it? Once it's open all that energy could in theory be freed up. (what I mean is maybe there is little energy near the core because it is literally sucking it all up before the knights can use it)

Open core.....a fat bloogato that emits blue light standing there playing poker with the swarm.