Hum are you sure Lana is the name of the planet ? i really think it's just the character name (Planet OF Lana)

My theory would be that there was never a rogue AI back on earth but it happened during the voyage as they got closer to the new planet. AI back earth was tasked to clean up after the humans and then come and pick them up and bring them back. If they were tasked to kill them why keep them alive in the last part put them in small houses and keep the babies safe and secure. Rogue AI happened closer to the new planet and the ship carring the humans crashed(last captain seems to be AI and ship dissapears before landing and the state of the ship + skeletons). It created the agresive black semi robotic boar , spider animal like creatures you see and control.

Ship was only destroying the agresive ai animals , keeping the humans and babies safe

Originally posted by Capa:

Hum are you sure Lana is the name of the planet ? i really think it's just the character name (Planet OF Lana)

The planet's name is Novo. This isn't mentioned anywhere in-game, but if you read the news posts, it gets thrown around from time to time.

Originally posted by Capa:

Hum are you sure Lana is the name of the planet ? i really think it's just the character name (Planet OF Lana)

She ends up controlling animals & robots by the end of the game, thus the name 'Planet of Lana', therefore making it her name.

I actually thought that AI was not a bad guy really, he collected all those people, fed them, cared for the children. And even when our cat like friend was caught, it wasn't killed, just isolated in the box. On that image that you get when you collect all the secret shrines, we can see robot, cat like creature and human standing peacefully together and looking at the distant star (probably the planet where the mothership crash landed at the end?)

Originally posted by • Shockwave •:

I actually thought that AI was not a bad guy really, he collected all those people, fed them, cared for the children. And even when our cat like friend was caught, it wasn't killed, just isolated in the box. On that image that you get when you collect all the secret shrines, we can see robot, cat like creature and human standing peacefully together and looking at the distant star (probably the planet where the mothership crash landed at the end?)

To me, it looked like those "rooms" were prison cells. To what end or purpose, it's left unsaid. My guess why Mui wasn't killed is because it was an AI Robot and thus couldn't be squashed into that goo they fed our people with (inside those pods there was a dispenser with green goo).

Originally posted by DeLindsay:

At some point the AI started a War with us and try as we might to fight back, we failed. Our last attempt to save our species was to leave the Planet in search of a new home, away from the revolting AI.

Did I miss something, what implies that humans failed and left the planet?
It seemed to me that it was the home planet for the humans who created the AI, but decided it was bad and turned it off to live more simple life, but some of the robots got away, regrouped and attacked to imprison the humans. The new generation of kids grew up without knowing that their grandparents were high tech people. Kind of hints that we should spend more time with our grandparents before they die, as they might have interesting things to tell us that could be lost in time.

Originally posted by Xakurinha32:

Originally posted by Capa:

Hum are you sure Lana is the name of the planet ? i really think it's just the character name (Planet OF Lana)

She ends up controlling animals & robots by the end of the game, thus the name 'Planet of Lana', therefore making it her name.

Yes, the name of the planet didn't become Lana either, the name of the planet became "Planet of Lana". It's same as Lana's planet, but since planet is not a living being, "of" is used instead. Opposite case, it would be Lana's pet, not "pet of Lana".

is it possible that mui was originally behind the whole invasion by being a tracker since hes a robot/ AI?

My theory is that both robots and humans were victims.

Once, on "Earth" as we know it, humans were living in harmony with robots and cats (Mui), until they discovered a new planet (the game's setting) and decided to leave.

They built a spaceship (with a giant baby on board, I'm not sure if this is symbolic or what), created an AI to protect (or guide) them on the long journey between Earth and the colony planet, and set off for the planet.

The journey is fine, cats, robots, and humans all go along without complaint, until something goes horribly wrong in orbit around their destination planet, resulting in multiple casualties, and the passengers escape to their destination planet in escape pods (the robots take care of the humans who remained on the ship and presumably meet their fate along with them).

And, as a common sci-fi cliché, the surviving humanity forgot about science and technology and lived in harmony with the planet's nature, and the spaceship, the robots, and the Earth are completely forgotten.

By the way, remember the artificial intelligence I mentioned earlier, the one that was guarding the way between Earth and the destination planet? Yes, that A.I. is surprised to find out in the later years (maybe decades or centuries) that there was a big accident with the human spacecraft it was protecting, and that they were living in barbarism in a threatening environment.

AI may have temporarily put humanity in a "prison" to make the planet more hospitable to life as originally programmed.

Or maybe the AI started blaming itself so much for the ship's accident that it developed PTSD and became obsessively and twistedly convinced that "I the AI need to bring every humantiy on this planet back to my 'shelter' I created to keep humanity safe."

@Sisu that's certainly an interesting theory.

The AI was essentially trying to protect the humans.
It was literally 'Save all the humans' taken to the logical extreme.

Is this the same AI that came with the crashed colony ship? I don't think so. They were probably dispatched from Earth after receiving a distress signal from (or losing contact with) the colony ship 70+ years ago when it crashed. We see the AI making planetfall just as the game starts.

The long journey to Novus probably screwed up the AI's programming, so when Lana and Mui rebooted it, it could think clearly again and realised it screwed up.

That's my take.

What about the music notes and colors blinking by the giant ball to control the machines?
I found somewhat similar to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie where humans tried to communicate with aliens by music notes and colors. So Novo's people did it but there was something gone wrong with song notes and colors and war with machines started.
In fact, at certain point of gameplay, you have to make correct sequence of music notes to make the robot ridable (make friendly).

Originally posted by manny_gt:

What about the music notes and colors blinking by the giant ball to control the machines?
I found somewhat similar to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie where humans tried to communicate with aliens by music notes and colors. So Novo's people did it but there was something gone wrong with song notes and colors and war with machines started.
In fact, at certain point of gameplay, you have to make correct sequence of music notes to make the robot ridable (make friendly).

The old man just knew that there is sequence for the factory reset :P

The robots also do not seem wholly evil. They captured humans but they put them in somewhat comfortable rooms with food supply. I wonder if simply there were somethinb back on earth and they wanted to bring humans back, but in good conditions. The only things the robot exterminated without prejudices were monsters.

So my take is that if Lana simply went on with the robots in the end they would have had a better life back on earth or in space, or something like that.

In general, i get the feeling that humans were not to be used as food or slaves, the rooms they were put into are not slave's, arguably they were better than the homes they lived in while "free".

The only discrepancy is the lethal force against lana, but i would just ascibe that to "gameplay reasons".

Originally posted by Skree:

The robots also do not seem wholly evil. They captured humans but they put them in somewhat comfortable rooms with food supply. I wonder if simply there were somethinb back on earth and they wanted to bring humans back, but in good conditions. The only things the robot exterminated without prejudices were monsters.

So my take is that if Lana simply went on with the robots in the end they would have had a better life back on earth or in space, or something like that.

In general, i get the feeling that humans were not to be used as food or slaves, the rooms they were put into are not slave's, arguably they were better than the homes they lived in while "free".

The only discrepancy is the lethal force against lana, but i would just ascibe that to "gameplay reasons".

We also don't even know if that was "lethal" force. It could have just been some crazy shock/stun weapons. If it knocks someone out cold so fast that they faceplant into the ground, we'd have no way of knowing if it killed or not.