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I strongly disagree about BO2 maps not being planned all along. I'm quite sure everything in terms of the story was planned from the get go, from Tranzit to Buried. There's just too many consistencies to think otherwise. Back in WAW and BO, the story was all over the place and filled with inconsistencies. WAW wasn't planned at all as far as story goes. BO was planned to an extent, but it still felt like they were sort of playing it by ear. Every map had a variety of quotes that weren't fully consistent with the overall story. But in BO2, the story is extremely consistent. The radios, the Easter Eggs, Maxis diary, they all centered around the main storyline: activating spires so either Maxis or Richtofen could use the power to accomplish a goal. The spires were crucial to the storyline of BO2 Zombies, if they weren't activated neither Maxis or Richtofen could accomplish their goals. Maxis and Richtofen were trying to create Global Polarization Devices that could harness the ethereal energy found on Earth. Richtofen has a quote from Die Rise that refers to this energy:"Vital energy flows through all things, living or dead. My power to manipulate these forces is fragile, and limited. That is why is need your help." The spires we built is what harnessed that energy. Also, the three locations that we built spires at were not the three locations that the missiles hit. Die Rise and Buried might be, but we know Tranzit was not. The missle that landed in that region actually struck down in the Nevada Desert. We see it strike at the end of Nuketown Zombies. When the missiles hit, it severed Richtofen's connection with the ethereal energy on Earth (the dam), and he lost a lot of his power as controller. After that Maxis and Richtofen both tried to gain power in Aether via the spires. And that's where the N4 played a crucial role in the story, as pawns for either Maxis or Richtofen. In order to activate the spires, people on Earth would need to help. So Maxis contacted survivors through electronic devices (like Gersch did) and Richtofen contacted people who consumed 115 infected flesh. The N4 played an important role in our story, even though they were just pawns. As for the endings on Buried being anti climatic, that is your opinion. Considering our story in not yet over, I'm perfectly happy with the endings we got. But that's just opinion. The one thing I will agree with you on is that there wasn't much mystery behind the story in BO2. In WAW and BO, there were a lot of gaps in the story that we, the fans, were able to fill in. It lead to a lot of researching and debating theories and it was a blast. But with BO2, the story was planned before hand, and very few holes were left to fill in. It's kind of a good and bad thing. The good thing is we know what our story is, the bad thing is it leaves little to be imagined.

Well first let me just point out we're talking about science fiction, not science. As much as we love using scientific explanations here, this is still a fictional story we're dealing with. Just putting that out there. The purpose of the spires was to redirect ethereal energy from all living beings on Earth to either Maxis or Richtofen in Aether. If we recap from after Moon, Richtofen just entered Aether in Sam's position, and Maxis was already stuck in there. Richtofen has a decent amount of ethereal energy in Aether, and Maxis has none in Aether. Both need more ethereal energy in order to accomplish their goals, and that's what the spires were used for. They acted as conduits that redirected the ethereal energy left on Earth into Maxis or Richtofen in Aether. If Maxis receives the ethereal energy through the spires, he becomes more powerful than Richtofen in Aether and kicks him out. He then uses that same energy to travel back to Origins and break the cycle. If Richtofen recieves the ethereal energy through the spires, he gains even more power in Aether, and is able to take physical form as he pleases. If you helped Richtofen, you doomed the planet. If you helped Maxis, you reset the original events. Do you want me I go into more detail? I can break it down more if you want.

The story from WAW was very basic, and the ideas were general and widespread: Group 935, Element 115, Richtofen, Maxis, Peter, Illuminati. They vaguely touched on a variety of things. The chance that they had the whole zombies story planned out as early as SNN is slim to none. At the earliest, the story was fully developed between WAW and BO. They noticed that people were intrigued by the little background story on the WAW maps, and decided to expand greatly on it in BO. Just look at the progression of the story in BO and BO2. We went from Group 935, 115, and teleportation, to a complex story involving Aether, Agartha, and the cycle among other things. Like I said, I don't necessarily think these bios aren't canon, I just don't think they're that important to the storyline overall.

Those bios were made during WAW, before the developers had any idea the story behind Zombies would take off like it did. The story has gone in a much different direction since WAW, so I wouldn't pay too much attention to those bios. Sure, you could make them fit into the timeline, and the truth is you wouldn't have much trouble making them fit. But in the end they're really just not that important. Plus, I wouldn't base any storyline theories off character bios from a time when the story wasn't even developed yet.

Like others have stated, it's probably just going to be similar to what we saw in BO and BO2 Zombies. Which I'm totally cool with. I'd rather figure out the story myself through researching and brainstorming, than have it all laid out in front of me Campaign-style.

That is exactly what The Giant and BO3 Zombies is: Maxis' plan being enacted in order to stop history from repeating itself. But in typical Zombies fashion, some asshole has to come through the teleporter and ruin everything.

I'm very skeptical about Samantha being the one that caused us going back to Origins. Samantha lost her power when she was kicked out of Aether. Remember the last time we saw Samantha, she was trapped in a physical body unable to do anything about it. If Samantha still had her power, she would have been able to escape Agartha. It's much more likely that Maxis was the one that brought us back to Origins after gaining the power to do so at the end of Buried.

I'm quite sure the spires have served the purpose. If the spires are activated for Richtofen: N4 die at the end of Buried, O3 repeat endless cycle from Origins - Moon, Richtofen rules Earth to the end of time. If the spires are activated for Maxis: N4 die at the end of Buried, Maxis takes control of Aether and goes back to start of cycle at Origins, changes original event and rewrites history.

Did you just say Zombies is not a work of art? HOW DARE YOU! Hahaha Thanks for the explanation. Still seems silly to me that they have to censor stuff when all were doing is killing undead Nazis. But that is he PC world we live in. This reminds of that Family Guy episode where Brian and Stewie are on a bus tour in Germany and the historian just skips over the history from 1939-1945. "They were all on vacation. Punch was served. Check with Poland!"

C'mon now it's not like they're actually praising Nazis in the game. We literally spend the whole game blowing their freakin' heads off. I'd understand the backlash if the hero of the game was a Nazi, but that's not the case. The only Nazis in the game are zombies getting gunned down, and a psychopathic villain. Look at movies like Inglorious Basterds, that are heavy on Nazi symbolism, yet there isn't backlash. And that's because the Nazis are the enemy in the movie, just like they are in the game, and just like they were in real life. It doesn't really matter either way for me I'm not gonna get bent out of shape from it. Besides, Nazis haven't been apart of the zombies storyline for years now.

The unknown blueprint is dated to 1915 and appears to say Richtofen and Maxis on it. It just seems to be referencing that time period, hinting at the upcoming Origins map. It's certainly not a blueprint from Der Riese. I don't think they planned on going back to Der Riese, but it could have some serious story implications. Not to mention a blast to play. Can't wait.

I will tell you personally that this will draw in members to the site. Back in the day, I had a Kino Der Toten Solo Leaderboard that had people signing up on the site literally just to submit their score. That was of course back when BO was still relevant, but the point remains. I'm sure it'd be alot easier to keep the records up to date now too. It was a daunting task keeping that thread updated and formatted correctly in the past, to say the very least. Thanks for the link Infest. I never realized we had those leaderboards to be honest. Are they only accessible through the front page? If we do decide to implement the leaderboards more, we should definitely create a link or drop down menu or something at the top of the page so people can easily find and access them. I'd really love to see this take off.

These look great guys! Don't really understand why "Cerberus" was chosen (lol it's not even a zombie boss), but it just feels like we're splitting hairs at this point. I voted for Announcer because that makes more sense than any of the other options. "Aether God" would seem the most logical name as that's what Samantha, Richtofen, and Maxis became, but again it's splitting hairs. I was gonna make this big deal on how the names aren't technically right, but then I just went on living my life...

Could it be? Do my eyes deceive me? The Legend has returned. My other half is home. And what a shock you haven't missed a beat. Very great read here my old friend. I agree with everything you've got here. There are Black Ops terminal files that support all of this, especially the parts about Nova 6 testing at Der Riese, and Blome and Stiener going to Operation Paperclip and the Ascension Group. If you ever wondered why there are Nova 6 crawlers in American based maps like Five and Moon, this is why. I actually wrote a fairly large thread awhile back that delved into, but it was put on hold. http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/topic/156750-the-lost-threads-group-935-reborn/ It's good to finally have you back in my life.

Welcome to the site Laylah! We're glad to have you. Coincidentally enough, you're the second girl to join today after being recommended by their boyfriend. Hell, if my girl was into Zombies I'd send her here too. Of course, she would first have to exist for that to happen lol. Well you won't be disappointed, you should like it here. The auto response from our staff has a few links to things like or Code of Conduct and tips for posting. If you see someone that's banned, they must have broke the CoC in one way or another. It's not easy to get banned here, and members will get warnings before they are banned. If someone is banned, they've most likely deserved that ban. But don't worry about it. Like I said, it rarely happens so don't fret. The colors indicate a certain type of member Green = Forum Moderator Blue = Donator Yellow = Legend Again welcome! And thanks for taking the time to make an intro and introduce yourself to the community.

Welcome to the site my friend! You've definitely come to the right place if you wanna talk zombies. There's no shortage of members here that could talk about zombies until your head hurts lol. If you have any questions feel free to ask anyone. And don't worry, we were all new at one point. Enjoy your stay!

I really like Eternal's idea about using perk bottles instead of stars. Sounds like it could be pretty badass. The way I see it it would be like 1 star = QR bottle 5 stars = QR, Speed, DT, Jugg and Flopper bottles 10 stars = All perk bottles We could even use the perk symbols instead of perk bottles. There are twelve perks total, so we would have enough to cover them all. Just not sure if we'd be able to put a bunch of different images for each rank. Man, there's so many great ideas going around here! We should definitely get a poll going once we figure out what's possible. Either way, anything's better than those damn stars lol. What is this Modern Warfare?! Hahaha

Hey man I definitely remember your name from the old site. I always like when I see people coming back that I remember from before! Welcome back friend! Shooter

That list looks perfect Rissole, though I'd like to see "Zombie" replace "Sarah Faraday". Lol, I'd guess most of our members don't even know who that is.

Thanks for all the feedback guys! Keep it coming! @Nai Great question. We know from quotes from Black Ops that the souls of the O4 and other characters travel to Aether when they go down or die. This was due to their bodies being exposed to 115. So it's likely to assume this same thing happened at the end of Moon. So the question is why wouldn't Sam go there like the other three? It all really comes down to the relation that Aether's energy and Agartha share. We know from Buried's Easter Egg quotes that Maxis needed full control of Aether's energy to open the gateway to Agartha, so I'd like to assume there's a strong relation between the two. My best guess would be that the energy her soul received while in Aether was still reminiscent when she was killed, and it forced her to a different fate than the others. It's really hard to say, but I'd have to bet it had something to do with the time she spent in Aether. Also, remember that Agartha is not where Sam wants to be. She is trapped there, and apparently scared for her life according to her quotes. I don't think she intended to go there, but was forced there. Still unclear though. @swappingspit Maxis stated goal at the end of Buried was to release Samantha from Agartha, and that Earth and it's people would not survive. It was a side effect, not his intentions. Same for Origins: he went back to free his daughter, with the side effect being he rewrites history. It's always been about his daughter. @mega I understand your theory on branching timelines whe we we go back in time and I don't necessarily disagree. But let's consider how many times we actually go back in time during the Zombies timeline. SNN to DR - forward DR to Ascension - forward Ascension to COTD - forward COTD to SL - unknown SL to Moon - unknown Moon to Tranzit - forward Tranzit to Die Rise - forward Die rise to Buried - forward MOTD - backwards Origins - backwards Throughout Zombies, we have only received quotes from Richtofen about traveling forward in time. Kino, Call of the Dead, Die Rise it's always forward time travel.There is actually one map we do go back in time besides the last two I mentioned, and that's Shangri La. During the events of the Easter Egg, we help Brock and Gary by going back in time and freeing them from the temple. The events we do in the past actual CHANGE our history, helping Brock and Gary escape and allowing Richtofen to then access the Focusing Stone when we return to present day at the end of the eclipse. So I'm not entirely sold that we can't go back to a point on our timeline in the past, make changes, and change history as we know it. There are other hints that we have changed history itself throughout Zombies, like Buried's achievement Revisionist Historian (In Buried, rewrite history). When you throw a Time Bomb down and after a few rounds detonate it, you are brought back to the past to rewrite the history of the last few rounds. As you already know, a paradox will occur whenever we travel back in time. There are many ways of solving a temporal paradox, and branching timelines/realities is one of them, like you stated. But it is not the only viable option. There are also things like Novikov self consistency principle (pre destined timeline) and a corrupted/displaced timeline (aka the butterfly effect) among others. Now I'm not against the idea of a branching timeline being created at the point we go back to 1918, but I do believe this is only a temporary tangent. I personally don't believe both realities can continue to exist. It's a lot similar to what occurs in the Back to the Future movies. When Marty goes back in time to 1955, he accidentally stops his parents from meeting how they did originally. As a result, he and his siblings begin to disappear from existence. Marty eventually gets his parents to kiss before he fades completely, ensuring he is still born. But when he goes back to 1985, there are noticeable changes in the present because of what he had done in the past. I'm more a fan of the Replacement Theory when it comes to our timeline in Zombies. While scientists debate whether fixed time or parallel dimensions better explain time travel, most stories use some variant of Replacement Theory. According to replacement theory, if you travel to the past you arrive in your own past, and what you do within that past may have consequences to your own future and the future of the universe. Thus you can change history and impact your own existence, but the consequence is that you can change history and impact your own existence. Under replacement theory, it is assumed that no one can arrive in the past before he departs from the future, in a sequential sense; and that this sequential sequence is tied in the original history to temporal sequence. This means that there is always an original history, a version of events in which no one and nothing arrives from the future because the future has not yet been reached. The time traveler departing from the future then arrives in the past and alters that original history, in essence erasing it and replacing it with a new version. It just seems more likely that we are able to rewrite history of a fixed timeline based on the in game evidence that supports it. This eliminates a need for alternate timelines or realities. Also, I'm not sold on the idea of Samantha being this omnipotent being that could travel through time once she was removed from Aether. The logic just doesn't make sense. Following the events sequentially, Samantha would never need to go back to 1918 to contact her future father until she was kicked out of Aether and into Agartha by Richtofen. And it was clear that once Samantha was kicked out of Aether and entered Agartha ,she lost the powers she possessed as controller. All this power yet she couldn't escape Agartha? And has for her being able to create this whole other history, I'm not buying it. It goes against everything that the controller of Aether can do. The capabilities of the controller in Aether are clear: they can travel through time and space at will, however they cannot physically alter our world from Aether. They can only influence people on Earth to do their biddings for them, or enter a physical body to do it themselves. I know Samantha was a powerful ruler in Aether, but I don't think anyone in Aether would have the capability. Just goes against a lot of the logic. If Samantha or Maxis could just create history with that power, why wouldn't they have just created a history where none of this stuff never happened. Ultimately, I think Samantha was literally just a Little Lost Girl. This is why I say that Origins occurred originally to an extent. All of these things could not simply be physically created by the Controller, as I don't see how they have that power. As I said in the OP, there are some obvious things we know did not occur the first time, and other things that are very unclear. Determining exactly what's what is going to be the hard part. @Eternal Thanks for the feedback. Randomly enough I've actually read quite a few ideas of yours and like what you have to say. You tend to keep common sense and keeping things simple in mind when delving into the complexity of the storyline. And you've brought up a great point I'll have to consider. thanks again.

Round Tally Marks? Just an idea...

"My name is Samantha, and I'm going to tell you how this all really began." - Samantha Maxis. Origins. My name is Shooter, and I'm going to do my best to tell you what's really going on with Origins and the Zombies storyline. To understand what has happened during Origins and the Zombies timeline, we must first understand Mob of the Dead. As we're all aware, Mob of the Dead is the first time we're introduced to this idea of a cycle in Zombies, and this concept of a cycle is very important. Let's go back to Alcatraz. When we first start the map, the four mobsters are in their cells while Ferguson is patrolling the cell block. The Weasel tricks Ferguson into entering his cell, and after he does Al kills Ferguson. Then the prison is altered to a Hellish new form, zombies start storming the prison, and the four must fight for their lives and build a plane to escape the island. However, while progressing through the Easter Egg on MotD, we learn from Ferguson that what we see in the beginning cut scene did not actually happen. We learn that the plane was never built, Al was murdered that night on New Years Eve 1934, and Ferguson lived a long life and worked at the prison until 1942. So which one was reality? The story told by Ferguson during the Easter Egg is reality. The plane was never built and Al died on the roof. The map we play in is us repeating the cycle of events that night in a state of "Purgatory", ultimately dying in the end and continuously repeating the cycle. So what is the point of doing the Easter Egg if they're just going to end up dead in reality? It is because we are CHANGING the reality of what happened that night when we break the cycle. Through the events of the Easter Egg, we repeat what happened that night to actually rewrite history and the outcome of that night. We went back to the night of Al's death, and instead changed what happens so that history itself plays out differently. Instead of Al dying on the roof and Ferguson living, Al lives and Ferguson dies that night. The original reality has now been rewritten, and time will continue as is. Al goes on to live and publish his comic book that we see in the loading screens. So the point of the "cycle": to go back to a point in time and do things differently than what originally had occured (reality), breaking the cycle of original events and rewriting history as a result. This is what happened with Mob of the Dead. Now let's apply the same logic from MotD to our story and Origins. There is an original reality, and there is us going back to a point in time and doing things differently in order to rewrite history (break the cycle). The original reality is the reality as we know it. Let's take a brief overview: *Note: The date for Moon, NTZ and Tranzit is subject to change. 1918 - Excavation Site 64. Northern France. Group 935 members Maxis and Richtofen lead the investigation for 115 at the Excavation Site. 115 is found and members began to turn. Allies Forces begin to move in on the base. Richtofen leaves with Maxis before capture, O4 never meet. 1933 - MotD occurs. 1935-1939 - Some time during this Samantha is born. 115 testing is done by Maxis and Richtofen, testing of prototype MTD begins. 1939 - Group 935 begins again after receiving funding from Nazi Party. More 115 is acquired and the MTD prototype is completed. 1945 - Samantha and Maxis betrayed by Richtofen at Der Riese. Sam enters pyramid (Aether), Maxis sent to an unknown tunnel. NDU - Der Riese occur. Maxis teleported to Griffin Station by Schuster and Groph so he can get his daughter out of the pyramid. It doesn't work, and Maxis is killed. After he dies, Maxis' soul travels to Aether where he's reunited with Sam. 1963-2012 - Kino through Moon occur. Richtofen travels through time to get the Focusing Stone and Golden Rod in order to take Samantha place in Aether while Samantha tries to stop them. End of Moon - Richtofen takes Sam's place in Aether and now controls the zombies. Tank, Takeo, and Nikolai are killed at Griffin Station, Samantha goes to Agartha and is trapped there. Maxis blows up Earth as a last ditch effort to cut off Richtofen from getting the Earth's ethereal energy and taking full power in Aether. NTZ occurs. This is when the O3's souls travel back to the night this all began, in the Purgatory version of 1918 France. They enter their old bodies and are forced to repeat a cycle of events until something can be changed. Here is a link to a basic timeline with the events (couldn't get the image to post): http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fc2wea&s=8#.Uwlxj8KYaM8 Edit: Hells Warrrior - image fixed As the O3 are repeating the cycle, Richtofen's soul is now in charge of Aether, and can travel forward or backward in time as he chooses. Maxis is left powerless in Aether as his daughter is now gone and he has no one left to help him. Richtofen chooses to go decades forward in time to a point where survivors were emerging from the blast, and was able to get through to Stulinger (because he had been eating zombie flesh aka 115) at Green Run. Maxis also contacts the N4 at the site in Washington. This is where the story splits, and depending on who is helped, their fate, and the story itself, is ultimately set in stone. Richtofen - If all three towers are built for Richtofen, he regains power in Aether and now has the ability to reenter a human body from his position in Aether. With this accomplished Richtofen has all the ethereal energy needed and humanity's fate is sealed. The world is now Richtofen's play thing and Maxis will simply "cease to exist". If Richtofen is helped, the original reality continues and history is written as is, with Richtofen ruling the world for eternity. Maxis - If all three towers are built for Maxis and he receives the energy, he uses it to kick Richtofen out of the controller seat in Aether and take his place. After doing this, he places Richtofen's soul in a zombies body and forces him to live out a well deserved fate. He then uses the newfound energy in Aether to go back to a point in time to 1918 France, where he first learned of the gateway to Agartha and Samantha at Excavation Site 64. If Maxis is helped, we go back to the night of Origins in 1918 in an attempt to free Samantha, and break the cycle of original events and rewrite history. So you see, Origins is simply us going back in time to 1918, to where the O3 have been repeating their cycle, and rewrite the events of that night and break the cycle. Instead of Richtofen escaping with Maxis and the O4 never meeting (ultimately leading to Richtofen taking power), the O4 do meet and Maxis is instead transferred into a drone. This however would have created a paradox. If Maxis rewrites the original history from 1918 on, and doesn't end up in his repalcement body (like the first time) , Samantha would no longer be born in the 1930's. This would also possibly alter the future of the O3 as well. Maxis resolves this by [insert theory here] Haha, not what you expected I know. I am currently bouncing around three different possibilities for how he solved this, and am not set in stone on any as of yet. Below I'll provide one ideas that's been floating around. So there we have it. Origins solved, right? Well not quite. While it answers the main idea of what's going on with Origins, the specifics behind it are much more blurred. The most important thing to focus on is the turning point at which the change occurs from the original 1918 Excavation Site 64 and the Origins 1918 Excavation Site 64. With MotD it was easy to identify the turning point, we saw it right in the opening cutscene. When Al kills Ferguson, the change occurs as the prison is transformed to it's hellish state. The turning point was easy to identify during MotD, unlike Origin's turning point. We are certain that three things did not occur in the original 1918: the O4 meeting, maxis being put into a drone, and Samantha being stuck in Agartha. Everything else is debatable on whether it occured in the original reality or not. Origins' quotes, radios, and notes have provided quite a bit of info on how much actually occured the first time, but again it's still open for debate. Now let's get the discussion going once again. I've got a lot more to touch on! Shooter The ideas for this thread began awhile ago, but it was a recent discussion on the forums that sparked it up again and made me want to write this. For discussion sake I will provide the discussion and the response I was preparing for deciding to write this thread. And the response I was making: Let's reestablish what we're trying to accomplish in Origins: we're trying to free Samantha from Agartha. As we recall, we did not start time traveling and Samantha did not enter Aether (and later Agartha) until 1940-1945, so the original 1918 event did not include Samantha's influence on Maxis whatsoever, we know that. And we also have to remember that Samantha enters Agartha AFTER being kicked out of Aether, so any possibility of her being the one manipulating all of this gone as she no longer had the power to do so. Those are the basics. [tab][/tab]If we go back to Buried, it was actually Maxis himself who had just gained full control of Aether and had the power to manipulate time and space to his advantage. That was the whole reason for all the towers in BO2. To give Maxis the ethereal energy to take Richtofen's position as controller, so he could go back in time to the point where he first learned of the gateway and free Samantha. It is much more likely that it was actually Maxis manipulating things. And as far as there being no evidence from previous maps that the Excavation Site existed, that is true. But there's also a lot to support that 115 and testing of the MTD prototype occurred well before 1939 and Der Riese. If you recall the earliest dated radio (radio 1 from Moon I believe) dated December 4 1939, it mentions that the test they are performing is test 151, suggesting tests with 115 occurred well before Der Riese. Maxis also has a diary that mentions that their MTD tests at the "new site" have been unsuccessful, indicating a previous site had existed before Der Riese in which they were experimenting with 115. Also, consider the blueprint of the 115 Extraction Drill found on the wall in the Laboratory on Origins. This drill is the same one we see in the Nuketown Zombies loading screen in Nevada. Now we all know the Americans had a "large supply of the element at their Nevada base", but we never knew how they acquired the 115. We'll if I had to bet, I'd say the Americans (as a part of the Allies) seized the blueprints after capturing the Excavation Site and built the drill somewhere on the Nevada Test Site. There's certainly some evidence to support than an original 1918 event did occur that involved Maxis, Richtofen, Group 935, 115 and the ancient ruins. Not to mention, it's a much more logical assumption. Is it possible that some random mysterious Aether god manipulated all of this in some alternate dimension for unknown reasons? Sure. But is it not much more logical to think that a majority of these things existed in the original 1918? And that Maxis was simply teleporting back to that point in time just like Mob of the Dead. Infest brings up a great point. If the Germans had such tremendous power with 115, how come they lost the war? 1. The discovery and advancements came too late. Quotes from Richtofen on Origins indicate that many of the machines and devices were still in the prototype stage. Both the tank and giant robots were still in their prototype stage, as indicated by quotes about the tank's overheating problems and robot's problems with the velocity compensators. 2. The ancient evil took over the base, stopping all work from being finished and sent to the front lines.

I'll see if I can provide some basic tips I try to follow when formatting my threads. Avoid using font sizes smaller than the preset size. At most, I would only go one size below the preset. If you want to add contrast to the size of your text, use a larger size. One thing I like to do is use one size smaller than preset for things like quotes and transcripts, and one size larger than preset for the rest of the text. Still adds a noticeable contrast, but doesn't make your text too large or too small. The last thing you want is your readers having to squint to read your thread. Various fonts are a great way to distinguish texts. However, some fonts can be difficult to read. All of the pre loaded fonts from the pull down menu are easy to read. Try playing with the bold and italics on various fonts and see what you come up with. I don't recommend script fonts like comic sans unless you're using the largest size with it. Paragraph length and spacing is vital. A huge cluster of words without any tabs or paragraph breaks will be hard on the eyes, and most people will got lost halfway through it. The most important thing to remember about this is that a paragraph on a computer and on a mobile device look completely different. A short paragraph on the computer will translate to a medium or large paragraph on a mobile device. Adjust for this by making paragraph breaks more often than not. Just some things that came to mind.

Sorry Tasers I just saw this post today. I'll try and take a look at the the thread and see if I can get it working again. I may also add some more info on the Ethereal Energy presented in BO2, as it all correlates. Let me see what I can do. @galaxygraber The quote is in reference to the cycle that the O4 have been going through during Origins. They've been stuck there for a long time, forced to repeat the night in 1918 France. Same thing as MotD to an extent. I've got a thread I've been working on that I can hopefully post tonight or tomorrow that explains it all. Keep an eye out for it.

Juicy brains have been rewarded to you my friend. I'll be reading through the Origins quotes tonight :)