Talk:Lore

Skip psycasts and technology use wormholes. Wormholes are *not* FTL. They are slower-than-light travel along a spacetime geodesic that changes the distance travelled. While a wormhole can be used to arrive at a given location before light would, and can create causality problems, they do not constitute a method of faster than light travel, and no uses depicted in the game of Rimworld constitute what's called a "Roman time machine", or causality-breaking series of wormholes.

2A02:C7C:304B:4700:A139:F63C:9FCD:4A83 02:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

i noticed that during an edit on June 30th of 2024, Earth was marked as being a Ruinworld. when previously its status was marked as unknown. However, the citation used doesn't contain the name of any game XML. it only contains a red placeholder text.

Its from the book text generation code.

thanks for the quick reply! is that in the C# source code in the Source Folder, or somewhere else? i think it'd be helpful to update the footnote to mention that information is from RNG'd in-game books / the book generation code.

Last I checked (and iirc) the info for book generation is spread over a couple of .xmls.

But also its not strictly RNG - while whether a given book refers to the planet and its current status is random, if a book refers to the detail of a planet mentioned on the page, the detail should be consistent across playthrough. So Earth won't be a ruinworld in books in some playthroughs and an urbworld in books in another playthrough

It Says Subpersonae can't pass the Turing test, which irl has already happened, but I don't believe that we have great philosophy AI yet like Personae.

It says extended, and while they can pass short turing tests, talking to even current top tier LLMs will eventually lead to inconsistencies. Putting aside whether we can expect game lore to accurately reflect/predict reality, I'd say were still very much in the subpersona area and theres still a ways off general AI like personae.

It could easily just be the psycaster moving at or very close to the speed of light. So acting like it’s existence proves FTL’s existence doesn’t seem accurate.

No it can't be. Thats the point. From the reference frame of either the psycaster or the planet, its exceeding the speed of light to move the stellar core material as far as it does, as fast as it does. It doesn't even matter if the psycaster is themself somehow going a significant fraction of c (which theres no evidence for the situation discussed in the section that says its FTL anyway). Its the classic "you're in a car going 99.99% of c and turn on the headlights" - you still see the light move away from you at the speed of light relative to your position.

I mean, there are several ways to explain the speed of solar pinhole other than FTL. The gateway between the star and the planet might be already existing, and the psychast only moves the entrance and opens it, or the archeotech the psycaster is connected to already knows when and where will the pinhole will be used and prepares in advance, and probably 20 other explanations other than ftl, even without going for the obvious "the description must be incorrect" explanation.