Okay, I thought this through while I was in bed last night and finished it off today. About our current location and the origination of the sphere.
We are on Earth for anyone who thinks we aren't. What tipped me off? Birds and Trees on
this update that look like Birds and Trees here on earth. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think evolution can or will create the exact same creatures twice unless the condition on two worlds are
exactly the same and everything on the two worlds is synchronized
exactly the same. The English language and roman numerals suggests that we are human. The type of stuff we've seen so far indicates that we're in a present-day timeline on earth, just with some robots that don't seem to fit... I'll get to them later.
Now, I've noticed that a lot of the stuff around here is old crap compared to the sphere; that's because the sphere isn't human. When I compared the 14.1 update's image to an image of Messier 81, they looked like the same image, just taken from a different angle. And the ship SOMEHOW has a excellent map of a system in Messier 81. Now, let me remind you that Messier 81 is
12 million light-years away. So unless the ship has freakishly powerful telescopes, I believe it comes from that system in Messier 81.
The ship must've been here on Earth for a long time since we haven't found it up until now. Another thing interesting is the rock Stonehenge on top of the mountain, as seen in update 13.12, seems to be extremely strong, thus it must be an artificial construct. Yet another thing interesting is that, in update 13.12 you can notice that the scientists exclaimed that the weather system on this "rock"(they're likely referring to the plateau we're stuck on right now) is "interesting", meaning that something's unnatural with this plateau. The "interesting" weather system is likely caused by some extremely high technology. Something that—seeing as our scientists seem to have present-day technology—is currently not available to humankind. And once again, another thing interesting is the wood-in-magma—it's not physically possible with normal wood, so the wood must have been constructed from the atoms down.
Now, about the robots. Maybe they came along with the spaceship. They're extremely durable, quite intelligent, and not clunky. Meaning that they were made from quite advanced technology. Now, from my constant reminders above, our scientists don't seem to have this level of technology. So the robots must have either been shipped partially built or not build at all along with the ship, or the robots are just there to be cool because Retro wanted them in the story.
And lastly, the oculoids. I'm not entirely sure where they would've come from, but they're not even remotely close to anything found on Earth. My best guess is that they were the alien's pets and they were put in cryrostatis. I don't know why the aliens that came from the sphere didn't use cryrostatis on themselves if they used them on the oculoids. Maybe instead of putting themselves in cryrostatis they tried to survive on ancient earth? I don't know, go ahead and throw your ideas at me.
Well, what do you guys think? Wrong? Partially wrong? Correct? What have you?