miHoYo's new tour Honkai Star Dome Railway, updated to 2 before the arrival of the Spring FestivalVersion 0, the protagonist group who travels in space by train comes to the new planet Pinocone. It is a science fiction city inspired by the American metropolis of the mid-20th century, and uses dreams and memories as the core content of the planet, that is, the real World War I to World War II. Sara hasn't had time to get around yet, and after finishing the main story, she tried some new mechanics and mini-games, and it feels pretty good.
This is the first big update after the open beta of Star Rail, many players are immersed in the main story and looking for treasure chests, playing materials for the new characters drawn, here is a call for Miss Liuying, life experience and dating are really too knife for me. The production team continued the previous style, burying a lot of stalks and stories in the map, and the three sub-plots of Emperor Salesman and Galaxy Star all made NPCs flesh and blood, which attracted me more than the characters in the main story. Among them, the side quest "The Sea of Trees Returns to Mi Ning" made Sara feel extremely shocked.
I even think this is the best game plot content since the launch of the Star Railway, about 30 minutes of running pictures and dialogues, but it shows the conflict between human nature and technology. Sara thought she was a pineapple head when she played Script Kill, and since Xingtie launched the service in April 2023, there are only 4 plots that touch me the most.
The space station's dimming star branch, the girl is trapped in a distant time and space due to an unprovoked disaster, the boy thinks the girl has given up this relationship, should we trick the boy into ending the lovesickness, or tell him the cruel truth to make him wait.
In order to develop an immunization drug for wind and snow, Natasha's brother used patients in the lower city as test subjects, and deceived those poor people as doctors, but this madness is also the last hope of the poor. Although the experimental process led to some misfortune, his medicine did work, and he eventually froze to death in the snow.
Fu Xuan's ** had already calculated that his fate would be cut off in the hands of **, but he still accepted Fu Xuan as an apprentice, and Fu Xuan chose to escape from the master in order to avoid fate. When the War of Abundance began, Fu Xuan's divination turned out that they could not defeat the enemy, so they could only pray to the star god Lan to shoot an arrow from the emperor's bow. The Emperor Bow is an indiscriminate large-scale attack, and the person who called for the Emperor Bow will also die, Fu Xuan** completed this task in her place, and calmly accepted the established fate.
A fond of flying, she became a Flyer and later participated in the Bountiful War with her comrades, and after witnessing the deaths of countless of her companions and the end of the war with the Imperial Bow, she became suspicious. The Star Gods could easily end the war, but it came to an end after the constant sacrifice of mortals, and their efforts became meaningless. Especially after her best friend also died in the war, her dream of flying in the sky was completely broken, and she adopted her best friend's daughter, but she did not tell her adopted daughter the truth about her life experience, and she was forbidden to fly into the sky. But after all, Yukong can't stop the dream of her adopted daughter, and she can't completely let go of the past, and recently witnessed the departure of her friend Zhiyun, which is the helplessness and pain of the immortal seed.
Back to the plot of "The Sea of Trees Returns to Mi Ning" this time, it is actually the Star Iron version of Oppenheimer, which is Sara's favorite movie in 2023. The protagonist meets an old man, a scientist named Chadwick, in a dream on a new planet, whose memories are very confused, and he only remembers that he was a member of the Genius Club. The Genius Club is one of the strongest forces in the Star Iron, and each member is a genius in his own right, and all parties in the universe dare not offend them easily.
The prologue of the story of Star Rail, the space station built by the Black Tower, the main gameplay of the game simulates the universe, that is, the Black Tower and other genius friends, together to build a grand plan, trying to explore the secrets of the Star God. The new character Ruan Mei released in the previous version is trying to create a new star god. So the plot of this new NPC attracted me, curious how a genius could have come to this point.
Since it is a 30-minute side quest, the plot talks to the Black Tower and Screw, and after exploring the memories of the old man, we quickly learn about Chad's past, he is a victim of Interstellar Peace's confrontation against destruction, and Oppenheimer's scientist.
The current biggest villain in the Star Iron worldview is the Star God of Destruction and his mad followers, who believe that everything that exists needs to be destroyed in order for the universe to usher in a new life. The original concept of the Guardian Star God was to maintain the peace of the universe, but after all, the company is an institution run by humans, and the selfishness of mortals has turned them into terrifying beings, plundering the resources of other planets in the name of preservation and protection, and ensuring that their forces dominate the universe.
In order to fight the forces of the Destruction faction, the company invited Chad to participate in a scientific research to develop a ** called "Imaginary Number Collapse Pulse", similar to our real-life atomic bomb. Under Chad's leadership, this ** was finally successfully developed, and he was convinced that what he was doing was right, ** was used to fight the Legion of Destruction. But like the actual atomic bomb, the use of nuclear weapons would also affect innocent civilians, so Chad found himself in a moral dilemma as a scientist.
Dudley, a friend who invited him to work on the project, told Chad that they were just pawns, in a similar tone from Oppenheimer's films. They were going to destroy 24 stars, and the associated sacrifices were calculated within a reasonable range, which reminded Sara of the plot of the movie, where the Americans knew how much damage the atomic bomb would cause, and they just said the numbers coldly, as if the hundreds of thousands of lives didn't matter.
Sara thought for a long time after watching Oppenheimer, I am not sympathetic to the Japanese, but the use of nuclear ** is the fastest means to end the war, and it is also a way to show force to other countries. The United States did not choose to use it on a desert island or in a remote city, just to warn Japan with **, to retaliate for the previous Pearl Harbor loss, and to make post-war Japan fear them. The emergence of the atomic bomb set off a military race and started a decades-long Cold War, as ordinary people in 2024, we may not be able to feel this very much, but there may be a parallel cosmic line, the third world war is started by nuclear **, and human civilization is destroyed by nuclear **.
After Chad was put into use, he disbanded the team and took away the key information, not wanting ** to be obtained by someone with ulterior motives. But the company can't let him go, and wants to continue to control the power of the pulse **, so that this genius's ability will not be used by others. Chad knew he had nowhere to go, so he asked another genius to help him get a memory-blocking drug, so that the company wouldn't gain access to this precious knowledge, even if it was a drug.
The kind-hearted screw agreed to the request, and Chad forgot the past and knowledge, and was tight-lipped about the ** thing. But the company still didn't let him go, even after Chad's physical death, bringing his consciousness into a dream, imprisoning him forever in Pinocone, a memory fragment that fought against the company for two hundred years, which was Chad's way of atonement. The protagonist tells the Blacktower and Screw, who convinces the company, as well as Pinocone's main family, to bring Chad's memory fragments back to the Blacktower station.
The final plot is to see off Chard's memory fragments, a genius who changed times, and just disappears forever with the closure of the device, and only 3 people sing an elegy in an unknown corner. Screw has met Chad twice, and he is a kind-hearted robot who understandably regrets his departure. But I didn't expect that Heta, a scientist with a cold temperament, also showed appreciation and regret for Chad, her research was somewhat similar to Chad, so she admired the other party's achievements even more, and admitted that she was a little envious and even jealous.
The screenwriter left a foreshadowing here, and before Chard's memory fragment disappeared, he handed over his life's research and knowledge to the puppet of the Black Tower, including the research and development of that pulse**. Because since the birth of this **, any force in the universe must be vigilant against this threat, Chad can no longer change the past, he only hopes that the person who controls this power is not the ambitious person of the company, he hopes that the black tower can be balanced with the company, and his last wish is to become the sword of Damocles.
As for why Chad didn't hand over ** to the screw, Sara also thought about it for a day, which may be related to the background of the two. Screw is a genius of goodness, and goodness is a weakness on some occasions, especially since he has the people of a planet, and is a unique mechanical being, that is, an alien existence. There has always been a gap between human beings and mechanical life, and the company once wanted to destroy mechanical life, if the screw has this **, then the company will definitely not be able to feel at ease, worried about the start of the organic and inorganic war, so as to try to attack the screw and his forces.
Heita has been alive for a long time, and she has been in contact with many forces, and all we see in the game are dolls, and no one knows where her real body is. The relationship between Blacktower and the company is not bad, and even if Blacktower gets this **, the company will not raise it to a huge threat. Besides, Heita only cares about scientific research, even the space station can be thrown away at will, and other forces can't threaten her with the space station. But this doesn't mean that Heita has no bottom line, judging from the plot since the start of the service, she is much more normal than a genius like Ruan Mei, not *** or violent personality, so she won't just use pulse ** to blow people up.
The prologue of the plot of Star Iron is that the Legion of Destruction attacks the space station, and the Black Tower is also very unhappy with the forces of destruction, and she can also deter the forces of destruction with this blockbuster**. And Chad's technology is not only **, his research can also do a lot of useful things, it just so happens that Blacktower is a similar research direction, and she can use this information to benefit people.
This reminds Sara of Oppenheimer's plot, where he invites his friend Rabbi to participate in the research of the atomic bomb, but the other party does not want the research to become lethal**, and the rabbi refuses to join the Manhattan Project, instead using his knowledge to develop magnetic resonance, a technology that has benefited mankind for decades. When the screenwriter wrote this plot, he should have just finished watching Nolan's movie, not only the lines are also similar, but the performance of Pulse *** also has a strong sense of déjà vu, the tense countdown moment of launch, and the silence of black, white and gray.
Another possibility is that miHoYo came up with a new Black Tower, the 4-star version of Black Tower is really weak in the game, and can only clear mobs and play fictional narratives. But the Black Tower was very popular before the game's open beta, and the stalk of the circle was very popular in the game community, and it is possible to release a 5-star version in the future, maybe she will change from an ice system to an imaginary number character.
After finishing this side plot, Sara admires the old man Chad, in order to make up for the sins of his youth, he has carried this secret for hundreds of years, and he can't get peace after death. Two hundred years have passed, and no one has been able to reproduce the pulse**, and his research and development is indeed an epoch-making technology, a genius among geniuses. But Chad finally entrusted everything to Heta, a scientist he had never met, who did not let this knowledge be interrupted, and this courage and consideration made me admire even more.
Sara is a little more verbose in the end, although this subplot has a lot of references to Nolan's films, but has independent thinking about the behavior of scientists, and is more humane in the handling of some details, making the image of Chad more noble and great, and giving the scientist a good ending. Oppenheimer in reality has a lot of political factors, and there are also many problems with personal morality, and the game narrative removes these and retains the best parts. There is nothing wrong with technology, and there is no good or evil, but fortunately, the old man atoned for his life and finally got peace of mind.