How Nerds Nearly Destroyed the Universe | Gold and Gears Full Lore Explained [SU4]

When the maths maths so hard it equal(ibrium)s the universe into yet another apocalyptic war. All because a few scammers wanted to rule the universe.

Thank Nous it's at least mathematically impossible for us to lose this time. Oh, and Mythus helped... I think.

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00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Black Forest
04:31 - Beginning
08:19 - First Moment
17:38 - Second Moment
24:14 - Third Moment
29:18 - Outro

[sakamotoverge]

The galaxy rangers might not show up often but if they do, they do their jobs pretty well.

An emanator of Destruction, one of the most dangerous aeons? They took care of him.

The second coming of Rupert, who nearly destroyed all organic and inorganic organisms in the universe? Got him too.

I wish they put out more Galaxy rangers lore. They're as interesting as the knights of beauty or the masked fools.

[ExtraAcc]

It's sometimes crazy to think that the NPCs and the curios in SU has such a deep lore and honestly I can't really tell what the Intelligentsia guild is up to like are they someone's allies or enemies or not interested at all like we have only seen a few people from the Intelligentsia guild and the only playable one out of the Intelligentsia guild is just Ratio actually I think it would be quite nice to get more characters from the Intelligentsia guild, And of course they should have the worst 4-stars on their banners who knows maybe then they'll pull up a Ratio move and announce that the character, themselves is freee!! Anyways it's amazing how you can always explain the lore in such details I love lore and countine both Genshin and Star rail for lore and pretty characters of course but anyways back it the topic I bet it takes you hours to find and dig through all the information like such details are very very very hard to find soo everything you do I fantastic and amazing job with your videos like everytime you upload a video, it just makes ny day well anyway Have a great day!! Love your videos!!❤❤

[deltatime]

7:42 someone may have already mentioned this, but I think it's worth mentioning that it is also possible that the Dr. Ratio mentioned may not be Veritas Ratio and instead an ancestor of Veritas Ratio, that happens to have a similar temperament as the former.
Of course this is just as speculative, and considering the confusing nature of time and aging in Star Rail (e.g. the seemingly heavy implementation that Michal only died within the last 50-100 years) it is obviously entirely possible that Veritas is just extremely old

[ladrugo]

Polka Kakamond is doing some heavy lifting in these events

It will be terrifying to meet her in person in the game

[glyfleball]

That is a total bombshell with Dr Ratio’s age

[cloudy]

I am seriously thinking that a plotline revolving around the potential reappearance of a Rubert III happening in the future. Because of the IPC broadcast and Sampo preparing for a catastrophe on Jarilo VI that ties in well with the letter screwllum sent to svarog and the source code owned currently by Clara after the Aetherium wars quest. There is Also Clara 's quest with Pascal a robot gaining some sort of sentience as well and they Are rebuilding the engine of crearion so I wonder if they will expan the area. Considering that whenever you get close to the bridge (on the build site of the engine) you get stopped by guards telling that you can't access this area so I wonder if that means hoyo wants to make the area bigter because otherwise there would just be some sort of invisible wall and if you look at the map there is potential for it to be bigger.

[ArioTBP]

Are Ratio mentioned in Hair Salon and Ratio we all know really the same person? While having normal short-lived people live for thousands of years isn't without precedent, you'd think that it would be mentioned, seeing as Herta's age of at least two AEs is mentioned in the first lines of the game, and framed as a big deal, with the "aging backwards" line thrown as something extraordinary. While there are people older than her, namely other geniuses (RM being #81 and so at the very least as old as her, and Polka Kakamond, who is #4 with all the baggage that comes with it, who very well may be alive and well as per Herta's words), the other cases are usually connected to Xianzhou and/or are capital B Big Shots, like IPC founder Fleming.

While Ratio is a big shot for Intelligencia Guild, is he a big enough shot for stuff like this? Is it possible he's the descendant of Hair Salon Ratio? Or he just took the name, seeing as he changed his name to Veritas after university? Or maybe the Hair Salon occurrence just used Ratio as the stand-in for some other known scholar (like was done with Knights of Beauty occurrence: it was made in Swarm Disaster update, but Argenti probably wouldn't be alive in that time, but he's still one of the faces there)?

[marzel]

SU narrative is so enigmatic, those videos are really helping with viewing things in optimal order. Thank

Also about Dr. Ratio:
Nezzy suggested that Ratio himself or his ancestors were from Philosophers Union - nation destroyed by inorganic life.

[LuteaNelum]

Thanks for listing out things a well as possible! Even for a lore reader like me its certainly hard to really "get" what happened with the format that SU takes.

With that said, I would be interested in a follow-up video diving deeper into speculation rather then fact if you know what I mean? You spent a lot of time listing events in this one, but we don't actually draw all that many conclusions from this information. A companion video speculating what this all really means would be cool!

One thing I am really certain about though, is the the moment Polka shows up its going to be one hellava event haha.

[Crreus]

cant believe they did my boy rupert dirty like that. Justice for ruptert

[davidsamudio]

It's funny that Emperor Rupert just destroyed a couple of worlds in the dusk of the swarm disaster that already had done erasing 70% of all life in the universe 😅

[Fullmetal_Gacha]

Your videos are great! SU has such complex but interesting stories and you summarise them so well. I really want to learn more about the Second Emperor War and also what Dr. Ratio’s whole deal is. Wonder what the upcoming SU expansion will hold for us.

[harrya]

7:40 side note about that. Having established that Firefly was indeed a combatant in the Iron Cavalry of Glamoth, we now know that she predates Nanook as an existence, so age seems to be pretty fluid in this universe anyway. Ratio being several millennia old doesn’t surprise me

[lucasjuliard]

I think the Ratio mentionned there isn't Veritas but probably an ancestor! (I always headcanon "Ratio" being his family name)

[helpidroppedmydignity]

gold and gears lore! This mode was not made for me, I'll munch this lore through you. Thank youuu

[snackeetah]

As always, great video, many thanks. Though I have a feeling G&G leaves more questions than answers. And the more lore I read, the more I think the power level of things is just too big. I wonder why people who know all that haven't embraced Nihility yet. HSR looks much more grimdark that Warhammer in general (while Warhammer is just super violent in details, HSR is... "two Aeons fought each other, 2/3 of the universe is wiped now lol". "An idiot scientist implanted an equation called ANTI-organic into organic beings, imagine the sh*t happened right after lol". "A cyber overlord awoke from his slumber - and all the machines in the universe started to kill organic lives hahaha").

[m.l.]

Commenting to boost the algorithm: great video! The Simulated Universe is such a cool part of the game. Will you do an analysis of the new SU part when it comes out?

[pixelmikki]

I love your lore videos so much, thank you thank you thank you for this. I keep listening to them on repeat while I draw because I am obsessed with this game and the lore is top notch. I can't wait to see what else you come up with!!

[pondypoo]

The amount of things you have to read to fully understand the lore is mind boggling to me.
Hats off to you 🎉

[corvus]

this is a great video! the only thing is that I don't think that dr. ratio is our ratio, since I'm pretty sure he took on that name after graduating if I remember his lore correctly rn