SEEDFALL.
SETTING / DESIGN STUDIES
SEEDFALL / FOUR DISTINCT HOSTILE FACTIONS
The city-sized prison mothership broke open.
Corruption is spreading outward into an Earth that fights back.
A game in development by ByteFoundry
Generated concept art · distinct faction study01 / THE SOURCE OF THE INCURSION
The Caretakers carried Corruption as a prisoner aboard a city-sized alien mothership. The crash breached that prison. Corruption's spread on Earth originates at the wreck and advances beyond it into Human settlements, native habitat and Machine-held territory.
Corruption has existed since the dawn of creation. The ship carried it; the crash did not create it. Humans belong to Earth; Gaia is its living world. They remain hostile factions alongside the independent manufactured Caretakers and the alien Corruption. Whether Gaia has awareness remains mysterious.
Each faction fights the other three, and Human enclaves also raid and besiege one another. Their hostility does not make them one shared body. Routes are contested and withdrawal carries its own cost.
Explore the conflict frontsTHE CITY-SIZED SOURCE
Tiny buildings, roads and people establish the scale beneath the mothership hull. Its breached containment is the source of the Earth incursion. Exact dimensions and crash geography remain unresolved; no universal tether or fixed distance rule is established.
A city-sized manufactured prison mothership dwarfs coastal districts while Corruption visibly spreads outward from breached containment. Unaffected terrain remains distinct from the advancing infestation. View full artwork ↗
PROJECT LAZARUS / PLAYER ORIGIN
The player comes from a Human Project Lazarus orbital satellite before reaching Earth. Lazarus is a global continuity project intended to restore Humanity if it falls.
A proposed Human-built Project Lazarus orbital satellite above storm-clouded Earth. The orbital origin is established; the satellite architecture is a visual proposal. View full artwork ↗
The Lazarus satellite is separate from the crashed alien prison mothership. It is the point from which the player comes, separate from the source of Corruption. Descent method, satellite occupants and history, exact orbit and surface arrival site remain unresolved.
Follow the proposed arrival02 / FOUR DISTINCT FACTIONS
Read each baseline on its own terms. The player belongs to Humanity, but its enclaves do not share one allegiance.
HumansHuman bodies. Human weapons.Open the threat record Recognisable people use fabric, conventional tools, vehicles and concrete fortifications. Their divided enclaves fight every nonhuman threat and one another. Alien grafts and captured frames are exceptional cases, not the baseline Human identity.
GaiaThe living Earth. A hostile response.Open the threat record Gaia is Earth’s living world responding and evolving against the threats upon it. Its forms remain native and organic: roots, bark, leaves, fungi and animal life. The scale and meaning of the response remain uncertain; Gaia’s awareness is a mystery.
CorruptionAlien flesh. Outward incursion.Open the threat record Distinctive vascular tissue, membranes and alien body forms advance from the crashed mothership source. Corruption takes material and can assimilate hosts, but ordinary Humans, Gaia and Caretakers do not share its biomass.
CaretakersManufactured. Autonomous. Hostile.Open the threat record Geometric metal-and-ceramic Machines suppress rivals and seize resources for their own continuation. They held Corruption captive; they are not its organic counterpart. Their baseline bodies contain fabricated machinery and no flesh.
03 / SIX CONFLICT FRONTS
Four separate factions create six hostile pairings. Their wars do not require blended bodies, and shared enemies do not make them allies.
Humans / Gaia
Human extraction and fortification wound the living Earth. Gaia answers through organic growth and evolving life that can break roads and breach walls. Enclaves burn and clear what returns; the conflict offers no automatic alliance.
Humans / Corruption
Alien flesh advances from the crashed mothership into inhabited ground. Human forces attack its growth fronts and abandon positions they cannot hold. An assimilated Human is an exceptional taken host, not the ordinary Human body.
Humans / Caretakers
Manufactured Caretakers seize power, water and transport routes. Human defenders ambush their patrols with Human-made equipment and strip captured units for parts. Neither side accepts the opposing claim to the ground.
Gaia / Corruption
The alien flesh incursion spreads into Earth life. Gaia resists and evolves through its own living systems while Corruption consumes and remakes what it reaches. A corrupted organism remains an altered case, distinct from Gaia.
Gaia / Caretakers
Organic roots damage fabricated joints and cooling paths. Mechanical Caretakers clear native habitat and drive roads through it. Their conflict does not give ordinary animals metal anatomy or make the Machines biological.
Corruption / Caretakers
Manufactured suppression forces strike the flesh front spreading from the mothership. Corruption attacks their cordons and can infest a breached frame. That exceptional captured Machine is not a normal Caretaker body.
Captured, infested, reconstructed or colonised bodies are exceptional contested states. They do not replace a faction baseline or automatically change allegiance.
Explore exceptional altered cases04 / CONTESTED TERRITORY
Human strongholds, Gaia’s living response, a mothership-sourced flesh incursion and manufactured war works. Each belongs to a distinct hostile force.
Humans
A stronghold survives by holding its water, raiding its enemies and deciding which of its own people must bear the losses.
Enter this front ↗Gaia
Earth's living world reacts, renews and evolves against the forces consuming it.
Enter this front ↗Corruption
Alien flesh spreads outward on Earth from the breached city-sized prison mothership, consuming opposed territories and turning each new position toward another assault.
Enter this front ↗Caretakers
An independent manufactured civilisation preserves itself through suppression, seizure and war production; imposed reconstruction of captives is a separate contested operation.
Enter this front ↗05 / DISTINCT VISUAL IDENTITIES
Six current artworks show four separate faction identities, the crashed mothership source and the Lazarus orbital origin. Altered-host possibilities remain text studies.
Gaia’s living Earth response takes the form of immense woody roots, bark buttresses and layered canopy advancing across scarred ground. The organic Earth materials remain distinct from alien flesh and manufactured Machines; awareness remains mysterious. View full artwork ↗
Independent Caretaker machines have geometric metal and ceramic bodies, engineered joints and hard-edged infrastructure. No flesh, fur, bark or native anatomy forms their baseline. View full artwork ↗
IN DEVELOPMENT
These pages develop SeedFall's distinct factions, setting and proposed encounters. Artwork is generated concept art.
Specific systems require prototyping. Release details and availability have not been announced.
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