I mean, it isn't post apocalyptic. IIRC, the world in Arknights has a different enough history that blackpowder was never invented, and originium related technologies developed instead.
I mean, it isn't post apocalyptic. IIRC, the world in Arknights has a different enough history that blackpowder was never invented, and originium related technologies developed instead.
Arknights is set in a post apocalyptic world. It's not clear exactly how recent, but originium, catastrophes, and oripathy are all relatively recent things, few hundred years at most. Catastrophes just started happening at random with no explanation, ravaging society, leaving behind originium, and forcing the populace to develop mobile cities to escape when catastrophes strike.
As one example, guns were discovered in Laterano, not invented, and Laterano is the only place capable of constructing "real" guns, suggesting that the knowledge was lost at one point. Laterano made guns are the only ones to use regular gunpowder based bullets, while all other gun replicas are made using originium based technology, making them expensive and delicate, prone to breakdown if mishandled due to the volatile nature of originium.
Arknights is set in a post apocalyptic world. It's not clear exactly how recent, but originium, catastrophes, and oripathy are all relatively recent things, few hundred years at most. Catastrophes just started happening at random with no explanation, ravaging society, leaving behind originium, and forcing the populace to develop mobile cities to escape when catastrophes strike.
As one example, guns were discovered in Laterano, not invented, and Laterano is the only place capable of constructing "real" guns, suggesting that the knowledge was lost at one point. Laterano made guns are the only ones to use regular gunpowder based bullets, while all other gun replicas are made using originium based technology, making them expensive and delicate, prone to breakdown if mishandled due to the volatile nature of originium.
At this point, almost every single player alreadyr realized that Originium is basically alien virus/noncarbon based crystalline living organism that replicates from contaminating carbon-based lifeforms, and the humans in Arknights universe made it (unintentionally) spread faster by basically destabilizing the crystal lattice. This was hinted by how Catasthropes almost always occurs on heavily-populated area (cities) and how Originium Arts are developed from Originum, and amplified when you got oripathy; using Arts excites the virus and awakens them, but in weapon-based arts (rods) since they don't have media to grow on (carbon) they cannot infect anyone.
Makes you wonder if those Laterano guns that spews Originium when used also a factor that contributes to Oripathy spread, no?