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Commander Riker Explains PUBG Lore

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Just saw this pop up over at Kotaku.

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Mysteries Unknown: Birth of the Battlegrounds is presented as an in-universe follow-up to a now-canceled, Frakes-led television show much like Beyond Belief. The mini-doc covers the origins of the eponymous Battlegrounds and the shadowy organization that hosts the event, suggesting that the battle royale was created by the sole survivor of a massacre on the island of Erangel (also known as the original PUBG map), a man named Sergei Kalimnick.

After previously making money selling illicit recordings of prison riots, Kalimnick was conscripted by a clandestine group of investors to put on the first Battleground in the early '90s. Originally, prisoners from eastern Europe were forced into participating in these Battleground events, their fight for survival captured and sold as entertainment. Kalimnick, now known simply as The Russian, remains a high-ranking member of the criminal organization that previously recruited him.
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What even is PUBG anymore? I know they were pushing to add lore a while back, and it's got that shared-universe Dead Space-esque game coming out too (The Callisto Protocol), but like what? They're really starting to go all in on this stuff.
 
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Quinton

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This man is directing like three or four Star Trek shows right now and popping up repeatedly in one of them

How does he even have time for this
 
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LProtagonist said:
False. Never happened. A complete fabrication.
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Crossing Eden said:
The Callisto Protocol is related to fucking PUBG?
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Yes. Right as the game was announced it was said to be in the same universe.

www.ign.com

The Callisto Protocol Teams Up With Walking Dead Creator's Skybound Entertainment - IGN

The Callisto Protocol will partner with Skybound Entertainment, Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's media company, to expand the horror brand ahead of launch.
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The Callisto Protocol is being developed by Dead Space creator Glen Schofield and is set within the PUBG universe, but 300 years into the future. Despite this connection, Schofield says The Callisto Protocol will be purely focused on being "the scariest game on next-gen platforms."
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Here's some more on that: https://www.thegamer.com/the-callisto-protocol-pubg-connection/
 
Dyle

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And so, with the last man dying beneath my feet, having just done the most horrible thing in my entire life, I yelled out in agony "Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!"
 
Crossing Eden

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Zips said:



Yes. Right as the game was announced it was said to be in the same universe.

www.ign.com

The Callisto Protocol Teams Up With Walking Dead Creator's Skybound Entertainment - IGN

The Callisto Protocol will partner with Skybound Entertainment, Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's media company, to expand the horror brand ahead of launch.
www.ign.com www.ign.com


Here's some more on that: https://www.thegamer.com/the-callisto-protocol-pubg-connection/
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ArjanN

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Crossing Eden said:
The Callisto Protocol is related to fucking PUBG?
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I mean, it seems like it's just a way for Glen Schofield to make a totally-not-Dead Space sequel. I guess there wlll be some battle royale-esque thematic tie-in with prisoners being forced to fight for surivval and maybe a character/organization namedrop in the lore.

Mr. Keith said:
Does being set 300 years after pubg even mean anything?
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It's probably be along the lines of how Ultor exists in Saints Row and Red Faction, in that technically it's the same universe, but given the time jump it's largely a moot point.
 
Instro

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They should have made an XCOM show with him and the other Star Trek peeps reprising their War of the Chosen roles. That was so good.
 
Billfisto

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This is the worst lore. It sounds like the first idea somebody had. It's a straight-to-video movie starring Steve Austin.
 
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Billfisto said:
This is the worst lore. It sounds like the first idea somebody had. It's a straight-to-video movie starring Steve Austin.
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Yeah, they're trying super hard to go the Fortnite route and give a simple BR game some story when it really doesn't need it.

Props to them for not backing down though I guess.
 
Igniz12

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How come nobody ever talks about him being in Xcom and the leader of the most badass hero units?
 
Nerun

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I liked the video, even if I don't play PUBG anymore (400? hours or so were enough ^^). Also, if you liked/played PUBG and don't know these guys...well then you missed the best stuff out there:
 
JimD

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I can't believe they went THAT all in on a lore video that doesn't seem like it's even promoting anything yet. Gotta give them credit for being committed I guess.
 
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