Forum:Grox Theories

This was a load of theories which were on the Grox page. However it must only have verified infomation. But since there was so much written, I have placed this onto a forum. 02:10, March 14, 2010 (UTC)

Theories About The Grox, Humans and Steve
Reverend's Theory:

I believe that the Grox were a very weak creature to begin with, and by no means the first spacefaring race. I think they were probably living on some small planet, using simple tools to hunt for food. Then, one day, Steve’s race (I’ll go into that later), chanced upon this world. They were the only race they had encountered so far which used any sort of tools, and they were intrigued. Seeing as the Grox were forming simple packs, and moving in a sort of “hunter-gatherer” group (though without the gatherer aspect), they knew that there was much potential for great intelligence. They took all of the Grox they could, and labeled them arbitrarily as a noise often made by the creature, a sort of “grr” sound, which sounded like “grah” (please note, I made that up, simply for the sake of the story). They labeled them “Gra,” and separated them into groups. They put each group in a different situation, to see how they would adapt. This was all done on a small world nearby Steve’s race homeworld (which is also somewhat significant, I will get into that as well). There were twenty-six, each named with a letter of the alphabet. So GraA-GraZ. Steve’s race was scientific, and this was all done in the name of science.

Each group started with fifteen members, the size of an average group back on the homeworld of the “Gra.” These groups spent say…about a hundred years, always growing, yet never coming into contact with each other. They continually hunted and reproduced, and eventually there were much less creatures. Herbivores were more common, however, as the Gras were carnivorous and were in such abundance. However, the plant life couldn’t handle this shift in the food chain, and it began to drop. The Gras were numbering well into the thousands by now, and were beginning to come into contact with each other. One group, GraX, had over five hundred members, and hunted swiftly and efficiently. They came into contact with one of the smaller tribes, GraN, with around ninety members, and GraN was eliminated. Steve’s race observed this with much interest. Some other groups had come into contact, never consolidating, but always fighting to the death. After another hundred years, there were six groups left. GraD, GraJ, GraL, GraS, GraT and GraX. Each had over five hundred members, though GraX once again was leading with about eight-hundred and fifty. The food chain was semi stable, with more plants having evolved. However, a dangerous shift was always on the brink of occurring. Steve’s race (I’m going to call them the Watchers, saying “Steve’s race” over and over gets a bit umm…it just doesn’t sound as good to me) set up colonies on neighbouring planets in the system, and occasionally had to perform transfers of masses of plant life in order to save their prime experiment.

Then, one day, an event of great magnitude occurred. GraT stopped roaming the countryside and settled down, building small burrows for themselves. They eventually began to build a small, crude dwelling out of rocks, sticks and mud for their leader. The Watchers began watching even more carefully. They became more daring. One went down to the planet one day to investigate more closely. He left his ship in a small forest clearing and went to the edge of the forest. He could see them in the distance. They had fire! But, at that moment, he could see another group of Gra coming over a hillside. He became worried. About a thousand of them. It had to be GraX. They descended upon GraT, which had about six hundred members, and massacred them. GraX, with its remaining eight hundred or so members, began investigating the building. Their leader went to reside in it. As soon as he entered, all the other members of GraX went off to hunt-and where better than a forest? The scout began to run for his ship, but the members of GraX caught up with him first. He tried to fight them off, but didn’t have any weapons with him for some reason. They took him back to their leader, who ate the creature, and declared it delectable. He sent them back to search for more. They found the ship, a small simple ship with only thrusters, no weapons. They carried it back. Seeing as they had no knowledge of engineering or anything of the sort, they searched it, tearing it apart in the process. They did, however, preserve a small helmet from the cockpit. The leader took that, and was surprised at how great it was at shielding the sun and increasing his vision. He searched through the remains personally, finally finding a glove and a boot. He put these on, surprised at the fact that they fit. The only possibility is that the scout had created them originally for the Gra.

Moving on. About a year later, the Grax had eliminated two other groups. Two others left. GraD and GraL. They had each built small burrows as well, and were beginning to use tools. Due to the fact that each of these groups lived in different regions, they developed different skin patterns and tones. I won’t go into those-use your imagination! So, GraX had developed several buildings, and crude weapons. They had a very large population, around three thousand, and each of those Gras had a house to live in. The leader was still living strongly, and regularly went out on hunting parties, being very effective due to his mechanical boot and glove, and his great vision. In a few more months, the GraX made a great discovery. The same material which made up the visor of the helmet could be found in the ground! They brought it back to their village-type thing, and examined it. They tried hitting it with rocks, or the sharpened spears which they normally used. They managed to crack it a little, and more work began to yield small shards thin enough to see well through. They could place them over their eyes and their vision was increased a bit, (though not as much as by the helmet). They began to go on more scouting missions, eventually finding more natural metals. They concentrated on strengthening their buildings, and in a few more years, their buildings were all about the same as they are now. By this time, the Watchers were getting slightly worried. The Gra, especially the GraX, were proving to have extreme potential for power. GraD had destroyed GraL, and they were too close to GraX to survive for long. When the destruction of GraL did come, the Watchers simply reclassified them as the “Grahx.” However, due to a spelling error, it was misspelled as “Grohx” when displayed to the public, who assumed that the “h” was a mistake, seeing as it didn’t make the “ah” sound, whereas just the o sound did. (please just accept that without further questioning). This changed the name to “the Grox.”

The Watchers sent another scout, who unfortunately crash landed near the city of the Grox, though he was killed in the crash. The Grox, or at least the ones which had been alive at the time of the scout, recognised the corpse and the ship. They returned it to their leader, who once more ate the corpse. They then began to take apart the ship, not haphazardly, but methodically, wishing to understand why there was something else coming to their planet, especially twice. They found the technology which made it run, though no more boots, gloves or helmets. The one they put to use most was the lighting, soon discovering the materials required for that, and hooking it up in every building and street. They then spent the next ten years, painfully analysing the rest of the equipment. When they were able to reproduce this all, they had the potential to become spacefaring. They built a craft, modeled on the crashed ship, and put a Grox in it to fly it. Needless to say, without proper training, it was a disaster. They spent several more years perfecting it, meanwhile discovering more and more technologies. By the time they felt that their pilots were ready for space travel, they had vehicles of all sorts, computers, and they had managed to reproduce the implants to a certain extent. They also had created a second city, small but growing.

Their pilot was launched in a blaze of glory, and made it out of the atmosphere. He saw the other planets, and began to make a course for them. Along with the radio transmitter they had taken from the crashed ship, the pilot was able to relay information back to the planet. However, he saw a ship of the Watchers coming towards him. He continued flying, ignoring the repeated transmissions, and was shot down. The Grox were very angry. They put all their efforts into creating as many ships as they could, and when they had about five hundred, they focused on building weapons. After about fifty years, they developed the laser. Within a year, all their ships were launched into space. They went to the planet they had originally gone for, went into the atmosphere, and found the cities of the Watchers. They burned them down, then landed and began building new cities. All the technology of the Watchers which had been on that planet had been destroyed.

The Grox were now moving within their solar system, yet were not able to move between stars. They began to develop even more technologies, and after several hundred years, achieved an interstellar drive. The Watchers had built up a formidable fleet by this time, and when the Grox began to move to the star closest to them, they were stopped by the fleet. They attempted to make contact. No response other than a swift attack and boarding by the Grox. The Watchers were overwhelmed by sheer numbers, and their fleet lost. The Grox managed to salvage the technology, and now had the most advanced technology of the watchers. They found several files with reports and statistics centering around a picture of a Grox. They messed around with it, and heard an experiment head’s log. They couldn’t understand any of it, though the “Grox” sounds came up often. They made the connections, as they had become quite an intelligent race, and understood that they were the Grox, and the Watchers had done something. They began to plant colonies on nearby star systems, often driving out the Watchers.

However, back on the homeworld, ecosystem collapse was imminent. They had to renew their source of food or find a new one. Plant life was flourishing due to a lack of herbivores, though the Grox harvested lots of it for raw materials and an attempt to find something to eat other than other organisms. They eventually developed an artificial food, just in time to save their race. They could grow even more now, without the hassle of getting food from nature, and their colonies soon covered the planet. Plant life was still flourishing, when the Watchers, in another effort to stop the Grox, launched a large missile at the homeworld. It hit it, and shifted the orbit just enough to kill off all plant life on the planet. However, the Grox had always survived on less than adequate air supplies, and the change was just gradual enough to allow them to evolve to be able to survive. They thought that all planets should follow the example of the homeworld, and from then on, the Grox either only colonized planets which were deadly to any other organism, or they would make a planet that way. Within a hundred years they had a sprawling empire to rival that of the Watchers. They now refocused their attention on the Watchers. Slowly, but surely, they eliminated all but one planet. The homeworld of the Watchers, known as Earth, which was incredibly well guarded.

A renowned scientist, Steve, of the Watchers, began developing a secret weapon to destroy the Grox. After many years of trial and error, he managed to create a device which could bring any world up to pristine living standards. However, right when he was done developing it, the Grox broke through Earth’s defenses and destroyed all the cities. Steve managed to get off planet with his weapon, hoping to go and destroy the Grox, though he was caught. They held him on a prison in their homeworld, using the time attempting to reverse engineer the weapon so they could make it have the opposite effect. They began to move more towards the center of the galaxy, drawn by it.

They colonized all around it, still keeping their old colonies though, and they moved their official homeworld to the largest planet in the system closest to the center of the galaxy. They eventually moved towards the center, seeing nothing but a massive wormhole. They cast Steve into it, figuring that it would send him to a different universe where he could do no harm, after figuring out that they couldn’t reverse engineer the lifebringing object. They gave him a small ship, telling him to figure out a way to reverse engineer the object. He left, though he focused on figuring out how to get back from the place he had ended up, which seemed to be nothing but a small bit of empty space. He spent years working, and when he had finished it, he laid it aside for a bit and developed implants for himself so he would be able to live as long as he needed to see the Grox destroyed. He then returned, but he was sent back by the waiting Grox. Now, they wait to see if Steve will create the weapon they desire, and guard the center of the galaxy jealously, lest Steve be rescued and helped.

Ok, there you have it. I’m going to go back through now and separate it in order to make it a bit easier to read. Thanks for reading it, if you did. Any questions, just post it here, message me, or, you could always comment on my Spore creations xD. But, yeah, thanks everyone and bye.

For anyone who didn’t get it, the Watchers are/were human.

I didn't go into Spode though or why Earth is T1, the former I'll get into another time, and the latter I shall state here:

As for why Earth is T1: Global warming.

shadeofmoose318's Theory:

Okay, around the year 2163 on Earth, pollution and overpopulation had really grown due to the amount of factories and buildings being constructed, there was hardly any rural land left. Smog from the pollution began to slightly blot out the sun, making the Earth less habitable. In Spore Terms, it started dropping from T3 to around T 1. 5. Now, technology by then was incredibly advanced and we humans had figured out how to do some amazing stuff, such as cybernetic eye implants to cure blindness, same for deafness.

Now, our planet went through a global cooling phase, similar to an Ice Age. We as humans panicked, as we were pretty much already screwed, and used a state-of-the-art gravitational manipualtor device to try and hold our atmosphere. The device could manipulate gravity, so we made the gravity on our planet incredibly intense to hold the atmosphere together, somewhat. We were forced to use special generators to create oxygen for people to breath, and some people began getting lung implants so they could live off of carbon dioxide.

This incredibly intense gravity shortened the height of us humans, making us a lot shorter. By then we had managed to create a spaceship that was capable of going at warp speeds, as well as surviving through wormholes and black holes (long story, lots of dead interns). As our planet was pretty much sucking right now, we boarded the population onto these spaceships and left our planet.

As no more humans existed, the buildings and structures began to slowly collapse, and Earth began making a comeback. The atmosphere improved, but mankind made its dent-Earth was no longer the oasis it once was, only a T1 planet. Animals from zoos managed to repopulate parts of the Earth and trees began to grow. This is how the Earth is T1 and no humans are on it.

Now these humans, more specifically cyborgs, for we had becomed totally reliant on technology for almost everything, managed to find a wormhole and shot through it. We came out near the center of the galaxy, and slowly began colonizing and spreading.

The center of the galaxy, however, is a massive collection of magnetic and gravitational energy. The magnetic waves altered our cybernetically enhanced organs and derived us of most of our morals, emotions, and feelings, so we became cruel killers and murderers. We banded together as an empire, and stretched out.....we became the Grox.

It has flaws and holes in it and I'm still thinking of something about Steve.

ParadoxJuice's Theory:

My theory begins with humans after becoming a space-faring race. By this time in history, pollution has causen problems on Earth, bringing it to T1 standards. Luckily, humans can now colonize other planets. They begin to build colonies on the various worlds, but eventually, the colonized planets all drop down to T1-0 thanks to human pollution.

After exploring for a while, the humans discover 9 other alien (their names don't matter) empires around the place. It is a time of peace in the galaxy-no wars, resources are easy to come by for all, etc. The humans, wanting to know a bit more about the alien races, ask them to write down an explanation of their history, anatomy, and most notably, philosophy. This is how the Tablets of Prosperity, blocks of Chance, etc came into the galaxy. Its also how the 9 archetypes were formed (Warrior, Zealot, Shaman, Diplomat, those things). From now on, all newly formed empires would chose one of the philosophies.

But, this caused a problem. The alien races had contreversy and disagreement over each others philosophies. Wars started, allies were lost, pirates began stealing, and trade routes began to thin out. Humans, not to happy with all this, began to relocate towards the galactic core. Along the way, they met one more alien race, who spoke with the humans, and ended up not following any philosophy. This became known as the way of the Wanderer, a philosophy very few would follow.

The humans discovered that all the planets around the core were T3, rich with life. Their, they found another race, who were fairly weak, but had become skilled in technology. Their names do not matter, but for the convenience of the story, we will call them the Lyzer.

The Lyzer were interested to know more about the core, and the humans eventually decided to study it. The humans and the Lyzer worked together, sharing colonies and resources. But, like humans did with all the planets they colonies, the once rich in life Lyzer colonies began to die, and slowly became T0.

The Lyzer worlds eventually all became T0, and the Lyzer were angry at the humans. So, the humans designed technology that would keep the Lyzer alive. It was called the Genetic-Robotic 0-life sustainabilty. The humans made many different models, trying to perfect it. GR01, GR02, GR03, etc. There are no records of which model the Lyzer got, so they are usually called the GR0X, oftentimes interpreted as Grox.

While this was all happening, the humans studied the core. They discovered thousands of alternate universes. Each universe was roughly the same, but with some differences. For example, a once powerful militant Warrior race was, in one of the alternate universes, peacful Shamans. The humans also discovered a strange energy, which could somehow create life. They began to study this energy, and harness it. They created a device called the Staff of Life, which could instantly make planets perfect for survival. The humans tested this out on a few different planets, making small colonies on nearby worlds.

The newly formed Grox, however, were going through something tottally different. They found that before, they were weak, soft. But, with the GR0X installed, they were better. All of the 'organic' life that they were trying to maintain was only holding them back, and they began to hate organic life. They destroyed everything organic that they came across, which just happened to be most of the things they came across. They eventually discovered that the humans were trying to use the Staff of Life to spread life through the universe, to undo their mistakes. Needless to say, the Grox wiped out the humans.

In a last ditch effort, the humans created an artificial intellegence, codenamed Steve. It contained a small database of human knoweledge, and carried the last 42 charges of the Staff of Life. Steve was sent to the core, to wait for someone to come to him, so that he could allow them to spread life again.

A LIST OF THINGS THAT SUPPORT THIS THEORY: -When you go to the core, Steve mentions that one day, "We may be as one". A lot of chaos was caused when the different Archetypes were created, so the humans would want things to return to peace by undoing the damage that had been done by creating different philosophies. -Every planet that you start on is T3, and this theory explains why. -Each homeworld also has strange temples on it. These could be created by the humans after they went on to that higher state of existence. -At the beggining of the game, you will always find a T1 planet with ruins that was apparently wiped out by the Grox. These are the human colonies from before they went to the center of the galaxy. They are T1 because of human pollution and there are ruins there because of the Grox. Besides, those ruins do like kinda like human buildings. -Their are indeed multiple universes as described here, and Steve mentions them. To us, these multiple universe are actually the computers of the other people that play the game.