ANTI-EXTINCTION — COMPREHENSIVE FAQ

Covering Lore, Gameplay, Systems, and Philosophy
For Players, Investors, Press, and Collaborators

SECTION A: CORE CONCEPT & STORY

Q1: What is Anti-Extinction about?
A post-apocalyptic myth-tech survival game where the world wasn’t destroyed—it was rewritten.
The Maelstrom, a sentient storm of memory, grief, and resonance, emerged from a pre-Big Bang vibration buried in spacetime. You play as an FTSI Agent in a world haunted by what it forgot—tasked with stabilizing reality, recovering truths, and deciding what future survives.

Q2: Is this based on Fortnite: Save the World?
Yes. Anti-Extinction continues the spirit of Fortnite: Save the World’s unresolved narrative, reinterpreting the Storm as the Maelstrom, and evolving its mechanics into deeper world systems, lore, and consequence-driven design.
It’s not a clone—it’s the grown-up sequel the genre never got.

Q3: Is this story original? Where do the inspirations come from?
While rooted in Fortnite STW, the game fuses dozens of narrative inspirations:

• Horizon Zero Dawn – Mythic technology, buried truths, world recovery

• Dark Souls/Elden Ring – Oblique lore, emotional decay

• Death Stranding – Symbolic extinction, loneliness, terrain-based truth

• Destiny 2 / Fallout 4 – Faction tension, personal loss, alternate rebuilding

• Macabre / Earthfall / Second Extinction – Regional horror, extraction gameplay

• Star Citizen – Speculative science, real-scale zones, open planetary traversal

• 2001: A Space Odyssey / Interstellar – Science as myth, time distortion

• And 30+ additional layered references, including anime, real history, physics, and frontier tech.

SECTION B: LORE & WORLD STRUCTURE

Q4: What is the Maelstrom?
It is not a storm.
It’s the remnant frequency of a broken pre-universe, a recursive waveform buried in spacetime, encoded into dark matter. It remembers things the universe buried—grief, collapse, and extinction. It doesn’t kill. It resonates.

Q5: What are Dawn Nodes and Echo Wells?

• Dawn Nodes are terra-tools—industrial storm stabilizers (inspired by Fortnite Stormshields) that deploy in the field, log local memory-fracture events, and control Maelstrom resonance.

• Echo Wells are memory-storage relics—like Horizon’s Focus Points—but deeper: they don’t just show memory, they reconstruct it using environmental data, drift, and emotional context.

Q6: Are there “monsters”?
Yes, but not traditional ones.

• Blightbeasts are fears given storm-shape.

• Husks are people overwritten by the storm’s emotional frequency.

• Maelborn are children or agents the storm reshaped—part person, part memory archive.

Q7: What factions exist?

• Furr-Tec – The central holding corporation, post-collapse megastructure.

• AEI (Anti-Extinction Initiative) – Secretive recovery faction, lore-tied to continuity planning.

• STRIKE – Military-scientific faction with shadow ops history.

• FTLS – Furr-Tec Lithography Systems: originally semiconductor engineers, now storm-adapted infrastructure creators.

• FTSI (Furr-Tec Security Initiative) – You, the player. Agents trained to recover, stabilize, and decide the fate of Earth.

Q8: Is this a furry game?
Yes. All characters are anthropomorphic by design.
Not as a theme park gimmick—but as a world with biological evolution, mutation, and restructured societal design post-Maelstrom. The furry design supports expressiveness, cross-species philosophy, and identity realism.

SECTION C: GAMEPLAY & SYSTEMS

Q9: Is this an MMO, co-op game, or single-player?
Anti-Extinction is a multi-mode hybrid:

• Solo – Full single-player experience with SNF-driven narrative

• Co-op (2–4 player) – Mission-based recovery and Rift deployments

• Post-Campaign Reclamation Mode – Persistent world with rotating zone logic and optional faction control

Q10: What is SNF (Sentient Narrative Framework)?
A modular system that allows the story to adapt to the player.
It doesn’t auto-generate quests—it shapes voice lines, Echo Wells, environmental responses, and narrative drift based on emotion, faction allegiance, and memory footprint.

NOTE: SNF is not used in every system—only where applicable to character-driven lore, narrative events, or zone-level interactions.

Q11: Is the world open-world or instanced?
Zones are modular open regions. Think Monster Hunter + Horizon with elements of Star Citizen’s sectorized logic.
Each zone has weather tiers, Maelstrom resonance classes, and factional dynamics that evolve over time.

Q12: Can the world be permanently affected by player action?
Yes. Via:

• Dawn Node deployment history

• Echo Well manipulation

• Factional splits and drift consequences

• SNF or authored story paths that fracture canon

SECTION D: INVESTORS & PRODUCTION

Q13: What is the commercial strategy for Anti-Extinction?
A premium experience first, modular extensions later:

• Core campaign delivered as a full product

• Optional expansions that do not gate core content

• Cosmetic monetization model for co-op play

• Cross-platform support: PC, consoles, high-spec mobile tiers

Q14: What makes Anti-Extinction different?

• It’s the only game continuing Fortnite STW’s core promise

• Real-world physics, disaster modeling, and quantum field concepts are woven into gameplay

• Storytelling isn’t static—it adapts intelligently to player behavior

• Echo Wells, SNF, and modular factional divergence allow true replay value

• It doesn’t just ask “what if the world ended?” It asks, “what if the world remembered us wrong?”

Q15: Is this backed by any studio or publisher?
Anti-Extinction is an original IP by Furr-Tec Studios, operating independently.
All systems—lore, engine integration, character assets, and narrative architecture—are internally developed with cross-discipline expertise and film-grade storytelling.

SHEET D — FTLS TOOLS & TERRA-MECHANICS

Narrative Note: FTLS tools are not just utilities—they are remnants of industrial terraforming systems repurposed for post-Maelstrom survival. Every tool integrates with Dawn Nodes and responds to local Drift conditions. Many react based on how Echo Wells or corrupted zones interpret deployment intent.

1.0 DEPLOYABLES (INDUSTRIAL TERRA TOOLS)

2.0 NODE PLUGIN MODULES (DAWN NODE EXPANSIONS)

Note: Nodes can support up to 3 simultaneous plugins, but conflicts may occur if energy demand exceeds fusion limit or if plugins contradict resonance state.

3.0 ZONE-WIDE TECHNOLOGIES (FTLS OVERLAY SYSTEMS)

Narrative System Note: These zone-wide overlays work like industrial-scale terra-cognitive systems. When connected to SNF or activated during high-drift missions, they enable new decision layers, such as purging zones or rewriting the emotional map.

TOOL INTEGRATION FLOW (TEXT DIAGRAM)

[FTLS Tool Cradle] 
     └── Deploys ➝ [Field Tool] → [Environment Reaction] ⇄ [SNF Echo Feed]

[Dawn Node] 
     └── Accepts Plugins ➝ [Plugin x1–x3] → [Zone Logic Modifiers] ⇄ [Maelstrom Drift Reaction]

[Zone-Wide Tech Uplink]
     └── Activates ➝ [Overlay System] → [SNF/Player/Narrative Feedback Loop]