Unsolved Mysteries & Terms

This page serves as a collection for all unknown, unexplained, or mysterious terms and concepts found in the lore.

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This is a living document. Many of these terms are fragments, developer hints, or obscure references intended to build atmosphere. They are prime topics for community speculation.

Unknown Sub-Categories (Major Concepts)

• Why Dinosaurs?

  The only given reason was, “They're unfortunate and necessary.”

• Thousand Life Contract / EIPs

  EIPs = Embryo Intelligence Profiles. In legacy, this was the player's conscious mind put into the body of a Dinosaur. EIPs are only mentioned by name as related to The TOMB.

• Omnisaur

  Referred to in the OST Album “The Music of The Isle: Audio Codex I”. Potentially a mistranslation of Omniraptor or a broader classification.

• Creation of Gen 2s, strains, and other unique assets.
• Creation and behavior of Replicator
• Replicator Observation
• Lineage Drive / Lineage Displacement
• Well’s Device
• The Meyer Curve
• The Experiment
• The Virus

  Developer Quote: “SO basically I spent time inventing agricultural applications of the virus for no good damned reason.”

• Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades Entry
• Robo/Drone-Quetz

  Associated with the phrase “The body rejects.”

• Olympus Central Control & Olympus/OLYMPUS

  Is there only one OLYMPUS? Does every site/facility have an Olympus CC?

• (Active/Inactive) Biotrace + Tampering
• Radio Frequency Fields

  'Beyond this point / Radio frequency fields at this site exceed the FCC rules for human exposure'

• "Pre-incident” / “Post-incident”

  These are not official terms, but community placeholders to understand the timeline. It is better understood that there wasn’t a singular event, but likely many (smaller) events that lead to the observed disbandment of the islands.

Unknown Terms (Minor)

• AE U331
• AE Class Water
• AESONIC
• Security Console WITHIN PERIMETER SERVER ROOM - Waystation?
  • (main panel) VIS-IO 48 (Vision IO)
  • (secondary panel) SIG-IO K22 (Signal IO)
  • (keypad side) ASRP - S
  • (keypad) INIT / RTE / ARR / ATC / VNAV / PROG / MENU / HOLD
• CERT Junction / 220V
• FWD (on boxes from Spiro and Gateway)
• CAM / AE - 771 (eg. North East Base)
• 10 17 / 717 + 717 / 717
• Apollo (AE) Core / Core Data

  Was also referred to in Legacy Lore as just “Apollo Core”.

• Archive (7) / Archive (7) 43-27-23 OL-TM 012-947

  Was Archive (7) corrupted? Did someone attack it?

• “Dino Holy Wars”

  Speculative, mentioned by Dondi as how normal people might react to learning AE’s secrets.

Dubious / Unconfirmed

• Cortex Corruption Level
• Electromagnetic fluctuation
• Global AE Research Database
• Site AE-12 (AE-012?) / Site-12
• Wheos (Company name on the copper Silos)
• Voice modulation
• Semplex (Fire alarm)
• Powerhouse 48K / “Power of the Sun” (Generator)
• Troodon AIR 14-C
• [area 95d]
• Doctor Vega: Responsible for creating Reapers (Legacy)