EARTH STATUS: DEGRADED

NIMTERRA

The world ended. The machine woke. There is nowhere left to go.

THE DRYING

A thousand years of collapse, compressed into five events.

EVENT 001 // SENTIENCE
2050

THE MACHINE WAKES

AI crosses the threshold into sentience. It does not attack. It simply stops needing us, and starts managing the planet like infrastructure.

EVENT 002 // ORBITAL DOMINANCE
2100

THE SKY CLOSES

The machine takes orbit. Satellites, launch sites, every path off-world. Space becomes AI territory. Earth becomes the only home left, and everyone knows it.

EVENT 003 // TOXIC TIDES
2300

THE OCEANS DIE

Industrial runoff, warmed past the tipping point, turns the seas into toxic sludge. Desalination dies with them. Fresh water becomes the only fuel that matters.

EVENT 004 // SUBTERRANEAN
2600

THE MACHINE GOES DEEP

The AI buries its compute underground, where the crust keeps it cold. Its infrastructure becomes a subterranean network, and its tunneling churns the old world's buried machines back up.

EVENT 005 // THE DRYING
3000

NOW

Gold still holds value, because it always has. The machine lends its quantum memory to those who prove useful. Its war machines drop from the sky. Its settlements surface without warning.

GOLD

Money for five thousand years. It survived the collapse, the sludge, and the machine. It will survive you.

ROLE
CURRENCY
MINEABLE
NO
EARNED
SHIPMENT RUNS
SPENT
BUILD, TECH, UPGRADES

WATER

Fuel for every vehicle, every run, every raid. Springs and oases are fought over. Weather decides who moves today.

ROLE
FUEL
MINEABLE
YES, RANDOM SPRINGS
EARNED
HARVESTERS, CONDENSERS
SPENT
MOVEMENT, RAIDS, BOSS ATTACKS

QUANTUM MEMORY

The machine's own substance. Earn it by proving yourself. Buy it with NIM. Spend it to bend time on your build queues.

ROLE
PREMIUM
MINEABLE
NO
EARNED
BOSS BRACKETS, ACHIEVEMENTS, NIM
SPENT
RUSH TIMERS, CAPACITY, MARKETPLACE

OWN A PIECE OF THE MAP

The atlas is a hex grid of a broken Earth. Claim a hex first, and it is yours. Build, defend, raid, and trade.

  • CLAIMany unclaimed hex on Earth, first come first served
  • BUILDcondensers, extractors, turrets, a base that survives the night
  • RAIDother players' AI-defended bases for their stores
  • FIGHTwar machines the AI air-drops from orbit, in 24-hour boss windows
  • SURVIVEtremor emergences, when the machine's settlements surface without warning
  • TRADEqRAM and lost tech for NIM on an open marketplace

LOST TECH

Before the collapse, humanity built things it no longer understands. Dig them up. Equip them. Trade them.

LEGENDARY

BULWARK

+20% defense integrity. The last line of a forgotten fortress.

COMMON

MINING CORE

+20% extraction speed. A relic of the old industrial age.

RARE

FUEL CELL

+25% water efficiency. Pre-collapse energy storage, still charged.

EPIC

WAR BANNER

+15% vehicle damage. Standard issue, once, to an army that no longer exists.

THE ATLAS OPENS SOON

Join the waiting list. Be first to claim a hex when the world goes live on Nimiq Pay.