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I assume he's with the Empire, but what rank? He isn't wearing a hat. He almost looks like a storyteller, but he doesn't show up among the other narrators. Is he someone specific? Is he Tynan? Is he just some random glitterworld aristocrat unworthy of this much attention? WHO IS HE?!?!

More basic drugs. Opiates, shrooms, etc. Perhaps something that increases psychic sensitivity to give something special to psycasters

Megasloths aren't from earth. They're some kind of genetic experiment or mutation, or maybe they aren't sloths at all. But in the lore, they went extinct from earth at some point?

Ah! But you see, in an earlier version of the game, they were called Megatheriums, not Megasloths. Megatheriums are very real creatures that went extinct a few million years ago. They are considered the ancestor to the modern sloth. Chances are, they were cloned by humans in some sort of resurrection project, though that does raise the question of "Where are the mammoths?"

The nearest solar system to our own is 80 lightyears away. Sure, there are solar systems out there that may be closer to each other, but not enough to justify the short age difference.

The nearest solar system with one or more planets in the "Goldilocks" zone is just about FOUR light years away, namely Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri trinary system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b

So it is. I guess I mixed up the theoretical NASA ETA with the time in lightyears. My bad. In that case, I suppose it's reasonable for sublight travel to be widespread. Maybe not on a galactic scale, but still.

According to the game, the empire was thousands of years old and several planets strong. Based on their arcane technology and their outlandish standards of living, these planets probably included a glitterworld or two.

So what happened? Apparently, a group of outsiders sent them packing, but how is that possible? Not even mechanoids are a match to imperial forces, so what could have possibly been such a huge threat?

More importantly, how long before they find us?

I doubt that the ships are legitimately sublight. They never directly mention any sort of warp drive or anything like that, but the Johnson-Tanaka drive seems to be more than just a regular engine. Some of the spacer colonists have chronological ages that don't make sense for space travel, some apparently being in space for barely a few decades. The nearest solar system to our own is 80 lightyears away. Sure, there are solar systems out there that may be closer to each other, but not enough to justify the short age difference.

While not exactly "proof", it is worth noting the description behind tribal factions. It mentions the possibility that the tribes originate from a technological civilization thousands of years prior. This seems unlikely at best, given the timeframe given, unless the civilization they are referring to is in fact Earth. Perhaps this is a bit of foreshadowing from our dear friend Tynan?

Terraforming doesn't quite make sense. I'm not saying its impossible, but terraforming a planet to this state would be a monumental task even for a glitterworld. If it did happen, it would have to be fairly recently, since that level of technology would not be available for some time. In that case, why would the terraformers have left? Why would they spend such a ludicrous amount of resources just to abandon the world altogether?

I've seen a lot on this site already wondering whether the rimworld we land on is in fact Earth in a post-apocalyptic state. Some people say it can't possibly be Earth, while others say that it can't possibly be anything else. I've decided to compile some pertinent facts and evidence both for and against the argument. Feel free to debate below.

- Almost all animal life is directly from Earth life. Obvious exceptions include Thrumbos and Boomalopes, though Boomalopes could very easily be genetic experiments to more easily produce chemfuel.
- Ruins are omnipresent across the planet. Many of these ruins are sealed, containing mechanoids and cryopods that are hundreds or even thousands of years old.
- The game starts in the year 5500. It's clear that the Gregorian calendar has changed (Septober, Jugust, etc.) but is still being used, so it is reasonable to assume the game takes place about 2500 years in the future. This could explain the ruins, most notably the ancient highways, but it's not enough time to change the topography so drastically. Unless there was a drastic event, like a meteor impact or an archotech disaster, we should still see landmass like Africa and Europe intact.
- The word Earth exists in the game under the description for humans, where it mentions "non-Earth planets". It seems that humanity is aware that Earth is the homeworld of humanity, so that weakens the argument that humans forgot that Earth isn't a new frontier.
- Rimworlds are supposed to be at the edge of the galaxy. Earth is only 2/3 out, but it is worth noting that the "rimworld" may actually be more central than we realize. Imperial fleets and independent trade companies come by all the time, so it's not exactly out of the way. Clearly this world is central enough to be a pit stop for traders.

No such luck, I'm afraid. I can give you the current save, where the quest is still in the historical tab, though. The quest is called "The Tremendous Construction". The quest was assigned on the 12th of Jugust, 5501.

Was playing the game after the new update and got a quest from a knight to build a monument. The monument has no blocks in it. The quest has no associated rewards. I accepted it out of sheer curiosity, and it still gave the monument marker. When I placed it, it instantly finished the quest, which then gave me 15 relations and told me to defend the monument that didn't exist. I have a handful of basic mods installed, but I don't think any of them touch the quest system and all of them say they are compliant with the update. I posted a screenshot below in dev mode.