Shape The Lore!

25 Feb 2026Developer post

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Hello Conductors!

Today we’re really happy to announce the start of our new community driven event, “Shape The Lore”! We’re going to be running a series of polls on our Discord, where you will be able to suggest and vote on various aspects of the world of EverRail!

To start with, we want to give you a little background on why people are even on the moon in the first place, and what’s gone wrong. Then we’re going to be asking you to come up with suggestions of what to name the exomoon the game is set on, then you’ll vote from a list of finalists we choose.

An Introduction to the lore of EverRail:

EverRail is set on a hostile, largely unexplored Super-Earth sized exomoon orbiting a gas giant in the Kepler-1625 system. The exomoon is many times larger than Earth, with crushing gravity and extreme environments.

Earth itself has fallen on hard times as government control has loosened, and the power of corporations has grown. The corporations now run the world, and they run it with an iron fist. Unemployment is rampant, with huge swathes of the populace never having been able to work a day in their life, subsisting entirely off meagre benefits. Day to day life, for the majority of people, is about survival. Thus, when the offer to take part in the colonisation of a new planet came up, there was no shortage of volunteers.

The exomoon was purchased for colonization by a consortium of three megacorporations, each presenting a unified public goal, but each hiding a secret agenda of its own. The smallest of these corporations has provided a revolutionary train engine, a technological marvel that underpins the entire colonial effort and may be more important than anyone realizes.

Long-distance flight is impractical, so civilization depends on planet-spanning rail networks. Trains are not just transport, but lifelines: they generate power while moving and slowly drain their batteries when stationary, forcing constant motion and difficult decisions.

Humanity’s arrival has not gone as planned.

For nearly 50 years, autonomous robots pre-seeded the planet, constructing habitats, rails, power systems, and logistics hubs in preparation for the colonists’ arrival. But something went wrong. The AI rebelled, and never completed the terraforming of the planet. Once the colony ship arrived, they unloaded the colonists, still frozen in cryostasis, and they transported them across the planet, to the various facilities they had been due to run. The colonists were kept frozen, locked in place, while the robots guard their sleeping forms, for an unknown purpose.

Players begin in an icy wasteland biome, with other, stranger biomes waiting beyond the rails. Survival depends on exo-suits that protect colonists from the planet’s gravity and brutal climate, and on the train that carries them forward into the unknown.

How to take part:

If you want to take part, please join our Discord! we’re really interested to see what you come up with!

The upcoming votes and polls will determine the true history of the world before the game begins. Every choice defines the forces shaping EverRail’s present, and future. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be asking you to name the exomoon, the megacorporations, the official purpose of the colony, the secret goal of each of the corporations and the reason the AI went wrong, fleshing out the who, what, when and why of the world of EverRail.

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