Genesis 2 Chronicles

Genesis 2 Chronicles

Event

Organizer

Studio Wildcard

Start date

November 7th, 2020

End date

March 2021

The Genesis 2 Chronicles are a series of routine content drops that add new explorer notes and skins related to the DLC Genesis: Part 2. It started on November 7th 2020.

Gameplay Changes

Explorer Notes

The Genesis Chronicles adds in multiple Explorer Notes connected to Genesis: Part 2, some of which come from  HLN-A,  Rockwell himself or Santiago. The player must have  the Mini-HLNA equipped in order to unlock the notes.

Santiago's notes have to be picked up, and are not awarded just by getting into close proximity.

Genesis 2 Chronicles I

•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #1 (The Island) - Found in the North West Cave (19.7, 19.0).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #2 (The Island) - Found in the The Caverns of Lost Hope (48.3, 80.3).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #3 (The Island) - Found in Lower South Cave (83.1, 53.8).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #4 (The Island) - Found in the North East Cave (15.4, 85.0).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #5 (The Island) - Found in The Caverns of Lost Faith (61.2, 21.3).

Genesis 2 Chronicles II

•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #6 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the landscape (nearby 22.5, 34.3 or 14.7, 35.2).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #7 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the landscape (nearby 76.2, 68.6 or 76.9, 67.8).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #8 (Scorched Earth) - Found on a bridge above The World Scar (nearby 50.1, 16.8).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #9 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the landscape (nearby 68.2, 38.3 or 69.0 36.2).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #10 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the landscape (nearby 50.4, 74.3 or 51.6, 74.3).

Genesis 2 Chronicles III

•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #11 (Aberration) - Found at 15.4, 41.7 and 13.7, 41.3 (at the Fallen Nexus (Aberration) at the structures that oversee the lake)
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #12 (Aberration) - Found at 59.5, 33.4 (in the Overlook (Aberration) where the structures are clustered)
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #13 (Aberration) - Found at 42.7, 36.8 (near the Rockwell Terminal nearby The Grave of the Lost (Aberration))
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #14 (Aberration) - Found at 52.4, 69.3 (Hidden Grotto (Aberration))
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #15 (Aberration) - Found at 43.8, 12.5 (Ancient Device (Aberration))

Genesis 2 Chronicles IV

These notes may not be accessible on dedicated servers at the moment (version 323.6).

•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #16 (Extinction) - Found at 46.7, 14.0 (The lowlands (Extinction)).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #17 (Extinction) - Found at 19.9, 18.8 (ramp near at Fallen Tower (Extinction)).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #18 (Extinction) - Found at 49.5, 57.5 (East-side of Sanctuary (Extinction)).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #19 (Extinction) - Found at 80.6, 90.6 (East-side of Desert Dome (Extinction)).
•  Genesis 2 Chronicles #20 (Extinction) - Found at 13.9, 83.6 (Snow Dome (Extinction)).

Mini-maps

The Island Chronicles I	Scorched Earth Chronicles II	Aberration Chronicles III	Extinction Chronicles IV
red: Note #1 blue: Note #2 green: Note #3 purple: Note #4 cyan: Note #5	red: Note #6 blue: Note #7 green: Note #8 purple: Note #9 cyan: Note #10	red: Note #11 blue: Note #12 green: Note #13 purple: Note #14 cyan: Note #15	red: Note #16 blue: Note #17 green: Note #18 purple: Note #19 cyan: Note #20

Unique Skins

The Genesis 2 Chronicles event adds in new, unique skins related to Genesis: Part 2, obtainable by unlocking Genesis: Part 2-related Explorer Notes.

Genesis 2 Chronicles I

• Federation Exo Boots Skin

Genesis 2 Chronicles II

• Federation Exo-leggings Skin

Genesis 2 Chronicles III

• Federation Exo-Chestpiece Skin

Genesis 2 Chronicles IV

• Federation Exo-Gloves Skin

Calendar

• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Happy New Year!	January 1st, 2022	January 1st, 2022
	ARK: Love Evolved 3	February 9th, 2022	February 16th, 2022
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 7	April 11th, 2022	April 25th, 2022

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Happy New Year!	January 1st, 2021	January 1st, 2021
	ARK: Love Evolved 2	February 11th, 2021	February 18th, 2021
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 6	March 31st, 2021	April 14th, 2021
	ARK: Summer Bash 2021	June 30th, 2021	July 21st, 2021
	ARK: Fear Evolved 5	October 26th, 2021	November 9th, 2021
	ARK: Extra Life 2021	November 6th, 2021	November 7th, 2021
	ARK: Turkey Trial 5	November 23rd, 2021	December 7th, 2021
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 6	December 14th, 2021	January 6th, 2022

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Love Evolved	February 11th, 2020	February 18th, 2020
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5	April 7th, 2020	April 21st, 2020
	ARK: 5th Anniversary	June 11th, 2020	June 24th, 2020
	ARK: Summer Bash 2020	June 25th, 2020	July 21st, 2020
	ARK: Fear Evolved 4	October 22nd, 2020	November 6th, 2020
	Genesis 2 Chronicles	November 7th, 2020	March 24th, 2021
	ARK: Turkey Trial 4	November 24th, 2020	December 8th, 2020
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 5	December 17th, 2020	January 7th, 2021

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 4	February 12th, 2019	February 18th, 2019
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 4	April 16th, 2019	April 30th, 2019
	ARK: Summer Bash 2019	July 2nd, 2019	July 19th, 2019
	Genesis Chronicles	October 10th, 2019	February 25th, 2020
	ARK: Fear Evolved 3	October 22nd, 2019	November 5th, 2019
	ARK: Turkey Trial 3	November 19th, 2019	December 6th, 2019
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 4	December 18th, 2019	January 7th, 2020

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 3	February 13th, 2018	February 16th, 2018
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3	March 29th, 2018	April 10th, 2018
	ARK: ARKaeology	June 15th, 2018	July 17th, 2018
	Extinction Chronicles	June 19th, 2018	November 6th, 2018
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 3	December 18th, 2018	January 7th, 2019

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 2	February 12th, 2017	February 20th, 2017
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 2	April 15th, 2017 for PC April 26th, 2017 for Xbox & PS4	April 22nd, 2017 for PC March 3rd, 2017 for Xbox & PS4
	ARKs Two Year Anniversary	June 2nd, 2017	June 5th, 2017
	The Witches Curse	October 30th, 2017	November 1st, 2017
	Holiday Event	December 23rd, 2017	January 1st, 2018

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day	February 14th, 2016	February 22nd, 2016
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure	March 25th, 2016	March 31st, 2016
	ARK: Survival Devolved	April 1st, 2016	April 2nd, 2016
	ARK: Awesome Anniversary	June 2nd, 2016	June 13th, 2016
	ARKdependence Day	July 3rd, 2016	?
	ARK: Fear Evolved 2	October 28th, 2016	November 6th, 2016
	ARK: Turkey Trial 2	November 15th, 2016 for Xbox November 24th, 2016 for PC	December 1st, 2016
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 2	December 23th, 2016	December 30th, 2016
	New Year's on ARK	December 31st, 2016	January 1st, 2017

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Fear Evolved	October 28th, 2015	November 5th, 2015
	ARK: Turkey Trial	November 25th, 2015	December 1st, 2015
	ARK: Winter Wonderland	December 22, 2015	January 5th, 2016
	ARK: Happy First (Half) Year!	December 31st, 2015	January 1st, 2016

Notes

Genesis 2 Chronicles 1

• Note #1: HLN-A is getting nostalgic about being back on The Island as if it is experiencing déjà vu, something that is odd for an AI.
• Note #2: HLN-A "remembers" being at The Island not as an AI, but as a human person who had toes who could feel and smell the ocean breeze. The visual includes a human survivor being at their first days on The Island at the beach.
• Note #3: HLN-A suddenly remembers the survivors Helena met on the Island: Gaius Marcellus Nerva, Sir Edmund Rockwell, and Mei-Yin Li. It realizes it has all of Helena's memories stored in it and notes it is a great parting gift. A high quality image and its pixelated version shows a man with a bald top scalp (Rockwell), a survivor with hair covering his entire face (Nerva), and a woman with long hair (Mei-Yin).
• Note #4: HLN-A explains to the player that people like them and Helena only knew prehistoric creatures by studying their bones. She knows and "remembers" the feeling the players and Helena felt when they saw a real life dinosaur (in-game for players). A visual of a jungle background with a Brontosaurus is shown.
  • This picture is a reference to Helena's first explorer note on the Island when she mentioned seeing a Brontosaurus roaming around.
• Note #5: HLN-A tells the player that not only did it have memories about the adventures it had with the player, but also having Helena Walker's memories, which she finds funny. She finds the thought of whether she is its human creator, itself, or a combination of the two to be mind blowing. The visual shows one of Helena's memories depicting her holding a pistol while being with Mei-Yin, possibly during the time Helena needed evidence about the behavior of tamed creatures in captivity through seeing Mei-Yin's creatures in action.

Genesis 2 Chronicles 2

• Note #6: Rockwell speaks through HLN-A about how he somehow has a connection to it and how the Scorched Earth ARK looks small to him now. A landscape view of Scorched Earth is shown.
• Note #7: Rockwell tries to surprise the player with the fact that he can see them now and describes how he has grown more eyes than his original two when he was Sir Edmund Rockwell. He tells the player that endlessly exploring the ARKs may have been something he would have done but understands that he, and everyone else on the ARKs, would need to leave the system in due time. A visual of Rockwell and his wall of eyes is shown.
• Note #8: Scorched Earth is considered to be disappointing in Rockwell's view. He recalls the events of his transfer from the Island to Scorched Earth and how he has discovered Edmundium/Element during his travels. A visual of an area surround an obelisk in Scorched Earth is shown.
• Note #9: Rockwell notices that something reminiscent of Helena is somewhere inside HLN-A. He admits he underestimated Helena's resourcefulness when she became a Homo Deus as her method of ascension, but he finds it pitiful that despite being a Homo Deus, she couldn't accept his "grand design". A visual of Helena's memory and point of view where she was writing up the Triceratops dossier is shown.
• Note #10: Among the billions of survivors that are stocked in a mysterious archive, HLN-A has been clingy around the player, which Rockwell finds strange. Rockwell knows that the player is capable, but doesn't understand why the player is so special. A visual of survivors in desert cloth armor are shown.

Genesis 2 Chronicles 3

Rockwell's notes in the Chronicles have an ominous tone and echo that is mixed in with his voice

• Note #11: Rockwell notices that HLN-A and the player are back at Aberration looking at the ruined structures. He tells the player that Aberration ARK is pivotal in helping him become a god in his eyes. A visual of his monster form is shown.
• Note #12: Rockwell asks the player if HLN-A told them about its creator: Helena Walker. As a person, Rockwell never understood Helena's liking to the ARK's creatures and he gets an understanding of her when he is making creatures of his own. An image of Helena scribbling down notes in her book, and a mysterious creature with a bulging head and a mouth like the xenomorph from the Alien series.
• Note #13: Rockwell notes that the future people see people of the past as a pattern as they have a record of every human being, grew them in vats, and ran the randomly chosen people through tests that helped the future people to search for any survival skills, as if it is like science. He thinks this is what evolving and dying is and he notes he is beyond that now. The visuals consist of the Tek console seen from the Tek cave and an image of his superiority of breaking the barrier of survival.
• Note #14: HLN-A calls Rockwell by the name Mr. Purple Tentacles and knows that he has been talking to the player through it. HLN-A leaves the information of the amount of time needed to lock Rockwell out of her systems for good as classified. A visual of it filtering itself and alerts that can cause Rockwell to enter are shown.
• Note #15: In the ARK chronological story line, this would be Santiago's first explorer note as he leaves this note on the Aberration ARK before heading through the Gateway Project Portal. He explains to any future reader that the Aberration ARK is poisoned with Element and that they should find a way to leave and head down to Extinction. (This is Santiago's Explorer Entry 00 and the rest of his notes on Extinction are 01 through 30.) A visual of the planet Earth and the Aberration ARK is shown. He also adds a personal note that the mysterious planet surface, or Earth's surface, couldn't be any worse than the condition of the Aberration ARK.

Genesis 2 Chronicles 4

These notes only include those from HLN-A and Santiago.

• Note #16: HLN-A has memories that Helena was amongst the survivors at the start of the lore of Extinction who were in a state of despair when looking at the desolate, ravaged landscape of Extinction. It also remembers that Helena looked to Santiago for inspiration as a partner.
• Note #17: Santiago leaves a note in welcoming the reader/player to Earth and reading the note implies there is a survivor left. He notes the world, or Earth, is not its usual self and advises the player to find shelter from the titans and endure it for a little longer. He leaves a personal note saying there are titans now.
• Note #18: Santiago advises the reader/player that if they are still reading his notes, he wants them to head to Camp Omega, a well known location in-lore that the futuristic survivors who will need as much help as they can get. From there, they can help the reader/player get trained in using his most powerful weapon to stop the titans and save the world: Meks. He leaves a personal note to fight fire with a bigger fire.
• Note #19: Santiago is still unable to get over the clone factory he, Helena, and Mei Yin found on the Aberration ARK as he is still processing about he is not the original Santiago and that every survivor is a copy of themselves. He leaves a personal note that due to his feeling of depression, he wants some Halsted Moonshine (Alcohol).
• Note #20: Santiago leaves a note hoping that he bought the other survivors enough time at Camp Omega in doing something. He tells the reader/player that whoever they are, they may have seen the Camp Omega survivors pull themselves together, helping them out and assumes the reader/player did just that. The last thing he replies that he won't live long before seeing that himself. Santiago leaves a note that he will see someone dubbed D very soon.
  • Santiago is referring to the Titan raid of Camp Omega and that in lore, he sacrificed himself and his mek to give the other survivors at Camp Omega time to escape.
  • Only one survivor in-lore has a name that starts with a D: Diana Altaras. Diana is a survivor that Santiago knew, but at the time, was long dead since she died at the hands of Rockwell during the in-lore events of Aberration. Strangely, she was resurrected by Helena who was a Homo deus at the end of the in-lore events of Extinction.