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Lore Cheatsheet
By aVehicle and 1 collaborators
The need to know on Firefall's backstory. Not a comprehensive guide, but you'll be able to impress friends and keep yourself from getting bull sh*tted in zone chat.
   
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Firefall ⇢ English 
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Backstory
What happened before you jump ingame:
  • Astroid carrying Crystite crashes into Earth in 2177. This event is called the Firefall.
  • Resulting nine year winter that causes large nations, including the US, to fall.
  • Mankind discovers that Crystite is a powerful power source and rebuilds.
  • The Accord is formed to unify mankind and to keep people from fighting over Crystite.
  • This makes the Bandits mad, they're a secondary enemy.
  • More Crystite is found on Alpha Prime, a star system in Alph Centari, ships sent to get more.
  • Ships accidentally carry bugs (e.g. Arhanas) to Earth, a secondary enemy.
  • The Arclight, a warship that can bend space to travel faster than light, is built.
  • The purpose of the Arclight was to keep colonist at Alpha Prime in check.
  • On its first attempt to bend space, the Arclight rips a hole in space and lets the Melding through.
  • The Arclight crashes outside of Fortaleza, Brazil. This is where the game takes place.
  • The Melding is an energy storm that covers most of Earth. It mutates life.
  • The Chosen, transformed humans, emerge from the Melding, they're the main enemy.
  • The game starts four years after the Melding emerges in 2237. It's the end of the world.
  • You're a mercinary working for The Accord as part the ARES Initiative.
Firefall ⇢ English
Firefall
English
Accord, United Armies of
your country, who you fight for
Arcfold
teleport by bending space
Arclight, UAS
crashed starship in habor
Arhana
alien bugs accidentally brought from Alpha Prime, means "spider" in portugese
Battleframe
your class, power armor with jumpjets and abilities powered by crystite
Brontodon
elephantoid, genetically engineered livestock, also a plushie
Chosen
humanoid, main enemy
Crystite
money, power source for basically everything
Firefall
the day the astroid carrying crystite crashed into earth
Melding
energy storm that keeps you in the playable zone
M-Day
day the melding passed through the hole in space the Arclight ripped
Nostromo, Consul
leader of your country
Storm Kesteral
birdoid, genetically engineered to keep birds alive
Thumper
space drill you call to mine resources
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See also
  • New player guide — Written to you get you on your feet and on your way to being Pro ASAP.
  • Thumping — Metals, an important resource in Firefall, is primarily collected by Thumping.
12 Comments
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Cheesecake 19 Jul, 2023 @ 8:53am 
Thanks, I've been playing the game for the past few days! This helped me heaps
Blizz 22 Jun, 2022 @ 1:49am 
miss this game man
DOMINOTIK THE AFKFOX 14 Jun, 2021 @ 2:07pm 
Thanks for the lore guide!
Aldedandra 18 Nov, 2015 @ 9:12pm 
I have been playing Firefall for days not really knowing anything about it. I just downloaded and starting playing bits and pieces here and there. This has really shed some light on what this game is really about. Thank you!
ALeifontheWind 14 Oct, 2014 @ 3:33am 
Wow, I didn't thinkg they'd put that much effort into a backstory, thanks for the link
In game it leads you to believe that melded humans become carcasses, apparently that's not it though
Maybe that's what happens to some of them? Or maybe only the weak?
Anyway, you tought me a thing or two with this guide
aVehicle  [author] 14 Oct, 2014 @ 2:01am 
@SuperRandom53, I'm pretty sure its transformed. Go to the official webite, there was a manga about Firefall's backstory: http://www.firefallthegame.com/manga/episode-ten-reunion
ALeifontheWind 12 Oct, 2014 @ 10:47pm 
nice guide, one correction though
the chosen are not transformed humans, but the inhabitants of the dimension the melding came from.
Source: Firefall intro video
aVehicle  [author] 29 Sep, 2014 @ 3:11pm 
:O @Jon McFluffy
McFluffy 12 Sep, 2014 @ 7:30am 
i still say that we are all clones of the oringal ares 35 and with instant plastic surgery and body modifaction, we can choose who our clones want to be like we are different people.
[MM] Vannevariable 6 Aug, 2014 @ 4:14pm 
hmm... spartan, but definitely sufficient and succinct. You get the thumb for this one.