Brief Speculation on Bridge of Chains

by Stephen Laughlin , Long Beach, CA, Thursday, August 29, 2013, 00:34 (4104 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Any thoughts? Any info about his image I've missed or forgotten?

Interesting stuff!

At first glance, the pale green and orange colors remind me of the moon locations from other concept art, but perhaps also the footage we've seen from the Hive locations in the gameplay demos. The towers look very menacing and formidable. Probably designed in some part to keep something out (or in). Something that can't fly, at least. Something that came from...below?

If you look closely, there are a bunch of transport ships, drones, or something flying around in the distance throughout the scene. They all have a rectangular top that tapers downward. At one end they have a glowing orange circle (engine?) and a line of lights lengthwise along the sides (windows?). I'm thinking the place is more alive than it appears at first glance, with ships coming and going from the towers. How they land on those things...I don't know.

It's strange that each tower appears to have a unique system of cables, chains, and whatnot suspending it from the ceiling, despite the design of the towers themselves looking fairly identical. The one in the foreground is a four-chainer. There's another with a mess of wires, another with three chains, etc. Maybe this implies there's more diversity within the towers than we might think, or the towers were built over a long period of time.

Probably wrong theory: This is some kind of ancient hanging city, designed to keep out the Hive or as-of-yet-unnamed Moon Monsters. Drawbridges pull back to keep out unwanted guests.

As far as the guys on the bridge, the standing-guy definitely looks like a guard of some kind but it's hard to say.

Theory #2, and this goes along with your idea: perhaps the whole thing is a penal colony on the moon. The towers are designed to keep prisoners inside and occasionally they're escorted out to go mining.