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* {{ItemLink|Explorer Notes#HLN-A|text=Genesis 2 Chronicles #21 (Genesis: Part 1)|image=NoteHLN-A.png|size=30px}} - Found at 50.3, 28.9 ([[Excalibur (Genesis: Part 1)]].
 
* {{ItemLink|Explorer Notes#HLN-A|text=Genesis 2 Chronicles #21 (Genesis: Part 1)|image=NoteHLN-A.png|size=30px}} - Found at 50.3, 28.9 ([[Excalibur (Genesis: Part 1)]].
 
* {{ItemLink|Explorer Notes#Sir_Edmund_Rockwell|text=Genesis 2 Chronicles #22 (Genesis: Part 1)|image=NoteHLN-A.png|size=30px}} - Found at 32.5, 46.7 ([[Chonky Point (Genesis: Part 1)]]).
 
* {{ItemLink|Explorer Notes#Sir_Edmund_Rockwell|text=Genesis 2 Chronicles #22 (Genesis: Part 1)|image=NoteHLN-A.png|size=30px}} - Found at 32.5, 46.7 ([[Chonky Point (Genesis: Part 1)]]).

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Genesis 2 Chronicles
Genesis 2 Chronicles
Organizer
Start date
November 7th, 2020
End date
March 24th, 2021
ARK Event This article is about the Event: Genesis 2 Chronicles
This content is not available outside of this Event.

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 Mini-HLNA Skin (Genesis Part 1) HLN-A, Rockwell Rockwell himself or Santiago. The player must have Mini-HLNA Skin (Genesis Part 1) 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 II
Genesis 2 Chronicles III
Genesis 2 Chronicles IV
Genesis 2 Chronicles V

Mini-maps

The Island
Chronicles I
Scorched Earth
Chronicles II
Aberration
Chronicles III
Extinction
Chronicles IV
Genesis: Part 1
Chronicles V
The Island Topographic Map
red: Note #1
blue: Note #2
green: Note #3
purple: Note #4
cyan: Note #5
Scorched Earth Topographic Map
red: Note #6
blue: Note #7
green: Note #8
purple: Note #9
cyan: Note #10
Aberration Topographic Map
red: Note #11
blue: Note #12
green: Note #13
purple: Note #14
cyan: Note #15
Extinction Topographic Map
red: Note #16
blue: Note #17
green: Note #18
purple: Note #19
cyan: Note #20
Genesis Part 1 Topographic Map
red: Note #21
blue: Note #22
green: Note #23
purple: Note #24
cyan: Note #25

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
Genesis 2 Chronicles II
Genesis 2 Chronicles III
Genesis 2 Chronicles IV
Genesis 2 Chronicles V

Calendar

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

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

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

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Valentine 2 ARK: Valentine's Day 3 February 13th, 2018 February 16th, 2018
Eggcellent 3 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3 March 29th, 2018 April 10th, 2018
ARKaeology ARK: ARKaeology June 15th, 2018 July 17th, 2018
Extinction Chronicles Extinction Chronicles June 19th, 2018 November 6th, 2018
Ark Winter Wonderland ARK: Winter Wonderland 3 December 18th, 2018 January 7th, 2019

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Valentine 2 ARK: Valentine's Day 2 February 12th, 2017 February 20th, 2017
Eggcellent 2 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
AwesomeAnniversary ARKBirthdaySuit ARKs Two Year Anniversary June 2nd, 2017 June 5th, 2017
The Witches Curse The Witches Curse October 30th, 2017 November 1st, 2017
Holiday Event Holiday Event December 23rd, 2017 January 1st, 2018

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

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

Spotlight

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Notes

Genesis 2 Chronicles 1

HLN-A speaks in these notes.

  • 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.
    • In the Island lore, HLN-A is remembering Helena's times at the Island's beach during her first days and during her visit with the Painted Sharks, an aquatic tribe that helped her in observing megalodon's quick gestation rate and abnormally obedient behavior.
  • 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).
    • In lore, Helena interacted with all three Island survivors.
      • For Rockwell, Helena always went to him for science related advice, had tea with him every night, and was given an Argentavis that she named Athena. Their relationship soured when Helena went to an obelisk without notifying Rockwell first. Their relationship began to deteriorate in later ARKs to a point that Helena accepted that the Rockwell she knew could never turn into a monster.
      • For Nerva, Helena only gave him information about a guardian that appears when an obelisk is activated and how all three keys from the three obelisk fit in a pedestal at the Tek cave.
      • For Mei Yin, Helena first met her when she needed to study domesticated creatures. During her stay, Helena and Mei Yin began to understand each other through things other than biology and war as they were both terrible cooks. In later maps, the duo had each other's backs when times were rough.
  • 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.
    • In Genesis: Part 1, the Genesis Simulation makers have figured out a way to make dinosaurs that required a detour that brought long term results: by creating virtual dinosaurs and getting their behaviors completely sorted out. The makers later brought the dinosaurs and other creatures to life on the ARKs without any of their impulsive behaviors.
      • Helena made various observations about this phenomenon during her time on the Island.
        • During her time with the Painted Sharks tribe in her Island explorer notes #9-#12, she found the Megalodon to be abnormal for their quick gestation rates of one week and a level of obedience surpassing a dog's.
          • With her background knowledge in biology, Helena knows that fish and sharks aren't very smart due to a heavy reliance on instinct and most animals take far more than one week to gestate only one offspring.
        • During her time with Mei Yin in her Island explorer notes #15-#18, Helena noticed that all of her creatures never fight each other despite being different species.
          • With her background knowledge in biology and zoos, Helena noted that some behaviors in zoo animals are impossible to curb, hence different animal species needed to be in separate enclosures.
        • She makes a conclusion in her Island explorer note #19 that the Island animals are genetically modified, used to humans and captivity, and they needed to have been domesticated for decades at least.
          • According to her logic, whatever society made the creatures knew how to genetically modify them, are able to curb their instincts, and are familiar with domesticating the prehistoric animals for a long time.
  • 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. During this memory, Helena noticed that Mei Yin's tamed creatures are friendly to each other despite being different species.
Genesis 2 Chronicles 2

These notes are only from Sir Edmund Rockwell.

  • 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.
    • In lore, Rockwell was one of the four survivors who made explorer notes at Scorched Earth.
  • 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.
    • Rockwell refers to a region in Genesis: Part 2 where the entire biome is his innards with eyes dotting the area.
    • Rockwell clearly refers to how he used to be a human with only two eyes.
  • 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.
    • During most of his time at Scorched Earth in the lore events, Rockwell was disappointed at the traditions and attitudes of the people who live on Scorched Earth.
      • During his stay at a settlement called Prophet's Rest, he found himself in disbelief and was irritated at how the priests and people there were treating the artifacts as part of their prayer routine instead of being used and studied on.
      • As first a prisoner, then an honored guest of the Burning Phoenix tribe, Rockwell tried to act as a gentleman and only got a barbaric attitude from the tribesmen, an attitude that didn't fit with his scholarly and gentlemanly demeanor.
    • In Scorched Earth lore, Rockwell found and discovered his Edmundium samples when he along with a tribe called the Burning Phoenix slew the Manticore.
  • 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.
    • In the lore, Rockwell is referring to both his method of ascension through use of Element and Helena's method of ascension through becoming a Homo deus.
  • 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.
    • In Genesis: Part 1 Story lore, HLN-A describes the player being one of the many survivors that are in a database that consists of survivors all over Earth and its history.
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.
    • Rockwell's explorer notes at Aberration summarizes his descent into madness and becoming the monster he has become.
  • 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.
    • Rockwell is referring to Helena's passion for Biology through studying animals and some of the native creatures on the Colony ship, the setting of Genesis: Part 2, are creations of his own doing.
  • 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.
    • In Aberration lore, Rockwell had an uneasy relationship with the Tek researchers as not only were they disrespecting him, but also doing things far more efficiently than him.
    • In the overarching lore, the futuristic people that Helena and Rockwell met on Aberration had technology that made them look like they were the most advanced people. However, in lore, locations after Aberration had technology far more advanced than Aberration's Tek tribe.
      • On Extinction, the location where Santiago found a signal was giving off readings that would indicate an even higher level of technology than the Tek tribe's technology. According to Helena, the location was a structure that still had power and had technology that was more complex than the Tek tribe's tek armor and meks. The prism that caused Helena to become a Homo deus was one of the technologies found at this location.
      • In Genesis: Part 1, the Genesis Simulation was a massive ecosystem simulation that utilized the same technology that the ARKs used. However, the environment is completely digital, but it was able to utilize a mind transfer technique that laid the foundation of Homo deus ascension and the survivor's respawn mechanic.
  • 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.
    • Throughout the Genesis: Part 1 Story Glitches, HLN-A was frequently getting hacked by Rockwell and Rockwell talked through it to speak to the player about how they are nothing compared to him.
  • 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 that generally talk about events before Camp Omega was raided by titans and corrupted creatures.

  • 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. A visual of some Sanctuary ruins are shown.
    • The event mentioned in the note was at the start of the Extinction lore.
      • All of the Tek tribe survivors, including Helena, were crying and hyperventilating at the site of the landscape.
      • Santiago took the lead of being the Tek tribe's leader in figuring out their next move, noting they had plenty of supplies, Tek equipment, tames, and tribe members.
  • 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. The visual includes the King Titan in a ravaged city.
  • 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 (Mega Mek). The visual shows the Mega Mek doing its sword attack.
    • Several events happened when Santiago wrote this note:
      • When this note was made, Santiago and the Tek tribe set up Camp Omega and began building the meks.
      • Santiago was working on the meks in being able to combine and form the Mega Mek, the only thing that can withstand the King Titan's attacks.
      • Santiago suspected that Titans are the ones who are spreading Element around Earth.
  • 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). A visual of Aberration's cloning station is shown.
    • In the Aberration lore, when all of the Tek survivors at the Tek village (Fallen Nexus) and the team that included Helena, Mei Yin, and Santiago heard and saw the cloning chambers respectively, everyone had an identity crisis in their own unique experience of the revelation.
      • From Helena's point of view, she wonders if she is expressing herself or the will of the machine.
        • Helena also describes Mei Yin's realization of the cloning factory as unfathomable because she was completely silent.
      • From Santiago's point of view, he is guilty of making weaponry that turned Earth into a wasteland and wonders if he, the original Santiago, or both of them are responsible for the apocalypse.
  • 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. 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. A visual of him in his mek's cockpit is shown.
    • Santiago refers to the Titan raid of Camp Omega and in lore, he sacrificed himself and his mek to give the other survivors at Camp Omega time to escape.
    • Only one in-lore survivor has a name that starts with a D: Diana Altaras. Diana is a survivor and Santiago's closest friend, 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 before the former and Mei Yin defeated the King Titan with the Mega Mek.

Genesis 2 Chronicles 5

During these notes, the perspectives switch between HLN-A and Rockwell. Rockwell's voice gets further amplified with echoes.

  • Note #1: HLN-A finds it interesting, yet unnecessary for the player to remotely return to the Genesis Simulation. It tells the player that they are needed back in the real world and notices that several connections are suddenly activating. A visual of the Genesis Simulation and some of its coding is shown.
  • Note #2: Rockwell takes over HLN-A and asks if the player is back inside the Genesis Simulation (delusion). He mocks that the player must have been thrashed by him so much that they retreated back in the Genesis Simulation. While the player wanders around the Genesis Simulation, Rockwell gives them a reminder that he has control over the place. The visual is a scene of a section in the lunar biome with a trio of Astrocetus.
    • This was a familiar scene in the 2019 reveal trailer of the lunar biome.
  • Note #3: HLN-A is getting frustrated at how Rockwell is still talking to the player through her and she is still working on locking Rockwell out of her systems. A visual of HLN-A being mad and a glitched out warning signal is shown.
  • Note #4: Rockwell finds it strange that the player persists in being in a hallucination as if they have a motive behind the act. If the player had a motive for doing so, Rockwell suggests to himself that he is underestimating them and does whatever it takes to always have the player below his estimation. He wants the player to hope he never notices their presence. A visual of a female and male survivor in cloth armor is shown.
    • When the player beats the Corrupted Master Controller/digital Rockwell, he warns the player that defeating him in the Genesis Simulation only dooms themselves as he will find them in the real world. Later, as the player dons the Federation-Exo suit, Rockwell finds the player and pulls them into Genesis: Part 2.
  • Note #5: HLN-A knows that the player has had enough time in the Genesis Simulation. The player needs to be back in the outside world to finish lots of work with the goal of saving a colony ship. The visual shows a massive colony ship, the setting for Genesis: Part 2.
    • During the end cutscene of Genesis: Part 1, HLN-A notices that the corruption (presence of Element) has arrived on the colony ship.
      • In the Genesis: Part 1 Tidbits related to Element, HLN-A claims that Element is extremely difficult to fix as it has endless possibilities of adapting to anything.