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Chronicles of Cemented Dreams

Humanity sought permanence through architecture.
What it created instead was something that learned how to live.

​Ancient History

Pre-Modern Experimentation

(Symbolic Montage – Prologue Flashback)

In its earliest historical phase, humanity had already begun experimenting with lime, ash, and primitive binding agents in an attempt to prolong the lifespan of architecture.

These efforts were unsystematic, yet unified by a single impulse:
to resist time through solidification.

In Cemented Dreams, this era appears only as a fragmented montage during the prologue—not as factual history, but as a symbolic memory of humanity’s first desire to arrest nature itself.

​Modern History

First-Generation Self-Healing Biocement

With the rise of modern industrial systems, cement ceased to be a passive structural material and became a controllable, plastic medium.

First-generation self-healing biocement was developed to:

  • Repair microfractures autonomously

  • Delay material fatigue

  • Extend the lifespan of large-scale infrastructure

Although this stage never reached spiritual or cognitive integration, it established the technological foundation for later responsive and biologized architectural systems.

​Modern History

First-Generation Self-Healing Biocement

With the rise of modern industrial systems, cement ceased to be a passive structural material and became a controllable, plastic medium.

First-generation self-healing biocement was developed to:

  • Repair microfractures autonomously

  • Delay material fatigue

  • Extend the lifespan of large-scale infrastructure

Although this stage never reached spiritual or cognitive integration, it established the technological foundation for later responsive and biologized architectural systems.

2030–2050

Technological Explosion

Between the 2020s and 2030s, global investment surged into the biologization of cement:

  • Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation (MICP)

  • Self-healing concrete

  • Environmentally responsive construction materials

Initially framed as sustainable engineering solutions, these technologies quietly introduced a new variable into architecture:
irreversible biological growth.

For the first time, buildings were no longer assumed to exist in a completed state.

2050–2060s

Building–Mind Interface Experiments

In the 2050s, what would later be known as CD initiated early Building–Mind Interface experiments.

Neural-resonant microbial clusters were introduced into biocement, allowing structures to exhibit non-passive responses to human presence.

The result was not true consciousness, but a semi-sentient state—
buildings began to retain memory, display behavioral bias, and produce feedback.

This marked the emergence of first-generation proto-sentient architecture.

2070–2090s

The Hardening Threshold

Decades of large-scale biocement deployment triggered cascading effects:

  • Urban-scale microbial aggregation

  • Accelerated bio-chemical feedback loops

  • Rapid amplification of greenhouse conditions within cities

Architecture ceased to be a neutral environment and became an active climatic force.

This era would later be defined as the final stable period before the Hardening Threshold.

2085

First Recorded Building Anomalies

Anomalies began to surface across multiple urban regions:

  • Localized pulse reactions within structures

  • Emotional interference affecting residents

  • Selective attraction or repulsion toward specific individuals

Official reports classified these events as system irregularities.
Privately, some researchers recognized the emergence of non-rational architectural feedback.

2090

Full-Scale Catastrophe

Global surface temperatures collapsed into instability.

Biocement structures entered a post-hardening cycle:

  • Continued brittleness after solidification

  • Progressive microbial erosion

  • Gradual weathering into fine particulate matter

This architectural powder did not dissipate.
It merged into a vast network of shadow, spores, and micro-life.

Materials once designed as functional components fully abandoned single-purpose identity, becoming part of a distributed life system.

2120–2130

The Rise of CD & the Final Weathering Phase

In the decades following the collapse, CD re-emerged as an underground coalition of scientists, arms brokers, and survival capital.

From fragmented pre-catastrophe archives, CD discovered that vdk injections could temporarily re-energize architectural systems.

Internal divisions followed:

  • Dominionists — treating buildings as resources and symbols of power

  • Idealists — pursuing the continued evolution of architectural intelligence

  • Pragmatists — focused solely on sustaining underground survival networks

By this stage, buildings exhibited extensive cracking and structural fragmentation, while the powder–shadow–life network continued to evolve independently.

2140–Present

First Playthrough Timeline

By the estimated year 2145, portions of surface architecture underwent extreme mutation, forming architectural life-forms.

The player’s Armed Investigation Unit was officially registered by CD as:

A Special Task Force under the Building Management Bureau

Assigned operations include:

  • Expanding CD’s territorial building network

  • Marking and extracting vdk

  • Activating or suppressing hostile constructs

  • Harvesting human resources

Narrative Cycle

Brittleness → Reactivation → Re-Weathering

  • Early Game
    Buildings are activated using vdk to secure resources and rescue survivors.

  • Mid to Late Game
    Continuous activation is revealed to accelerate weathering and mutation, producing increasingly advanced architectural organisms.

  • End Revelation
    CD’s injection logic is a double-edged system—
    short-term control, long-term annihilation.

Development Schedule

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