So I decided that on my cake day I would make a lore posting for this subreddit, and the day has finally come. This post is going to cover were some of the prominent characters were before and during the initial storm hit and how we get to the story we see throughout the current game. This story also assumes off of Ray's board in the opening scene that humanity has migrated from earth to some other planet. Without further ado let us begin [Minor Spoilers Included]

Im going to start with Ramirez who was a soldier in the military of the current planet we are on. She hasn't seen her family since she was transferred ti her current military base but when the storm hits she doesn't know if she will ever see them again. Over the initial week of the storm hitting her crew either abandons her or dies in the onslaught...

Next we cover A.C. (and Steel Wool Anthony somewhat) who starts out as a research partner in Anthony's chemistry work with blu glo. Anthony is able to use the matter to create a genius fragment system to create fast and easy defense from any point in an area. A.C. is able to create a power gauntlet that can be activated on command and they figure out how to use blu glo to nearly reach the speed of light. One day Anthony goes to extract blu glo from a siphon, then the storm hits, and he is never seen again...

Afterwards comes Penny who was from the UK of this planet and came to stonewood to study architecture and engineering. She graduated at the top of her class but then the storm hit. She constructed a fortress to defend for the time at hand until she had to go out for supplies...

Lastly comes Ken a devoted ninja and a normal person, he had little connections due to his time spent meditating and training. The storm suddenly hit, he ran off in search of a team to fight back the storm...

Ken was looting a building in the area for supplies when he heard noise, not out of distress but almost as if life was normal. He introduced himself as A.C. and showed Ken around the place, they stayed there until they were ready to head out. The group stumbled across ramirez fighting back a husk horde, she ran out of ammo on her personal assault rifle and was barely saved by Ken and A.C.. They quickly went into stonewood and started build small shelters for survivors to stay in, then they came across a custom built mega fort. They entered with caution and were almost hit in the head by her rocket hammer, however they quickly got on good terms and they finally had the team ready for survival.

Part 2: Steel Wool Lars is just as we all know him, Dr. Vinderman invited him to the homebase project and he rejected, which ultimately led to the downfall of the band. He was found in has lab setup by Ray and had no option to survive other than to join homebase.

Anthony is a daring man who wandered out often and made friends with a research physicist A.C.. He often need to get away from the band and life in general and was not found for a long time after the storm came despite his important research.

Carlos was ready when the storm came as he believed Vindermans theory, he was using bunkers to rescue and train a system of survivor squads to maintain a system of order in the bunker shelters and eventually came across Desiree to make a knockoff homebase project.

Syd was mysterious, instead of thinking how to stop the storm when it rose up he used the past and elusive beginnings of Canny Valley to research the time left until the storm takes over and how the past survived the extinction event.

Part 3: The Storm

The storm just needs an explanation and what it really is is a Parallel universe that feeds off of our success as a race, every day the storm is stronger. The storm attacked once before, but the Storm King was not strong enough and his army had not fully developed until recently. Vindertech's success fed the storm until they came and wiped out 98% of the population and counting. The reason for the glyphs found in Canny Valley are humanity's past record of the storm, so many people died because of the newfound strength they gathered. Every life the storm takes is another husk added to the army and this is how something so mysterious quickly took over the planet.

Thank you for reading this, it took a very long time to make and I hope it gave you more insight into a potential backstory for the major characters of the story. I will also try to reply to any questions, comments, or parts of the story I did not answer.