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The BurstNewsThe creation of Mirages!
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The creation of Mirages!

The Burst · published 30 Sep 2024, 17:59 UTC

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Hello everyone.


I've noticed a lot of talk about mirages lately, so why not delve deeper into them and how they came to be?

If you ask one of our programmers, who basically created the one and only reverse trike from scratch, he would probably say something like: “I was told to do it and I did it. And it slaps.”

For serious though — At first we actually wanted to implement a vehicle that would glide across the sand using a sail, but ended up going for a reverse tricycle, since it was more... versatile.

We began with a bunch of prototypes with a different number of wheels, casings - some of them looked like a full on buggy with four wheels, metal roof and multiple seats. We got rid of the roof, additional wheels (at some point the seats followed), and we even had some prototypes that looked like sleds!

First we swapped front wheels with sleds, then we wanted something cooler, so we slapped on jet engines!
Buuut... that didn't go as planned, so we reverted to more... Damag-ish technologies - fans! However, they started looking too much like some totally unrelated hovering machine...
There were prototypes that even looked like a modern day drones but we don't talk about that...

Eventually, it all came down to the reverse trike we all know and love today! Unfortunately, the problems didn't stop there. What about combat? What about all those wild chases? Well, believe it or not, but at first you just had to ram the guys you didn't like and pray for survival. We even considered adding a bunch of guns to the front of the trike, slap couple of mines here and there... you know.

But then it struck! Why don't we use... GUNS??? Like... regular guns. After this shocking revelation, we had our top men working on it for seven billion years and the results speak for themselves!

Anyways, that's gonna be all for today! Stay tuned for more, operatives!

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