Memorial Park and the Story of Genoplive

So, this park has been around for a while but I don’t think that I ever did actually a piece on it here, so let’s start now. 

So, as you can see with the pictures above, Genoplive is memorialized near the ‘Ocho’ Roadside attraction, next to HALTower. 

The park itself is fairly basic, a few benches linked by a pathway that leads to both the Genoplive memorial and… 

That’s right! A map of the city! It’s pretty much the same one we use here (It’s the same city, after all) and as such people can go here and enjoy their day while maybe memorizing the map of the city? I can also imagine that it will attract tourists from places like Slovoda and Kustad. (I’ll make a post on those cities sometime later) But the focus of this post is on Genoplive and why it’s been Memorialized.

To be more specific, an earthquake. And that earthquake made a flaw in the city’s construction come very clear.

The earthquake supposedly started in the morning, so everyone was awake during it. At about 7-10AM depending on where we look the ground began to shake and some decor in buildings began to fall over, nothing that can’t be fixed.

But back to that building in the cliff face. It wasn’t built to handle an earthquake, which was only getting more intense as the day went on. And, Eventually, the building within the cliff collapsed inside.

This was, as you can tell, not a good thing at all. The building was made to be functional, and not much else, really. It could hold up the cliff and handle people being inside of it, supposedly living since it might have been someone’s house. Unfortunately the building’s structural unsoundness it collapsed.

And with it the entire cliff above it.

The cliff supposedly came crashing down onto the commercial district, destroying almost all of it. But that wasn’t the end, after all, Genoplive doesn’t really exist anymore.

Next up was a neighborhood and shopping area right outside of the view of this picture, and since I know of buildings that should be in that picture, I can’t imagine they’d be in it at all.

The first was a large neighborhood built on a large hill. Unfortunately, the hill itself had some structural problems. You see, A lot of the hill was added artificially with dirt from other places, which didn’t bode well for stability in intense situations like this. And eventually the earthquake became too much and the hill, more or less, collapsed.

This also happened to another neighborhood aimed at richer families that was right next to it. The rest of the city was next to mountains half made out of gravel and the rest of the city’s ground was showing instability. Eventually the entire city, from the town hall in the far south? to a mall and WIP President’s palace up north. The entire area was structurally unsound after the earthquake.

The people of Genoplive apparently did a mass evacuation after the cliff collapsed and the neighborhood, for lack of a better word, sank. They went east and passed up Genoplive’s two neighbors: Travistown, a small farming village, and Kustad, a more urban city like Courdelane. Both cities still exist but have a travel ban on them for whatever reason. The Genoplive Refugees didn’t trust the entire area after this so they went out and boarded boats and made their way, eventually, to Discovery Point to found Courdelane!

Some people have gone on to claim that the old Historic district village was inhabited by natives that were exterminated by the settlers. And, looking through what we have left of the logs from the original ships and settlers, the Genoplivians arrived to an empty field with a forest and savannah nearby, nothing mentions any previous activity there, so I certainly doubt it.