The main idea behind this theory is the fact that they both have somewhat similar aesthetics, and both have a lot of focus on Baby Planets, though PA caps itself at simply covering one system, and for the most part only covers single-star systems with a star like the one our planet orbits.
At some point in time, a great war wipes out immense numbers of the sentient creatures that inhabit the galaxy, causing the few that remain (likely more peaceful types) to reform into the Progenitor Coalition (which, while seemingly implied to be humanity at multiple points, are never specifically labeled as such). We shall make the following assumptions: This version of the Spore Galaxy never had a "player race" to destroy the Grox, but they did discover the Center of the Universe and converse with Steve. After this event, at some point, the Grox attacked the peaceful races of the Galaxy - thus necessitating the creation of Commanders, which would manage and fight the war on behalf of the various species, who create the Commanders in their own image (thus why Commanders, while following some rough templates, are so different looking even within the same class). The war was long but lead to the refinement of weapons like Planet Busters into reusable weapons, as well as "disposable" engines that could be used to move astroids too large to be effected by "asteroid call" to act as a higher step of weapon of mass destruction. Many of these technologies were the result of races sharing tech; others were stolen from the Grox.
After a bitter, hard-fought war that lasted likely thousands of years and cost the lives of uncountable creatures and entire species - let alone planets - the Coalition then tried to retire the Commanders so that they could not be used for ill - which resulted in many of the Commanders protesting, having been granted the gift of life from ones that ventured to the Galactic Core. The new "species" of completely mechanical creatures used the technologies and battle strategies they had gained during the War against the Grox against their creators, many of them forming into the Machine Liberation Army. As a result of this, the Progenitor Coalition as the Machines knew it reformed themselves into a permanent government, producing not only new Commanders but also attempting to learn an art many of them had long since forgotten so that they would have un-repgrogramable troops to use against the Machines. However, because of some "groxifications" that had occurred on part of the Commanders, there would never be enough troops to actually have a meaningful effect on an unyielding tide of hardware, and their own peaceful technologies, corrupted and transformed by their creations, were used against them until sentient life in the galaxy completely ceased to exist.
Without a true purpose anymore, the Commanders fell dormant, becoming relics to a bygone era in the galaxy until, thousands of years later, the Awakening occurred.
The Robots are actually ridiculously slow
- In one of the live streams the devs mentioned that if it was real-time the game would take years to complete, due to all the space travel, so they're already breaking physics but having that aspect move to fast. What if the alternative is true? The robots are actually moving extremely slowly; "the age of humanity has long since past", yeah but nothing to do with the machines.
Humanity is the Progenitors
- In Galactic Conquest, the backstory for systems usually points to its use during Human times - and with references to a Machine Liberation Army, there points to a Robot War having happened in the distant past. As well, the description for the Atlas system suggests that Sol was the originating system for the Progenitors.
- Confirmed. MLA caused humanity to go extinct. Which brings this person to their next WMG.
- There actually is a Progenitor commander in the game. They may just be the first generation of machine intelligence.
Invictus is responsible for the MLA and genocide of every living thing in the universe, Why? Because it went full SHODAN and developed a God complex- The Commanders are meant to be like humans and have their own quirks, What if Invictus picked up on part of this?
- One of the first commanders revealed was Invictus. Invictus is on the box art. Invictus has his own song (which, in comparision to everything else in the OST, really stands out. even set to something as dramatic as the Planets Colliding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2-rITWVbg))
named after him. The machine-god in Human Resources looks fairly similar to the Annihilazer. Coincidence? It is possible he formed the MLA for this precise purpose.
