Memverse

Development notes of Project Memverse in the seventh entry of Marina's Dev Diary

“	This is the Memverse. It's a prototype VR... that is, a virtual reality that I made.	”
— Marina explaining the Memverse

The Memverse is a virtual world as a part of Project Memverse. It features an uncolored version of Inkadia and it serves as the mission hub for Splatoon 3: Side Order.

It contains the Order Sector, a mysterious colorless world resembling Inkopolis Square, inhabited by various sea creatures and governed by its own set of rules.

Description

Based on the design of the Order Sector, the Memverse resembles an off-white version of Inkadia, drained of color and covered in bleached coral.

It is part of Project Memverse, created when the Chaos vs. Order Splatfest ended, having the purpose of restoring the memory and thoughts of Sanitized Octarians and primarily contains the Order Sector and the Spire of Order.

In the eleventh entry of Marina's Dev Diaries, she names the temporarily-titled Project Memverse "★Dramatic Days in Orderland★".

Story

Marina describing the Memverse

In the first entry of Marina's Dev Diaries, it was mentioned that the idea of Project Memverse originated when the Chaos vs. Order Splatfest of Splatoon 2 ended with Team Chaos as the winner. Marina came up with this project to assist Agent 8 and all the Sanitized Octarians that Kamabo Corporation victimized. The name of the project was not yet finalized. She also prepares Off the Hook's highly anticipated world tour while developing her project.

In the eleventh entry of Marina's Dev Diaries, she finally names the temporarily-titled Project Memverse "★Dramatic Days in Orderland★". In the same entry, she realizes that the Sea-Cucumber Phones, which she was planning to use as entry points into the virtual reality, have a security flaw that could be exploited to pull anyone inside against their will — which is exactly what Order ends up doing.

In the events of Side Order, Agent 8 wakes within it, encountering the Pearl Drone; they must ascend the Spire of Order to save Marina in the tutorial. They also met Acht in the Spire.

Jellyfish, Inklings and Octolings whose minds got trapped into the Memverse (including Acht on the left)

After completing the tutorial of Side Order, Marina, who was mind-controlled by Order through a Controller VM and wired into a large tentacle blob as Marina Agitando, is saved by Agent 8, Acht, and Pearl, and starts discussing the issues of the Memverse.

She explains that it is her "prototype virtual reality", and the only things that are "real" are their minds. Marina also reveals that the fuzzy cloud they encountered when rescuing her was Order, which took control of her and hijacked the entire project.

Its ultimate goal is to create a "colorless and changeless world of order", and forcibly connect as many people to it as possible. To keep pulling people into it, Order uses a process called Grayscaling to neutralize the will of everyone trapped in the virtual world. Anyone who goes through Grayscaling also slowly starts to lose their free will in reality as well, losing the world they had been living in.

Credits

The Memverse as seen in the credits, with the Inkopolis Tower

After clearing the 30th floor of the Spire of Order for the first time, Agent 8, Off the Hook, and Acht ascend in a glass elevator, where the credits roll.

During the credits, the Memverse is viewable from the sky, and Inkopolis Tower can be seen on the right side of Agent 8.

The credits can be viewed again in the Foyer of the Spire of Order by inspecting a glass box to the right of the elevator containing a rainbow Color Wail speaker, also used to replay the final phase of the final boss battle and recall the first time in Inkopolis Square (after Version 7.1.0) using the same speaker.

Gallery

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  Marina's computer screen showing one of the creatures in the Order Sector

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  Marina's computer screen showing the Order Sector

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  Marina's computer screen showing the Spire of Order

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  The Spire of Order in the Memverse

Trivia

The white appearance of the Order Sector in the Memverse, with the coral scattered throughout it

• The Memverse's completely white appearance, including the Order Sector, is a deliberate reference to coral bleaching in the real world.

Etymology

Mem comes from memory, like in mem cakes; verse comes from universe — or possibly metaverse, which also comes from universe.

Names in other languages

Translation needed

Finish translating French, Chinese (both+romanization) and Korean (+romanization) ^edit

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ネリバース Neribāsu	Combination of 練り ("paste" or "kneading"), and ユニバース ("universe") or メタバース ("metaverse")
Dutch	Herinniversum	From herinnering ("memory") and universum ("universe")
French	Poulpivers	Octoverse, derived from Patapoulpe, the French name of Kamabo Co.
German	Memoversum	Memverse
Italian	Noriverse	Marinaverse
Russian	Консерватория Konservatoriya	Conservatory
Spanish	Pastiverso	Paste-verse
Chinese (Simplified)	忆界宇宙 Yì jiè yǔzhòu	A pun on 记忆 Jì yì ("Memory") and 异界 Yì jiè ("Otherworld"). 宇宙 means "Universe".
Chinese (Traditional)	憶界宇宙
Korean	네리버스 Nelibeoseu	Same as Japanese
Internal	Sdodr_World	Side Order World

Project Memverse

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	プロジェクト・ネリバース Purojekuto neribāsu	Project Memverse
Dutch	Project Herinniversum	Project Memverse
French	Projet Poulpivers	Memverse Project
German	Projekt Memoversum	Project Memverse
Italian	Progetto Noriverse	Memverse Project
Russian	Проект «Консерватория» Proekt «Konservatoriya»	Project «Memverse»
Spanish	Proyecto Pastiverso	Memverse Project
Chinese (Simplified)	忆界宇宙 Yì jiè yǔzhòu	Memverse
Chinese (Traditional)	憶界宇宙計畫
Korean	프로젝트 네리버스 Peulojegteu nelibeoseu	Same as Japanese

★Dramatic Days in Orderland★

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	トキメキ★秩序世界の大冒険！ Tokimeki★chitsujo sekai no dai bōken!	Exciting★The great adventure in the order world!
Dutch	★Dramatische dagen in Ordeland★	★Dramatic days in Orderland★
French (NOA)	★Tiraillage au domaine de l'Ordre★ (Marina's Dev Diaries)
	Jours Tragiques au pays de l'Ordre (Module)	Tragic Days in the land of Order (Module)
French (NOE)	★Rififi au domaine de l'Ordre★ (Marina's Dev Diaries)
	Jours Tragiques au pays de l'Ordre (Module)	Tragic Days in the land of Order (Module)
German	★Stürmische Reise ins Ordnungsland★
Italian	★ Panico nella terra dell'Ordine ★	★ Panic in the land of the Order ★
Russian	★Приключения в Порядляндии★ ★Priklyucheniya v Poryadlyandii★	★Adventures in Orderland★
Spanish (NOA)	★ Reto dinámico en un mundo ordenado ★	★ Dynamic challenge in an orderly/ordered world ★
Spanish (NOE)	★ Reto complicado en un mundo ordenado ★	★ Complicated challenge in an orderly/ordered world ★
Chinese (Simplified)	心跳★秩序世界大冒险！
Chinese (Traditional)	心跳不已★秩序世界大冒險！
Korean	두근두근★질서 세계 대모험!