Generally speaking, in a keyboard-PvP battlefield like a gaming forum, it was difficult for a topic to last very long.
The Fourth Disasters could always find a new angle and launch the next round of the Great Flame War.
However, after some unknown genius brought up this topic, it did not cool down because of the emergence of new topics. Instead, as the version intermission continued, it grew even hotter.
After all—if they were idle anyway, they might as well log on and flame people.
One player went through the Chosen Ones of every version, starting with the earliest PvE versions, which relied on traditional methods like skills, equipment, and levels, and moving on to various combinations of bodily and system modifications.
From the players' own combat power to their piloting skills with mechs, star armor, and starships.
From all kinds of mechanical modifications and enhancements to the carbon-based faction's evolutionary mutations, and finally to the mechanical faction's various tactical combinations, where one person became a legion.
From the ordinary grind-and-level-up style to the management style of Mechanical Cities and even black-market planets.
Almost every version had the cheers of its Chosen One and the wails of its defeated losers.
So the players were extremely interested in what kind of person would become the Chosen One of the next version.
Some said it would be the hidden faction within the legion, the "Starnet Civilization," or even the "Energy Civilization," which had yet to appear.
Others said it would be some legendary new unit, such as the Wasp Queen's Guards, suspected to be the Insect Queen's soldiers, or that rumored "Hammer of Destruction."
The hidden bloodlines of the Psionic Elves and Dark Elves were also included in the discussion.
There were even rumors that the next version would be "sub-civilization construction."