Bipole is one of the three
sub-series' of the Lemniscate Multiverse, and is primarily a video
game series.
The first
21 games of the series are marked with the letter "R" (
ex. "Bipole R: Empires" or "Bipole R XIX: Quest") and are part of the Retro Bipole series. These games (with the exception of Bipole R XV: Battle Simple, Bipole R XIX: Quest, and Bipole R XXI: Trials) take place in a separate universe known as the Retro Timeline, which is disconnected from the modern series.
The series' numeric ordering was reset with the modern Bipole series with the games Bipole II: Investigations, Bipole III: Conspiracy of the Mechanical Entity, and Bipole IV: Liberation of Xuir.
The Bipole series has an inconsistent genre, but is usually some form of an
RPG or contains
heavy RPG elements. As well as this, the series has an extremely complicated timeline that is
literally only fully understood by one person (the
lore director of the series) and confuses even the developers of the games.
Person 1: Hey, what are you doing?
Person 2: Installing Bipole IV:
Liberation of Xuir at infinityjka.
itch.
io
Person 1: What?
(Person 2 proceeds to explain the Bipole timeline before giving up and walking away)
