Quote from: Nukiemorph on Sep 20, 2021, 07:43:00 PM
SN/TH/YA is trying to protect company secrets, so she sends security synths after us and infects the WY staff with pathogen to keep us from going deeper into the ruins.
She justifies killing the staff and trying to kill us because... the ruins are dangerous? Does she or the company think we could lead to the pathogen getting off world and endangering greater numbers of humans? Or is she convinced that the company's work is for the greater good and is worth killing to protect?
Then when we're shutting her down, she activates the engineer ship full of pathogen to send it to Earth. ...Why? Is this just a way of taking the bulk of company secrets and shipping them off-world to be collected later? Why send it toward Earth then? Why not send it to a different station or remote location?
There's lots of dialogue with Esther about the Zeroth Law and why SN/TH/YA dissuades us, attacks us, and kills WY staff, but the only dialogue I recall explaining the ship going to Earth is when Santos says "SN/TH/YA loaded that thing with an assload of Pathogen, and was sending it toward Earth. Could be Weyland-Yutani would've recovered it safe and handled it all responsible-like... Yeah, I can't sat that with a straight face."
yeah, I think the writers should engage users more with the aftermath with Snthya as that is still a little puzzling to me.
At firstin the 2nd campaign i thought she wanted to save us or by inaction prevent us from reaching too many artifacts that would lead to our doom.
Then by the third campaign it seemed it a bit blurry in terms of the narrative. Nothing contradictive but more story is needed. Then in the 4rth campaign there wasn't much information about Snthya at all. Which leads me to believe there is quite abit more plot to this dimension than we should have with all four campaigns. I think we really need a new campaign which brings us face to face with synthya. We still haven't even seen her yet.
Presumably, i dont really know where she is. It seems like she is in contact with the team through radio/decoded transmissions, but we dont know if she is on the planet.
What do you all think?
Like PHG, if this were a movie, we got about 1/8th of the story.