Sarah (Trust the Science) Morgan is a horrible human being

[Rick Dagless]

So I'm sure most of you have grown to hate Sarah Morgan by now for disliking every decision you make with her as a companion. But I just played her companion quest, and boy oh boy, she is so much worse than just being a stuck up shrew. (Spoilers ahead).

So Sarah's companion quest revolves around her guilt for not investigating what happened to her crew after evacuating from the ship she was captaining during the war. You find her escape pod which contains some notes she wrote while awaiting rescue. She'd been able to pinpoint the location of her crew's pod, but it was too far away for her to get to on foot.

Fast forward to her getting rescued by the UC, and the source of her guilty conscience. When the UC rocked up to Cassiopeia (the planet she'd landed on), she went with them without asking them to even look for the rest of her crew. Why? Because, as she reasoned, if they'd been alive, they would have contacted her by now.

Makes sense, right? But what if they didn't have the means to contact her because their stuff got busted during landing? Seems kind of illogical for a gal who's brain usually works at the speed of science, no? But wait. Earlier in conversation with her, she recollects how she was the last person to bail out from their ship (her being the captain and all). So how would they even know she'd made it out? And let's say she makes it back to UC space, recovers in hospital for a bit and then kind of mentions to UC brass that her crew may or may not still be alive on a horribly inhospitable planet? Nope. She's too busy feeling sorry for herself and instead resigns from the UC in a fit.

So if you haven't played her quest and don't intend to because of how insufferable she is, here's what happened. At least two of her crew did survive. They had a kid. And by the time she finally gets around to checking up on them (not sure about the timeline but it's at least a decade later), with your help, everyone except for the kid is dead. Great job, captain Morgan. I'm looking forward to dismissing her to the worst, most inhospitable outpost I can find. Maybe on Cassiopeia, eh?

[NovaMew]

she liked every decision I made, but I generally play good characters

[Frymewitheggs]

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ her.

[Georgion]

Thanks for sharing the story. Shes horrible.

[Rick Dagless]

Oh, just a correction. She wasn't the original captain. The captain and the first mate died leaving her in charge. Still, pretty crappy behaviour.

[sahur]

Not only that but the game forces you to be generally nice with her no matter what you think of her. All the options you have in her dialogs are:"Simp" "Simp more" "Simp a lot".

[ケツデカピングー]

Bethesda could have written a better story.
and believe science = release some weird microbe in the atmosphere on all human planet without proper experiment and observation

lame af

[Kennedy]

Sarah wasn't in charge of the rescue team and she didn't decide who to rescue. If they found her, the rescue team probably found the other wreck as well and decided, it wasn't worth it. It's the UC's fault, not Sarah's.

[Maj. Crimes]

This is just Bethesda writing. Best not dwell too much on it.

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by Kennedy:

Sarah wasn't in charge of the rescue team and she didn't decide who to rescue. If they found her, the rescue team probably found the other wreck as well and decided, it wasn't worth it. It's the UC's fault, not Sarah's.

Speaking to one of the Admirals says that they looked, and no it's not a decade, i am pretty sure Sarah saying it's been 20 years. 20 years she could have gone looking, but whole reason she did not, was the fact the shuttle THEY launched in, she saw breaking up after launch or similar, and blames herself sending them to their doom while she got away on the other shuttle.

And a edit.

Given a decade+, there were probably more than the 2 original survivors we know about, but for them, stranded on a planet for 10+ years, that IS not unknown nor unpopulated, to not in TEN+ Years time go find a settlement, a landed ship, anything, seems even more far fetched than Sarah's nuttery. After all they were military, some form of training for this scenario would been there. Them die instantly is more plausible than them crash land, mend obviously, survive ATLEAST a few years given they have a child that is 10-12, she wouldn't survive on her own for long. It's just heh. Funny. Pinnacle of story telling really.

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by Your Friend Hana:

Originally posted by Alyce nChaynes:

Speaking to one of the Admirals says that they looked, and no it's not a decade, i am pretty sure Sarah saying it's been 20 years. 20 years she could have gone looking, but whole reason she did not, was the fact the shuttle THEY launched in, she saw breaking up after launch or similar, and blames herself sending them to their doom while she got away on the other shuttle.

What did she do with the kid? Adopt or shuttle that spaceship wreck?

Sarah cant talk to the kid, who is yelling at her etc yadda yadda so it comes to Player to convince the kid to come back with them or to let a 10-12 year old stay on a nice but rough planet alone to become nutrition for landsharks or something

[Starbarian]

I wish I have cosmos dog as a companion instead of Sarah.

[IkyHayashi]

I play a good guy who tries to help and save everyone, so she never judged my actions. I did find her mildly annoying with her comments about me carrying too much weight (everyone comments on it, but it's not the what, it's the how) among other things, but nothing major. When we went to the planet, found the girl and heard her story I was annoyed that we didn't have a dialogue option to say something like "Woman, you couldn't ask for a search party or even come here for yourself at any point during the last ten years? It has been ten years! What is wrong with you?"
Seriously, she's a terrible person.

[DerekTree]

The core problem is Sarah's characterization--it's internally inconsistent.
She's got a military background (strength, independence, hard work) and was marooned after a crash (survival situation). Check.

However, she's now a high maintenance on what planets/cities she's in (stereotypical Mayfair Brit)...doesn't work with back story.

She's also clingy AF if you romance her, which doesn't fit with her backstory.

Yes, the writing isn't good and superficial, but really this is my #1 issue with Starfield. The team characters are unbelievably superficial, inconsistent and more trouble than they're worth. Isolation perk for the win.

[MagicHp]

Funny how most people misunderstood that "Trust the science" moment...

They tell you to "Trust the science".
The science tells us in the context of this game that there is a one in a million chances for the microbe to mutate, so it is the safer option.
That is the moment you are supposed to think "Wait, science tells me that this is the bad solution then, we will release hundreds of billions of these microbes..."
Therefore, if despite losing affinity and having everyone disagree you choose to actually "Trust the science" and go with the macro solution , you are rewarded with the ending snippet clearly telling you that this was the better choice.

So yes, you actually should have trusted the science ;)

[LeBurns]

When in the military you don't go tell your superiors what to do and to go find a crash site you think they should be looking for. You do as told and have to assume those in charge are taking care of the rest. If you had done Sarah's story you would know that it's her former commander, who is still in the military, who ends up taking full responsibility for their failure in following up on finding the crash site. Sarah is faultless in this, though she still feels the guilt, though much of that appears to be survivor guilt. Again, if you've been in a battle and survived when many of your friends didn't, would be something you could relate to.