Why would you ever work for this company?

[Evoxrus XV]

It’s work safety and health risk assessment is basically LETHAL!

[Sierra Harmony]

Cthulhu obviously. Who dya think is working the scrap collecting point?

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

I was functioning under the assumption this is a post-capitalisr hellscape galaxy where almost everyone but the working class is dead. The company isn’t even human anymore themselves by the looks of it, so its either sit next to a dying star hoping you have energy to move, or get to work and live a while longer.

[HomesickFetus]

It is a popular trope in sci-fi books, that the character is essentially in debt with a massive corporation and the only way to escape is to work through that debt, but as you work, you run the risk of falling into even more debt. see hardspace shipbreaker, a game following this trope

[gabgab01]

one theory i heard is that we're basically prisoners on death row, forced to do this lethal work to feed an eldrich monstrosity so that it does not devour us / the planet / moon it's on or something like that.

a big indicator for that is that the logs we encounter are from the early 20th century, around the time of the moon landing, whereas the time we play in is WAY in the future, in the year 2200 or something, so while back then they used heavy contracts to force debtors into dangerous work, "nowadays" we use... less voluntary people.

this also explains the bright orange suits you wear by default, as those are reminiscent of prisoner's jumpsuits, as well as the fact that there is no way to actually survive this job, due to the ever rising quota, which at one point gets so high, that even if you get every little thing from titan on every single day, you will still be unable to fulfill the quota.

but to be really sure, we'd have to wait and see for future updates which might add more lore to this game

[LordChaos]

my theory is 1. we are all clones and 2. we where lied to thinking it'd be a cozy job and all you need to do is pick up scrap

[Benjamin]

That's the joke.

[koffi duck]

my theory is that you have no free will and everyone is genetically made to serve the company, they just use the "we want you!" contract factor as training. like ever wonder why the dead bodies or just yourself weight so little? because you are just a piece of meat with a brain made of puss.