Lore Theories and Information Dump

[Gorp]

What happened to Sigurd?

In lethal company, Sigurd’s logs can be found on a series of planets (more info can be found on the wiki). In these logs Sigurd keeps record of his missions from August 23rd, 1968 until October 1st, 1968? (Year is not explicitly stated). Sigurd was in a crew during 1968, this crew consisted of Sigurd, Desmond, Richard (left behind Sep 7, 1968), and Jess.

These logs are: First Log - Aug 22, 1968, Smells here! - Aug 24, 1968, Swing of things - Aug 27, 1968, Golden planet - Aug ?? (date is unknown in game), 1968, Shady - Aug 31, 1968, Sound behind the wall - Sep 4, 1968, Goodbye - Sep 7, 1968, Screams - Sep 13, 1968, Idea - Sep 19, 1968, Nonsense - Sep 27, 1968, Hiding - Sep 30, Real Job - Oct 1

The final log is not made by Sigurd but instead is made by Desmond, on October 3rd, 1968 which is named Desmond.

Community Theory: Insane

It is unclear what happened to Sigurd, I have seen many community theories that Sigurd went insane (which is believable) as, in the data entry Real Job Sigurd “saw Rich on a hill” 3 days before the entry (so Sep 29th), and in data entries such as Sound behind the wall, Golden Planet, and Screams he hears voices or screams inside of the company building, walkie talkies, or outside of the ship. This theory is very believable as I think anyone working this job would go insane.

Personal Theory: Fired

A theory I have is that the Company was monitoring the team and found that Sigurd and Desmond were using the terminal for non-company related reasons or using company property without its intent or wasting time basic bureaucratic bs reasonings and fired the entire team (or just Sigurd and Desmond). The company most likely viewed the logs and found them to be non-detrimental and left them or found them to be detrimental and tried to delete them not knowing how to decrypt them.

More information

The year that we play in is 2108 making the events previously discussed more or less 139 years old. The company outsources its calls to an area across the solar system from the Thistle Nebula which is theorized to be a part of the Fading Nebula. The ‘Golden Planet’ is mentioned many times in Sigurd’s Logs; it is said to have been consumed by a giant space monster (insert subnautica leviathan joke here) according to a person communicating via walkie talkie claiming to be in the stomach of the monster. The monster in the company building on 71-Gordion (known as Jeb) is thought to be the monster and that feeding it scrap keeps it from consuming more planets (although this is just a loose theory gathered from the logs and community).

Personal Theory: The Same Ship

Another personal theory I have is that the ship that you play in is the same ship as the ship that Sigurd and his crew used. I think this is true because the sticky note which can be used to access the logs by Sigurd can be found on the ship, behind the terminal. I find this to be a little less believable as the company would most likely want to destroy all evidence of the logs and the team, perhaps this is the only ship the company has?

The Bomb

Under the company building there is a bomb or something that resembles a bomb there are power slots in the area that would seem to allow you to put something like an apparatus or some other charged item but there is no interaction, the bomb most likely has not been implemented yet but with the information found in the last 4 logs by sigurd a theory can be made that their team was going to bomb 71-Gordion.

If anyone else has any theories on the lore or sigurd feel free to share! :)

EDIT: In the first paragraph I forgot to mention they get a replacement for Richard named Lucas he is first mentioned in log Nonsense - Sep 27, 1968

[Samhouston]

Sigurd, put your explosives away sigurd. We don't need collateral damage sigurd.

Any-who. very good theories! my personal one is:

"Sigurd was detained and fed to jeb for attempting to bomb 71-Gordion with big boom boom device. local company counter-employee union initiative was called-in to eliminate the crew."

[Gorp]

Originally posted by Hunter:

Sigurd, put your explosives away sigurd. We don't need collateral damage sigurd.

Any-who. very good theories! my personal one is:

"Sigurd was detained and fed to jeb for attempting to bomb 71-Gordion with big boom boom device. local company counter-employee union initiative was called-in to eliminate the crew."

I find this to be very believable what stumps me though is that the company decided not to remove the bomb, I mean possibly it could be rigged so that if there was an attempt to move it it would detonate but I dont think Desmond is that smart

[Samhouston]

Originally posted by Verygoodyesmhm:

Originally posted by Hunter:

Sigurd, put your explosives away sigurd. We don't need collateral damage sigurd.

Any-who. very good theories! my personal one is:

"Sigurd was detained and fed to jeb for attempting to bomb 71-Gordion with big boom boom device. local company counter-employee union initiative was called-in to eliminate the crew."

I find this to be very believable what stumps me though is that the company decided not to remove the bomb, I mean possibly it could be rigged so that if there was an attempt to move it it would detonate but I dont think Desmond is that smart

Yeah, they probably got caught mid-operation before they could power it.

[H0rn_3t]

The insanity theory is my personal favorite since it's the one that in my opinion, has the most going for it. Obviously there's everything you've already mentioned, but there is also the fact of the Little Girl. She's the only monster without a log entry, and as Sigurd was the one writing these log entries, it's safe to assume that as his mental stability declined, the Ghost Girl got him before anyone in his crew even knew she existed.

[FunnelVortex]

I 100% believe Sigurd is insane or snapped at some point.

I know the "Jeb ate the Golden Planet" theory is the most popular theory in this community but if you ask me it is isn't true, I don't believe the Golden Planet was actually a thing that ever existed to begin with (also a 2km x 2km cube is a bit small for holding a supposed planet-swallowing monster). We gotta keep in mind that the later logs mostly contain the nightmares and ramblings of someone who likely is having a severe mental breakdown and loads of PTSD, to put it lightly Sigurd at that point is mentally unwell and nothing he writes in his later logs should be taken literally.

The "Golden Planet" is probably a metaphor for the Company's all-consuming and destructive capitalistic greed in pursuit of profit. Metaphorical content/visions/dreams/etc are common within the horror genre to set seeds for lore and given that Lethal Company is still fairly new I don't think too much should be taken at face value at this point. But I do have a couple of theories:

Sigurd has definitely gone insane and likely built the drill as a way of him lashing out at the Company, however it should not be assumed that it would work or that he knows exactly what would happen even if it did work. Like I said Sigurd can't be fully trusted at that point, so perhaps it's best to just leave the drill alone.

Jeb probably isn't the main threat that's being contained inside the building. Jeb is most likely just the doorman/guardian/receptionist between you and whatever is inside. I don't doubt there is something related to an eldritch horror in there by any means, but I don't think it's Jeb necessarily.

The Company probably operates similar to the Concordance Extraction Corporation from Dead Space where they are part deep space mining/research company and part eldritch horror-worshiping cult (the Dead Space inspirations are very apparent in this game at points). I find it very likely they are the previous owner of the facilities on all the moons we go to and likely conducted a bunch of experiments resulting in "abandonment" and many of the monsters we see. Our job is basically to gather their still-useful assets in their abandoned installations for them to continue their work.

I never really found the "Jeb is tentacle galactus with pica" theory that convincing or interesting and it comes across as a super literal interpretation of the small and probably metaphorical bits we've seen. It's still very early in Lethal Company's lifespan and most theories (including my own) probably will not hold up so we'll see.