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I haven't played BZ yet and am trying to avoid spoilers, but if this is the official explanation for what happend to Ryley, he may have wanted to go back to 4546B, and "working to repay his debt" is just how Alterra's spinning it. I mean, employees probably aren't tripping over each other to go to a planet that's eaten basically every expedition they've sent there, so if Ryley got "Core-era Croft-itis" and realized after a week on earth that he was miserable without his Reaper Leviathan friends Mr. Ketchup and Count Van Noperope and that life on Earth had become empty for him, he may have asked Alterra for a spot on a return mission, and they'd have signed him on the spot. That way, they can paint him in their press releases as Paying Off His Debt like a True Alterran, use his name recognition to perhaps get a few more people to enroll... and, since he knows too much, throw him into a bunch of dangerous situations where he's likely to be killed.
In fact, if they ever wanted a DLC or sequel with Ryley in the lead again, that might be a cool lead-in: his ship yet again crashes, only this time he finds out over the course of the game it was deliberately sabotaged so Alterra could get rid of him and make it look like an accident.
But even beyond that, and perhaps more reasonably so, Ryley would almost certainly need to quarantine for a while to make sure he wasn't transmitting Kharaa or any other alien pathogen back to Earth. Again, if Alterra has the type of political sway that's hinted, it might just be easier/safer to have Ryley killed or permanently locked away to prevent that from happening. A Kharaa infection on Earth is a potential extinction event.
They would not kill him for public health reasons, though. Even if they knew about Kharaa beforehand (in my opinion they didn't) and wanted to prevent an outbreak, sending him the plans for an escape rocket and killing him after his return is more risky than not sending the plans in the first place.
Early in the game when you pickup a ruby or diamond, the PDA tells you that under the terms of your contract, anything valuable you find is legally the property of Altera, not you. doh.
Your PDA records and monitors everything you do, seemingly even aware when you pick up a valuable resource to remind you that it's Alterra's property. This data is almost certainly all transmitted to Alterra. So they'll likely know about the contagion and most other things before Ryley ever steps foot on Earth.
After the Degasi expedition was lost, Alterra knew that the planet was dangerous, yet they sent a ship there anyway. While Riley cannot keep anything he found or sell any technology, he can negotiate a deal where Alterra forgives his debt and he signs an NDA.
- The Aurora's captain died in an attempt to save enough of the ship because the Aurora was the only way to contact Alterra HQ.
- It is the radio (not your PDA) that receives messages from other lifepods, and transfers the coordinates to your PDA which will be close by (a few meters, similar to using a wi-fi hotspot in a cafe).
Alterra would not be able to receive communication from your PDA.EDIT:----------
Sorry, but I have to slightly change my views. The Neptune rocket could establish connection (and send data). I don't recall the exact wording of the message you receive at the end, but it was along the lines of "you will be permitted to land once your outstanding debt with Alterra has been settled".
This means that data about the resources you collected has been transmitted from your PDA to the Neptune rocket, from the rocket to Alterra, and that a reply was sent back to the rocket. So, yes, at that point Alterra could definitely know about the Kharaa.
But if they did know, why would they make the landing permission contingent only on Ryley paying off his debt? Their reply does not say anything about "and once you have spent a suitable quarantine time in orbit". He could be carrying a deadly contagious plague, and they still allow him to land provided he settles his debt with them? That still seems unlikely.
I'd argue that if Ryley is still operating under contract with Alterra, then he's still *working for* Alterra on the planet. He's not claiming sole possession of anything he finds, he's using it to continue the mission, including single-handedly completing the secondary objective of finding (the fate of) the Degasi expedition. I don't pay employer for the materials I consume while on the job, why should Ryley?
Also, he's a non-essential maintenance tech; pretty much none of what he's doing is in his job description once the Aurora crashed so either he deserves a massive bonus and retroactive promotion and raise, or he was constructively dismissed.
All big corporations in sci-fi games are... shady in the best case.
Weyland Yutani in AvP is the worst, as their "non-essential" personnel will be turned into alien hosts. :O
I think Alterra isn't much better, so Ryley may be doomed or working for them all life long freely (well only for rations provided by the company).