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The big reveal at Bizantium was really great IMO, it gave the game a urgency that it didn't had before
The problem is that the game ends pretty much after that
a) local plant-life is not really edible (the proteins from local plants are not absorbed by humans)
b) Earth's plant-life doesn't grow well in Halcyons soil
c) They are eating mostly tuna, but that leads to lack of vitamins and thus diseases
d) most (all?) scientists were on Hope so they have no one to invent the solution (dumbest corporate idea ever - concentrate critical staff on 1 ship. Wait, no, the managers are the critical staff xD)
As for Soylent Green - if you help the rebels in Edgewater then you can get information that they have found a short term solution - they found fertilizer good enough to grow Earth's crops - dead bodies.
Yes! That's partly also why I was totally waiting for that big reveal. It would have been so fitting, with such signs already there in the story.
And since they are malnutritioned you already know that corporate did NOT use bodies (alive or dead) to produce food and solve the problem (because only rebel botanist know about this solution).
So there is nothing to reveal.
I tihnk Phines also confirms this at some point (that corporate do NOT have a solution).
Which also kinda makes me to mention my biggest gripe with the story line and generally whole game - it's so "front loaded".
By the time you finish Edgewater and Groundbreaker (if you dont speedrun) you basically know everything and seen like 90% things game has to offer and all enemy types (gorillas, dogs, humans, robots).
Monarch being the biggest planet/zone has I think the shortest main quest part there... (aside from looking turbo ugly)
But generally isn't it the other way around? It's the Halcyon that went dark, has Earth's minister under house arrest.
Both seems strange in contrast to what you can find in Chairman computer - Sophia mentions that they are trading with other systems/colonies for food.
This changes the whole narrative, that Halcyon is some lonely backwater post far far away without any contact...
Seems pretty clear to me that's just a blank slate for future narrative/content. Nothing really committal was revealed, other than that Earth has "gone dark." It's something they'll build up on in the future.
No, Earth has gone dark, not Halycon. No message from Earth in 6 months and the cruiser send to investigate vanished without a trace.
Thats why Halycon and the other colonies started trading with each other, no more supplies from Earth coming to the colonies.
The minister was under house arrest since he did not want to keep this a secret but the board disagreed since they saw their luxury live in Byzantium in danger if it would be known that they are cut off from Earth.
I don't think the minister knew. He wants you to send a message to earth about Halcyon's mismanagement... Which of course won't be picked up since it's gone dark. I think he is under house arrest because they don't know what to do with him and are unsure he can be trusted.
Yeah, i think you are right, i was not sure about the details anymore. Only remembered that the board knew that Earth did go dark and was trying to keep it a secret.