The True Story

[oldsagered]

Does anyone know where we can get the story of what really happened on Zarya One before the game begins? I've followed all the paths and while there are tantilizing hints, I find it frustrating we never get any real answers as to just what really happened.

[Sephlock]

Keeping in mind that I just played through it a bit and didn't get every ending:

The Soviets sent a mission to the moon in secret and found that weird amber/metal substance. They started mining and testing it, and found that exposing it to electricity unraveled it temporarily.

My theory is that they experimented with that effect, and eventually decided to try using brainwaves (remember the electrodes on that dude's head) to see if they could re-shape the stuff in a controllable way, sorta like how we have experimental prosthetics that use similar mechanisms.

Result: Those weird humanlike "amber" monsters.

I think maybe first it caused the people to be entombed in those cocoons and then the monsters formed (think of the process as being like putting your hand in the snow or making a snow angel, but with brain waves), or maybe the cocoon thing was done intentionally to help with the process somehow.

I can't be too sure about the sequence of events, but putting this stuff together should give you a pretty good picture:

At some point the convicts rebelled. maybe from being experimented on, maybe from seeing the monsters, or some combination thereof. Alternatively, the convicts just got slaughtered like sheep when it became every man for himself.

It's possible that the Soviet Union fell and the relevant files were lost in the shuffle or destroyed or whatever, and that caused a rebellion, because it became a case of "only X of us can make it off world, and more help probably isn't coming".

The meteor shower taking out the main shuttle would have made things worse, assuming the shower occurred back then and not any time between when the last man died and when our team shows up.

There was clearly work being done on a second shuttle, so that suggests to me that it did occur during the Soviets' lifetimes. It could have been that they ran out of time, or the necessary parts were all damaged or lost (possibly sealed behind welded doors or amber), or the people (person?) left alive at that point just didn't have the necessary skills.

As for why the facility isn't swarming with resin monsters, I'm guessing they went dormant until they were woken up.

Sarge was probably hired by someone who knew about the moon base, someone from the former USSR.

[Apersonwholikesgaming]

I also want to mention Yuri Gagarin, the first trailer showed him being the guy who first landed on the moon with a soviet flag. Also, remember the mine where they mine those weird shiny materials? The body with the electrodes the guy earlier mentioned in his reply. The face resembles him. He also screamed when the "Crew" got chased by the aliens, creepy. Also, whoever knows the truth, knows Sarge and kidnapped Bones family to force him to listen and follow. They even knew the mission, which indicates there is a snitch within the UN Space Agency.

[Apersonwholikesgaming]

I wish they made a sequel, the possibilities is endless, so as the questions

[Apersonwholikesgaming]

Also, if you looked at their facebook page. There was a secret ending where an unknown alien object goes into Earth and above a city with helicopters revolving around it in defense. The developers scraped this idea so it wasnt in the game. Well they did show the picture. Check it out

[Sephlock]

I didn't even know they had a facebook page.