Unsung
Since: Jun, 2016
Jul 14th 2020 at 1:37:54 PM
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Bumping this. I'm going to move a version without all the slashes and with proper spoiler formatting over to the page, but it feels like it might be a bit wordy so if anyone has any suggestions, edit away.
Trying to rewrite this per a conversation on the forums a ways back, having trouble getting the wording down. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
- AI Is A Crap Shoot: Zigzagged and discussed. Your AI Mission Control is programmed to turn against you if you go against the mission parameters established the previous version of you — in turning against you, it is in fact obeying its programming, as without your memory, you are the one now working against your own previous goals.
- January is an operator programmed to do everything it can to help or otherwise compel you to set the station to self-destruct, along with everyone on it, to ensure that no Typhon can ever reach Earth. Lampshaded early on — the reason you can trust it, it says, is that despite being an AI, it's also a digitized version of you, and while it might be working to destroy the station, it's a Necessary Evil to keep Earth from being overrun by Typhon. At the end, if you follow its plan and gave yourself little to no Typhon enhancements, January says that you are probably safe to return to Earth, but its coding will force it to do whatever it can to stop you from escaping. But it also tells you that you can simply destroy it to keep it from interfering with your escape, implying that it wants you to do so.
- The playable Morgan Yu might not agree with the Morgan who created January, however — as highlighted by the presence of a previous operator called December, who was programmed to do everything it can to help you reach Alex's escape pod in the arboretum and get off Talos alive. If you leave both operators active, January's programming compels it to destroy December before it can get you any further off-track.
- Audiologs indicate there was another operator called October, implied to be the first and implying there was also a November — further evidence that the cycle of Morgan being awakened with no memory has been going on some time, and thus that this trope applies to you to some degree. The amnesiac Morgan who keeps waking up isn't the same as the one that went in, pursuing various agendas of their own, and so they keep 'rebooting' you in the hope of finally getting it right.
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