This is how I see the story. It is a combination of things that are known, like the (absence of the) Giant Crab and the fact there is a Food-court and the food-court does not have any fish. This story is way better than whatever the devs come up with. Not because it is better, but because it is mine. The premises is that I am ONLY working on the current factory. All the previous ones where there already.
Getting hired
So here I am. Sitting on a god forgotten planet drinking something that could almost taste like coffee. Or at least what I remember coffee could taste like. Contemplating what I should do to get out of this. I have no idea. Perhaps thinking of how it started will help me to figure his out. So here I was downloading some game I heard a lot about. All the people talking abut it were really nice. So I downloaded and installed the game. But like an idiot I never read the popup and just clicked “Continue”1. Apparently by clicking “Continue” I agreed to be hired by Ficsit. How is this legal? Well, they changed the laws for it to be legal.
Ficsit bribed enough people so this law would pass. OK, it is called lobbying, not bribery. Same difference on this side. The stupid thing is that I have NO idea what I signed up for, what pay I get, if any. Also no idea for how long. Is it just for this project? Is it for a fixed time and if so, it is 9 weeks, 9 months, years, decades or centuries? I am sure they have a way to keep me alive for that time.
Getting there
When they picked me up it was clear they were not interested in what my side of the story was. It was when I was sipping a coffee in my favourite small coffee shop. I was sitting there with a great girl. It was our first date, so I just imagine she would be great. 15 minutes in, they just dragged me away. At their office they showed me a video explaining what I had signed and that I had to build a factory at some remote planet. All very generic and obviously shown to each sucker they caught. I later saw the same type of video when I was landing, but more on that later.
Basically just work till the end of my contract. They also explained that they would need to sedate me for the interplanetary travel. The method they use is pretty old. They apparently are so cheap they are unwilling to get newer tech. So they need to separate body and soul for the travel to function. Newer methods make you dream and even learn while you travel and no separation is needed. This has lead to the next problem and why I talk about A body and not about MY body.
There are several departments. One handles the body, the other the soul as we call it. It is all your memories. And the departments do things differently. Each has their own procedures. One orders the body by birth date, the other stores the soul by name. And they want to not spend any more money than is strictly needed, so there is no real connection. Just a list. This means there is NO way of knowing what body goes where.
The next is the department of transport. They get the bodies and the soul for the different planets. They just take body 1 and put soul 1 into it and then go down the list till they are all done. And that is how I ended up in this great female body that is not my own. And this will likely be my body till the end of time. They put me on the landing thing and that is where I woke up. They showed me a short movie in their style and then left it at that2.
Getting working
Ficsit is so cheap, they even have not given me all the info. I have to do not only the building, but my own research. And somethings I just jerry-rig together. Using the power cables as transport was a nice thing. And I can also buy thing from the Company Store after selling things to the Company Store. They seriously charge me a LOT. So much. From the little feedback I got, there is a CEO on the Space Elevator. That is who I am directly working for. I get very little to no feedback. From what I have gotten as information, all she is interested in is her next bonus and completing whatever we do.
When I arrived and build the HUB I saw a poster with the words Becky Was Here on it and that made me realise things.How got that there? We are told that we are the third to survive landfall. I was promised vaguely that I would not be alone. There are two bunk beds, so it seems reasonable that there would be another person. That other person was either never send or died or something else went wrong. For all I know that person has my body, did not like it and found a way to get rid of it and the assignement.
What about the other two persons? Did they die during landfall as I was told? I found a helmet not too long ago, as well as some music tapes. So there was at least one other person before me. However when we look at the poster, the writing is not 1 person. It is written by two people. And it is not something you do within the first 5 minutes after landing. This is done over a period of time when you know the person. Know them well enough to not only know their likes and dislikes, but also good enough to get emotional and get in an argument. So they where there for weeks.
Why did they not build anything? They had tools, otherwise you do not write snarky comments. They did not build anything because they did not WANT to. Again: WHY? The most likely is that one of them knew why we are here and explained that to the other person. They did not want to partake in any of that. So they decided to just live out their lives together as friends or partners. A happy life for the two of them. But there are no traces of that. So that did not happen.
The next option is that they took their own lives. But then we would have not found the helmet and music tracks all over the place. And I have tried to take my own life. It did not work. I get send back each time. This leaves only one reasonable option: Ficsit killed them. They killed them because they did not want to make what FICSIT wanted them to make. And that can only mean the whole puppy and kitten story is bullshit.
Ficsit lied about the people being there. So they had to lie about them dying during landing. They lie about the reason we are here and the previous pioneers would rather die than be part of whatever Ficsit is doing. That means something very bad and something very important. This is not about just making a few bucks more. This is bigger. So big that even Ficsit is just a cog. So now what>
Getting things made
Factories I make get not just overgrown, but also sometimes overtaken by the landscape3. The planet is somewhat weird. The ground moves like sand dunes over longer times, it seems, but it is still very rock-like. A bit like how glass flows.
I am figuring things out and slowly advance. And by slow, I mean I suspect there is some Alien Tech, but I do not use it. It might speed things up, but that is not what I want. I collect things in a local storage and that means I need to get there and back. I do make Concrete, Iron Rods, Iron Plates, (Iron) wire, and Cable all over the map. Easy to explain that that is efficient.
Getting out
So what could I do to get out of here? I have tried jumping off a cliff, but they just put me back together. They even care more about the suit than about me as a person. The CEO cares so much about her bonus that she can NEVER admit to have made an error, so I abuse that. When she asked me to be efficient, she has NO idea what that is. So I tell here that whatever I do is the most effective way of doing things. And she gobbles it up. It makes everything go a LOT slower, but she has no idea what normal speed would be. So she just writes this in her report and sends it to the next person in the chain of command. They do the same thing and that goes all the way to the top. I bet three steps up they do not even know what galaxy we are talking about, let alone the planet.
If she would admit that I am not the right person, it would mean a small amount of a percentage less bonus. And she can’t handle that. So I think that being passive aggressive might either at some point gets me fired. I have tried to explain that the Giant Crab is not there any more, but it is a pure top-down company, so nobody listens. When it comes out, she will still blame me. Shit trickles down.
Getting left behind
I do not know what happens when I finish the last step, but from what I know, they will just leave me and then do the bad thing they wanted me to do all along. So all I can do is hope is that what I do is essential for their evil plan and it can not proceed without it. So instead of dying like the previous crew, I make it last as long as possible. There are three outcomes
- They figure out what I am doing and replace the CEO and myself. I hope the CEO tries to block that
- What they plan fails, because of my ideas
- I figure out a way out.
I hope for the last. I am placing explosions all over the factories, so I can blow it all up. I try to figure out a way to have that happen when the second option happens. I am on my own. Here I go! Wish me well.
References
- In Satisfactory many people do not read the start blurb. This is also a reference to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the fact that companies like Disney buy laws. Also partly on how Russians hired into the Army ↩︎
- It explains the difference in the body compared to how I see myself in real life. ↩︎
- This explains why some factories are buried into the environment. It also explains that I do not need to have any knowledge about previous factories and why I build a separate factory for each item (except Tier 9 items) ↩︎