<\/div>The Typhon are pretty durable and have a lot of non-intuitive properties. For one thing, they can build this coral stuff, which seems to be made of nothing and yet acts like a freestanding mass of neurons. They’re massively more durable than humans and they seem to be entirely immune to radiation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I’m not convinced that blowing up the station is a good idea. Maybe that will kill them, or maybe it’s like sneezing on a dandelion, spreading them all over the place in Earth orbit. In this world, people have built a moonbase. We’ve got spaceships. We’ve got other stations orbiting the Earth. It’s possible that the explosion will just launch a bunch of wiggling mimics at these other locations.<\/p>\n
Aside: For the purpose of this analysis, we’re ignoring the events of Prey: Mooncrash, where (SPOILER!) the Typhon are already present on the moon, and spread from the moon to Earth. It’s possible that these events have already happened, or have been set in motion, and thus it doesn’t matter what we do here. For now, let’s ignore this and try to make this decision based on the information available to the Yu siblings at the end of Prey.<\/i><\/p>\nNullwave?<\/h3>\n
<\/div>At the same time, I’m not sure how the nullwave is supposed to preserve the Typhon research. The problem we have here is that there’s a bit of a contradiction at the end. Alex claims that the nullwave device will “lobotomize” the Typhon, but the ending cutscene shows the apex completely evaporating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If the Typhon evaporate, then what’s the point of saving the station? No Typhon cells means no neuromods, which means the entire show is a bust. Maybe just the apex evaporates, and we’re supposed to understand that all the little mimics inside are still mimicking their little hearts out?<\/p>\n
Even if this is the case, I’m not sure “lobotomizing” the Typhon will give us what we want. The whole point of their species is the cool stuff they can do with thought \/ consciousness \/ memories \/ identity. If you destroy their capacity for thought, then won’t they just be a useless pile of tentacles? Can you really make useful neuromods out of them at that point? If so, then why didn’t we do this ages ago?<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s worth a shot. It’s just that I got the impression that what makes the Typhon so useful is the same thing that makes them so dangerous.<\/p>\n
Porque no los dos?<\/h3>\n
But really, why are we even debating this? The real priority should be the safety of Earth, her millions of species, and her billions of human inhabitants. This neuromod tech is dope as hell, but it’s not worth risking OUR ENTIRE PLANET AND EVERYTHING ON IT. I realize Alex and Morgan (especially old-Morgan) would disagree, but screw it. Those two dipshits got a few hundred people killed with their antics, and now they have billions of lives at stake. Who cares what these idiots think? The arrival of this Apex thing just changed the entire calculus of the situation, and Alex’s TED Talk about how awesome neuromods are is no longer relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If we’re going safety-first, then I think the only responsible thing to do is to use the nullwave to “lobotomise” the Typhon, and ALSO nuke the place afterwards. Or if the eggheads run the numbers and realize that the nuke might spread the Typhon around, then we stick some engines onto Talos-1 and shove that thing into the sun. Sure, that would be expensive as hell. It will probably take a decade to make it happen, and then a few more years for Talos-1 to complete its journey inward. I realize this sucks, but like, THE WHOLE EARTH, man. That includes Disney World and<\/b> the LEGO store. You can’t mess around when the stakes are this high.<\/p>\nEnding Choices<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Let’s get the obvious one out of the way: At any time, you can go to the Arboretum and take Alex’s escape pod to safety. You can do this before the game really gets going. This is seen as a sort of novelty hidden ending, and isn’t regarded as a “real” ending. It’s been ages since I did this one, but I don’t think it bothers to roll credits. You just get dumped out to the main menu.<\/p>\n
Assuming you decide to stay and deal with the Typhon problem, then at the end your primary choice is whether you want to go with the nullwave or the nuke. And despite my griping, no, you can’t do both.<\/p>\n
Ending Confrontation<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Regardless of which way you go, you’ll eventually end up on the bridge where Alex is arguing with the January bot. Alex insists we should use the nullwave, and January insists on nuking the station. The game expects you to support one by killing the other.If you do nothing, then Alex will destroy January. I think. It’s been a while.<\/span><\/p>\n If you like, you can park Morgan’s narrow ass in a chair and go down with the ship. The game will even let you sit in the command chair for this. I guess this is fitting if you feel that Morgan doesn’t deserve to live after what past-Morgan did. Moreover, it’s possible that dying on the ship is better than flying back to Earth and facing years of lawsuits, trials, and the possibility of a prison sentence that would outlast her. It’s not clear how Earth laws work in spaceAlex seems to think they don’t.<\/span> but Morgan is directly responsible for the death of a lot of people, and indirectly responsible for even more. It’s tough to say what would happen on Earth, but I’m willing to bet that “happily ever after” isn’t on the table.<\/p>\n If you saved Dahl, then you can go to the shuttle. You can have a final few words with all the main characters you saved. You can also see a little counter on the cargo bay that will let you know how many extrasMostly people who’d been possessed by telepaths.<\/span> you managed to rescue. They’re all back there, and they’re all really grateful to you. We just don’t have the budget to let them thank you in person.<\/p>\n Whether or not you saved Dahl, you always have the option of going to the Arboretum and taking Alex’s escape pod. Despite what I said earlier, the final cutscene does indeed show this thing heading for Earth. I don’t know how it could possibly have enough fuel for that, but now is not the time to nitpick those sorts of details. If the director says you fly all the way to Earth in an empty sphere the size of a Prius, then that’s what happens.Yes, it takes very little delta-V to get to Earth. But the escape pod is ALL hull and cabin space. There’s no volume allotted for fuel. But whatever. Maybe they have some better propulsion technology in this setting. It’s fine.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless of which road you take, Alex stays behind. There is no ending where Alex abandons Talos-1. I respect that. Like I keep saying, Alex is a really interesting bastard.<\/p>\n
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