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* Every time Morgan uses a Neuromod, it turns his eye red. In the trailer, it progressively turns his eye redder and redder, almost like watching a drug addiction (via inserted in the eyes) gradually grow. The third time, it borders on UncannyValley.
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* Every time Morgan uses a Neuromod, it turns his eye red. In the trailer, it progressively turns his eye redder and redder, almost like watching a drug addiction (via inserted in the eyes) gradually grow. The third time, it borders on UncannyValley.
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* Riley Yu's way out of the facility is an example of this. Not only she gets [[BrainUploading her consciousness uploaded to a machine]] and her body killed, which is scary by itself; the machine gets captured by [[CorporateWarfare a hostile company and used to violate Transtar's secrets on the moonbase experiments]], with Riley unable to do do anything about it.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.
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* Riley Yu's way out of the facility is an example of this. Not only she gets [[BrainUploading her consciousness uploaded to a machine]] and her body killed, which is scary by itself; the machine gets captured by [[CorporateWarfare a hostile company and used to violate Transtar's secrets on the moonbase experiments]], with Riley unable to do do anything about it.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.it.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.
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* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
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* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.humanity.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.
* According to the developers the entire outbreak can be traced back to when Trevor J. Young, the mind-controlled crew member confined the Trauma Centre went into the chamber with a Telepath without a Psychoscope to shield his mind, and was forced to release a mimic while under its control. That the downfall of the station can be traced back to a single mimic being released supports January's claim that if even a single piece of typhon matter makes its way to earth then humanity is doomed.
** With this in mind there are actually a couple of instances that could have allowed a Typhon to reach earth, most notably an easily missed event in the bridge where the player can discover that the Shuttle Advent left the station after the breach but before it was discovered and is currently minutes away from reaching earth. Unless the player found the event and chose to scuttle the shuttle, killing the five crew members if they are not harboring a Typhon, then even destroying every Typhon on the station may not be enough to stop them reaching earth.
* The threat the Typhon pose earth if even a single one reaches earth is made very clear once you learn more about their ecology. Mimics are skilled infiltrators and capable of self-replication, so a single one would be able to rapidly spread in secret, then transform into a Weaver with the help of its clones and start producing Phantoms and their powerful variants, as well as the coral to signal the Apex Typhon.
** The Typhon are also clearly adaptable, producing Telepaths, Technopaths and Nightmares to tackle perceived threats. While earth forces may have more powerful weapons than on Talos 1 unless they're able to rapidly share information and produce psychoscopes then entire squads could be taken out of commission by unwittingly getting near a Telepath.
** Poltergeists would be another dire threat given that they're invisible even with a Psychoscope. The odds of a Phantom becoming a Poltergeist are less than 5%, but if the Typhon were able to overrun an appartment block there could be multiple of the things sculking around.
** Considering the Talos 1 Typhon were able to signal the Apex Typhon with just the crew of a small space station (a couple of hundred people tops) all it would take to bring it to earth would be for a Typhon infestation to run unchecked for a few days in a small village.
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* Riley Yu's way out of the facility is an example of this. Not only she gets [[BrainUploading her consciousness uploaded to a machine]] and her body killed, which is scary by itself; the machine gets captured by [[CorporateWarfare a hostile company and used to violate Transtar's secrets on the moonbase experiments]], with Riley unable to do do anything about it.
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* Riley Yu's way out of the facility is an example of this. Not only she gets [[BrainUploading her consciousness uploaded to a machine]] and her body killed, which is scary by itself; the machine gets captured by [[CorporateWarfare a hostile company and used to violate Transtar's secrets on the moonbase experiments]], with Riley unable to do do anything about it.it.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
* The situation of Alex Yu and the Operators in the ending is terrifying when you think about it. The last hope for humanity is the Typhon hybrid they've inserted human neurons into, yet even after putting it through an elaborate simulation to try to determine its mindset and morality they have no way of knowing why it made the decisions it did or what it is really thinking. In the end even if it does some morally questionable things in the simulation they have no choice but to take a leap of faith and release it, despite knowing that if their judgment is wrong there's nothing they could do to stop it from killing them and then going after the rest of humanity.
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* Aboard the station is Luka Golubkin, "Volunteer 37", a convicted murderer from Russia who was being used for experimentation by Morgan. An email reveals that a Typhon Telepath not only refused to enter his mind, but ''developed an aversion to him.'' [[spoiler: He's still alive on the station and very mad.]]
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* Aboard the station is Luka Golubkin, "Volunteer 37", a convicted murderer from Russia who was being used for experimentation by Morgan. An email reveals that a Typhon Telepath not only refused to enter his mind, but ''developed ''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth developed an aversion to him.him]].'' [[spoiler: He's still alive on the station and very mad.]]
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* When Morgan catches up with Danielle Sho, she's outside the station in an EVA suit and beginning to run out of oxygen. From Morgan's own spacewalks, we know that the oxygen tanks built into the suits have an impressively long lifespan; from the various notes left around Talos I, we know that the Typhon outbreak began around three weeks before the events of the game. It's not clear exactly when Danielle decided to save herself with an EVA, but since she's one of the last survivors of the station, presumably she got out pretty early on. So has Danielle been clinging to the side of the station, relying on her suit's life support systems to keep her from suffocating or dehydrating, waiting for her murdered girlfriend to give her some sign of life... ''for the best part of a month?''
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* When Morgan catches up with Danielle Sho, she's outside the station in an EVA suit and beginning to run out of oxygen. From Morgan's own spacewalks, we know that the oxygen tanks built into the suits have an impressively long lifespan; from the various notes left around Talos I, we know that the Typhon outbreak began around three weeks before the events of the game. It's not clear exactly when Danielle decided to save herself with an EVA, but since she's one of the last survivors of the station, presumably she got out pretty early on. So has Danielle been clinging to the side of the station, relying on her suit's life support systems to keep her from suffocating or dehydrating, waiting for her murdered [[spoiler:murdered]] girlfriend to give her some sign of life... ''for the best part of a month?''
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* In Psychotronics, there is a testing area where a mimic is presented with objects for it to imitate. When it sees Morgan, it will often shift to Morgan in a T-Pose and fall over. This itself is amusing. However, the same Mimic will sometimes turn into a framed photo of the Yu family, like the one in Morgan's office. The sense that this Mimic can not only comprehend what Morgan looks like but ''who'' Morgan is...is unnerving.
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* Every employee on the station has a tracking bracelet, including the cook, Will Mitchell. His tracking bracelet is found in the kitchen... inside a box of [[{{Squick}} suspicious meat]].
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* Calibrating the looking glass in Psychotronics leads to a phantom showing up behind the glass in a scripted JumpScare.
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* Calibrating the looking glass in Psychotronics leads to a phantom showing up behind the glass in a scripted JumpScare. At least it can't hurt you. The phantom that spawns at the top of the stairs afterward, on the other hand...
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* The first reveal of the Mimic. You go through a series of tests where you are in a sealed off exam room while scientists on the other side of a window observe you. In the last room, you sit down to take a personality quiz while the lead scientist asks someone to get him some coffee. He gets his coffee as you finish the quiz, and then he invites you to take an InkblotTest. If you look down at the test right away, it's easy to miss the Mimic crawling up the scientist's desk and turning into a new coffee cop. Your first warning that anything is amiss might be the [[FiveSecondForeshadowing scientist expressing confusion about his coffee cup suddenly being empty]], and then all hell breaks loose.
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* The first reveal of the Mimic. You go through a series of tests where you are in a sealed off exam room while scientists on the other side of a window observe you. In the last room, you sit down to take a personality quiz while the lead scientist asks someone to get him some coffee. He gets his coffee as you finish the quiz, and then he invites you to take an InkblotTest. If you look down at the test right away, it's easy to miss the Mimic crawling up the scientist's desk and turning into a new coffee cop.cup. Your first warning that anything is amiss might be the [[FiveSecondForeshadowing scientist expressing confusion about his coffee cup suddenly being empty]], and then all hell breaks loose.
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