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* Poor Lao, Irina and pretty much anyone [[spoiler: whose love ones didn't get to board the arks because they weren't chosen, weren't considered useful enough to be allowed on board, or simply weren't able to get on a ark on time. Irina is implied to be somewhat of a death seeker while Lao went as far as betraying his friends to the Ganglion because he was angry that the leaders only let certain people on board because they had the wealth, the influence, or be useful in humanity's survival (and this is on top of Lao and the game ''barely'' concealing a suspicion of race and other factors playing into the selection) while everyone else is left behind to die on Earth which included his wife and daughter. In the case of Phog and Frye, their father ''willingly'' stayed behind, because [[HeroicSacrifice he didn't think it would be fair for "an old man like him" to take someone else's spot.]] Frye took it so hard he and his brother had a major falling-out. Even Chausson wasn't spared from the pain as while he could had let his son board one of the arks but as that would be considered corrupt nepotism, he had to leave his son behind on Earth.]]

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* Poor Lao, Irina and pretty much anyone [[spoiler: whose love ones didn't get to board the arks because they weren't chosen, weren't considered useful enough to be allowed on board, board(this can be especially infuriating in the light of other side quests and affinity missions, and you see some of the literal wastes of space that ''did'' get on), or simply weren't able to get on a ark on time. Irina is implied to be somewhat of a death seeker while Lao went as far as betraying his friends to the Ganglion because he was angry that the leaders only let certain people on board because they had the wealth, the influence, or be useful in humanity's survival (and this is on top of Lao and the game ''barely'' concealing a suspicion of race and other factors playing into the selection) while everyone else is left behind to die on Earth which included his wife and daughter. In the case of Phog and Frye, their father ''willingly'' stayed behind, because [[HeroicSacrifice he didn't think it would be fair for "an old man like him" to take someone else's spot.]] Frye took it so hard he and his brother had a major falling-out. Even Chausson wasn't spared from the pain as while he could had let his son board one of the arks but as that would be considered corrupt nepotism, he had to leave his son behind on Earth.]]
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* Humanity's situation in general. Their home was destroyed during the war between two alien factions, a war that humanity didn't want any part of. Humanity tried to to escape to safety on arks but many were destroyed trying to escape Earth's orbit. The White Whale was eventually attacked by one of the alien factions and crashed onto Mira. While the people on board are thankful to be alive, they are now trapped on a foreign planet that they have little information about and have to fight for survival against hostile lifeforms and unknown territory. The people of the White Whale also don't know for sure if there are other arks out there and thus bear the burden that they could be the last of humanity.

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