I'm 99% sure I Figured out the Satisfactory Story!

I'm 99% sure I Figured out the Satisfactory Story!
What is the Satisfactory story mode going to be about? Little is known about the Satisfactory story except that SAM Ore, the somersloop, and the mercer sphere have something to do with it and that the story won't be in the game until Satisfactory full release version 1.0. However, there's enough hints in the game and online to figure out a game theory about what the story will be about, what Project Assembly is, and more so we're exploring that today!
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About: Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Pioneering for FICSIT Incorporated means charting and exploiting an alien planet, battling alien lifeforms, creating multi-story factories, entering conveyor belt heaven, automating vehicles, and researching new technologies. The Satisfactory Train update and Nuclear update also adds in trains, train stations, and nuclear power plant to enjoy, if you can handle the nuclear waste that is! In some of our videos, we go over Satisfactory tips and Satisfactory building tips, as well how to build a mega base and manufacturer setup. Our Satisfactory Early Access let’s play ep 1 was started a few months ago, but now we have hundreds of hours since Satisfactory ep 1 and have built a giant base with computer production, supercomputer production, a huge nuclear power plant and hundreds of trains! Our giant train system covers the entire map and gathers uranium, deals with our nuclear waste, and Satisfactory trains are a very satisfactory way of travel!
Satisfactory Update 3 also changed the game entirely adding pipes, Hyper Tubes, the Awesome Shop and Awesome Sink (aka Resource Sink), a new desert biome, a new vehicle, and a ton more!
This Factorio like game has heavy automation, with automated mining, crafting, and you can even automate movement! Follow my Satisfactory Early Access Gameplay for the best base building, best Satisfactory tips, and more!
Satisfactory is an FPS open-world factory building sim by CoffeeStain Studios. You play as an engineer on an alien planet as part of the ‘Save The Day’ program - a program whose goal is to construct a massive machine for a mysterious purpose. Conquer nature, build multi-story factories, and automate to satisfaction!
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[@ImKibitz]

So what do YOU think the Satisfactory Story is going to be about?!

[@zanesurrette7474]

It's basically a more in-depth look at something like ATLAS corporation from Borderlands.

[@ripclawt0627]

ImKibitz I would love to play satisfactory with you

[@Moritz817]

Building a factory?

[@GeeksandGrub]

The game is a part of a shared world with Subnautica. This game is about building the giant space gate near planet 4648B.

[@OkGamez313]

I think project assembly is an orbital ring. The art is just one part.

[@nickkropat8857]

Satisfactory Devs: "Crap, they are taking this seriously... do we actually need to do a real story now.....?"

[@jonnyd8399]

lol

[@capthavic]

@@jonnyd8399 There may be a bit of truth to that haha

[@timerertim]

Well, I mean the Orbs and weird red Ss are part of the story. Confirmed by the devs. They are work in progress though.

[@viniciusschadeck2204]

i don't think soo, the game already release 1.0 and is just get out of the world without getting out of the world anyway haha

[@joshuachan6317]

They are trying to make a story now...

[@Torgonius]

Spoiler - we're just building a tier 3 assembler for Factorio.

[@omagooliveira5190]

*Pikachu face* :O

[@galaxyf0x]

Not that hard, just some Iron, Copper and Plastics

[@gamingcorgidog6434]

dang

[@JeromeLAllierDecary]

Plot twist: we're actually helping building the death star.

[@audreyplaysnice2086]

is that why i keep dreaming of kylo ren coming to check my progress?

[@praetorian3902]

lol good one

[@slabon6091]

yes

[@vincewilson1]

So it's your fault that Luke lost his hand!

[@prabas8190]

@@vincewilson1 Maybe We are just making hub parts for more planets

[@GammiePlaies]

just for the record , i don't think it's the artifacts talking to us , i think it's ADA being distorted from the arua or radiation coming from the artifacts .maybe even controled by it.

[@clayponder4423]

Have you ever listened to everything she has to say? It gets really funny after the first few remarks. it's a little slow but she says a LOT of different things lol. Just go stand near any artifact and dont move at all... and wait.

[@clayponder4423]

Have you ever listened to everything she has to say? It gets really funny after the first few remarks. it's a little slow but she says a LOT of different things lol. Just go stand near any artifact and dont move at all... and wait.

[@TheDainerss]

I agree that it is ADA talking, not the artifact. It is the same voice you hear when ADA speaks to you about anything else. I just think the artifacts interferes with ADA a bit and she starts to ramble off. It's like the artifact is causing ADA to channel surf the Interstellar communications net and she is telling you things from the local news and gossip channels.

[@LekkerDiepindezee]

The artifacts have “mind bending abilities”. This could mean that they’re just messing with your mind and it’s not actually ada talking to you

[@phoenixskill5478]

Agreed. It seems distorted as if it isn't ADA itself. Probably past programming, an error of some sort, or the alien artifact's influence, idk.

[@tonyadair0754]

Kibz: Are we even human? Ficsit: He knows too much.

[@melindapavelyev4710]

LOL

[@mirazano9449]

I feel like the alien artifact dialogue is a reference to Subnautica's Mesmers. You know how ADA desperately wants you to harvest it just how the mesmers pull you in by using PDA dialogue.

[@praetorian3902]

Very good point I say.

[@LukiKruki]

Artifical Directory and Assistant, known also as ADA who instructs not-talking, not-named woman known as Pioneer. Is it sound familiar? No? Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, known also as GLaDOS who instructs not-talking, not-named woman known as Test Subject. I know the Test Subject name is Chell but Valve showed it in the Portal comic. Both Portal games didn't tell nor show her name is Chell - basically like our Pioneer. Pioneer's name looks to be revealed someday.

[@Matthew_Lawless]

I'm never picking up another one of those now.

[@arcturtleyt5444]

Harvest. It.

[@TheAverageGamerthing]

Picking up multiple FICSIT personnel in the area, proceed with harvest before it's too late.

[@capthavic]

My theory is a lot more grounded and boring but based on the names of each phase of parts you need to send up (ie platform, framework, systems, interior, and propulsion) implies to me we are building/repairing a spaceship. You could argue it's for the previously mentioned food court, but why would a food court need propulsion? My guess is that we came to this planet in search of resources/alien stuff/whatever but suffered catastrophic damage in process. Now we're stranded there until we can make the parts needed to repair the ship. An alternate theory, way back I vaguely recall it mentioned somewhere that there was trouble back on Earth (pollution, overcrowding, etc.) and so our job is to "Ficsit" by building a colony ship(s) in order to bring settlers to colonize this planet or other new, unspoiled worlds. The reason SAM ore is limited is likely because it isn't ready yet to be implemented and they just don't want people stockpiling the rarest ore ahead of time. Our character model appears to be female so we could be clones of Ms. Parks. After all if you want something done right, do it yourself. The Somersloops and Mercer Spheres will probably be a required component of the endgame production machines tied to the SAM ore. Something just rare enough that you will have to work for it and limited enough so that you can't simply spam the endgame stuff. Stuff like the bottomless pits into the void are just because at the end of the day it's still a game, and an unfinished one at that. Gotta end the map somewhere. Not going to lie though, stumbling across an out of bounds area in/under the map is more than a little unnerving for me. Though still not as bad as the spiders...*shudders*

[@protoborg]

Minecraft has an endless world and it started in Java.

[@fieryphoenix82]

I do like the idea that we're clones of the boss lady, and just for the reason you said. I think that would be pretty funny.

[@LukiKruki]

@@fieryphoenix82 If the Pioneers Caterina Parks bosses are clones of her, then it makes sense why Coffee Stain said Caterina Parks is powerful and intimidating.

[@lenschwedt9646]

@@protoborg Minecraft has randomly generated Maps . The Map in satisfactory is hand Made. Its a quality vs. Quantity thing. (And in my opinion this Map has both ( and the Game isnt even finished yet!))

[@pyrolucky5741]

The spiders jumpscare me. Im just going to a nitrogen node then theres this 8 legged beast crawling to me.

[@DizzyDJW]

It physically hurt me to see someone throw away an alien artifact, and I don't know why... Have I been brainwashed by them?!

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Well when their mere presence makes you see and hear funny things, and you start craving them like Gollum craves his Ring, I would say very definitely yes.

[@tedsbears2380]

F

[@TheAverageGamerthing]

Don’t resist and just pick it up

[@ItsMeSuper]

Comply

[@ChristianRiesenCom]

For the SAM ore, there was a patch note about it that it simply got deactivated that way because it does nothing at the moment. No mystery there :)

[@zulamaril]

Yeah, my guess was that they didn't want early access players stockpiling it until it actually does something.

[@robertnett9793]

Of course they would say that, to throw us off :D (Yeah. Maybe you are right - but you underestimate the capability of internet-fandoms coming up with the most exquisit theories :D The devs just need to choose the coolest one and - voila, look what awesome backsotry we came up with...

[@jadonlimoges1830]

@@zulamaril sigma grindset prevented :(

[@seth7474]

At the start, ADA says that you are part of the “save the day” program, which leads me to suggest that project: assembly is making the planet into either a power plant, to solve power issues on earth, to provide more resources for earth or to make a secondary colony to solve population growth issues

[@GeorgeMonet]

"Save the day" could just refer to a Hail Mary to try saving the company from declaring bankruptcy.

[@Karvan420]

Our players characters definitely aren't drones. We wouldn't get beds or toilets, nor need to eat food to heal. We'd be immune to poison, we'd not need exoskeleton suits to improve our mobility if they can just weld that on from the get go. Heck why would we even look like a human to begin with as it's not the most efficient shape to have. Also! A drone wouldn't want coffee or care to pet lizard doggos. I wonder if there is some kind of matriarchy going on within ficsit as we can't choose a different gender. Also that concept art at 7:20 I think is probably the space elevator. Because it's drawn within clouds, not in space so I don't think it's a space station.

[@MmMerrifield]

Why not bio-mechanical drones? It's a self healing system excluding catastrophic failure, and just requires organic fuel to function

[@OttoTheJebediah]

Not to mention gas...

[@weakpoint01]

Proyect assemble is an advance robot factory that produce us, thats we respawn. We are advance bio robots making the factory to produce more workers. Until we conolize the universe. I have a teory that maybe in some point the resourse will be limited (we are in a early access, s.a.m ore is a test of limited resourse to be implimented in the future). Anyway we are constructing someting in the space to go other planets for more resourse when the one we are is empty.

[@bell2023]

@@MmMerrifield In that case why not just humans

[@martimking1craft]

@@MmMerrifield why over engineering drones than ?

[@Gfish17]

Theory: Satifactory and Hardspace shipbreaker take place in the same Universe.

[@basicallyapotato5972]

Hardspace takes place in the same universe as the Homeworld games. BUT, Satisfactory DOES take place in a shared universe with The Cycle game, in Satisfactory there's a poster in the bathroom of your Hub that references to the Koralev Corporation from The Cycle and vice-versa with the Fixit Corporation in The Cycle.

[@Gfish17]

@@basicallyapotato5972 Has Kibits played those yet?

[@capthavic]

@@basicallyapotato5972 If it wasn't an Epic exclusive I might give The Cycle a try.

[@gamingcorgidog6434]

imagine seeing the fixit logo in hardspace

[@Gfish17]

@@gamingcorgidog6434 (Girlish Squeals of Excitement) Those games belong Together. In one game you break ships and in the Other you Fixit. Pairs well I think.

[@Logan4546b]

The Quarantine Enforcement Platform just shoots down all the drop pods

[@portal1258]

alterra ficsit shared universe

[@ninjakitty5057]

Love it

[@phoenixskill5478]

lol

[@melindapavelyev4710]

from subnatica?

[@Logan4546b]

@@melindapavelyev4710 yeah

[@Destyvirago]

Theory: Satisfactory takes place in the same universe as the Sanctum games from the same developer. Last time they tried to colonize this planet a horde of aliens destroyed the colony. Now we have to fix the situation by assembling a giant orbital space gun that can zap any alien that would threaten a new colony. Since the aliens react to human presence they send only a single engineer down to get the materials for the weapon as sending more would provoke an attack. Once the weapon is ready they will try to colonize again.

[@MAup]

The spheres are items in areas for the devs to update the terrain and the stuffs, found alot in my time, many of them disapeared because they updated the areas exactly where they are located

[@MikeIsCannonFodder]

I guess I always thought the alien devices "talking to you" was your suit AI encouraging you to collect them, and sometimes maybe triggering some kind of hidden program that seems a bit broken.

[@qazxsw21000]

If you start a new game and go through the tutorial, Ada says that she isn’t going to help you (or something like that). I figured it was her telling me to pick up the things while making it look like she isn’t (even though she obviously was).

[@alecsprodan]

FINALLY! I can have a fantastic rest of my day!

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

We can have a fantastic rest of *OUR* day!

[@arcturtleyt5444]

COMPLY

[@TheRolemodel1337]

4:35 the character also seems to be pretty tall the big foundations are 4 m in height yet compare the perceived height in game with how you perceive 4 m height in real life (for example a bridge or the diving platform in your local public swimming pool)

[@SerunaXI]

I honestly didn't think about how tall the character was until I bought the little cart from the shop and hopped in. Suddenly I'm rolling around at half the height.

[@widget3672]

I love that CoffeeStain are the kind of game design that totally could just troll us with random stuff like calling a sketch of the top of the space elevator a giant food court.

[@niels_m_h]

One of my theories is that the planet is/was a factory in itself, created by a previous sentient race on it. Lots of the terrain feature resemble organic-ized industrial parts. Like the arcs all around resemble transport infrastructure, there are things that look like vents, and some of the constructed-looking areas especially in the red forest.

[@lenschwedt9646]

The arches are defenetly not natural. Some are partialy broken and show some sort of internal structure comparable to steelframes insede reinforced concrete.

[@Seedzification]

Exactly we are definitely not the first one on this planet, and the previous people didn't have the same idea as us for logistics

[@spikkey5997]

Maybe the real story is the friends we made along the way. And all the Terrorism... and Mass Murder That we committed just so we don’t get bothered by the Big Rammy Doggos while trying to squeeze that last Coal Plant into their Natural Habitat...

[@TheDainerss]

Welcome to the future. Do you really think if humans ever begin interstellar travel we would give 2 craps about another planets environment? Heck no, we would first find a new earth, keep it pristine and them destroy every other planet we find just to get the resources we need. Gotta love the future!

[@israelserrano1271]

@@TheDainerss maby thats exactly why skippey might be right. Maybe its a lesson, and not some vision of the future. I like this theory.

[@monad_tcp]

@@TheDainerss "would first find a new earth, keep it pristine" this step is not needed. we would probably go through every single planet in this solar system to build a Dyson sphere so we can gather enough energy for Alcubierre engines. Then we are going to expand the same way. When you can space travel and colonized 1000s of worlds, what is Earth except a museum for old brain-uploaded-persons to feel some nostalgia. Earth is only special when you have only 1 Earth. So my hypothesis is that Project Assembly is a Dyson sphere.

[@francky8]

Am I the only one who kept expecting a "it's just a theory.... a GAME THEORY"

[@volo455]

haha I was looking for this comment

[@turtlememes2334]

@@volo455 me too lol

[@arandomidiot534]

yes

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

He does sound a lot like MousePat.

[@juke9674]

In conclusion, this is reverse WallE where you destroy the enviroment

[@zZz0id]

my theory on the mercer spheres and somersloops: since you are the THIRD person of your sector to survive planetfall, i think that Mercer and Somer are the first two that survived. and the loops and the spheres are kind of their memories.

[@christopherkaylor2940]

The space port idea sounds good, and would be a reason why someone is sent to the planet to mine materials and construct high tech parts, plus it would be awesome to see a space port being built in the sky above the space Elevator.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Project Assembly seems to be some form of mobile ship or station. The bits on the bottom of the model we saw in that one trailer look quite a lot like thrusters, and the stages of the spelevator deliveries reinforce this - the delivery for Phase 5 is listed as 'propulsion', though the other names could quite easily be applied to many things, 1-4 being 'platform', 'framework', 'systems', and 'interior' respectively. As it is a project you are to complete, the game will most likely revolve around completing the station, since the trailer scenes showing it had technology beyond what we currently have so it is clearly in the final tiers. Additionally, part of the propulsion stage supposedly is 100000 cubic meters of fuel, which would make sense to be the final delivery required to unlock victory - the structure is complete, and after getting the fuel required to start it becomes ready to go. As for somersloops and mercer spheres, they are some kind of reward system for exploration. At one point the MAM would claim that discovery and scanning of somersloops would give "additional building items" as a reward, though the mercer sphere never had such a message and the ability to scan both was removed. Presumably SAM would have a similar reward system. Also, during closed alpha you could get in-game emails from the address '[e-mail]', who would likely be a doctor that the mercer spheres are named after.

[@kiligir]

I'm only here because Kibz kicked me off the stream.

[@ImKibitz]

HEH

[@galaxygamingboy]

Lol

[@giggleanthropisticon7061]

Same

[@leviburki4862]

Same

[@joyhoward6105]

Arachnophobia mode makes you perceive spiders as glitchy cats BECAUSE IT’S A VIDEO GAME

[@arandomspaceenthusiast7304]

Ok, so here's what I think: First off, I am almost 100% sure we're human: we eat to restore health, we die in gas, radiation kills us instead of just glitching us, like it would for a machine, we do gestures that machines usually don't do (emotes), and we breathe when we put a gas mask on. The lights on the "face mask" can be explained by it being some sort of transparent screen, something that already exists IRL, if I'm not mistaken. It works like AR vr headset, and allows us to see the holograms when you place something, etc. For the respawn part, I have to admit that I don't know. I'm guessing that we are clones, stored as cells in the HUB, and grow at extremely high speeds when there are no more life signals from the predecessor, but I'm not sure. Maybe a drone fetches our body and heals it, but it would have to be extremely quick. Next, I'd say that SAM ore isn't actually in the game story, I think it's a placeholder for when they're going to add new ores in future updates, but it's true that this doesn't explain why they're so closly guarded. My last thought is that drop pods, as well as the uranium waste, come from the other people on the planet: Ada tells you at your landing that you are the third person in this sector to survive planetary entry. This means that there are other people on the planet, or at least in the solar system. What if the drop pods were the things they sent to unlock milestones, like we do on our own hub? Ada never told us what they use these parts for, maybe they just go off, crash somewhere, and then they send you a new pod. That would explain all the parts you find near them: they always look like things you would spend to unlock a new milestone. As for the uranium waste, maybe they tried to sneak some of it on board, but it fell off before the pod crashed, or the doggos take directly from the crash site, where some can be found. Tl;DR: We're most definetely humans, SAM ore is a placeholder for new ore that's gonna come in future updates, and the drop pods come from the 2 others on the planet.

[@scumer21]

@ImKibitz they are not crashed drop pods. The ships are the ones attached to the HUB for unlocking milestones, the drop ppds are a different shape

[@AndroidA258]

you use a gas mask, thats enough to say you are a living being

[@Revan176]

Plus healing via nutrition

[@TheDainerss]

Ah, but you could be a cyborg. In this future time, science may not have been able to develop a functional synthetic replacement for muscles or tissue so instead, they simply clone an organic body around a mechanical structure. A Terminator if you will. This would explain how you can just be brought back. Your "mind" is just a program running at the hub and your body is just a peripheral you control. If you die, a new body pops out of the hub and you continue as usual. The organic parts can be injured or effected by poisons, hence the gas masks and medkits. The organic portions also need nutrition and produce by-products, hence the toilet and food.

[@sertaki]

you could be a biological robot.

[@fieryphoenix82]

@@sertaki Like the synths in Fallout 4?

[@monad_tcp]

@@TheDainerss well, that's easy, but how can you eat food through your helmet ? ( I ask that about a game when you can carry 5000 50kg concrete sacks in your pocket )

[@dothector1930]

Was really hoping he'd address the "poster" (and the markings on said poster) in the bathroom at the HUB...

[@GuyMaleMan]

Yeah weird he avoided it, its got like, the most lore in it out of everything

[@superderone5]

You are just building a miniverse like from Rick and Morty, to power a more advanced civilization. The SAM ore is a mystery to the creators as well, but when you find its purpose you are freed.

[@jamesangell1862]

That sounds like slavery with extra steps.

[@PhrazeMuzik]

Imagine if on full release we conquer this current world, and then get sent to another, with another 8 tiers of further gameplay :O

[@rwxstudio7173]

In the S.A.M. Ore video I proposed that S.A.M. is word play for Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1) and the ore will be used to make a gate to go back to Earth. But the coordinates (gate address) given is wrong [you don't know this] and you walk through the gate to come out the other end on a different planet.

[@john_5_041]

I like the old colony idea. I think the space station was an emergency escape plan to save the human race but they knew they had to go back to the planet at some point so the sent down a bunch of people to go secure a large area to recolonize, but unfortunately most of the droppods crash landed amd you were the only one to live. You send up parts to repair the spacestation and eventually send down more people or even build something that'll bring the spacestation back to the planet. Basically I think your whole goal of the game is prepare the planet for recolonization

[@prakesh2904]

all this stuff is so interesting and it really makes me hyped for future updates

[@wrathoc]

I have two running ideas. 1) All the crashed drop pods are the result of some horrible incident (thinking Subnautica here). We survived and it is up to us to supply the ship trapped in orbit with materials to escape. 2) Players have picked the current map clean. They know every little secret and how to optimize the world. So Project Assembly is a spaceship that goes planet to planet collecting materials and this is the first of several stops and as we complete each set of tiers we begin to move to other worlds to explore.

[@holzi4788]

Every Coffee Stain employee watching this : *suprised Pikachu face*

[@TheDainerss]

I have a theory about all the drop-pods around the world. First they are not the pod a pioneer drops to the planet in. So no, it was not a crashed pioneer. If you look at them closely, they are identical to the supply drop ship on your hub. So I believe that these were pods that were sent up during a previous mission and were shot down. You see FicsIt is not the only company trying to fill the space-based food court/repair station market and their competitors tried to slow FicsIt down by shooting down supply ships trying to delivery materials to the space station project. This explains several things, first it explains why you are there. The previous pioneer was either removed by the competition or fired for losing all the supply ships. Second, it explains the space elevator, it is a far more reliable delivery method. Lastly, It also explains why the crashed pods are locked at first. You were not the pioneer that launched them so you have to "Hack" them open by bypassing systems by either redirecting power or replacing components in them, this explains the Hard drives too, as they were recipes the previous pioneer discovered or was supplied with by FicsIt.

[@UniversalPwner21]

Alright 2 things: 1. Why does the ADA picture in the thumbnail look like an older version of Rachel from NFS:U2? That sparks questions to me. 2. Perhaps the story is a mix of Oblivion with Tom Cruise and Wall-E.

[@rootntoot2215]

Maybe you use the loops and spheres with the s.a.m ore to make portals ?

[@RichardTruth123]

I recon the Mercer spheres are some kind of alien communications node, like an organic one picking up a combination of radio waves and brain waves and trying to figure out how to communicate. They may also contain like memory segments giving bits of story

[@TinBryn]

Slightly conspiratorial, but that interview where Sofi admits that project assembly is a food court, there is a cut between "I did" and "it's a food court". What did they cut out in the middle? what is Coffee Stain hiding?

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

I wish there was a option to build combat drones that you can program Like the trucks or the trains to patrol the base and establish security perimeters around your factory. That you can lead them while exploring as your personal body guard. Basically I want to recreate that vibe you get seeing the droid factory on geonosis in starwars episode 2

[@allendp5214]

i have a feeling that the mercer spheres and somerslopes create audio logs about ficsit when you pick them up. it would make a lot of sense that there are lots of them are the map for countless audio logs about the company

[@kgbhui]

we are the factory part of a "von Neumann probe" a self replicating spacecraft and we send the parts up, well to replicate ...

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Yes, some bright inventor solved the problem of making them easy to replicate by making them carry human slaves on board.

[@undead890]

Plot twist: Coffee Stain doesn't actually have a story, they just scroll through comments sections and theory videos to get ideas for their upcoming story mode. Think about it, having other people write the story for you while you profit off of it, that is true Ficsit Inc. mentality.

[@minmaxwell6583]

So all of the space elevator parts are “smart” parts. Which makes me think self assembling. Which makes me think possibly something is being assembled some place where either humans can’t assemble it, or it would be too time consuming to assemble everything by hand. Which makes me think something like a fusion sphere or some other mega structure. No evidence to support this just spitting out a fun idea.

[@TheDainerss]

Maybe, but I think it's more about a company interested in margins and profit. This planet is just one of many that Ficsit harvests, all the parts you are sending up from the surface go into the mega-cargo hauler in orbit. When you clean the surface of all materials, Ficsit sends the kill order and ADA brain-wipes you and engages the mass deconstruct order, sending everything up the space elevator, the Hauler loads up, then moves on to the next planet. Where the cycle starts again with a new clone of you.

[@BigKevSexyMan]

I like the space port idea. It even gives a reason for the sam ore. Maybe it's a vital resource for interstellar travel? Maybe it's what they use to set up travel to the next world they want to colonize.

[@rubhan94]

4:00 got some nice jump scare moments playing this game at 2am accidently walking too close to one of those spheres

[@85matticus]

My theory: we are a glorified version of Wall-E but instead of trash we're sending items into space to build something far away from the "home" because in planetary terms it's a lot easier to send a robot in a ship to a Faraway place where said object is going to be built find a planet with tons of resources and assemble it that way instead of bringing whatever we are building. This something that we're building could be a relay point to contact somewhere even further. A larger spacecraft so mining can be done on a grand scale , if all were supposed to do is mine. But I think it's most likely a teleportation device on a large scale kind of like a Stargate.

[@MegeGabe_Personal]

But that's just a theory A GAME THEORY

[@Tatsumari_K]

I'm still formulating my own theory about this game's story, but combined with my own finds and things that i have seen around, here's what I have. None of it has been FULLY ironed out yet: 1. you are playing an alien creature that was basically kidnapped from the planet that you are playing on, and were heavily brainwashed/reeducated to be a loyal employee of Ficsit. But before you were taken, you knew about Ficsit and their reputation for doing this kind of thing to other planets. So, to make sure that you could "find yourself again" you make the relics (somersloop and the mercer spheres) so that when you inevitably return, you could pick up pieces of yourself and restore who you were. The reason these relics talk to you is because you designed them in such a way that would take whatever had become familiar to you (i.e. Ada) and convince you to pick it up, even if you may not fully know what it is. The suit you wear is a way for Ficsit to attempt to keep you under control and limit how much you are exposed to so that you can just work and gather materials like a good little worker bee. 2. You were once human, but your consciousness was ripped from your body (forcefully I might add) and stuck into a perhaps bio-mechanical android body, which would explain why you can consume food to heal and why the poison fart mounds all over the place hurt you, something similar to the live action remake of Ghost in the Shell. It would also explain why your vision begins to get digitally distorted and why you take damage near Uranium. The mechanical part of you is being affected by the radiation causing interference, but the biological part of you can't withstand harmful nature of Uranium for any length of time. The crash sites could be from the pods A.I. realizing they used to be human and what happened to them, and just want to end it all (similar to what happened in Robo Cop 2 I believe). Something that may add to this is that there is a sticker on the A.I. Limiter item that says "Warning: always limit your A.I." Why would an A.I. need limiting unless there is something you don't want it finding out? and last (kinda out there, but its fun) 3. The relics are actually extensions of an ancient creature that was imprisoned inside the planet many many millennia ago by an ancient race of aliens. If you stand and listen to the dialogue tree around the relics long enough, you will notice the things it says get progressively more personal as you stand there. It starts with forceful suggestion ("I strongly advise you to harvest this specimen" or "your contract legally compels you to harvest this artifact), sprinkled with just direct commands to "harvest" the relic. But if you wait, the creature may see that such a forceful approach may not be the right way, and thus begins to take a more personal route, starting with flattery, then urgency that other in Ficsit's employ will steal your credit, your species in danger, and finally finishing with your "paternal figure" being deathly ill that relics will save their life. But if you still "resist" the urge to pick it up, the creature begins to get agitated and out right tells you to pick it up, even SOUNDING irritated during that one line. It's as if the being is trying to get you to collect enough relics, such that the concentration of them in close proximity to you will eventually allow it to take control of you and direct you to the "off" switch of its cell. The void pits would in all reality could be like giant cooling towers for the machines that keep this creature in lock down, and the reason you take damage and eventually die is due to the extreme heat given off in the "towers", which would explain why these pits are filled with fog all the time. And since Uranium is a thing on this planet, it could be that these machines are Nuclear powered, and even the ancient alien race didn't know what to do with their own waste and thus were just storing it somewhere which is why the Doggos can find it. Because there are literally billions of tons of waste just sitting somewhere in/on the planet from powering this mega prison. But that's just my own thoughts on it, I could be way way way off. Who knows... T.K.

[@user-to8lw4ek1p]

One other thing to consider regarding project assembly is that ADA tells us that the partial accelerator can be used to produce exotic matter which could mean that we are going to be doing something with a warp drive since theoretically exotic matter would be required to make a warp drive

[@militaryjonhTV]

That's the kind of person and video that make me wanna play a game ! Thanks dude, you do an awesome job ! Fun, interesting, yeah perfect way to discover a game !

[@RagingViperGamer]

I think the somsersloops and spheres will help increase node purity. Given the efficiency focus of the game, it's likely their going to somehow increase efficiency. But the slugs already just plain overclock, so not that.

[@Vinraymi]

btw for the character respawn stuff, when you respawn, the doggos you tamed will be "untamed"

[@thugdadlife6538]

Theory 4 - Oblivion (2013) The Tet (Ficsit) is an alien ship with an artificial intelligence that is extracting Earth's (Massage-2(A-B)b) natural resources. The Tet (Ficsit) destroyed the Moon, causing planet-wide catastrophic earthquakes & tsunamis (beans), then invaded with an army of Jack (Kibitz) clones!

[@aarona7636]

@imKibitz look at the alien on the map under one of the cave systems. Or google it and find the location more precisely. There is an alien that looks like zurg from toy story.

[@caffeinepuppy]

Back before I unlocked coal and was running on biomass I thought it was a game about being a Captain Planet villain.

[@museummouse]

It's most likely Project Assembly is the building of the space platform, it's also highly likely that this is not the only planet in the system with resources. ( future DLC's) the "alien" artifacts may lead to energy cell or plasma cell technology. My swing on FICSIT, First International Commercial Syndicate for Intergalactic Trade

[@sirkingjamz101]

ImKibitz: "thats just a theory a game theory" Game Theory: ummmmm? i didnt make this video!

[@nostrum6410]

This entire planet was, maybe still is, a life form. This explains how some of the rock formations kinda look like ribs, and other things that look like muscles.

[@borgotchongo]

Best KZbin Channel EVER about Satisfactory and games from the same kind!

[@Arthzil]

1. We are alive 2. Artifacts don't talk to us, it's Aida, she even mentions that the contract compels us to gather them. The things about cure, fixing issues on earth are psychological tricks 3. Drop pods are from failed tries. After we land we are congratulated on being one of few lucky survivors. 4. SAM ore might be limited because it will be used for some sort of skill tree that hasn't been released yet so deleting it or getting too much would break the balance after few updates.

[@sysghost]

Every time a doggo comes hauling a barrel of nuclear waste, I ask: "Have you been over at Kibitz place again? Stop stealing his nuclear waste."

[@briannem.6787]

5:30 I'm certain the character is human. The suit is for protection and to allow the HUD. A HUD outside of computing is a windscreen with projected information. The information is projected there to allow the character easy access (and also to make the game's HUD a part of the story, like half-life's HEV suit HUD, and unlike minecraft's HUD which isn't there in canon.) For anachrophobic workers, the advanced AI would be able to cover any detected spider-like objects with a image of a cat in real time so you can see their location without seeing their legs The crashed drop pods is because FiCSiT has no WH&S obligations. Their workers are expendable. They are a big company, and probably pay you nothing ("damage to ficsit property detected" means you are their property)

[@briannem.6787]

The doggos must go to a different sector to find the waste. You are told you are the first to make planetfall in that sector, but there's probably other inhabited sectors close by that did survive.

[@csimi1187]

My question is the superposition oscillator’s their desc. Says they tie to teleportal/dimensional travel or something

[@SoshJam]

At the beginning of the game ADA says "only one in (large number) engineers survive planetfall" so i think the crash sites are previous engineers who weren't lucky enough to survive

[@GreaterGood258]

Here's what I'm thinking. Project Assembly is much bigger than just what you're working on in the game. It 's goal is to build resupply and repair stations all across the frontier of settled space, to support various exploration or colonization efforts and rake in loads of money for Ficsit. Usually the process is completely automated: they send dozens of drones down to the planet and build in a matter of hours what it takes you weeks on end to accomplish (thought admittedly not nearly as stylishly). On this world, however, something went wrong. Some sort of interference caused the drones to go haywire and seek the nearest solid surface to smear themselves across. This is where you come in. 90% of your budget for planetside construction just went kamikaze on the local geological features, this was supposed to be done literally hours ago, and there are plenty of people eager to take your job if you can't handle it. Get to work. And maybe look into what caused this problem while you're there, but that's secondary to getting the facilities online.

[@papiezpp]

6:27 it makes much sense if you look at what parts we send with the space elevator

[@einstein0086]

i like the theorie, there was someone before and destroid the "biom". if u go to 1469, -603 an look up, there are some of these giant ribs "broken". The inner has a made struktur. So there must someone here bevore

[@Hellscream420]

Sommerslops and Mercer spheres where kinda revealed a long time on an update where you could put them into the mam to unlock different buildings I'm sure its changed now it was a long time ago update 2 I believe

[@onurruzgar4635]

6:24 one of that screens it says that we had a crash and I think that is a part of the story too.

[@alexgreen8372]

I believe that the Mercer spheres and Somerloops will be used for the quantum computers and super position oscillators in further tech tiers. Also I don't know if I believe a food court is the end goal, but I like the past human colony idea.

[@baddon6977]

My favorite Mystery is, if we are in a Spacesuit, and or also a drone, then why does Poison gas affect us, like at all?

[@neko-echo]

Somersloop and mercer spheres could be for fancy advanced stuff like mark and recall/ emergency teleportation, personal/belt/pipe/power/train portals to cut down on cross map belts etc, or eliminate power consumption of a machine, personal augs like shields or nifty new weapons

[@Wileybot2004]

It’s also weird that the artifacts cannot be put into the resource sink. Meaning they could hold a important role to a story as you unlock the sink early on and the game may need it later on in the game progression.

[@RapidImmerseGaming]

I remember a livestream a few weeks ago in which they said the story will be worked on when everything else is finished and stable. So i think it can still change A LOT

[@murrayboyton8779]

My theory for project assembly, is that we are sending parts up for a mega project like a galaxy to galaxy colony ship and ficsit is the contractor. We are clones I'm assuming.

[@ninjabaiano6092]

3:06 This is the cool S fron highschool. Very powerfull

[@nuke___8876]

We're building a planet disassembler. We're gonna disassemble the whole planet and haul it back to somewhere else. It's why there's no clean energy. Clean energy is only useful if you care about the planet. The alien artifacts are communications devices for the planet itself. When we get enough artifacts, we can actually communicate/better understand the planet and the planet is gonna be like "Yo. Please don't disassemble me." The player then has two endings -- complete the project, disassemble the planet, and, in a cruel twist of fate, finally get disassembled yourself (we do not waste!). The second option is to tell Fiscsit to shove it and get to play on the planet with the doggos forever -- maybe you'll build a BFG that will destroy the space station that the elevator connects to. So it's an alternative phase 5 project in other words.

[@Xdgvy]

So... About that food court. Something you might not know is that humans tend to look up and left when they lie... I'ma just leave this here.

[@Ragzzy-R]

I'd be happy if they set up a side quest where you can explore the story like No Man's sky anamoly story line. that would be cool.

[@hanswurst5109]

and then J.K. Rowling reveals we were gay all along

[@mr_doggo13games]

Um… where did that come from?

[@hanswurst5109]

@@mr_doggo13games 🤷‍♂️ that was 3 years ago

[@mr_doggo13games]

Okay guess we will never know

[@hanswurst5109]

@@mr_doggo13games I don't think I had smtn deeper in mind. But since this was about a story being finished and I like to leave funneh comments that this was the result

[@JazzOLantern]

I thought all the drop pods were others like you but you were the only survivor. I had thought they explained that. Also I thought that it’s the same voice in tutorial that talks to you when your near the WIPS.

[@VirgilKrell]

liquid gallium mentioned on the wiki Patch 0.1.5: Mercer Spheres can now be scanned in the M.A.M. again. After it was scanned, ADA would tell the engineer that the Mercer Spheres emit alpha radiation and are filled with liquid gallium, however, carrying even large amounts of Mercer Spheres wouldn't make the radiation indicator show up, and they also lack a ItemDecay value internally. Scanning it would only allow them to be chosen in the Object Scanner. The research was repeatable with no rewards. it also says that they were named in honor of the D&D game master mather mercer, may or may not be true, i kind of assume that the summers loops is a place holder for an actual mind-bending alien object of some kind they plan to but in after the factory math and the core game are done.

[@GabrielLima-lx1mw]

Well you could also say that 'project assembly' is building a new world (like a space utopia, an ark, or something like that) based on the dialogues with the alien objects saying the earth is basically on fire. I also think the 'us being drones' theory is quite possible, and we are exploring the resources of the planet to send it to a space station hub that will send it to the build site (could be a planet, a space station, a base attached to a asteroid, anything), and that there could be another planets on the same state. If taken this as base, we could say that the objects that indicate that we are human (toilet, beds, etc) are for display only, to make the thought of us (drones) being human more believable. That's my theory, and it's probably wrong as well XD

[@Level_Up_Nation]

I believe it is more like the movie Oblivion, you are sent to a world to mine all of its resources.

[@ArinJager1]

on top of the space elevator is... ...the Goat from the Goat Simulator! :O

[@Powgow]

In my mind, the Fixit company and subnautica's Alterra are competitors for planetary exploitation.

[@scoutworks]

0:30 Feels like this entire video is going to be click-bait. BUT I'M GONNA WATCH IT ANYWAY!!!

[@capthavic]

Lol pretty much, but still fun to imagine the possibilities :)

[@dddd-qr9kb]

i deleted all foundation in my big base. now it looks really awesome. should try it with your base. can always reload a earlier save game to restore it

[@fierblaser]

One of the orb things spawned right by my base and all I hear was HARVEST THEM and one of those fire breather monster thingys started chasing me it was weird

[@andyd8370]

Theory: Fics-It was subcontracted by Alterra to build the Aurora (our "project" in orbit) to send to planet 4546B.

[@marinepoof]

Building a fleet or space station for our alien overlords. And i am 100% sure that isn't the items talking to you. That is someone from fixit telling you to pick those items up.

[@smstnitc]

My guess is that SAM ore is limited because you can't sink it, and there will be more available when it becomes useful. I think this is to prevent it from being a free resource to just dump into the awesome sink.

[@ninjakitty5057]

My theory is that the space elevator is a drill to get to the core of the planet to get the stuff and sacerfice all the pioneers along the way

[@jeankristein3238]

I would really happy if the space elevator orders never run out Like after unlock all tiers complete order for tickets or rare materials, or online player to player trading