The Outer Worlds Endings of Characters/Factions

The people of Halcyon were nothing if not hardy. In the absence of the Board’s authority, many of the colony’s settlements banded together with a single purpose in mind: survival. Life was especially hard in the years to come. Some towns dissolved by attribution and starvation — but most of them found a way to carry on.

In the years to come, Halcyon was forced to reckon with its newfound freedom. The Board was gone, and for better or worse, the colony was responsible for its own destiny.

Sophia Akande converted the Labyrinth from a prison to a processing center. She jettisoned the original colonists out of the Hope and transformed the ship into a massive storage facility. One by one, the workers of Halcyon surrendered themselves to the Program. They arrived with their families and their friends, their colleagues and their neighbors. And then, one by one, they marched into their stasis chambers.

As the workers of Halcyon slept in their hibernation chambers, their settlements became ghost-towns, left behind by the Board to be reclaimed by nature. Only Byzantium remained–a shining beacon of civilization in an otherwise abandoned colony.

The people of Byzantium spent the rest of their days gorging themselves on their stockpile of resources. As for the workers of Halcyon–they never felt the effects of the collapse. They never felt anything at all.

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Dr. Phineas Welles began reviving a handful of the Hope’s colonists – engineers, scientists, technicians, and intellectuals. They were among the brightest minds the Earth had ever sent out into the stars.

In the years to come, Halcyon was forced to reckon with its newfound freedom. The Board was gone, and for better or worse, the colony was responsible for its own destiny.

The people of Byzantium spent the rest of their days gorging themselves on their stockpile of resources. As for the workers of Halcyon–they never felt the effects of the collapse. They never felt anything at all.

Adelaide accepted only a few to her community. The rest were turned away, and likely died of starvation. Nevertheless, Adelaide’s camp grew into a well-established town.

Adelaide McDevitt refused to cooperate with the ongoing effort to save Halcyon from collapse. A sympathetic Deserter stole a copy of her research and delivered it to the Hope’s scientists. It is unclear how useful Adelaide’s research was; an optimistic estimate suggests her work may have bought Halcyon another few years of survival. Adelaide would never know. She died that winter.

As for Edgewater’s former workers, their remains provided a source of nourishment for the region’s fauna, leading to an explosion in the sprat population.

It was a dark time, indeed.

No one else much noticed the townships that disappeared from the map or the luxuries that slowly lost their luster year by year.

Felix never had a head for numbers, but if there was labor to be done, he was there to help. Eventually, Felix realized that the work of a revolution was done with two hands.

And so, disillusioned with his former boss and with nowhere left to go, Felix left his crew without saying goodbye. He was never heard from again.

He knew there were many in the colony who carried burdens much worse than the ones he had struggled with, and he devoted himself to easing their suffering wherever he could. He only ever took up arms again to defend the defenseless.

Unshackled from a lifetime of striving and fighting the universe and himself, Vicar Maximillian DeSoto was finally at peace.

Max eventually rose to the top, becoming the Presiding Bishop of the 051. He denounced his spiritual meanderings as a misguided attempt to come to terms with his long-dead parents. His only regret was that they had not lived long enough to see that he was right all along.

The stories of her adventures spread across the colony, and Parvati soon found herself the center of attention. Having served as the engineer of a renowned spacecraft, tramp freighters and wildcat miners sought her out by name, and in no time, she was a fixture in the Groundbreaker’s mechanical ecosystem. She and Junlei were never far apart.

As the Board began to roll out their Lifetime Employment Program, Parvati was increasingly plagued by dreams of freezing to death, and rarely left their shared quarters. Stymied by dwindling resources, Junlei struggled to keep the Groundbreaker afloat. Their relationship couldn’t survive the strain. Parvati moved into crew quarters and found work servicing water pumps in hydroponics.

“Did you know that SAM units are the longest lasting, toughest acting cleaning solution in Halcyon?”

Once it became clear that no help would be coming from Earth, he threw his considerable efforts and talents into helping Halcyon manage the crisis before it.

There is another theory, which suggests that Sophia’s encounter with you changed her, and she deliberately retreated from public view. However, she continued supporting the colony in secret. When Dr. Welles began reviving the Hope’s colonists, he found himself with a sudden windfall of additional supplies and resources, courtesy of an anonymous donor.

If Welles knew who his supplier was, he never told a soul.

Following the death of Chairman Rockwell, Sophia Akande served as the loyal adjutant to her former freelancer, now the most powerful person in Halcyon.

He eventually came to terms with his own past, and was able to forgive the mistakes of his younger self by devoting his remaining years to serving the colony.

Dr. Welles was able to revive many more scientists and engineers than he first expected, thanks to the additional batch of chemicals you stole from the Ministry. Welles never forgot about the human lives that were lost in acquiring these chemicals.

In the end, Dr. Welles was able to save every scientist and engineer aboard the Hope. Over the next decade, nearly all of the Hope’s remaining colonists
were successfully revived. Halcyon saw a period of rapid technological and scientific advancement. Breakthroughs in dietary supplements saved the colony
from starvation. Geo-engineering projects and social reforms began to change the structure and character of the colony.

Dr. Welles laid the groundwork for the project to save the colony, but he would never live to see the fruits of his labor. He passed away a few years later. His
work was carried on by the scientists and engineers he revived.

The Halcyon of today is nothing at all like the colony of yesteryear. Power remains concentrated in Byzantium, but all the colony’s resources serve the lifestyle of the elite, thereby transforming Halcyon into one of the smallest–and most exclusive–colonies in the system.

As Haicyon looked toward the future, you remained a constant presence in the colony’s administration. You were never weighed down by bureaucracy, and you
never had to dirty your hands with politics. You had “people” who did that for you.

By your influence, Halcyon survived the turbulent years that were to follow.

No one knows what’s happened to Earth. And no one knows what the future has in store for Halcyon. All we know for certain is this: the name of the Unreliable, and that of its intrepid captain, will remain the subject of countless stories for years to come.

In time, you demonstrated a talent for leadership that far surpassed your predecessor, Chairman Rockwell. With your steady hand, you guided Halcyon through the turbulent years to follow, and helped ensure the colony’s survival.