The story

The story
beneath the caves.

Casualties: Unknown does not explain itself. The setting is assembled from E-PDA logs, wall notes, survivor dialogue and the cargo manifests you were never meant to read.

Official Casualties: Unknown key art of an Experiment resting in a cave under the Gray Planet sky — Official key art · Orsoniks “Survival chances are near 0%.

File 01

Experiment (SAW-01)

The final prototype: a human, fox and rat hybrid designed as disposable labor. Orange eyes, yellow blood and a chip in the skull that can kill them remotely.

Read the file

File 02

The World & the Corporation

The Gray Planet, the illegal Sawian project and the lost piece of technology that turned a cover-up into a mass deployment.

Read the file

The short version

A corporation, a cargo, a planet.

The Corporation created the Sawians for bioengineering research. When the project became inconvenient, they found a use for it: testing experimental medicine on intelligent beings. Then they lost something important on the Gray Planet.

Full timeline

01 SAW-01 is created The first Sawian prototype is cloned and subjected to destructive testing.
02 The project is almost terminated Board members realize intelligent test subjects are illegal. A doctor offers a use for them.
03 The relocation begins The Corporation teleports cargo, traps and personnel to the Gray Planet.
04 The cargo is lost A calibration error scatters the most important technology deep in the caves.
05 The Experiments are sent Thousands of Sawians descend. You are one of them.

Species register

Thirteen SAW designations

The Corporation catalogued its creations by number. Three are playable at launch: the Experiment, Milky and Dune.

Species details

SAW-01

Experiment

fox / human / rat hybrid; the playable baseline

SAW-02

Orange

large, four-armed labor strain

SAW-03

Milky

marine DNA; small, intelligent, excellent vision

SAW-04

Leapy

moss DNA; unstable and cancer-prone

SAW-05

Chompy

shark DNA; aquatic and oddly friendly

SAW-06

Roza

Snow Strider DNA; low body temperature

SAW-07

Voyager

feline DNA; agile and hostile to other species

SAW-08

Baron

twice human size; emotionally stable

SAW-09

Chik

insectoid DNA; winged and hollow-boned

SAW-10

Crystal

lizard DNA; crystal growths and sticky tongue

SAW-11

Velvet

arthropod DNA; spider-like and dangerous

SAW-12

Dune

arthropod DNA; cannibalistic and barely intelligent

SAW-13

Shelly

radiation-feeding; mute but intelligent

Reading order: start with the Experiment file for the player character, then the world file for the Corporation and the Cargo. The in-game E-PDA notes are not tracked one by one here; the community wiki keeps the raw transcripts.