![]() The current host is Foster's biological father, who is old and has become severely worn out from his symbiosis with LINC. ![]() ![]() However, in order to function, LINC needs a human host to share its brain. There he finds out that LINC has grown exponentially, to the point where he is now half-machine half-organic entity. Foster takes the officer's access card and sunglasses before he continues his escape.Īs he makes his way further down the city looking for a way out, Foster eventually arrives in the abandoned subway tunnels. In answer the camera shoots him again, this time killing him. Reich tells the camera, whom he reveals is controlled by LINC, that Foster must be stopped. Just as Reich is about to kill Foster, a nearby security camera shoots a laser, disarming him. The officer, Reich, addresses Foster as "Overmann". He attempts to escape the plant, but is cornered by a security officer who had also survived the accident. Foster survives the crash and flees, making his way into a recycling plant, carrying Joey's circuit board with him.įoster places Joey's circuit board into a robotic vacuum cleaner (something about which Joey is none too happy). The abductors refuse to give Foster any explanation as to what is happening, however, shortly upon arriving in the city, the helicopter malfunctions and crashes in the city's upper level. Screenshot of Robert Foster being taught to hunt kangaroos.Īs the game starts, Foster is kidnapped and his tribe annihilated by security soldiers sent from Union City by its all-powerful computer LINC. His commentaries on the current "shell" he is in are a running gag throughout the game. This allows him to change bodies as the situation requires, provided his circuit board is not damaged. ![]() Joey's personality is stored on a small circuit board, which can easily be inserted and removed from many types of robot bodies. Over the years, Foster learns engineering and technology and builds a talking, sentient robot called Joey. Too young to fend for himself, Robert is adopted by a local group of Indigenous Australians, who teach him the skills he needs to survive in this harsh new environment they name him Robert Foster, partly due to him being fostered by them and also because of the discovery of an empty can of Foster's Lager, an Australian beer, found near the crash site. The immediate backstory is introduced via a comic book that tells the story of a young boy called Robert who is the sole survivor of a helicopter crash in "the Gap" (the name applied to the Outback at the time of the game). During the game, characters in Union City remark that Hobart Corporation is winning the " economic war" by flooding the market with "cheap, gimmicky garbage," although it is never clarified whether this is mere propaganda. The larger political context of the game involves a conflict between Union City and the Hobart Corporation, whereby they are each trying to achieve market dominance by the use of sabotage. Those that oppose the Unions' ideals are called "Corporations".Īll of the City States in Australia are either Corporations or Unions. Ironically, those that subscribe to these principles are called "Unions" contrasting the real world definition of what a trade union pushes for. Notably ASIO is Australia's national intelligence agency.Īfter the "Euro-American War", all participants agreed upon a set of ideals described as the "neo democratic principles" which remove all labour representation and social benefits. Union City is the second largest of the six remaining city states after the acquisition of Asio-City. In Australia, the six states and two territories of have been consumed by their respective capital cities and are described as "city states". Beneath a Steel Sky is set at an unknown point in a dystopian future in Australia, where the Earth has been significantly damaged by pollution and/or nuclear fallout.
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