Talk:Providence/@comment-72.28.168.176-20131223052121/@comment-83.254.169.65-20140204073941

My theory goes something like this: Some time in the past -perhaps recently-, humans visited the planet. They took one of the teleporters and possibly other things; they may have attacked local species out of xenophobia, or self-defense. The planet-dwellers on the other hand may have been acting on territorial instinct, or their own xenophobia. The captain of the Contact Light may have fiddled with the Captain's Pin item he inherited from the previous captain as they passed over the planet. (The item description mentions it "seemingly doing nothing" or similar.) This may have triggered a hidden smuggling (?) mechanism which launched a container at the planet. This may have struck a living being, dwelling, temple or the like. Providence, reacting to the above -past events, container impact, or both- teleported onto the ship to attack the perceived threat. He downed the ship but the player survived and eventually completed another cycle of revenge or counterattack, despite great cost to their body and psyche. This seems to correspond to the game's tragic tone. Another possibility is that the imps -who I believe are listed as hostile to the other species- have invaded or raided the planet's inhabitants for one reason or another, and that drove previously peaceful races into a state of bitter hostility toward all outsiders. Hence attacking a vessel passing within their space...