the dead people from Adamantine Explorations had meant for everything to look pretty once the colony build was complete. I don’t know why that’s more depressing than them doing a shitty job and intending to abandon their colonists,
A lot to unpack here. Adamantine Explorations is a corporation. They buy dead planets cheap, or simply claim them, and terraform them so as to sell real estate for shitloads of profit.
Apparently, they’ve had some terraforming gear on this unnamed planet for decades or longer, but at some point, decades ago, some of the people living here —Wells calls them “colonists” — encountered some alien stuff that may have “contaminated” them … somehow. Physically? Psychologically? Definitely socially, as a bunch of them split off and moved to the North Pole because…? We don’t know.
And Adamantine pulled out, fairly recently, abandoning the colonists, who are now struggling to survive. I think Murderbot’s team is here to help, to try to convince the colonists to leave, because “the corporation“ is now wanting to make another try at terraforming, and is threatening to “enslave” the people living here or something.
I think.
