Prey story overview
A part of the dark Prey story is based on serious, authentic Cherokee mythology. The game story goes into emotional territory rarely explored by similar games, with themes of tremendous sacrifice and responsibillity coming up along the storyline.
Tommy is a Cherokee garage mechanic, refuting his heritage and confused about where to go in life. His world comes to halt when an alien invasion forces him to turn to the spiritual powers his grandfather has tried to open his eyes to. Abducted with his people to a menacing alien mothership orbiting Earth, he fights to save himself, his girlfriend, and eventually, the entire planet.
Detailed Prey story
The Prey story focuses on Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic and former U.S. Army soldier living on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. The story begins with Tommy in the bathroom of a bar owned by his girlfriend, Jen. After a bar fight, the bar is lifted up by a gravitational force, as various items are beamed up into a green light above. Tommy, Jen and Tommy's grandfather are transported into an alien space ship to be taken to "the sphere". After docking, all three, along with countless other captives, are dragged through the upper levels of the sphere and Tommy is freed in an explosion set off by a stranger who, despite being cybernetic like most of the sphere's denizens, appears to be working against it rather than for it.
Traumatic things are played out, Tommy witness his grandfather's death and while trying to find Jen, he falls from a cliff and has a near-death experience where he meets with his grandfather's spirit who bestows him spiritual powers. When returning to the world of the living, Tommy gains the power to perform astral projection, using his spiritual body to pass through forcefields and reach places inacessible to his physical form. Despite being entrusted by his ancestor's spirits with the mission to protect mankind from the sphere's invasion, Tommy can't stop worrying about Jen, and he only cares about how to find and rescue her.
The Sphere Story
The Sphere is an organic, Texas-sized alien ship similar in shape to a Dyson sphere (though many orders of magnitude smaller). It has a small, concentrated sun at its core, which is used to support itself and all life inside it. The origin of the Sphere is unclear, but its main goal is to maintain itself. It travels the galaxy searching for various alien races to maintain it, like white blood cells in a body. It also uses these races as food to provide much needed extra energy to sustain the Sphere and its sun. The Sphere is fused with cybernetic enhancements, and has the power to manipulate gravity inside of itself. Various walkways allow the occupants to walk on walls and ceilings. Switches that change the direction of gravity are present, causing the floor to become the ceiling. The Sphere also has the ablility to produce portals to other sections at will. This implies that the Sphere is in a constant state of flux, existing in multiple dimensions at once. These portals allow occupants to move much faster around the Sphere and fufill their duties more efficiently.
The Sphere divides the multiple races into a few categories. Workers are employed as slaves for all purposes to maintain the Sphere. They have the least freedom and are underlings to all other categories. Workers are the least dangerous but are prone to attacking if confronted by a hostile visitor. Most of the workers want to get off and destroy the Sphere, but have abandoned these hopes long ago. Workers are also prone to experimentation by the scientists. Scientists are intelligent races employed on the Sphere to research technologies that help extend the reach, influence, power, and life of the Sphere. Scientists experiment on other races that are deemed to have potential for experimentation. These experiments result in horrible mutated creatures who are designed to help and succeed the guards. The Sphere's experiments are similar to the Strogg of the Quake series, as they do anything to ensure combat efficiency, which results in cruel and inhumane creatures that lurk in the corridors of the Sphere. The guards are strong and efficient races that enforce the Sphere's rules like a police force. The guards are often stronger than the workers but less intelligent than scientists. The guards will mercilessly kill anyone who resists the commands of the Sphere, including Tommy. The guards are given more leeway than the workers as they are more important and influential. The only real motivation of the guard races is to keep a higher authority in the Sphere and keep themselves from dying a painful death in experimentation. Workers who fail to comply with the guards are given as food to the Sphere. Multiple species may be consumed as more energy for the Sphere.
The sphere is controlled by a superior being called "The Mother". She makes its first appearance in the game by communicating telepathically with Tommy. She is actually a human being, which, like Tommy, fought against the Sphere and then was chosen to replace the original being inside it. She, coupled with the sphere, is omnipotent and malignant because it controls the sphere itself and its cruel harvesting of worlds. As the game progresses she questions Tommy about his resolve to persevere despite being alone against an entire alien civlization, and says that she is always watching his progress, curious about how far he can go. At the end of the game, having destroyed "The Mother", Tommy gets imprisoned within the same thing Mother was in. Before Tommy goes power mad, Enisi tells him he knows in his heart what he needs to do. Tommy drives the Sphere straight into the sun, and ends up in the land of the ancients to see Enisi and Jen once more. Knowing that when it is his time he will see them both again, Tommy goes back to Earth.
6 Months Later Buildings and communities are being rebuilt. Tommy turns around and sees a girl he thought died. She tells him that while people on Earth do not know of his great deed he has done, other races of other worlds want to see him. The girl opens up a portal and Tommy walks through it. You see a mixture of light as you warp towards your destination and the screen goes black saying,"Prey will continue..."
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