Stranger
The revived colonist from the lost ship Hope, and the player character of The Outer Worlds.
The Stranger is the player character and protagonist of The Outer Worlds. Also called the Captain and the Unplanned Variable, they are a colonist from the Hope, the second colony ship sent to Halcyon, who is woken from cryosleep by the fugitive scientist Phineas Vernon Welles.
Quick Facts
- Also called
- The Captain, The Unplanned Variable
- Origin
- Colonist aboard the Hope
- Revived by
- Phineas Vernon Welles (2355)
- Ship
- The Unreliable
- Ability
- Tactical Time Dilation
Facts from the source article.
Background
The Stranger passed the colonist entrance exam and boarded the Hope, promised a ten-year journey that would feel like minutes. A skip drive failure left the ship decades late, and the Board abandoned it and its sleeping passengers. In 2355 Welles breaks into the Hope and revives the Stranger with his only batch of a new revival formula. Sent down to Terra 2 to meet the smuggler Alex Hawthorne, the Stranger's escape pod lands on Hawthorne and kills him, so the Stranger takes over his ship, the Unreliable, and his identity. As a side effect of hibernation sickness the Stranger can slow time in combat (Tactical Time Dilation). Everything else about them - appearance, attributes and allegiances - is chosen by the player.
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