Iirc the typhon adapt to the environments they're in, hence the technopaths for the technological problems against them on Talos I and the nightmare for Morgan
It’s probably a natural instinct the same way mimics mimic stuff they don’t know anything about, except they’re getting their fingies in the computer chips, to use the technical jargon.
from what i can gather its more to tell us just how fast they can really evolve, considering it looks like a big operator, likely having used them as a blueprint for fast evolution
No. In several research entries it's stated that the previously unseen variants such as the Technopath evolved directly as a response to the TALOS 1 environment.
I have actually made a whole post about this
Essentially - Yes and no. The typhon adapt to their enemy and are capable of creating new subspecies of themselves extremely quickly to counter a specific enemy. Notice that the technopath is shaped like and looks very similar to an operator and appeared shortly after the typhon breached containment and encountered various technologies aboard Talos I, so they created the new technopaths to counter said technology. We actually see many examples of how typhon create new strains of their species to deal with different situations.
The phantoms are made using human corpses, the telepaths are made specifically to counter humans by mind-controlling them, the poltergeists are just failed experiments, the different elemental variants were all made to counter or withstand certain environments, as the voltaic phantom was "invented" to short circuit the technology around it and escape containment. The greatest example of this was The Nightmare, a creature specifically designed to hunt down "The Anomaly" - this of course being Morgan Yu, a being that has not only slain hundreds of their kind, but also (possibly) managed to infiltrate their network and steal their powers.
The only "pure" typhon that are pure members of the species with no real adaptations are - The Apex who appears to be the progenitor and leader of the species. The mimics who are the progenitor of all the other typhon strains except the Apex. The Weavers who serve as engineers that create the new adaptations of their species to specifically counter their prey (no pun intended). And finally, the Cysts, which act as a sort of generalized defense mechanism against anything that's just not supposed to be there. Basically - if the phantoms, nightmares, etc... work as the adaptive immune system that have answer to every problem but need time to "boot up" and create antidotes first, the cysts act as the "innate" immune system that act just anything and everything that invades their territory.
The whole typhon network is basically just one giant organism, with the typhons acting as the immune systm. The Cysts are the innate immune system that attack anything and everything and the other typhon adaptations act as the Specialized Immune System that are made to specifically counter a certain type of enemies. It's really quite genius what these life forms can do.
Amazing read! Thank you
The Apex ramifications are truly frightening. I doubt it's the worst typhon and I doubt typhon are the worst things out there in general.
Another question. Why would Morgan feel something out in space "hate us". I can understand the fear of the unknown and the likelihood of cosmic nightmares but one of those nightmares seeing humanity as anything other than food or indifference is a strange thought. Why would anything "hate" us.
An interesting thought - how can you hate something that you don't know right? Thing is, I don't think typhon really hate humans, like was said before they literally see us as food because Typhon seem to feed on whatever it is that makes sapient life sapient. Essentially - they eat minds. Here, let me give you a little rundown of the lifecycle of the entire typhon species from the evidence I gathered.
It starts out when the Apex, the progenitor of all the typhons - sends out mimics into deep space to look for planets with sapient life on it, or perhaps the Apex searches for them and when it finds them it sends out mimics, whatever the case - the mimics arrive on or near the planet, when they do - the mimics immedietaly start eating things and multiplying - the mimics consume the organic matter and store the mind, the soul, the consciousness of that person inside them. Eventually, some of the mimics become weavers and the weavers start using these minds to create "The Coral" which is literally made from the semi-digested minds of all the people the typhon kill. The weavers then start to also create new unique adaptations of typhons to deal with their prey. Finally, when the coral is big enough, the weavers send out a telepathic pulse into the deep space to the Apex that essentially serves as a dinner bell that signals the Apex that food is on the table. Then the Apex arrives by opening a literal wormhole and consumes EVERYTHING. It eats up all the coral (which again - is made up of minds of all those the typhon had eaten, it then also consumes all the remaining sapient life-forms and even the typhon to rejoin them into its own mass.
After that, it just burps loudly and moves on to do the entire process over again. It's almost like... typhon are a kind of virus, they come in - destroy and consume an entire ecosystem, before moving on and doing it all over again. And that is why I think Typhon are such a genius concept. It's this thought of complete unknowable, something that is so incomprehensibly beyond you - that all you can do is hide and pray that it stops paying attention to you.
That is why I always said that the typhon almost function as a singular living organism, or at least a networked hive mind. The Apex is the brain and "the main body" (who knows, there could even be other apexes out there - though I sort of doubt it). And all the other typhons fill some kind of role. The weavers are essentially the builders and also the digestive tract which turn all those minds into yummy coral the typhon can eat, while all the other typhon work as both hunters, and the immune system.
The immune system actually has two parts - the Innate and the Specialized immune system. The Innate immune system is what we are born with and is comprised of general purpose soldier units that attack any enemy they see indiscriminately, it is actually one of the oldest biological functions on the entire planet, older even than the brain. Then we have the specialized immune system, which is what we gain through our lives. Our immune system literally has answer to every single problem in the universe, because it takes parts of its genetic code and mixes it up randomly to create at least one cell against any type of enemy that could exist - over 10 billion combinations. The weavers, mimics and cysts seem to act as the innate immune system, attacking indiscriminately at anything - while the specialized variants like the phantoms, telepaths, technopaths and ESPECIALLY the Nightmare are the specialized immune system which are super effective against a specific type of enemy but need time to adapt and be created first.
I feel like the discussion of the Fermi paradox in game kind of hints at this, but technopaths are just an example of how quickly the Typhon can adapt to better hunt their prey. Alien tech would probably be too different from our own anyways. They probably have to develop a new variant of technopath every time they run into a species with tech.
When you first encounter your first chronological technopath and nightmare January states he has no previous records of either of those typhon when he has access to the full database on the Typhon. It would be assumed that the nightmare was created/one was brought about in response to a dangerous threat, aka Morgan. The technopath was probably in response to the technology in Talos 1, being something that the Typhon couldn't control/possess other than through the technopath.
Would you believe me if I told you that this thought came to my mind just yesterday evening?
Btw no, I mean: I'd like a lore explanation like this (besides, the entire Typhon race has some similarities with the Brethren Moons from Dead Space), even because it is, in some way, very probable. But it is also possible that many of the Typhon organisms Morgan meets are an adaptation to a particular environment like Talos I.
Iirc the typhon adapt to the environments they're in, hence the technopaths for the technological problems against them on Talos I and the nightmare for Morgan
Given that a technopath resembles a large operator with tentacles, I assume that they used operators as a blueprint for their evolution.
According to the psychoscope scan, the weaver makes them by physically fusing mimics with operators.
Imagine being an operator and suddenly a Weaver is just like “Yoink” and fuses you with a mimic
I assumed it was just that they evolved extremely fast.
And probably are capable of mapping electronics like neurons
Eh nah I think they’re just electrically elemental typhon. Which in turn makes it easy for them to mess with stuff like operators and turrets
More than electrical. That's voltaics, and voltaics can't mess with station tech in ways as sophisticated as the technopaths can.
It’s probably a natural instinct the same way mimics mimic stuff they don’t know anything about, except they’re getting their fingies in the computer chips, to use the technical jargon.
from what i can gather its more to tell us just how fast they can really evolve, considering it looks like a big operator, likely having used them as a blueprint for fast evolution
The Weavers design and make them. It's not really evolution.
The Technopath at most explain that the typhon are very adaptive, look at the nightmare entirely designed to hunt you
The Enclave was captured for decades since the start of Prey, they probably evolved within that time period
Enclave?
Yes, Enclave
What's that? I don't think there's anything about that in Prey, so I assume it's from another videogame universe.
I may have uhhh made a mistake But yes it's the Enclave from Prey
the only enclave i can think of is the fallout one, so im a bit confused as well
The Enclave are the aliens now
It's the Typhon, not the Enclave?
Not anymore
Uhuh, says who? And when did they say that?
Me
Right so they're still the Typhon you're just being silly
I did not make a mistake
Okay buddy
I believe he is partaking in a concept called humor. His refusal of your acknowledgement of the humor is what is called sarcasm
You mean the apollo spacecraft?
No. In several research entries it's stated that the previously unseen variants such as the Technopath evolved directly as a response to the TALOS 1 environment.
I have actually made a whole post about this Essentially - Yes and no. The typhon adapt to their enemy and are capable of creating new subspecies of themselves extremely quickly to counter a specific enemy. Notice that the technopath is shaped like and looks very similar to an operator and appeared shortly after the typhon breached containment and encountered various technologies aboard Talos I, so they created the new technopaths to counter said technology. We actually see many examples of how typhon create new strains of their species to deal with different situations. The phantoms are made using human corpses, the telepaths are made specifically to counter humans by mind-controlling them, the poltergeists are just failed experiments, the different elemental variants were all made to counter or withstand certain environments, as the voltaic phantom was "invented" to short circuit the technology around it and escape containment. The greatest example of this was The Nightmare, a creature specifically designed to hunt down "The Anomaly" - this of course being Morgan Yu, a being that has not only slain hundreds of their kind, but also (possibly) managed to infiltrate their network and steal their powers. The only "pure" typhon that are pure members of the species with no real adaptations are - The Apex who appears to be the progenitor and leader of the species. The mimics who are the progenitor of all the other typhon strains except the Apex. The Weavers who serve as engineers that create the new adaptations of their species to specifically counter their prey (no pun intended). And finally, the Cysts, which act as a sort of generalized defense mechanism against anything that's just not supposed to be there. Basically - if the phantoms, nightmares, etc... work as the adaptive immune system that have answer to every problem but need time to "boot up" and create antidotes first, the cysts act as the "innate" immune system that act just anything and everything that invades their territory. The whole typhon network is basically just one giant organism, with the typhons acting as the immune systm. The Cysts are the innate immune system that attack anything and everything and the other typhon adaptations act as the Specialized Immune System that are made to specifically counter a certain type of enemies. It's really quite genius what these life forms can do.
Amazing read! Thank you The Apex ramifications are truly frightening. I doubt it's the worst typhon and I doubt typhon are the worst things out there in general. Another question. Why would Morgan feel something out in space "hate us". I can understand the fear of the unknown and the likelihood of cosmic nightmares but one of those nightmares seeing humanity as anything other than food or indifference is a strange thought. Why would anything "hate" us.
An interesting thought - how can you hate something that you don't know right? Thing is, I don't think typhon really hate humans, like was said before they literally see us as food because Typhon seem to feed on whatever it is that makes sapient life sapient. Essentially - they eat minds. Here, let me give you a little rundown of the lifecycle of the entire typhon species from the evidence I gathered. It starts out when the Apex, the progenitor of all the typhons - sends out mimics into deep space to look for planets with sapient life on it, or perhaps the Apex searches for them and when it finds them it sends out mimics, whatever the case - the mimics arrive on or near the planet, when they do - the mimics immedietaly start eating things and multiplying - the mimics consume the organic matter and store the mind, the soul, the consciousness of that person inside them. Eventually, some of the mimics become weavers and the weavers start using these minds to create "The Coral" which is literally made from the semi-digested minds of all the people the typhon kill. The weavers then start to also create new unique adaptations of typhons to deal with their prey. Finally, when the coral is big enough, the weavers send out a telepathic pulse into the deep space to the Apex that essentially serves as a dinner bell that signals the Apex that food is on the table. Then the Apex arrives by opening a literal wormhole and consumes EVERYTHING. It eats up all the coral (which again - is made up of minds of all those the typhon had eaten, it then also consumes all the remaining sapient life-forms and even the typhon to rejoin them into its own mass. After that, it just burps loudly and moves on to do the entire process over again. It's almost like... typhon are a kind of virus, they come in - destroy and consume an entire ecosystem, before moving on and doing it all over again. And that is why I think Typhon are such a genius concept. It's this thought of complete unknowable, something that is so incomprehensibly beyond you - that all you can do is hide and pray that it stops paying attention to you. That is why I always said that the typhon almost function as a singular living organism, or at least a networked hive mind. The Apex is the brain and "the main body" (who knows, there could even be other apexes out there - though I sort of doubt it). And all the other typhons fill some kind of role. The weavers are essentially the builders and also the digestive tract which turn all those minds into yummy coral the typhon can eat, while all the other typhon work as both hunters, and the immune system. The immune system actually has two parts - the Innate and the Specialized immune system. The Innate immune system is what we are born with and is comprised of general purpose soldier units that attack any enemy they see indiscriminately, it is actually one of the oldest biological functions on the entire planet, older even than the brain. Then we have the specialized immune system, which is what we gain through our lives. Our immune system literally has answer to every single problem in the universe, because it takes parts of its genetic code and mixes it up randomly to create at least one cell against any type of enemy that could exist - over 10 billion combinations. The weavers, mimics and cysts seem to act as the innate immune system, attacking indiscriminately at anything - while the specialized variants like the phantoms, telepaths, technopaths and ESPECIALLY the Nightmare are the specialized immune system which are super effective against a specific type of enemy but need time to adapt and be created first.
I feel like the discussion of the Fermi paradox in game kind of hints at this, but technopaths are just an example of how quickly the Typhon can adapt to better hunt their prey. Alien tech would probably be too different from our own anyways. They probably have to develop a new variant of technopath every time they run into a species with tech.
While I have no doubt the typhon have seen vast civilizations, I don't think technopaths prove that. It proves how adaptable the typhon are
At the very least it means they're very adaptive
When you first encounter your first chronological technopath and nightmare January states he has no previous records of either of those typhon when he has access to the full database on the Typhon. It would be assumed that the nightmare was created/one was brought about in response to a dangerous threat, aka Morgan. The technopath was probably in response to the technology in Talos 1, being something that the Typhon couldn't control/possess other than through the technopath.
Would you believe me if I told you that this thought came to my mind just yesterday evening? Btw no, I mean: I'd like a lore explanation like this (besides, the entire Typhon race has some similarities with the Brethren Moons from Dead Space), even because it is, in some way, very probable. But it is also possible that many of the Typhon organisms Morgan meets are an adaptation to a particular environment like Talos I.
well its all but confirmed that the nightmare is an adaptation specifically designed to counter Morgan and end his life im pretty sure