THIS is it!
Planet Fusion has manifested its physical form to stop our resistance.
Lord Fuse is very formidable, and with his top soldiers by his side, this battle will surely not be easy.
But we can do this, together!
"The time is now, the hero is you!"
((Something I noticed about Lord Fuse is that he has these strange protrusions coming from his back that look like wings.))
((And yet he's rooted to the ground))
((Theres just something so...somber about that. Something that possibly at one point could take flight or at least wanted to, yet is now rooted firmly in place with nowhere to go.))
((I think maybe at some point in the beginning, he could have been like Addy. A being brought to life by fate, created as a last gambit to save a dying solar system. He was supposed to be his solar system's hero. Maybe there were even other creatures like himself who ended up dying because he couldn't save the solar system in time))
((This drove him to madness to the point where, in a vain attempt to complete his purpose, he began devouring and overtaking other planets. The fusions he creates are vain attempts to recreate his kind, but they can never truly be alive as they are mere constructs and recrations of other beings))
((He once had wings to soar above, but as madness and cruelty overtook him, he became shackled to his planet.))
((something something, he became so obsessed with completing his purpose that he clipped his own wings like a fallen angel))
I have a question since I never played Fusionfall cause it wasn't available in my country, can fuses feel pain? Asking as a writer
Fuse, the fusions, and the monsters in his army are all capable of feeling pain. The game has several audio files labeled "wound," specific for whichever character it's being used for. An interesting thing about Fuse's files is that they sound very animalistic, especially compared to the cries of the human-based fusions.
A little something I wrote up based off of this post because the idea stayed in my head all night last night.
Before I begin, I must make it VERY CLEAR that I will discuss a spoiler for another game (mostly imagery from the end of the game). If you have yet to finish Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. THERE WILL BE SPOILERY IMAGERY USED TO CONVEY HOW I IMAGINE SOME STUFF, but otherwise, not related to KOTOR2.
Alright, now for the story:
So as we know, Planet Fusion was more or less made to be a new hope for a dying solar system, or more specifically, a certain unnamed planet. It would be thousands of years before their sun dies, when the news was first discovered, but consider this: maybe the solar system was already beginning to feel the effects of their sun burning out, hence the feeling of urgency to find a solution.
Of course, as close as it gets to Word of God™ says, it takes generations for the planet's scientists and leaders to finally come up with something that would have even the slightest chance of being successful: A small, cellular organism, capable of replicating any matter. However, there was some good news and bad news-- The good news was, it didn't have to rely on their Sun for energy, however, it needed to consume matter to make its own energy. Chances on this working would realistically be slim, and a generation is 20-30 years... so who knows if the planet even had time left to work on a different solution. They were probably desperate, and running out of time, since a Sun wouldn't need to fully die out before a planet begins to suffer, unless it was one of those explosive deaths (which, for the sake of this story, is not explosive, but rather, outright runs out of energy)
So, they send the organism out into space. Now, up until this point, I've mostly been recapping what @ffunseen had said, while throwing in my two cents about my thought process on the logic behind it. But here's where I start to diverge. Why would a dying planet send their experiment out into space, unmonitored? Especially if it’s possibly their only hope?
Well, I’m glad you asked.
My solution is that they sent one of the scientists/researchers involved with creating this organism out with it. Surely, someone working on the project would know how to get the most desirable results. So, they send not just the organism, but a researcher out into space, too. Perhaps to a planet that already succumbed to a lack of sun, no harm in testing this out on a dead world, right? All the organism needed was matter to survive, and well, a dead world was still matter. So the researcher released the organism, and spent the next while helping it grow.
This is where things start getting serious, in my opinion. So the organism was likely able to adapt itself to the world easily, and changed the world drastically. However, despite this. Things… didn’t look good. Honestly, I wanna use one of my favorite KOTOR2 worlds as comparison to how the world likely looked like under the organism’s ever growing influence:
(No joke, when I first got to this part in KOTOR2 with my friend, I told him “This is what I’d imagine walking on the surface of Planet Fusion to look like.”)
And the worst part is? As we know from the game, Fusion Matter is toxic, radioactive, infectious, a lot of dangerous properties, so as the organism grows and adapts to the planet, it might make the planet almost unlivable to be on… But still livable enough, surely. The researcher would have died by now if things were that bad, right?
But, as the researcher learned, this organism can change the properties of its environment. It can cause platforms unaffected by gravity, created with chunks of the planet’s surface, for example. And… unbeknownst to the researcher, it can create its own lifeforms, either out of what it’s grown to be, or out of its environment. Even out of the researcher’s equipment!
But it began to change the researcher too. And the more they changed, the easier it was to endure the organism’s toxicity. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing…
(Even though this was from a prototype/what if made way back in, correct me if I’m wrong, 2013? I figured it would be neat to reference it. Note: The researcher doesn't necessarily have to be human, or even humanoid. i just am using this screenshot as an example of how the researcher is being affected by the environment the organism created.)
… But soon enough, the organism’s environment had changed the researcher completely, into a more monstrous being. And in return, the researcher was now able to feel what the organism felt… including its hunger. Soon, the world they took over wouldn’t be enough to sustain them. So they started looking around for something nearby-- anything that could keep them alive. First, it started with the planet’s nearby orbiting moons. But then, they went for other dead planets.
Over the course of hundreds of years, the planet had absorbed the solar system it was meant to save-- it WAS saving it… Just not in the way people had hoped... Over the course of hundreds of years, the researcher had forgotten who they were. It didn’t matter to the researcher. They should have died a long time ago, but this organism was miraculous. It had given the researcher immortality at the cost of infecting, and changing him. Just like how the planet had changed.
Speaking of… the solar system was now one planet. He couldn’t call the dead planet by its original name anymore-- especially since there were so many other planets merged into it. So, he came up with a new name… Planet Fusion, true to its new appearance. Oh, and he needed a new name too, didn’t he? After all, he is, technically this planet’s new ruler…
