Olivia Ambrose

Olivia Ambrose is a character in The Outer Worlds. She is the mother of Wilhelmina "Minnie" Ambrose.
==Background==
Understanding Halcyon was "in the midst of a slow moving crisis", she looked into creating a drug that would help the inhabitants discover a way out of the impending disaster, though she admits there was an element of selfishness too.Olivia Ambrose: "So I tried to create a drug to expand our workers' minds and improve their bodies... With everyone at their best, I thought the colony might innovate itself out of this hole." (Later in conversation): "... I craved the glory and virtue of success." During Project Gorgon, Olivia tried to keep Minnie away from it to protect her from Spacer's Choice.Olivia Ambrose: "Shutting Minnie out of Gorgon was the most difficult decision I ever made... Her safety has always been my first priority. That it meant staying far away from me... We all make sacrifices for those we love."
She first noticed something was awry when the volunteers for Adrena-Time experienced horrific deaths which were met with muted responses from Spacer's Choice.Olivia Ambrose: "The volunteers - not just the shocking way they died, but the company's muted response to it." What drove her over the edge was when they released a preliminary version of the drug to the public which brought about terrible consequences.Olivia Ambrose: "After Spacer's Choice released the unstable version of Adrena-Time and we began to see its effect on the public, my hand was forced. They weren't going to stop, so neither would I." Driven out of a mixture of anger, grief, and horror, she attemped to sabotage the Gorgon Project.Olivia Ambrose: "... my memory's hazy. Everything had gone a bit red. My blood was up... If anyone had dared to stop me, I would have snappd them in two." (later in conversation): "Grief and horror had taken me to a... dark place." She shredded the personnel files in the Office of Creative Incubation, which alarmed Clarence Mostly.Olivia Ambrose: "I began by shredding all of the personnel files in the Office of Creative Incubation. Clarence was so alarmed by my barbarism he forgot to call the corporate guard." She then released the test subjects from Human Inquiry & Auditing, frustrating Marion Blakeslee.Olivia Ambrose: "I released the test subjects from Human Inquiry & Auditing. The ghastly things we did to those people.... Marion was screaming..." She also released the primals from the Compound Harvesting, Enrichment, & Molecularization Lab, aware of the fact they killed the scientists.Olivia Ambrose: "I set the primals free. They tore through the lab like it was made of wet toilet paper."
The Stranger: "The primals slaughtered the scientists!"
Olivia Ambrose: "I know. I remember. I wasn't myself by then."
 She opted not to destroy the facilities completely for two reasons: she was not willing to kill so many staff members, and she didn't want to give up on her research.Olivia Ambrose: "I couldn't bear to kill so many of our staff even though our work killed exponentially more colonists. I didn't want to give up on my research, even after all it had cost us." She blamed Spacer's Choice for the failure of Adrena-Time, convinced that it needed more support, though she admitted some faults of her own.Olivia Ambrose: "If Spacer's Choice had given me time to perfect Adrena-Time... My drug could have saved Halcyon... that isn't to say I couldn't have tried harder or- or enlisted my peers' help."
She stayed on Gorgon, driven by a desire to reverse the Marauders' condition without success.Olivia Ambrose: "I was obsessed with the notion that I might find a cure... right the tremendous wrong we'd done... I think I was a litte mad... But the problem of the marauders was too complex for me to solve." She did not let her daughter know she was alive, in order to keep Minnie safe.Olivia Ambrose: "Knowing I lived would've only put her at risk... If [Spacer's Choice] hurt her to get to me - I'd never forgive myself." She survived on a canned diet, and had a few close calls with Marauders over the years.Olivia Ambrose: "Boarst n' Beans, frankly. One thousand, nine hundred and thirty two cans of it." (When asked about Marauders): "I had some close calls in the early years."
Since her body was never recovered from Gorgon, Olivia was declared "legally dead" by her daughter. Her husband, Harvey, also died on Gorgoni
Wilhelmina Ambrose on her father..
==Interactions with the player character==
===Related quests===
* The Red Tape of Command
* The Ambrose Intersection
==Gallery==
Ambrose Family Portrait.jpg|As depicted in a family portrait, on the right.
File:Olivia Ambrose deja vu.png
File:Olivia Ambrose (reactor).png|Olivia Ambrose in the flesh
==References==
Category:Characters (Peril on Gorgon)