Custodian

***WARNING**: Major spoilers from the game to follow!*

**Custodian** is a mysterious character in *Scars Above*.

Their logs are found throughout Kate's exploration of the world, starting at the log found at the Exposed Pipes in Chapter I's first mission, In search of SCARs. Their logs indicate they're likely a scientist or researcher as they keep track of experiments and gather data from the results.

## Biography

Naya's people, wishing to figure out The Code of Life at a faster pace, decided to create an AI of sorts that was a collective of all their minds. Naya, along with a few others, in turn created the Custodian, instilling in it to solve the Code. However, they failed to impart on it any kind of empathy. To help power it, it was installed in the Metahedron, one of their spaceships.

The Custodian went about what it was created for, scanning and gathering data by running experiments on creatures native to their world. However, it soon realized this data alone wouldn't be enough to provide all the information he needed, and thus turned to experimenting on far more sentient beings, its very own creators, mutating and destroying them. Naya's people tried to fight back but by then it was too little too late as the Custodian created Constructs which massacred the ones that hadn't been mutated by him, effectively dooming their kind.

The Custodian then began to search the universe for other sentient beings to experiment on to gather the data he needed and found Earth to have suitable subjects: humans. He approached the planet and after six months, was approached by their small spaceship with four humans onboard who he proceeded to warp away to where he was conducting his experiments. One of them died when they crashed on the planet so the Custodian focused on the rest, eventually infecting the two men and documenting their progress. The third he eventually caught inside Field outpost Tetra to experiment on later. However, before he could start, he learned the one who had died was still alive and working to revert the mutation progress on Subject-Z alt. Wishing to stop this interference, the Custodian set off a self-destruct sequence for the outpost, blowing it up, but she had managed to successfully revert the progress.

As the Custodian could re-activate the nanobodies in the subject anytime, he decided to instead focus on first stopping Kate, who was not only messing up his data but also shutting down special nodes around the planet to remove his protective barrier. The Custodian soon discovered Kate was an anomaly, somehow having control variable access that not only let her keep coming back to life but also protected her from any possibilities of mutation. As he dug into it further, he recognized the code as being very familiar and realized his own creators had somehow set in motion a way protect the human.

Despite his attempts to stop her, Kate successfully took down his barrier and teleported into the Metahedron. The Custodian, still wishing to finish the Code, offered a deal: out of admiration for her tenacity in making it this far, he offered to return Kate to Earth as he only needed the two other survivors to finish. However, this only fueled Kate's determination to take him down so he released The Omega on her. Kate proved yet again though he couldn't stop her and she killed it off and headed to the Custodian's core to upload the seed that'd kill him. Trying one last time, he tried to warn her off, noting all the knowledge he'd gathered on the Code would be lost forever and that he was Kate's only way back to Earth. This was ignored though and Kate placed the seed, effectively destroying both the Custodian and the Metahedron.

## Items

* Custodian's Log 1
* Custodian's Log 2
* Custodian's Log 3
* Custodian's Log 4
* Custodian's Log 5
* Custodian's Log 6

## Gallery

The Custodian, the visions of alien creatures and Kate in the mysterious stormThe Entity Inside the StormThe Custodian journal log