While maximizing raw destructive power is tempting, Dorothy’s base movement speed is highly susceptible to fast-moving mutated threats. Prioritizing at least two movement speed buffs early ensures you can effortlessly escape the blast radii of your own chain reactions.
What makes Dorothy’s secret research compelling is the persistent thread of distorted maternalism
: Interact with the modified mainframe in the baseline bunker. Lab Sweeper Dorothy-s Secret Research Records...
This line is the most critical part of her file. It confirms that the threat Dorothy poses is not physical infection but the infection of an idea. Her "something" is the dangerous cocktail of a brilliant mind, a profound dream of utopia, and the complete lack of moral restrictions on how to achieve it. Her subsequent role at Rhodes Island, as the project leader for the collaboration, sees her talents being weaponized for a noble cause, but the files remind us to never take her eyes off the dream.
: Navigating concealed rooms and unsettling, high-tech environments to find data fragments. This line is the most critical part of her file
: Leave a few indestructible metal blocks intact. Use these structures as natural bottlenecks to funnel aggressive security drones into a single line, making them highly vulnerable to a single, well-timed bomb blast.
Her expertise in the application of Originium Arts was quickly deemed "beyond question" and "unparalleled." But her ascent was not without controversy. Her "Secret Research Records" reveal that she quickly became entangled in the Lab's deep, dark political games. While former Energy Section Director Ferdinand Clooney would eventually be publicly established as the mastermind behind many dangerous incidents, the internal files are clear: it was Dorothy Franks, with a bright smile on her face, who produced the results of those dangerous experiments. She was a "dreamer left alone with her dreams," and her dreams quickly became a labyrinth of ethical quandaries. Her subsequent role at Rhodes Island, as the
. In these formative stages, her "sweeping" was metaphorical—a process of clearing away the debris of old-world thinking to make room for the future of the Pioneer. The Weight of the "Sweep"
Before we decode the records, we must understand the sweeper. Dorothy is not your typical protagonist. Introduced in Aether-Station 7 ’s “Rusted Truth” DLC, she is a low-level environmental services employee assigned to Bio-Lab Sector G. Her job description: incinerate waste, mop up "anomalous fluids," and ignore the screaming from the sealed quarantine units.
Released in late 2024, the game has received several updates to refine its mechanics: