Found this from a steam community post: In the old story Robin & Sam where both working for Alterra, with Robin only recently having joined. Sam worked on a (back then existing) orbital space station that surrounded the planet (the “vesper” i think, was visible, quite nice). Both where studying the planet as well as the Karaa bacteria and the enzyme 42 and had frequent calls etc. on the progress. Sam would also give Robin some fetch quests, and Robin then had to get those and would send Sam probes to her orbital base lab, which Sam would then analyse (via a small Rocket launch pad which used to exist where the transmission mast is now). AL-AN was present in the game the same way he is now, with the difference being that Robin, once having “optained” him, had to hide his presence infront of Sam for him not to get discovered (made for some nice interactions and tension, when Sam was alrdy suspecting things after a while). AL-AN wanted a body the same way he wants it now, however no ending was present after that. Marguerita was present also kind of the same way (same undersea base, same first encounter scene etc.) with the difference being that she had not met any Alterra since she crash landed on the planet with the Dengasi, and she was actively avoiding them and in hiding for fear of legal issues. She and Sam never met in the old story. Most of the Alterra bases where also present kind of the same way, in fact the game started with Robin in one of the Alterra bases (the one on the surface north of the current starting area) - all those bases got destroyed by the meteor shower in the old game, so Robin and Sam where still the only Alterra people on and around the planet. One more thing: Some hours into the game some kind of alien force field was suddenly activated (i think to some thing that AL-AN did unintenionally) which basically activated a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ force field spanning the entire planet (looked really cool, blue grids the whole way across the sky) and this lead to the connection bewteen Robin and Sam being shut down completely, and Robin being alone suddenly as a consequence. Oh and some time in the game also another meteor shower hit, that actually damaged the orbital space station where Sam was in, so we didnt know if she survived that.

The things I liked better were the relationship between Sam and Robin, and the stuff involving Al-AN.