Prologue

The Prologue is the opening to the story of INSOMNIA: The Ark, which establishes the context and gives important background details to the main game's questline. Unlike in the main game, the player controls an established character named Thyper in what seems like just another day on the job. But soon, things change to a drastic worse.

The Package
Thyper's drinking away whatever problems he has in his hideout, when an old friend gives him a job that could very well be what he needs most. The job is to get a package from an old acquaintance named Hastir next to the Rainbow 106 and await further orders. Arming himself, and going out into the Reservation, Thyper makes his way to his old colleague, noting that the Tyrang division is doing a raid on the streets, looking for illegal ghetters. Hastir directs him to a generator room in the maintenance tunnels, right under the 17th sector of the Perimeter. With that information he parts again, this time going to the tunnels and fighting off the security bots guarding the place. After travelling the hellish place, he gets to his next traget, a Customs Commissar named Farka. With the package secured, and his job done, Thyper returns to the Reservation through the ventilation systems, while trying and avoiding the Tyrang soldiers that are now patrolling the tunnels. Once in his hideout, Thyper's attacked by a man in a coat. After being defeated in hand to hand combat, Thyper is obliged to contact his handler, Broker, which is the coated man's real target.

Trivia
An altered version of the events of the prologue was already told twice via the 2014 and 2016 InSomnia demos. Environment, characters, items and quests differ between versions, with the official prologue being the canon events as they actually took place.