Personaggi di Scrap Mechanic: Hubert, Lorenzo, Phae e Wonk

The cast, and where it comes from

Scrap Mechanic 1.0 gave Survival a speaking cast for the first time. Everything on this page is taken from what those characters actually say in the game and from the quest text attached to them. Nothing here is fan theory, and where the game leaves something unsaid, this page leaves it unsaid too.

Your own character never speaks. You are a Wonk employee, stranded after a crash, and the story is told at you by four voices: two survivors you rescue, one farmer who phones you by mistake, and a vending machine.

Hubert

Hubert F. Armer is the first person you meet. He calls you before you meet him, on a phone line he thinks reaches Wonk corporate support, because the Farmbots on his planet have turned violent and the farmers are starving.

He is a farmer by inheritance and by temperament. His family were “beet men all the way back to caveman times”, and he only switched to broccoli after Wonk patented beets and he fell behind on the beet subscription. His summary of that: “The freer the market, the freer the people.” He is not joking, which is the joke.

He is also, by his own account, not built for any of this. “I’m a tiller and a gardener, not a fighting man. You know this is the bravest I’ve ever been in my whole dang life.” He swears in vegetables, butt-dials you while singing about sandwiches, and once phoned up to pitch his solution to the bot problem: “Now hear me out: scareclanks.”

He appears in A Stranger in Need, Palate Cleanser, A Farmers Side Hustle, Lost and Found, The Warehouse, Home is Where Your Couch Is, Where’s the Fire?, Built to Last and the finale.

Why he keeps rebuilding that tower

Two of his quests are the same request twice. “Home is Where Your Couch Is” asks you to build his watchtower; “Built to Last” opens with “The Watchtower’s wrecked…again. Help Hubert out!” The repetition is the character: he wants a lookout, he cannot defend it, and he keeps asking the one person who can.

Lorenzo

Lorenzo Lazers is a Wonk mechanic whose ship was shot down in orbit long before yours was. You meet him through three audio recordings before you meet him in person, which is the best character introduction in the game.

The recordings are a survival log. Day ten, holed up in a comms bunk, living on sunshakes and ready-meals with about a week of food left, HR and headquarters both silent. His verdict on the ship that failed him: “That’s Wonk for ya: they make ’em cheap, but they make ‘em last…” By the second recording he has been ambushed by Farmbots and reached the conclusion the whole plot turns on. “Those clankers worked just fine. Knew what they were doin’.”

In person he is loud, boastful, bad at locks, and constantly quoting his mother. He has twelve siblings, a wife and children he used to find unbearable and now misses, and a childhood dog named Lucky. He calls you “hotshot”, occasionally “paisan”, and he is the one who checks whether you are all right: “So like, you ever feel it’s all a little bit too much… You can rest, you get me? You earned it.”

He appears in Wonk-Y Business, Down Below, Mysterious Signal, Deep Pockets, The Gyro-Core and One Last Ride.

Phae

Phae is an engineering contractor, and she is the character who explains the plot. Her crew was hired for Wonk infrastructure work underground until she found a dossier and started asking the wrong questions, at which point the site shut down and they were sealed in.

Her career before Wonk is a list of firings for suggesting improvements: cook, construction, landscaping, marketing. “Fired on the spot. ‘Doesn’t follow company policy’ they said.” She took the Wonk job because it promised autonomy and isolation, and she is honest about the cost. “Because I had a job. And a job, they’d told me, was everything. It was who I was.”

She has read your personnel file, which is how the game tells you this is your first planetary job. She calls you “dynamo”. She swears by stars rather than vegetables.

She appears from the second station onward and stays through the ending. Her quests are the deep ones: the second staging station, the underground train, and the fight at the bottom.

Axobot and the Mainframe

Not every voice is a person. Axobot is the shop terminal in the Mining Hub, and it never stops being cheerful about the money it is taking from you. Its greatest hit is a slogan that makes no economic sense whatsoever: “Every credit saved is a credit wasted.” When you clear a quota it congratulates “EMPLOYEE NAME AND NUMBER”, placeholder and all.

The Warehouse Mainframe gets one scene and makes it count, announcing a hardware failure, activating an anti-piracy self-destruct, and offering a cancel window of “PRESS ANY KEY IN 3…2..1…” before thanking you for using Wonk’s IP protecting DRM.

The other named speakers are roles rather than individuals: the Grumpy Farmer and the Scrap Collector who hand out builder quests, and the recordings themselves.

Wonk, the company you work for

Story spoilers: what Wonk is actually doing

Wonk is the agricultural megacorporation that employs you, employed Lorenzo, contracted Phae, and sold Hubert his farm, his bots and his crops. It leases Farmbots under a licence agreement whose terms forbid growing your own produce, and the rogue bots enforce that clause lethally. Hubert’s warning is exact: “Just uh, mind the Farmbot DRM. See, the License Agreement says you ain’t supposed to grow things yourself.”

Nothing on the planet is malfunctioning. Lorenzo opens a bot’s headbox and finds factory standard hardware, which tells him the hostility arrived as software: “Is that some pencil neck back at Galactic HQ is writing it.”

Phae supplies the name and the plan. The operation is called Grabber, and it is a real-estate scheme. Wonk buys an underperforming homestead planet, ships the farmers off, triggers a bot uprising to clear whoever stayed, then dismantles the planet and sells it piece by piece. The giant Drillbot at the bottom of the mine is the tool doing the dismantling, and it runs on a gyro-core.

Which makes your own position the quiet joke of the whole campaign. Everyone you rescue asks “You with Wonk?” before they trust you, and they are right to ask.

Character questions

Who is Hubert in Scrap Mechanic?

Hubert F. Armer is the broccoli farmer who phones you at the start of the campaign and stays with you to the end. He gives you the Farmers’ quest line, the watchtower building quests, and most of the comic relief.

Who is Lorenzo?

Lorenzo Lazers is a Wonk mechanic stranded on the planet before you. You find his three audio recordings in and around the Warehouse, then free him from a Trashbot, and he leads the underground half of the story.

Is Phae a romance option or a companion?

Neither. She is a story character who joins the crew after you free her, and her role is to read the recovered files and tell you what Wonk has been doing.

Do Zonda or Synth appear in the game?

Neither name appears anywhere in the shipped quest or dialogue text of the current release, so this site does not publish a page for them.

Does the player character talk?

No. Your character is silent throughout, and everything you learn arrives through the other characters, the recordings and the quest log.