What’s Up with Handsome Jack and the State of Hyperion?
The final episodes sees Rhys crash the Hyperion satellite Helios into Pandora, effectively ending the corporation’s reign over the planet. However, like every corporation present so far, Hyperion is a multi-planet, galaxy-spanning corporation that can’t be destroyed by the destruction of a single satellite.
So where are they in Borderlands 3? What are their new plans? Why are the New-U systems still operating normally? Most importantly, will they come back into play in future games?
Hyperion wasn’t the only thing destroyed at the end of Tales, either. Handsome Jack, or rather, an A.I. version of Handsome Jack, is living in Rhys’s cybernetic eye. In a climactic moment, the game gives you the option to crush the eye, or keep it. There is no canon choice here, the decision could still be permanently made for the next games in the franchise.
If Jack is alive, what is he planning? Is he biding his time, waiting for an opportune moment? Or is he really, truly dead this time?
