Sawians

Sawians are the corporation’s artificial-species group in the community lore transcription. The three playable mappings are Experiment SAW-01, Milky SAW-03 and Dune SAW-12.

A group name, not a fourth playable character

Sawians is the collective term used by the community lore articles for the corporation’s artificial species. Experiment, Milky and Dune are the three playable species, with the designations SAW-01, SAW-03 and SAW-12. The other numbered designations mentioned in the lore do not establish a complete playable roster. A reader looking for all Sawians should distinguish the broader research program from the character-selection screen.

The research story in the public notes

The Experiment article reconstructs the origin from research memos transcribed on the Lore page. It describes failed teleportation work leaving unusual yellow biological material, followed by attempts to use that material to incorporate genetic information. A viable specimen receives the SAW-01 designation. The corporation later develops other species from that work. This is the narrative presented through those attributed records; the page does not turn a scientist’s claims into an outside scientific account.

Why the corporation sends them away

The same public transcription links a reduction of the expensive SAW project to sending its subjects to the planet associated with their blood. That background is separate from the immediate mission followed during a playable run. Corporate research, monitoring and resource goals help explain the setting, while the individual notes also show characters trying to understand what has happened to them. Keep the speaker and document context when interpreting a memo or survivor account.

Separate related works and unresolved details

The Gunsaw community article describes a related species setting, and Gunsaw Genetics is a mod that brings species choices into this game. Neither automatically expands the base game’s playable roster. Names seen in that related material should therefore not become newly invented Casualties characters. The public pages do not provide a dependable one-to-one table for every SAW number here. This guide gives the three explicit playable mappings and leaves the rest unassigned rather than filling a speculative family tree.