Throughout the game, he receives a number of upgrades and after the final battle, he is thought to be missing in action. He finds his uncle dead, so he grabs his pickaxe and begins his way through the mines. He arrives in Tumbleton after receiving a deed to the local mine from his uncle, Joe. He was one of the few surviving members of Steambot society that escaped into space and helped to rebuild civilisation there. After being rescued by Dorothy and Fen, the heavily weakened Rusty witnessed the destruction of Earth due to the explosion of Rosie's instable vectron tech. In the final minutes of the game, it was revealed that Rusty actually tried anything to stop Rosie from her evil doings, only to end up being captured and used as an energy source by her. During the events of SWD2, Dorothy got the impression that Rusty did numerous bad things that caused the earthquakes beneath the city. Ībout 40 to 50 years after his disappearance, his friend Dorothy McCrank started to search for him in El Machino, where some people claimed to have seen a red scarfed miner. Rusty's faith remained unclear to most residents of Tumbleton for many years. This caused everything below the Old World to collapse, seemingly burying the Steambot alive during a final vectron upgrade. After learning about his uncle's real fate deep down in Vectron, Rusty fought and defeated the Voltbot. He helped the town to regrow by selling resources to Dorothy McCrank during his stay. Rusty became a miner in Tumbleton shortly after the death of his uncle Joe. "Without Rusty, this place is exhaustively devoid of class." - Dandy Alexander after Rusty's disappearance ( SWD)