Restless Souls/Reconstruction

This is a hobby project. As I have to piece together free minutes, progress is super slow. Any writing should not be considered final until I remove this note.

This page consists mainly of notes of my old website. Some are out-dated, some have been developed at other places. This page might be deleted someday.

Gapfilling

This section's goal is to create list of things that influence a sequel, which means to solve some question about plot gaps and what can be ignored because it is just a in-game thing made up for the player.

For example: Why has Muro transformed into a huge mutant when Konoko kills Griffin?

• We can say it is a gamplay element. Why kill Griffin when nothing changes afterwards?
• Or we create a plot-wise filler. It could be a hallucination from Konoko because the Daodan corrupt her mind when killing Griffin.

Time setting

Looking at the timeline the story can be seen as direct sequel. But RS is set into the year 2055. Didn't Oni take place in 2032?

Well, (in my opinion) neither Oni's original nor RS's timeline is that much fitting into 2032.

• This point of view is supported by some footnotes of Oni's Wikipedia Article (following footnotes are from 21 August 2006)

1. There have been debates as to whether 2032 is the actual year of the game's setting as the manual has never clearly stated this to be so. It is only given that the World Coalition Government was formed in January 12th 2032, and as the game progresses, the possibility of the in-game storyline actually being set in 2032 gets lesser.
2. According to Konoko's in-game diary, November 22 was a Monday. This is true for the years 2032, 2038, 2049, et cetera.
3. Officially confirmed to be set in 2032 by Bungie.net's Oni FAQ, although this is still debated due to how tightly the events of Oni would have been packed together, and that the FAQ went up during the Bungie/Microsoft take over.

Some conflicts with the manual:

• "It's 2032 and the world ain't what it used to be." + "In a matter of years all traces of the old governments faded away."
• "They told us that abuse of technology was the enemy and that the Technology Crimes Task Force was our guardian." + 13_65_29 Kerr: [...] I took you to the TCTF. [...] + 4_54_21 Konoko: [...] Griffin made me a monster when I was 07 years old [...]

There's no explicit statement that WCG established the TCTF but it's most probable.

• "Orphaned at the age of 3, the woman now code-named Konoko has been raised as a ward of the World Coalition Government ever since."

So Hasegase invented his miracle in less the 3 years? (The time is bordered by Jamie's death and Konoko arrival at the TCTF.) That seems very less time for such a super project. Maybe he worked on the idea before he met Jamie. The Daodan's origin is unclear after all.

What happen if I take my thoughts into "2032 - today".

• Oni's technology is for 2032 more unlikely (in my opion).
• The TCTF would not be established by WCG but maybe expanded into a secret police.

Nothing is said about the time here: "They told us that abuse of technology was the enemy and that the Technology Crimes Task Force was our guardian."

If WCG was founded in 2032 then Kerr and Konoko were already 20 years at the TCTF.

• Tracy said: „Terrance Griffin is a valued Agent who has devoted his entire life to the TCTF.“

"his entire life" should be more then one year.

What would be the minimum difference to 2032? Guessing Konoko's age and Griffin years at the TCTF. It might be around "plus 20 years".

Phase stream projector

One and only mentioned: Freedom Riots in 2012. A typo maybe -- should mean 2032?

• [keywords: phase stream projectors, 2012, Freedom Riots; source: Quotes/Weapons#ph_stream (in-game)]
  "This device is a miniaturized version of the vehicle-mounted phase projectors deployed during the Freedom Riots of 2012. It emits a continuous beam of energy that can stagger or topple enemies."

All other violent events are described as following and let guess 2032:

• peacekeeping forces [1]
• time of unrest [2]
• Uprising War [3]
• border skirmishes [4][5]
• Great Uprising [6]

• [1][keywords: WCG, "peacekeeping forces", infighting; source: The World Coalition Government (manual)]
  "They created "peacekeeping forces" capable of putting down any infighting [...]"
• [2][keywords: Network, new geopolitical order (WCG), time of unrest; source: History of the Syndicate (in-game)]
  "During that time of unrest they found that they needed a more centralized armed power base to maintain their operations and so began to arm and train their operatives in a consistent manner. In doing so the faceless Network evolved into the highly trained and heavily armed force that we now know as the Syndicate."
• [3][keywords: WCG, Uprising War; source: Mercenary Sniper (manual)]
  "Mercenary Snipers are veterans of the Uprising War that left the World Coalition Government in control of the globe. [...]"
• [4][keywords: World Coalition Government, border skirmishes; source: The Technology Crimes Task Force (TCTF) (manual)]
  "One of the excuses World Coalition Government used to grab the reigns was the use of biological weapons by a few of the countries involved in border skirmishes at the time."
• [5][keywords: leaders of the new regime (WCG), endless border skirmishes; source: The World Coalition Government (manual)]
  "The leaders of the new regime gave us all kinds of rationalizations for their actions, ranging from endless border skirmishes between impoverished nations to environmental problems that they claimed could only be solved if all of the "citizens of earth" worked together."
• [6][keywords: Great Uprising, WCG researchers; source: ammo (in-game)]
  "Coordinating the arms of mercenary and corporate forces during the Great Uprising had WCG researchers scrambling to solve their logistical problems. [...]"

Timeline

Outdated version.

1996	(11. Mai) birth of Terrance Griffin (USA, ?) (10. December) first activities of the "network"
2000	(18. September) birth of Florenz Kerr (Japan, ?)
2008	(19. June) birth of Barabas (Israel, Capernaum) (????) birth of Momuto Hasegawa (Japan, Tokyo)
2011	(6. Mai) birth of Jamie Kerr (Japan, ?)
2018	(17. March) Griffin's start in his police career (3. April) birth of Traton (?, ?)
2024	(30. March) Griffin goes to GATC (section of OCTF and FTF (Interpol))
2031	(13. February) birth of "Jareth" (Japan, ?)
2032	(12. January) WCG's and TCTF's proclamation (27. April) bio-attack in Suez cause panic in public (7. Mai) Syndicate start building a Universale Weapon Logistic Base (...) know as "camp", training and equipping their men there (5. June) phase stream projectors goes into mass production (20. September) prototype test of forcefield emitter and the atmospheric processor in "Green Village" (27. September) Barabas and „Hitman“ (placeholder name) becomes wounded on battlefield and stay M.I.A. (29. September) high mercenaries request to eliminate WCG's political enemies
2033	(????) Jamie becomes an environment activist (23. June) "blank bullets" goes into mass production (????) marriage of Jamie Kerr und Momuto Hasegawa (10. June) Forcefields become special equipment for infantry (4. August) first close combat drone in action; BLACKSTARS biggest mission (1. October) unknown hacker attack on "Network Centric Warfare", system collapse cause biggest disaster in WCG warfare ever
2034	(2. February) last war actions ("network" now known as "Syndicate")
2035	(????) completion of urban drone system, quarantine zones get banned in news (civil pool reporting is established) (????) TCTF runs on full capacity as secret police, Griffin get employed as regional Commander (8. November) birth of Muro und Mai Hasegawa (Japan, Tokio) (????) development of sub-dermal transponder (usage as neuro chips in the brain), start of TCTF's project „Marionette“ with Syndicate members
2036	(????) radicalization of WCG's policy, establishing of first nature reservoirs
2037	(????) birth of Dakosta Daisuke (Japan, ?)
2038	(4. February) further development of subdermal transponders by the Syndicate, caused the so-called "flat line zombie", TCTF use broadcasting interference, number of sleepers is assessed to a few thousand (9. February) birth of Daya Gard (USA, Los Angeles) (Sturmänderung recruit ID: 9-2-38) (15. July) birth of Gragol Nishio (Japan, ?) (1. August) birth of Taylor Montén (Japan, ?)
2039	(4. Oktober) death of Jamie (Kerr) Hasegawa in the Fuji Wilderness Preserve
2040	(????) last develop phase of the Daodan-Chrysalis (Alpha), Syndicate kidnaps Muro und Prof. Hasegawa
2042	(21. Oktober) Barabas become Bertram Navarre's patient
2043	(2. Januar) raid on "Picasso Island", Barabas becomes mercenary in the Syndicate (????) development of an algorithm which calculates the eye's neural pulses into binary data, Syndicates first try to build a "Deadly Brain"
2047	(????) Trazk starts ACC's worldwide infiltration
2048	(????) Konoko starts with her training programs (????) Remote satellite uplink/triggering systems installed: 417 regional processors on-line (????) Muro's rise to power by his mentor's help (Traton)
2049	(????) Syndicate SLD program "tanker"; Traton meets GOP (????) Low Orbit satellite control signal burrow established (????) STURMANDERUNG mountain compound construction (commando base) (completion of installing the TITAN module)
2050	(????) Daodan core technology (ref.TITAN\ssob) (Hasegawa starts research on alternative Daodan types which are which would go to civilians
2052	(7. January) Daodan core technology (ref.TITAN\uwlb) (camp's expansion into a production base for hightech including the Daodan, Hasegawa finish model for mass production) (4. June) field tests: tanker, skirmisher class (green) (26. June) Griffin decides to convert Konoko into a counter weapon by lightly increasing her Daodan grow and implementing an engram transmitter with connection to SLD "Shinatama"
2053	(9. October) Symbiote candidate selection and implantation
2054	(27. March) ACC installation modification COMPLETE (29. August) STURMANDERUNG mountain compound construction (commando base) (13. September) tanker, brawler class (blue) (16. September) "deadly brain" test serial (27. December) TCTF discovers Syndicate's D-sprays
2055	(17. March) tanker, crusher class (red) (19. November) Konoko is finishing training program Beta6 (22. November) Barabas' elimination [age: 47] by Konoko (29. November) Kerr's death [age: 55] (1. December) STURMANDERUNG transmitter array COMPLETE (operation start in 92 hours) (3. December) TCTF infiltration and commando base's destruction, Muro's elimination [age: 20] by Konoko [age: 20], 100 per cent host's infiltration by the Daodan-Chrysalis without a sign of a Imago stage) (4. December) Mukade's reanimation (?. December) field test for: cyborg, guardian class (green), "Sturm"-Striker, behemoth class (Gray), (SLD-)Shinobi - Guardian Class (Black)
2056
	Silver Dawn event
	Mind Seal event

What's the connection between Mai and Mukade?

11_39_05 Konoko: There is something familiar about him...I can't quite place it.

• This statement leaded to the thought that Mukade is/was Hasegawa.

See: TNZ article

Other might want to explain the connection by the Daodan only. Here it goes:

• There's something like a Daodan "aura". You can see it when being over-powered or when using the cheat "chenille". That let you guess that it is a bio-electric field which concentrated Daodan particles. It's always there but not visible all the time. Now the theory is that Mai feels Mukade's field or his particles like pheromones or both.

See also: (RS) Daodan Theory

But there's still Hardy's concept. We (re-)discovered his statements after had created our own theories.

Posted By: chef
In Response To: Re: Quick question, somebody know this? (Mukade?) (Harry)

People with a Daodan Chrysalis inside them are "super predators" of sorts, so they are very aware of each other: imagine a tiger moving into another tiger's hunting grounds. Anybody who has ever been to the zoo can tell you that you always know when the tigers are about to make their entrance: tigers have a very distinctive odor that you can smell for miles.

Konoko's internal lines in that level were meant to show her own predatory response to the threat that Mukade presents. And when she ends up talking to Mukade he tries to get her to admit that she's feeling the "thrill of the hunt" and that the creature she is becoming likes to kill, but she denies it.
Still we all know how that level ends ;^>

: Hardy LeBel explained on this forum that he has a chrysalis too, so both Mukade and Konoko can sense each other.
 : Mukade has a highly developed Chrysalis so he's very experienced in it.
: -Harry

(source: http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=19468)

The following notes focusing on the mentioned "thrill of hunt" (blood lust).

1. Consoles, Superhuman During routine physical training Konoko experienced a drop in latency that precipitated a Daodan power spike.
   Her strength, speed and endurance were temporarily improved to what can only be described as superhuman levels. [...] While boosted, she demonstrated an uncharacteristic aggressiveness that frightened her instructors. She was asked to stop working out so we could monitor her but she refused. [...]
2. Diary, chapter 3 Barabas! I can't believe it! I know his record...he's very strong. I know I'm not supposed to enjoy combat but this guy will be the first real challenge I've had.
3. Diary, chapter 10 That ninja...why do I react to him this way? He feels familiar and I hate him for it. We're like animals whose territory is threatened. I know when I find him we'll be nothing but claws and fangs. The strangest part is that I'm looking forward to it.

Her blood lust got stronger, hadn't it? Now you can interpret that the blood lust set her into a state being able to imagine subconsciously how her enemy would react. Ironic is that she denied it by killing Mukade.

STURMANDERUNG and TITAN

The section has been mostly replaced by the material on the RS technology page.

You have found a possible weakness in Muro's plan. If the Sturmanderung Pulse can be activated before all the orbital transmitters are aligned, some of the Atmospheric Conversion Centers will survive.

And what wound be a problem for a Striker about activating a second pulse while Muro fights Mai? She had better destroyed the last access console or the generators or the dish by using a SBG.

However, there are some more tricky questions.

0) What do "regional processors" mean, how many exist actually?

Is it only Japan with 417 ACC?

1) Is it really the STURMANDERUNG transmitter dish?

Why the blam it seems to suck air and release it ionized? Is it an Atmospheric Processor of a house-own little test ACC? You don't need such a big dish to reach some satellites, right? I mean it wouldn't be that easy taking action against the WCG. They would be advised to build a own little ACC at first which would allow their mad ideas to become deadly praxis. Then they could had copied the modified parts and infiltrated real ACCs.

2) How strong is the environmental pollution, how fast will spread out?

At least we can guess how strong it is by looking at the outro.

The poison will reach non-triggered ACC areas via the global air circulation. (Jet-Streams are around 400 km/h fast.)

3) "ssob" and "uwlb" are still unclear.

What could they stand for?

• ssob = Senior Scientist on Board (would refer to Hasegawa) / Ships and Subs Operations Board ?
• uwlb = universal weapon logistic base ?

The idea comes from a TCTF report about Syndicate's history: During that time of unrest they found that they needed a more centralized armed power base to maintain their operations [...]

Other possibilities for uwl(b):

• uwl - Urban Warfare Logistics
• uwl - Universal Worklist (SAP Enterprise Portal)

The interpretation goes as following:

• if "ssob" refer to Daodan's planing phase then "uwlb" is either the note that they are ready for Daodan (mass-)production
• or "uwlb" stand for the complation of a digital research of the Daodan (Why do they need a "megacomputer"? Not for weather forecasts, right?)

4) Why do they wrote "STURMANDERUNG mountain compound construction" two times? (Point six and ten.)

Maybe they have two mountain compounds? A production base ("uwlb" in Africa) and a commando base (in Japan).

5) Oh, and where went point four, eight, and twelve?

This reminds me somehow on "Donnie Darko". The author wrote a little book about time traveling but each second chapter was missing. Even more strange: There was a fan having that book on a convention but it was never printed. xD

6) There's too many stations: they could never be disarmed before Muro activates them. Who?

What is this supposed to mean? Would WCG fight local Syndicate troops around the ACCs in panic so they can try to repair them? Wouldn't that be too late? If Muro would had blown up all ACCs (like Konoko did) then there would be no problem (no reason) in disarming the Syndicate there.