- And it would also explain why he's only ever seen outside at night. Think you might be on to something there....
- You'll see him in the daytime if he's your handler for the final mission; he'll get on the boat with Mike, in the daylight. Still, since it doesn't have to happen...
- He also shows up in the hotel mission, which happens during the day.
- He's not JUST Malkavian, he's THE Malkavian PC from Bloodlines, seeing as this game is a spiritual successor to that.
- Maybe he's found Golconda, and one of the benefits he's gotten is immunity to the sun? Think about this for a minute: he's what happens when a Malkavian reaches total spiritual enlightenment and inner
- And it would also explain why he's only ever seen outside at night. Think you might be on to something there....
- Far less awesome then him being the Malkavian from Bloodlines, but he could also be a Marauder. it would explain his super-powered fighting style and the fact that he can pull off all the totally crazy stuff he does.
- And Albatross is kind of The Last Dj, who was once in same situation as Thorton. He seems to understand Mike very well and as they say, history repeats itself...
- We'll never know, now that it's been announced there will be no sequels.
- ( Sega announced it. Obsidian is silent on the subject and they own the rights. Hope Spot?
- Obsidian's CEO has said that, though Obsidian isn't making AP 2 he would happily make it, so there is a fair chance that it'll come, if later rather than sooner.
- This is strongly hinted at in an optional dialogue choice: Mike observes that Sis's locket references a story in which parents sacrifice their own children to buy safety for their village. Sis clearly wishes she could speak up, but Albatross makes it clear he doesn't like this line of questioning one bit.
- Personally, I reckon she's his younger sister. I mean... Sis as a code name? Lots of places and people abbreviate sister to sis. There'd be quite a big age gap, but it would kind of fit with the locket story in several ways, if they were siblings who shared a background and experiences he doesn't want to go into, by virtue of having been much older than her and understanding more about it. If G22 IS a former iteration of Alpha Protocol and Albatross is a former agent used the way Mike was, isn't that kind of like a "parent" (superiors/government/etc) abandoning it's children in favour of it's own needs?
- The younger sister possibility, despite Sis' name, was jossed in-game. If Thorton questions Albatross first about Sis, and then about her locket, during the private meeting, then Thorton will bring up the fact that Sis is an orphan, and she's not related to Albatross.
- Is this even WMG? Sure, you have to listen to everything in the game carefully, but still - I thought that was clear.
- Mike's idea was probably that his inhibition of the Halbech operations in Rome, Moscow and Taipei would keep things from going into actual war, at least with Mike as Chief of Security for Halbech and therefore in a position to relatively autonomously handle operations and influence Halbech (consider that for the Halbech ending to be available, Leland has to like you, so he'd at least listen to what you have to say). It might have been wrong, but there is another problem with this theory... the main conflict being drummed up was China vs the US, Russia was more of a distribution hub than an actual part of the planned cold war.
- Hilariously, this is confirmed in-game to some extent: at one point he emails you with a wild theory about the government creating crises to manipulate the prices of arbitrary commodities like strawberries just to see if they can do it. If you spend a lot of time digging up info on Parker, you learn that one of his research projects...was doing exactly this. Parker will actually mention this when you talk to him at the beginning if the right dialog options are taken, but it's easy to miss even if he says it.
- Steven Heck knows about Majestic 12; that's not as big a leap as you'd think...
- No no, G22 is the modern face of the Assassin Order.
- Or is the predecessor to Cerberus.
- Steven Heck is what would happen if Thorton went insane due to all the things he has to deal with and has happened to him - completely crazy, but awesome.
- How about this: Marburg is Future Professional Thorton, Scarlet is Future Suave Thorton, and SIE is Future Aggressive Thorton.
- And bang, Spiritual Sequel with the same gameplay and a spy named Michael.
- Dreaming commencing... now.
- Thorton's real name IS Michael Westen and this is the story of why he became a CIA contractor and not an agent. And Steven Heck is an identity Dead Larry assumed at that time.
- By that same logic: Archer license.
- The map of the embassy you buy from Albatross does cost just as much as Security Shitfs other maps does and fulfill the same function.
- A sequel's not off the cards yet- if Obsidian can get interest from another company, or Sega finances it, it can still happen.
- As of 2019, the publishing right of AP has reverted back to Obsidian. With Microsoft's financial backing, they can take the IP too if they want.
If SIE "rescued" Micheal in the medical bay, she got a little Someone to Remember Him By from Micheal.
Seriously, with all the precautions in place, underwater mines would not be out of place.
- And it will be AWESOME
- And it will be World War 3
- And it will be Mike's Funeral.
- And Sis will be watching from the air vent.
- And the shock will be enough to cure her muteness.
- Mainly to make sure that if captured out in the field, the operative can't compramise Grey Box. It would damn inconvinient to drug everyone coming to and from such a large facility.
There are always three ways you can sell Halbech data in the game. You can use it to blackmail Halbech, you can sell it on the black market, or you can send it to Scarlet. Now, Halbech has contacts in the black market and can probably buy the information right quick if you sell it there. And Scarlet is secretly working for Halbech, so she has good reasons to quash any stories you send her (though she acts otherwise). Bottom line, none of this corporate espionage can ever harm Halbech, except for the trivial cost of squashing the story.
"Sie" is a word (well, relatively, as far as it's used at all) commonly used instead of "he" or "she" when referring to genderqueer persons, and despite being (supposedly) female, clearly suffers from a very serious case of Testosterone Poisoning. Combine this with constant comments about implants and the fact that her sexual assets don't really seem to belong on a woman of her body type (which is to say, huge and muscular), and suddenly that sex scene near the end gets a whole lot creepier (or funnier, depending on how you look at it).
- "Sie" also translates as "she" in SIE's native language (German). Of course, naming yourself that is still odd, so that doesn't really weaken the transsexual argument.
- This is more probably a reference to an old East German practice of injecting sportswomen with large amounts of testosterone and certain kinds of steroids.