In the mission Hokkaido you can hear two displace soldiers talking about ninjas but one of them mentioned that he is was on the oil reg in Georgia
Does this mean the displace was helping nickoladz people in gorgia or doglas Shetland hiring terrorists for his future goals?
There was a post theorizing Shetland was dirty since PT. It was suspicious for him to be in the embassy and Sadono singled him out and the game never elaborates on why Lambert sent Fisher to begin with. Lambert likely knew Shetland was involved the DDD with it likely being an early attempt at destabilizing the US.
Hey, it's me! I love to see this theory getting spread around more. It's great how the first three games are tied together but in a very subtle way. Shetland and The Masse Kernels form a thoroughfare through them.
Personally, I would theorise that maybe Nikoladze wasn't being directly affiliated with by Shetland or Displace, but maybe Shetland did intentionally try to recruit Grinko and Nikoladze's mercenaries afterwards (this might explain how Shetland ran into Nedich, even). Perhaps Shetland saw an opportunity to recruit people who weren't opposed to doing immoral operations and the inverse tactic of Masse's 'Glass Dagger' was less important to the success of Shetland than originally theorised.
We know that Displace were involved during the Georgian Information Crisis as they seized a Georgian airfield during it.
The Masse kernels were mentioned in some cut dialogue from the LAX mission as well. Right after Lambert tells Fisher that he made it inside with the truck, Grim was suppsed to mention someone might have used the algorithms to disrupt security operations long enough to let Soth and his guys slip into the airport unnoticed. Either Soth somehow had access to them, or someone else was helping things along (or it was Shetland, and this got cut when his story with the algorithms got shifted over to Chaos Theory instead).
Source for this?
This line. The Steam release of Pandora Tomorrow included a ton of raw audio files, and a lot of cut dialogue,
I agree with this. My suspicion is that Shetland was meant to be dirty in PT, but the developers later backtracked on it to keep the plot twist for Chaos Theory.
When you hack into the SISSIX satellite communication thingy on the sub in the Komodo mission Grimsdottir mentions Displace as the company working with Sadono.
The mission end screen states that ARGUS works with Sadono instead.
I think what happened is that ARGUS was a last minute substitute for Displace. Most likely the mission dialogue was already recorded and they didn't bother re-recording the line.
Could also just be that Shetland hired the guy not caring about his past.
Short answer yes, but Shetland didn’t exist until Pandora tomorrow, which he was basically “Sam but more rebellious” and it wasn’t until chaos theory that they decided to take that to the natural conclusion of “Sam but he’s actually gone dirty because of the problems in the US”
The fact they were both seals together, but one testified against the other for breaking protocol (added lore since the show), or the fact Shetland was considered for Sam’s position before Sam but the government decided he was a poor fit is super telling, and that’s not even getting into all the optional dialogue in pandora tomorrow where he offers Sam a job after playfully debating The US’ place in modern geopolitics
I imagine the high class/high tier mercenary trade for lower populated countries is probably a small crowd. Kind of like the voice acting business.
A lot of work covered by a few/common group of regulars.