You heard it here first?
Trying to call off the twins strike. He’s an insider.
Watch this space.
Also: stims are still a trap. Don’t use the stims.
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Idk it was pretty weird Zola choked up and went quiet when it came to saying what wolfer knew.
And that after the mission when you speak to her in the special assignment screen she says she was wrong and that rannick is great at his job and she overstepped her own bounds.
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Its Morrow, you heard it here first.
Nah Zola is just going after Wolfer because he probably was her partner, in the same unit or whatever BS reason there is for her to not answer his question before he cut her off.
Fatshark isn’t capable of pulling off something like an ingame powerup actually being a story related trap with gameplay ramifications.
They’ve neither the creative or technical competence.
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I mean he’s a little fishy because of his “lack of faith,” but it was incredibly obvious that it was a trap and calling off the mission would be the right thing to do. Zola is just really stupid.
He even gives a reason why its bad, because killing a top strike team in a trap, after Zola’s failed attempt, would be a big morale boost and good propaganda for the 6th and demoralizing not only for the MS crew but also for the 21st.
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Maybe the real traitor is the friends we made along the way.
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The fishiness is that he goes from calling it off to telling us to make sure to kill both twins, while the original mission from Zola was to capture one for interrogation. That makes it seem like a cover-up: if he can’t abort the strike, he’ll make sure we learn nothing from it.
It is logically harder to do a capture than a kill on a crazed zealot type when all we have are murder tools, but we are already fighting them with no escape possible except through them. Giving us the “kinder”, easier mission and having no intel to show for our considerable risk just feels suspicious from an interrogator in the Imperium.
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I mean I guess? Seems like a stretch honestly. He’s not worried about any potential intel they may have. He has his own plans. Making sure the strike doesn’t turn into a disaster is priority number 1.
I know the story is vague but this community is so prone to make insane and unsubstantiated claims that its pretty funny.
What’s that? We’re scum and expendable? “Only way is through”, now? Masozi says that does she? I don’t think so.
He’s tipped them off.
#teamzola
It was meant to be mate 
I called the twins fight.
I’m guessing stims will tox us in the future.
I think he’s a traitor.
TBH: I’m not in to WH40k. It’s all a bit of fun.
Ah. My b. I’m still recovering from the people who said Zola is GSC with full sincerity.
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Obviously, there are other interpretations, like Rannick just not caring about Zola’s objective, or thinking we can’t handle a capture, and that’d also make sense, but it just felt weird to have him go slightly easier on us when most of the time in game, everyone is saying “go and die for the imperium”.
Zola is also a bit odd in how her voice cuts off as if it was a recording going haywire and looping her last word…that’s not really a normal radio thing, but THAT is probably a bit of wild speculation from me.
I would also add Rannick’s voicelines about undermining the Moebians morale to the reasons; he was thinking in the bigger picture of not having a strike team taken out by falling into a trap and toyed with to their doom. He does say about the loss of a strike team would effectively be an own goal.
As for the vox cutting off? That was an interesting thing, although at this point in time I do think it was more to be there as an audio cue to draw our ears to her being cut off.
I could always be very wrong of couse.
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No.
Rannick is right and zola emotionally fell for a trap, risked handing the enemy an easy propoganda win, access to inquistorial agents, and the loss of a strike team (heavily implied to be a good strike team"
everyone is expendable, even this strike team
Not
like this strike team
even this strike team
Zola isn’t a genestealer either. Shes just sad about some family stuff or whatever.
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wonder where you got that idea…
A mission that was unauthorized, unofficial, conflicted with ongoing pre-established strategic operational objectives, compromised by intercepted SIGINT or HUMINT, compromised by the personal interests and emotional state of the mission’s issuer/handler. Among other things. Any one of those variables on their own is enough to derail a mission. ESPECIALLY in 40k cough Lamenters unconvincing cough
The Inquisition is also long-established as being coldly pragmatic in the extreme. I don’t think this is anything beyond Rannick making the best of a bad situation.
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I agree. “The End Justifies The Means” is one of the maxims of the Inquisition (I think it was on the spine of the Daemonhunters Codex) and as Rannick could not get us out by Valkyrie, we had to push on through the trap, but, fortunately, we being top-tier Inquisition operator special forces (well, not me, I just carry a laspistol around) we do take them both down.
I would guess that the very prologue of the game being Wolfer’s rescue from the prison ship would have been a factor in Rannick’s mind behind not going through with getting one to be taken prisoner. He would probably not want an attack on the Mourning Star by the Moebian Sixth, although that would have the potential to be absolutely amazing as a mission concept, exploring more of the ship and seeing the Inquisitor’s retinue members fighting alongside us; I quite want to see Hadron and Kayex (is that the name?) tearing heretics apart.
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I wouldn’t be so certain about our Jean-Baptiste Emanual Zorg friend.
I’m curious how Wolfer will react to the Twins.
We’re scum.
Twins taking us a prisoners would really mean nothing. It’s not a PR advantage in my mind capturing some ex convicts.
That’s my take.
I think he’s an insider.
Prisoners are prisoners, no matter their seeming value, and are something you can show off to your people. It is a time honoured tradition in human societies during war.* “Look how weak they are,” they would say “stupid Imperials, falling into our trap. We shall show them the truth so they know how wrong they were to follow their Corpse-God.”
I might have to make sure I’m carrying my laspistol when I’m round Rannick though. No-one is above suspicion in the Inquisition. My fears might be allayed slightly if he’d finally get me my blasted Helgun, but even so, healthy is the suspicious mind.
*The following is an aside but …
Summary
In my current research work I am doing on the British Civil Wars, I was reading through an account of Royalist prisoners from the Battle of Alton in 1643 being taken to London and paraded in a procession which included the Lord Mayor and other dignitaries, and that was during a civil war, where they were showing off their fellow countrymen as captives! It is a bit bonkers.
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