Marie Delacroix, the designer of the Von Braun's revolutionary FTL drive. The situation is exacerbated by widespread technical issues plaguing the Von Braun as a result of her rushed construction issues which were accurately predicted by chief engineer Dr. Aboard the Rickenbackerįour months into her maiden voyage, tensions run high between the civilian elements of the TriOptimum-owned Von Braun and their military counterparts aboard the Rickenbacker. ![]() The Von Braun is launched in February of the same year and, along with her military escort, heads towards the Tau Ceti star system to begin charting the unknown reaches of deep space. His request is approved by the Rickenbacker's captain, distinguished war hero William Bedford Diego, and the soldier arrives on the military vessel in January 2114 to begin the fourth and final year of his tour of duty. The soldier's chosen military career path determines his basic attributes, as well as providing valuable experience in the form of skill points.Īfter serving for three years at various postings, the soldier applies for reassignment to the UNN Rickenbacker in anticipation of its historic escort mission for humanity's first faster-than-light starship, the Von Braun. After receiving basic training via holographic simulation, the player is given a choice between enlisting in one of the UNN's three military branches: the Navy, the Marines or the OSA. The game provides almost no details on its male protagonist's pre-military background, but his eligibility to enlist at the UNN's "Ramsey Recruitment Center" during the game's tutorial implies that he is a resident of Earth between the ages of seventeen and thirty-four (the current age range for enlistment in the United States Navy). Lacking an official name within the game itself beyond his military service number, he is commonly referred to by fans of System Shock 2 as "Goggles".Įxcept for a single word uttered during the game's finale, Soldier G65434-2 is a silent protagonist and does not speak during the events of System Shock 2. ![]() The soldier appears in the game as a Caucasian male with dark hair and has been surgically modified with various cybernetic enhancements, the most obvious being his goggle-like ocular implants. He is an enlisted soldier in the UNN Protectorate, the military branch of the United National Nominate: a coalition of Earth's national governments formed in the wake of 2072's Citadel Station disaster in order to maintain oversight of previously-unchecked megacorporations like TriOptimum. Soldier G65434-2 is the sole player character of System Shock 2.
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