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I think that was a different pitch for SS3. Afaik the Otherside TriOp blacksite SS3 was set between 1 & 2 as I said, so it wouldn't have made sense for the Soldier to appear as he hasn't even gone to Tau Ceti yet. I think the blacksite setting was chosen partly because it could plausibly not be mentioned at all by anyone in SS2 despite it happening before that game. The pitch with both the hacker and soldier showing up was (I believe) something else, or maybe a variant where it is actually set after SS2 (involving human hybrid shodan?)