Was this ever explained?

[68570dd6d0ad8CyrusVonNox2001]

https://imgur.com/a/aGqCaeo

In my 10 or so years of playing SS2, it was this that still intrigues me: A guy with my same implants as me blowing his head off in the hallway to Engineering Control. From my perspective, this was never explained, my best guess at the time and now, was that it was a model placement glitch, it was supposed to show a crew member doing the deed, not another goggles. I suppose my other bet was that he was another one of SHODAN's avatars who got fed up and decided to end it all. SHODAN speaks of another avatar, but I always thought that was Delacroix. Was this ever explained later, Do you have any headcanons about this other goggles?

[68570dd6d0c7dicemann]

I think the mystery and lack of it being answered in-game, adds to the experience. Makes you wonder.

[68570dd6d0e39Join2]

Don't you arrive on a small vessel with a number of other Cyber Soldiers? That or it's just another cyber-modded dude already on the ship but the devs recycled the exact player model because they had their priorities in order (not wasting time & money creating an entire new model and all that involves just for this one brief scene).
Oh right, I'm forgetting these are supposed to be hallucinations too, not necessarily real/didn't actually happen? So maybe it is you.

[68570dd6d0fd2Livo]

The boring answer is, the very rushed SS2 development & the Goggles model was the only one with a pistol modelled at the time, so they probably just reused it. Perhaps if they'd had more time, they also would have modelled cybernetic implants on some of the corpse models to help assist the world-building & explain why there's so many upgrade stations.

As for the in-game explanation, it's just probably just another enhanced soldier with the legal, permitted P-Grade or whatever they're called implant. But deGrassi points out in an audio-log he explicitly recognizes the illegal R-Grade implant, as opposed to the usual type. Then again, he *is* a Cyber-Doc specialist, so maybe the implants look similar, but when installing them into a person, you have to hook up an illegal R-Grade a different way to a person compared to the usual P-Grade, or there's more wires/processors/human-machine connectors compared to the usual implants.

[68570dd6d1151voodoo47]

yes, it's an individual with a standard cyber rig, it's not too far fetched to assume a few were onboard. and no, the model was not reused, the regular player model has no pistol, so they had to create the suicide ghost model very specifically for that exact purpose.

[68570dd6d1264bob]

It's you. At least that's my theory. The voice sounds very similar to the Nah on top of it deliberately looking like Goggles. It's no coincidence it happens shortly after he/the player get that vision in engineering.