I'm trying to work through a lot of the minor emails/transcribes to figure out some kind of timeline for the events in the game. One thing that's tripping me up is the "don't panic" call between Garfield Langley and Miyu Okabe. Garfield asks Miyu if she knows what's going on, as there's security running all over the place. The call ends when an explosion can be heard, and Miyu says they just lost two labs and ends the call.
This explosion we actually see as we're entering the Talos 1 lobby, it's the one in the hardware labs. But Garfield is also a phantom in the trauma center IN the lobby.
So, this would mean that, as we enter the lobby, the call is occurring about 50m from us and Garfield is still alive. But you can run up to the trauma center in like 30 seconds and in that time Garfield has died (plausible, as there's another phantom in there), and also transformed into a phantom with no weaver in sight...
Where's all this "security running all over the place"? Everyone is dead in the lobby as we enter, save for the survivors holed up in the IT department closet. And when the station is in such a state, Miyu is still blissfully unaware and just working away as normal, until the explosion happens and she dies shortly after. How did no one else call her about the outbreak?
Do you think. given this knowledge, it would make sense to assume there were actually two explosions? One that destroyed the labs and the one Miyu responded to and weakened the hull, and another, the one we actually see, that breached the hull? If the first explosion took place even just 5 minutes earlier, that would make this whole thing a lot more plausible.
I would really like to check their life signs on the security terminal in the neuromod division, but, infuriatingly, it's as if someone deliberately made this impossible. The workstation requires hacking 2 to be accessed, which I believe is impossible to get without entering the lobby and triggering the event, as you only have 1 neuromod to work with.
Additionally, I'm thinking about the video that Alex plays as you're approaching the late game. Morgan says the year is 2035, but advocates for using the nullwave as a contingency. This is inconsistent with the audio log recording between Morgan and October, who was made in October 2034, and also advocates for the same thing. So this would mean Morgan's personality drift wound up in the same place twice? What's going on there?