Pawel sent me the info about the superson suit (looong ago, shame on me), it's in the TO DO list (revamping of Mercenary III solution). I never talked about Mercenary III plot creation with the former Novagen members. Sadly there would have been loads of things to talk about but since Bruce Jordan's passing, we lost the man that was behing the story along with Paul Woakes. That being said, I think the "more than one solar system" is just a joke. Mercenary I was already a revolution having a whole city with underground complex, Damocles another one with a whole solar system... The game contains lots of jokes about the release date of Damocles (which had been little by little pushed back for about 2 years), and Burce Jordan asking Tim to stop Paul in his ambitions for the next game is, I think, linked to it.
I was playing Mercenary 3 these days, and suddenly I realized that some of its "new" objects are nothing but Damocles objects, with a different model but identical functions. Example 1: the... more
Re: Mercenary 3: hidden similarities to Damocles — Webmaster,Wed May 4 14:49
So it was Bruce who created the storyverse... damn. This means tht we'll never get to know the meaning of lots of obscure references, like those in the Prelude on Targ novella, as well as the... more
Well, I don't have the full details but it's clear that Bruce wrote many of the Benson messages at least. I've been trying to get the meaning of many of those references with the MDDClone author, but ... more