User blog comment:Chaosian/Primary source for Tower Pack DLC/@comment-217.26.27.230-20130928160304/@comment-217.26.27.230-20131009171933

You're right about the Biomass and destroyed tonnels. However, there is still a possibility that the Nosalises could be called «new forms of life», relatively or simulation-wise.

« I wouldn't be terribly quick to judge the complete character of two people from a single word. »

Although you're right, it also cannot be proved that Chook didn't want to show off. Still, it doesn't deny my point of that the «commoners» is a word that scientists could use.

Su and Bar are definitely associated with Kshatriya and with The Order too, as you can see from:

1) The background. A newbie is assigned to the Kshatriya group, and in the very beginning of the level Kuzmich says that those two are members of the group as well.

2) Rangers' insignia and SПАРТА on the helmet of one of the twins.

3) SПАРТА on the back of Kuzmich, which you can see when he walks to the armory.

Of course, that could be the case of «4A didn't have the time to edit the uniforms».

« B) the creation of a high-tech combat simulator in a society that was on the road to the second Dark Age. It's a complete change in theme from the series. »

Well, the books say there are Bauman Confederation and The Emerald City, both of which have very advanced tech. It could be that, after the war ended and Metro became rather peaceful, the Rangers somehow contacted them and got such hi-tech equipment. Nevertheless, it's doubtful the truth would ever become known, so even the right guess can't be proved.

I actually thought that the Rangers were getting ready for the operation of retaking the surface, i.e. either the radiation subsided, as Hunter believed, or they found a way of fighting it. That, of course, would be a highly unrealistic expectation, but not completely impossible.

By the way, Tower level description, which you can see in extra levels menu, mentions rangers.

« It would make sense early in time for this to be the Biomass, yet as a piece later in the timeline it is a completely dropped sub-plot. »

Could also be reactor or its fuel elements getting old, but i don't know much about nuclear reactors, so i won't go any further.