Franka isn't wearing her asymmetrical thigh high anymore. That's sad. But she does wear sleeve-less top. Liskarm however, remember that shot where we see Liskarm generating electricity from her hand? That shot is precious
Another great video! I find the idea of a Blacksteel-focused event very interesting. I will use "parallel logic" and the internal conflict trope to interpret how such event will go. Let's talk about "parallel logic". Blacksteel is obviously based on the PMC that's nowadays called Academi (formerly known as Xe Services and, more popularly, Blackwater) which went defunct in 2014 (by defunct, I mean merging with its rival Triple Canopy to form Constellis Group). The go-to company for ex-military personnel was Blackwater and was the cornerstone for professional mercenary services. Blackwater is infamous for the Nisour Square massacre which resulted in 17 deaths and 20 injuries. They mission was to escort US embassy convoys, but they had no license to operate in Iraq because of their status as an NGO. At that time, it was claimed that there were as many contractors as military soldiers. Let's go to the Arknights universe now. We're going to focus on two things: Blacksteel itself and Columbia's meddling in Sargon. First, we know how Columbia is undergoing a conflict with Bolivar. Unfortunately for them, it is a never-ending stalemate. It needs another target, one that is vast and inferior compared to their rising technological prowess. If we consult the Walk In The Dust event profoundly enough, we can learn that Columbia's target is Sargon. Sargon is the closest thing to the Middle East, but is more accurately described as a mix of ancient empires like Ancient Egypt, Ottoman and Aztec. Volwotkeczynski was hired in Originium Dust by Drudge Tulla via their latest super-sonic weapon. Brayn Life used to be a science institute which sent a research team to gain knowledge on an Originium-based weapon, but it was hijacked by the Columbian military for the purpose of arousing conflict in the region. Oh yeah, we have ATF in Arknights as well, it's known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Arts Unit and Originium Devices, ATAO for short. Like the military, it also tries to spark conflict in Sargon. By force or by contract, some companies are working for the Columbian government to aid its imperialism. This assumes that Columbian companies are either - okay with working for warmongers - not okay with working for warmongers but have no choice - not having their services demanded by warmongers yet. The Blacksteel we know from the early days of Arknights is officially cooperating with Rhodes Island. It is no secret that they're inherently good with this cooperation, but in the future they may come at a crossroads with the Columbian government. Blacksteel is a serious player; though Columbia could very well have any other PMC, it wants Blacksteel because it is likely the biggest player in this sector. As a little sidenote, Blackwater was one of the SIXTY private military companies that worked in the Middle East so it wouldn't be surprising if Blacksteel also had a large number of rivals. If we're going to have an internal conflict in Blacksteel, Oripathy and Columbian corruption will be the main factors. We can understand the corruption part, Blacksteel assets would be a big boon to the military that's trying to do their shit in Sargon. Oripathy plays its own game in Blacksteel. The Biochemical Protection Response Staff (BPRS) is a specialised unit entirely dedicated to combating Oripathy. They are also tasked to guarantee the safety of all Bio Department operations as well as dealing with Oripathy cases within the company. Infected people are treated with more leisure in Columbia, but this does not mean they have it good at all. This also applies with Blacksteel according to the following rules: - *Infected personnel are forbidden to team up with other non-Infected for any combat operation or high risk mission*. These are meant only for the elites, and in the eyes of the company, the elites are made of those not Infected, because they don't come with extra costs for Oripathy treatment. - *Infected personnel with light cases are allowed to team up with non-Infected, but they must first request permission from the latter*. Treatment is pretty cheap, so why not? Surely their Oripathy won't advance. - *Infected personnel with mild cases are forbidden to join any team-up operation, but are allowed to accomplish solo missions*. They can still provide worthy effort to the company, but it won't mind if a suicide operation disguised as a solo mission goes horrible. - *Infected personnel with severe cases will be terminated immediately but will receive a decent amount of compensation*. This compensation, however, is not enough to cover their medical bills. The company give them "goodbye cash" under the guise of looking after their former staff as an acknowledgement of their efforts, when they really do it to spend less money on liabilities like underperforming Infected. Less liabilities means more profit, regardless of achievements. - *All Infected personnel who are still able to work will be given medical treatment by Blacksteel*. If it makes profit, it only makes sense to invest "enough" into it. All of it is worded carefully to make it sound like taking precautions with the Oripathy crisis going on, but in all reality it is like any scheme that exploits the Infected for Columbian profit, to have them do the dirty work while the Non-Infected do the nice important things. Furthermore, there are tensions between the Infected and non-Infected in the company according to the official manga. The same source also reveals that Franka's Oripathy was in fact covered up by her senior, Prof. Janet Longfellow, until Franka's ultimate decision to join Rhodes Island. So, what is going to happen in Blacksteel? A split between the profit-hungry ideas of Columbia and the safety of those who value the achievements of any contractor regardless of Oripathy status. With this in mind, the four contractors we have seen exchanged in Rhodes Island will not be the only ones we will have in our roster. If we take Liskarm's ultimate dream in calculation, she will be one of the pioneers behind a PMC based on what should've been Blacksteel, without the corrupting influence of thirsty warmongers. Either this, or this "good faction" will instead form up the branch of Rhodes Island tasked with putting the "military" in "pharmaceutical military company". But how can a conflict of this magnitude erupt? Will Blacksteel have an incident similar to the Nisour Square involving Infected, or will it be something else like the government suddenly funding a rival PMC with the sole intent of overpowering Blacksteel? That is up to speculation. I may have missed some points, so if there is anyone who wants to add in their own tidbits, by all means. Stay awesome, brother.
Thanks my dude, the parallels between Blacksteel and real life stuff are really obvious, and I think after what you said there I might have to give the Blacksteel Story a read
I kind of had an idea for a black steel event called Operation safestop where black steel gets put in the middle of the Columbia x Boliviar conflict. Liskarm gets put in charge of a squad of 6(Herself, franka, Jessica, vanilla and two new black steel operators because like, come on blacksteel hasn't gotten any new operators) and the event focuses on blacksteel's morales and ethics as they fight a meaningless battle
Normal girls meeting their dad after a long time: wears nice dress, bought gift Liskarm met her dad after a long time: wears tactical suit, fix dad's shield
I think you should check out the Stories of Infected comic since it has more stuff on the Blacksteel girls and is also canon. The translations are in the subreddit.
Retired Army guy... High level private military companies break apart and or rename themselves every couple of years. Blackwater spun out and became triple canopy, then basically went away into another two firms...PMCs get a lot of bad press so name changes are constant
Whenever I see a new Qaiser upload, I know it's gonna be informative and entertaining. As a Liskarm/Franka fan, I loved seeing their interactions and growth during Originium Dust; needling each other at every opportunity and yet always having the other's back without question. So wholesome and funny. Also their outfits are rad; I had to buy Liskarm's immediately. Cheers Qaiser. ^_^
You're waiting for the ponytail Franka skin but I've been waiting for the best girl Gavial's summer skin. Didn't even come in the CN rerun, Hypergryph why won't you take my money!!
Your theories have lots of grounds, I salute the thorough work. I'd love to see these come to life and know that Qaiser was right. Another great Arknights lore theory video!
"Exia is shaking in her gaming chair" (´°̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥`) :exiahyperstare: No but seriously, I want to see the event where Jessica cries too. Actually... I want to see Jessica get over her moment of being an emotional wreck, to standing up and actually leading, or atleast semi-leading this supposed branch off faction of Blacksteel.
Well in my game franka is level one and left in the base as most unused operator... even vanilla made e1. Lisk on the other hand is e2 has a fancy lightning skin and see deployment on the regular.
Have you had the opportunity to review the Liskarm operator records yet? I feel like it delves a little bit into Liskarm and her relationship with Blacksteel. It's not a direct discussion, but there are a lot of implications there too that may be of interest. But yes, Ara Ara Franka skin, yes please~ Good works~
@@QaiserMLG yeah, when I saw the E2L60 requirement, my eyes went wide, lol.. It definitely delves into her character and motivations more and provides some subtle nudges about Blacksteel too. I do have a recording of her Operator Records on my channel but the video is an hour long with the cutscene playing at 2x speed in auto so it's a bit of a hard pass to watch for a lot of people I feel, lol.. It's the longest set of operator record that I know of as I haven't seen all of them yet. Missing Phantom, Ceobe, Firewatch, and Schwarz.
damn Qaiser these lore theory videos never fail to make me go "holy fuck how did i miss that", even though i thought i read and understood most of the thing If a BSW event actually does happen, I will literally drink iced tea
Not goanna lie, I didn't noticed that. I left it at HG been a tease with the skins as always, but never imagines so much could have come of just their clothes. Now, that doesn't mean I don't believe what was said here, if anything is very posible, since we have seen time and time again how the smallest of details grow to become something more important later on. All we have to do is wait... for Jessica definitely will cry.
I think a Blacksteel focused event is very much possible sometime in the future, after all we did get Code of Brawl, a Penguin Logistics focused event. I don't see why they can't make another event focusing on other organizations that work closely with Rhodes Island
I'd like to add that Rhodes Island seems to operate like a PMC too, or rather, they own a PMC in the form of the operators of RI. Perhaps seeing how RI runs and the "good" that RI does inspired Liskarm by showing her that PMC work doesn't always have to be cruel and ruthless. Not sure how Liskarm maintains posession of a firearm though, thought those where more or less a BSW exclusive, with the licensing and extremely expensive bullets n stuff. Am looking forward to potential Franka skin in the future, though I hope there is also a full hazmat suit reminescent of her BPRS days, would be cool to have another gapmoe operator clad like Mudrock.
Blacksteel is probably one of my favourite faction in Arknights and the most anticipated for an event because of Renatus.z. It is indeed surprisingly odd that Blacksteel is one of the earliest faction to be shown in Arknights in-game. Something might have change in the midst of development. So some additional info we might wanna take into account. Blacksteel, for one, is some of the earliest faction to be introduced in Arknights, both in story to us players and game development. Alpha Test of Arknights had both Franka and Liskarm to be recruitable. Vanilla is in-game but not part of the Blacksteel circle as we all know. The oddest thing is that I couldn't see Jessica in-game as recruitable operator but do appear in the early chapter. Something might have change down the road but I think that Jessica is not meant to be a free 4* anti-air sniper but a higher rarity operator or its own event's operator down the road. I'm not sure about this as the details are picked from an old video. Anyway, for information about in-game lores, Jessica was mentioned to join Blacksteel for some "specific reasons". It is still not yet clarified but if Jessica was willing to join Rhodes Island as an exchange training employee, her attachment to Blacksteel might be questionable. Don't forget that she's rich and it still unexplained to why. If such scenario where there will be an internal fighting in Blacksteel, Jessica would probably start chasing after her own motives. Of all Blacksteel operators we know of, Jessica's motive in joining Blacksteel still remain a mystery, other than wanting to increase her self-confidence. Combined with the fact that Jessica is well-versed with equipment testing and pretty competent outside of combat, she's probably a daughter of someone that was influential or something. One extra note worth mentioning is that Blacksteel remained the few companies outside of Laterano that used Originium firearms as their primary equipment on official capacity. Guns are already rare and expensive and if Blacksteel can field guns in mass capacity, they must have some connections with Laterano or their equipment budget is massive from getting contracts. This will come into play in future events for sure.
Hmmmm... Nice theory dude. I kinda imagine that Jessica's character development is just like GFL's M4A1 arc. They both starts like a shy character. Once Jessica got through their own arc, she's definetely became a determined soldier. Just like how M4A1 Mod 3 is. It would be more interesting and badass if Jessica is the 6* of BlackSteel event.
Just found an official manga (although that is very short) about the four black steel girls. The story was set at the time around when they came over and corporate with Rhodes. In the story, Franka was accidentally infected during a mission, fortunately she got treated by a Rhodes medic. Although BS is not the worst company when it comes to dealing with infected employees, Franka knew that her career will not proceed anymore. Working as one of the most important biochemical response agent in BS, Franka used the chance and promoted a corporation with Rhodes, worked as the leader of the project. She didn’t knew Razor would move to Rhodes too. Later, Franka and Razor had some deep talks as they are good friend, Franka told Razor that she is done in BS and was planing to leave that company, and she was impressed by Rhodes’ attitude towards the infected, so she has high interest in promoting to be a Rhodes official employee (Franka was a famed mercenary in the story so I guess anyone in the industry would hire her anyway based on the setting). Razor told Franka that after seeing what Rhodes is she doubted about her dream and her career too, all she want to do is just protect Franka and help her to recover from illness for now. The story ended here. So yeah maybe nothing big actually happened in BS, it could be that Franka and razor just hopped to Rhodes according to the official manga.
My thoughts after watching this video: - Something bad might happen to Jessica - Liskarm and Franka want to protect Jessica from that something - RI helps LIskarm and Franka with that - The three of them change companies afterwards
Sorta related but I hope there's a reference or something to the R6 operators at some point. Maybe some mission unseen or maybe they're involved a little but we only really see their silhouettes and question marks or something
I have my own theories regarding Jessica as well actually... some that is much more dark in comparison. In fact one of the theories has been on my mind since I read a very interesting fanfic in which Jessica was part of that made me think more closely on several different possibilities of the future of Arknights and the future of characters (operators included). 1. As you said Jessica will cry for whatever reason we don't know yet (maybe it will be the whole thing to do with the company as you said) 2. Jessica will go through a "phase" that will change her forever, whenever that "phase" is something from a spurred moment (like above) or something even more darker.... like disappearing without a trace for whatever reason, getting kidnapped, getting tortured or whatever other reason it could be. 3. Jessica dies in the story due to something, whenever that be due to something to do with Originium, infected, killed or for another reason. (in the fanfic I read she was ultimately smashed so hard that she died from some big ass dude when she was offerring supporting fire while both Skadi and Saria were fighting the guy. But due to a mistake and a fatal flaw not seen by either Saria or Skadi in time, the big guy would charge and smash into Jessica with their weapon before the other two realized it happen. Either to due the guy being incredibly fast or due to the slow reaction time of all 3 of them. This lead to Jessica's death in the story (of the fanfic). Thus I thought perhaps something similar might/could happen in canon. Especially since it's quite common with sad and depressing story content in Arknights. Just like how the death of beagle (if it is true) is a thing. Or the possibility of other operators dying. It shouldn't be out of question if by chance this turns out to be true for not only just Jessica but also for others. There are some more theories I have in my head about this entire thing but these here are probably the ones I lean on to the most. EDIT: As of chapter 9, nr 3 is no longer a thing I suppose? since she is still alive. So I'm probably going for option 1 and/or 2. Though nr 3 can still be a thing in the future especially with infected operators.
Have you seen the new chapter 9 trailer in CN? It seems that the Victoria in Darknights Memoir is going to play a bigger role as we all know, a 6 star flag bearer that might be related to Bagpipe and we might get to see more of Hoarder or maybe have him as an Operator since he was hinted at to have been planning something in Victoria for a long time. All and all, there might be people that are more evil than Mephisto and we get to punch some bitches face in, can't fucking wait. What do you think?
everyone here want franka ponytail skin on this event during rerun but remember that gavial ponytail skin doesn't out during gavial the great chief rerun. sad doctor noise
I salute you sir for talking about blacksteel stuff. Skins aside I just wish we had more military styled ops like from BSW, okay R6S gets up there but that's event-only stuff. Also yo Jessica what's your money source anyway?
they made an official ongoing manga abt the blacksteel operators the two are assigned under a blacksteel doctor/commander(?) person, maybe that's the 6 star you're looking for as for the spilt, there seem to be, as usual, a group of people who bully infected blacksteel operators
Spoilers from the BSW event (Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures)... Jessica leaves BSW due to how she couldn´t stand their policies. Also, according to Franka´s second Operator Record, Liskarm left as well so she can form her own security force. Something that was mentioned in her files and the BSW Manga.
My theory Qaiser has a thing for girls with pony tails hair cuts becuase he would most likely kill for both Frankas and Gavials skin (understandable btw).
Hmmm kinda worried for Jessica.. she's known as the other other rich cat since BS drowns her in dough for testing out life threatening weaponry. If she were to quite BS she'd be only the other ordinary cat
Liskarm: Wants to follow her dream.
Franka: Just wants Liskarm.
I could get behind both goals
@@QaiserMLG I could get their behind 😏
@@QaiserMLG I also could get behind both. ;)
Ah, another yuri couple. I approve of this SHIP!
@@darkshado124 my man they've been a thing since the beginning of the game
Some guy: **Makes Jessica cry**
Dokutah: **Steals Executor's shotgun** "Seems your free trial of Life has expired..."
Not if the Dokutah do it first :)
*Meanwhile, somewhere in Rhodes Island*
Executor: Hmm, seems like my shotgun is missing.
**pulls new shotgun from somewhere under his cape**
Theory:
Jessica cries in a corner in her dorm at Rhodes island while the rest of BSW is at their headquarters dueling it out
Nah come on, have faith in Sad Cat!
@@QaiserMLG Jessie is best
Franka: "I love how much you suck"
And thus they left Blacksteel to be with the other couples in Rhodes Islands.
That dialogue tho
Franka isn't wearing her asymmetrical thigh high anymore. That's sad. But she does wear sleeve-less top.
Liskarm however, remember that shot where we see Liskarm generating electricity from her hand? That shot is precious
Especially Franka‘s face in it, she’s proud of her draco
Another great video!
I find the idea of a Blacksteel-focused event very interesting. I will use "parallel logic" and the internal conflict trope to interpret how such event will go.
Let's talk about "parallel logic".
Blacksteel is obviously based on the PMC that's nowadays called Academi (formerly known as Xe Services and, more popularly, Blackwater) which went defunct in 2014 (by defunct, I mean merging with its rival Triple Canopy to form Constellis Group). The go-to company for ex-military personnel was Blackwater and was the cornerstone for professional mercenary services.
Blackwater is infamous for the Nisour Square massacre which resulted in 17 deaths and 20 injuries. They mission was to escort US embassy convoys, but they had no license to operate in Iraq because of their status as an NGO. At that time, it was claimed that there were as many contractors as military soldiers.
Let's go to the Arknights universe now. We're going to focus on two things: Blacksteel itself and Columbia's meddling in Sargon.
First, we know how Columbia is undergoing a conflict with Bolivar. Unfortunately for them, it is a never-ending stalemate. It needs another target, one that is vast and inferior compared to their rising technological prowess. If we consult the Walk In The Dust event profoundly enough, we can learn that Columbia's target is Sargon. Sargon is the closest thing to the Middle East, but is more accurately described as a mix of ancient empires like Ancient Egypt, Ottoman and Aztec.
Volwotkeczynski was hired in Originium Dust by Drudge Tulla via their latest super-sonic weapon.
Brayn Life used to be a science institute which sent a research team to gain knowledge on an Originium-based weapon, but it was hijacked by the Columbian military for the purpose of arousing conflict in the region.
Oh yeah, we have ATF in Arknights as well, it's known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Arts Unit and Originium Devices, ATAO for short. Like the military, it also tries to spark conflict in Sargon.
By force or by contract, some companies are working for the Columbian government to aid its imperialism. This assumes that Columbian companies are either
- okay with working for warmongers
- not okay with working for warmongers but have no choice
- not having their services demanded by warmongers yet.
The Blacksteel we know from the early days of Arknights is officially cooperating with Rhodes Island. It is no secret that they're inherently good with this cooperation, but in the future they may come at a crossroads with the Columbian government. Blacksteel is a serious player; though Columbia could very well have any other PMC, it wants Blacksteel because it is likely the biggest player in this sector. As a little sidenote, Blackwater was one of the SIXTY private military companies that worked in the Middle East so it wouldn't be surprising if Blacksteel also had a large number of rivals.
If we're going to have an internal conflict in Blacksteel, Oripathy and Columbian corruption will be the main factors. We can understand the corruption part, Blacksteel assets would be a big boon to the military that's trying to do their shit in Sargon.
Oripathy plays its own game in Blacksteel. The Biochemical Protection Response Staff (BPRS) is a specialised unit entirely dedicated to combating Oripathy. They are also tasked to guarantee the safety of all Bio Department operations as well as dealing with Oripathy cases within the company.
Infected people are treated with more leisure in Columbia, but this does not mean they have it good at all. This also applies with Blacksteel according to the following rules:
- *Infected personnel are forbidden to team up with other non-Infected for any combat operation or high risk mission*. These are meant only for the elites, and in the eyes of the company, the elites are made of those not Infected, because they don't come with extra costs for Oripathy treatment.
- *Infected personnel with light cases are allowed to team up with non-Infected, but they must first request permission from the latter*. Treatment is pretty cheap, so why not? Surely their Oripathy won't advance.
- *Infected personnel with mild cases are forbidden to join any team-up operation, but are allowed to accomplish solo missions*. They can still provide worthy effort to the company, but it won't mind if a suicide operation disguised as a solo mission goes horrible.
- *Infected personnel with severe cases will be terminated immediately but will receive a decent amount of compensation*. This compensation, however, is not enough to cover their medical bills. The company give them "goodbye cash" under the guise of looking after their former staff as an acknowledgement of their efforts, when they really do it to spend less money on liabilities like underperforming Infected. Less liabilities means more profit, regardless of achievements.
- *All Infected personnel who are still able to work will be given medical treatment by Blacksteel*. If it makes profit, it only makes sense to invest "enough" into it.
All of it is worded carefully to make it sound like taking precautions with the Oripathy crisis going on, but in all reality it is like any scheme that exploits the Infected for Columbian profit, to have them do the dirty work while the Non-Infected do the nice important things.
Furthermore, there are tensions between the Infected and non-Infected in the company according to the official manga. The same source also reveals that Franka's Oripathy was in fact covered up by her senior, Prof. Janet Longfellow, until Franka's ultimate decision to join Rhodes Island.
So, what is going to happen in Blacksteel? A split between the profit-hungry ideas of Columbia and the safety of those who value the achievements of any contractor regardless of Oripathy status. With this in mind, the four contractors we have seen exchanged in Rhodes Island will not be the only ones we will have in our roster. If we take Liskarm's ultimate dream in calculation, she will be one of the pioneers behind a PMC based on what should've been Blacksteel, without the corrupting influence of thirsty warmongers. Either this, or this "good faction" will instead form up the branch of Rhodes Island tasked with putting the "military" in "pharmaceutical military company".
But how can a conflict of this magnitude erupt? Will Blacksteel have an incident similar to the Nisour Square involving Infected, or will it be something else like the government suddenly funding a rival PMC with the sole intent of overpowering Blacksteel? That is up to speculation.
I may have missed some points, so if there is anyone who wants to add in their own tidbits, by all means.
Stay awesome, brother.
Thanks my dude, the parallels between Blacksteel and real life stuff are really obvious, and I think after what you said there I might have to give the Blacksteel Story a read
Ah yes the Blackwater PMCs.
I kind of had an idea for a black steel event called Operation safestop where black steel gets put in the middle of the Columbia x Boliviar conflict. Liskarm gets put in charge of a squad of 6(Herself, franka, Jessica, vanilla and two new black steel operators because like, come on blacksteel hasn't gotten any new operators) and the event focuses on blacksteel's morales and ethics as they fight a meaningless battle
KOKODAYO
You know alot, big bob.
Normal girls meeting their dad after a long time: wears nice dress, bought gift
Liskarm met her dad after a long time: wears tactical suit, fix dad's shield
"Tonight, I'll party at a lesbian bar"
Franka, your life is awesome
SUCH A CLASSIC, I love that comic
Sauce?
@@Lelmao33 guin guin penguin,he got twitter,fb and pixiv account if not wrong.
@@wen4768 thx
@@wen4768 chapter?
I think you should check out the Stories of Infected comic since it has more stuff on the Blacksteel girls and is also canon. The translations are in the subreddit.
Yeah it's great
Can you give me link to the subreddit? i tried finding those and no luck
@@revandamulya799 replace www with old and then type in stories of infected
@@indigoleader1079 thanks i just found it! Also are the operators series has translated version too?
Theory : Grown-up Jessica is the 6-star for that event
JESSICA IS THE 6 STAR OF THE BLACKSTEEL EVENT OMG
This aged well
Wrong event lol
Well well well it only took two years
This aged like fine wine
I hope they well give Franka that skin that she is wearing it well look so cool:)
Looks like another limited banner to me....
@@kodokbiru2886 yeah you're right about that but it still cool to see Franka skin :)
@@strawberry7170 yep agreed
Cool and Beautiful :)
I see ponytail. I scream
Plottwist: the faction is six star Jessica after her breakdown, she will be free op
Supporter Summoner Jessica. Throws money and buys blacksteal bros. DP is zero it tskes your actual LMD
Hey i was thinking of that too! Would've been cool to see more development from the lower class operators
We need to find ourselves an operator who likes us like Franka likes Liskarm.
conclusion of this video:
Arknights have dynamic character
Blacksteel have internal conflict problem
Kross got Booba
and Franka ponytail is Holy Relic
Yes.
but real, i really hope back then we have franka skin
I love the new both Franka and Liskarm new looks, this is why I'm so hyped for Liskarm skin but on top of all, I LOVE SKYLINE SCHWARZ THE MOST!
Schwartz aren't my type, simply because of her base art, but man, that skin is good
Retired Army guy... High level private military companies break apart and or rename themselves every couple of years. Blackwater spun out and became triple canopy, then basically went away into another two firms...PMCs get a lot of bad press so name changes are constant
My theory is : Jessica will stop crying and no longer cry anymore,She'll go through A MAJOR character development that surprises everyone
Bro I would actually love that
Great video as always new piece of lore I didn't even think about. Keep it up
Hell yeah, my dude!
Whenever I see a new Qaiser upload, I know it's gonna be informative and entertaining.
As a Liskarm/Franka fan, I loved seeing their interactions and growth during Originium Dust; needling each other at every opportunity and yet always having the other's back without question. So wholesome and funny. Also their outfits are rad; I had to buy Liskarm's immediately.
Cheers Qaiser. ^_^
thank you for sharing your theories. it makes me even more engaged in the game for possible events. Keeps me from quitting
You're waiting for the ponytail Franka skin but I've been waiting for the best girl Gavial's summer skin. Didn't even come in the CN rerun, Hypergryph why won't you take my money!!
What I learned today: it’s not a Timeskip if it’s a passing of a very long time
It’s all a matter of perspective
Your theories have lots of grounds, I salute the thorough work. I'd love to see these come to life and know that Qaiser was right. Another great Arknights lore theory video!
"Exia is shaking in her gaming chair" (´°̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥`) :exiahyperstare:
No but seriously, I want to see the event where Jessica cries too. Actually... I want to see Jessica get over her moment of being an emotional wreck, to standing up and actually leading, or atleast semi-leading this supposed branch off faction of Blacksteel.
Well in my game franka is level one and left in the base as most unused operator... even vanilla made e1.
Lisk on the other hand is e2 has a fancy lightning skin and see deployment on the regular.
Ah yes Liskarm and Franka two of my favourite operators ngl
Also: "Franka has always seen Liskarm as someone she wanted to step on" KINDA SUS
I can't wait to see Jessica's development point. She deserves a lot for being a very reliable operator. I hope to see her happier
Have you had the opportunity to review the Liskarm operator records yet? I feel like it delves a little bit into Liskarm and her relationship with Blacksteel. It's not a direct discussion, but there are a lot of implications there too that may be of interest.
But yes, Ara Ara Franka skin, yes please~ Good works~
Sadly I haven’t gotten her to Level 60 yet, so I haven’t read them
@@QaiserMLG yeah, when I saw the E2L60 requirement, my eyes went wide, lol..
It definitely delves into her character and motivations more and provides some subtle nudges about Blacksteel too.
I do have a recording of her Operator Records on my channel but the video is an hour long with the cutscene playing at 2x speed in auto so it's a bit of a hard pass to watch for a lot of people I feel, lol.. It's the longest set of operator record that I know of as I haven't seen all of them yet. Missing Phantom, Ceobe, Firewatch, and Schwarz.
I love the battle having the characters from the event
damn Qaiser these lore theory videos never fail to make me go "holy fuck how did i miss that", even though i thought i read and understood most of the thing
If a BSW event actually does happen, I will literally drink iced tea
I will remind you to keep your word!!
Not goanna lie, I didn't noticed that. I left it at HG been a tease with the skins as always, but never imagines so much could have come of just their clothes. Now, that doesn't mean I don't believe what was said here, if anything is very posible, since we have seen time and time again how the smallest of details grow to become something more important later on.
All we have to do is wait... for Jessica definitely will cry.
I think a Blacksteel focused event is very much possible sometime in the future, after all we did get Code of Brawl, a Penguin Logistics focused event. I don't see why they can't make another event focusing on other organizations that work closely with Rhodes Island
It is super interesting coming back to this with the recent Blacksteel event in CN
I'd like to add that Rhodes Island seems to operate like a PMC too, or rather, they own a PMC in the form of the operators of RI.
Perhaps seeing how RI runs and the "good" that RI does inspired Liskarm by showing her that PMC work doesn't always have to be cruel and ruthless.
Not sure how Liskarm maintains posession of a firearm though, thought those where more or less a BSW exclusive, with the licensing and extremely expensive bullets n stuff. Am looking forward to potential Franka skin in the future, though I hope there is also a full hazmat suit reminescent of her BPRS days, would be cool to have another gapmoe operator clad like Mudrock.
The two has so much character development but it doesn't change liskarm's gap moe by suppressing her excitement at times
8:10 damn we wildin out here
I love the blacksteel girls so im really happy your talking about it thanks
Blacksteel is probably one of my favourite faction in Arknights and the most anticipated for an event because of Renatus.z. It is indeed surprisingly odd that Blacksteel is one of the earliest faction to be shown in Arknights in-game. Something might have change in the midst of development.
So some additional info we might wanna take into account.
Blacksteel, for one, is some of the earliest faction to be introduced in Arknights, both in story to us players and game development. Alpha Test of Arknights had both Franka and Liskarm to be recruitable. Vanilla is in-game but not part of the Blacksteel circle as we all know. The oddest thing is that I couldn't see Jessica in-game as recruitable operator but do appear in the early chapter. Something might have change down the road but I think that Jessica is not meant to be a free 4* anti-air sniper but a higher rarity operator or its own event's operator down the road. I'm not sure about this as the details are picked from an old video.
Anyway, for information about in-game lores, Jessica was mentioned to join Blacksteel for some "specific reasons". It is still not yet clarified but if Jessica was willing to join Rhodes Island as an exchange training employee, her attachment to Blacksteel might be questionable. Don't forget that she's rich and it still unexplained to why. If such scenario where there will be an internal fighting in Blacksteel, Jessica would probably start chasing after her own motives. Of all Blacksteel operators we know of, Jessica's motive in joining Blacksteel still remain a mystery, other than wanting to increase her self-confidence. Combined with the fact that Jessica is well-versed with equipment testing and pretty competent outside of combat, she's probably a daughter of someone that was influential or something.
One extra note worth mentioning is that Blacksteel remained the few companies outside of Laterano that used Originium firearms as their primary equipment on official capacity. Guns are already rare and expensive and if Blacksteel can field guns in mass capacity, they must have some connections with Laterano or their equipment budget is massive from getting contracts. This will come into play in future events for sure.
7:01 ok that was epic (and cursed)
Hmmmm... Nice theory dude.
I kinda imagine that Jessica's character development is just like GFL's M4A1 arc.
They both starts like a shy character.
Once Jessica got through their own arc, she's definetely became a determined soldier. Just like how M4A1 Mod 3 is.
It would be more interesting and badass if Jessica is the 6* of BlackSteel event.
Jessica becoming a 6* op that I can replace a sniper, I will throw away my f2p status to have that
if blacksteel goes under i would be very sad, they are the main source of a more tactical arknights asthetic.
3:45 - 4:00 dammit
Some very important facts there
Conclusion. I want that Franka skin!!
The amount of ara ara energy is unbearable its too strong
Great video, but I have to c orrect you: Liskarm is a Vouivre, not a Draco. Big difference!
Ahh yes saw that one too. Still love the vid
Just found an official manga (although that is very short) about the four black steel girls. The story was set at the time around when they came over and corporate with Rhodes. In the story, Franka was accidentally infected during a mission, fortunately she got treated by a Rhodes medic. Although BS is not the worst company when it comes to dealing with infected employees, Franka knew that her career will not proceed anymore.
Working as one of the most important biochemical response agent in BS, Franka used the chance and promoted a corporation with Rhodes, worked as the leader of the project. She didn’t knew Razor would move to Rhodes too. Later, Franka and Razor had some deep talks as they are good friend, Franka told Razor that she is done in BS and was planing to leave that company, and she was impressed by Rhodes’ attitude towards the infected, so she has high interest in promoting to be a Rhodes official employee (Franka was a famed mercenary in the story so I guess anyone in the industry would hire her anyway based on the setting). Razor told Franka that after seeing what Rhodes is she doubted about her dream and her career too, all she want to do is just protect Franka and help her to recover from illness for now. The story ended here.
So yeah maybe nothing big actually happened in BS, it could be that Franka and razor just hopped to Rhodes according to the official manga.
Great video as always Qaiser
ara ara i just finished dragon sisters story for now !! thanks you for hard work 💞✨
My thoughts after watching this video:
- Something bad might happen to Jessica
- Liskarm and Franka want to protect Jessica from that something
- RI helps LIskarm and Franka with that
- The three of them change companies afterwards
Have you people seen the new Rainbow Six Game?
I straight up thought it was Originium Dust!
Did everyone just forget that Liskarm shield still has Black Steel written on it?
I hope our crying catgirl gets the development she deserves. -And takes over Blacksteel because she's so damn rich already.-
Sorta related but I hope there's a reference or something to the R6 operators at some point. Maybe some mission unseen or maybe they're involved a little but we only really see their silhouettes and question marks or something
FYI older Jessica alter dropped in a datamine today.
Dokutah: "So Liskarm..."
Liskarm: "It's pronounced Queen"
Franka: 😍
Liskarm: "What's up with you?"
Franka: "Nothing!"
Franka: 😐
Franka: 😏
I have my own theories regarding Jessica as well actually... some that is much more dark in comparison. In fact one of the theories has been on my mind since I read a very interesting fanfic in which Jessica was part of that made me think more closely on several different possibilities of the future of Arknights and the future of characters (operators included).
1. As you said Jessica will cry for whatever reason we don't know yet (maybe it will be the whole thing to do with the company as you said)
2. Jessica will go through a "phase" that will change her forever, whenever that "phase" is something from a spurred moment (like above) or something even more darker.... like disappearing without a trace for whatever reason, getting kidnapped, getting tortured or whatever other reason it could be.
3. Jessica dies in the story due to something, whenever that be due to something to do with Originium, infected, killed or for another reason. (in the fanfic I read she was ultimately smashed so hard that she died from some big ass dude when she was offerring supporting fire while both Skadi and Saria were fighting the guy. But due to a mistake and a fatal flaw not seen by either Saria or Skadi in time, the big guy would charge and smash into Jessica with their weapon before the other two realized it happen. Either to due the guy being incredibly fast or due to the slow reaction time of all 3 of them. This lead to Jessica's death in the story (of the fanfic).
Thus I thought perhaps something similar might/could happen in canon. Especially since it's quite common with sad and depressing story content in Arknights. Just like how the death of beagle (if it is true) is a thing. Or the possibility of other operators dying. It shouldn't be out of question if by chance this turns out to be true for not only just Jessica but also for others.
There are some more theories I have in my head about this entire thing but these here are probably the ones I lean on to the most.
EDIT: As of chapter 9, nr 3 is no longer a thing I suppose? since she is still alive. So I'm probably going for option 1 and/or 2. Though nr 3 can still be a thing in the future especially with infected operators.
Have you seen the new chapter 9 trailer in CN? It seems that the Victoria in Darknights Memoir is going to play a bigger role as we all know, a 6 star flag bearer that might be related to Bagpipe and we might get to see more of Hoarder or maybe have him as an Operator since he was hinted at to have been planning something in Victoria for a long time. All and all, there might be people that are more evil than Mephisto and we get to punch some bitches face in, can't fucking wait. What do you think?
Liskarm and frankas manga explains this a lot and is a very good read
pretty sure this video was uploaded BEFORE they released that manga or at least at a point in time when it wasn't available to global yet.
Qaiser breathing oxygen isn't a joke. For there will be none left for the rest of the world if he does.
everyone here want franka ponytail skin on this event during rerun but remember that gavial ponytail skin doesn't out during gavial the great chief rerun. sad doctor noise
idk but i really like how you talk and make jokes ,lol XD
Seriously i like your theory and keep up the good work sir
So the meme is canon, dokutah stole/poached everyone from other groups/organizations
congrats on 20k man
this is some nice theory
Also, a lot more of info about Blacksteel and its girls can be found on liskarm Paradox simulation cutscene.
Franka my beloved.
Its been a year, still waiting for Blacksteel event
Is true evil not release franka skin. She look gorgeous just like mama kroos
I salute you sir for talking about blacksteel stuff. Skins aside I just wish we had more military styled ops like from BSW, okay R6S gets up there but that's event-only stuff.
Also yo Jessica what's your money source anyway?
Jessica alter for blacksteel event let's go
Blacksteel event with 6 Star alter Jessica perhaps? Imagine seeing Jessica's character development after some years, like with Lava and Kroos
congrats for the 20k subs
And Liskarm just want Franka to take an ice shower, since bonking is proving ineffectual.
You will notice something most definitely
Me: :Liskarms thighs
Qaiser: Franka's ponytail
Me: Yes i meant that
there is a leak of ''adult jessica'' that i see on reddit. i think that she will have some interresting developpement
Franka and Liskarm now have DRIP.
"Jessica will cry"
Wow, really taking a big risk, making bold claims like that
I want a Kross one san, i am expecting that say ara ara too
they made an official ongoing manga abt the blacksteel operators
the two are assigned under a blacksteel doctor/commander(?) person, maybe that's the 6 star you're looking for
as for the spilt, there seem to be, as usual, a group of people who bully infected blacksteel operators
7:01 O MAN HE SAW THE EXIA DOUJINS xd
BS event: Jessica (terminator skin) become final boss, Vannila got alter 6*
EY man predicted 6-star Jessica
My man uploaded a video when it's 6 AM here.
Well good morning then! Or good evening by now Lmao
@@QaiserMLG yeah my man
It was NOT a weird thing to ask, trust me. Ponytails rise up!
The potential Blacksteel event will end with Jessica selling some of her outfits to buy out the company, thus incorporating it into Rhodes Island.
Wouldn't it be funny if we get a integrated strategies with black steels workroom drama
Yo qaiser, my man already at 20K subs POGGERS
Wait a sec where is zer phi
Blacksteel wuh wide, ms 5.56
Spoilers from the BSW event (Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures)...
Jessica leaves BSW due to how she couldn´t stand their policies. Also, according to Franka´s second Operator Record, Liskarm left as well so she can form her own security force. Something that was mentioned in her files and the BSW Manga.
Jess: AM i joke to you?
Liskarm character development very good 11/10 would love again
Plot twist: 6 star Jessica alter was the internal faction leader.
That would be RAD
See franka i told you liskarn will taller than you
Jessica Alter lesssss gooooo
Give all the headpats to Jessica!
even the thighs size evolved
JESSICA IS THE 6 STAR OPERATOR, SHE GOTTA HAVE SOME SHARES OF INVESTMENT WITHIN BS
hell she maybe even the CEO of BS in disguise
Cat girl version of the termination lol
My theory
Qaiser has a thing for girls with pony tails hair cuts becuase he would most likely kill for both Frankas and Gavials skin (understandable btw).
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Kaiser it's fucking 2 am
Hmmm kinda worried for Jessica.. she's known as the other other rich cat since BS drowns her in dough for testing out life threatening weaponry. If she were to quite BS she'd be only the other ordinary cat
Yeah, why doesn't it a skin
I'll gladly buy it instantly