this will be a long post. buckle up. i’m just going to jump right into it.

wraith.



in the voidwalker cinematic, ghostwraith came from our current world, a world where the IMC withdrew from the frontier and is basically nonexistent. she swapped worlds with our wraith, who came from a world where the IMC is still thriving and conducting research in the outlands.



ghostwraith knows what the IMC did to her. she was released from the facility much earlier than our wraith, and thus, she joined the rebellion in the war against the IMC. the war ended shortly before the games started, but ghostwraith’s revenge against the IMC wasn’t complete yet. she teamed up with crypto somewhere along the way to access the information located in the research facility in kings canyon so she could kill the scientist who tricked and tortured her. unfortunately for her, he was marked as deceased.

on the same day, however, guards from the IMC came to destroy all of the evidence, and so as she was cornered, she used her void tech to escape. this is where she found the world our wraith came from.

swapping worlds came with multiple bonuses for ghostwraith:

1) she kills amer singh

2) she gets to lead a second rebellion against the IMC and liberate this world from their clutches

3) there is a good chance she can get her void tech back if she really wanted to return, having acquired it once already

as for our wraith, the IMC is pretty much dealt with in our world. she gets to figure out what kind of life she wants to live on her own in a free world. or so she thinks.

crypto.

he destroyed kings canyon. he’s targeting the apex games - more specifically, syndicate. syndicate took his life away from him. what we see from his cinematic is that he uncovered an algorithm that predicts the next champion.

but is that really all he found?

why was he digging dirt on syndicate in the first place? the games had already been established at this point, and we know ghostwraith hacked into the IMC facility while they were being constructed, so crypto had been in this game of targeting the IMC for a while now.

the IMC’s withdrawal from the frontier, and the locations of the games.

this is where my questions come into play: even if the IMC withdrew from the frontier after losing the war, why would they leave entire research facilities untouched and fully operational while syndicate builds the apex games directly on top of them? this is basically begging for the opposition to come in and find their classified information.

what’s more, why were the guards wiping evidence from the facility during the construction of the games? the fact they’re destroying the facility shows that the IMC does care about people uncovering their secrets, but the timing of it makes no sense. if syndicate, who built the games, aren’t affiliated with the IMC, why would the IMC leave a computer that can access such classified information within their reach? why wasn’t it already destroyed before syndicate started building?

also, why would syndicate specifically choose bases belonging to the IMC as arenas for the games? first, kings canyon, now, world’s edge. the frontier spans a number of planets and many are largely unexplored. there’s bound to be other areas for the games to be held. why are they affiliated with the IMC?

the rank system.

in ranked, you try to win points to climb the ladder, with the top rank being the “apex predator.” the apex predators are, in the titanfall universe, a group of elite mercenaries who are affiliated with the IMC. they will fight for any cause, making their decisions based on who can pay them the most. could the apex games be a proving ground for future apex predators?

one of the new legends coming out, kuben blisk, is the leader of the predators and has an extensive history in colonizing the frontier as a commander of the IMC. he’s the guy in the very first trailer we saw that talks to the player about joining the games. it’s thought he organized them, himself, which… confirms direct ties to the IMC.

small note about pathfinder.

pathfinder is a MRVN. created by the IMC.

misc. theories & conclusions.

so. crypto knows ghostwraith. now he’s in the games, and ghostwraith is in another world. our current wraith won’t have a clue who he is. i wonder how their interactions will go. when wraith learns more about this new world, and finds the connections between the IMC & syndicate, will she join crypto in destroying the games?



lifeline might also be sympathetic to the cause. her family profited off the war and she currently plays in the games to fund a humanitarian organization helping the needy on the frontier. if the IMC are planning a comeback, she’ll be ready to fight.

is wattson a bad guy? she helped design the ring for the apex games. she may not know anything, but her father, at the very least, could be allied with syndicate/the IMC.

final thoughts.

if syndicate is a faction of the IMC, they have already regained a sizable amount of control in the frontier. considering so many legends have been wronged by the IMC in some way or have allied with the frontier militia in the past, i wonder how they would react to learning this information.

as for wraith… it would be interesting to see if either ghostwraith or our wraith tries to return to their original worlds, depending on their changing motivations. we could be seeing some MCU-style multiverse “hey come help us fight the same bad guy in this dimension” kinda shit.

lastly, considering how all of these legends continue to participate in the games - i think it can be safe to assume a lot of this remains covered up. even ghostwraith mentioned to our wraith how “the IMC still exists in her world”, implying it’s gone in hers.