![]() So, here is my experience with “Tales from the Borderlands” and yes, this article does contain spoilers! Episode 1: A Zer0-sum game Granted, knowing the story of this game is not critical to anything that happens in “Borderlands 3”, but as it is so often the case with those kinds of easter eggs and additional information snippets, it is nice to know them to get a little extra enjoyment out of connecting the dots. So, what changed my opinion? Well, I felt that I cannot cover all of the “Borderlands” games and then simply leave one title out that seems to be canonical, since we meet some of the people from “Tales from the Borderlands” during the story of “Borderlands 3”. Instead, we get a story in the “Borderlands” universe that features rather “normal” people, and while we get to see some of the named characters from earlier installments, the gameplay boils down to looking around and picking dialog options in the slower parts of the gameplay, while the action scenes are entirely constructed with the usage of Quick-Time-Events and boy, do I hate those QTEs with a passion. The game is very different from what we are used to in the “Borderlands” franchise since the game does not feature any of the game mechanics we know and love from the Looter-Shooter madness. I have a confession to make: Originally, I did not want to cover “Tales from the Borderlands” at all. Episode 2: “Vasquez will remember that”.– Episode 5: 2015 (PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), 2021 (Nintendo Switch) – Episode 4: 2015 (PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), 2021 (Nintendo Switch) – Episode 3: 2015 (PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), 2021 (Nintendo Switch) – Episode 2: 2015 (PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), 2021 (Nintendo Switch) ![]() So that means that the Jack AI could still be out there, waiting for someone to find the drive and be plugged into something or someone else.– Episode 1: 2014 (PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), 2021 (Nintendo Switch) Think about how flash drives work: if you plug one in, you're simply copying the files on it over to your PC, right? The files remain on the drive until they are deleted entirely. However, theoretically, if Nakayama's ID drive is still intact and out in the desert somewhere, Jack could still return. ![]() So going off these assumptions, Jack is completely removed from Rhys, and if the eye was crushed, gone and deleted. So simply put: echo-eye is the motherboard and hard-drive, Rhys is the tower, he has a CPU and GPU jammed into the lobes of his brain somewhere, and a USB port on the side of his head. ![]() When he plugged it in, he unwittingly copied the Jack AI into the echo-eye, which means that it's now stored in it. Nothing's stored in it, it's simply a bridge between the information stored on the drive and the computer it is plugged in to. The head-port isn't storage space, just a way for Rhys to link physical objects directly into his cybernetics, just like the USB on any computer works. Maybe Rhys has a little menu pop up that's all like "H-J4CK.exe is trying to access C:/Users/Rhy5/My_Body/, allow access? Y/N" So more or less, Rhys has a personal 'firewall' that prevents remote access to the more important parts of his body (IE everything that isn't his robot arm or echo-eye interface), and Jack is only able to control the rest of Rhys when he gives the OK to Jack, which I guess involves Rhys himself making an exception and allowing the Jack AI access to the inner workings/subsystems. Rhys' arm is hooked up in such a way that it is linked directly to the eye itself, which means that an outside source, IE Jack, has immediate control of the arm, but nothing else unless Rhys grants third-party access to his other systems. The echo-eye's wiring obviously acts as Jack's gateway to control Rhys. These processors allow the eye to access and maintain various bodily systems and functions, such as allowing Rhys to actually see out of the eye and so forth. It's wired throughout Rhys' brain, connected to processor(s) located somewhere inside his brain. It acts as both the motherboard and the hard-drive. The ECHO-eye contains all the information and data. I'm just guessing here, but I think the layout of Rhys' cybernetics are largely like the average computer:
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