We're aware of an issue which causes comments to only appear after a long delay and are working on a solution.
You don't need an account to add and correct this Wiki. Learn how to contribute, browse Bounties and join our Discord server.
Confidential Files: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
The '''Confidential Files''' are the origin of most of the expanded universe of the [[Girls' Frontline]] series. | ''Not to be confused with the [[Classified Briefings]] from Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium.''<hr> | ||
The '''Confidential Files''' (fan-translation of 内部机密文件<ref>[https://weibo.com/5611537367/HkBqTmzZR Weibo]</ref><ref>[https://weibo.com/5611537367/Qf3NM7v16 Weibo]</ref>) are the origin of most of the expanded universe of the [[Girls' Frontline]] series. Rooted in the [[Secret Documents]] of [[Codename: Bakery Girl]], they are included with each official artbook. None have been officially translated in English: they are originally written in Standard Chinese and some have been officially translated in Japanese. | |||
Confidential Files are considered [[canon]] due to references to their content in the main story of [[Girls' Frontline]], but they still contain some inconsistencies and readers are advised to remain critical when referencing them. The same applies to English fan-translations due to added errors. | |||
==Origins - [[Codename: Bakery Girl]] [[Secret Documents]]== | |||
File:Bakery Gallery menu.jpg|The Gallery menu of ''Codename: Bakery Girl'', with the Secret Documents list on the right side. | [[File:Bakery Gallery menu.jpg|thumb|The Gallery menu of ''Codename: Bakery Girl'', with the Secret Documents list on the right side.]] | ||
The [[Secret Documents]] (機密文件) unlocked in the 2013 game [[Codename: Bakery Girl]], which are sometimes called “Bakery Girl's Confidential Files”, were written by Gaoshan (高山) “Hannibal”. They explain the discovery and use of [[Relic Technology]] by mankind, and the factions and events that led to the [[First Antarctic War]]. | |||
The first section of the first Confidential Files (2017) was dedicated to reproducing and expanding the Secret Documents. But savvy readers realized that the content of this first section heavily plagiarized Charles Stross' 2000 novella ''A Colder War''.<ref>[https://www.zhihu.com/question/58115236 Zhihu]</ref> The plagiarism had begun in 2013 but had gone unnoticed at the time. The plagiarized content is detailed and reproduced in [[Confidential Files/Expunged]] and [[Secret Documents#Reprinted Confidential Files]]. | |||
*Bakery Girl's Secret Documents | |||
When Bakery Girl's remake, [[Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery]], was published in 2024, it included its own Secret Documents as well as the original ones, except the ones containing plagiarism, which were replaced by excerpts of the second and third sections of the first Confidential Files instead. One mention of the plagiarized XK-Pluto weapon has endured. The plagiarized term “BOOJUM” also made a return in [[Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium]], albeit with a different meaning. | |||
*Bakery Girl's [[Secret Documents]] | |||
**General Technical Concepts of Collapse and Reverse-Collapse Technology | **General Technical Concepts of Collapse and Reverse-Collapse Technology | ||
**AD 1945 – AD 1981, the Age of Relics (''expunged from the remake'') | **AD 1945 – AD 1981, the Age of Relics (''expunged from the remake'') | ||
| Line 22: | Line 24: | ||
**The Three Goddesses Project | **The Three Goddesses Project | ||
*[[Secret Documents|Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Secret Documents]] | *[[Secret Documents|Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Secret Documents]] | ||
== | ==Confidential Files 1 - ''History of 1905-2092''== | ||
[[File:Confidential Files 1.jpg|The cover of the first Confidential Files.|thumb]] | |||
''History of 1905-2092'' is included as a separate booklet in the Chinese edition of [[The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1]] (2017). It expands the lore from the Secret Documents, and dedicates a section to the origins of [[Dolls]], presenting the text as classified military reports from an unspecified faction. | |||
The first batch exists in two versions, with the revised version excising the first section written by Hannibal when its plagiarism was discovered just a few days after the files' release.<ref>[https://www.zhihu.com/question/58115236 Zhihu]</ref> Mica Team's lead Yuzhong made a public apology on Weibo the same day promising to remove the part containing plagiarism from reprints.<ref>[https://weibo.com/1370692337/EDhdNuEZI Weibo], [https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv10798123 Archive]</ref> The excised content is detailed and reproduced in [[Confidential Files/Expunged]]. | |||
''The titles below are based on the credits at the end of the booklet and translations from Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery.'' | |||
*Relics Era Report ''([[Confidential Files/Expunged|expunged]] from later editions)'' | |||
**AD 1945 – AD 1981, the Age of Relics | |||
**The Post-Relic Era and the Dresden Convention (to be continued) | |||
*Collapse and Reverse Collapse | |||
**Part 1: General Technical Concepts of Collapse and Reverse-Collapse Technology | |||
**Part 2: Research on Modern Relics and the GAVIRUL Reproduction Project | |||
**Part 3: The First Beilan Island Incident | |||
**Part 4: World War III and Antarctic Independence | |||
**Part 5: The Ten-Year Honeymoon, the Founding of the Antarctic Union, and the Outbreak of the First Antarctic War | |||
**Part 6: The Three Goddesses Project | |||
**Part 7: Operation "Bakery" | |||
**Part 8: Operation "Tinder" and the End of the First Antarctic War | |||
**Part 9: Operation "Epiphyllum" | |||
**Part 10: The Second Antarctic War - To Be Continued… | |||
*Discussions on Dolls Development | |||
**The Era of Production-Model Skeletal-Frame Robots | |||
**The First Generation of Tactical Dolls | |||
**The Second Generation of Tactical Dolls | |||
==Confidential Files 2 - ''New and Emerging Forms of Threat, 2062-2063''== | |||
[[File:Confidential Files 2.jpg|The cover of the second Confidential Files.|thumb]] | |||
''New and Emerging Forms of Threat, 2062-2063'' (also referred as ''G&K Field Commander Briefing Program'' on the over-jacket) is included as a separate booklet in the Chinese edition of [[The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2]] (2019), and included in the book of the Japanese edition (2020). It provides more details about [[World War Three]] and [[Rossartrism]], and foreshadows revelations that had yet to be made in the game by exploring the past of certain NPCs. | |||
The majority of the content of these Files is presented as fragments of text existing in-universe, which are records of conversations or speeches, transcriptions of audio journals, official records from various organizations, personal diaries, and articles from the publication Rossartrist Monthly. Most of the materials (especially the Rossartrist Monthly articles) are implied to be biased depending on their origin. A few fragments are narrated by a traditional omniscient narrator. Some fragments tell their storyline across multiple sections of the booklet. | |||
The canon status of the second Confidential Files was originally put in question due to its opening note, written in English and Simplified Chinese, which reads: “Note: The content of this document is expansive reading. The information in this paper is not for reference only. The abandoned scheme will be deleted without any record.” This fine example of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish chinglish] is meant to warn readers that [[Sunborn]] reserves the right to [[canon|retcon]] any part of the world-building material therein. Moreover, there were rumors<ref>[https://www.zhihu.com/question/351225443 Zhihu]</ref> that former infamous<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/90eh5p/announcement_regarding_mr_deadpapilio_meis/ Reddit - Announcement regarding Mr. "Deadpapilio” Mei’s interview]</ref> contractor Mei “Deadpapilio” (冥蝶军工) had participated in the writing, but Mei's isn't credited in the artbook. | |||
Doubts regarding the second batch's canon status were lifted when its content started appearing in the game itself. It should however be noted that this batch retcons two details from the first batch: the origins of [[IOP]] and the starting and ending dates of [[World War Three]]. | |||
The fourth part of the second batch reuses the original ideas from the expunged first batch, along with altered versions of some originally plagiarized ideas: the unveiling of the Servitors (renamed [[Pike]]s) during the October Revolution Parade and their deployment at Khyber Pass, the Dresden Agreements which were renamed [[Relic Arms Reduction Treaty]], and the combustion reagent which was replaced by [[Collapse fluid]]. | |||
''Two titles are provided in the tables of content at the end of the booklet, one in Chinese which is reused in the full text, and one in English only used in the table of contents. The English title is italicized and in parenthesis in the list below.'' | |||
*Beilan Island Incident Investigation Report (''Big Bang'') | |||
*Council Resolution A4 - Project Prometheus (''Sea of Reeds'') | |||
*Relic Investigation Team 01 - 90wish (''The Fool'') | |||
*Brief History of the Development of Relics Weapons during the Cold War (''Damocles'') | |||
*Field Manual for Autonomous Infantry Platoon and Squad (''Deucalion'') | |||
==Confidential Files 3 - ''New and Emerging Forms of Threat, 2063-2065''== | |||
[[File:Confidential Files 3.jpg|The cover of the third Confidential Files.|thumb]] | |||
''New and Emerging Forms of Threat, 2063-2065'' is included as a separate booklet in [[The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.3]] (2026), in the same format as the second batch. It provides a lot of new details about [[World War Three]] and its consequences, and greatly expands the lore surrounding the post-2030 [[United States]]. This batch expands the use of text in other languages than Chinese. The text is presented in the same manner as the second batch, with most of the content being excerpts of in-universe documents, with occasional traditional narration. The numbering of subsections is jumbled due to the regular insertion of excerpts from other sources, presenting a thematic but not chronological picture of the events of each section. The narrated excerpts appearing throughout the booklet resolve in the final part into a cryptic, dubiously [[canon]] examination of the relationship between [[Angelia]] and [[the Commander]]. | |||
The third batch opens with the same note as the second batch, albeit in a much more intelligible English: “The content of this document is for expanded reading. The information provided is not confirmed and is for reference only. Abandoned proposals will be deleted without any record.” | |||
*Prologue (A New Era Beyond Rome) | |||
*Shadows of Black Africa | |||
**Part 1: Anchor of Africa | |||
**Part 2: Hub | |||
**Part 25: A Harsh, Long Winter | |||
**Part 3: Rise of the Republic of Zaire | |||
**Part 27: Starfall in South China | |||
*The Ruins of Old Rome | |||
**Part 1: Chaos Starts | |||
**Part 28: Counterattack | |||
**Part 2: Deadly Incompetence | |||
**Part 29: Taking the Bait | |||
**Part 3: South Lawn Massacre | |||
**Part 4: Prelude to Storm | |||
**Part 30: Operation Antitrades | |||
**Part 5: The Black August of News Media | |||
**Part 6: The Charlottesville Massacre | |||
**Part 31: Reversal | |||
**Part 7: The Anticonstitutional Case of the HDRC | |||
**Part 32: Monsters in the Caspian Sea | |||
**Part 8: Standoff in Houston | |||
**Part 33: Operation Tradewind | |||
**Part 9: "Flying Leavenworth" | |||
**Part 10: Mars Marches On | |||
**Part 11: New Confederacy | |||
**Part 12: Operation "Restoring Order" | |||
*Odyssey to the Golden Dawn | |||
**Part 1 (1): Odyssey | |||
**Part 2 (1): Repayment | |||
**Part 3 (1): Confrontation | |||
**Part 34: The Lyon Nuclear Explosion | |||
**Part 1 (2): America's Golden Successors | |||
**Part 35: Final Battle | |||
**Part 2 (2): Great Collapse | |||
**Part 3 (2): Mystery of the American Gold | |||
**Part 36: Change, The Only Constant | |||
**Part 4 (2): The Inevitable Civil War and Exodus of American Capital | |||
**Epilogue: The West African Granary | |||
*First Light at the Colosseum | |||
**Part 1 (1): Fall of the Eighth Republic | |||
**Part 2 (1): Ninth Republic | |||
**Part 3 (1): Pawns of the Republic | |||
**Part 2.1: Concerning Paris | |||
**Part 1 (2): Wilderness Hunting Corps — Special Response Against Yellow Zone Militias | |||
**Part 3.1: Concerning Sarajevo | |||
**14 February 2057, Moscow | |||
**Part 2 (2): Wasteland Exploitation — Regional Yellow Zone Development Contracts | |||
**Part 3 (2): Path to Purification — Difficulties in the Purification Process of the Yellow Zone | |||
**Part 4 (2): The Melting Pot — Societal Prospects in Post-Purification Yellow Zone | |||
**Resolution of the Soviet Union's Conference of Ministers | |||
**Part 5 (2): True Nightmares — Red Zones, Black Zones, Living Bones & Boojums | |||
*Shadows Under the Marble | |||
***Part 1: Aftermath of the War | |||
***Part 2: Reboot of the Second German Democratic Republic (June 2062 - 2057) | |||
***File 1 & 2 ([[K|Kane Schwabe]]) | |||
***14 February 2057, Leningrad | |||
***Part 3: Challenges of German Politics (2058-2060) | |||
***Files 1 to 3 ([[Wolfgang Hopps]]) | |||
***Part 4: Birth of the Pan-European Union and Revision of Germany's National and International Politics (2060-2064) | |||
**Ballad for a New Hope | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| Line 60: | Line 145: | ||
*[https://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?pid=381383718&rand=873 Confidential Files 2 analysis on NGA (CN)] | *[https://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?pid=381383718&rand=873 Confidential Files 2 analysis on NGA (CN)] | ||
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzpCrYtAWyWbnzevVzAhyeM7f1RYxRrnzSbhm454spA/edit# Codename: Bakery Girl's Secret Documents (translated with the game's script)] | *[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzpCrYtAWyWbnzevVzAhyeM7f1RYxRrnzSbhm454spA/edit# Codename: Bakery Girl's Secret Documents (translated with the game's script)] | ||
==References== | |||
<references /> | |||
{{NavboxFranchise}} | {{NavboxFranchise}} | ||