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Confidential Files
Not to be confused with the Classified Briefings from Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium.
The Confidential Files are the origin of most of the expanded universe of the Girls' Frontline series. The first one, titled History of 1905-2092, is included as a separate booklet in the Chinese edition of The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1 (it is not included in the English edition). The second one, titled G&K Field Commander Briefing Program: New and Emerging Forms of Threat, is included as a separate booklet in the Chinese edition of The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, and included in the book of the Japanese edition.
The content of the first Confidential Files is based on an updated and enriched version of the Secret Documents unlocked in the game Codename: Bakery Girl, which are sometimes called “Bakery Girl's Confidential Files”. A greatly expanded and revised version of these documents can be unlocked in Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery.
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The Gallery menu of Codename: Bakery Girl, with the Secret Documents list on the right side. -
The cover of the first Confidential Files. -
The cover of the second Confidential Files. -
The cover of the third Confidential Files.
Contents
- Bakery Girl's Secret Documents
- General Technical Concepts of Collapse and Reverse-Collapse Technology
- AD 1945 – AD 1981, the Age of Relics (expunged from the remake)
- Research on Modern Relics (expunged from the remake)
- The GAVIRUL Reproduction Project
- Servant (expunged from the remake)
- The First Beilan Island Incident
- World War III and Antarctic Independence
- The Founding of the Antarctic Union and the Outbreak of the First Antarctic War
- Eurosky Low-Emission Infectious Disease (expunged from the remake)
- The Three Goddesses Project
- Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Secret Documents
- Confidential Files, first batch (titles are based on the credits at the end of the booklet and translations from Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery)
- Relics Era Report (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
- Relics Era Report (expunged from later editions)
- Confidential Files, second batch
- Beilan Island Incident Investigation Report
- Council Resolution A4 - Project Prometheus
- Relic Investigation Team 01 - 90wish
- Brief History of the Development of Relics Weapons during the Cold War
- Field Manual for Autonomous Infantry Platoon and Squad
- Confidential Files, third batch ()
- 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 Lotzwil Summer Massacre
- Part 31: Turncoat
- 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 Levin Vaughan"
- Part 10: Mars Marches On
- Part 11: New Confederation
- 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 (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
Considerations regarding canon
Both 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.
The first Confidential Files exist in two versions, with the revised version excising the first part written by Gaoshan (高山) “Hannibal” after it was found in 2017 to be heavily plagiarized from Charles Stross' 2000 novella A Colder War.[1] The plagiarism had begun in the Secret Documents of Codename: Bakery Girl but had gone unnoticed at the time. Mica Team's lead Yuzhong made a public apology on Weibo the same day promising to remove the part containing plagiarism from reprints.[2] The excised content is explained and reproduced in Confidential Files/Expunged. The Secret Files containing plagiarism were not included in Bakery Girl's remake, being replaced by other parts from the first Confidential Files instead, but one mention of the plagiarized XK-Pluto weapon has endured (read Secret Documents#Reprinted Confidential Files). The fourth part of the second Confidential Files reuses the original ideas from the expunged first batch, along with altered versions of some originally plagiarized ideas: the unveiling of the Servitors (renamed Pikes) 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. The term “BOOJUM” made a return in Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium.
Prior to its content being used in the games, the status of the second Confidential Files was put in question due to rumors[3] of former[4] contractor Mei “Deadpapilio” (冥蝶军工) having participated in the writing. Mei's name doesn't appear in the artbook. The second Confidential Files also retcons two details from the first batch: the origins of IOP and the starting and ending dates of World War Three.
The third Confidential Files come with a note in English and Simplified Chinese: “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.” The note implies that Sunborn reserves the right to retcon any part of the booklet.