Yep. They have the whole super villain thing going on.

I think it's probably an ego thing. And possibly a quazi-totalitarian expression of power over their workers/slaves.

The Vykkers were partial to doing this as well.

http://i.imgur.com/IQJIH.png

Although it's more prevalent in Glukkon architecture, I assumed it was intended to intimidate.

Glukkons are too tight to build gigantic statues of themselves, so they just work it into the infrastructure.

I wondered if they might not notice it. An alien looking and a human house might see a resemblance in the positions of doors and windows to a face.

Maybe all the buildings are actually alive.

Anything with a face is alive. The FeeCo Train must have a great time going around Oddworld.

I never noticed that. Pretty cool.

Seriously? I don't believe you.

That one looks more like an Octigi than a Vykker.

It reminds me of the Magog Cartel logo.

Which is based on the shape of an Octigi.

Either way, it's an odd symbol for a Vykker ship.

Depends one who built it. Is the ship even unique to the Vykkerz, or have they bought a Magog model?

Waitwaitwaitwait... So Vykkers are NOT part of the Magog Cartel?

The artbook says in relation to this picture,

"The docking station was designed with the Vykkers image in mind; a large head and four arms. The head contains fuel and hydrogen for the docking blimps, the arm joints hold anti-aircraft guns."

It really does look like the Magog logo though, which is what I thought when I first saw it

The Vykkers are part of the Vykkers Conglomerate, a sometimes rival, sometimes partner Super-corporation to the Magog Cartel.

Vykkers are part of the Magog Cartel.

Glukkons are another part of the Magog Cartel.

What? Really?

A lot of the bullshit online needs clearing up.

I also thought they were a separate group. I had that drilled into me by a reliable, Nod-like source.

The Vykkers and Glukkons are separate groups. They're competing industrial families with their own agendas, quotas and specialties, fighting each other over capital, contracts, resources, airtime and markets. Just like real corporations, they frequently negotiate to work together. That's always been the case.

What I got wrong in the past was nomenclature.

Oh. I thought the Magog cartel had a whole lot of infighting groups, but only within the Octigi family (in the taxonomic sense of the word 'family').

How is it that we're still confused about this stuff?

Wil doesn't explain things clearly enough.

I thought that the glukkon queen owned the magog cartel. If she does, then the vykkers work for the glukkons. And i just realised that the 2 main villains in the oddysee's are both spelled with 2 K's.. Coincidence or are they just oddly spelled anyway?

Nope. The Glukkons are just one family within the Magog Cartel. Lorne has said a few times that one of the over-arching themes of the Quintology is that there's always another level of power behind the powerful.



Probably just due to the fact that both names were made up by the same person's imagination.

Clakkers and ?

it's too bad there aren't any interns in AO. I'd like to voice an intern.

It's quite interesting, I guess, I thought that the Vyker's Pharmaceuticals was a syndicate entirely separate to the Magog Cartel. But then I suppose the very nature of a cartel suggests that the Vyker's Conglomerate could exist within it.

On another note...this business aspect of the game helped me pass my GCSE Business exams and my AS economics. Fun!

Out of interested. Did FeeCo go to more places we didn't see in Abe's Exoddus or was it just the parts we saw?

I ask because I always thought it would be cool to use FeeCo again as a hub section but instead go to different places around Oddworld.

I assume it's a lot bigger than what we've actually seen. I'd say that about most things on Oddworld though considering what's happening in all the backgrounds.

This. I'd also assume there are other FeeCo Depot hubs.

Do you reckon that future games/remakes will explore deeper? I'dove to see more of necrum, the temples and the industries

It's turtles all the way down.

Well, some of them are terrapins.

If the Magog Cartel englobes the Vykkers and the Glukkons, and the association of Vykkers is know as the "Vykkers Conglomerate", what is the name of the Glukkon association?

Perhaps that's what the Ugaia (sp?) Estate is?

Bear in mind that the Industrial Glukkons that we have seen so far have all been descendants of Lady Margaret, but not all the Glukkons in Mudos are her descendants. Presumably the Industrialised ones have their own family businesses.

Hmmm I would have thought that the Ugaia Estate is indeed the name given to one of the families and that there are multiple Glukkon families.

So now the question is, are those families somehow part of a same group, and if yes, what's the name of the group?

My guess is that the different Glukkon families are seperate, and only some (or perhaps only even one) are/is part of the Magog Cartel.

Ooh, is there somewhere we can read about the Ugaia Estate?

Nate, write these questions down. You'll need them for round three.