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...this kind of makes for an interesting revelation in Glukkon behavior because the Glukkons are not the types to supervise slaves themselves. They have Sligs for that. And if the shoulder pad length is still a status indicator, this guy isn't a low ranked Glukkon either.
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There's a decent chance that one way or another this is actually Mullock, either because he survived and now he's back or this is an image from the past as others have theorized. His face doesn't look like Phleg or Aslik, and ordinarily I would expect Drippik to be wearing more medals - plus his forehead is supposed to be a bit more complex than that. Still, like you said it could be an entirely new gluk.
But more importantly, whoever he is, I agree it's definitely odd to see a Glukkon supervise his own slaves. Honestly, when I saw this, I imagined something really top-secret obviously because of how cryptic this whole marketing stunt is. So this leads me to believe that seeing him there is a direct indicator of just how big of a deal this operation here is - a possibly illegal one, too, if we're gonna go with all this secrecy. Like maybe wherever this is, that gluk doesn't have the legal rights to the land this operation is happening on?
Since Soulstorm is gonna be a remake of Exodus, I can only image that the bags they're carrying are bones rolled up in bags - though that somewhat retcons how the original means of keeping the secret was stitching their eyes shut. Maybe these guys are a third party to the actual diggers and they only move the bags, never being allowed to open them?
Also... Back on the subject of the mudokon's eye, I honestly think that's more of a computer screen of some sort than a door. If you look closely, you can see a small light in the center of that black spot, which leads me to believe the black bar is actually a figure of some kind overshadowed by a light behind him. Maybe this is a new version of the Greeter security bot, or some other kind of machine? I can't help but think of the sentries from Portal.
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