Moving on to more interesting things. At one point, the Klum, after all this time dominating this planet, decided to do mass experiments, to make their home here and to begin annihilation of mankind. The reason is unknown. Maybe because they fear the Ludens, and seek to protect themselves. They begin to shape the atmosphere they breathe on our planet, and this causes climate change that result in catastrophic effects on the Earth and the seas, which invade cities. This warming of the water would lead to the death of several marine animals - the result? Their bodies stranded on beaches around the world. Hmmm. Humans try to resist the Klum, who use that ferrofluid. What if some humans, results of experiments, use the ferrofluid in their favor? In Rakka, we see the fight in one place. Texas, 2020. However, what about the rest of the planet? Maybe the baby who makes marks on Norman in the Death Stranding announce trailer is one of those experiment results. And if I rely on what I said about necrotic experiments in humans… Could this ferrofluid bring dead back to life? Or maybe something like that. What if a powerful human, result of experiments, decided to use that control to revive dead soldiers, dead people, to fight aliens in the midst of a city's remains, to start a revolution? This ferrofluid, these strings would be able to be controlled at will, and would not only be used in humans, but also in machines, non-organic things, making them, in a way, organic. This same powerful human would also hunt down humans who did not agree against his methods, his radical way of dealing with things, being seen by many as a villain. Like Mads Mikkelsen said, his character is an antagonist, whether he is a total villain or not is open to the player to decide.
About the Ludens, they would be the apparitions at the end of Norman's trailer, as well as angels we see in Rakka. The angels are their proxies. Maybe that scene would take place after he was told by the demonic voice of what was going to happen. Shortly after leaving the house, the war began. He became unconscious in the middle of that, and woke naked, after a long coma or something like that, with handcuffs on a beach. Because of the earth's atmosphere being shaped into the air breathed by Klum, there are dead animals on the beach. Stranded. But it does not stop there. Norman cannot get off Earth. That handcuff may be something metaphorical, apart from being material. During this period of “coma”, the Klum might have experimented on him, but he managed to escape, however, they prevented him from leaving the planet and becoming one of the Ludens. So he is stranded here - he cannot go beyond death, cannot become a one of them. Well, Kojima said that Death Stranding is about it - something that is stranded here on Earth. Bridges would be the organization formed by what was left of the post-invasion US government. Their purpose with that baby carried y Del Toro might be some connection to the Ludens, to try something to stop the Klum from exterminating the rest of humankind. The result of all this is a conflict between Bridges and the faction created by Mads character, while both go to war against the Klum (aliens). On the other hand, Norman must find out what happened to get rid of his shackles and become a Ludens, somehow guaranteeing the survival of the human race. Perhaps the Ludens themselves are this: evolved human beings who have a different notion of time and space. Something like in Time Wanderers or Interstellar. And that would be the plot of Death Stranding. Rakka and the Oats Studios films would take place in the same universe - they would be happening in different places, complementing the two works, linked by ropes, like a bridge between the two. A bridge. After all, according to Kojima, the movies, series and games will all become one, one day. Why would not the man himself start the revolution now?
