G.A.B.E.N.

The G.A.B.E.N is a very large weapon of some kind from the Center for Chaos Containment.

It appears in the final choice screen of the "Pure Blooded Thief" pathway of Infiltrating the Airship as one of the four possible choices. Its appearance resembles, in part, a grey elliptical object.

When chosen, Wilson Stone inserts the corresponding disk into a computer and begins the start-up sequence for the G.A.B.E.N. The computer encounters an error but somehow recovers the disk, yet the G.A.B.E.N. is not deployed, leading to a fail.

Trivia

 * This option is a reference to Gabe Newell ("Gabe N."), the CEO of Valve Software who developed the Half-Life franchise. The installment Half-Life 3 has infamously been delayed, cancelled, and restarted multiple times since 2007.
 * The weapon linked to this choice is heavily hinted as an early, incomplete iteration of the fully functional G.A.B.E.G.G. featured in CtM. This implies that its protocols were completed before the events of ItA but since the incomplete machine cannot carry them out, they do nothing and the computer returns an error for the null commands.
 * This disc contains illegible markings as opposed to all others.
 * This is one of three fail options to ”Glitch Out” the fail screen. The other two are the Goodball and the CorrupTick.
 * Of the three, this one has the least effect on the screen, only causing it to stutter briefly when it appears.