Lately, one of the biggest things I've been finding info on, is my Mystery #17, the Silo vents. You can see the vents, just below where you start the level, and you can zoom in for a closer look.

It's been determined that those vents, are what's leftover of a long lost elevator. One thing I noticed, was the fact that in the left picture (above), there is no railing at the edge of the walkway. The same goes for a walkway at the end of the Silo- turn right after meeting Ourumov, and the walkway you'll be on ends like this one does, without a railing.

With a Gameshark code (at the bottom of this page), you can actually start BELOW where you normally start, and you can actually see a ladder!

The ladder, is right where you normally start the level, NOT where the missing railing is. Of course, you can't climb the ladder, but you can look at it, and wonder why it was there. It definitely has something to do with the elevator.

Did I mention with this code, you can also go over to the vent itself? You can look inside, and see... a dead end. That's really strange.

What purpose could this vent have possibly had? I personally think that it was the original starting point of the level, and Bond would then climb up the ladder.

This may, or may not have been involved with the elevator, but there is an inaccessible walkway directly above the vent.

I marked it with paintballs (left pic), and explored the Silo, and I found that the same door could be seen, looking from another walkway, after turning right after meeting Ourumov (right pic). I believe that it is somehow connected to the elevator.

Again, using a Gameshark, you can actually start the level on the "inaccessible" walkway. You can't open the door, so after you're done looking around, you'll have to quit the level.

There is another inaccessible walkway in the Silo. Just after the second fuel room, turn left. There is still a remaining guard on it! That's strange.

I wanted to make sure that the walkway could not be reached, so I marked the guard's gun with a paintball, and, a few paintballs on the door, to make sure that I came across either one, that I'd know. You can't get there, unless...

With a Gameshark, you can actually start the level on this walkway. The guard will react as soon as you start, so you might want to be Invincible. After you kill the guard, the door still can't be opened. Even walk through doors doesn't work.

I tried the Silo's destroy almost everything code, in hopes of breaking the door. It worked, but there's an unbreakable door behind it. It looks a bit like an elevator door, but it has caution stripes through the middle. What is that there for? This may very well have been the entrance to the elvevator.

GET INSIDE THE VENT! You can now make Bond appear inside at the end of the vent! You can have a look around, and just wonder, WHY? What is all this stuff? Was it intended as an original level starting point???

GET INSIDE THE VENT! You can now make Bond appear inside at the end of the vent! You can have a look around, and just wonder, WHY? What is all this stuff? Was it intended as a starting point???

I'd like to have Rare say that they put this in for detail, in behind everything, where nobody would ever find it... Until now. You can see there's an "exit" but you can walk through the walls, and the graphics disappear as soon as you try to leave. With the Sniper Rifle, I zoomed in and you can definitely tell the it goes around the corner.

And if you're interested enough to look up inside the fan, this is what you'll see. Quite strange. You can see that this very same fan exists in the Archives. Too bad Rare won't release some information on all this.