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Runner bag

Overview

Runner bags are yellow, multi-pocketed bags used to carry items and/or documents during a Runner's run across the City, built to be durable to keep the items safe during transportation. It should be noted that Runner bags are not the only form of containers Runners use to transport items. Smaller, yellow cylinders have also been used most probably for smaller, lighter materials.

Each bag of varying design contains a primary storage area with around six additional pockets (3 clasped and 3 unclasped) for additional materials. A bag can be carried either by a handle or single shoulder-strap.

The bags are usually stored in one of several marked locations or drop points, hidden from casual observation. To aid Runners in locating bags quickly, they are colored yellow for easy identification. Runners are usually informed of a bag's location and destination by their Tracker, after which they set out to retrieve the bag and deliver it to its destination or, if the job requires it, pass the bag and its contents on to another Runner, who then delivers it to its destination.

A bag's drop point is marked by a Runner's symbol or tag; in Faith Connors’s case, however, bag drop points are marked by red Runner glyphs (the Mirror's Edge series logo).

Merchandise

Handmade in San Francisco by the bag company, Timbuk2, EA games released a limited series of Mirror’s Edge messenger bags to be included in the game’s limited edition Mirror’s Edge Runner’s Bag bundle which include a copy of the Mirror’s Edge game and a bag for $130. Coming in either an original red design or a yellow design based off of the messenger bags in the game, each bag is made from heavy duty ballistic fabric.

Trivia

  • In the Mirror's Edge (comic), Faith possessed a shoulder bag that she sometimes carried around during runs. Taken when she ran from home, it contained several personal items to remind her of her family; this included a data board designed for Silvine Security Systems. The bag had originally belonged to her mother, Erika Connors.
  • The Runner bag is not practical for use, as movements such as rolls and sprinting should be affected by the bag knocking against/hitting the carrier. A more effective transportation bag would be a single strap, sling style pack.
  • The comic implies that Runner bags are not standard equipment, rather they are chosen by the runners. The majority of the currency is spent on the Runner's electronic equipment.
  • The City Eye logo and the Timbuk2 logo bare some similarities in shape.
  • In Battlefield 3, on Operation Métro, a Runner bag can be found near the third set of M-COM stations in Rush.
  • In the Battlefield 3 add-on map Death Valley, a Runner Bag can be found inside a container suspended by a crane on a skyscraper.
  • Unlockables artwork for Mirror's Edge (under Extras) gives insight on the bag: "The bag played a much larger role in early versions of the story."

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