Xenosaga Notes - Official Design Materials Part 1
The Clause About The People
Jr.
His mind wavers between the steadiness and the non-steadiness
* Individual attributes
Gender: male
Birthdate: publicly, T.C. 4755, age 12
Height: 140cm {~4'7"}
Weight: 38kg {~84lbs}
* Affiliation
A Representative Director of the Kukai Foundation
* Enneagram type
According to Enneagram personality classification, Jr, in his connection to people, is classified with a type-8 characteristic (brave, greatly self-confident, coercive, confrontational).
By improving everything through self-power, possessing courage, and with a strength of will appealing to his surroundings, a type-8 is a personality that can take up leadership. Because he takes command of the Durandal, always stands at the front line of battle, and also because of an attitude that seems to rise above hardship, he is proven to be of this type. Behaving egocentrically and holding influential power over his surroundings, in time he overwhelms other people.
When in a healthy state, there is no existence that becomes more reliable than him. Contrary to his bodily youth, he was supported by a sturdy mental power and an unwavering self-confidence because he demonstrates constructive leadership ability.
However, being exposed to great stress, when his disposition appears to be at an unhealthy state, people around him begin to catch a glimpse of the figure of a tyrant there. It is due to the aggression that is within his own nature becoming prominent.
A type-8 has the tendency to try to rule over his circumstances. When healthy, this is ground in positive thought, and what materializes is leadership in order to improve his circumstances. However, when unhealthy, in order to conquer absolutely everything, what materializes is aggressive conduct.
Because of Jr's speech and conduct regarding the Kukai Foundation, it can be inferred that he is in a healthy state. However, as for Jr's speech and conduct at the time of the vicarious experience of the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago through the Encephalon, and at the time of contact with Albedo, it is distinctly indicating an unhealthy state.
Showing both physical and mental bravery, the figure of a heroic Jr, who runs head-on into danger for the sake of something he believes, is not entirely seen as being in an unhealthy state. For the sake of protecting himself, he is extremely aggressive and is driven by a destructive impulse.
At the time of the Encephalon dive, Jr's attitude, towards Momo who worries and Ziggy who tries to grasp the situation, is aggressive yet dominant, and it brandishes{?} his surroundings according to selfish behavior. Also, when he tried to release power due to Albedo's provocation, a merciless, savage aggression appeared as if a binding had been disconnected.
In this way, Jr is in an unstable state, wavering between healthiness and unhealthiness. This is considered to be something that was caused by the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago.
* Old-style gun
Jr's weapon of choice is an old-style gun. {I'm not sure if I have these next two sentences backwards:} In the practical modern era of laser weapons, it is an old-fashioned weapon that would [normally] be exhibited in a museum. In the U-TIC Organization, too, guns of the type that use gunpowder are being provided, and there is the opinion regarding the practicality of old-fashioned weapons.
Whether it's a gunpowder-system or not doesn't matter; it must be called a "firing system", for Jr prefers a weapon that shoots the aggressive power from his skill towards the target. It is neither bodily contact nor a shredding-like attack; it is a preference for the image that channels aggressive power.
It was Jr's imagination that controlled the firing of the heavily armed warship Durandal's main battery. Also, the old-style gun, too, is fired according to Jr's imagination, and exhibits aggressive power that far exceeds a bullet that is physically shot. This is considered to bolster the image of Jr's own aggressive ability which is given to his opponents by the use of a "firing system" weapon. In other words, direct damage is given by Jr's released aggressive surge, but in order to channel that surge into an opponent, a gun-like impetus {proxy tool} is essential.
For the sake of promoting imagination by means of a tool, it is necessary to make use of preferred tools. The more he is engaged by making use of a tool that he finds deeply interesting, compared to having used a tool that didn't suit his feelings, the image he promotes will not come to the point of being questioned.
Precisely because of this, Jr transforms that aggressive power by using a tool only as a substitute. Also because of this such thing, it is possible to infer the intimate connection between his imagination and the tool.
* U.R.T.V.
Jr is a URTV, the same as Gaignun and Albedo. However, that fact is not being divulged to the public. The frenzy of the URTVs during the Miltian Conflict has instilled in the heart of every person a distrust, a fear towards the URTVs themselves. It is a past that is difficult to wipe clean. Therefore, Jr changed his name and had to conceal his origins.
Also being within the group called the Kukai Foundation [which was established] for mutants and by the hand of mutants who are the victims of the Life Recycling Act, he must conceal his true nature. The "incident" that occurred on Miltia of 14 years ago was something that impacts society even up to that degree.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.15987%
Albedo Piazzolla
The behavior filled with his insanity cuts others into pieces without mercy
* Individual Attributes
Gender: male
Birthdate: T.C. 4741, age 26
Height: 190cm {~6'3"}
* Affiliation
None.
* Enneagram Type
According to Enneagram personality assessment, Albedo, in his connection to people, is classified with a type-8 characteristic (brave, greatly self-confident, coercive, confrontational). This is the same type as Jr and Gaignun, but Albedo's state is an extremely unhealthy one.
The utmost unhealthy type-8, one that is also a common human, imagines that he himself is an existence of an immortal body, all-knowing and all-powerful. For someone who harbors delusions of grandeur to the point of being maximally abnormal such as this, if he is not actually omnipotent, then he does not have an immortal body. However, Albedo is in fact correctly omnipotent with regards to injury of the flesh, and his is an immortal body.
He stands on top of this omnipotent power, and mercilessly strikes others. Because he does not feel limited by his own self being destroyed, there is no hesitation of any kind in the actions that this gives to another person. {iffy}: Also, not being given himself, taking as special privilege the current state of the point-of-view that it gives, he is convinced that he is super-human.
If it is a common human, those things do not go past mere delusion, and there is an instant that he senses the terror of actual death. For that reason, he tries to destroy before being destroyed, and it proactively causes behavior. A healthy type-8 proactively exerts a constructive influence on his surroundings, but likewise in a completely opposite way, an unhealthy type-8 proactively exerts a destructive influence on his surroundings.
But, because Albedo is a true immortal body, there is no sense of the impending crisis of being destroyed. Therein lies the weakness to his proactivity. He is in an alliance-like relationship with the U-TIC Organization, but that does not go beyond the part where advantages & disadvantages coincide. He does not aim to do the will of another person. He joins hands with others only for the sake of his own purposes, there is no pushing forward, and because he is immortal, there is not the necessity to feel limited by time, and the result is that proactivity is lacking. And thus, he enjoys the movement of every person as a bystander, and he lowers a destructive hand on a whim. And then, seeing a chance to allow the achievement of his own purposes, he is roused to action. However, that little bit of action, being desperate for others, becomes something that is destructive.
For him, the sole essential need is in once again linking with U-Do. For that sake he will sacrifice everything. If the world does not become for the sake of his own heart, he may even go so far as to try to destroy that which is the world.
* Albedo's Craft
It has a similarity to an AGWS, but its functions are vastly different. Also, AGWS are powered-suits nearer in sense to equipping more than boarding, and it is for a single-person pilot. But, Albedo's craft is being ridden by two people, including the Kirschwasser. Also, absorbing the Kirschwasser, it automates the maneuver control ability, etc, through that function, and the design is not considered a usual mechanism. No records remain about a craft such as this being developed, neither in Vector Industries, nor in Hyams Heavy Industries. Nonetheless, Albedo must not have developed the craft by himself. Is there some 3rd party? Or was it a development of a classified level such that there doesn't even remain a record at all?
As for now, no craft of its equal has been confirmed, and only Albedo has possession. Though entering and leaving the U-TIC Organization, because it does not seem that U-TIC investigates or is developing that craft, there is the possibility that no one but Albedo can operate it.
As for that, does the fact that he's a URTV become the primary factor? Or is it essential to have linked with U-Do? If it is the former, it is perhaps possible that Gaignun and Jr, too, can fly it. However, if it is the latter, for now, of all the people who exist in this world, Albedo becomes the sole operator.
* URTV
Albedo is a URTV, the same as Jr and Gaignun. Being that it was Jr who acted as the cause of the frenzy of the URTVs during the Miltian conflict of 14 years ago, he searches for atonement from Jr. Also, in that case, for the sake of affirming himself of the present that resulted from having linked with U-Do, he denies and tries to destroy everything that related to himself from before.
From Albedo's perspective, the URTVs who were not linked with U-Do are existences who lacked something fundamental. As a woman is missing a man, as a man is missing a woman, like if Yin and Yang were to unite, the linking of URTV and U-Do is considered to become an androgynous, completed body.
This sense also is becoming the basis from which he considers himself to be omnipotent. The URTVs, with the exception of himself, are not complete, and those other than URTV cannot even become incomplete existences; they are nothing but things unworthy of mention.
It is Albedo who persistently aimed for Momo, but because the reason for that was that useful worth is recognized in Momo, once the use is finished, perhaps he will destroy without raising an eyebrow.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...81.66666%
Gaignun Kookai
He is a representative director of Kookai-Foundation
* Individual attributes
Gender, male. Born in the year T.C. 4741, 26 years old. Height, 188 cm.
* Affiliation
Kookai Foundation representative director.
* Enneagram type
According to the Enneagram personality analysis, Gaignun is classified as a type 8 (gallant / confident in himself / coercive / confrontational).
Type 8s have self-control, are broad-minded and have great confidence in themselves; there are many cases of them making names for themselves in history as entrepreneurs. Also, when they are extremely healthy, there is a chance that they may even be called a hero and leave behind their name in history. As the representative director of the Kookai Foundation, Gaignun's ability to preserve the juridical foundation and cause rapid growth until he possesses the greatest share in the world of business for each of the sectors of the Foundation's amusement, environment, and industry depends greatly on his personality type (this sentence is confusing). Also, his ability as a U.R.T.V. is the power to control other people. His personality type and this ability have many common features. Comparing a case in which a person with an introverted personality has the same ability and a case in which a type 8 like him has this power, a surprising difference in the effectiveness is generated when the power is used. He is a leader by nature and excels in the ability to motivate others to do things; he suppresses his self-assertiveness and has the ability to control the actions of others while convincing them that they are acting freely of their own will. He controls his own emotions and, without controlling his opponent, conversely he makes them feel his strength. He uses his power to make his opponent submit and, rather than ruling by twisting people's arms, he governs leniently.
Even if he finds himself in a dilemma, he does not become disconcerted. His manner that makes you think he has complete control over himself has a very strong charisma. Not only does he walk down a path that he believes in and have plenty of necessary courage, he also displays it, leads people, he has the respect of people, and is regarded as a hero. Even if he is unable to realize the ideals that he is aiming for within the span of his own life, the people who inherit his will will carry out his ideals and he will survive in history. As an idea, this represents the possibility of surviving longer and suggests one possibility of the conquest of death. In order to protect his own health, he must not surrender to anyone. When type 8s feel that fear, they become self-reliant and protect themselves by overwhelming others.
* Representative director
Gaignun completely runs the business side of the Kookai Foundation; he leaves the practical side of things like the retrieval of the Zohar Emulators to Jr. and concentrates on providing logistical support. Being involved in the abyss of the world (?), as long as it is something that can have a big influence on society, it cannot be accomplished with just military might. With that meaning, military power and political power should be talked about as being of the same importance. In addition, political power needs military power and military power needs political power. Gaignun and Jr. are in this kind of relationship. With both of their powers combined it becomes possible for them to preserve the plan for the present condition of the Kookai Foundation. If one side was lacking, the preservation of the Foundation would be difficult.
* Alias
Gaignun Kookai. This name is the alias he uses in order to not use his U.R.T.V. name and also to persuade the public in his role as the director of the Kookai Foundation.
In the first place, "Kookai" is the name of a fictional entrepreneur that was fabricated by the Miltian autonomous government in order to pool loans for special activities, and is not the name of a person that actually exists. As the inheritor of the assets of the fictional person, Gaignun took on the surname Kookai.
Treating Jr. like an adopted child was a desperate measure to get others to understand the difference in age that was caused by Jr.'s U.R.T.V. powers while still entering his name as a representative director. More importantly, if Jr. had not been able to get actual results in the task of retrieving the Zohar Emulators, they would not have been able to give the job of representative director to a child who only looks about 12 years old, regardless of the fact that he is an adopted child.
There has been much speculation about Jr. and Gaignun's relationship. Because of their economic activities involving the entertainment and tourism industry (unknown phrase), Gaignun has attracted a lot of attention as an entrepreneur and, as to be expected, there has been some scandalous gossip. However, for those who face phenomena that are related to the fate of the world, scandals have about as much influence as a mosquito bite. Political power that can be blown away with a (???) scandal was only about that powerful from the beginning. Just as Gaignun and Jr. have two names, the Kookai Foundation also has an official face and a hidden side. The Kookai Foundation's true objective is contained in its real name.*
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.99866%
The Clause About The Culture
Memory
The joint ownership and the vicarious experience of the memory
* Shared memory and vicarious experience
What occurred during the encephalon dive into KOS-MOS's mainframe was a reconstruction phenomenon of the memory of the divers.
The reconstructed shared "memory" actualized from the memory donors (Shion, Momo, and Jr), as well as the bystanders (Allen, chaos, and Ziggy). However, it was not something that involved emotion.
Memory, in effect, is subjective story-like information of the personal experience of the person, himself. The reconstruction of the "memory" that occurred during the encephalon dive, in a strict sense is not said to be a "shared memory"; it does not go beyond "vicarious experience of a situation".
What became the setting of the vicarious experience was something that the memory donors had in common-- Miltia of 14 years ago.
From Shion's memory came the scene of the interaction with her father in front of the Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility. And then the scene in the interior of the facility where Realians fused together as if eating each other. From Jr's memory came the scene of the wild running of the URTVs in the Miltian Conflict. Including the appearance of Gaignun and Albedo of that time. From Momo's memory came the scene of the end of Professor Joachim Mizrahi at the U-TIC Organization's central tower, Labyrinthos.
The memory donors, as well as the bystanders, vicariously experienced these scenes as if they were some incident that unfolded before their eyes, while maintaining their present consciousness as is. The memory donors' sensations of that time are not transmitted in whole-- it is an objective scene where only the stage was reconstructed.
The "shared memory", which was exchanged between Shion and Andrew who was on the verge of death, is something that actualizes only because of the sharing of emotional experience that accompanies feelings.
It is a personal experience that is shaken by emotion. When sharing the memory of that experience, one does not view the personal experience objectively; instead, one reacts to it subjectively. Even if that is also something that differs from his own emotion, he is dragged into the emotion of the [original] experience-er. Thus is shared memory.
That means, the shared memory from the technology of the encephalon dive is said to be something that does not match up to the synchronous communication between Shion and Andrew. But, regarding the vicarious experience of the memory, it is something that has a high degree of freedom, being extremely real.
* A heart that rejects the past
Lost recollections, or those that merely do not rise above the surface of the consciousness, are not concluded to have disappeared.
This can be explained by the memory lapse system of the human brain. The three stages of memory are: learning input, "memorization"; remembering, "retention"; and thought extraction, "recall". The matter that is concerned with memorization are the perception neurons, which become the entrance for information. The matter that is concerned with retention is the hippocampus. The matter that is concerned with recall is the frontal lobe. About the function and role of each [stage], they are continually being brought to light. However, in the case of memory lapse, which stage, which portion is it that indicates a non-functioning state?
As for the current state of the memory that is sealed and asleep at the bottom of Shion's heart, it is considered that the problem lies in the affore-mentioned "recall" stage. Evidenced by her memories that were extracted due to the encephalon dive along with the memory that was recalled with the flashback, there is no doubt that there was being "retention".
Memory that is retained over a long period of time is called long-term memory. Short-term memory that is supplied by the cerebral cortex, similar to how it is recorded in computer RAM, is in a temporary storage state, and vanishes when the power is cut. Meanwhile, long-term memory that is supplied by the hippocampus, similar to how it is recorded on a harddisk, can continue to be retained indefinitely.
The reason for the failure in recall of these long-term memories is the following two possibilities. The first possibility is "failure of memory retrieval". It is the so-called, "having been forgotten". For some reason or another, when the brain is in a state where it cannot retrieve memory, this phenomenon comes forth. The second possibility is "suppression". {rephrased for clarity, may be somewhat incorrect}: According to Freud's theory, it is disadvantageous and even harmful to oneself when he acts completely such that he refuses to actualize all the things that he doesn't want to remember, the things that chase after him in his subconscious. Due to this, he diminishes his futile psychological toil, and attempts to bring about mental efficiency. It is a way of thinking that perceives psychology economically. Shion's case is expected to have a high possibility that it is the latter case of "suppression".
* Kirschwasser memory
The memory of the Kirschwassers, which was received by Momo, was not a real image from within the memory that the Kirschwassers personally witnessed. It is considered that the images were something visualized by Momo for the sake of recognizing the personal experience of the Kirschwassers. The reason for this is because the Kirschwassers themselves, who were the personal experience vessels of that memory, were also appearing in the memory image.
The Kirschwassers, Momo, and the 100-series cross-observational Realians are existences that possess a single psychological domain. Individual terminals carry out the experience of a particular case and upload them to a mainframe, and this making-into-joint-ownership preserves the data by way of possible states. For the sake of recognizing the information that was uploaded, an individual terminal gives processing treatment within the brain into a form that is easy to comprehend. The influx of memory information from the Kirschwassers to Momo is not something that passed through the mainframe, but is a concatenation of a fellow terminal. For the sake of recognizing and understanding the information that came from the influx, it wasn't a reproduction of a pure memory image-- it is considered that Momo reconstructed the information through a form that included a remnant of the memory subject.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.45566%
The Clause About The Infrastructure
Unus Mundus Network UMN
It is used also for a space jump or ultra high-speed communication
* Development
The organization that developed the UMN is Vector Industries. That development had already been started at the end of the 21st century. It was necessary to run from the area shift (strange attractor) that was caused by the Zohar discovered at lake Turkana and after escaping the Earth the development was continued on the immigrant (this word can also mean emigrant) fleet and the initial stages of the UMN were planned.
The sponsor of the project to excavate the Zohar on Earth was Vector Industries. Also, the UMN development that was started after that was also backed by Vector Industries. This is not a mere coincidence. The purpose of developing the UMN in the first place was the control and management of the Zohar. That was a connection with an extraordinary existence that was able to cause a strange attractor and wishful objective to control the power that surpassed human knowledge.
However, that is a story that is already 4000 in the past and it is not certain how similar the current day UMN is to the original plans and objectives.
* Management
Just as the proper name "Unus Mundus Network" shows, the current UMN is recognized by people as a vast information network connecting all of outer space and in reality is being used with that as the central function. It is also used for space jumps and high speed communication and has become essential infrastructure to the people's lives. The administration and management is done by the Galaxy Federation Government.
The name "Unus Mundus" is a word with the meaning "transcendental higher order structure" that was proposed by a psychologists several thousand years ago.
Whatever was the original meaning as it was used by the psychologist, the network structure that makes possible gate jumps that are the law of hyperspace ships and matter transfer could be interpreted as a "transcendental higher order structure." This network releases people from the binds of time and space and makes it possible to expand through the enormous area outer space while sharing the same general concept of space and time (uncertain on translation). This sharing of the same general concept of space and time is essential for organizing the cooperative body. Without this feeling of sharing (joint ownership?) it could not be "One World."
Because they mutually has the general concept of one world, they are able to organize a government called the Galaxy Federation. Because of this meaning, the value of the UMN is not limited to merely a useful piece of infrastructure.
* Hyperspace
The special space that ships pass through when they gate jump is called hyperspace and is seen as a sparkling tube. Ships in the middle of a gate jump fly through the hyperspace tube. The inner walls of the tube are called the border and the phenomena of an outbreak of extreme temperatures upon contact has been confirmed. What kind of thing is the border? Is it an existence like a membrane that separates the space outside and inside the tube or is it like the surface of the water separating the water and the air. Also, due to the extreme amounts of radiation floating around in hyperspace, entering without wearing a spacesuit means certain death. Because of this it is difficult to guess about the condition inside hyperspace. Recognizing and using something and understanding something are separate problems.
In any case, excluding hyperspace (unsure of translation), in order to gate jump it is necessary to use the UMN. Columns are the areas that become the entrance/exit for gate jumps and entering and exiting hyperspace is usually only possible within the effective range of the columns. However, both cases in which the Gnosis ignore the effective range of the columns and appear from hyperspace at arbitrary locations and instances of interference from outside of hyperspace dragging out ships in flight have been confirmed.
From this fact it is apparent that the UMN columns and the entrances/exits to hyperspace are not absolutely linked. It is just that with human technology the columns are used as an entrance/exit to hyperspace and if we had the abilities of the Gnosis the columns would be irrelevant.
Also, when you gate-jump, you are charged a transportation fee, but this is a construction that charges you for use of the columns. There is a specific tax amount and the fee changes depending on the distance between the entrance and exit of the column and cargo. The fees are used as government UMN management expenditures. However, high government officials are exempt from these usage fees, a fact which has caused many users to raise voices of discontent. Also, they are searching for a politician that can change that situation.
* Access Point
In order to upload data it is necessary to use an access point. If it is a normal access to the UMN you can do it with the connection gear without choosing a place. However, when performing a special function one must use an access point. For example, that is when one is automatically uploading a record of one's own actions to the UMN or playing various games or even diving into an encephalon reconstruction of a place that one has visited in the past.
All of them require a special program download and the power to import and export a huge amount of data in an instant. In particular, one cannot omit using the access point when importing and exporting information of past experiences.
There are artificially established access points and then there are things like tears in the structure of the network that are cases of the OS originally establishing an access point in the real world. It is not as if access points have a physical device, but rather they display the coordinates of a place where by using the connection gear one can deeply link to the UMN. A hologram of a golden plate appears as a landmark in these places.
The access points that are originally produced by the UMN OS can arise even in establishments that are not currently in use such as the interior of the Song of Nephilim device or Proto Merkabah. Shion and the others have escaped danger countless times by using these kind of operations. Interpreting whether that condition is a coincidence or a probability in terms of a philosophical proposition it is not fit for an observer.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.44578%
The Clause About The URTV
The Performance of U.R.T.V.
U.R.T.V. is the existence wavelength of U-DO
* Reason for Existence
U.R.T.V. is an abbreviation of "U-Do Retro Virus", and can also be called "U-Retro Virus". They are organic weapons, Yuriev Institute model, that possess the anti-existence wavelength of U-Do, and were produced by the late Professor Dimitri Yuriev.
As for the reason for existence of URTV, the point is that they are in a connection of anti-existence with U-Do. Namely, if U-Do no longer exists, then it becomes that the URTVs' reason for existence, too, is extinguished. Someone who acts to build counter-power cannot establish his own existence without first there being a power against which he must fight. An anti-existence who doesn't have an existence to "anti-" does not obtain existence. Surely this is also the same as the connection between URTVs and U-Do.
The URTVs, who were produced for the sake of searching for the possibility of eliminating U-Do, will eliminate their own personal reason for existence when the time comes that U-Do is eliminated.
Presently, the condition is that U-Do is sealed, and the significance that the URTVs still exist, that they have not disappeared, is not lost. While the meaning remains that they [still] exist in the world, with U-Do being sealed, it is necessary to [still] watch over that for the sake of protecting the world from the threat of U-Do.
This is a typical connection seen also in many legends that remain in the world: the existence of the threat that leads the world to collapse, and the existence that seals it away. There is not complete destruction of one side by the other-- it is a connection that maintains a miraculous balance between crisis and peace. At the present time, U-Do and URTV are maintaining that kind of perfect balance. However, there exists a URTV who may violate that equilibrium. Having linked with U-Do, the one who is located at the midway point between the two, is Albedo.
When the unleashing of U-Do occurred on Miltia 14 years ago, Albedo received a surge of U-Do, which caused a severe change in his emotional state.
He was an existence that was called "anti- U-Do", and because he had received U-Do, he lost the reason for existence that URTVs have. For someone who has lost the significance of his own existence, what must he do? Only by seeking a new significance can he affirm himself.
For better or worse, both U-Do and then Miltia were sealed away, and it became impossible for Albedo to re-contact U-Do. To that end, it is considered that Albedo established his own reason for existence-- to seek a re-linking to U-Do.
Just as it is considered that Jr's and Gaignun's reasons for existence are to continue to keep U-Do sealed, it is considered that Albedo's reason for existence is to accomplish a second linking with an awakened U-Do. In Jr and Gaignun's on-going purpose to "continue to seal", there is not an end. However, in Albedo, who makes his purpose the instantaneous event of "allowing [U-Do] to awaken, and linking", his reason for existence has no continuity. After accomplishing that goal, He must again search for a new goal in order to affirm his own existence.
Even in humans, it is discovered that there are many people who lose sight of the connection of the goal with the means, causing empty behavior like Albedo's.
Someone who made his purpose to enroll into Borromeo University, after accomplishing the instantaneous goal of enrolling, at the destination of year's end, there is the situation that he lives without purpose. [Awkward]: Putting himself in the exterior of the social system for the sake of groping for a way of life of becoming himself, he is also someone who keeps living positively while developing a robot that no one has seen.
Where does he discover his own reason for existence? Due to that, the behavior of that individual changes dramatically.
* Performance
If there is no comprehension of the meaning of the existence called "U-Do", then there can be no comprehension of the essence of URTV, who are anti-existences. Thus, with the state in which the existence of U-Do is not becoming clear, it is impossible to have true understanding.
However, we are able to know the URTV performance from Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
#669, Gaignun, possesses suggestive ability that controls the thoughts of another person.
#667, Albedo, possesses regenerative ability of bodily tissue, i.e. the power of absolute resistance to damage of the flesh.
#666, Jr, is performing the suppression of physical growth and can even be said to suspend time with his own will. Also, Jr is considered to be playing the role of central connecter that psychically ties together his other fellow URTVs. The reasoning for this is that, on Miltia 14 years ago, because Jr became terrified by U-Do's fury and rejected the mental link, which caused the other URTVs to become completely chaotic.
It is possible to consider that the ability of these 3 URTVs is the power to fight against death.
The power of perpetual youth, "growth suppression", is a power of immortality that opposes aging; the power of resistance to injury is a power of immortality that opposes violence; and the power of mind control is a power of immortality that opposes memory lapse. Looked at in this way, it can be considered that the ability of URTV is something that searches for the power of immortality.
If URTV is anti-U-Do, and U-Do acts as anti-existence of URTVs who seek the power of immortality, it is possible to guess that U-Do is an existence that possesses the power of death.
So, what kind of thing might the performance of the other URTVs have been?
* 669 URTV bodies
The 3 of them, Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun, each possess unique performance abilities, and are seen with different features like eye color and hair color-- red, white, and black.
However, the other URTVs, who appeared in the scene of Miltia 14 years ago that was reconstructed in the encephalon dive, being perhaps like the mass-production model, all had yellow hair uniformly.
Because of that, is it perhaps that there doesn't exist a difference in ability [among the other URTVs]?
It is considered to be a possibility that the scene reconstructed in the encephalon dive was something that was not entirely accurate. Although it is something that was based on information from Jr's memory, a person's memory melts away except for the important portions. In other words, the important memory in Jr was something concerning Gaignun and Albedo, as well as U-Do, and it is possible to explain that the individuality of each of the other URTVs was considered to be unimportant.
* The Reason for 669 bodies
Why weren't 670 units produced? If we are to consider that, it is necessary to know if there was some kind of performance made especially for URTVs in the 660's place(*).
(* I'm a little confused here. This can also be translated as "unit #660", but that doesn't make sense to me at all, so I'm making a bit of a guess that it means generally the span of numbers from 660 to 669.)
For the result that continued to search for the possibility of acting as anti-existence of U-Do, it is considered that the solution that Professor Dimitri Yuriev arrived at after a long struggle was in the 660's place.
If we assume there is a form that was completed to perform as anti-U-Do in the URTV ability possessed by Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun, whatever kind of thing might that be? What might be said of whatever kind of meaning is in growth suppression and mental linking of the other URTVs? Due to insufficient information, at this point in time it is difficult to make a guess about these things.
Unchanging probability of corresponding phenomena...85.36480%
The Number on the Palm of URTV
The turn of the manufacture and the ability which each has
* Manufacturer's serial number
A number has been engraved on the palm of the hand of the URTVs. This is a symbol that indicates each individual URTV, and is something that won't disappear all life long.
Even though Rubedo, Albedo, and Nigredo were each given their particular names, it is considered that numbers were used for management purposes. From the manufacturer's point of view, because many experimental units needed to be observed, numbers were used to ensure proper management. Though names were decided upon from the hair and iris color of each, perhaps it is something that did not go beyond being used for convenience.
It is also considered that these names, "Rubedo", "Albedo", and "Nigredo", were something that was given by the manufacturer. Helmer of the 2nd Miltian Autonomous Government called Gaignun, "Nigredo", and he responded by saying that it is a name he finds unfavorable.
Isn't it perhaps that Gaignun reacts to it as something unfavorable for the very reason that it is a name that was given during the period of URTV experimental units?
And Albedo freely makes use of his given name for the sake of "affirmatively" grasping the acceptance of the essence of being a URTV.
Again, to begin with, Gaignun and Jr have altered their names because it is important to them to hide the fact that they are URTV in the public eye. But there is not the necessity for such an action for Albedo.
* Manufactured turn number
All together, there were 669 units manufactured, and each were engraved in the order they were manufactured starting from #1. In other words, the persons with the smaller numbers are said to be from the early [stages] of manufacturing. There is almost no mistaking the understanding of this, also because of the words that Gaignun said towards Jr: "It's because you're more of an adult than me." {"older than me"}
As for this manufacturing time-gap [between each unit], an accurate time span cannot be measured. However, on Miltia of 14 years ago, many URTVs were possessing an outward appearance of identical age, and furthermore, taking into account that the URTVs, with the exception of Jr, are [currently] nearly identical in physical development, it is considered that they came to develop and were produced in the same time frame.
Being that the URTVs are mutants who were produced and manufactured from the genes of the late Professor Dimitri Yuriev, and that 669 embryos were created at the same time and each given distinctive treatment, the question of whether or not supplemental treatment was included during the growth process according to necessity is being considered. Therefore, isn't it perhaps best to consider that there is almost no difference in the ages between the numbers?
* The Whereabouts of #668
Presently, the names and numbers of only three units can be specified: #666 Jr, #667 Albedo, and #669 Gaignun. As for the other URTVs, after the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago, the survival as well as the whereabouts of them cannot be confirmed, and it is unknown whether or not they were all completely eliminated or if there also exists an individual that still survives.
It is unknown what kind of features and what kind of performance was possessed by the URTVs with numbers previous to Jr's #666. It is not clear if they had prominent features like there was in Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
Because they were experimental bodies, it is difficult to consider that all of them could acquire prominent ability. At the end of many failures and trials and error, the experiments yielded only a small quantity; but this is because [they yielded] something that holds qualitatively big results. Therefore, URTVs with latter serial numbers who possess abilities that excelled [over the others] were born, and it is considered that there were no big results worth mentioning from the ones in the early numbers.
Because Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun-- who posses numbers before and after #668 -- have extremely distinct performance ability, it is guessed that #668 is also a special existence in the same way. However, at the present stage, news of that is unknown. Even beyond the fact that it is also unknown even if they had direct influence or not in the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago, absolutely everything is puzzling as is.
There is no missing number in the URTVs' manufacturer's serial numbers. Therefore, the URTV who possesses the number 668 certainly must have existed. Whatever kind of ability could the person possess who was made in between Albedo and Gaignun? In between the physical immortality possessed by Albedo, and the mental immortality possessed by Gaignun, whatever kind of ability could have developed?
If the ability of URTV is a surge of anti-existence of U-Do, [the ability of #668] shall be considered to have the possibility that it should transcend death, which is in common with Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...86.56321%
Unlimited Telomerase
It means repetition of life and death
* Telomerase
It is written as Telomerase. Telomerase is the enzyme that repairs telomere DNA, which is the simple arrangement of nucleotides at the end of a chromosome. Telomere DNA becomes shorter during cell division and when it reaches a fixed length, the cells stop dividing and multiplication becomes impossible. In other words, this means that those cells do not regenerate and start to die. In regards to reproductive cells and cancer cells, this telomerase activity works repairing telomere DNA that has been shortened by division, making it possible to repeat division many times. In other words, one can say that telomerase has the effect of making cells immortal. The cells in which telomerase activity can infinitely repeat are reproductive cells and cancer cells. Because cancer cells can infinitely repeat cell division due to telomerase activity, it becomes and existence that overwhelms other internal organs and eventually arrives at a state where life preserving mechanisms have been lost. The word unlimited telomerase means eternally repeating chain of decay and regeneration. That is the repetition of death and life, which means immortality.
* Albedo's immortality
Regenerative medicine has been sought out for thousands of years. The restoration of lost internal organs. Albedo has increased his regenerative abilities to the utmost limits.
Transcending the frequency limit of cell division at speeds which are impossible even for modern day nanomachines, it is a threatening immortality that can regenerate even the head. That is his unique ability as a URTV and, at the present stage it is a domain that cannot be realized by any other technology.
For that sort of immortal existence, pain stops being a sensation that causes fear. Pain is a signal caused by an injury that warns of a status heading toward death. The status of life must depend on the functions of the body. The body, which must preserve these activities, sends a stimulus called pain to the brain in response to injury and communicates the dangerous circumstances. A consciousness that is attached to life recognizes pain as something to avoid and hate. This is the reason that humans hate pain and try to run from situations that cause pain.
One could say that this is proof of being alive. Feeling pain means that one is getting closer to death and it is also the status that allows one to really feel that one is alive. Of course, because it is accompanied by feelings of danger and repugnance, it is a sensation of life that has a negative meaning.
However, Albedo, who does not approach death due to injury to the body, does not get a feeling of danger from pain and therefore does not hate it. Pain without embracing a hatred of it is a pure proof of life.
Humans seek pleasure. This is because that is also a proof of life. Pleasure is a stimulus to the body in the same way that pain is, it is information of the body that is sent to the brain, and it is proof of life.
Albedo does not embrace hatred in response to pain. In this case, pain comes to have the same meaning as pleasure. One can think of Albedo's words that say "isn't this a pleasant pain?" as being rooted in the immortality of he who can take pain "that can go through his confrontational relationship with Jr." as pleasure.
* Suppression of growth and immortality
It has been said that the eternal wish of mankind is perpetual youth and immortality. The danger of death increases with old age. As the years add up, the telomeres of the cells grow shorter and regenerative power declines. One can recognize that this is a decline in the power to recover. As a consequence of sensing this deterioration of the body, people fear aging and the circumstances of increased possibility of death. That is the hatred directed toward the increase in danger of a slow, systematic decay, which is different from the dangerous circumstances that accompany the pain of a direct, large-scale injury to the body.
Eternal youth that does not accompany immortality, depending on the effectiveness of suppressing the decline of restorative powers, means a state in which it is possible to pass time without getting closer to death. However, death will come in the event that due to a sudden occurrence injuries are received at a level that cannot regenerate. In immortality that does not accompany eternal youth, one grows, in other words ages, but in response to injuries one has complete restorative powers. If one thinks of aging as injuries to the cells, although changes occur during the developmental growth period, at the stage of preserving the completed body, any further changes, in other words aging, will not occur. If that is the case, one discovers the possibility that it possesses the elements of eternal youth after all. If one assumes that aging occurs due to destruction of cells, using a general interpretation, shouldn't Albedo, whose cells have become immortal due to telomerase activity, also be able to actualize eternal youth? What kind of difference is there in the fact that Jr.'s growth has been suppressed at the state of 14 years old and Albedo's body has grown to be 28 years old? Hereafter, it is necessary to observe to see whether or not Albedo's body changes as he continues to add on years.
Do the U.R.T.V.s have a secret that surpasses the categories of general interpretation? As long as the abilities of the U.R.T.V.s are not completely explained, the problem is for us to make it clear hereafter with our observations.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.16491%
Jr.
His mind wavers between the steadiness and the non-steadiness
* Individual attributes
Gender: male
Birthdate: publicly, T.C. 4755, age 12
Height: 140cm {~4'7"}
Weight: 38kg {~84lbs}
* Affiliation
A Representative Director of the Kukai Foundation
* Enneagram type
According to Enneagram personality classification, Jr, in his connection to people, is classified with a type-8 characteristic (brave, greatly self-confident, coercive, confrontational).
By improving everything through self-power, possessing courage, and with a strength of will appealing to his surroundings, a type-8 is a personality that can take up leadership. Because he takes command of the Durandal, always stands at the front line of battle, and also because of an attitude that seems to rise above hardship, he is proven to be of this type. Behaving egocentrically and holding influential power over his surroundings, in time he overwhelms other people.
When in a healthy state, there is no existence that becomes more reliable than him. Contrary to his bodily youth, he was supported by a sturdy mental power and an unwavering self-confidence because he demonstrates constructive leadership ability.
However, being exposed to great stress, when his disposition appears to be at an unhealthy state, people around him begin to catch a glimpse of the figure of a tyrant there. It is due to the aggression that is within his own nature becoming prominent.
A type-8 has the tendency to try to rule over his circumstances. When healthy, this is ground in positive thought, and what materializes is leadership in order to improve his circumstances. However, when unhealthy, in order to conquer absolutely everything, what materializes is aggressive conduct.
Because of Jr's speech and conduct regarding the Kukai Foundation, it can be inferred that he is in a healthy state. However, as for Jr's speech and conduct at the time of the vicarious experience of the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago through the Encephalon, and at the time of contact with Albedo, it is distinctly indicating an unhealthy state.
Showing both physical and mental bravery, the figure of a heroic Jr, who runs head-on into danger for the sake of something he believes, is not entirely seen as being in an unhealthy state. For the sake of protecting himself, he is extremely aggressive and is driven by a destructive impulse.
At the time of the Encephalon dive, Jr's attitude, towards Momo who worries and Ziggy who tries to grasp the situation, is aggressive yet dominant, and it brandishes{?} his surroundings according to selfish behavior. Also, when he tried to release power due to Albedo's provocation, a merciless, savage aggression appeared as if a binding had been disconnected.
In this way, Jr is in an unstable state, wavering between healthiness and unhealthiness. This is considered to be something that was caused by the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago.
* Old-style gun
Jr's weapon of choice is an old-style gun. {I'm not sure if I have these next two sentences backwards:} In the practical modern era of laser weapons, it is an old-fashioned weapon that would [normally] be exhibited in a museum. In the U-TIC Organization, too, guns of the type that use gunpowder are being provided, and there is the opinion regarding the practicality of old-fashioned weapons.
Whether it's a gunpowder-system or not doesn't matter; it must be called a "firing system", for Jr prefers a weapon that shoots the aggressive power from his skill towards the target. It is neither bodily contact nor a shredding-like attack; it is a preference for the image that channels aggressive power.
It was Jr's imagination that controlled the firing of the heavily armed warship Durandal's main battery. Also, the old-style gun, too, is fired according to Jr's imagination, and exhibits aggressive power that far exceeds a bullet that is physically shot. This is considered to bolster the image of Jr's own aggressive ability which is given to his opponents by the use of a "firing system" weapon. In other words, direct damage is given by Jr's released aggressive surge, but in order to channel that surge into an opponent, a gun-like impetus {proxy tool} is essential.
For the sake of promoting imagination by means of a tool, it is necessary to make use of preferred tools. The more he is engaged by making use of a tool that he finds deeply interesting, compared to having used a tool that didn't suit his feelings, the image he promotes will not come to the point of being questioned.
Precisely because of this, Jr transforms that aggressive power by using a tool only as a substitute. Also because of this such thing, it is possible to infer the intimate connection between his imagination and the tool.
* U.R.T.V.
Jr is a URTV, the same as Gaignun and Albedo. However, that fact is not being divulged to the public. The frenzy of the URTVs during the Miltian Conflict has instilled in the heart of every person a distrust, a fear towards the URTVs themselves. It is a past that is difficult to wipe clean. Therefore, Jr changed his name and had to conceal his origins.
Also being within the group called the Kukai Foundation [which was established] for mutants and by the hand of mutants who are the victims of the Life Recycling Act, he must conceal his true nature. The "incident" that occurred on Miltia of 14 years ago was something that impacts society even up to that degree.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.15987%
Albedo Piazzolla
The behavior filled with his insanity cuts others into pieces without mercy
* Individual Attributes
Gender: male
Birthdate: T.C. 4741, age 26
Height: 190cm {~6'3"}
* Affiliation
None.
* Enneagram Type
According to Enneagram personality assessment, Albedo, in his connection to people, is classified with a type-8 characteristic (brave, greatly self-confident, coercive, confrontational). This is the same type as Jr and Gaignun, but Albedo's state is an extremely unhealthy one.
The utmost unhealthy type-8, one that is also a common human, imagines that he himself is an existence of an immortal body, all-knowing and all-powerful. For someone who harbors delusions of grandeur to the point of being maximally abnormal such as this, if he is not actually omnipotent, then he does not have an immortal body. However, Albedo is in fact correctly omnipotent with regards to injury of the flesh, and his is an immortal body.
He stands on top of this omnipotent power, and mercilessly strikes others. Because he does not feel limited by his own self being destroyed, there is no hesitation of any kind in the actions that this gives to another person. {iffy}: Also, not being given himself, taking as special privilege the current state of the point-of-view that it gives, he is convinced that he is super-human.
If it is a common human, those things do not go past mere delusion, and there is an instant that he senses the terror of actual death. For that reason, he tries to destroy before being destroyed, and it proactively causes behavior. A healthy type-8 proactively exerts a constructive influence on his surroundings, but likewise in a completely opposite way, an unhealthy type-8 proactively exerts a destructive influence on his surroundings.
But, because Albedo is a true immortal body, there is no sense of the impending crisis of being destroyed. Therein lies the weakness to his proactivity. He is in an alliance-like relationship with the U-TIC Organization, but that does not go beyond the part where advantages & disadvantages coincide. He does not aim to do the will of another person. He joins hands with others only for the sake of his own purposes, there is no pushing forward, and because he is immortal, there is not the necessity to feel limited by time, and the result is that proactivity is lacking. And thus, he enjoys the movement of every person as a bystander, and he lowers a destructive hand on a whim. And then, seeing a chance to allow the achievement of his own purposes, he is roused to action. However, that little bit of action, being desperate for others, becomes something that is destructive.
For him, the sole essential need is in once again linking with U-Do. For that sake he will sacrifice everything. If the world does not become for the sake of his own heart, he may even go so far as to try to destroy that which is the world.
* Albedo's Craft
It has a similarity to an AGWS, but its functions are vastly different. Also, AGWS are powered-suits nearer in sense to equipping more than boarding, and it is for a single-person pilot. But, Albedo's craft is being ridden by two people, including the Kirschwasser. Also, absorbing the Kirschwasser, it automates the maneuver control ability, etc, through that function, and the design is not considered a usual mechanism. No records remain about a craft such as this being developed, neither in Vector Industries, nor in Hyams Heavy Industries. Nonetheless, Albedo must not have developed the craft by himself. Is there some 3rd party? Or was it a development of a classified level such that there doesn't even remain a record at all?
As for now, no craft of its equal has been confirmed, and only Albedo has possession. Though entering and leaving the U-TIC Organization, because it does not seem that U-TIC investigates or is developing that craft, there is the possibility that no one but Albedo can operate it.
As for that, does the fact that he's a URTV become the primary factor? Or is it essential to have linked with U-Do? If it is the former, it is perhaps possible that Gaignun and Jr, too, can fly it. However, if it is the latter, for now, of all the people who exist in this world, Albedo becomes the sole operator.
* URTV
Albedo is a URTV, the same as Jr and Gaignun. Being that it was Jr who acted as the cause of the frenzy of the URTVs during the Miltian conflict of 14 years ago, he searches for atonement from Jr. Also, in that case, for the sake of affirming himself of the present that resulted from having linked with U-Do, he denies and tries to destroy everything that related to himself from before.
From Albedo's perspective, the URTVs who were not linked with U-Do are existences who lacked something fundamental. As a woman is missing a man, as a man is missing a woman, like if Yin and Yang were to unite, the linking of URTV and U-Do is considered to become an androgynous, completed body.
This sense also is becoming the basis from which he considers himself to be omnipotent. The URTVs, with the exception of himself, are not complete, and those other than URTV cannot even become incomplete existences; they are nothing but things unworthy of mention.
It is Albedo who persistently aimed for Momo, but because the reason for that was that useful worth is recognized in Momo, once the use is finished, perhaps he will destroy without raising an eyebrow.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...81.66666%
Gaignun Kookai
He is a representative director of Kookai-Foundation
* Individual attributes
Gender, male. Born in the year T.C. 4741, 26 years old. Height, 188 cm.
* Affiliation
Kookai Foundation representative director.
* Enneagram type
According to the Enneagram personality analysis, Gaignun is classified as a type 8 (gallant / confident in himself / coercive / confrontational).
Type 8s have self-control, are broad-minded and have great confidence in themselves; there are many cases of them making names for themselves in history as entrepreneurs. Also, when they are extremely healthy, there is a chance that they may even be called a hero and leave behind their name in history. As the representative director of the Kookai Foundation, Gaignun's ability to preserve the juridical foundation and cause rapid growth until he possesses the greatest share in the world of business for each of the sectors of the Foundation's amusement, environment, and industry depends greatly on his personality type (this sentence is confusing). Also, his ability as a U.R.T.V. is the power to control other people. His personality type and this ability have many common features. Comparing a case in which a person with an introverted personality has the same ability and a case in which a type 8 like him has this power, a surprising difference in the effectiveness is generated when the power is used. He is a leader by nature and excels in the ability to motivate others to do things; he suppresses his self-assertiveness and has the ability to control the actions of others while convincing them that they are acting freely of their own will. He controls his own emotions and, without controlling his opponent, conversely he makes them feel his strength. He uses his power to make his opponent submit and, rather than ruling by twisting people's arms, he governs leniently.
Even if he finds himself in a dilemma, he does not become disconcerted. His manner that makes you think he has complete control over himself has a very strong charisma. Not only does he walk down a path that he believes in and have plenty of necessary courage, he also displays it, leads people, he has the respect of people, and is regarded as a hero. Even if he is unable to realize the ideals that he is aiming for within the span of his own life, the people who inherit his will will carry out his ideals and he will survive in history. As an idea, this represents the possibility of surviving longer and suggests one possibility of the conquest of death. In order to protect his own health, he must not surrender to anyone. When type 8s feel that fear, they become self-reliant and protect themselves by overwhelming others.
* Representative director
Gaignun completely runs the business side of the Kookai Foundation; he leaves the practical side of things like the retrieval of the Zohar Emulators to Jr. and concentrates on providing logistical support. Being involved in the abyss of the world (?), as long as it is something that can have a big influence on society, it cannot be accomplished with just military might. With that meaning, military power and political power should be talked about as being of the same importance. In addition, political power needs military power and military power needs political power. Gaignun and Jr. are in this kind of relationship. With both of their powers combined it becomes possible for them to preserve the plan for the present condition of the Kookai Foundation. If one side was lacking, the preservation of the Foundation would be difficult.
* Alias
Gaignun Kookai. This name is the alias he uses in order to not use his U.R.T.V. name and also to persuade the public in his role as the director of the Kookai Foundation.
In the first place, "Kookai" is the name of a fictional entrepreneur that was fabricated by the Miltian autonomous government in order to pool loans for special activities, and is not the name of a person that actually exists. As the inheritor of the assets of the fictional person, Gaignun took on the surname Kookai.
Treating Jr. like an adopted child was a desperate measure to get others to understand the difference in age that was caused by Jr.'s U.R.T.V. powers while still entering his name as a representative director. More importantly, if Jr. had not been able to get actual results in the task of retrieving the Zohar Emulators, they would not have been able to give the job of representative director to a child who only looks about 12 years old, regardless of the fact that he is an adopted child.
There has been much speculation about Jr. and Gaignun's relationship. Because of their economic activities involving the entertainment and tourism industry (unknown phrase), Gaignun has attracted a lot of attention as an entrepreneur and, as to be expected, there has been some scandalous gossip. However, for those who face phenomena that are related to the fate of the world, scandals have about as much influence as a mosquito bite. Political power that can be blown away with a (???) scandal was only about that powerful from the beginning. Just as Gaignun and Jr. have two names, the Kookai Foundation also has an official face and a hidden side. The Kookai Foundation's true objective is contained in its real name.*
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.99866%
The Clause About The Culture
Memory
The joint ownership and the vicarious experience of the memory
* Shared memory and vicarious experience
What occurred during the encephalon dive into KOS-MOS's mainframe was a reconstruction phenomenon of the memory of the divers.
The reconstructed shared "memory" actualized from the memory donors (Shion, Momo, and Jr), as well as the bystanders (Allen, chaos, and Ziggy). However, it was not something that involved emotion.
Memory, in effect, is subjective story-like information of the personal experience of the person, himself. The reconstruction of the "memory" that occurred during the encephalon dive, in a strict sense is not said to be a "shared memory"; it does not go beyond "vicarious experience of a situation".
What became the setting of the vicarious experience was something that the memory donors had in common-- Miltia of 14 years ago.
From Shion's memory came the scene of the interaction with her father in front of the Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility. And then the scene in the interior of the facility where Realians fused together as if eating each other. From Jr's memory came the scene of the wild running of the URTVs in the Miltian Conflict. Including the appearance of Gaignun and Albedo of that time. From Momo's memory came the scene of the end of Professor Joachim Mizrahi at the U-TIC Organization's central tower, Labyrinthos.
The memory donors, as well as the bystanders, vicariously experienced these scenes as if they were some incident that unfolded before their eyes, while maintaining their present consciousness as is. The memory donors' sensations of that time are not transmitted in whole-- it is an objective scene where only the stage was reconstructed.
The "shared memory", which was exchanged between Shion and Andrew who was on the verge of death, is something that actualizes only because of the sharing of emotional experience that accompanies feelings.
It is a personal experience that is shaken by emotion. When sharing the memory of that experience, one does not view the personal experience objectively; instead, one reacts to it subjectively. Even if that is also something that differs from his own emotion, he is dragged into the emotion of the [original] experience-er. Thus is shared memory.
That means, the shared memory from the technology of the encephalon dive is said to be something that does not match up to the synchronous communication between Shion and Andrew. But, regarding the vicarious experience of the memory, it is something that has a high degree of freedom, being extremely real.
* A heart that rejects the past
Lost recollections, or those that merely do not rise above the surface of the consciousness, are not concluded to have disappeared.
This can be explained by the memory lapse system of the human brain. The three stages of memory are: learning input, "memorization"; remembering, "retention"; and thought extraction, "recall". The matter that is concerned with memorization are the perception neurons, which become the entrance for information. The matter that is concerned with retention is the hippocampus. The matter that is concerned with recall is the frontal lobe. About the function and role of each [stage], they are continually being brought to light. However, in the case of memory lapse, which stage, which portion is it that indicates a non-functioning state?
As for the current state of the memory that is sealed and asleep at the bottom of Shion's heart, it is considered that the problem lies in the affore-mentioned "recall" stage. Evidenced by her memories that were extracted due to the encephalon dive along with the memory that was recalled with the flashback, there is no doubt that there was being "retention".
Memory that is retained over a long period of time is called long-term memory. Short-term memory that is supplied by the cerebral cortex, similar to how it is recorded in computer RAM, is in a temporary storage state, and vanishes when the power is cut. Meanwhile, long-term memory that is supplied by the hippocampus, similar to how it is recorded on a harddisk, can continue to be retained indefinitely.
The reason for the failure in recall of these long-term memories is the following two possibilities. The first possibility is "failure of memory retrieval". It is the so-called, "having been forgotten". For some reason or another, when the brain is in a state where it cannot retrieve memory, this phenomenon comes forth. The second possibility is "suppression". {rephrased for clarity, may be somewhat incorrect}: According to Freud's theory, it is disadvantageous and even harmful to oneself when he acts completely such that he refuses to actualize all the things that he doesn't want to remember, the things that chase after him in his subconscious. Due to this, he diminishes his futile psychological toil, and attempts to bring about mental efficiency. It is a way of thinking that perceives psychology economically. Shion's case is expected to have a high possibility that it is the latter case of "suppression".
* Kirschwasser memory
The memory of the Kirschwassers, which was received by Momo, was not a real image from within the memory that the Kirschwassers personally witnessed. It is considered that the images were something visualized by Momo for the sake of recognizing the personal experience of the Kirschwassers. The reason for this is because the Kirschwassers themselves, who were the personal experience vessels of that memory, were also appearing in the memory image.
The Kirschwassers, Momo, and the 100-series cross-observational Realians are existences that possess a single psychological domain. Individual terminals carry out the experience of a particular case and upload them to a mainframe, and this making-into-joint-ownership preserves the data by way of possible states. For the sake of recognizing the information that was uploaded, an individual terminal gives processing treatment within the brain into a form that is easy to comprehend. The influx of memory information from the Kirschwassers to Momo is not something that passed through the mainframe, but is a concatenation of a fellow terminal. For the sake of recognizing and understanding the information that came from the influx, it wasn't a reproduction of a pure memory image-- it is considered that Momo reconstructed the information through a form that included a remnant of the memory subject.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.45566%
The Clause About The Infrastructure
Unus Mundus Network UMN
It is used also for a space jump or ultra high-speed communication
* Development
The organization that developed the UMN is Vector Industries. That development had already been started at the end of the 21st century. It was necessary to run from the area shift (strange attractor) that was caused by the Zohar discovered at lake Turkana and after escaping the Earth the development was continued on the immigrant (this word can also mean emigrant) fleet and the initial stages of the UMN were planned.
The sponsor of the project to excavate the Zohar on Earth was Vector Industries. Also, the UMN development that was started after that was also backed by Vector Industries. This is not a mere coincidence. The purpose of developing the UMN in the first place was the control and management of the Zohar. That was a connection with an extraordinary existence that was able to cause a strange attractor and wishful objective to control the power that surpassed human knowledge.
However, that is a story that is already 4000 in the past and it is not certain how similar the current day UMN is to the original plans and objectives.
* Management
Just as the proper name "Unus Mundus Network" shows, the current UMN is recognized by people as a vast information network connecting all of outer space and in reality is being used with that as the central function. It is also used for space jumps and high speed communication and has become essential infrastructure to the people's lives. The administration and management is done by the Galaxy Federation Government.
The name "Unus Mundus" is a word with the meaning "transcendental higher order structure" that was proposed by a psychologists several thousand years ago.
Whatever was the original meaning as it was used by the psychologist, the network structure that makes possible gate jumps that are the law of hyperspace ships and matter transfer could be interpreted as a "transcendental higher order structure." This network releases people from the binds of time and space and makes it possible to expand through the enormous area outer space while sharing the same general concept of space and time (uncertain on translation). This sharing of the same general concept of space and time is essential for organizing the cooperative body. Without this feeling of sharing (joint ownership?) it could not be "One World."
Because they mutually has the general concept of one world, they are able to organize a government called the Galaxy Federation. Because of this meaning, the value of the UMN is not limited to merely a useful piece of infrastructure.
* Hyperspace
The special space that ships pass through when they gate jump is called hyperspace and is seen as a sparkling tube. Ships in the middle of a gate jump fly through the hyperspace tube. The inner walls of the tube are called the border and the phenomena of an outbreak of extreme temperatures upon contact has been confirmed. What kind of thing is the border? Is it an existence like a membrane that separates the space outside and inside the tube or is it like the surface of the water separating the water and the air. Also, due to the extreme amounts of radiation floating around in hyperspace, entering without wearing a spacesuit means certain death. Because of this it is difficult to guess about the condition inside hyperspace. Recognizing and using something and understanding something are separate problems.
In any case, excluding hyperspace (unsure of translation), in order to gate jump it is necessary to use the UMN. Columns are the areas that become the entrance/exit for gate jumps and entering and exiting hyperspace is usually only possible within the effective range of the columns. However, both cases in which the Gnosis ignore the effective range of the columns and appear from hyperspace at arbitrary locations and instances of interference from outside of hyperspace dragging out ships in flight have been confirmed.
From this fact it is apparent that the UMN columns and the entrances/exits to hyperspace are not absolutely linked. It is just that with human technology the columns are used as an entrance/exit to hyperspace and if we had the abilities of the Gnosis the columns would be irrelevant.
Also, when you gate-jump, you are charged a transportation fee, but this is a construction that charges you for use of the columns. There is a specific tax amount and the fee changes depending on the distance between the entrance and exit of the column and cargo. The fees are used as government UMN management expenditures. However, high government officials are exempt from these usage fees, a fact which has caused many users to raise voices of discontent. Also, they are searching for a politician that can change that situation.
* Access Point
In order to upload data it is necessary to use an access point. If it is a normal access to the UMN you can do it with the connection gear without choosing a place. However, when performing a special function one must use an access point. For example, that is when one is automatically uploading a record of one's own actions to the UMN or playing various games or even diving into an encephalon reconstruction of a place that one has visited in the past.
All of them require a special program download and the power to import and export a huge amount of data in an instant. In particular, one cannot omit using the access point when importing and exporting information of past experiences.
There are artificially established access points and then there are things like tears in the structure of the network that are cases of the OS originally establishing an access point in the real world. It is not as if access points have a physical device, but rather they display the coordinates of a place where by using the connection gear one can deeply link to the UMN. A hologram of a golden plate appears as a landmark in these places.
The access points that are originally produced by the UMN OS can arise even in establishments that are not currently in use such as the interior of the Song of Nephilim device or Proto Merkabah. Shion and the others have escaped danger countless times by using these kind of operations. Interpreting whether that condition is a coincidence or a probability in terms of a philosophical proposition it is not fit for an observer.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.44578%
The Clause About The URTV
The Performance of U.R.T.V.
U.R.T.V. is the existence wavelength of U-DO
* Reason for Existence
U.R.T.V. is an abbreviation of "U-Do Retro Virus", and can also be called "U-Retro Virus". They are organic weapons, Yuriev Institute model, that possess the anti-existence wavelength of U-Do, and were produced by the late Professor Dimitri Yuriev.
As for the reason for existence of URTV, the point is that they are in a connection of anti-existence with U-Do. Namely, if U-Do no longer exists, then it becomes that the URTVs' reason for existence, too, is extinguished. Someone who acts to build counter-power cannot establish his own existence without first there being a power against which he must fight. An anti-existence who doesn't have an existence to "anti-" does not obtain existence. Surely this is also the same as the connection between URTVs and U-Do.
The URTVs, who were produced for the sake of searching for the possibility of eliminating U-Do, will eliminate their own personal reason for existence when the time comes that U-Do is eliminated.
Presently, the condition is that U-Do is sealed, and the significance that the URTVs still exist, that they have not disappeared, is not lost. While the meaning remains that they [still] exist in the world, with U-Do being sealed, it is necessary to [still] watch over that for the sake of protecting the world from the threat of U-Do.
This is a typical connection seen also in many legends that remain in the world: the existence of the threat that leads the world to collapse, and the existence that seals it away. There is not complete destruction of one side by the other-- it is a connection that maintains a miraculous balance between crisis and peace. At the present time, U-Do and URTV are maintaining that kind of perfect balance. However, there exists a URTV who may violate that equilibrium. Having linked with U-Do, the one who is located at the midway point between the two, is Albedo.
When the unleashing of U-Do occurred on Miltia 14 years ago, Albedo received a surge of U-Do, which caused a severe change in his emotional state.
He was an existence that was called "anti- U-Do", and because he had received U-Do, he lost the reason for existence that URTVs have. For someone who has lost the significance of his own existence, what must he do? Only by seeking a new significance can he affirm himself.
For better or worse, both U-Do and then Miltia were sealed away, and it became impossible for Albedo to re-contact U-Do. To that end, it is considered that Albedo established his own reason for existence-- to seek a re-linking to U-Do.
Just as it is considered that Jr's and Gaignun's reasons for existence are to continue to keep U-Do sealed, it is considered that Albedo's reason for existence is to accomplish a second linking with an awakened U-Do. In Jr and Gaignun's on-going purpose to "continue to seal", there is not an end. However, in Albedo, who makes his purpose the instantaneous event of "allowing [U-Do] to awaken, and linking", his reason for existence has no continuity. After accomplishing that goal, He must again search for a new goal in order to affirm his own existence.
Even in humans, it is discovered that there are many people who lose sight of the connection of the goal with the means, causing empty behavior like Albedo's.
Someone who made his purpose to enroll into Borromeo University, after accomplishing the instantaneous goal of enrolling, at the destination of year's end, there is the situation that he lives without purpose. [Awkward]: Putting himself in the exterior of the social system for the sake of groping for a way of life of becoming himself, he is also someone who keeps living positively while developing a robot that no one has seen.
Where does he discover his own reason for existence? Due to that, the behavior of that individual changes dramatically.
* Performance
If there is no comprehension of the meaning of the existence called "U-Do", then there can be no comprehension of the essence of URTV, who are anti-existences. Thus, with the state in which the existence of U-Do is not becoming clear, it is impossible to have true understanding.
However, we are able to know the URTV performance from Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
#669, Gaignun, possesses suggestive ability that controls the thoughts of another person.
#667, Albedo, possesses regenerative ability of bodily tissue, i.e. the power of absolute resistance to damage of the flesh.
#666, Jr, is performing the suppression of physical growth and can even be said to suspend time with his own will. Also, Jr is considered to be playing the role of central connecter that psychically ties together his other fellow URTVs. The reasoning for this is that, on Miltia 14 years ago, because Jr became terrified by U-Do's fury and rejected the mental link, which caused the other URTVs to become completely chaotic.
It is possible to consider that the ability of these 3 URTVs is the power to fight against death.
The power of perpetual youth, "growth suppression", is a power of immortality that opposes aging; the power of resistance to injury is a power of immortality that opposes violence; and the power of mind control is a power of immortality that opposes memory lapse. Looked at in this way, it can be considered that the ability of URTV is something that searches for the power of immortality.
If URTV is anti-U-Do, and U-Do acts as anti-existence of URTVs who seek the power of immortality, it is possible to guess that U-Do is an existence that possesses the power of death.
So, what kind of thing might the performance of the other URTVs have been?
* 669 URTV bodies
The 3 of them, Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun, each possess unique performance abilities, and are seen with different features like eye color and hair color-- red, white, and black.
However, the other URTVs, who appeared in the scene of Miltia 14 years ago that was reconstructed in the encephalon dive, being perhaps like the mass-production model, all had yellow hair uniformly.
Because of that, is it perhaps that there doesn't exist a difference in ability [among the other URTVs]?
It is considered to be a possibility that the scene reconstructed in the encephalon dive was something that was not entirely accurate. Although it is something that was based on information from Jr's memory, a person's memory melts away except for the important portions. In other words, the important memory in Jr was something concerning Gaignun and Albedo, as well as U-Do, and it is possible to explain that the individuality of each of the other URTVs was considered to be unimportant.
* The Reason for 669 bodies
Why weren't 670 units produced? If we are to consider that, it is necessary to know if there was some kind of performance made especially for URTVs in the 660's place(*).
(* I'm a little confused here. This can also be translated as "unit #660", but that doesn't make sense to me at all, so I'm making a bit of a guess that it means generally the span of numbers from 660 to 669.)
For the result that continued to search for the possibility of acting as anti-existence of U-Do, it is considered that the solution that Professor Dimitri Yuriev arrived at after a long struggle was in the 660's place.
If we assume there is a form that was completed to perform as anti-U-Do in the URTV ability possessed by Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun, whatever kind of thing might that be? What might be said of whatever kind of meaning is in growth suppression and mental linking of the other URTVs? Due to insufficient information, at this point in time it is difficult to make a guess about these things.
Unchanging probability of corresponding phenomena...85.36480%
The Number on the Palm of URTV
The turn of the manufacture and the ability which each has
* Manufacturer's serial number
A number has been engraved on the palm of the hand of the URTVs. This is a symbol that indicates each individual URTV, and is something that won't disappear all life long.
Even though Rubedo, Albedo, and Nigredo were each given their particular names, it is considered that numbers were used for management purposes. From the manufacturer's point of view, because many experimental units needed to be observed, numbers were used to ensure proper management. Though names were decided upon from the hair and iris color of each, perhaps it is something that did not go beyond being used for convenience.
It is also considered that these names, "Rubedo", "Albedo", and "Nigredo", were something that was given by the manufacturer. Helmer of the 2nd Miltian Autonomous Government called Gaignun, "Nigredo", and he responded by saying that it is a name he finds unfavorable.
Isn't it perhaps that Gaignun reacts to it as something unfavorable for the very reason that it is a name that was given during the period of URTV experimental units?
And Albedo freely makes use of his given name for the sake of "affirmatively" grasping the acceptance of the essence of being a URTV.
Again, to begin with, Gaignun and Jr have altered their names because it is important to them to hide the fact that they are URTV in the public eye. But there is not the necessity for such an action for Albedo.
* Manufactured turn number
All together, there were 669 units manufactured, and each were engraved in the order they were manufactured starting from #1. In other words, the persons with the smaller numbers are said to be from the early [stages] of manufacturing. There is almost no mistaking the understanding of this, also because of the words that Gaignun said towards Jr: "It's because you're more of an adult than me." {"older than me"}
As for this manufacturing time-gap [between each unit], an accurate time span cannot be measured. However, on Miltia of 14 years ago, many URTVs were possessing an outward appearance of identical age, and furthermore, taking into account that the URTVs, with the exception of Jr, are [currently] nearly identical in physical development, it is considered that they came to develop and were produced in the same time frame.
Being that the URTVs are mutants who were produced and manufactured from the genes of the late Professor Dimitri Yuriev, and that 669 embryos were created at the same time and each given distinctive treatment, the question of whether or not supplemental treatment was included during the growth process according to necessity is being considered. Therefore, isn't it perhaps best to consider that there is almost no difference in the ages between the numbers?
* The Whereabouts of #668
Presently, the names and numbers of only three units can be specified: #666 Jr, #667 Albedo, and #669 Gaignun. As for the other URTVs, after the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago, the survival as well as the whereabouts of them cannot be confirmed, and it is unknown whether or not they were all completely eliminated or if there also exists an individual that still survives.
It is unknown what kind of features and what kind of performance was possessed by the URTVs with numbers previous to Jr's #666. It is not clear if they had prominent features like there was in Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
Because they were experimental bodies, it is difficult to consider that all of them could acquire prominent ability. At the end of many failures and trials and error, the experiments yielded only a small quantity; but this is because [they yielded] something that holds qualitatively big results. Therefore, URTVs with latter serial numbers who possess abilities that excelled [over the others] were born, and it is considered that there were no big results worth mentioning from the ones in the early numbers.
Because Jr, Albedo, and Gaignun-- who posses numbers before and after #668 -- have extremely distinct performance ability, it is guessed that #668 is also a special existence in the same way. However, at the present stage, news of that is unknown. Even beyond the fact that it is also unknown even if they had direct influence or not in the Miltian Conflict of 14 years ago, absolutely everything is puzzling as is.
There is no missing number in the URTVs' manufacturer's serial numbers. Therefore, the URTV who possesses the number 668 certainly must have existed. Whatever kind of ability could the person possess who was made in between Albedo and Gaignun? In between the physical immortality possessed by Albedo, and the mental immortality possessed by Gaignun, whatever kind of ability could have developed?
If the ability of URTV is a surge of anti-existence of U-Do, [the ability of #668] shall be considered to have the possibility that it should transcend death, which is in common with Jr, Gaignun, and Albedo.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...86.56321%
Unlimited Telomerase
It means repetition of life and death
* Telomerase
It is written as Telomerase. Telomerase is the enzyme that repairs telomere DNA, which is the simple arrangement of nucleotides at the end of a chromosome. Telomere DNA becomes shorter during cell division and when it reaches a fixed length, the cells stop dividing and multiplication becomes impossible. In other words, this means that those cells do not regenerate and start to die. In regards to reproductive cells and cancer cells, this telomerase activity works repairing telomere DNA that has been shortened by division, making it possible to repeat division many times. In other words, one can say that telomerase has the effect of making cells immortal. The cells in which telomerase activity can infinitely repeat are reproductive cells and cancer cells. Because cancer cells can infinitely repeat cell division due to telomerase activity, it becomes and existence that overwhelms other internal organs and eventually arrives at a state where life preserving mechanisms have been lost. The word unlimited telomerase means eternally repeating chain of decay and regeneration. That is the repetition of death and life, which means immortality.
* Albedo's immortality
Regenerative medicine has been sought out for thousands of years. The restoration of lost internal organs. Albedo has increased his regenerative abilities to the utmost limits.
Transcending the frequency limit of cell division at speeds which are impossible even for modern day nanomachines, it is a threatening immortality that can regenerate even the head. That is his unique ability as a URTV and, at the present stage it is a domain that cannot be realized by any other technology.
For that sort of immortal existence, pain stops being a sensation that causes fear. Pain is a signal caused by an injury that warns of a status heading toward death. The status of life must depend on the functions of the body. The body, which must preserve these activities, sends a stimulus called pain to the brain in response to injury and communicates the dangerous circumstances. A consciousness that is attached to life recognizes pain as something to avoid and hate. This is the reason that humans hate pain and try to run from situations that cause pain.
One could say that this is proof of being alive. Feeling pain means that one is getting closer to death and it is also the status that allows one to really feel that one is alive. Of course, because it is accompanied by feelings of danger and repugnance, it is a sensation of life that has a negative meaning.
However, Albedo, who does not approach death due to injury to the body, does not get a feeling of danger from pain and therefore does not hate it. Pain without embracing a hatred of it is a pure proof of life.
Humans seek pleasure. This is because that is also a proof of life. Pleasure is a stimulus to the body in the same way that pain is, it is information of the body that is sent to the brain, and it is proof of life.
Albedo does not embrace hatred in response to pain. In this case, pain comes to have the same meaning as pleasure. One can think of Albedo's words that say "isn't this a pleasant pain?" as being rooted in the immortality of he who can take pain "that can go through his confrontational relationship with Jr." as pleasure.
* Suppression of growth and immortality
It has been said that the eternal wish of mankind is perpetual youth and immortality. The danger of death increases with old age. As the years add up, the telomeres of the cells grow shorter and regenerative power declines. One can recognize that this is a decline in the power to recover. As a consequence of sensing this deterioration of the body, people fear aging and the circumstances of increased possibility of death. That is the hatred directed toward the increase in danger of a slow, systematic decay, which is different from the dangerous circumstances that accompany the pain of a direct, large-scale injury to the body.
Eternal youth that does not accompany immortality, depending on the effectiveness of suppressing the decline of restorative powers, means a state in which it is possible to pass time without getting closer to death. However, death will come in the event that due to a sudden occurrence injuries are received at a level that cannot regenerate. In immortality that does not accompany eternal youth, one grows, in other words ages, but in response to injuries one has complete restorative powers. If one thinks of aging as injuries to the cells, although changes occur during the developmental growth period, at the stage of preserving the completed body, any further changes, in other words aging, will not occur. If that is the case, one discovers the possibility that it possesses the elements of eternal youth after all. If one assumes that aging occurs due to destruction of cells, using a general interpretation, shouldn't Albedo, whose cells have become immortal due to telomerase activity, also be able to actualize eternal youth? What kind of difference is there in the fact that Jr.'s growth has been suppressed at the state of 14 years old and Albedo's body has grown to be 28 years old? Hereafter, it is necessary to observe to see whether or not Albedo's body changes as he continues to add on years.
Do the U.R.T.V.s have a secret that surpasses the categories of general interpretation? As long as the abilities of the U.R.T.V.s are not completely explained, the problem is for us to make it clear hereafter with our observations.
Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena...90.16491%