30. What was Dmitri Yuriev Aiming For?
Dmitri Yuriev was head of the Yuriev Institute, reigned at the peak of the Salvator Faction as the first of the Designer Children, was the only survivor of the UMN transference experiments, and lived for hundreds of years. What in the world is he?
Captions:
(1) Dmitri has the ability to transfer his consciousness. By casting off the flesh and gaining a new host, he continues to live for hundreds of years. (Ep3)
(2) Gaignun, who was possessed by Dmitri. (Ep3)
(3,4) Mary and Shelley had been test subjects of some pharmaceutical firm, but after they had been saved by Gaingun and company, they took refuge at the Kukai Foundation. (Ep3)
(5) Aiming for the Zohar Emulators and Arbiter Code, which had been sealed by Mary and Shelley, Dmitri seized the Durandal. (Ep1)
{Salvators}
The word "Salvators" holds the meaning "Children of the Savior". It is a word that indicates the Designer Children, those who received genetic adjustments at the initial stages of life.
Research and development on the Salvators was promoted as one of the counter-measures against the Immigrant Fleet, who could use a portion of the Zohar's power.
The initial Federation Salvaltor was Dmitri Yuriev.
[Refer to section: 26] {UMN Organic Transfer Experiments}
In the early eras of the UMN, organic transfer experiments were conducted. Yuriev was a participant in the experiments as one of its test subjects. During transference, he came into contact and linked with U-Do within the imaginary number domain.
As a result, he was implanted with a fear that could not be wiped away, and at the same time, his consciousness was freed from his flesh, and he acquired the ability of spiritual possession.
[Refer to section: 02, 03, 08] {Yuriev Institute}
Yuriev was terrified of U-Do, and sought to conquer his fear. For that reason, and in order to deeply know U-Do very well, he created the URTVs using his own genes.
The fear, which was carved into his heart by the experience of having come into contact with U-Do, left behind inside his heart a trace of the existence of a target (U-Do) that leads to that fear.
Turning that trace into data, he constructed a program that artificially reproduces U-Do waves within an encephalon.
Because spiritual contamination was caused in URTVs that came into contact with these artificial U-Do waves, it is thought that some kind of effective power exists even in the waveform of the waves themselves.
Yuriev was seized by the fear of U-Do, and in order to escape from it, he risked everything.
[Refer to section: 03, 08, 31] {Yearning for the Upper Domain}
By transplanting his consciousness, Yuriev transcended real-number domain death. Even the body that had become the genetic father of the URTVs was not his original body; it was just a vessel for his current incarnation, which he had done an unknown number of times.
However, he still could not shake the fear of U-Do. In order to conquer that fear, he must shift to the upper domain. That's how Yuriev thought. The only one he could share such fear with, was Erich, who was once called Voyager.
In order to conquer the entirety of that fear, Yuriev planned to obtain Abel, Omega, the Zohar, and Zarathustra, and shift to the upper domain.
But, he didn't understand what kind of situation it would become due to a shift to the upper domain. Also, because he recognized Abel only as a child who could pilot Omega, he did not correctly comprehend U-Do's existence.
[Refer to section: 01, 03, 04] 31. What were the URTVs?
The URTVs were Designer Children created by Dmitri Yuriev. They were burdened with the role of, and abilities for, anti-U-Do weapons. However, they were nearly powerless against U-Do who exists in the Upper Domain. What could these "URTV"s possibly have existed for?
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(1,2) The variant who was the base of the URTV's spiritual link, and the one who held the most powerful URTV wave: Rubedo. Under the name "Jr", he acted as a director of the Kukai Foundation. (Ep3)
(3,5) Jr's weapon is an ancient handgun. (Ep3)
(4) At the time of the URTVs' development, even though he shot himself in the head, Albedo did not die, thus demonstrating his own immortality in front of a young Rubedo and Nigredo. (DS)
{Anti-U-Do Weapons}
The URTVs, short for "U-Do Retro Virus", were Designer Children who were produced as weapons against U-Do at the Yuriev Institute and based on Dmitri Yuriev's genetics. Because they possessed the anti-existence wavelength against U-Do's wave, they were made for the purpose of mutual annihilation with U-Do.
In order to propagate the anti-wave, it was necessary for numerous URTVs to make a spiritual link with a linkmaster.
The URTV variant, number 666 Rubedo, later called "Jr", was suited to be linkmaster. This is because he possessed the most powerful anti-wave, and maintained the Red Dragon function that allowed him to amplify that wave.
669 units of URTVs were produced in all; four of which were born as variants. Number 667 Albedo, who was Rubedo's conjoined twin, possessed the ability of cellular regeneration. And also, the female 668 Citrine, and 669 Nigredo (later called "Gaignun") both possessed elimination ability to meet the need for surveillance of the linkmaster, Rubedo.
[Refer to section: 03, 30, 35] {Anti-Wave}
In order to research the existence known as "U-Do", Yuriev developed an U-Do Simulator, which artificially reproduced U-Do's wave. The URTVs also served the purpose of determining whether or not the U-Do wave that this U-Do Simulator emitted was accurate. Yuriev experimented on the URTVs who possessed the anti-wave, and by repeated trials and error, he thought that, little by little, he would get closer to the essence of U-Do.
[Refer to section: 03, 30] {Reason for Existence}
Yuriev made the URTVs accept, as their reason for existence, that they were anti-U-Do weapons. Even though it was a lie, he did this because, by appointing some kind of single purpose, it becomes easier to control a group.
For that reason, in the Miltian Conflict as well, he deployed the URTV force. This too was merely an experience in order to confirm to what extent the anti-wave was effective, and it was not something for the purpose of U-Do's annihilation.
[Refer to section: 27] {The Suffering of the URTVs}
It is impossible to eliminate U-Do, who is an existence of the upper domain. Yuriev also, from the start, never had any intention of eliminating U-Do. He didn't think it could even be done. It's just that, in order to deeply know U-Do very well, the URTVs were produced as a byproduct of his research. However, the URTVs, who had been produced as weapons, came to suffer for their ability and reason for existence, and were tortured by Yuriev's curse. It was nothing but completely meaningless suffering.
[Refer to section: 01, 03, 30] {Yuriev's Host-Body}
Yuriev picked Gaignun as his new host-body. For Yuriev, who had the power of spiritual possession, it was meaningless to have real-number domain immortality like Albedo. Instead, spiritual compatibility was more important.
Genetic factors are also insignificant. The flesh that had become the genetic parent of the URTVs was already not the original Yuriev, because it had only been the latest vessel out of an unknown number of prior generations.
[Refer to section: 08, 30]