ARM Backup/Settei book 3 translation/History section

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ソル・クラスタ歴史 The History of Sol Cluster

「アルトネリコ3」の物語の前にも、ソル・クラスタでは長い歴 史が刻まれてきた. 本書では、第三塔の計画以降の歴史にお いて、他地域の分類にあわせて三紀に分けて解説していましょう.

Even before the story of [Ar tonelico 3], a long history was already written in Sol Cluster. In this book, we will explain all of the events in history that happened after the Third Tower was planned, while using the Three Eras history split of the other regions.

第一紀　音科学の発展と世界の崩壊 =The First Era: The Development of Sound Science, and the Destruction of the World=

惑星アルシエルには、かつて広大な大地が存在した. 世界ではソル・シエール、メタ・ファルス、ソル・クラス タという3つの地域が栄え、なかでも本作の舞台であ るソル・クラスタは世界の中心ともいうべき栄華を誇っ ていた. しかし、やがて各国は対立を深め、ソル・クラス タはソル・シエールと激しい戦闘状態に突入する. ソル・シエールは音科学の研究で圧倒的なアドバン テージを誇り、その結晶である導力増幅塔「アルトネリ コ」を擁して強大な力を獲得. ソル・クラスタを打倒し て世界の盟主となった. しかし、世界は未曾有の大参事 「グラスノスインフェリア」にとっえ壊滅する. このグラスノインフェリアによって世界が激変する までの期間を、後世の歴史家は第一紀と分類している.

In the Planet Ar Ciel, there once was a vast land.Three regions known by the names of Sol Ciel, Metafalss and Sol Cluster prospered in this world, although among them, the region that serves as the setting for this game, Sol Cluster, boasted about its splendor, and it supposedly was called the center of the world. However, in a short time, all of the regions became hostile to each other, and Sol Cluster and Sol Ciel ended getting locked into a violent war.

Sol Ciel boasted about the overwhelming advantage they had thanks to their research in Sound Science, whose crystallization was the Symphonic Power Amplification Tower [Ar tonelico], which possessed an incredible power. They finally defeated Sol Cluster and became the leads of the world. However, the world was completely destroyed due to an unprecedented great catastrophe known as the [Grathnode Inferia].

Because of the great changes the world suffered due to the Grathnode Inferia, the historians divide the period before it by calling it the First Era.

Timeline
年代              第一紀の主な出来事

3026 - ソル・シエールがアルトネリコ第三塔の計画に着手 3027 - ソル・クラスタ加盟国への加盟脱退提案 3028 - ソル・クラスタ・極西戦線 3031 - 「七つの血痕事件」により戦線終結. 3033 - エル・エレミアの中心にAHPP(アルシエル・ヒーリングプラネット・プロジェクト)結 3034 - ティリア、クロガネの元で育成. 3036 - AHPPの舞台が第二塔に移される. 3037 - ティリア達、第三塔建設予定地へ向かう. 第三塔建設着手. 3039 - クロガネラボラトリーズ(第三塔原初の塔)完成 3040 - グラスノインフェリア発生

ソル・クラスタ極西戦線

West War with Sol Cluster
まず始めに伝えておければならないことがある. 現在存在する第三塔は、ソル・シエールで3026年に計 画された「第三塔」とはまったく別のものだ. 厳密には、 計画の延長線上に存在するものではあるが、その建設 目的や塔の持つ仕事に関しては、何ひとつ共通点はな い. そのもっとも大きな原因が、ソル・クラスタ極西戦線 の終焉をもたらした事件「七つの血痕事件」にある. ソル・クラスタ極西戦線は、ソル・シエール地域のリー ダー国家であるエル・エレミアが、敵勢力であるソル・ク ラスタ連合国の1国、シェスティネに対し、自らの傘下に 下るように説得したことに端を発する. この事態を知っ たソル・クラスタのリーダー国家エル・デュエルは、エル・ エレミアに対して宣戦布告した. こうしてソル・クラスタ 極西戦線が幕を開ける. 戦況は終始エル・デュエルの優勢のうちに推移したが、 戦争の終期、状況が不利になったエル・エレミアは、地中 を通過して反対側の大地に攻撃するという手段に出た. 上空はソル・クラスタ連合軍が放ったおびただしい数の チャフ（レーダーを誤動作させるための妨害片）が埋め 尽くしており、エル・エレミアの持つ無敵の兵器「アルト ネリコ」の導力が妨害されていたためだ. この地中射撃 は攻撃というよりも、威嚇射撃としての意図が強かった が、大きな誤算をもたらした. 地中を進む導体波が、惑 星の内部を対流するマントルと共鳴し、増幅してしまっ たのだ. 当初の計画では、中規模の地震を発生させるだ けだった. しかし共鳴した結果、数千キロメーターにも及 ぶエリアに渡ってマグマが吹き出し、その量は一つの海 が消滅するほどのものになってしまったのである. このときの衝撃により、ソル・クラスタ連合国は4つの 国家を失った. その中のひとつが、エル・エレミアが自国 の傘下に入るように迫ったシェスティネである. かくして、ソル・クラスタは大打撃を受けて敗戦. エル・ デュエルは世界の盟主としての立場を失い、変わってエ ル・エレミアが台頭する. 後世に「七つの血痕事件」と呼ばれる、この事件によ って、エル・エレミアが進めていたアルトネリコ第三塔計 画は一度立ち消えた. 理由は明確で、エル・エレミアは 第三塔建設のためにシェスティネと交渉していたからで ある. シェスティネは軍事上の要所に位置する小国家で あったため、この地に第三塔を建造することで治安を平 定するのがエル・エレミアの計画だったのだ. しかし、七つの血痕事件によってシェスティネは消滅. 後述のアルシエル・ヒーリングプラネット・プロジェクトが 立ち上がるまでの間、第三塔計画は振り出しに戻ってい たのである. そのため、現在の第三塔はこの時代に計画 された塔とはまったく異なるものとなったのだ.

First, let us begin by telling the most important fact of all.The Third Tower currently in existence is a completely different facility from the [Third Tower] that was planned in Sol Ciel during year 3026 AD. While strictly speaking it exists as an extension of that previous project, the goals it had as a facility and the job the Tower would have didn't have anything in common with the current Tower. Of course, the largest reason for this change is found in the incident we know as the [Seven Bloodstains Incident], which brought an end to the West War with Sol Cluster.

The West War with Sol Cluster was a conflict that originated when the leader nation of Sol Ciel, El Elemia, tried to persuade their enemies, the Sol Cluster Alliance, to hand over one of their nations, Syestine, to them. Upon learning of this, the leader nation of Sol Cluster, El Duel, declared war on El Elemia. In this way it was the curtain to the West War with Sol Cluster opened.

From the very start, El Duel had the lead of the war, although in the final times of the conflict, El Elemia was in a pretty hard position, yet managed to devise a method through which they could send an attack from a point to other of the planet by using the crust as the transmission medium. The Sol Cluster Alliance had deployed a large number of chaffs (jamming sheets that would cause the radars to malfunction) in their airspace, which was done to jam the Symphonic Power of the invincible weapon that El Elemia possessed: [Ar tonelico]. This intra-land firing was intended only to be strong enough to serve more as a warning shot than an actual attack, but a tremendous miscalculation was made during it. As the Dynamic Waves that were fired advanced through the underground, they resonated with the internal convection of the planet's mantle, and their power was greatly amplified. The original plan was just to provoke a mid-scale earthquake in the area of Sol Cluster. However, as a result of the amplification, it caused an explosion of magma in an area that had thousands of kilometers of length, and ended being large enough to completely dry up one of the seas of our planet.

Due to this attack, the Sol Cluster Alliance lost four of its countries, one of these being the country of Syestine that El Elemia had tried so hard to put under their own protection. And in this way, Sol Cluster lost the war due to sustaining such a great damage. El Duel lost its position as the leader of the world, and instead, El Elemia rose to take its place.

Due to this incident, which was called the [Seven Bloodstains Incident] by the future generations, all the possibilities that El Elemia had to continue working in the Third Tower Project disappeared at once. The exact reason for this was that El Elemia had made negotiations with Syestine to build the Third Tower in their territory. This was because Syestine was a very small country, located in a very strategic position, and El Elemia planned to suppress anything that disturbed the public order by constructing the Third Tower in this land.

However, Syestine was annihilated due to the Seven Bloodstains Incident.And until the time in which the Ar Ciel Healing the Planet Project/Ar Ciel Aegis Alliance was brought up, which will be mentioned later, the Third Tower Project returned to being just drafts. Because of this is that the current Third Tower ended being completely different from the Tower that was planned in these times.

七つの血痕事件

The Seven Bloodstains Incident
「七つの血痕事件」と呼ばれるようになった理由は、こ の惨事後の大地の形状に由来する. エル・エレミアの攻 撃に共鳴した大地は、大量のマグマと音魔力を噴出さ せ、世界7力所に巨大な傷跡を残した. このとき吹き上が ったマグマは高さ、幅ともに数千kmもおよび、被災地 にはつららを逆にしたような異様な光景が残っている. しかし、のちのグラスノインフェリアによって世界が破 壊したときには、このマグマのつららが人類の居住地と なっている. ソル・クラスタに立つ第三塔は、この跡地の ひとつに乗るような形状で建設されているのだ. また、 その周囲のつららこそが、現在の「大牙」にあたる. ソ ル・シエールもメタ・ファルスも大地を失ったが、ソル・ク ラスタだけは、この大牙の存在によって死の雲海をから くもまぬがれ、わずかといえども大地を得ていたのだ.

The reason why this disaster came to be known as the [Seven Bloodstains Incident] is because of the shape in which the land was left after it. The resonance of the land with the attack from El Elemia caused an enormous eruption of magma and magical sound power, which left seven enormous scars in that section of the world. In this occasion, the eruption of magma was so large, that its width alone covered several thousands of kilometers, and the area of the disaster was left with a very bizarre scenery, similar to various inverted icicles protruding out from the land.

However, when the world was completely destroyed by the Grathnode Inferia, which came later on, these magma icicles ended becoming the dwelling for mankind. When the Third Tower was built in Sol Cluster, it was discovered that one of these ruins of the land was structured in a way that allowed to climb it. This one, and also the other icicles around it, are what form the area we currently know as the [Great Fang]. While Sol Ciel and Metafalss have completely lost their land, only Sol Cluster has a very small part of its lands, existing in the shape of the Great Fang, which protrudes high enough from the land to pierce through the Sea of Death.



七つの血痕と第三塔の位置関係のイメージをまとめたスケッ チ. 特に高い岩山部分が、現在の大牙にあたる場所だ.

An sketch made to show how are the positions of the Seven Bloodstains and Third Tower in relation to each other. The part of the rocky mountains that sticks higher than the other is the place where the current Great Fang is located.

惑星アルシエルの終焉

The Demise of Planet Ar Ciel
七つの血痕事件は終戦の引鉄となったが、事態はそれ にとどまなかった. この衝撃の影響で、この世界の存 在する惑星アルシエルのコアの一部にクラックが入て しまったのだ. さらに、大量に吹き出したマグマの影響 も相まってマントル対流に影響が出てしまい、この惑星 の磁場が不安定になったのである. これにより、徐々に 世界は崩壊の道を辿っていく. 天候、気候に始まり、度 重なる地震、局所的なオゾン層の断絶、放射線の照射と いった異常事態が、ソル・クラスタにみならず、全世界の 至る所で発生していた. 事情を重く見たエル・エレミアは、この状況を正常化 すべく、惑星アルシエルのコアを修復し、この星のサイ クル活動を元に戻すための手段を講じ始める. そして 極西戦線終結の2年後である3033年、莫大な予算を 投じて「アルシエル・ヒーリングプラネット・プロジェクト （AHPP）」が結成されることになる. この組織は、政治的軋轢が発生しないよう、国がスポ ンサーとなる民間団体として結成された. エル・エレミア の技術者、企業を中心としてプロジェクトではあったが、 国家が主催する事業ではない事も幸し、世界の中の民 間団体が多数参加している. もちろん、星を破壊した当 事者であるエル・エレミアが主催するプロジェクトという ことで、各国からは大きな非難も寄せられた. しかし一 方で、現在この星を正常化する知識や技術、そして資金 を持つ国家はエル・エレミアしかなかったのである. やが て識者たちによってこのプロジェクトは広く支持され、 主に大企業を中心とする団体が多数参加した. この世界レベルのプロジェクトには、敗戦国であるソ ル・クラスタ連合国家からも賛同者が集まった. ソル・ク ラスタは48の国で構成される連合国家であるため、星 を護るという意識が強い国家も多かったのである. もっ とも、ソル・クラスタ極西戦線の爪痕はあまりにも深く、 大半の国は自国の修復に手一杯になっていた. それは宗 主国たるエル・デュエルも同様である. エル・デュエルの 国力は疲弊しきった状態にあり、すでにエル・デュエルは 連合国を引っ張っていく力を失っていた. それどころが、 自国を維持することもできず、国家が崩壊しつつあった のである. 自国は疲弊し、惑星は絶望的なダメージを受けた. こ のときから、惑星アルシエルは少しずつ終焉への道をた どりはじめたのである.

Although the Seven Bloodstains Incident was the trigger that put an end to the war, the current situation didn't end there. Because of the influence of this attack, the core of the Planet Ar Ciel, which kept this world in existence, was partially cracked. Furthermore, the enormous eruption of magma, together with the effects this caused to the convection of the mantle,caused instabilities in the planet's magnetic field. From that point on, the world began steadily walking the path to its own destruction. First were the weather and climate, then many earthquakes frequently occurred; and finally,the local ozone layer disappeared, exposing everyone to the radiation. Furthermore, this wasn't limited only to Sol Cluster: similar incidents where happening all over throughout the world.

Seeing the gravity of the situation, and knowing they had something to normalize the situation, El Elemia began searching for methods that allowed to repair the core of the Planet Ar Ciel, and restore the cycles of the planet back to their normal states. Thus, in 3033 AD, just 2 years after the West War had ended, the [Ar Ciel Healing the Planet Project (AHPP)] was formed, and a large part of the national budget was destined to it.

So political frictions wouldn't happen within this organization, the government decided to form it as a nongovernment organization. While the Project had at its heart the engineers and corporate heads from El Elemia, it was a fortunate that it couldn't receive any support from the government, since many of the NGOs in around the world decided to join it. Of course, since El Elemia was the culprit behind the destruction of the planet, the fact it was an organization formed in that nation made it the target of many severe attacks from many nations around the world. On the other hand, however, given the current situation of the planet, the only nation that had the necessary knowledge, technicians and monetary resources for normalizing the planet was El Elemia itself. In a short time, the Project became to be greatly supported by scholars, and many organizations came to support it, having mainly the largest corporations in Sol Ciel playing the leading role in it.

Given the global level the Project had, even the countries of the defeated Sol Cluster Alliance gained approval for joining it, as well. Given that Sol Cluster contained a total of 48 countries, which together formed an associated state, once they became aware that they had to protect the planet, this greatly strengthened their nationalism. Although the scars from the West War with Sol Cluster were very deep, naturally, most of the countries in the alliance were decided to do whatever they could to repair their lands. That was even the case for the suzerain state of El Duel. El Duel was left with almost no national power after the war, and had already lost any possibility of keeping its control over the countries that formed the Alliance. It was left in such an state that it was unable to even keep its own existence, and it slowly broke down until it completely vanished from the map.

El Duel was completely ruined, while the planet received a desperate amount of damage. From this point on, the Planet Ar Ciel began threading slowly on the road to its own demise.

※ソル・シエールで行こわれている三紀の分類に近い年代で便宜的に分けており、 ソル・クラスタでは三紀に分けて考えられてはいない、

We will be using the Three Eras history division used in Sol Ciel just for convenience in the years closest to each Era, given that this division of historical events hasn't even been thought up Sol Cluster.

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AHPP
圧倒的な力を持つ「アルトネリコ」を備えるエル・エレ ミアの波動科学は、この時代では抜きんでていた. ソル・ クラスタ極西戦線以前の3021年には、メタ・ファルスと 結託して「メタファリカ・プロジェクト」を計画している. この計画は、メタ・ファルス上空に人工衛星ソル・マルタ マルタを浮かべ、そこから第二塔、さらには新大陸メタフ ァリカを創造しようという遠大な内容であった. その根 幹部分にあるのが「四次正角性中刻環（大地の心臓）」 であり、ソル・マルタはその形をモデルにしている. この ことからも分かるように、この世界の真理を探究するご く一部の研究者たちの間では、この時代ですでに「世 界」や「惑星」に意志があると考えられていた. 3033年に発足したAHPPは、この「惑星の意志が ある」という仮説を元に進行する事が決定されている. それは一般的常識を持つ人が聞いたら笑ってしまよう な計画であった. プロジェクト内容を端的に解説すると、 「アルシエルと対話をし、正常化の手法を聞き出すため の手段を構築する」というものだったのである. この「惑星に意志が有るか無いか」また「惑星と人間 は対話できるのか」という問題に関して、当時はまだ理 論上の仮説しか存在していなかった. その理由は、それ を実証するための研究機器開発には、あまりにも莫大な 費用が必要だったためである. しかし今回のプロジェクト の発足にあたり、エル・エレミアがスポンサーとして大量 の予算を計上した. また、メタ・ファルスやソル・マルタ を含む、世界中の大企業からも支援が集まり、その費用 の捻出が現実味を帯びてきたのである. しかし、それでも研究費用のすべてをまかなうことは できなかった. そこで、エル・エレミアはこのプロジェク トに対し、資金以外の援助をすることを決断する. エル・エレミアが提供したのは、ソル・シエールが誇る 波動科学の結晶、まだ自国でも2体しか開発に至ってい ないレーヴァテイル・オリジンを結成するための、中刻三 角環にあった. このとき、AHPPに譲渡された中核三角 環のコードネームを"TILIA（ティリア）"といった.

Armed with the overwhelming power of [Ar tonelico], El Elemia continually improved upon its own Wave Science during this time. In 3021 AD, previous to the West War with Sol Cluster, they made a project in conjunction with the region of Metafalss: [Project Metafalica]. This project was made with the great goals of putting an artificial satellite called Sol Marta in orbit above the skies of Metafalss, and with it, create the Second Tower, and then, the new continent of Metafalica. The very core of all this was the [Autostabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Ring (Heart of the Land)], which was used as the model for Sol Marta's shape. In order to be able to understand this, an small part of the researchers that were dedicated to researching the truth of this world came around this time which a theory that stated that both the [world] and the [planet] had a Will of their own.

When the AHPP was launched in 3033 AD, it was decided that it would progress based from the theory that stated that the [Planet has a Will]. It was pretty much an incredibly ridiculous plan to anyone who had any measure of common sense. The most straightforward explanation that was given for the goals of the Project was the following: [We will converse with Ar Ciel to ask it a method to normalize it, and then, we will construct the way of making that method a reality].

As for the questions [Does this Planet even have a Will?] and [It's possible for the humans to converse with the Planet?], the answers for them didn't exist at the time as much more than hypothetical facts. The reason for this was that developing the researching machines and tools to prove them was extremely costly, and they needed a much larger budget to make them. However,when the Project was launched, El Elemia had given to them a large part of its national budget as an sponsor. Still, with the costs of the collaboration with Metafalss and the creation of Sol Marta, they managed to gather the support of many large corporations around the world, and working out these costs gave a sense of reality to everyone.

However, all of this wasn't enough to completely cover the research expenses of the project. Because of this, El Elemia decided to seek non-monetary ways of supporting the Project.

El Elemia then offered to the leads of the Project the very crystallization of the Wave Science of which Sol Ciel was so proud: a Triangular Nuclear Loop for the creation of a Reyvateil Origin, of which only two more had been developed. The Triangular Nuclear Loop that was given to the AHPP in this occasion was codenamed "TILIA (Tyria)".

ティリア誕生

Tyria's Birth
AHPPに譲渡された中核三角環は無事培養に成功し、 ティリアが誕生した. エオリアやフレリアと異なり、ティリ アは急ごしらえである. 本当に生きて生まれてくるのか と肝を冷やす研究者をよそに、元気に成長していった. 皮肉なことに、ティリアの計画が急造になってしまっ た最大の原因である「β計画」も何年成功を収め、ティリ アと同年に初のβ純血種1号体が生まれている. 実際、β 純血種は想像以上の成果を上げた. 見かけのパワーで 言えば、オリジンの95%程度の力を発揮し、ほぼ欠損 がないようにすら思えた（内部的な力は無限の差があ るに等しい）. そして生産コストは大差である. オリジン 1体を作る予算で、β純血種は数千体作れたのだから. そんな負景もあって、ティリアに対する専門家などか らの風当たりは激しかった. 穀潰しと言われ、税金の無 駄遣いと叩かれた. 表面的なスペックでは、素人意見と して「AHPPはβ純血種の完成を待てば良かった」「βで 十分ではないか」という批判が出るのも当然だったので ある. だが、このプロジェクトはティリアでなければ意味 がなかった. その理由とは、ティリアの精神周波動深度 は通常のレーヴァテイルより深く設定されており、それ が計画に必要不可欠なためだ. 普通のオリジン、そしてβ純血種は、いわゆるコスモ スフィアとして定常H波2.0x10^4Hz~1.16x10^8Hzの 帯域を使用している. この帯域は、測定し得る人間の精 神周波動帯と同じレンジである. これは人間の精神世界 マップをクローニングしているためだ. プログラム的に は、それより上の周波動帯域にもアクセスが可能だが、 その影響はまったく未知数であった. 人間が解明してい ない、1.16x10^8Hz以上の帯域にアクセスできるレー ヴァテイルなど、怖くて作れるはずもなかった. 参考までに、当時研究者の間で予測されていた 1.16x10^8Hz以上の精神がもたらす効果は、我々が生 み出せる限界をはるかに超えた物質の創造とされてい る. そしてさらに高レベルでは、生命の創造、その秩序 の形成と考えられていた. ただし、それはナンセスと もいわれている. なぜならこの予測は、惑星アルシエル の持つ定常H波周波数が10^20Hzということと、惑星の 行為（生命の創造、循環系などの創出）から推測したも のでしかないためだ. それが惑星の定常H波によるもの なのか、それとも他の未知の波動（R波、N波など）によ るものなのかすらも不明なのである. ただし、唯一確実 視されていることがある. 「人間や惑星上の生命より高 位の存在との対話が可能になる」ことだ. 人間的に平た く言えば、神や悪魔とのチャネリングが可能になる. ティリアは、これらの研究を基に、1.16x10^8Hz以上 の定常H波にもアクセスできる"かもしれない"設定で創 られている. 「惑星アルシエルと会話する」ために作られ たレーヴァテイルだからだ. 惑星と対等に対話ができる 素体でなければ、今回のAHPPでは意味を成さない.

The Triangular Nuclear Loop that was given to the AHPP was cultivated without any problems, and Tyria came to life successfully. Unlike Eoria and Frelia, Tyria's nurturing process was heavily rushed. There were many researchers terrified about if she would actually be born alive, but fortunately, she grew healthily.

It might sound sarcastic, but the greatest reason why the Tyria Project was so rushed fell on the many years that the [β Project] took to conclude. It in fact took so much time that the very first Pureblooded β-type Reyvateil was born in the same years as Tyria. Actually speaking, the Pureblooded β-type Reyvateils had results that exceeded by far the expectations that were put in them. Going by the external power level they exhibited, they displayed possessing a power that was around of a 95% of the Origins', and were thought to be almost perfect in every way possible (their internal power levels had infinite differences among each other, but were more or less the same when it came to functions), and there were great differences in their production costs, as well: with the budget necessary for creating a single Origin, a thousand Pureblooded β-types could be made.

Under this unfavorable scenario, Tyria was the subject of many severe criticisms. She was insulted as a parasite, and a tax money waste, among other things. Those who just knew her external specifications said opinions typical of amateurs, such as: [The AHPP would have been still completed if we had awaited for Pureblooded β-type] and [A β-type would have been more than enough], although of course, it was natural for them to come to such conclusions. However, if Tyria had not existed, the Project would have been meaningless. This is due to Tyria's Spiritual Frequency being set at a much deeper level than those of normal Reyvateils, because she was an essential part to the Project itself.

The Cosmospheres of the normal Origins, and the Pureblooded β-types as well, make use of Static H-Wave frequency band that starts at 2.0x10^4Hz and ends at 1.16x10^8Hz. This is the very same range in which the Spiritual Frequency of the humans exists, according to measures taken at the time, and this was because the minds of the Reyvateils were made by cloning the Soulspace Map of the humans. Under programming terms, while it's possible to access to wave bands located in much higher frequency levels, it's unknown what kind of effects that could have. The humans couldn't deduce this, and while for them making a things like Reyvateil capable of accessing frequency bands higher than 1.16x10^8Hz should have been a terrifying thought, it actually ended being all the opposite.

Until some discoveries were made later on, the researchers of the time predicted that having the mind located in frequencies higher than 1.16x10^8Hz would have these effects: "Having surpassed by far the limits under which were born, it will be able of creating substances. And at a much higher level, it will be able of controlling the creation of life, and the structure of the cycle of life", or at least such things were thought. However, all of this was simple nonsense, because they were based in conjectures such as the Static H-Waves of Planet Ar Ciel being located in the 10^20Hz frequency range, which were taken from the actions of the Planet itself (creation of life, creation of circulatory systems, and such). Besides, there were still many unanswered questions about the Planet, such as if it would be structured by Static H-Waves, or if it would be structured by unknown kinds of waves (such a R-Waves and N-Waves). However, a single fact was visible to everyone. That "they would be able of conversing with existences of a level far higher than the humans or the life forms that lived above the Planet". Speaking in more typical terms, it would be possible to channel beings such as Gods or Demons.

Tyria, who was at the very center of all these researchers, was created with the setting of being "possibly"able of accessing to Static H-Wave Frequencies above 1.16x10^8Hz, because she was the Reyvateil that was created to [converse with the Planet]. If there wasn't a being capable of conversing with the Planet as equals, this AHPP would have been created without any meaning.

あまりの急造計画から、耐用年数は極めて短い と推測されているティリア. 未知の機能を搭載し た新種レーヴァテイルへの恐怖から、あえて短く 設定されたのではないかと邪推されている.

Because of how rushed the project for her creation was, Tyria was imagined as having an extremely short service life. Because her creators were so afraid of equipping a new kind of Reyvateil with so many unknown functions, it was questioned that her short life setting was due to being the target of unfounded suspicion.

レーヴァテイル・オリジン

The Reyvateil Origins
AHPPにTILIAが提供された頃、1号体"EOLIA"と2 号体"FRELIA"は、すでに人の形を成して生存してい る. EOLIAはソル・シエールのホルスの翼で、そして FRELIAはメタ・ファルスの地で臨床試験を行っている 最中であった. だが、TILIAはその時まだ中核三角環す ら存在していない. さて、そのレーヴァテイル・オリジンは、1号体である EOLIAははるか昔、2940年に発足した「レーヴァテイ ル計画」によって開発され始めた、大変古い個体だ. そ してFRELIAは3021年の「プロジェクト・メタファリカ」 発足時に、すで理論的には完成していたレーヴァテイ ルをメタ・ファルスサイドのメリットとして交渉するため、 そして外地での臨床試験とソル・マルタ計画（導体D波 による物質の創造プロジェクト）のために培養された. そしてこの時点で、新規のレーヴァテイル・オリジン生 産計画は終了している. この理由は3つあり、1つは予算 の肥大化による財政の圧迫. 2つめは低予算で培養でき るレーヴァテイルの理論（β理論）が確立し、EOLIA稼 働と同時にすぐにでも実践段階に入れる状態になってい たこと. そして3つめは、まだ完壁なオリジンの成功事例 を出していない時期であったために、明確な目的なしに 3体目を計画することができなかったためである. ここでTILIA特殊性が浮かび上がってくる. TILIA の培養時期はこれまでと比較してあまりにも遅く、しかも 短すぎるということだ. 前述したように、3体目を計画する ためには切実な理由が必要だった. プロジェクトの開始時 には危機が間近に迫っており、すでに尋常な状況ではなく なってから準備が開始されたのが原因なのである. 結果、TILIAは様々な手法を使い、時には簡略化や機 能を特化した形で設計され、わずか1年という短期間の 培養によって生み出された. その目的は「惑星との対話 を実現ため」であり、他のオリジン達とは違い、耐用 年数を考慮しないという条件付きでの培養だったのだ.

When TILIA was supplied to the AHPP, the first Origin, "EOLIA", and the second one, "FRELIA", had already existed with a human-like shape for a few years. EOLIA was in the Wings of Horus of Sol Ciel, and FRELIA was in the middle of undergoing a clinical study in the land of Metafalss. However, TILIA still existed as a Triangular Nuclear Loop in these times.

Well, among the Reyvateil Origins; the first one, EOLIA, was by far the oldest, since her development started in 2940 with the launching of the [Reyvateil Project]. And FRELIA was created at the time in which [Project Metafalica] was launched in 3021. She was at the time a theoretically complete Reyvateil that had the merit of being sent over to Metafalss to conclude the negotiations between both regions, and was cultivated abroad for a clinical study, and for the Sol Marta Project (a project that aimed to create matter through the use of Dynamic D-Waves).

And finally, in this point at time, it was decided that the projects of creating new Reyvateil Origins would be terminated. There were three reasons that led to this decision: the first one was from pressure from the public finance, because of the alarming budget increase their production had created.

The second reason was because a theory that allowed to cultivate Reyvateil at a low cost (the β Theory) was established at the same time that EOLIA became operative, and around this time, these Reyvateils had already passed their field tests successfully. Finally, the third reason was because; at the time, there weren't any successful examples of Origins that were completely flawless, which was the main reason behind the third of the planned Origins lacking any concrete goals when she was created.

It was at this time that TILIA's special features surfaced. TILIA's cultivation period started late to the previous Reyvateils, and furthermore, it was shortened in excess. As mentioned above, each one of the three Origins required serious reasons for them to be created. The main reason for her being given to the Project was because it approached a crisis shortly after it was launched, and due to the situation being so atypical, the government had to support the Project in some way.

As a result, TILIA was used in various ways, at times set up in ways that would either simplify her functions, or specialize her in others, and was born after being cultivated for just the very short time of a year. Her final goal ended being [created to make a reality the possibility of conversing with the Planet], very different from the other Origins, and was cultivated without even considering conditions like her operational lifetime.

[Image] 3人のオリジン The Three Origins

EOLIA FRELIA TILIA

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MODULE HARVESTASYA.

MODULE HARVESTASHA
ティりアの精神世界マップは、極めて特殊なものとな っている. 1.16x10^8Hz以上にアクセスできるため、さ まざまな弊害が予測された. 最も危険視されたのが、現 在テスト段階にあるβ純血種への影響についてであっ た. レーヴアテイルは1.16x10^8Hz以上の部に潜在 意識野として、共通意識野を持っている. この部分では 個々の壁はなく、全体でひとつの意志になっている空間 である（言い換えれば6次元のモデル化である）. 普段 ここはレーヴァテイルが意識することはできない. そし てこの領域は、人間がレーヴァテイルを無意識下で操る ために作った領域でもある. 例えばこの領域に「あん パンを食べたい」という意識を送り込むと、レーヴァテイル 達は一斉になぜかあんパンが食べたくなって、店に買い に走ることになる. その共通意識への作用や手法は、実 はこの時点ではまだ研究が浅かった. その未知の領域に、顕在意識で直接作用させることが できるのがティりアの特殊性である. これは研究者にと っては、大変な脅威だった. そのため、ティリアはアルト ネリコ第一塔に精神世界を持たせず、隔離された独自の バイナリ野を構築し、そこに中核三角環を生成した. す なわち、ティリアは生まれる前から度も、詩魔法サー バーとして第一塔を使っていないのである. では、どこ にバイナリ野を構築していたのかといえば、ティリア用 に作られた専用のサーバーにである. そのサーバーの名前を「HARVESTASYA(ハーヴ ェスターシャ) 」と言った. ハーヴェスターシャは、ソル・ シェール地域に昔から伝わる、有名な神話の登場人物 である. これは現在の地球で例を挙げると、サーバーに 「メルキオル」や「ヴィナス」といった名前をつける のと似た感覚だと言えるだろう. ハ一ヴェスターシャは 神話のなかで「想いの力により奇跡を生み出す」神様と して、古来から伝わる女神人として知られる. メタ・フア ルスにおけるラプラン力伝承（アルトネリコ2の設定資料 集参照)と比較的近い存在だ. 技術者達は未知数の力を 持つティリアに対し、ハ一ヴェスターシャーての伝承に重ね て万感の想いを託していたのだろう. 　ハーヴェスターシャは、サーバー自体に自己管理機能 を搭載していた. これは第一塔こおけるメイメイや、ソ ル・マルタにおけるラキといったガディー アンロボヤメン テナンスロイドとしての機能を、サーバーが内包している ということだ. 「意志を備えたサーバー」なのである. 第 一塔やソル・マルタが開発された当初は、このような考 えは無かった. 人工知能がまだ開発段階だったという背 景もあるが、強大なカを持つ塔の設備を自己判断で制 御するシステムというのが、信頼性の面で確立できなか ったためである. だが時の経過とともに科学技術が発達 し、科学者達はそれが可能であると判断したのだろう. ティりアのサーバーは、自らが考え、判断する、初の人 工知能搭載型サーバーとなったのである.

Tyria's Soulspace Map was now becoming an extremely special thing. Since she is able of accessing frequencies beyond the 1.16x10^8Hz range, various cruel experiments were planned for her. However, the one that everyone considered the most dangerous was one field test in which one of the steps was checking how much of an influence she could exert over a Pureblooded β-type Reyvateil. The Reyvateils have their Individual Consciousness Area up to the 1.16x10^8Hz range, and from there upwards, they have their Shared Consciousness Area. In that area, there aren't any walls that separate an individual's mind from others, so it's an space in which all of the Wills of the people could be fused into one (in other words, they would be converted into a sixdimensional model). Normally, Reyvateils aren't capable of knowing or feeling anything from this area. This is because the humans made this area under the Reyvateils' unconscious domains to make them easier to control. For example, if they sent them a feeling like "I want to eat jelly bread", all of the Reyvateils would suddenly start wanting to eat jelly bread at the same time, and would run to the nearest store to do so. However, the research on the applications and methods for using the Shared Consciousness Area was still very shallow at this point in time.

Tyria's special characteristic was that she was able of consciously and directly acting over these unknown regions. However, the researchers considered this as a serious threat. Due to this, Tyria wasn't allowed to have her Soulspace registered into the First Tower of Ar tonelico, and instead, her Triangular Nuclear Loop was created by constructing an unique Binary Field for her inside an isolated server. In other words, Tyria has never used the First Tower as her Song Magic Server, not even before she was born. This also means that the server inside which her Binary Field was constructed ended being a Server that was exclusively made for her.

That Server ended being called [Harvestasha]. Harvestasha is one of the characters from a very famous myth that has been told since very ancient times in the region of Sol Ciel. We could say that the intentions her creators had for this name was due to the same reason for which many systems and machines are named with mythological names in our planet in the current times, such as [Melchior] or [Venus]. Harvestasha was known within her myths as a Goddess [who could cause miracles with the power of her feelings], which caused her to be handed down as Goddess since ancient times. She is pretty much comparable to the Legends of Rhaplanca (details in the Ar tonelico 2 Official Materials Collection) that are told in the region of Metafalss. Due to the great number of unknown powers that Tyria has, the engineers overlapped the image of the Legend of Harvestasha over her, and entrusted her with the many feelings contained in the legend.

Harvestasha is pretty much a Server that was equipped with a self-maintenance mechanism. This means that the functions that guardian robots and maintenance droids have, like Meimei in the First Tower, or Raki in the Sol Marta; are all included within the functions of the Server itself. She is pretty much a [Server endowed with a will]. This was something that no one ever considered when the First Tower or Sol Marta first began their development. This was because, while the AI systems were still in the development phase back then, it wasn't possible to determine how secure it would be to implement a system capable of thinking and controlling by itself into a Tower that carried such an immense power. However, with the passing of time, both science and technology reached the point for this to happen, and the scientists concluded that such a system would be possible to implement. And thus it was how Tyria's Server ended becoming the very first model of Server equipped with an artificial intelligence system capable of thinking and taking decisions by itself.

第三塔計画

The Third Tower Project
ティリアを手に入れたAHPPは、ソル・シエールにあ るアルトネリコ第一塔と同様の第三塔を建造し、ティリア によって惑星と対話することで、惑星の再生を試みるこ とになった. この第三塔が設置される場所は決まっていた. 七つの 血痕事件の跡地のひとつであり、工ル・工レミアが過去 に傘下に下るように要請した小国・シェステイネがあった 場所である. この地の崩壊度合は激しく、それゆえに歪 みが地殻から内核まで連続して走っていた. すなわちそ れは、理論上のダイブ目的地点（推測上のアルシェルH 波の物理接触ポイント）である内核に、最も想いが伝わ りやすいポイントであったわけだ. この立地を提案したのは、工ル・工レミア政府側のレ ーヴァテイルと波動科学を研究するチムだった. AHPPはこの提案を受け、その近辺の死んだ土地をソ ル・クラスタ連合国から買い取っている. そして地表の 異常隆起ポイントを、第三塔建設予定地として定めたの だ. その土地の別名は、「七つの血痕」の「第六牙（だい ろくが）」と言われている. 皮肉にもその場所は、当初工 ル・エレミアが極西方面の平定のために第三塔を立てよ うとした場所と、目的とそ違えど同じ場所であった. かくして、塔の建設は始まろうとしていた. しかし、第 三塔に課せられた任務は、果てしなく過酷なものであっ た. オリジンティリアの特殊性だけでも、技術者達はす でに手一杯の状態である. それに加えて、第三塔の工期 もまた異常に短い期間で行わなければならなかったの だ. その理由は、専門家の分析によると、コアを一部 破壊されたアルシェルがこの星を維持する力は年々失わ れていき、「5年後には人聞が住めない環境になる可能 性が高い」との結果が出ていたためである. 当時の理論で最速の工期となる方法は、フレリアによ ってメタ・ファルスで実験を行う予定の「人工衛星から の導体D波照射による物質の生成」であった. だが、この 方法でもソル・マルタ完成後6年の歳月を必要とする という計算結果が報告されている. そもそも、それでさえ も「メタファルス律」を体系化したあとの話なのだ. 従来 の計画や工程では、AHPPの計画はすでに間に合わな い状況まで追い込まれていた. これまでのノウハウとはまったく別の手段で、いかに 惑星が滅ぶ前に第三塔を完成させるか. AHPPの開発 チームは、いかに短時間で第三塔を建造するかを昼夜 を問わす研究した. この困難なミッションにおいて最も 重要なポジションにいて、最も重い責任を背負っていた のが、クロガネという男だった. 狂気の科学者として後 世にその名を刻む、希代の天才である.

When the AHPP received Tyria, they were given the task of attempting to construct a Third Tower that was similar to the First Tower of Ar tonelico that was in Sol Ciel, and converse with the Planet by using Tyria, to complete the Planet Regeneration Project.

First, they decided the place over which the Third Tower would be built. The chosen place was the site of one of the Seven Bloodstains: to be more precise, in the same place were the small kingdom of Syestine was, the same country that El Elemia had requested to put under its protection. The grade of devastation the land had was brutal: the cracks left by this ran all the way between the Planet's crust and the Planetary Core without interruptions. In other words, the theoretical Diving Point (the point where it would be possible to physically contact Ar Ciel's H-Waves, according to the theories) was the Planetary Core itself, where it would be the easiest place to convey feelings to the Planet.

The ones that proposed this place originally were a research team formed by Wave Scientists and Reyvateils from the El Elemia government. The AHPP received the proposal, and then, they proceeded to buy all of the dead land and its surrounding off the hands of the Sol Cluster Alliance. Then, it was decided the Third Tower would be built in a point where the Planet's surface rose in a very strange ways. This place was given an alternate name: the [Six Fangs] of the [Seven Bloodstains]. Ironically, that place was where El Elemia had originally planned to build the Third Tower during the West War, and now, it was going to be built in the same place, but for an entirely different purpose.

Thus, the construction of the Third Tower had begun. However, due to the functions the Third Tower would have to accomplish, it was treated with an endless level of harshness. Even though the engineers had their hands already full just trying to figure out all of Tyria's special capabilities. And to make matters worse, the construction time that was allowed for the Third Tower was an abnormally short span of time. This was because, according to the analysis performed by specialists, Ar Ciel was year by year losing its power to continue maintaining the Planet due to having its Core partially cracked, and the final conclusions they extracted from this were that [there are high probabilities that in five years, it will become an inhospitable environment for the humans].

According to the theories of the time, the fastest method for building the Tower was the experiment that was planned to be performed by Frelia over at the region of Metafalss: [creating matter through the emission of Dynamic D-Waves from an artificial satellite]. However, it was reported to the AHPP that, according to calculations, Sol Marta would need a total of six years to complete the Tower through this method. To begin with, it was said that it would take this much time due to it being structured under the [Metafalss Note] dialect. None of the current projects or construction methods had what the AHPP needed to complete this project in such a short time, and they were in the verge of being canceled.

There is any other method, different from every other we have seen, that could we use to complete the Third Tower before the Planet is destroyed? The development team of the AHPP spent day and night researching and questioning which method they could use to build the Third Tower in such a short time. And it was during this difficult mission that there was a man called Kurogane, having the most important position, and carrying the most important responsibilities in the project. His name was recorded down in history as a mad scientist, and he was the kind of genius that only appeared once in a century.

ティリアとクロガネ

Tyria and Kurogane
クロガネはそもそも、厳密にはAHPPのメンバーで はない. ティリアの中核三角環を設計した設計主任で ある. 先の項で第三塔の立地提案を行っていた、エル・ 工レミア国家直属研究所の所員にあたる. 工ル・工レミ アの経済的支援以外の支援方法の一つ、人的支援によ って派遣された外部協力者というわけである. クロガネは研究者としてはとても優秀だが、人間とし ては非常に問題がある男だった. 彼は自らが設計した 中核三角環、そしてティリアのことを、実験体としか思 っていない. そのため、情け容赦なく振る舞うことをい とわなかった. だが一方で、実験体としての愛情は、誰 よりも大きかったのである. ティリアは生まれてから、のちに発生するグラスノイ ンフエリア後まで、およそ十数年をクロガネと共に過ご すごとになる. その間、クロガネは常にティリアを「飼 育」し、ティリアもそれに逆らうことはなかった. クロガネは実験結果が理論値を著しく外していると き、容赦なくティリアを叱責した. ティリアは恐れ、泣き ながらも訓練を重ね、理論値に近づけていく. そして理 論値を達成したとき、クロガネは最上級の賞賛を彼女 に与えるのである. ティリアは賞賛が欲しくて、怒られ たくなくて、常にクロガネに認められたくて日々の実験 をこなしていくのだ. そんなティリアにとって、クロガネ は畏怖の対象であると同時に、憎悪の対象にもなって いた. だがその裏側には、クロガネに対する信頼感、そ して褒められるときの恍惚感にも似たような感情もあ ることを、彼女はまだ分かっていなかった. クロガネがティりアに対して異常に厳しく接するの は、彼の性格にも由来していたが、もっと明確な意図 があった. 第三塔計画において、ティリアの「可能性」 にすべてを賭けていたかうである. ティリアは、精神世 界の周波数深度にリミットがかけられていない唯一の 存在だ. だが、どれほどの実験を重ねても、検証結果で は通常のレーヴァテイルとの違いは表れなかった. こ の理由についてクロガネは明確に理解していた. 高周 波（深層）における導体H波の動きを活発にするために は、それ相応の心の揺れが必要だ. それは相当な非常 時でないと現れることのない、本心と直結した衝動に よって発生する. 純粋な強い想いが発生したとき、初め て通常のレーヴァテイルとティリアとの差が出るので ある. クロガネはひたすらに、それを起こしたかったの だ. だが、現実レベルとして、そこまでの心の揺れはそ う簡単に起こるものではない. クロガネの努力は空しく、 「奇跡」は一度も起きないまま、月日だけが経過してい った.

Strictly speaking, Kurogane originally even wasn't one of the members of the AHPP. He was just the main responsible behind the design and planning of Tyria's Nuclear Triangular Loop. Later on, when the building site for the Third Tower was proposed, he became one of the staff members of a research site for that purpose, which was under the direct control of the El Elemia government. This was due that the only kind of support the El Elemia government could offer was dispatching voluntary workers as help, since they couldn't give any sort of financial help.

While Kurogane was an excellent researcher, he was an extremely problematic man as a person: the main fact about him was that he never considered the Triangular Nuclear Loop he himself had designed, neither Tyria when she was born from it; as more than a mere experimental subject. Because of that, he always treated her very cruelly, and without any shade of mercy. However, on the other hand, there wasn't no one who loved Tyria more, but as an experiment. Since Tyria was born, and even until a few years after the Grathnode Inferia that came later on, she spent around ten years at Kurogane's side. During that time frame, Kurogane "raised" Tyria normally, so that's why Tyria never disobeyed him.

Whenever results of the experiments were extremely out of the theoretical values he had established, Kurogane mercilessly reprimanded Tyria. He trained Tyria continually, even when she was scared or crying, just to bring the results closer to these theoretical values. And whenever they finally managed to reach the theoretical values, he gave to Tyria the highest praises he could. Tyria wanted to be praised, and didn't want to be scared anymore, so she endured the experiments everyday, so Kurogane would always recognize her value. This made Kurogane both a symbol of fear and hatred to Tyria. However, there was another side to this, since she had great trust placed on Kurogane, and whenever he praised her, Tyria felt an emotion that was very similar to ecstasy, although she didn't understand these feelings yet.

While he was being truer to his personality when he treated Tyria harsher than normal, Kurogane had a much clearer plan in mind to this. The Third Tower Project was completely being wagered on Tyria's [possibilities], because Tyria was the only existence in the world whose Soulspace had a wave frequency depth that broke the limit for living beings. However, no matter how much he experimented on her, the inspection results on her Soulspace didn't show any differences between Tyria and a normal Reyvateil. Kurogane had clearly understood what was the reason behind this: to cause an active movement of the Dynamic H-Waves located in high frequencies (in the deepest layers of the Soulspace), it would be necessary an emotional stimulus that was equally strong. Once pure and strong feelings had appeared in her Soulspace, the differences between Tyria's Soulspace and that of a normal Reyvateil would become apparent. That is everything that Kurogane wanted to accomplish. Speaking realistically, however, it wouldn't be such an easy task moving her heart to such a level. Kurogane made many efforts on this, but they all were in vain, since he never managed to make this [miracle] happen, and the time continued its relentless passing.

クロガネの姿は、作中でもただ一度だけ見ることができる. ティリ アのバイナリ野で見る、彼女の過去の記憶のなかの姿だ.

You can see Kurogane's face only once during the game. You can see him in Tyria's Binary Field, as one of the figures from her memories of the past.

β純血種とクロガネの関係

The Relationship Between Kurogane and the Pureblooded β-types
ティりアによる第三塔計画にとって、最も目の上のタ ンコブとなっていたのはβ計画である. この計画はα計 画（レーヴァテイル・オリジンの創造）の発展系として計 画されたもので、オリジンのクローンを安価で大量に 創造できるようにする計画だ. この方法で作られたレーヴ ァテイルを「β純血種」と呼ぶ. β純血種は絶対的な能力 としてはオリジンには到底及ばないものの、日常的に必 要となる能力に関してはオリジンに引けを取らないクオ リティを備える存在として期待されていた. 3031年にα試験初のレーヴァテイル完成型、EOLIAが 完成したことで、β計画は劇的に進歩した. ソル・シエー ルでは3033年にβ純血種の初号体を完成させたの ち、わすか4年後の3037年にはβ純血種の量産を開始 している. なお、β純血種と人間のあいだに生まれたレ ーヴァテイルは「第三世代」と呼び、第三紀以降のソル・ シェールやメタ・フアルスでは、レーヴァテイルの大半が 第三世代となっている. エル・工レミアが推進していたβ計画のプロジェクトメ ンパーには、クロガネも存在していた. より厳密に言え ばクロガネはβ計画のスタッフではあったが、その突飛 な発言と扱いの難しさから、今回のティリア計画へと移 籍されたと言っても過言ではないのだ. β計画でクロガネが主に担当したのは生理学である. なかでも生殖器官のスペシャリストであり、クロガネは レーヴァテイルへの生殖器官の実装に関して絶対に引 かなかった. 結果、クロガネがプロジェクトから抜ける時 にはβには生殖器官が実装された状態の設計図面となっ た. そしてそれが現在に至るのである. クロガネがなぜ、そこまで生殖器官にこだわっていた のか. これは第三塔に移ってから明らかになる話だが、 彼の学生時代の研究論文に1つだけその手がかりにな るモノが存在する. それは「H波アルゴリズムの組み換 えによる人類の進化」と題した研究であった. これが、後 世に大きな影響を与えた人類進化計画の草案となる.

Because of Tyria, the β-Project ended becoming the largest bump in the road to the Third Tower Project. This project was established as an extension system to the α-Project (the creation of the Reyvateil Origins), which would allow to create clones of the Origins in large quantities at a low price. The Reyvateils that were created under this method are called [Pureblooded β-types]. While the Pureblooded β-types could never match the absolute powers the Origins hold, they were highly expected due to surpassing the Origins in the number of everyday abilities and applications they had, not to mention that they were also made with the highest quality possible.

On 3031 AD, with the completed form of the first experimental α-Reyvateil, in other words, with EOLIA's completion, the β-Project progressed dramatically. The very first Pureblooded β-type was completed in Sol Ciel in year 3033 AD, and in the short time of four years, the mass production of β-types was initiated in year 3037 AD. By the way, the Reyvateils born from a human and a Pureblooded β-type are called [Third Generations], and they formed the great majority of the Reyvateil populations of Sol Ciel and Metafalss from the Third Era onwards.

Kurogane also was one of the members of the β-Project, which by then had begun to be implemented by El Elemia. Strictly speaking, Kurogane was part of the β-Project Staff, but given that how badly he treated and insulted the other members of the staff, he was transferred over to his current Tyria Project. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that his bad attitude was the cause for this transfer.

Kurogane was the chief physician during his days as member of the β-Project, and among other things, he was an specialist on reproductive organs. He actually continually proposed to implement reproductive organs on the Reyvateils, and never accepted a negative answer to this. As a result, when Kurogane finally was made to resign from the β-Project, his plans to implement the reproductive organs into the Pureblooded β-types were already finished, and ready to be carried out. And thus we come to our current days.

Why was he so obsessed with adding the reproductive organs to the Reyvateils? This clearly ended becoming quite an story when he moved over to the Third Tower, but the only clue to his intentions in this matter was something that was found in a research thesis he wrote during his student days. This was a research titled: [Evolution of the Humans Through a Recombination of the H-Wave Algorithms]. This ended becoming later on the draft for the Human Evolution Project, which would have great repercussions in the future generations.

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クロガネの理論

Kurogane's Theories
クロガネは正真正銘の天才である. エル・工レミア官 職時代二つ名は「音科学の死神」. これは音科学の父 提唱した波動科学の理論に真っ向から対抗し、しかも それによって目覚ましい成果を遂げていたことに起因 する. クロガネの理論や着眼点に眉をひそめる者は多か ったが、音科学の父と並ぶ才能を持つ者として、敬意と 皮肉を混ぜた名前として呼ばれているのである. 音科学の父は「幸せの想いには負の想いには越えら れない強さがある」という定説を発表している. これは 彼の著書には必ず冒頭に書いてある程に有名な句であ り、実際波動科学はこの「正の想い」を大切にしながら 成長してきた. しかし、クロガネはこの理論を否定した. 彼の理論は「衝撃による瞬間最大の想いの増大は、正 の想いが創り出す想いの強さをはるかに凌駕する」とい うもの. すなわち、負の想いこそが強い力を生み出すも のであるとい設なのだ. 例えば親しい人の死. 例えば 衝撃的な裏切り. 例えば絶体絶命の危機. こういったシ チュエーションが生み出す生存本能の直接アクセスは、 どんな想いよりも直線的で欠損が少ないという. そんな 理論を持つクロガネの研究は、言わずもがな悲惨きわま りないものばかりなのである. 飛ぶ鳥と落とす勢いでのし上がってきたクロガネだ が、ティリアの育成ばかりは難航した. なぜなら、ティ リアには「マター」が少なすぎるのである. 例えば通常 の人間やレーヴァテイルであれば、「誰かの死」による 導体H波の高まりは、「誰か」への執着の強さに比例す る. しかし、ティリアには執着対象がいないのだ. 感情が 希薄で執着の薄いティリアの心を強烈に揺さぶるには、 「自己の危機」を強く感じさせる必要があった. 危機を 察して発する強烈な導体H波は、死に対する恐怖の強さ に比例する. そのために、クロガネのティリアに対する実 験は際限なく過酷なものになっていくのである. だがティリアはまだ、本当の意味での「死」を知らな い. ティリアの心は「凪」なのだ. 常にフラットで、精神 状態に抑揚がないのである. それゆえにクロガネはティ リアに辛く当たったが、一方で、誰よりも深くテリアを 愛した. それは極端の感情の幅が広いほど効果がある と考えられたためであり、双方とも研究結果のデータを 取るためであった. しかし、ティリアの成果は上がらなかった. 結果、クロ ガネは3年の歳月を経ても、目標値である10^8Hzを 越える導体H波のスペクトラムを計測できなかった. そ して、1つのタイムリミットが訪れることになる. それは クロガネにとって、最も恐れていた決定だった.

Kurogane was an authentic genius. However, he also received another name during the time he was employed by the El Elemia government: [The Reaper of Sound Science]. This was due to him being extremely antagonistic to the theories the Father of Sound Science had proposed, which served as the basis for modern Wave Science, but despite this, Kurogane's antagonism was also the main cause for the brilliant breakthroughs he made. Kurogane's theories and viewpoint were scowled by many, but being a genius that could be considered as an equal to the Father of Sound Science, he was called by that name with mix of respect and sarcasm.

The main theory the Father of Sound Science had established was that [The Feelings of Happiness have an strength that Negative Feelings cannot surpass]. This sentence became famous enough for it to be necessary to be written at the beginning of all the books he had written, and in practical terms, Wave Science continued growing and expanding while they treasured these [Righteous Feelings]. However, Kurogane repudiated that theory.

Kurogane's theory proposed the following: [The feelings that have the highest level of amplification at the moment of a shock have an strength that surpasses by much the one created by righteous feelings]. In other words, he was proposing that negative feelings, such as the death of a parent, the shock from a betrayal, or a imminent danger to one's own life, could bring forth a much greater power. This was due to these situations creating a direct access to the survival instinct of the person suffering from them, which would would make these feelings straighter than any others, with minimal energy loses. It goes without saying that all of the theories created by Kurogane were on this same level of extreme wretchedness.

While Kurogane actually went to the extreme of saying that it was natural for birds to fall off from the sky before learning to fly, Tyria's training and raising was becoming quite a difficult task. This was because Tyria lacked too much when it came to [factual matters]. For example, normal Reyvateils and humans have a sudden spike in their Dynamic H-Waves when [someone dies], whose height is proportional to how strongly attached they were to that [someone]. However, Tyria didn't have anything or anyone to which she was attached. Because of her feelings being so diluted, Tyria's heart had a very shallow attachment to everything, so to shake her heart it would be necessary to give her an strong feeling of [being in extreme danger]. Once she sensed the danger, she would emit extremely powerful Dynamic H-Waves, whose strength would be proportional to how terrified she was of death. Because of this, the experiments that Kurogane performed on Tyria were endlessly harsh and cruel.

However, Tyria still didn't known what was the true meaning of [dying]. Her heart was still in a total [calm] state. Her H-Waves remained constantly flat, which meant that her mental status didn't have any sort of changes. This was why Kurogane treated Tyria horribly, despite loving her the deepest than anyone else. He did this because it was though that if her emotions kept going back and forth between both extremes, it would be much more effective, and in that way he would also collect the research data he needed.

However, the research on Tyria didn't give off any results. The final consequences of this were that despite working on this for three long years, the spectrum measurements that Kurogane routinely made never detected any Dynamic H-Waves that crossed the 10^8Hz threshold. And then, the time limit he had for this experiment came to its end. That was the final cause for the decision that Kurogane feared the most.

第三塔プロジェクト中止

The Third Tower Project is Suspended
クロガネが恐れていたのは、実験の成果を出せないこ とにより、第三塔を建設するプロジェクトそのものが中 止になることである. そして、それは3036年に決定さ れた. 厳密には中止でなく、移設されることになった のである. 第三塔を建設して行う予定の今回のプロジェク トを、現在メタ・フアルスでソル・マルタを建設中の第二 塔に移行する形となった. この移行計画はAHPP内での決議によるものであり、 部外者である政府側のクロガネには口を挟む権利はな かった. AHPP側はこれを、次の2つの理由により決断 している. そしてとの決定は、工ル・工レミア政府の強い 後押しがあってのことだった. 1つめは、これから第三塔建設予定地に塔を立てるよ り、すでにソル・マルタを制作しているメタ・フアルスの 第二塔に託した方がより現実的であること. この当時、ソ ル・マルタの建造はかなり進行しており、翌年には主要 なシステムが完成する見込みであった. そして2つめは、ティリアについて、他のオリジンとの 能力的な差が顕在しなかったことだ. すなわち、能力差 が見られないのであれば、より安定した個体の方が信頼 に値するという結論である. もっと具体的にいえば、未 知の不安定さを持つティリアより、すでに運用を開始し ており、安定信頼性の高いフレリアの方が、安心して計 画を進められると判断されたわけだ. 事態は急変し、プロジェクトは大きく変わり始めた. 第 二塔とソル・マルタは工ル・エレミア、メタ・ファルス、そ してAHPPの3者による共同管理となり、さらにソル・マ ルタの仕様は大幅に削減された. 工期を7年も短縮す るという、大改革が起きたのである. 目的もスケジュー ルも予定が変わってしまった第二塔は、当然塔の形（図 面）も変更された. フレリアは本来、メタ・ファルスの民が渇望する「メタフ ァリ力」実現の足がかりとして、第二塔を紡ぐために メタ・ファルスへ送られたオリジンである. しかし、この AHPPの路線変更によって、彼女は知らずしてそれとは 全然関係のない目的の塔を紡ぎ始めていた. 結局、第二 塔は完成しないまま長い沈黙のときを送り、フレリアは 700年もの長きにわたって眠りにつくことになるわけだ が、仮に完成していても、当初とはまったく用途の異な る第二塔が完成していたのだ. 第二塔に課せられた新たな使命は、本来第三塔が目的 としていた「惑星と対話をするための、惑星の精神世界 ヘダイブする」こと. そのためのダイブマシンを目的とし た仕様で建設されていくことになる.

What Kurogane feared more than his experiments not showing any results, was the suspension of the construction project for the Third Tower. Then, on 3036 AD, the decision to suspend the project was taken. Strictly speaking, it wasn't suspended, but transferred over to other area. The duty that the Third Tower was planned to accomplish in the project was then transferred to the Second Tower, which was at the moment under construction in the distant region of Metafalss.

This was more of an internal decision taken by the AHPP, so external people to the project, such as Kurogane, who actually worked for the government, didn't have any right to overturn it. There were two reasons why the AHPP ended taking these decisions, aside of the strong pressure that the El Elemia government was exerting over them.

The first reason was that it now was far more realistic leaving this task to the Second Tower in Metafalss, controlled by Sol Marta, than trying to build the Third Tower in the terrain in which it was planned. At this point in time, the construction of Sol Marta was already in a very advanced state, and it was anticipated that the main systems for the satellite would be completed during the next year.

As for the second reason, it was because Tyria didn't display any actual differences from the abilities the other Origins had. In other words, if there wasn't any visible difference between their abilities, it would be a more reasonable conclusion to trust more in the alternative that looks the most reliable. In other words, this means that the project leaders decided that it was better continue working with Frelia, who already had exhibited an extremely high rate of reliance and stability, and had been in operation since some time ago; instead of Tyria, with all the unknown instabilities she still had.

Due to the sudden turn of events, the project began to undergo a series of great changes. Now Sol Marta and the Second Tower would be placed under the conjunct administration of El Elemia, Metafalss and the AHPP; and furthermore, Sol Marta would have a drastic reduction of its functions. The construction time was shortened by seven years, and many large renovations were made on it. And to coincide with the changes in the goals and schedule, naturally, the shape of the Second Tower (the blueprints) was modified as well.

Frelia was originally supposed to be the basis for the land of [Metafalica] that the people of Metafalss wished for so much, and she was the Origin that was sent to this region to create the Second Tower. However, due to the policy changes made in the AHPP, she began to create a Tower that didn't have anything to do with its original goals, without Frelia knowing anything about this. The final results of this were that while Frelia ended sleeping for over 700 years and the Second Tower fell into a long silence in an incomplete form, even if it had been completed, the Second Tower would have ended with completely different functions than the ones it originally was supposed to have.

The new mission that was imposed on the Second Tower was the same goal the Third Tower was originally supposed to have: [To converse with the Planet, and Dive into its Soulspace]. Because of that, an special Dive Machine was built in this Tower for that purpose.

原初の塔完成

Completion of the Tower of Origin
クロガネは、プロジェクトを第二塔に移行行する計画に 対し、大いに憤慨した. だがティリアに対し成果を上げら れなかった彼の発言は、大きな力を持つことはできなか った. クロガネは今後の計画と結果予測を莫大なレポー トとしてまとめ上げ、AHPPに対して何度も第三塔計画 を再開するよう嘆願した. そして何度目かの嘆願で、つ いにAHPPは根負けをし、形ばかりではあれ第三搭計 画の再開を承認をしたのである. クロガネは安堵したが、それはAHPPとしては「厄介者 払い」としての承認だった. 第三塔に当てられた予算 は、当初の僅か1/100. さらに、クロガネは第六牙へ の赴任を命ぜられた. 実質的な「左遷」となってしまった のである. 塔を紡ぐ役割がフレリアになったことで、ティ リアもまた居場所を失っていた. こういった経緯を経て、3037年、クロガネはソル・ク ラスタの地に立った. ティリアを連れ、彼のもとに残った 少数の研究員達と共に、独自の第三塔の建造に着手す ることになる. クロガネはとの事件以降、さらに惑星と対話すること、 ひいてはこのブロジ工クトを成功させることに執着する ようになった. 誰が何と言おうと、この計画はティリアで なければ成功させることはできない. クロガネが自らが 中核三角環を設計したティリアこそが、この世界を救う 唯一のメシアなのだ. 強い想いを胸に、クロガネは研究 を過熱させていった. 与えられた予算では塔を作るには 到底およばないため、クロガネは小さな浮遊ステーショ ンを建造した. このステーションは、ソル・シエールにあ る「原初の塔」になぞらえて同じ名を冠し、対外的には 「クロガネラボラトリーズ(クロガネ研究所)」と名付け、 彼の研究チームの拠点とした.

Kurogane became greatly indignant when he learned about the project being transferred over to the Second Tower, but he also uttered that the lack of results from the experiments on Tyria were because he was unable of using a great level of power on her. From that moment on, he continually sent to the AHPP many reports containing results and predictions on the project, while continually appealing to them to resume the Third Tower project. Finally, the AHPP was outlasted due to the number of times he appealed to them, and just for formalities, they approved the resuming of the construction on the Third Tower.

Kurogane was relieved, but the AHPP just approved this to [sweep away a burden], given that the budget they destined for this purpose was just a meager hundredth of the original budget the Third Tower construction project had. And furthermore, Kurogane was ordered to move to the Six Fangs. In few words, he was [degraded]. Now that Frelia had been assigned to the job of building the Tower, Tyria didn't have a place in the project anymore.

And with this history behind, Kurogane finally set foot on Sol Cluster in year 3037 AD. He brought with him Tyria and the few remaining researchers that supported him, and they began building the Third Tower by themselves.

Even after all this, Kurogane continued attaching himself to the idea of accomplishing the goal of conversing of the Planet, and in addition, to making the Project a success. No matter who asked him about it, he always replied that there was no possibility of the Project being a success without Tyria. Kurogane himself was who designed Tyria's Nuclear Triangular Loop as the sole messiah that would save the world. With these strong feelings on his heart, Kurogane completely dedicated to his research. Because there was no possibility of constructing the Tower with the meager budget he was given, he ended building an small floating station, and gave it the same name as the [Tower of Origin] that once stood in Sol Ciel, in an attempt to imitate how the First Tower was built. It was externally known as the [Kurogane Laboratories], and became the base of operations for his research team.

グラスノインフェリア

The Grathnode Inferia
原初の塔が建造された翌年、エル・テ"ュエルが放った 工作員の手によってアルトネリコが沈黙し、ソル・シエー ルでグラスノインフェリアが発生した. エネルギーの導力 ラインを破壊したことで、エネルギーの増幅をコントロ ールができなくなったアルトネリコは暴走. 結果、強大な エネルギーは地殻・気象を破壊し、大地は壊滅して「死 の雲海」となり、空は放出されたプラズマによって「ブラ ストライン」を形成した. 工ル・工レミアは壊滅的な打撃 を受け、世界の情勢は激変することになる.

A year after the Tower of Origin was completed, spies sent by El Duel managed to silence Ar tonelico, also causing the disaster known as the Grathnode Inferia in Sol Ciel. The destruction of a Symphonic Power energy line made the energy amplifiers run without control, making the Tower release enormous energy quantities uncontrollably. As a consequence, that powerful energy destroyed the Planet's surface and weather system, turning the land into the [Sea of Death], and the [Blastline] was formed by the plasma that was released into the skies. This was a devastating blow to El Elemia, which completely changed the state of affairs around the world.

第二塔の真実

The Truth About the Second Tower
第二塔計画は、もともとはメタ・ファルスに伝わるヒュム ノス、メタファルス律と引き替えにフレリアを譲渡し、第二 塔とメタファリカ大陸を創り出す計画であった. 第二塔は、 メタ・ファルス地域を中心とする世界を統制するためのタ ーミナルとなリ. その恩恵の対価として大陸を生み出す. しかし、その大陸メタファリ力の創造すらも、ソル・シエール による四次正角核環の実験を兼ねていたのである. メタ・ファルスには当時、四次正角性中核環に関する 知識はなかったが、賢者ジャザがソル・マルタで関連す る資料を発見したことで、もっとも四次正角性中核環に 詳しい地域とこなる（ただし製造法の記録がなく、後に御 子インフェルが独自にその理論にたどり着いた). 　メタ・ファルスの研究が最先端となった理由として、四次 正角性中核環は、第一紀当時は特級の機密情報だった ことがある. ぞれゆえに強固なセキュリティに護られてい たが、ソル・シエールが所持していた情報はグラスノイン フエリアで失われてしまったのだ. また、ソル・マルタにそ の舞台を移す事が想定されていたため、ソル・マルタの 情報は最先端だったのである. 　しかし、ソル・シエールとメタ・ファルスの友好の架け橋 となる予定であった第二塔計画は、第三塔の計画中止に よって大きく軌道修正された. 第二塔は、この世界を救う 切り札となったのである. それは第一塔も同じだったが、 まだ設計段階だった第二塔には、さらに特化することが 要求された. そのため、当初半永久的な構築を予定して いた第二塔は、第一塔のリソースを流用する期限付きの 仮設塔となる. かくしてソル・マルタは工期を7年短縮し、 一部機能未実装のまま運用開始となったのである.

The Second Tower Project was originally a project for creating the Second Tower and Metafalica, done by transferring over Frelia to the region of Metafalss in exchange for the kind of Hymmnos that was handed down in this region: the Metafalss Note. The Second Tower that later on became the heart of the land of Metafalss would be a control terminal for the continent. And with this blessed exchange, the continent would finally be created. However, the creation of the continent of Metafalica doubled as well as an experiment on the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop made by Sol Ciel.

At the time, Metafalss didn't have any knowledge on the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, but Sage Jaza discovered about them when reading confidential documents through the connections between Sol Marta and El Elemia, making this region the one with the most details on them (however, the methods for creating them weren't recorded here, and Maiden Infel would have to arrive to the theory for this by herself later on).

The reason why Metafalss became the leading edge on research was because the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loops were still considered as first-class confidential information material during the First Era. Due to this, the information on them was protected by the strongest security available at the time, but all of the information that Sol Ciel had about them was lost during the Grathnode Inferia. Still, given that Sol Marta was planned to become the center of the AHPP, it became the best place to obtain information on them.

However, the Second Tower project, which was planned to become the center of the friendship between Sol Ciel and Metafalss, was given a drastic course change once the Third Tower project was suspended: the Second Tower had become the trump card for the salvation of the world. While it was planned to make it similar to the First Tower, the Second Tower was still in the middle of its construction, which the members of the AHPP demanded to make much more specialized. Because of this, while the original Second Tower was planned to be constructed as a semipermanent one, it ended becoming a provisional Tower that would draw its energy from the resources of the First Tower, for a certain time. Thus it was how the construction time for Sol Marta was reduced by seven years, and began to be used before parts of its functions had been implemented.

[Image] メタ・ファルスの民は、AHPPによって第二塔の計画が勝手に 変更されたことを知らされていなかった. The AHPP arbitrarily changed the Second Tower project without the approval or knowledge from the people of Metafalss.

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第二紀　第三塔の生成と対立の時代 =The Second Era: The Creation of the Third Tower and the Times of Confrontation=

グラスノインフエリアにより、ソル・シエールは壊滅的 な打撃を受けたが、この当時ソル・クラスタにはそれほ ど深刻な影響はないと考えられていた. いつまでもな く、その考えはすぐに改められることになる. この時代、ソル・クラスタの中心的な人物となったの がクロガネである. 自身は第二紀の初頭に命を落とす が、第三塔が生成され、彼の関わった計画は大きく飛躍 した. 一方、圧政への抵抗や組織の対立から世情が悪化 し、大規模な戦争が何度も発生した時代でもあった.

While Sol Ciel received a devastating damage from the Grathnode Inferia, it was thought that the Sol Cluster of the time didn't receive any serious influence from that. However, that thought vanished after a certain time had passed.

In this era, Kurogane had become the main person behind everything that happened in Sol Cluster. At the start of the Second Era, he killed himself and the Third Tower was created, making all the projects in which he was involved take a great leap forward. On the other hand, the society of this world deteriorated due to the opposition to the Kurogane Laboratories and the resistance towards its despotic ways of ruling, so this was an era in which large wars happened very frequently.

Timeline
年代　　　　　　　　　主な出来事

3040　　クロガネの理論がAHPP本部に盗まれる 3041　　反AHPPにより、ティリアの命が狙われるも未遂に 3042　　ティリアと楠将門との出逢い 3047　　クロガネ自殺. ティリア、リバーシアプロトコル失敗 3051　　レストンによるレーヴアテイル大虐殺 3061　　第三塔生成速度低下の問題解決にクロガネラポが動き出す 3062　　力イラによる導力配給を断念. ムーシェリエル構想始動 3069　　ソル・クラスタ地域壊滅 3084　　大牙のクラスタ民族が塔に押し寄せる 3085　　大牙・クロガネラポ戦争 3088　　レーヴァテイル革命. クラスタ二ア設立 3091　　クラスタ二ア戦争. 塔内部まで使って泥沼のゲリラ戦が展開される 3101　　クラスタニアとクロガネラボが、ムーシ工リエル構想で協力条約 3120　　ムーシェリエル完成 3121　　クラスタ二アが提供したレーヴアテイル「美星」によってEXEC_SEED/が謳われる. 3122　　第三塔が概ね3700年代と同じ形状にまでなる. 抗体出現. 美星死亡 3124　　ムーシェリ工ルの災禍. 抗体により、大牙、クロガネラポの人々の70%が死滅 3125　　大牙の人々が地下に移り住む. トコシヱ自治区が出来る 3135　　原初の塔を護る為に、クロガネラボ研究者を中心に「アルキアの会」設立 3140　　原初の塔、実質機能停止. 塔のコントロール中心がティリアヘッドに移行 3147　　クラスタ二ア、この世界における統制機構としての機能を宣言 3153　　クラスタニア総帥として生み出された個体工ンファシス・フ工フティリア・ハーヴ工スターシャが実質権力を握る 3155　　管理コードネーム制が開始される 3156　　管理コードネームに反発する大牙とクラスタニアとの戦い 3166　　アルキア研究所創立. 研究者還達がクラスタニアに許可を得に向かう 3194　　妖家が動き出す. アルキアと妖家、交渉会議 3210　　ハーヴェスターシャXPの管理下で大量のβが誕生する 3233　　ガルベルト戦争 3237　　協定により、アルキア研究所は今後β純血種の製造を禁止

盗まれた対話計画

The Stolen Conversation Project
グラスノインフエリアが発生した3040年、クロガネに とって痛恨の事件が起きた. 彼の研究、「レーヴァテイ ルによるアルシェルとの対話について」が、彼の名を伏 せてAHPP学会で発表されたのである. クロガネはこの 前年に、研究成果を持ってAHPPを訪ね、第三塔の開発 費を請求していた. その時学会からは否定されていたの だ. つまり、研究をそのまま盗まれたのである. 当時の AHPPは第二塔計画の成功に必死であり、すべての予 算は第二塔に奪われることとなった. そして、なにより 一番の理由は、クロガネに人望がなかったことだろう.

In year 3040 AD, which was the same year in which the Grathnode Inferia occurred, there was an event that was particularly regretful to Kurgoane. His research, [The Conversation with Ar Ciel through the Reyvateils], was published by the AHPP Academic Society, but they left his name out from the publication. In that same year, Kurogane had gone to the AHPP carrying the results of his research to request for more funds for the development of the Third Tower. At that time, the Academic Society rejected his results. In other words, they stole his research. At that time, the success of the Second Tower project was a life-or-death matter to the AHPP, so they stole all of the budget they were assigned just for the Second Tower. This was the main reason why Kurogane didn't have any sort of popularity.

絢胤妖家とグラスノインフェリア The Ayatane Necrofamily and the Grathnode Inferia

ソル・シエールとAHPPが第二塔計画に躍起に なっている頃、極西戦線で面目を失ったエル・デュ エルはアルトネリコ対策に腐心していた. その影 で暗躍したのが、「絢胤妖家」（あやたねようけ）で ある. 「妖家」とは、ソル・シエールではテル族と 呼ばれている種族であり、人智を超越した超常的 な力を持つ. 妖家は一般に人間とは接触しないが、 「七つの血痕事件」で消滅したシェスティネは、妖 家のコミュニティが多数点在していたのである. もともと妖家は、人間のオーバーテクノロジ ーに対し警鐘を発していた. だがその甲斐もなく、 七つの血痕事件は起き、多数の妖家が破壊してい る. 妖家の怒りの矛先は、この惑星をも滅ぼさん とする悪魔の兵器、アルトネリコであった. エル・デュエルと妖家は、アルトネリコに戦争を 仕掛けた. 荷担した者は、絢胤（あやたね：ムノ フ）、霞城（かじょう：プルーネ）、顕伽（けんぎゃ： ジェミナ）、焔魏（ほむらぎ：ニノ）の一族と、その他 の流派からの一部の妖家である. 妖家は塔に侵入 し、その中枢を沈黙させたが、これをきっかけに グラスノインフェリアが発生した. その時作戦に荷 担した妖家のうち、ソル・シエールに向かった妖家 の工作部隊は全滅. エル・デュエルに残ったわず かな妖家のみが生きながらえている. このときの 生き残りが、主に戦争指揮、戦略立案を行ってい た「予知」能力を持つ妖家、絢胤であった. ちなみに、アルトネリコの建設にはテル族のノウ ハウが使われている. アルトネリコは当初、平和利 用を前提としていたため、テル族は初の人間との 共同作業に手を貸したのだ. アルトネリコはやがて 軍事利用されるようになり、テル族はそれ以降、ア ルトネリコ関連から手を引いている. また、グラス ノインフェリア以降のソル・シエールでは、これま で以上に人間との交流を断った.

While in Sol Ciel the AHPP was desperately trying to make the Second Tower Project as fast as they could, El Duel, which had disgraced itself in the West War, was doing everything it could to find counter-measures to Ar tonelico. While this happened, the Ayatane Necrofamily was moving in the shadows. The [Necrofamilies] are the race known as Teru over at Sol Ciel, which have supernatural powers that have transcended the human knowledge. While they generally don't have contact with the humans, due to the destruction of Syestine in the [Seven Bloodstains Incident], they lost a large part of their community with it.

Originally, the Necrofamilies had made many warnings about the technological over-development of the humans, but these warnings were ignored, causing the Seven Bloodstains and killing countless Necrofamilies with it. This made Ar tonelico into the main target of the Necrofamilies' rage, which called it a demonic weapon that would even destroy the entire Planet.

El Duel and the Necrofamilies then began waging on Ar tonelico. Among the main participants on this, these were the Ayatane (Munoph), Kajou (Plune), Kengya (Jemina) and Homuragi (Nino) Families, although a few other clans took part in this, as well. The Necrofamilies infiltrated into the Tower and silenced it from its core, which was what ended causing the Grathnode Inferia. This was the cause of death for all the members of the Necrofamily Construction Corps that were sent to Sol Ciel, which were part of the ones that had participated in the war, and only a few of them, which stayed behind in El Duel, survived. These survivors were the ones who commanded and gave the war strategies to the others: the Ayatane Necrofamily, which has the power of [Prediction].

In other words, they used the Terus that knew everything about the construction of the Ar tonelico. Ar tonelico was originally intended to be used only with peaceful goals, which was the only reason why the Teru decided to lend the humans a hand, making it the very first collaboration work between them. However, Ar tonelico ended being used for war shortly later, and from that time on, they denied having any kind of relation with it. Also, after the Grathnode Inferia, they decided to cut off any kind of contact with humans in Sol Ciel.

反AHPP組織

The Anti-AHPP Organization
AHPPが目指す惑星再生計画は、人類だけでなく、星 全体にとって有益な計画である. しかし万民に支持された わけではなく、特にソル・クラスタでは反対の声が多かっ た. AHPPの主導者が、敵対国であるソル・シエールであ ったのも影響したが、惑星のコアに干渉するという過激 な計画だけに、不安視されていたのだ. そういった反対派のなかでも、より行動的だった組織 が反AHPPである. この組織が危険視したのが、七つの 血痕事件の爆心地に1つの小さな研究施設が建ったこ とだ. これはもちろん、クロガネが建設した原初の塔の ことである. このような世界で最も過酷な場所に、なぜ AHPPが施設を建てるのかと、多くの疑惑を生んでい た. そこに元AHPP幹部が、「あの施設の目的は惑星に弾 丸を撃ち込むことである」という情報をリークしたため、 反AHPPの活動は一層活発化. そしてその元AHPP幹部 の手引きにより、原初の塔に工作員を忍ばせ、作業員のフ リをして諜報と破壊活動をするようになったのである. この工作の被害は大きかったが、クロガネの元には、 AHPPからの一切の支援が出されなかった. AHPPとし ては、世間の目が第三塔に注目しているうちは、第二塔は ターゲットになりにくいと判断していたのである. 研究結果を盗まれ、落胆していたクロガネは、反AHPP による妨害活動で大きなショックを受けた. これだけの困 難を乗り越え、例えこの計画を推進しても、もう自分の手 柄ではない. 研究を進める資金すらない. クロガネにとっ て、惑星対話計画は無意味なものになった. 脱力してい たクロガネに届いたのが、グラスノインフエリアの急報で ある. 第一塔が破壊され、ソル・シエールが吹き飛んだと いう報は、彼には因果応報と思えた. だがその後、被害状 況を把握したとき、さすがのクロガネも狼狽する. このま までは、あと10年足らず険で、この場所も死の雲海に飲み 込まれてしまうのだ.

The Planet Regeneration Project the AHPP tried to make a reality was a project that would benefit not only mankind, but also the entire Planet itself. However, not everyone supported it, especially in the region of Sol Cluster, where there were a great number of protests against it. While one reason was because the leaders of the AHPP were from Sol Ciel, which were considered as enemies, they also saw interfering with the Planetary Core as an extreme project, and looked at it with anxiety.

Even among these opposing factions, the most active one was the organization called Anti-AHPP. What this organization saw as a danger was the small research facility that was constructed in the ground zero of the Seven Bloodstains Incident. In other words, the Tower of Origin that Kurogane had built. The fact that the AHPP had built a research facility in the harshest place in this world gave birth to a great number of suspicions. And to make matters worse, the Anti-AHPP became much more active because the AHPP staff leaders leaked an information that said that [The goal of that facility is shooting a bullet into the Planet], and had also sent spies to the Tower of Origin to pry intelligence from the workers, and to provoke disruptive activities in there.

Despite all the damage this provoked to the Tower of Origin, Kurogane was unable to procure any support from the AHPP. They had decided that as long as the world paid attention to the Third Tower, it would be very hard for the Second Tower to become a target of the opposing factions.

Kurogane was already extremely discouraged due to the the results of his research being stolen, but once he learned about the subversive activities done by the Anti-AHPP, he got greatly shocked. Despite having crossed over many difficulties, even going as far as trying to implement the Project himself, he didn't receive any credit for it. He didn't have even any money to continue with his research. The Planet Conversation Project had become insignificant to him. And then, when he was the most exhausted, he received the urgent news about the Grathnode Inferia. He thought this was the retribution they deserved when he heard about the First Tower being destroyed and Sol Ciel having been completely blown up. However, when he later on understood how grave the damage was, even he panicked. At this rate, even this place would be covered by the Sea of Death in less than ten years.

ティリア殺害未遂と楠将門

The Attempt to Assassinate Tyria, and Kusunoki Masakado
グラスノインフヱリアにより、第一塔は沈黙した. そ して爆心地であるソル・シエールはもはや破壊し. 生存 者についても絶望的であった. 皮肉にも、左遷させたス タッフは命拾いしたというわけだ. 実質的に、このとき AHPPという組織は消滅した. ただし、それはソル・シ エールにある運営母体の消滅である. 第一塔に依存し ていた第二搭と異なり、第三塔は母体から切り離され ていたために、軽微な被害で済んだのである. しかし、反AHPPの活動はグラスノインフェリア以降 に過激さを増していった. その最たる例が、3041年に 発生したティリア殺害未遂事件である. この事件は屋外 での凶行ではなく、休憩中のティリアを狙った. 施設内 での事件だった. 幸いティリアは無事だったが、事態を 重く見たクロガネ研究所は、徹底的にセキュリティを強 化. あわせて内部の人間の身辺調査を行うなど. ティリ アの周辺に厳重な監視・警護体制を敷いた. そのうちの 一人が、「楠将門」という青年である. 楠は当時18歳. 非常に冷静で感情的にならす. また、 情が通じない男として、この歳ですでにソル・シエール の極西派遣軍のー小隊長を務めていた. 楠は必要であ らば、何のためらいもなく邪魔な人間を排除できる. ま た、今まで誰にも心を開いたことのない氷の精神の持 ち主でもあった. 加えてクロガネが高く評価したのが、 冷徹な人間でありながら、非常に人当たりがよかったこ とだ. 楠は、笑顔で人を斬れる人間だったのてある. クロガネは楠をソル・シエール軍から引き抜き. ティ リアの幼なじみ役を与えて、身辺警護にあたらせた. 楠 はそれから数年、ティリアと日常生活の大半を共に過ご している. この間、襲いかかる刺客のすべてを撃退し、 ティリアに対して好意を抱く事もなかった. まさに、ク ロガネの人選に間違いはなかったのである. こうして、 ティリアは日々を大過なく過ごした.

Due to the Grathnode Inferia, the First Tower was silenced, and Sol Ciel, due to being in the ground zero of the catastrophe, was completely destroyed. The survivors to the catastrophe were in complete despair. It might sound sarcastic, but the AHPP staff that got degraded were narrowly saved from death. Practically speaking, the AHPP organization was annihilated at this time. However, that only happened to the administrative mother cell that was located in Sol Ciel. Unlike the Second Tower, which depended on the First Tower, the Third Tower was disconnected from the mother cell, which allowed it to receive an insignificant amount of damage.

However, the Anti-AHPP intensified its activities up to radical levels after the catastrophe. The worst example of this was the attempt to assassinate Tyria, which happened on 3041 AD. This murder attempt wasn't done outdoors: it was actually done when Tyria was on break time, inside of the Laboratories' own installations. Fortunately, Tyria managed to come out safely of it, but once the Kurogane Laboratories saw the seriousness of the situation, it was decided that the security all around the place would be strengthened, beginning with a background check for all of the people that belonged to the Laboratories. A rigid bodyguard system was laid all around the Tower of Origin to guard and escort Tyria. Among them, there was a young man called [Kusunoki Masakado].

At that time, Kusunoki was 18 years old. He was an extremely calm boy, almost to the point of being emotionless. Also, due to his lack of emotions it was that got appointed as the leader for an small expeditionary platoon that participated in the West War between Sol Ciel and Sol Cluster, despite being so young. If it was necessary, Kusunoki wouldn't falter at all when it came to eliminating hindrances and intruders. Also, he also had a mind cold as ice, and had never opened his heart to anyone. He was one of the people that Kurogane valued the most, and while being cold, he was also glad that Kusunoki was so well-mannered. Kusunoki also was the kind of person that could kill others with just an smile.

Kurogane recruited him from the Sol Ciel army, and gave him the role of Tyria's childhood friend, and also, her personal bodyguard. From that moment on, he mostly spent his everyday life at Tyria's side during a few years. During that time, he always repelled all of the assassins that tried attacking them, but despite this, he never managed to gain Tyria's favor. Naturally, this meant that Kurogane didn't make a mistake on choosing him. And thus, Tyria continued with her life without any great incidents.

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反AHPPと元AHPP

Anti-AHPP and Pro-AHPP
しかし、平穏な日々は長く続かなかった. ある日、クロ ガネのもとに、グラスノインフエリア発生後、ソル・シエ ールの脱出に成功した元AHPPの幹部が訪ねてきた. 第三塔の研究成果とティりアを使って、第二塔にリソー スを集中させようと持ちかけたのである. しかし第二塔 の予定地は岩盤が固く、クロガネの計画にはそぐわなか った. また、クロガネとしては、第二塔のリソースこそ第 三塔にそそぐべきと考えており、利権のために第二塔に 手柄を集めようとするAHPPのやりかたにも嫌悪感を 覚えていた. こうして交渉は決裂している. ここで、元AHPPは強硬手段に出た. 元AHPP幹部 は、ソル・シエールから持ち出してきた資金を使い、反 AHPP組織を買収. 力ずくでティリアを奪取しようとし たのである. もっとも、クロガネが受諾していたとしても、この第二 塔へのリソースの集中は意昧をなさなかった. グラスノ インフエリアの影響により惑星再生計画に耐えられるよ うな莫大なエネルギーを生める施設は、すでに世界のど こにもなかったのである. 実際には、このときアルトネリ コ第一塔は完全に沈黙していなかったものの、暴走した 導力が渦巻いていた. 導力を活用できるような環境にな かったのだ. そのため、第一塔の力で運用していたソル・ マルタも言うに及ばず、実用性は皆無. 惑星再生計画を 進めるには、クロガネの進める第三塔を建造するほかな かったのである. 反AHPPは、期せずして大きな力を付けた. この時 期、反AHPPの構成員には、さまざまな想いを持つ者が 集まっていた. 元々の「悪魔の技術を撲滅する」ための 者、元AHPPを始めとする「ティリアを奪いたい」者、そ して「塔化」の現実を知ってしまった「ティリアを慕う」 者などである. 彼らの共通の目的はただ1つ、ティリアの 塔化を防ぎ、人間の身体のまま捕獲することて、あった. ティリア捕獲計画を知ったクロガネは、今まで以上 に激怒した. 元AHPP幹部は今でもティりアを狙ってい る. その事実が、クロガネをひどく立腹させた. 絶対に 奴らにはティリアを度さない. 奴らにティリアを使いこな すことはできない. クロガネにとって、ティりアはすでに自らの人生を懸け た最高傑作となっていた. この最高の研究の成果を、か つての研究のように奪われてしまう前に、この世界にい るすべての人の前で華を咲かせたい. この研究まで辿 り着いた自分だけが、惑星再生計画を成功に導ける. 他 のヤツには絶対に渡さない. そんなクロガネの万感の想 いを受けて、ティリアは塔になる準備を進めていた.

However, these days of peace didn't last much longer. A certain day, after the Grathnode Inferia, a cell of the original AHPP, which managed to escape alive from Sol Ciel, came to see Kurogane. The same ones that had proposed to concentrate the resources of the project into the Second Tower using the results of the research on Tyria and the Third Tower. However, Kurogane's project ended being inappropriate to the situation, since the place where the Second Tower was planned to be built was above a hard bedrock.Also, Kurogane still remembered the unpleasant feelings that the acts of the AHPP had brought him due to concentrating the resources in the Second Tower just for their own interests of gaining recognition among the world, instead of havinh invested them in the Third Tower as he thought they would have. Thus, the negotiations ended in failure.

From this point on, that cell, now known as Pro-AHPP, began taking more drastic measures. First, they bought the Anti-AHPP organitzation using the money they brought with them from Sol Ciel, and began planning to steal Tyria from Kurogane through the use of brute force.

Although Kurogane accepted the fact of the resources of the AHPP being concentrated into the Second Tower, it was meaningless to him. For executing the Planet Regeneration Project, it would be necessary to have a facility that produced enormous quantities of energy for it, which due to the effects of the Grathnode Inferia, didn't exist anymore in this world. Currently, while the First Tower of Ar tonelico hadn't been completely silenced, the uncontrollable Symphonic Power it emitted was still swirling around the world. If that power could have been used and controlled, the environment wouldn't have ended destroyed to such an extent. Because of that, Sol Marta, which also depended on the power from the First Tower, was left without any practical applications. There wasn't any other way left to continue with the Planet Regeneration Project aside of the Third Tower that Kurogane was still building.

And besides, the Anti-AHPP had gained an unexpectedly large amount of power. At this time, the members of the Anti-AHPP had gathered a large amount of members, each one having different kinds of feelings. The original members lived to [exterminate demonic technologies], but once they were acquired by the Pro-AHPP, their goals changed to [wanting to kidnap Tyria]. Finally, when they learned about the [Tower Transformation] that Tyria would undergo, their feelings became [we love Tyria]. So their common goal ended becoming to prevent Tyria from becoming the Tower, and capture her while she still was in human form.

Once he learned about the plan to kidnap Tyria, Kurogane got enraged beyond any other thing that had happened until now. Even now, the Pro-AHPP was now attempting to take Tyria away, which he took as a terrible offense. He would never give over Tyria to these guys. He would never allow them to use Tyria in any way.

To Kurogane, Tyria was his masterpiece, the experiment that he prized beyond even his own life. He wanted her to bloom as a flower before the eyes of all the people in this world, as the results of the research he once made, before anyone else stole her. He was the only one who had the research reach this point, and he would lead the Planet Regeneration Project to its success. He would never hand it over to any other people. With this flood of emotions on his heart, he continued with the preparations to transform Tyria into the Tower.

惑星再生計画の終焉

The End of the Planet Regeneration Project
反AHPPの計画を察したクロガネは、第三塔のすべ てのシステムを「B計画」に移行した. これこそが現代に 通じる、クロガネが秘密裏に構想していたもう一つのプ ロジェクト「人類進化計画」である. この計画の骨子は、 ティリアの塔化ロジックを応用し、人間の体組成を死の 雲海などに対応できるように変化させるというものだっ た. ただしこの当時、死の雲海の主要成分などはまだ完 全に解明できていない. 自然、不備の多い理論であっ た. それでもクロガネが実行したのは、もちろん理由 がある. クロガネはこの星の行く末を見るのが怖かったの だ. 世界が愚かな人類によって汚染され、惑星再生計画 ですら、権力と自己利益のために使われてしまうこの世 界に、クロガネは絶望していた. B計画は、そんな世界 へ彼が残した、一種の罠であった. こうして惑星再生計画は終焉を迎え、クロガネは自ら の手ですべての幕を下ろす決断をした. 他者の手に渡 り、ティリアを無駄死にさせるくういなら、もっとも可憐 な形で最期を迎えさせてやりたい. ティリアが塔になる 瞬間に自らを起爆材として心に傷を作り、ティリアの人 格を崩壊させて、塔とともに葬ることを考えたのだ. 感情や感覚が超越しているティリアには、何をやって も響かない. しかし、クロガネはあるときから気がつい ていたのである. ティリアの自分への愛であれば、ティリ アの真の力が解放されるであろうことに. 3047年、ついに計画は実行された. ティリアは 第三塔を生成するための実行プログラム、「EXEC_ REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.（リバーシアプロトコ ル） 」を謳う. その詩が頂点に達したとき、クロガネは自 らのこめかみに向かって引き金を引いた. 自らの命を研 究に捧げることに、なんのためらいもなかった. ティリア は爆発的な感情をその内に生み出したが、すでに塔化 が始まっていた身体は動かない. 愛するクロガネを救え す、ただ時間を掛けて塔になっていく自分に、耐えられ ない哀しみがこみ上げる. そして、この詩はノイズとな った. 精神が耐えられないほどの事象が起きると、人は 自己の精神防衛のために、その記憶自体をなくしてしま う. ティリアはそれを起こし、この詩を謳う前後の記憶を 消してしまった. この世界を救う詩とともに. クロガネはこの繊細で微妙であるはずの段取りを、完 壁にこなしていた. ティリアの心理状態から行動、思考 に至るまですべてを予測し、それを見届けるととがない ままに死んだのだ. クロガネにとっては、自らの身体すら も自分の研究を成功させるために材料の一つに過ぎ なかった. それほどまでに、彼は常軌を逸していた.

Once Kurogane learned of the plans of the Anti-AHPP, he switched over all of the systems of the Third Tower to [Plan B], which ended being a project in which he had worked in secret during many years: the [Human Evolution Project]. The core of this project consisted of using the logic for Tyria's Tower transformation to transform the physical structure of the humans into something that could survive in the Sea of Death. However the main components of the Sea of Death hadn't been completely clarified at the time, so it naturally was a theory filled with flaws. Despite this, Kurogane still had his reasons to attempt executing this. He was terrified when he saw the course that the Planet was taking. He fell in despair from seeing the world being contaminated with these stupid humans, for which even the Planet Regeneration Project was being used just for their own benefit and to gain political power. The Plan B was merely a trap to the humans, which he left to that rotting world.

Thus, if the Planet Regeneration Project was going to meet its end, Kurogane decided that he would drop down the curtains on it with his own hands. If he handed it to other people, and Tyria ended getting killed in vain or something, it would mean that the project would have ended in a much more pitiful way. So he though that in the moment in which Tyria would become the Tower, he would create a wound in her heart by using himself as the cause, completely breaking Tyria's personality and burying her off together with any possibilities of completely creating the Tower.

Once her feelings and senses had crossed an specific threshold, Tyria would be unable of singing anything further. However, Kurogane had already realized by then what would be needed to trigger such an emotional outburst. If Tyria really had any love for him, he would be able of unleashing her true power.

On year 3047 AD, the project finally began to be executed. Tyria began singing the execution program that would create the Tower, EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.. And when the song reached its climax, Kurgoane aimed a gun to his forehead, and pulled the trigger. He didn't falter at all in sacrificing his own life in the name of his research. While this created an explosive feeling within Tyria's mind, her transformation into the Tower had already begun and she was rendered motionless. She wanted to save her beloved Kurogane, and as the time passed and she became the Tower, her mind was inundated by an unbearable sadness. Then, the song turned into a bunch of static noise. When an event unbearable to the mind of a person occurs, the person ends losing all of the memories related to that event as a protection for his or her own mind. This was what happened to Tyria, making her lose all of the memories of that event, together with the parts of the Song she had still to sing... together with the Song that was supposed to save this world.

Kurogane handled this by making delicate arrangements up to the completion of his plan. He could predict everything from Tyria's mental state to her actions based on all the observations he made on her, and thought that the best way to make sure that the project would never be carried out was with his own death. To him, even his own body was no more than another part of what he needed to make his research a success. He was so obsessed with it that he lost sight of the proper course for his life.

2つのハーヴェスターシャ

The Two Harvestashas
惑星再生計画で重要な役割を担うのが、塔のメインフ レームであるハ一ヴェスターシャだ. ハ一ヴェスターシ ャのシステムの根幹には「目的アルゴリズム」が存在し、 これをプログラムすることで、ハーヴェスタシャは人 工知能として、その目的に向かって自ら思考し、詳細計 画を立てるのである. なお、惑星再生計画に必要な目的 アルゴリズムを「メインフィールド・プログラム」という. だがこのプログラムはこのあと700年もの間、プログラ ムされることはなかった. その理由は、リバーシアプロト コルが未完成だったからである. ディリアが謳ったリパシアプロトコルは、メタファリ カなみに複合的な機能を持ち備えたヒュムノス工クスト ラクトである. 列挙すると、以下のようになる. 1. ティリアをプログラム図面通りの形に変化させる 2. ハ一ヴェスターシャのコピーを作成する 3. 目的アルゴリズム（メインフィールド・プログラム）を実行 ティリアの詩が途中で崩壊したことで、3は成されな かったが、1と2は実現した. それによって、メインフレ ームであるハーヴェスターシャは、XPエディションと、 VISTA工ディションの2つになった. 惑星再生計画では、 この2つのメインフレームに個別の目的アルゴリズムを 与える必要がある. XPは惑星の中心へと向かい、惑星 との対話のサポートやXPシェルの制御、惑星再生のた めのコア化の処理などを行う. 対してVISTAは、その XPシェルと塔全体のコントロル、そしてXPシェルと 共に惑星の核となるXP工ディションに代わり、その後の 塔の管理を受け持っている. すなわち、肝心の機能を欠いたままで作られた塔だ が、それ以外にも重大な要素が欠けていた. 四次正角性 中核環の理論が、いまだ確立できていなかったのであ る. クロガネ研究所は四次正角性中核環も研究していた が、予算を失い、技術資料を盗まれて頓挫した. しかしク ロガネにとって、惑星再生計画はすでに関係なかったた め、ティリアの塔化実現のためりバーシアプロトコルだけ を謳わせている. クロガネの死後も研究は続いたが、研 究所ではついに四次正角性中核環を生成できなかった. クロガネはティリアが搭になる前から四次正角性中核 環の重要性を理解していた. そのため、ハ一ヴェスター シャはAHPPの準備用目的アルゴリズム「プレフィール ドプログラム」に四次正角性中核環の必要性をプログラ ムしていた. そのためにXP工ディションは、かつてミュ ールに対して四次正角性中核環のありかを尋ねた. この 縁でミユールは、ココナに大地の心臓（四次正角性中核 環）を託したのである.

The one that was assigned to perform the most important functions in the Planet Regeneration Project was the Tower's Mainframe: Harvestasha. Harvestasha's system kernel was based on the existence of the [Goal Algorithms], which could be programmed into her, and thanks to her artificial intelligence, she would be able of considering and setting the best course of actions to achieve the goals the algorithm contained. By the way, the most important Goal Algorithm for the realization of the Planet Regeneration Project was the [Main-Field Program]. However, this program was never installed into her, until around 700 years after its development. The reason for this was that Rebirthia Protocol was executed incompletely.

The Song that Tyria sang, Rebirthia Protocol, is similar to Metafalica in the fact that it's an Hymmnos Extract made to accomplish several functions upon being executed. These functions are listed below:

1) Transforming Tyria into the Tower, according to the blueprints that were programmed into her.

2) Create a copy of Harvestasha.

3) Execute the Goal Algorithm [Main-Field Program].

Because Tyria's Song broken up in the middle, the third function never got to be completed, but the first and second ones did get realized. Because of that, there ended being two Harvestasha Mainframes: the XP Edition, and the VISTA Edition. Due to the nature of the Planet Regeneration Project, it was necessary to give different Goal Algorithms to these two Mainframes. XP would head to the Planetary Core, provide the support for conversing with the Planet, control the XP Shell, and execute the necessary processes to transform it into the new Core that would regenerate the Planet. On the other hand, VISTA would control the entire Tower and the firing of the XP Shell, and once the XP Shell and XP Edition had become the new Planetary Core, she would be bestowed the complete control over the Tower.

In other words, the Tower was made lacking some of its essential functions, but there were still some other essential components for the project missing. The main problem was that the theory about the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loops was still impossible to clarify. While the Kurogane Laboratories continued doing the best they could to research the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loops, they were setback by the loss of their budget, and having their technological documents stolen. However, given that Kurogane had already detached himself from the Planet Regeneration Project, he only made Tyria sing Rebirthia Protocol to make a reality her transformation into the Tower. After his death, the Laboratories continued their work, but they never managed to create a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop.

Kurogane had already understood the importance that the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loops would have prior to Tyria's Tower transformation. Because of that, the AHPP had equipped Harvestasha with the [Pre-Field Program] Goal Algorithm, so she would be preprogrammed with the importance of them. It's because of this that XP Edition could ask Mir a long time ago if she had any idea of where to find the Tesseractal Nuclear Loops. It was because of this memory that Mir entrusted Cocona with the Heart of the Land (Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop).

ハーヴェスタシャとミュール

Harvestasha and Mir
ソル・シエ一ルで生まれた史上最強のβ純血種・ミュー ルと、遠く離れたソル・クラスタに存在するハーヴェスタ ーシャ. 両者は、かつて一度邂逅したことがある. 2人の出会いは、3408年のアヤタネミチタ力の第一 塔来訪がきっか付になったと言っても過言ではない. こ の年、また実験体として研究所に幽閉されていたミュール は、研究所に潜伏していたアヤタネミチタ力と出会った. ミ ュールはそのとき、アヤタネミチタカからレーヴァテリア構 想を聞かされている. レーヴァテイルによる理想郷という 思想は、ミュールの心を強く惹き付けた. ミュールはのちに大規模な反乱を起こし、塔に封印され る身となっている. 彼女は塔のなかで、300年以上もの孤 独ときを過ごした. そこで彼女は、かつてアヤタネミチ タカから教わった言葉の手がかりを求めて、あらゆるデー ベスへのアクセスを試みた. このときに、一度だけ第三 塔とのコンタクトを取っていたのである. 第三塔と第一塔には、非常に弱いが連絡用の導力線 (無線)が通されている. 転送量も相当小さく、せいぜ い音声通信程度しかできない代物であり、第三塔がいか に冷遇されていたかがわかる一品である. 当然第一塔で もそれほど重視されなかったこの通信施設は、グラスノ インフ工リア後にあっさりと埋もれてしまっていた. ミュールのコンタクトに応えたのがハーヴェスターシャ である. 彼女は、四次正角性中核環はこの惑星を救うこと ができると伝えた. アヤタネの眷属との受信は果たせな かったものの、惑星というスケールの大きさと、それを 可能とするテクノロジーは、ミュールの心を惹きつけた. ミュールはこの話を、かねてから憧れていた地、メタ・ファル スの理想郷メタファリカと結びつけて考え、人間との共存 を夢見ていた頃の淡い思い出が、少しだけ蘇ったのだ. しかし、人間への憎悪にとらわれたミュールは、惑星の 再生と人類の殲滅は必須事項だと確信する. 彼女はレー ヴァテリアの実現のために、四次正角性中核環を持って いくことを告げた. それからしばらくの間、ミュールとハーヴェスターシ ャは色々な話をした. ハーヴェスターシャは惑星再生計 画やクラスノインフエリア当時の話を聞かせ、ミュール はその話から外に出るためのヒントを得ている. それは EXEC_LlNCA/.（リンカ）の存在であった. カイエル・ク ランシーにリンカの情報を与え、自らの身体を憑依させ るように命じたのである. これにより、ミュールはソル・シ エールで猛威をふるうことになるのだ.

The strongest Reyvateil in history of Sol Ciel, Mir, and Harvestasha, who existed in the faraway region of Sol Cluster. Both of them encountered each other a long time ago.

We wouldn't be exaggerating if we said that their encounter was directly related to Ayatane Michitaka having come to the First Tower in year 3408 AD. At this year, Mir, who was still an experimental subject imprisoned in a laboratory, met Ayatane Michitaka, who had infiltrated in the laboratory in which she was held. It was at this time that she heard from Ayatane Michitaka about the plans the Reyvateils in Sol Cluster had. The thought of a paradise only for Reyvateils was something that strongly charmed her heart.

Later on, Mir caused a large rebellion, and was sealed away inside the Tower, spending more than 300 years in complete isolation. There, she began seeking clues to the words that Ayatane Michitaka told her, and tried accessing to all the databases she could find. It was only at this time that she managed to establish contact with the Third Tower.

There is an extremely weak (wireless) Symphonic Power line connecting the Third and First Towers, which can only be used for communication. The transmission capacity it has is too weak, so it can be only be used as a substitute to direct verbal communication, and it was the only way of contact between both regions due to the cold reception the Third Tower has towards visitors. Naturally, as this communication facility was never seen as important in the First Tower, it was quickly buried away by history after the Grathnode Inferia.

Harvestasha was the one who answered Mir's call. She told Mir about the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop being the only thing that could save the Planet. Mir was unable to communicate with any of Ayatane's family members, but the fact that there was technology of an scale large enough to affect the Planet greatly fascinated her. When she heard about this, she immediately related it to the land she yearned for so much: Metafalss and its utopia of Metafalica. Although her dreams of coexisting with the humans were no more than fleeting dreams now, this resuscitated these dreams for a short while.

However, given how Mir was still imprisoned by her own hatred of humans at the moment, she believed that it would be necessary to regenerate the Planet and exterminate the humans, and told Harvestaasha that she would find a Selfstabilizing Tesseracatal Nuclear only to make her paradise of Reyvateilia a reality.

After that, Harvestasha and Mir ended talking for quite a while about many topics. Harvestasha told her stories about the times of the Grathnode Inferia and about the Planet Regeneration Project; and Mir also got from these conversation a hint for a way of escaping from her imprisonment, which was the existence of EXEC_LINKER/.. Mir gave to Kyle Clancy the information about Linker, and chose him to possess his body. This was the way in which Mir became a menace to Sol Ciel once again.

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レーヴァテイル反乱

The Reyvateil Rebellion
ティリアが塔になったあとの原初の塔では、道具とし て酷使されていたレーヴァテイル達が反乱を起こした. 彼女達を酷使したクロガネが死に、心の支えであったカ リスマ、ティリアが塔になったことを契機に、これまでの 不満を爆発させたのである. レーヴァテイル達はストラ イキ状態となり、原初の塔の多くの機能がストップした. これに対応したのが、当時、クロガネの後継として所長 代理に就いていたレストンである. しかし、レストンが用 いた手段は、大きな禍根を残す非情なものだった. あるとき、反乱軍のなかでも過激派のレーヴァテイル 達が、クロガネ研究所を襲撃した. レストンはこの襲撃を 受け、迷わずSHサーバーの部領域を強制的に初期化 する. すなわち、レーヴァテイルをデータ的に抹殺したの である. この対象は反乱軍にとどまらず、反乱軍に参加 していない穏健派のレーヴァテイルも巻き込んでの、無作 為の大量虐殺であった. この事件は人間とレーヴァテイ ルの溝を決定的に深め、レーヴァテイル達は深い憎悪の 念を持つようになる. しかし、SHサーバーに干渉される ことは、レーヴァテイル達にとって致命的な行為である ため、反乱軍は沈静化した. これにより、レーヴァテイル は再度人間に屈することになるのである. この大虐殺から6年後、大規模な人権運動が勃発した. しかしこの頃、塔の下には死の雲海の毒が蔓延し、さら に日々無数のクラスタ地方難民が塔に押し寄せてきてい た. クロガネ研究所はその対応に忙殺され、その間にも 人権運動は拡大の一途をたどる. そして人権運動側によ るテロへの対応の遅れにより、レストンは過激派のレー ヴァテイルに殺害された. 続いて所長代理となったクル ーデルはレストンほどの決断力も指導力もなく、人間は 劣勢に立たされる.

After Tyria transformed into the Tower, the Reyvateils from the Tower of Origin started a rebellion because of being treated like tools. Taking advantage of the opportunity given to them due to the death of Kurogane, who exploited them the most; and Tyria's transformation into the Tower, which was a support to their hearts thanks to her charisma, they made all of their dissatisfaction explode. They initiated an strike, and halted many of the systems that kept the Tower of Origin working. At the same time this happened, a man called Reston was appointed as Kurogane's successor as the Chairman of the Kurogane Laboratories. However, the methods that Reston used were so heartless that he ended being passed down in history as the greatest source of evil in Sol Cluster.

On a certain occasion, the Kurogane Laboratories were attacked by a rebel army, which was mostly composed of extremist Reyvateils. In response to this attack, Reston initiated a forceful formatting of the areas that belonged to the SH Server, without any hesitations. In other words, he deleted the data that structured the Cosmospheres of the Reyvateils. This event didn't affect only the Reyvateils that formed part of the rebel army: this also dragged in the more moderate Reyvateils that didn't belong to it, making it an intentional genocide. This even caused the deepening of a trench between the humans and Reyvateils, and made the Reyvateils greatly despise the humans. However, since interfering with the SH Server would be a lethal act to the Reyvateils, the rebel armies calmed down. Thus, the Reyvateils submitted themselves to the humans once again.

Six years after the genocide, a large-scale human rights movement was initiated. However, it was around this time that the poison from the Sea of Death began covering the lower areas of the Tower, and many refugees from the Cluster people came day after day to seek shelter in the Tower. In response to this, the Kurogane Laboratories made them work to death, which only enlarged further the support to the human rights movement. Finally, the human rights movement became a terrorist party due to not receiving any response from the Kurogane Laboratories, and Reston was murdered by radical Reyvateils. Another man called Crudele was appointed as Reston's successor, and despite lacking the same level of decisiveness and leadership qualities of his predecessor, he helped to keep the humans on their feet despite their numerical inferiority.

大牙・クロガネラボ戦争

The War Between the Kurogane Laboratories and the Great Fang
レーヴァテイルと人間の間に発生していた軋轢、年 を追うごとに増していき、いつ戦争になってもおかしく ない状況であった. 世界情勢的に相当困窮していたこと もあり、そう簡単には戦争状態になる余力がなかったの は、不幸中の幸いだったのかもしれない. そんな内部問題が泥沼な状態の時、塔にさらなる難 問が降り注いだ. レーヴァテイルとの確執を埋められな いまま、クラスタ系の難民と、第三塔の住人達（シエー ル系）とが衝突したのである. この頃になると、すでに地上は死の雲海によって生息 できなくなっており、逃れてきたクラスタ系難民はすが るように第三塔に集まってきていた. それはとどまること なく続き、第六牙の周辺には難民キャンプが構成されて いく. 彼らの目的は最も安全な第三塔へ入ることであ った. だが、第三塔はクロガネ研究所率いるシエール系 の人々によって護られており、部外者の立ち入りは制限 されていた. クロガネ研究所側からすれば、初期の頃か ら少なくないクラスタ系難民を受け入れており、すでに キャパシティを超えていたのである. これ以上受け入れ れば資源不足になり、全員が共倒れなのは必至であった ため、クラスタ系難民を受け入れを停止していた. だが、クラスタ系難民からしてみれば、この現状を招 いたのはシエール系の人々であり、その元凶とも言える 塔の研究機関は犠牲者を助けるべきだと主張した. この 問題は平行線で、常に小競り合いを起こしていたのであ る. だが3084年、ついに大規模な衝突が発生した. クラスタ系難民が、巨大な飛空艇によって塔を強襲し たのである. 突然の攻撃により混乱する塔側であったが、 この時お互いの利害が一致していたこともあり、いがみ 合っていたレーヴァテイルとク口ガネ研究所は一時休戦. 協力してクラスタ系難民の排除に乗り出した. こうしてク ロガネ研究所と難民の間で、壮絶な戦争に突入する. クロガネ研究所では、この戦争の早期解決のために、 レーヴァテイルの大量生産を行った. それらが完成した 数カ月後、圧倒的な戦力差によって、クロガネ研究所側 の圧勝で戦争が終結. この戦争に敗れたクラスタ系の難 民は、再び過酷な断崖絶壁に撤退することになる. この 戦争は、のちにその集落が「大牙」と呼ばれたことから、 大牙・クロガネラポ戦争と呼ばれた. この戦争に圧勝したクロガネ研究所であったが、戦争 によってレーヴァテイルとクロガネ研究所との均衡は大 きく崩れるととになった. 大牙民との戦争によって団結 したかに見えた両者は、戦争終結後、また元の関係に戻る ことになる. しかし、力関係は完全に逆転していた. レー ヴァテイル達を量産したことによって、もはや研究所側に 勝ち目のないほど戦力差がついてしまったのである.

The frictions between the humans and Reyvateils only increased with the passing of years, and it turned bad enough that a war between them seemed inevitable. The situation in the world became equally distressed, although the fact that they simply lacked the energy and resources to start a war may have been the only consolation in this sadness.

And while there were enough problems already at this time, other difficult problem soon descended over the Tower: not being enough with being unable to bury away the antagonism of the Reyvateils, the Clusterians began having conflicts with the inhabitants of the Third Tower (which were Cielans).

Around this time, the surface was made already into an inhospitable due to the Sea of Death making impossible to breath, and all of the escaping Clusterians ended gathering in the Third Tower. This continued to the point in which they had to build refugee camps around the Tower, in the Six Fangs. Their goal was entering the Third Tower, which was considered the safest place remaining in the world. However, the Third Tower was protected by Cielans, led by the Kurogane Laboratories, who put a limit on how many outsiders could enter the Tower. When they started this practice, they originally allowed a great number of people to enter, but they had to stop it after a time or otherwise, they would exceed the Tower's capacity to shelter people. Since there wouldn't be enough resources for all that people, and this would cause them all to die, this made the Laboratories to stop accepting Clusterians inside the Tower.

However, the Clusterians replied that the ones that originally invited them were the Cielans, and insisted that the main reason for the existence of the Tower's research facilities was to save the victims of the tragedy. And in parallel to this problem, several skirmishes occurred throughout the region during various years, which finally escalated into a full-blown conflict in 3084 AD.

The Clusterians assaulted the Tower using gigantic airships. While this attack was so abrupt that it threw into chaos all of the people in the Tower, the Kurogane Laboratories and the Reyvateils made a temporal armistice due to it, since this time they had common interests to fight this war, and combined their forces to expel the Clusterians. And in this way, a grand war was started between the Kurogane Laboratories and the Clusterians.

The Kurogane Laboratories decided to mass-produce Reyvateils in order to quickly end this conflict. They were completed after a few months, and thanks to the great difference in the war potential between both sides, the Kurogane Laboratories overwhelmingly won the war. Due to their defeat, the Clusterians were forced to withdraw from the Tower, back to the harsh and steep cliffs were the refugee camps were originally set. Since these camps later on formed communities that came to be called together as the [Great Fang], this war was called by future generations as "The War Between the Kurogane Laboratories and the Great Fang".

While the Kurogane Laboratories managed to attain an overwhelming victory in this war, the mass-production of Reyvateils they made to end to conflict sooner caused a grand collapse in the balance of power between the Reyvateils and the Laboratories. While both of them saw the war with the people of the Great Fang was won thanks to their union, once the war concluded, they returned to their former relationship. However, their power relationship was turned 180 degrees around. Due to the mass-production of the Reyvateils, the difference of power between them and the Laboratories was so great, that the Laboratories didn't have any chance of victory against them.

クラスタニア設立

The Foundation of Clustania
戦争によって大量に増員されたレーヴァテイル側は、原 初の塔のキャパシティが飽和したことを理由に、第三塔へ の移住を迫った. そして強大な軍事力を背景に無断で塔 に侵入し、ティリアヘッド付近に拠点を構える. こうして、 レーヴァテイルによる自治集団「クラスタ二ア」という組 織を立ち上げたのである. この連の行動を扇動したのは、大牙戦争でレーヴァ テイル側を率いていた将軍・クラストセレスであった. ク ラストセレスはクロガネ研究所が大牙戦争の統率者とし て設計したβ純血種であり、圧倒的なカリスマと統率力を 備えていた. そして、それが裏目に出たのである. この行為にはクロガネ研究所も猛反発し、両者は戦争 状態に突入した. 個々の戦闘力は乏しいレーヴァテイルだ が、塔内に分散してゲリラ戦を展開し、戦況は長期戦とな った. さらに研究所を苦しめたのは、ここぞとばかりに塔 に侵攻してきた大牙民である. そして、そんな苦境に陥っ た研究所に対し、クラストセレスは交渉. クラスタニアを 独立政権として認めれば、我々は大牙を追い払う手伝い をするする、と. クロガネ研究所側はこの条件を受け入れ、クラスタニ ア独立政権が発足した. あわさて、今後半永的に、大牙 からの防衛をクラスタ二アが担う契約が成立. レーヴ ァテイルからすれば、生命線であるSHサーバーはクロガ ネ研究所にしか管理できないという弱味があり、研究所 からすれば、サーバーをすべて停止してしまっては塔の 運営が行き詰まるという背景からの協定であった. ちなみに、主導者であるクラスセレスについては、こ んなエピソードもある. 終戦後、何度目かの交流の席に就 いたクラストセレスに対して、当時のクロガネ研究所の所長 ウェイスは、「最終的にはSHサーバーを停停すれば、お前 達は全滅だ」と脅したという. そしてその時のクラストセ レスの答えは、こんなものであった. 「やってもらっていい. 何なら今からそれを試そうではな いか. 2時間SHサーバーを止める事が出来たら、我々は 貴方達の下に戻ろう」 実際、SHサーバーを二時間止めることは不可能であっ た. 昔ならいざ知らず、レーヴァテイルが増えて供給可能 導力量が増え、搭の使用導力量はうなぎ登りであったた めだ. クラストセレスは限界時間を計算し、確信を持つ はいたが、2時間という設定は賭けであった. なぜなら、 SHサーバーとレーヴァテイルとの交信（PING）待機時 間は最長2時間程度だからである. もし2時間以上PING が返ってこなければ、そのレーヴァテイルは死ぬ. もし実 際SHサーバーを2時間止めていたら、塔のレーヴァテ イルは全滅することになるのだ. この賭けに勝ったクラスタ二アは、クロガネ研究所の SHサーバーの監視にレーヴァテイルをあてることも同 意させた. 今後SHサーバーに対して、人間が良からぬこ とをしないように見張るためである. 3774年現在に繋がる、クラスタ二アの支配政治は、この 時が始まりと言っても過言ではない. もっとも、現代の 圧政と当時のものとは、主旨も目的も異なっている. 本 来の意味での圧政は、第三紀に実施されるのだ.

Due to the war, the number of Reyvateils produced was so large that they overloaded the capacity of the Tower of Origin, and had to be relocated to the Third Tower. Once there, they suddenly invaded the Tower, establishing near the Tyria Head area, and began forming an strong military power. And in this way, the organization we know as the Autonomous State of [Clustania] was founded by the Reyvateils.

The one that initiated these activities was a general that commanded the Reyvateils during the Great Fang War, called Clustceres. She was a Pureblooded β-type Reyvateil that was designed as a commander by the Kurogane Laboratories for the Great Fang War, and was endowed with an overwhelming charisma and leadership power. However, this was the opposite side of having bestowed these qualities to her.

The Kurogane Laboratories fiercely opposed this, which started other conflict between both sides. While each individual Reyvateil had a very low fighting power, they had deployed a dispersed guerrilla warfare in the inner sections of the Tower, which drew out the war for a long time. Furthermore, the Laboratories was also having other problems because the people of the Great Fang were using this as their chance to invade the Tower. And once the problems of the Laboratories became large enough to make them collapse, Clustceres initiated negotiations with them. She told them that if the Laboratories recognized Clustania as an independent government, they would help them to expel the people of the Great Fang from the Tower.

The Kurogane Laboratories accepted these conditions, and Clustania was founded as an independent government. Then, they established a treaty in which Clustania would semipermanently keep the Great Fang outside of the Tower. However, the SH Server that serves as the Reyvateils' lifeline could still only be administrated by the Kurogane Laboratories, making this their only actual weakness. Then, they added to the conditions of the treaty that the Laboratories couldn't use their administration over the Tower to force the Server to be completely shut down.

By the way, there also was a certain episode that reinforces Clustceres' leadership qualities. After the war, there was one time in which the Chairman of the Kurogane Laboratories at the time, Weiss, threatened her in this way: "If we ultimately shut down the SH Server, you all would die", during one of their many negotiations. Then, Clustceres answered the following: "Then, do it if you can. In fact, if you are so inclined to do it, why don't you try doing so right now? If you can keep the SH Server off during two hours, we will go back to following your orders".

Actually, it's impossible to keep the SH Server off during two hours. This wasn't known a long time ago, but the increase in the Reyvateil population also increased the quantity of Symphonic Power that was supplied to the Tower, which was what made the Symphonic Power quantity that the Tower could use fly off the charts. Clustceres calculated the time limit the Reyvateils could survive without the SH Server, and convinced she had the right answer, the waged everything on the two hours setting. This is because the longest time the SH Server can be in standby awaiting for a reply (PING) from a Reyvateil is two hours. If the PING isn't returned in within these two hours, the SH Server will sever the connection between itself and that specific Reyvateil, killing her. If the SH Server had actually been kept off during more than two hours, all of the Reyvateils in the Tower would die.

After Clustania won this bet, the Kurogane Laboratories agreed to allow the Reyvateils to participate in the routinely SH Server inspections. This was done as a preventive measure by the Reyvateils so the humans wouldn't attempt to do anything to the SH Server, now or later on. It wouldn't be an exaggeration that this is the beginning of the Clustania regime, which went on all the way to the current year: 3774 AD. However, their goals and motives have completely changed from the beginning, which is the reason for the great differences between that old regime and the tyrannical rule of the current times. That tyrannical rule was actually established during the Third Era.

ムーシェリエルによる導力増補計画

The Plan to Increase the Symphonic Power through Moocheriel
クロガネは自殺したものの、当時のクロガネ研究所で は「ティリアの塔化は成功」と捉えていた. クロガネは自 身の工作を誰にも伝えておらず、ティリアの塔も着実に 完成形に近づいていたためだ. しかし、塔の成長があま りにも遅かったため、研究者達は対策を講じていた. 塔 の成長が完全に止まってしまったのは、3061年である. 完成度合は44%. 塔の成長の遅さに備えていた研究者 達による、新たなエネルギー源を作る計画が正式に発動 した. 「ムーシェリエルによる導力増補計画」である. ムーシェリヱルという施設は、四次正角性中核環を生 み出すための施設である. ムーシェリエル計画は、本来 ティリアが塔化してすぐに、次のフェイズとして行われる 予定だった. それが約15年遅れての始動となったのだ. 当時、四次正角性中核環の安全な生成方法は確立さ れていなかった. そのためこの計画は、レーヴァテイル の中核三角環をランクアップさせて四次正角性中核環を 作るという、極めて危険な方法である. それによって生 まれた四次正角性中核環は、惑星の意志を誘導し、ティ リアと惑星の総意との通訳となるはずだった. この計画は、多くの矛盾を抱えていた. ムーシェリ工 ルは本来、エネルギーを消費して生成されるオブジェク 卜だが、今回はその逆でムーシェリエルが惑星のエネル ギーを吸収して自己生成することになっている. そしてそ の惑星からのエネルギーを用いて大地の心臓を紡ぎ、第 三塔の構築をも行うという、本末転倒な状態になってい たのである. 大牙を押し戻し、クラスタニアと不可侵条約を結んだ クロガネ研究所は、このムーシェリエル計画を推し進め た. 当時のクロガネ研究所は、クロガネの真意を知らな かったため、惑星再生計画に真摯に取り組んだのだ. ティリアの塔化は、この時点でまだムーシェリエルま で到達していなかったため、0からの創造となった. この とき用いられたのが、導体H波を吸収するパラメノ結晶 だ. クロガネ研究所はこの性質を利用し、ティリアの塔 化とムーシエリエルの完成に必要な導力を集めようと試 みた. だがこのプロジェクトには、その機能に対応するヒ ュムノスと、それを謳うレーヴァテイルも必要である. こ れには、もともと存在したヒュムノス、EXEC_SEED/.を 改変して対応し、クロガネ研究所でそれを謳うためのレ ーヴァテイルが生産された. 彼女の名を「美星」という. 美星は必要以上に「素直」な素体として成長していた が、これを監視していたクラスタ二アの面々からは批判 の声も上がっていた. この批判には何の根拠もなかった が、素直すぎる美星には精神を抑圧されている可能性 がある、といった理由から、クラスタニアにマークされて いたのである. ただし、ムーシェリエル計画そのものに 対しては、第三塔全体で反対する者は皆無だった. 惑星 再生に関しての想いは、誰もが同じだったからである.

After Kurogane committed suicide, the Kurogane Laboratories at the time perceived that [Tyria's transformation into the Tower was successful]. Since Kurogane was the only one who made everything of the transformation, and never told anyone the specifics of it, it was thought this was the case, because Tyria's Tower seemed to be almost the same as it was supposed to be in its successful form. However, the growth of the Tower had slowed down so much that the researchers had to begin looking for ways to remedy this. The Tower finally stopped its growth in 3061 AD. The completion rate was only about a 44% at the time, and due to the gradual decrease in the growth speed, the researchers officially initiated a project to make a new energy source for the Tower. This was [The Plan to Increase the Symphonic Power through Moocheriel].

The facility known as Moocheriel was originally built to create a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, and was actually planned to be the next phase to be started immediately after Tyria had transformed into the Tower. This phase finally ended being executed after being delayed for 15 years.

At the time, there was still no established way to reliably create a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop. Due to this, the project was remade to create one through the ranking up of a Reyvateil's Triangular Nuclear Loop, which was the most dangerous method for doing so. Then, the created Tesseractal Loop would be offered to the Wills of the Planet, with Tyria serving as an interpreter between the humans and the Planet's Consensus.

However, this project was filled with inconsistencies. Moocheriel was originally created to be an object that consumed great quantities of energy, but ended becoming the exact opposite of it: this Moocheriel actually siphoned energy from the Planet to create itself. Then, it uses the energy taken from the Planet to create the Heart of the Land and finish the construction of the Third Tower; which shows how messed up the directors of the plan had their priorities.

Now that they had repelled the people of the Great Fang, and were bound to Clustania by a non-aggression pact, the Kurogane Laboratories finally could continue with the implementation of the Moocheriel Project. Since the Laboratories still were unaware of Kurogane's true intentions, they earnestly strove for the realization of the Planet Regeneration Project.

Since Tyria's Tower transformation hadn't reached the Moocheriel stage yet, they had to build it from zero, using Parameno Crystals so it could absorb Dynamic H-Waves, and attempt gathering the Symphonic Power they needed to complete both Tyria's Tower transformation and Moocheriel itself. However, this project also had an Hymmnos that would execute its functions, and they needed a singer to sing it. Although that Hymmnos, EXEC_SEED/., existed from the start of the project, they had to modify it to accomplish its new functions. Then, a singer for this Song was born in the Kurogane Laboratories: a Reyvateil by the name of [Mihoshi].

Due to her great importance, Mihoshi was grown in a prime field specialized to give her an [obedient] personality, which all of the Reyvateils from Clustania completely criticized. Although the criticisms were unfounded, Clustania marked this due to Mihoshi's excessively obedient nature could have been caused by the suppresion of her mind. However, when it came to the Moocheriel Project itself, no one voiced any protests against the Third Tower being completed. Everyone was holding the same feelings when it came to the planet's regeneration.

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抗体の猛威

The Antibody Threat
そしていよいよムーシェリエルが生成される時が来 た. 美星はEXEC_SEED/.を謳う. その詩がもたらした 結果は、レーヴァテイルにとって衝撃的だった. 美星の魂 である三角中核環は消滅し、四次正角性中核環へと変態 したのだ. 同時に実行される導体H波の吸収により、ティ リアの塔化は急速に進み、ムーシェりエルもほぼ完成形 にまで近づいた. だが、あと一歩というところで止まって しまったのである. このときの静けさは、誰に聞いても同 じ返答で、「すべてが止まったような錯覚に襲われた」と いうのだ. 風も水も、そして死の雲海すらも止まってしま ったような、恐ろしいまでの静寂が世界を包んだ. だが、それはほんの束の間であった. 美星の変態した 四次正角性中核環から、おびただしい数の「黒い生物」が 吐き出されたのでる. 「抗体」誕生の瞬間だ. 抗体は猛 威を振るい、生命を見つければ破砕した. そして群れを成 して街を撃い、クロガネ研究所を始めとする街のほとん どは破壊的なダメージを受けた. 不幸中の幸いと言える のは、その無限に生まれるかと思われた抗体の出現は、 短時間で終ったことである. 抗体の出現が止んだあと には、四次正角性中核環は残っていなかった. この短時間に出現したとてつもない数の抗体は、しば らくの間猛威を振い続けた. 責任の追及などをしてい る暇もなく、クロガネ研究所も、クラスタ二アも、そして大 牙の民も、自衛をするのが精一杯であった. そしてこの抗 体出現の時、大牙の民はその深く複雑な溶岩洞窟に身を 潜め、地下に潜伏するようになった. クラスタニアのレー ヴァテイル達は、ティリアヘッドやリンパ管といった塔内の 施設に身を隠す. この惨事にあって、最も悲惨だったのが クロガネ研究所であった. 原初の塔に居を構える、クロガ ネ研究所を中心とする街には逃げ場などなく、目も当て られない大惨事になってしまったのである. このとき、ク ロガネ研究所は実質的に滅亡し、塔や惑星再生計画に関 する生きたプロジェクトは消滅する. この時点で、惑星再 生計画はロストテクノロジーと化してしまったのである.

Then, the time for completing Moocheriel finally came. Mihoshi began singing EXEC_SEED/., but the effects that this Song brought forth were quite a shock to the Reyvateils. The Triangular Nuclear Loop that held Mihoshi's soul was destroyed, and reconfigured into a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop. At the same time, due to the absorption of her Dynamic H-Waves commencing, Tyria's Tower transformation continued at an extremely rapid pace, and Moocheriel approached to its almost complete form. However, it stopped at just an inch of being completed. Then, everything fell silent, to the point that if you asked anyone, they would have told you that [everything completely stopped, so much like it seemed as if an illusion was covering us]. Even the wind, even the water, even the Sea of Death... all of the world was enshrouded by a terrifying silence.

However, that only lasted for a few moments. Then, the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop into which Mihoshi was transformed began spouting a countless number of [black animals]. This was the moment in which the [Antibodies] were born. The Antibodies behaved like a menace: whenever they found life, they would instantly annihilate it. And also, they traveled in packs large enough to attack entire cities, which caused damage larges enough to completely destroy the city in which the Kurogane Laboratories were originally located.

However, we could say that there was an small mercy: while it was thought that the Antibodies that were born when they first appeared were infinite, they actually only were born for a short span of time. However, once they stopped appearing, Mihoshi's Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop had completely disappeared.

This absurd number of Antibodies that appeared in such a short time continued behaving themselves like menaces for a long time. The Kurogane Laboratories, Clustania, and the people of the Great Fang only could defend themselves the best they could, so there was no time to pin up anyone as the culprit of this disaster. When the Antibodies appeared, the people of the Great Fang hid themselves using the complicated network of volcanic tunnels that was in the region, and continued their lives in the underground. On the other hand, the Reyvateils of Clustania hid within facilities located inside of the Tower, like the Tyria Head or the Lymph Ducts. However, the Kurogane Laboratories were the ones that received the worst consequences from this disaster: they lived inside the Tower of Origin and there weren't any other cities or places to which they could escape. Due to this, the Kurogane Laboratories were essentially annihilated, and all the projects they had related to the Third Tower and the Planet Regeneration Project were annihilated with them. Thus, the Planet Regeneration Project became a lost technology at this point in time.

アルキアの会が発足

The Establishment of the Archia Association
抗体爆発によって、世界の情勢は激変した. 大牙の民 は、この数年間で地下さ暮らす術を身につけ、巨大な地 底湖の周りに根付く. これらの地下活動は、のちに巨大コ ミュニティを創り上げる祖となった. 原初の塔は壊滅し、クロガネ研究所のスタッフの大半は 落命した. わずかに逃げのびたスタッフは各地に逃げ延 びたが、そのうちの一部が、地上の断崖絶壁に生活でき る場所を発見し、原初の塔を一望できる土地に街を形成 した. ことが、後世に「上帝門」と呼ばれる場所である. このとき、中心的な存在となったのがアルキア・力レン. 後のアルキア研究所の創設者であり、クロガネ研究所の プロジェクト統括顧問である. 彼を中心とした有志の集い は、原初の塔の再生を目指して団結し、やがて「アルキ アの会」と呼ばれるようになった. 原初の塔は壊滅的状況 だったが、導力供給施設まわりはかろうじて無事だったた め、アルキアの会は施設の再建に着手した. それから数年ののち、衝撃の事件が起とった. クラスタ ニアが、塔に逃げ込んでいた人間をすべて塔から追放し たのである. 人間を閉め出したクラスタニアは、原初の塔 も監視下に置いた. 人々は大牙に行くことは許されたが、 塔に渡ることは例外なく禁じられた. そしてこの頃から、 クラスタニアによる人間側の組織への過剰干渉が始まっ ている. クラスタ二アにとっては、グラスノインフエリア に引き続き、ムーシェリエルの災禍まで引き起こした人類 の行動は、もはやなにひとつ信用できなかったのである. 研究の細部まで干渉されたクロガネ研究所は、現状を 打破すべく、ある作戦を実行した. ハーヴェスターシャXP とVISTAを繋ぐ、PING回線を切断したのである. 通常、 この2つのフレームは、お互いを監視しあうことでセキュ リティを強化している. だが、PING回線を切断すること で信号を途絶え、原初の塔が沈黙したと認識されるわけ だ. これによってクラスタニアによる原初の塔の監視の 目がゆるみ、アルキアの会のコアメンバーは、原初の塔の 奥底にこもり、関知されずに研究する環境を手に入れた.

Due to the Antibody eruption, the state of this world was completely changed. The people of the Grand Fang mastered techniques to survive in the underground for many years, and rooted their new settlements around the enormous underground lakes. This subterranean way of life ended becoming later on the ancestor to the gigantic underground community we currently know as Eternus.

The Tower of Origin was destroyed, and more than half of the staff from the Kurogane Laboratories was killed. One part of the survivors went on to live in the underground as well, while other discovered a place in the cliffs where it was possible to live: a plot of land from which the Tower of Origin was visible. So they settled down, and built a city there, which was called the [Ciela Gate (Jouteimon)] by the future generations.

At this time, the person that became the central existence for this city was Archia Charen. He later on became the founder of the Archia Think Tank, but he originally was the Project Supervision Advisor of the Kurogane Laboratories. He later on formed a group that sought to reactivate the Tower of Origin, mainly composed by volunteers he gathered, and ended calling it the [Archia Association]. While the Tower of Origin was mostly destroyed, since most of the facilities that provided it with Symphonic Power were still intact, the Archia association embarked on the task of rebuilding the facility.

However, a shocking event happened a few years after this. Clustania decided that they would expel all the humans that had ran away to the Tower from it. The only exception were the ones that were working at the Tower of Origin, which would be put under their surveillance. They were allowed to go to the Great Fang, but crossing to the Tower was forbidden, without any exceptions. And from this time onwards, Clustania began its excessive interventionism over the human organizations. To Clustania, the Grathnode Inferia and the Moocheriel Disaster were both caused by the actions of the humans, so they couldn't be trusted anymore.

They even went as far as interfering with the details on the investigations of the Kurogane Laboratories, and executed a plan to abolish their current conditions. This plan consisted in disconnecting the PING lines that connected Harvestasha XP and Harvestasha VISTA. Normally, these two Frames have an strengthened security due to both of them inspecting each other to prevent potential failures. However, if the PING lines are disconnected, the communication between both will be interrupted, which will caused the Tower of Origin to be recognized as "silenced". It was due to this that Clustania became more lenient when it came to the surveillance of the Tower of Origin, while the core members of the Archia Association remained in the depths of the Tower of Origin, having received a research environment about which the Clustanians wouldn't be worried.

クラスタニア統治国家の成立

Establishment of the Government of Clustania
それからしばらく、クロガネ研究所は歴史の表舞台から 身を潜めるととになる. 原初の塔が沈黙したことを受け、 実質ティリアヘッドに位置するハ一ヴェスターシャVISTA がこの世界を管理するメインフレームとなった（実際は、 VISTAが生まれてすぐにXPは塔の管理機構をすべて VISTA側に移行させているので、特に変化はない）. そし て、ここからがクラスタ二ア恐怖政治の始まりだった. クラスタニアは、人間に対して容赦のない圧政を敷く. これは支配欲ではなく、この地域をはじめ、惑星レベルで 疲弊している現状をかんがみたためである. レーヴァテ イルは、何度も愚行を繰り返す人間を管理しなければ、星 の危機は回避できないと考えていた. レーヴァテイルのこの思考に拍車をかけたのが、妖家 （テル族）である. 妖家には、人間は滅ぶべきという想い と、レーヴァテイルこそがこの世界の再生に必要不可欠 だという想いがあった. そのため、妖家はレーヴァテイル が反乱したときも、陰から反乱軍を支援したのだ. クロガネ研究所が完全に沈黙したことで、レーヴァテイ ル達の脅威は消えた. そして妖家はここぞとばかりに、人 間を徹底的に管理する施策を実施している. この頃制定 されたもののうち、現代にも残る悪名高き施策の代表格 が、「管理名（真の名）」と「クレンジング」である. これらは策定されたとき、人々は再度クラスタニアに戦 争を仕掛けた. だが、クロガネ研究所を失った人間側はな す術なく完敗する. 首謀者達はスレイヴに連行され、初の クレンジングが行われた. そしてそれと同時に、すべての 人間に管理名が施行されたのである. このように、クラス タニアは絶対的な支配者として君臨したが、その陰には 常に妖家の姿があった. なお、クラスタ二アにも求心力のあるリーダーが必要 と考えた妖家は、この頃に「職業：皇帝」に設定した個体 を製造した. この初代皇帝の名を工ンファシスという. 工 ンファシスは唯一絶対の存在として君臨したが、このレー ヴァテイルの皇帝は、初代にして末代となった.

After that, the Kurogane Laboratories fell off from the front stage of history, and kept themselves hidden. Now that the Tower of Origin was silenced, Harvestasha VISTA, located in the Tyria Head, became the Mainframe that essentially controlled all of the world (although actually XP transferred to VISTA all of her Tower administration functions after she was created, so this wasn't an special change at all). And then, Clustania began with their fear politics.

They ended spreading a tyrannical rule that didn't have any sort of mercy to the humans. This didn't spring from a simple greed for power: this actually was because the Reyvateils were taking in account the present level of destruction that had begun with this region and ended covering the entire Planet. The Reyvateils many times repeated that the humans were too foolish to be allowed to govern, and thought that they would never be able of avoiding to be a danger to the Planet.

The ones that spurred this kind of thoughts in the Reyvateils were no other than the Necrofamilies (Terus). The Necrofamilies felt that the humans should be destroyed, and that the Reyvateils were essential to the regeneration of this world. Because of that, when the Reyvateils started their rebellion, the Necrofamilies supported the rebel armies from the shadows.

Now that the Kurogane Laboratories had been completely silenced, there weren't any threats to the Reyvateils. Then the Necrofamilies, taking advantage of the situation, began implementing measures to completely rule over the humans. Among the many that were established around this time, the most representative of them, which even now have horrible reputations, are the ones of the [Control Names (True Names)] and [Cleansing].

When these measures were decided to be implemented, the humans waged war on Clustania once again. However, now the humans had lost the Kurogane Laboratories, they were completely defeated due to the lack of their technologies. The leaders of the humans were sent to the Slave District, and were the victims of the first Cleansing in history. At the same time, all of the humans were forced to have a Control Name. In this way, while Clustania had a rule that governed with absolute power, there always was a Necrofamily pulling the strings from the shadows.

By the way, this also was the time in which the Necrofamilies thought that Clustania needed a leader that also served as an unifying force, and manufactured an individual set as [Occupation: Empress] to have this role. The name of that first empress was Emphasis. Emphasis governed as the sole supreme being, but she also ended being the only empress in history.

管理名（真の名）

Control Names (True Names)
管理名は、アオ卜なら「蒼都_Ix.架程上帝門」となり、 4つの要素で構成される. このなかで自由に付けられる のは、第一節「蒼都」のみ. 残りは、クラスタニアの管轄 する行政区域へ届け出ることで付けられ、そこに自由は こない. なお、この届け出をせず、管理名が無い状態で大 人になると無条件でスレイヴに連行される. 抵抗すれば 即殺されてしまうので、人々は仕方なしに管理名の申請 をしているのがが実情だ. 申請所は、モロカッカ行政区（大 牙管轄）とパリエ行政区（塔下段管轄）の2カ所となる.

第二節について

第二節は、必ずアルファベット1つ+xになっており、管 理属といわれるものである. 「l」はモロカッ力行政区 管轄、「o」はパリ工行政区管轄、「c」はクラスタ二ア行 政区管轄になる. この3つは普通記号とされ、この世界 の90%以上がこの内のどれかを付けている. また「a」 は重要属性と呼ばれる、付いた者の管理体制は特に厳 しい. 「a」はの管理属性になっている者は、他の属性に比 べて秘匿性が弱く、情報公開に応じたり、ある程度の行 動範囲において監視を強制されたる. すなわち、クラスタ ニアから見た「重要管理人物」なのである. 次に「r」だが、これは管理属性を越えて別の属性に なった場合に与えられるものである. ミュー卜も元は「ミ ユート_ox.絡種シャリ工ッタ」であったが、クラスタニア （属性記号「c」）に無条件切替を行ったため「r」になっ た. 自然に考えれば「c」になるが、いわるゆ転入は「r」 であり、ネイティブとは差別している. これはそれぞれ、 方向によって記号が違っており、

パリエ　＜ー＞　クラスタニア　u <-> r パリエ　＜ー＞　モロカッカ　w <-> n クラスタニア　＜ー＞　モロカッカ　h <-> s

となる. この6記号を持つ者は少ないが、それぞれネイテ ィブコードの「c」「o」「l」に比べて蔑まれやすい. 最後に、サキについている「z」は特殊と呼ばれるカテ ゴリであるが、本来、サキが研究所の外で暮らすことは想 定外だった. そこで、今までに無い種で要注意という意 味もあり「z」が与えられている. 「z」は行政区の判断で 仮に付けられるが、ワケありで分類が難しい者に「z」を 与えているようて、処遇が決まれば「 z」ではなくなる.

第三節について

第三節は職業属性と呼ばれる. これは「御天絡癒　妖 響禄従　渉架猟奏　縛鋳零　(おんてんらくゆ　ようきょ うろく　じゅうしようかりょうそう　ばくいれい) 」とも呼 ばれる. このなかで下の3つは非独立というカテゴリで、 社会的制限を受けることが多い.

独立　御　総合支配階級（一級） 天　地域支配階級（二級） 絡　研究職 癒　医者、楽師 妖　レーヴアァイル兵（一級・将校クラス） 響　レーヴアナイル兵（一級・通常兵） 禄　一般兵（一級・将絞クフス） 従　一般兵（一級通常兵） 渉　販売職、サービス業 架　建設、工業 猟　農業、林業、狩猟業 奏　芸術家、アーティスト、演奏者、歌手

非独立　縛　扶養家族 鋳　保護管理下

特殊　　零　特殊

第四節について

第四節は「血統」と呼ばれるものである. この血統項 目は、管理名が施行されたとき、クラスタ二アによる検査 や測定によって、ある程度のカテゴリ分類で付けられて いる. だが、その次の世代から先は、親から子へと受け 継がれていくだけのものだ. 名字のようなものだが、初 期の決定が違うのと、比較的同じ血統の人数が多い. 大牙民に漢字名、アルキア民に力タカナ名が多いの は、施行時に、大牙は大抵が集落をひとくくりの血統に しており、アルキアはグラスノインフエリア頃にさかのぼ り、先祖の名前を持ってきている（ソル・シエールの血 統を持つ者のみ）ためである.

For example, in Aoto's case, his control name is [Aoto_lx.Constructor Ciela Gate], which is formed by four parts. Among these, the only part that can be freely made by a person is the first one, which in Aoto's case, is his name. The other three parts are made by the Governorate that administrates Clustania upon being reported by the person to which they will be given, so they can't be freely made by anyone. By the way, if a person doesn't report not having a Control Name, and still hasn't gotten one by the time they reach adulthood, they will be taken to the Slave District. Actually speaking, given that all opposition will be instantly annihilated, all of the people have no choice than applying for a Control Name. The places where the Names can be requested are at the Morocacca Governorate (whose jurisdiction is the Great Fang) and the Parie Governorate (whose jurisdiction is the lower areas of the Tower).

Second Part
The second part is always composed of one alphabet letter and a "x", which serves to indicate to which area they belong (Native Code). The [l] indicates belonging to the Morocacca Governorate, the [o] to the Parie Governorate, and the [c] to the Clustania Governorate. These three are the normal Native Codes, and 90% of the current population in this world have one of them.

There is also the [a], which is called the "Urgency Code", and indicates that those that have it in their names are under an especially hard administration system. The [a] code has a much weaker privacy protection system in comparison to the other codes, which allows it to disclose information in quantities proportional to the actions of the subject, to enforce surveillance over it. In other words, they become an [person under emergency administration], which are always under Clustania's surveillance.

The next code is [r], which is given to those people have changed their place of residency to one administrated by other Governorate. For example, Mute's original Control Name was [Mute_ox.Mechanic Sharietta], but since she unconditionally moved to Clustania (which has the [c] code), her code was changed to [r]. We naturally would have thought that her Native Code would have been changed to [c], but since she moved to Clustania, her Code became [r] to distinguish her from the native Clustanians. Here are the changes that are performed on the Codes of a person after he or she moves:

Parie <-> Clustania   u <-> r

Parie <-> Morocacca w <-> n

Clustania <-> Morocacca h <-> s

However, since the number of people that have these six codes is extremely scarce, they are usually ignored when in comparison to the ones that have the native codes of [c], [o] and [l].

Finally, the [z] code that Saki has in her name is called the Special Category, because she was never supposed to live outside of the Think Tank in the first place. Due to this, she was given the [z] code as a warning of her belonging to an species that has never existed before (the γ-Sublimate). The Governorates can decide to give the [z] code to a person, however, this is only made as a provisional measure when there are problems to identify which code should be given to that specific person, and that person will lose it once a proper Native Code has been given.

Third Part
The third part is called the Occupation Category. These categories are [Controller, President, Mechanic, Healer, Magician, Loudness, Commander, Subordinate, Transport, Constructor, Hunter, Singer, Bound, Cast and Zero]. These categories are also subdivided into Independent, Non-Independent and Special, which also give many social limits to the people that have them.

Independent
Controller: Union Ruling Class (Class 1)

President: Region Ruling Class (Class 2)

Mechanic: Researcher

Healer: Medic, Musician

Magician: Reyvateil Soldier (Class 1 - Commander Class)

Loudness: Reyvateil Soldier (Class 1 - Normal Soldier)

Commander: Normal Soldier (Class 1 - Commander Class)

Subordinate: Normal Soldier (Class 1- Normal Soldier)

Transport: Merchant, Services Provider

Constructor: Carpenter, Steeplejack

Hunter: Farmer, Forestry, Hunter

Singer: Artist, Music Player, Singer

Non-Independent
Bound: Dependent of others for income

Cast: Under Surveillance

Special
Zero: Special

Fourth Part
Finally, the fourth part is called the [lineage part]. This lineage is established as part of the Control Name through inspections and measurements done by Clustania, and are added just as a means of further categorizing the people. However, starting from the next generation, that lineage name is the only thing that will be passed down from parents to children. While there were many differences among them when this system was first established, now there is a great number of people that have the same lineages.

Normally the people of the Great Fang have their names written in Kanji and the people of Archia have their names written in Katakana, but when the Control Names were first established, all of the settlements in the Great Fang were lumped together to make the lineages, while the Archians had to overcome many difficulties just to keep the names of their ancestors (only those that had ancestors from Sol Ciel).

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アルキア研究所設立

Establishment of the Archia Think Tank
クラスタニアによる恐怖政治が始まってからも、しば らくの間はクロガネ研究所は沈黙を守っていた. クロガ ネ研究所のスタッフは、表面上はクラスタ二アの言いな りになり、管理名も素直に登録することにしている. 極 力目立つ行動を起こさず、すべては穏便に、ことを荒立 てないように慎重に計画を進めていたのである. そしてクラスタ二アによる管理名法の施行より11年 の時間を経て、ついに行動を起こす時が来た. アルキ ア・力レン達は、新たな事業として「アルキア研究所」 の創設許可を申請すべく、クラスタニアを訪ねた. この 嘆願に対するクラスタニアの返答は却下であったが、 これはアルキア・力レンにとっては予想どおりの返答で あった. それでも申請の手続きを踏んだのは、彼らなり に、穏便に事を済ませようと意図してのことである. し かしこの申請が却下されたことで、アルキア・力レンは とうとう行動を起こした. こののち、クラスタ二アのレ ーヴァテイル達は、数回にわたり、少なくない数のレー ヴァテイルが突然死を迎えたのである. アルキア・力レン達が進めていた極秘計画とは、ハ ーヴェスタシャXPによるSHサーバーのメンテナンス （操作）システムの確立だったのである. 長い雌伏の期 間、クロガネ研究所のスタッフはひたすらとの研究に打 ち込んでいたのだ. まさかの事態に、クラスタ二ア政府 の態度は豹変した. そして、クラスタ二アの管理区域と なっていたパリ工行政区にある原初の塔を訪れ、アル キア研究所運営の許可を出したのである. アルキア・力レン達がこのような強硬手段に出た理由 は、つまるところ、かつてのクラスタ二ア将軍クラストセ レスと同じ判断である. 立場こそ逆であったが、レーヴ ァテイル達に制限をされていては、クロガネの研究を 継続することができない. かといってSHサーバーを断 絶し、レーヴァテイルを根絶やしにすれば、この塔はい ずれ落ちてしまう. 両者の利害は、人間側がSHサーバ ーの管理さえ握っていれば、バランスが取れているの である. レーヴァテイル達には繁栄してもうい、この原 初の塔の導力を賄ってもらわなければならないのだ. アルキア・力レンは自身の立場を有利にしたうえで、 あらためてクラスタ二アに条件を提示した. 内容は、ご く簡単なものである. 今後このようなことをしない代わ りに、この原初の塔を中心とした半径1000ストン（約 3000メートル）の域を、アルキア研究所の行政区と すること、である. すなわち、この半径1000ストンの 特区内で行っていることに対し、クラスタニアは干渉し ないという条件だ. クラスタニアはこの条件を飲み、表 向きはパり工行政区のままにしたが、実際的な権限 アルキアの会に明け渡したのである. 独立を勝ち取ったアルキアの会、ひいてはクロガネ 研究所は、「アルキア研究所」として生まれ変わること となった. アルキア研究所の目的はただひとつ、クロガ ネの意志を継いで、とある計画を実行すること. その計 画とは、惑星再生計画ではなく、人類進化計画であった. クロガネが惑星再生計画の裏で構想を進めていた、も う1つのプロジェクト. このプロジェクトの主任こそが、 アルキア・力レンだったのである. 当時、コードネーム 「B計画」と呼ばれていたこのプロジェクトは、研究員 にもほとんど知られていなかった. その機密事項の徹 底ぶりは、現アルキア研究所の研究者ですらも、アルキ ア・力レンが説明するまでは知らなかったほどである.

Although Clustania had already begun their fear politics, they still continued protecting the Kurogane Laboratories for as long as they kept silent. On the surface, the Laboratories' staff seemed to follow Clustania's orders exactly as they were told, even going as far as voluntarily registering their own Control Names. Since they wanted to remain as inconspicuous as possible, they obeyed all the orders they received, and continued with their projects in a way that didn't anger the Clustanians.

Then, 11 years after Clustania had instated the Control Name system, the time to carry out their actions finally came. Archia Charen's group went to Clustania, and applied for the permission to establish a new organization called the [Archia Think Tank]. While this petition was initially rejected, this was the same exact kind of reply that Archia Charen had expected. However, he expected to be able to settle this peacefully by just continuing with the application process. So although this application was rejected, Archia began with his activities. After this, many of the Clustanian Reyvateils began suddenly dying, and this repeated many times.

This was a project that Archia Charen had established in absolute secrecy: a system that used Harvestasha XP to perform maintenance (manipulation of data) on the SH Server. This was a project that no one aside of the staff of the Kurogane Laboratories knew, and it remained in secrecy during a very long time. This unbelievable situation caused a complete change on the behavior of Clustania's government. Then, the Clustanians came to the Tower of Origin, which was located inside the Parie Governorate and treated as a restricted area; and approved making the Archia Think Tank became into the administrators for it.

The reason why Archia Charen's group had to take these drastic measures was because of the same exact reasons that Clustceres had to make that bet with the Kurogane Laboratories. However, this time that decision was taken by the other party, since they weren't capable of continuing with Kurogane's research under the severe restrictions that the Reyvateils put over them. Despite this, if they destroyed the SH Server, and exterminated the Reyvateils by doing this, all of the Tower would have ended falling apart. It was on their best interest that the humans regained the administration of the SH Server, and the balance scale tipped on their favor once again. Also, given that the Reyvateils had thrived so much, there wasn't any need to continue using the Symphonic Power-generating facilities of the Tower of Origin to provide energy.

Archia Charen tried to make this situation as advantageous as possible to himself, and modified the conditions they would put on the Custanians. These conditions were actually pretty simple. Starting from that day, and irrevocably, the Archia Think Tank would have complete control over an administrative area of 1000 Stons (around 3 Km) of diameter around the Tower of Origin. Likewise, Clustania would be unable to interfere with anything that happened within this 1000 Ston special administrative area. Clustania accepted these conditions, and while they continued calling it the Parie Governorate, the actual government of this area was surrendered to the Archia Association.

Now that the Archia Association and the Kurogane Laboratories had gained their independence, they were fused and reborn as the [Archia Think Tank]. The only goal the Archia Think Tank has was succeeding Kurogane's will, and carrying out a certain project. That certain project wasn't the Planet Regeneration Project, but the Human Evolution Project. That was the other project that Kurogane developed in secret while he still worked on the Planet Regeneration Project. The current project chief for this was Archia Charen himself. At the time, the Human Evolution Project was known by the codename [Plan B], and most of the researchers in the Laboratories didn't even know about its existence. It was kept in such a high level of secrecy that not even the researchers of the Archia Think Tank knew about it until Archia Charen explained all the details on it himself.

難航する人類進化計画

The Difficult Journey of the Human Evolution Project
アルキア研究所の設立により、ついに日の目を見ること になる人類進化計画だが、その実行には気の遠くなるほ どの時間が必要だった. その理由は、ク口ガネの考案した 人類進化計画には、レーヴァテイル質が必要だったため である. 当時、第三世代という言葉はまだ存在せず、人が レーヴァテイルと結婚するというのは笑い話でしかなか った. しかし、クロガネは最初からレヴァテイルと人間 の交配に大きな可能性を見いだしていたのである. 第一 紀、ケロガネがβプロジェクトに関わっていたとき、彼は生 殖器官についてかなりのこだわりを見せていた. それは、 人類が進化するにあたって、これほど有益な材料がない からである. 当時のク口ガネは、グラスノインフエリアまで は予測できなかったが、やがてこの世界は人間側の環境 適応が必要になると確信していた. 惑星が蘇らなければ、 レーヴァテイルこそが人を救うことになると考えたのだ. その力ギを握るのが「レーヴァテイル質」である. レーヴァテイルは人間が完全にコント口ールできる生命 である. つまり、コントロールできる環境下と、まったく未 知のロジックを持つ人間を交配すれば、人間をより簡単 に、瞬間的に性質を書き換えられるというのがクロガネの 研究の骨子だった. のちに第三世代と呼ばれる、半レーヴ ァテイルは、彼の想像どおりの結果だったわけだ. だが、 実質的な第三世代の開発者とも言えるクロガネは、若く して逝った. そのために苦労したのは、実際に第三世代にな った者である. NEEの誤動作による短命などという不具 合は、恐らくクロガネならば対応できたのだろうから. さて、その第三世代自体も「進化人間」ともいうべき存 在であるが、死の直前にクロガネが考えていた進化人間 は、もっとアクティブなものだった. 彼がイメージしていた 進化人間像とは、この星の現状に合わせて最適化したボ ティにメタモルフォシス（変態）することだったのだ. そし で、第三塔のSHサーバーは、レーヴァテイルのフィジカ ル領域の書き換えが可能なように設計されているのであ る. 今となってはこの設計が意図的かどうかは不明だが、 もちろんSHサーバーの設計者はクロガネであった. このように、人類進化計画を行うには人間とレーヴァテ イルの交配種と、それに伴うレ一ヴァテイル質の浸透の推 進が不可欠であった. それはどう考えても、アルキア・カ レンの存命中に為し得られる計画ではない. そこでアルキ ア・力レンは、「レーヴァテイル質の浸透」と「進化形態の 確立」の二本柱で研究を進め、彼の世代にスイッチを押す だけで人類進化計画が実行できるよう画策したのである.

While the Human Evolution Project finally came into the light after the Archia Think Tank was founded, everything seemed that it would still need a very long time to be executed. This was because the way in which Kurogane had planned the project, which required large quantities of Reyvateil genes. At this time, the Third Generations didn't exist yet, and marriage between humans and Reyvateils wasn't anything else than a bad joke to most people. However, Kurogane saw a large potential in the crossbreeding between both races from the time in which the first Reyvateils were made. In the First Era, when he still was part of the β-Project, he was the only one among the researchers that was obsessed with giving reproductive organs to the Reyvateils. That was because he considered these would have been beneficial materials for the evolution of mankind. While Kurogane couldn't predict that something like the Grathnode Inferia would happen at that time, in a short time he started believing that the humans would need to adapt to their environment to survive. He thought that if the Planet wasn't regenerated, the Reyvateils would become the ones that would save the people. He grasped that the key to this would become the [Reyvateil Genes].

The Reyvateils are beings capable of completely controlling the humans. In short, the basis of Kurogane's research was this: if they, who can manipulate the environment, are crossbred with the humans, which still have many unknown kinds of logic, it would become far simple to instantly rewrite the genes of their descendants. This would mean that the so-called Third Generations, or half-Reyvateils, are actually the outcomes he imagined from his research. However, while it could be said that Kurogane essentially was the creator of the Third Generations, he could also be called the culprit of them dying young. Because of these difficulties is that the current Third Generations became as we know now. Since their short life spans are due to malfunctions in the LEM, most likely Kurogane could have developed a way of correcting this problem.

Well then, while the Third Generations are beings that should be called [Evolved Humans], the evolved humans that Kurogane had in mind at the time of his death were actually much more active. The evolved humans he imagined would have undergone a metamorphosis to make their bodies adapt in the most optimum way to the current conditions of the Planet. And then, the SH Server of the Third Tower was designed to allow the possibility of rewriting the areas that govern the physical form of the Reyvateils. While it's unknown at the moment if this way of designing it was intentional or not, it's certain that Kurogane himself was the designer of this SH Server.

In this way, we can see that implementing the crossbreeding between humans and Reyvateils, and the Reyvateil genes spreading throughout the population were both essential components to the Human Evolution Project. And even if we think about it in that way, Archia Charen was completely incapable of executing this project during his lifetime. This was because he based his research on two pillars: [The Spreading of Reyvateil Genes], and the [Establishment of an Evolved Form], and his generation only worked in making the project simply enough so it could be executed by just flipping a switch.

クラスタニアの憂鬱

The Clustanian Depression
独立を保証され、自由に研究できる立場を手にしたア ルキア研究所であったが、それによって表だった変化は なにも見せなかった. 望めばソル・クラスタの地に覇を唱 えることもできたが、もとよりそのような考えは毛頭な い. アルキア研究所にとって、現在の世界の均衡は理想 的だったのである. アルキア研究所にとって都合のいい環境とは、クラス タニアが大牙を牽制していること、そしてアルキア研究 所が目立たないととである. アルキア研究所は実質クラ スタ二アの命を掌握しているが、もしそれを盾にクラス タ二アに干渉し、クラスタ二アがアルキアに矛先を向け るようなことがあれば、極めて面倒な事態になってしま う. クラスタ二アがもし決起すると、文字どおり決死の覚 悟でアルキア研究所を潰しにかかるだろう. そうなれば、 貴重なβ純血種を全滅させざるを得ない. もちろんそん なごとをすれば、彼の研究は水泡に帰してしまう. それど ころか、密が落ちてしまうのだ. このような奇妙な均衡のもと、世界はしばらく平穏な 時代を迎えた. アルキア研究所は3170年の操業開始以 来、民生用商晶の開発・販売や、ダイブマシンの開発など で実績を上げ、商業組織として順調に成長している. しか し、その裏では、極秘裏に実験を開始していた. この実 験とそが、アルキア・力レンの研究の一方の柱、「進化形 態の確立」である. 3190年頃のクラスタニアでは、奇妙な病気がはやり 始めていた. レーヴァテイルが突発的に体調不良を訴え、 高熱で死んでしまったり、また瞬間的に水に還ったりする という報告があがっていたのである. また、なかには突 然身体の一部が変化してしまうという、異常な病気も確 認されていた. クラスタニアの工ンファシス総統は、この 異常な病気はアルキア研究所によるものと察してはいた が、証拠がつかめないために深く追及することができな い. 実際、この病気は大量発生しているわけではなく、年 間に2、3件というペスであったことから、事件性とし ては弱かったため、公には告知されなかった. 加えて、一 般のレーヴァテイルには、アルキア研究所がSHサーバ ーを握っていることは知らされていなかったのである. これはクラスタニアの上層部が、レーヴァテイル達に無 用な不安を与えないよう配慮してためであった. この件に最も反応し、そして積極的な追及を求めたの は、レーヴァテイルではなく妖家であった. 数々の戦争 によって人口が激減していた妖家だが、この時代はまだそ れなりに存在している. 当時のクラスタニアは、レーヴァ テイルと妖家の人口比率が8:2ほどであった. 妖家はレーヴァテイルの謎の病気について、アルキア 研究所によるものであると断定した. すぐにでもアルキ ア研究所の営業許可を取り下げ、さらには破壊させるよ う、クラスタニア首脳部に進言している. だが、エンファ シス総統はそれに応じなかった. SHサーバーを握られ ているクラスタニアは、アルキア研究所と緊張関係にな るのを避けたのである. 進言が功を奏さず、クラスタニ アに行動を起こす気がないことを察した妖家は、単独で アルキア研究所に向かった. 妖家による研究所の訪問は、表面上はごくおだやかな ものであった. もとより、妖家には研究の影響を批判す るつもりは毛頭ない. 妖家は人間が滅ぶことを望んでは いたが、それ以上に世界の行く末を案じ、人間がこれ以 上世界を崩壊させないように願ったのである. そのため、妖家は相談という形で話題を切り出した. 最近レーヴァテイル達の間で妙な病気が発生している、 それはSHサーバーに関係する箇所で起こっているか ら、管理している貴方達の方で一度診断してほしい、とい うものであった. しかし、妖家はこうも付け加えている. もし原因が究明できない場合は、やむを得ず我々の力を もって、その原因を探る事になります、と. それは、グラ スノインフエリアを起こした張本人である妖家だからこ そ言える、強気な発言だった. アルキア研究所は騒ぎを大きくしないために、この要 求を受け入れて身をひくことにした. しかし数年の時を 経て、さらに衝撃的な計画を発表するのである.

While the Archia Think Tank now had its independence guaranteed, and received a position in which they could continue researching freely, no one saw any changes on the surface. They could have gained the supremacy in Sol Cluster if they wished, but that kind of thought never crossed their minds. The only ideals the Archia Think Tank had were making the world balanced once again.

The environment was very favorable to them, since Clustania still kept the Great Fang in check, and they themselves avoided standing out as much as they could. While the Archia Think Tank essentially held the lives of everyone in Clustania in their hands, if Clustania ever managed to interfere that shield and attacked Archia with all their might, the situation would become extremely hard to solve. If Clustania actually decided to take this kind of action, all of the staff in the Think Tank was literally prepared to die, and would continue inside the Think Tank until it was completely destroyed. This was decided so not all of the precious Pureblooded β-types would be eliminated. Of course, if that ever happened, Archia's research would have been for nothing, and would disappear in the mists of history.

And thanks to this weird form of balance, the world enjoyed a brief period of peace. Since the Archia Think Tank started operations in 3170 AD, they focused on the development and marketing of products for the people, and even made achievements such as the development of the Dive Machines, which made it grow into a large corporation. However, on the other hand, they also had begun experiments in extreme secrecy. These experiments themselves were based on one of the research pillars established by Archia Charen: [The Establishment of an Evolved Form].

Around 3190 AD, an strange disease began wreaking havoc in Clustania. According to reports, the Reyvateils would suddenly complain about feeling ill, and then would suffer from a extremely high fever, to finally end turning into water and dying. Also, some of the affected had changes in random parts of their bodies, which confirmed it being an extremely weird disease. While the Emphasis Regime had guessed that this disease was caused by the Archia Think Tank, they couldn't perform a deeper investigation due to the lack of evidence. Actually, this disease didn't affect a large number of Reyvateils: it affected around 2 or 3 Reyvateils per year, so because of it being pretty much an isolated incident, no information about it was disclosed to the public. Furthermore, normal Reyvateils weren't even aware about the SH Server being in possession of the Archia Think Tank, so this was a decision taken by the Clustanian executive staff to avoid giving unnecessary anxiety to their citizens.

The ones that reacted the most fiercely to this, and actively sought evidence to frame the Think Tank weren't the Reyvateils themselves, but the Necrofamilies. While their population had greatly dwindled due to the continuous wars, an small number of Necrofamilies still remained in this era. At the time, Clustania's population had a Reyvateil-Necrofamily ratio of approximately 8-2.

The Necrofamilies had concluded that the cause of the mysterious disease was the Archia Think Tank, and immediately proposed the Clustanian executive staff to revoke their business permissions and completely destroy their installations. However, the Emphasis Regime rejected these proposals because they wanted to avoid straining the relationships between Archia and Clustania due to the Think Tank having possession of the SH Server.The proposal went unheard, and presuming that Clustania wasn't interested in acting against the humans, the Necrofamilies marched to the Archia Think Tank by themselves.

When the Necrofamilies arrived at the Think Tank, it all seemed very quiet on the surface. This ended making them decide that they didn't have any reason to say the disease was caused by the Think Tank's influence. As much as the Necrofamilies wished to annihilate the humans, that was because of what they expected for the future of this world, and wished that the humans wouldn't destroy it more than how it was.

Because of that, the Necrofamilies decided to solve this problem by discussing it with the Think tank. They said that "the strange disease that had appeared among a few Reyvateils recently most likely happened because something had happened to the SH Server areas related to them. Since you are the administrators of the Server, we would like to request a diagnosis to be made on these areas". However, they also added something more. "And in case you are unable to determine the cause, we will use our powers against our will, and discover that cause by ourselves". That was quite a firm speech, done by the same Necrofamilies that were the perpetrators of the Grathnode Inferia.

In order to avoid causing large uproars, the Archia Think Tank ended accepting this request in secret. However, a few years later they announced a much more shocking project.

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βの量産時代

The Era of the Mass Production of β-types
3210年、アルキア研究所の2代目所長に就任したデ ィアンは、恐ろしい計画を発表した. アルキア研究所が 新しいSHサーバーを作り、β純血種を量産するという のである. 当時、世間ではハ一ヴェスターシャXPは沈黙 していると認知されていたため、新サーバーを作って量 産するという形で告知された. 問題となったのが、その量産した数である. 数年にわ たり、毎年ほぼ培養槽の稼動率100%である500人も のβ純血種が量産された. そしてこれらのβ純血種は、第 一紀のエル・エレミアの習慣と同様に、「製昂」として大 牙やアルキアで販売されたのだ. それも格安で. これはもちろん、アルキア研究所のもう1つの研究テ ーマである「レーヴァテイル質の浸透」が目的である. さ らにディアンは、この数年後には、レーヴァテイルとの間 に子供をもうけた場合、子育てに関する資金援助、アル キアの街への移住許可などの特典を設定した. この制度 は世界中を震撼させ、クラスタ二アはレーヴァテイルを 生命として見ない行為を強く非難し、大牙でも多様な波 紋を呼んでいる. なかでも女性による運動の激化は相 当なものであった. この体制が公になってからしばらく の間、当然ながら人間同士での結婚率は大幅に落ち込 んでいる. 大牙の貧しい暮うしを強いられていた大牙民 は、安価なレーヴァテイルを購入し、子供をもうけ、アル キアで暮らすのを理想としたのである. なかには貧しさ のあまり、自らの子にレーヴァテイルを与え、一緒にア ルキアに渡ろうとする家族すらもいた. この傾向は工ス カレートし、大牙には男児を産めば花、女児は地獄（食 い扶持が増えるだけ）という最悪のモラルが蔓延する. 大牙民の心は荒み、人々はいがみあい、女性による運動 で満ちあふれた. 女性を中心とするグループによるレー ヴァテイル裁判のようなものまで生まれ、各地ではレー ヴァている狩りが発生. あやしいと思われた女性が服を 剥がれるといった事件までも多発している. この状態を受け、クラスタニアはアルキアに対してレ ーヴァテイルβの製造停止を要求した. それは武力行使 を匂わせる、極めて強固な姿勢であった. 加えて、クラス タニア軍による、初の大規模な大牙進軍が実行された. 大牙の荒廃は軍隊によって鎮められ、モラルを正すため童 に厳しく更正されている. この混乱の中で、実質的に大 牙はクラスタ二アの支配下となった. これまでも監視区 域であったモロ力ッ力行政区（現上帝門）は、この機会に 拡張され、統治機関の本部に設定される. こうして大牙 の首都的機能を持ったモロカッカは、レーヴァテイル兵 やクラスタ二アの行政官達でおおいに発展した.

On 3210, a man named Dian was appointed as the second Chairman of the Archia Think Tank, and right as he assumed his new position, he announced a shocking project: that the Archia Think Tank would make a new SH Server, and mass-produce Pureblooded β-types for it. This announcement of a new Server was just a bluff made because everyone in the world knew that Harvestasha XP was silenced.

This of course had the goal of realizing one of the research themes the Think Tank had: the [Spreading of the Reyvateil Genes]. Furthermore, in case humans and Reyvateils had married in a few years after this, Dian established the Archia City, allowed them to move there, and even supported them financially in raising their children. This new system provoked large waves in the world: the Clustanians strongly criticized this as the Archians not seeing the Reyvateils as living persons, while the people of the Great Fang reacted in varied ways, the women having the most intense reactions to this. When the system finally began to implemented, naturally, the crossbreed marriages were still in a unfavorable position in comparison to the marriages between fellow humans. However, due to the poverty in which the people of the Great Fang were forced to live, they waged everything on the plan of buying a cheap Reyvateil, having their children with her, and then moving together to Archia to settle as a family. This trend slowly escalated to the point in which the morale of the people turned into this: when a boy was born, he was considered as a precious treasure, while when a girl was born, she was considered as a machination from hell (because she would just increase the number of mouths that would have to been feed). Due to how dried the hearts of the people of the Great Fang were, and the number of quarrels they commonly had, the women had to begin taking actions: they formed an all female group that served as a tribunal of sorts for Reyvateils, and began witch-hunting them throughout all of Sol Cluster. It soon enough became severe enough for cases in which these witch-hunters caught girls that were thought to be Reyvateils and ripped off their clothes to search for their Install Ports to be common throughout all the region.

Upon hearing about these actions, Clustania immediately sent to Archia a formal request to completely halt the production of Pureblooded β-types, and to demonstrate how serious the request was, they threatened with the usage of military force to stop them. And besides, the Clustania Army had already began executing their first large-scale march in the Great Fang. They began suppressing the decay of the society Great Fang, to severely reform the morale for the way in which children should be procreated and raised. It was within these chaotic times that the Great Fang became essentially a vassal to Clustania. Until now, the area under surveillance of Clustania was only the Morocacca Governorate (currently the city of Ciela Gate), but after this, they annexed the rest of the Great Fang and built a headquarter of the Clustanian government in it. In this way, the Morocacca Governate, which contained in its territory the megalopolis possessing the most advanced facilities in the Great Fang, greatly expanded to cover the rest of the peaks due to the actions of the Reyvateil soldiers and Clustanian executive officials.

レーヴァテイル質の浸透

The Spreading of the Reyvateil Genes
アルキア研究所の強引な手段により、確実に第三世代 は増えていた. それも爆発的にである. アルキアのレー ヴァテイル家族支援は、10年程で廃止されたが、それが 不要なほどに、第三世代は定着したのである. 当然アルキアの居住区にも限界はあるし、仮にまだ余 裕があったとしても、アルキアにはこの支援策を長期に わたって施行するつもりはなかった. この支援策はあく まできっかけ作りであり、大牙の人達の間に、レーヴァテ イルとの間で子を作ることの抵抗を拭いさることができ ればよかったのである. 現に大牙民にとってレーヴァテ イルはごく一般的な存在へと代わっており、ついにはモ ロカッ力行政区に赴任したレーヴアテイルと人間との間 でも、普通に結婚し子供を産むようになったのである. なお、アルキア研究所とクラスタ二アの間では、この 異常な制度の廃止を巡って武力衝突が発生していた. し かし、アルキア研究所はSHサーバーを操作することな く、早々に降伏している. さらに終戦時の協定として、レ ーヴァテイルの製造停止も受け入れていた. ろくな抵抗もなく引き下がったアルキアに対し、クラス タニアは疑問を感じてはいたが、大牙の平定に相当なパ ワーがいる現在となっては、アルキアを監視する程度の 対策しかできなかった. こうして、徐々に世界は落ち着きを取り戻していく. 人 もレーヴァテイルも少しずつ心を許し合い、そして何と か普通に接することができるようになった頃、アルキア によって仕掛けられた次の爆弾が爆発する. β純血種の 量産計画から約20年が経過した3231年、初期に作ら れたレーヴァテイル達が全員死亡したのだ. 翌年も、そ の翌年にも、β純血種はタイムリミットを迎えたように死 んでいった. アルキア研究所はレーヴァテイル達のテロ メアを20年に設定していたのである. これは意図的な ものであった. これによって、レーヴァテイルの絶対的 な数量は一気に減少した. アルキアの狙いは、あくまで も「レーヴァテイル質の浸透」であって、レーヴァテイル そのものが長生きする必要はない. それどころか、あま りに増えすぎては、クラスタニアの潜在的な戦力となっ てしまう危険性が高いのである. すなわち、子供ができ たら母親は必要ないのである. まさにレーヴァテイルを 道具扱いした、悪魔の計画て、あった. なお、レーヴァテイル質を単体で人間に浸透させる研 究も進んではいたが、なかなか良い結果が出なかった. レーヴァテイル質は、あくまで生きたレーヴァテイルの 影響により定着するものであり、薬品や放射線などの投 射で植えつけられるものではなかったのである.

It's true that due to the coercive methods of the Archia Think Tank, the Third Generation population in Sol Cluster increased tremendously. However, the Reyvateil family support system they had established was eliminated after around 10 years later, being deemed as unnecessary, and the Third Generations were finally established in this region.

Naturally, since Archia had limited space for its residential areas, and even if they had extended the time the support system would continue working, they never intended making these measures to last for a long time. After all, these measures were only made to eliminate the opposition that existed among the people of the Great Fang to Reyvateils having children with humans. The Reyvateils were now treated as normal people by the inhabitants of the Great Fang, and the people married with them, as well as their descendants, could finally live in peace. Thus, that kind of marriages became commonplace shortly after.

Still, the relations between Clustania and the Archia Think Tank greatly deteriorated over the abolition of this strange system, and this ended causing an armed conflict. However, since Archia still couldn't use the control they had over the SH Server, they surrendered shortly after the conflict started. The only condition that was made in the peace treaty after these skirmishes ended was that the Archia Think Tank would stop creating new Reyvateils, which was accepted.

Clustania still felt that there was a problem here due to how Archia had surrendered without any sort of resistance, but since they already had more than enough power to subjugate the Great Fang, they couldn't execute any counter-measures beyond simply monitoring Archia's activities.

In this way, the world gradually returned to peace. The humans and the Reyvateils slowly began accepting each other, until the contact between them somehow became an everyday thing. However, at that point, the next one of the bombs that Archia had made exploded. In 3231 AD, around 20 years after the Pureblooded β-types were mass-produced, all of the first batch of Reyvateils that were produced died. The following year, and the year following it, many other Pureblooded β-types also reached their time limits, and passed away. This was because the Archia Think Tank intentionally set their Telomere counts to last only 20 years. Using this method, the Think Tank produced such a large number of Reyvateil by a pretty low cost. This was only to accomplish the [Spreading of Reyvateil Genes] they had planned, so even these Reyvateils themselves didn't need to have long lives. On the other hand, this also brought the risk of giving an incredible war potential to Clustania due to the large number that was produced. In other words, they didn't need any of the parents: they just needed the children born from the union of a human with a Reyvateil. Due to having treated the Reyvateils like disposable tools, this was pretty much like a project designed by a demon.

Still, while this managed to spread the Reyvateil Genes to the humans and continue with the research, it didn't produce very favorable results. The Reyvateils Genes are pretty much dependent on the influence of the living Reyvateil to awaken, and aren't genes that can be forced to be planted with the projection of elements such as medicines or radiation.

ガルベルト戦争

The Galvert War
モロカッ力行政区と同じくして、パリ工行政区の規模 も一気に大きくなった. こちらはほぼ、この土地にあった アルキア研究所の監視役として発展している. その性質 上、モ口力ッ力行政区以上に緊迫した状況での発展であ り、より優秀なレーヴァテイルが送り込まれていた. そしてこの判断が功を奏して、アルキア研究所が意図 的に短命なレーヴァテイルを製造していた件が発覚した 際、クラスタニアのレーヴァテイル達は迅速にアルキア 研究所を制圧している. このときの調査により、アルキ ア製β純血種の寿命が、わずか20年に設定されている ことを突き止めた. だが、当のアルキアはこの件を追及 されても、罪悪感は微塵もない. 製品の設定は製造者が 決めることであると主張し、断固として譲らなかった. 加 えて、それによってコストダウンを実現したなどと発言し たことから、クラスタニアと一触即発の状態に突入する. この関係は即座に悪化し、まもなくアルキアとクラスタ ニアの間で軍事衝突にまで発展. 激戦地となった地名か ら、ガルベルト戦争と呼ばれる戦争となった. 前回の戦 争では短期間で降伏したアルキアだが、ガルベルト戦争 では全力で抗戦. 戦争は数年にわたり、両者の戦力を著 しく削っていく. アルキアはβ純血種の量産をされに続 け、研究所は軍事費の割合が激増したことにより、研究 どころではない財政事情となっていた. かつての所長、 アルキア・カレンが最も恐れていた事態が今、現実とな ってしまったのである. 戦争は泥沼化する一方で、初期 は両勢力にとって片手間だった戦争も、5年も経った頃 には企業総出で対策を立てるほどになっていた. そんななか、アルキア研究所の中で内乱が発生する. アルキ・アカレンの死後、窓際に追いやられていた研究 者、クラート・セルビアが首謀者であった. 彼は密かに 同志を集め、ディアンを所長の座から追いやったのであ る. ディアンに不満を持つ所員は多く、この計画はスム ズに成功した. そして次の所長となったクラトは、す ぐさまクラスタ二アに和平交渉を持ちかけた. 和平交渉では、互いに1っすつの条件が提示された. アルキア側かう提示した条件は、アルキアに駐屯してい るパリ工行政区の撤退. 一方、クラスタ二ア側が提示し た条件は、アルキア研究所は今後一切β純血種は作らな い、というものであった. 両者はともに承諾し、戦争は 終結. クラスタニア兵と行政官はアルキアの街から撤退 し、アルキア研究所もまた、β純血種の製造ラインを止 めた. アルキアにとって、すでにレーヴァテイル質の浸 透という目的は果たされているため、この交渉のデメリ ットはまったくと言っていいほどなかったのである.

Similarly to the Morocacca Governorate, the Parie Governorate managed to greatly expand its area in an instant. With this, now the Archia Think Tank had a range of surveillance that practically covered all of the region. Due to this situation, the situation in the Morocacca Governorate began straining, and it only worsened when they were ordered to transfer over their best Reyvateils to the Parie Governorate.

And after this decision was carried out, Clustania learned about the incident of the Archia Think Tank intentionally making Reyvateils with very short life spans, and quickly sent its own Reyvateils to gain the complete control of Archia. According to this investigation, it was confirmed that the Pureblooded β-types that Archia had made had their life spans set at 20 years. However, no matter how much they were blamed for this incident, the Archians never showed any remorse or guilt about having caused this. They insisted that as the makers of these products, they had the right to configure them however they wished, and never backed down from this position. Furthermore, having said loudly to the Clustanians that this was purposely done just to reduce the production costs instantly strained all of the relations between both factions, to the point it exploded into yet other conflict. This war in particular was so bloody that the site that was used as the battlefield ended being called the same as it: the Galvert War. While in the previous conflict Archia surrendered after a short time, they fought with all they had this time. The passing of the years had considerably strengthened the forces of both factions: Archia had temporarily continued their mass-production of Pureblooded β-types, considering this wasn't the proper time to research, and using up all of their public finances to cover the rapidly increasing war costs. The worst fear that Archia Charen, the first Chairman of the Think Tank, had, was now turning into reality. On a hand, the war ended stagnating, which made both parties to only fight occasionally in its initial stages. However, since no advance had been made by any of their troops in five years, both parties began taking larger risks, and plotting stronger counter-measures.

And while all this happened, an insurrection occurred within the own ranks of the Archia Think Tank after Archia Charen died. It was perpetrated by one of its former researchers, Clart Serbia. He secretly began gathering followers, and drove out Dian from the Chairman position. Given that a great part of the staff was unsatisfied with Dian's management, this plan was executed pretty smoothly. And now that Clart had become the new Chairman, he immediately began the peace negotiations with Clustania.

During these negotiations, both parties mutually presented conditions to end the conflicts. The condition that Archia proposed was that Clustania withdrew its troops from the Parie Governorate. On the other hand, Clustania proposed that the Archia Think Tank would never attempt again to produce Pureblooded β-type Reyvateils. Both parts agreed with these conditions, and the war was brought to an end. Clustania withdrew its soldiers and administrative staff from the Archia City, while the Archia Think Tank completely shut off its Pureblooded β-type production line. Since the goal of spreading Reyvateil Genes was already accomplished, it could be said that these negotiations didn't have any sort of demerits to Archia.

第二紀ティリア信奉

Why Tyria was Worshipped in the Second Era
グラスノインフエリアによって崩壊した第二紀の世界で は、どの地域も例外なく疲弊し、人々は心を荒ませてい た、特にグラスノインフエリアの爆心地となったソル・シエ ールの環境はひどく、アルトネリコ第一塔の周辺で生き残 った人々は、日々の救いを求めていた. そんな時代にお いて、彼らの心の支えとなったのがティリア信奉である. 第二紀にテイリア信奉が広まった背景には、「ティリア は惑星と対話するメシアである」という伝承がある. これ はグラスノインフエリア後に広まった、噂話が拡大したも のだった. 被災当時、ソル・シェールの人々は絶望に打ち ひしがれてていた. 何とかホルスの翼に逃げ延びた人達に も明日はなかった. そんな時、ソル・シ工ールでは「ティ リア」というオリジンの噂が流れた. グラスノインフエリア 前に突然巨額の予算をもって作られたオリジンテイリア. 当時は各方面から激しく非難されたが、科学者がいつも 言っていた言葉が「テイリアの能力はβと同じではない. 星と対話をし、浄化するために生まれてきたオリジンなの である」というものだった. この言葉は平和な時代には受 け入れられず、当時の人々は冷ややかな視線を送ってい た. しかし、ティリアはソル・クラス空地方へと移送された 直後にグラスノインフ工リアが発生. この運命的な事態に よって、人々はティリアの能力が真実であることを期待し 始める. さらに数年後、遠く離れたクラスタ地方で、ティリ アが惑星再生の準備を始めたという噂が広まった. 何でも ティリアが一瞬にして巨大な塔を生成し、ぞれを使ってこ の世界を浄化するのだという. そして第三塔付近はすで に再生を始めており、この地にもその波は及ぶだろうと いう内容だった. この噂はまたたく間に広がり、民衆のテ ィリア熱を一気に上昇させた. そして、ティリアの能力を 信奉する人々が集まるようになったのである. この頃はまだ技術的、科学的な集まりであり、主な目的 はティリアの待つ第三塔へ旅立つ計画などであった. しか し技術の大半を失ったソル・シェールでは移動計画は進 展せず、その後ティリアの行動の続報も届かなくなったた め、次第に迷信化していったのである. 人々の救世主思想は留まるところを知らず、ティリアを 信奉する母体はそのまま宗教的な母体へと遷移していく. そして第三紀に至る頃には、完全な「神」として記られる ようになっていた. 一方で第一塔の管理者であるエオリア は、塔のコントロールもろくに出来ない欠陥であると罵ら れた. 第一塔の人達がエオリアを欠陥と呼び、テイリアを 信奉した理由は、こういった背景があったのである.

Given that the world of the Second Era was destroyed by the Grathnode Inferia, and all of the land had been completely ruined, the hearts of the people became rough, specially in the harsh environment of the place that was the ground zero of the Grathnode Inferia: the region of Sol Ciel, in which the survivors that settled around the First Tower of Ar tonelico spent their days seeking salvation. It was in those times that worshiping Tyria became the support for their hearts.

The reason why this worship became so widespread during the Second Era was due to a legend saying that [Tyria is the Messiah that can converse with the Planet]. This spread during the Second Era, and got magnified thanks to the gossips. At the time of the disaster, the people of Sol Ciel was stricken by despair. To those who somehow managed to escape to the Wings of Horus, there was no tomorrow. And in those times, there were rumors about an Origin called [Tyria] spreading throughout Sol Ciel. Tyria, who was made by using an unexpectedly large part of the budget just right before the Grathnode Inferia. While at the time she was the target of extremely horrible insults, all of the scientists at the time said that [Tyria doesn't have the same abilities as a β. She can converse with the Planet, and she is the Origin that was born to purify it]. These words fell in deaf ears in these peaceful times, and the people back them just dismissed them with cold glances. However, right after Tyria was transferred over to the empty land of Sol Cluster, the Grathnode Inferia occurred. Due to these predestinated events, they began wishing that Tyria's abilities were true. Then a few years later, rumors about Tyria beginning the preparations to regenerate the Planet on the faraway land of Sol Cluster were spread. Somehow, Tyria would create an enormous Tower, and using it, she would purify the world. Thus, it was told that the regeneration would begin around the Third Tower, and then, its waves would eventually spread to Sol Ciel. That rumor spread in the blink of a eye, increasing to incredible levels the Tyria fever the people had, and also gathering a large number of followers that worshiped her abilities.

Around that time, these gatherings were much more scientific and technical than religious, and had as their main goal making projects such as traveling to the much expected Third Tower that Tyria would create. However, given that Sol Ciel had lost a great part of its technology, none of these traveling projects could progress, and since no information about Tyria's actions could reach them, she ended becoming a mere superstition to the future generations.

The people ended idolizing her as a Messiah, without knowing when to stop giving her abilities and powers, and finally, the worshipping of Tyria ended becoming a religion in which she was the center figure of all. So, when the Third Era finally started, she was chronicled like a complete [Goddess]. On the other hand, Eoria is the Administrator of the First Tower, but she was insulted as being a defective Origin that would even be inadequate for controlling her own Tower. These were the reasons why Tyria ended being worshipped, while Eoria was only called a defect by the inhabitants of the First Tower.

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第三紀　レーヴァテイル絶対帝政 =The Third Era: The Absolute Reyvateil Imperialism=

その後、100年ほど安定した時代が訪れる. 悪夢の ようなβ量産とレーヴァテイル質の浸透のための混乱 は落ち着き、クラスタ二ア、アルキア、大牙共に安定し た時期が訪れた. 行動や出生の管理ほされているもの の、ある程度の自由を得ていた大牙やアルキアの人々 は、今までの歴史の中で最も平和で自由な時代を謳歌 していたのである. クラスタ二アでもこの期間は特に 大きな問題は起きず、平和に暮らしていた. アルキア研 究所ともお互いの不利益はほとんど発生せず、それぞ れがそれぞれの生活を営んでいた. だが、平和な時期が100年近く経ったとき、そのバ ランスは崩れることになる. 些細な事件をきっかけに、 妖家が人類に対して牙を剥いたのである.

After this, a era of calmness that lasted around 100 years came to this world. The chaos caused by the nightmarish mass-production of βs and the spreading of the Reyvateil Genes finally calmed down; and Clustania, Archia and the Great Fang enjoyed a time of peace together. While births and actions were still monitored, both the people of Archia and the Great Fang enjoyed a great freedom, and even now this era was regarded as the most peaceful and free in history. Clustania didn't cause any particularly great problems during this time, and lived in peace with the other factions. The Archia Think Tank didn't attempt doing anything that handicapped any of the other factions, and each one of them carried on their lives.

However, once these 100 years of peace ended, the balance that existed between the three factions broke apart. Using a minor incident as an excuse, the Necrofamilies bared their fangs against the humans.

Timeline
年代　　　　　　　　　主な出来事

3352　　モロカッ力行政区のレーヴァテイル達が反旗を翻す 3357　　クフスタニア、大牙に対しクレンジングを宣昌 3358　　クフスタ二ア・大牙大戦争. アルキアは静観の姿勢 3361　　上帝門の建設と、住民全員の地下への避難が行われる 3366　　上帝門が陥落. アルキア研究所が上帝門に介入し、取り返す 3400　　妖家によるクラスタニア統制が始まる 3401　　レーヴァテイリア構想を打ち立てる. レーヴァテイルの士気増大 3407　　リバーシアプロトコルを謳えるレーヴァテイルを探しに、遠方政策を策定 3551　　第2次抗体爆発 3700　　第3次抗体爆発. 間髪入れず抗体戦争 3709　　アルキア軍のクフスタニア侵攻. 絢脂t戦争が勃発 3712　　絢胤戦争と抗体戦争、共に終結 3720　　アルシェルの抗体、識別名「Ar_Ru(アルルゥ)」のH波合成モデリング開始 3725　　レーウァテイル「アル・ルゥ」完成. そしてすぐ暴走. そして破棄 3727　　絢胤紅葉霧浪とレーヴァテイリア・クルセイダーによりクラスタニア主権復活 3732　　アルキア研究所、γ昇華体の開発を開始 3736　　原初の塔でコスモスフリプスが発見される 3744　　四次正角性中核環の理論解明 3749　　ラウドネス、クロガネラボよりメタ・ファルスに派遣 3750　　工ンシ工ント派がアルキアから追放される 3753　　γ昇草体の持っていた欠陥が改善される 3755　　アオトの父母、アルキア研究所をやめて刻の輪製作所へ 3759　　カテナ、アルキア研究所へ就職 3761　　第四次抗体爆発 3762　　β工場襲撃事件. その後抗体は消滅 3763　　光五条の妹死亡 3765　　キフハ、サキを奪い失踪. 保育所へ預ける. 刻の輪製作所病院が襲撃. アオトの両親死亡、アオ卜疎開 3766　　力テナが刻の輪製作所へ転職 3767　　光五条がアルキアラボの専属医師として就職 3768　　リッ力がアルキアに捕まる. そして寝返る 3769　　光五条、アルキアの裏を見る. アルキアラボをやめる 3770　　光五条と力テナが出会う 3771　　抗体の駆除がほぼ完了する 3773　　アルキア大地の心臓確保失敗. キフハがサキの元へ再度現れる 3774　　キフハ、サキを連れて逃走中に落命

クラスタニア・大牙大戦争

The Great War Between Clustania and the Great Fang
それは、モロカッ力行政区で起きたことだった. モ口 力ッ力行政区に派遣されて管理を行っていたレーヴァテ イル達のなかに、人間との親和を訴える者が出始めて きたのである. その親人間派ともいうべきレーヴァテイ ルらが主張していたことは、クラスタ二アが行っている 人口調整に対しての意義申し立てであった. 当時からク ラスタ二アは、この世界全体のバランスを崩さないため に綿密な計画によって遂行される人口統制を行なって おり、その年の人口推移によって出産の可否を決めてい た. もし出産が禁止された年に子供を産んでしまうと、 摘出と同時に取り上げられて処分されてしまうことにな る. 行政側に隠れて秘密裏に出産を行った場合は厳罰に 処され、親子もろとも殺されることになっていた. このようなクラスタニアの政策に対し、モロ力ッ力行 政区のレーヴァテイル達は人口調整は命の間引きであ り、レーヴァテイルであれ人間であれそのようなことは するべきではない、と主張した. そして、当時モロカッ力 行政区の区長であった葉華_cx. 種烈火林（ヨウ力CX てんしゅれっかりん)が中心となって、モロカッ力独自の 法を創ると宣言したのだ. 　この機運に世論は次第に盛り上がりを見せ、大牙に住 む人々はモロカッ力行政区を支持するようになる. ヨウ 力は一般市民の間で人気が高まり、モロカッ力行政区の みならず、大牙全体が活気づいた. しかし、当然のこと ながらクラスタニアがヨウ力の主張とモロカッカの自治 への動きを許すわけがなかった. クラスタニア側はモ口 カッ力行政区に対して武力行使の警告を行い、従わない と判断した後に遂にモロカッカとクラスタニアの戦争が 始まったのである. 当時、モロカッカに住んでいたレーヴ ァテイルは、その大半が人間との関係を持っていた. ヨ ウ力もまた愛する人間の男性がおり、彼と共に、そして 人とレーヴァテイルが共に歩けるように、クラスタニア の支配を逃れた平等な世界を創ろうとしたのである. 　しかし、戦争はクラスタ二アの圧勝であったのヨウカを 中心とするモロカッカの有力なレーヴァテイル達はクラ スタニアに送還され、ことごとく処刑された. そしてその 時、クラスタ二アはモロカッ力行政区を視察し、その現 状を初めて知るごとになる. 　モロカッカでは、人間に対しての抑圧機能がほとんど 無くなっていた. 人間同士のみならず、人間とレーヴァ テイルもごく自然に関係を作り、そしてクラスタ二アの 人口調整を無視した閣の産婆が公認で存在し、誰かが出 産してもレーヴァテイル達は見て見ぬフリ. 挙げ句には レーヴァテイル自身が子を産んだ張本人であったりした のだ. これは、完全なる人口統制を目指すクラスタ二ア にとって決して見過ごすことができない事実であった.

It was something that happened in the Morocacca Governorate. Among the many administrator Reyvateils that were sent over to the Morocacca Governorate, there were some that began complaining about the friendship that existed toward the humans. They stated that these Reyvateils, who should be called as human lovers, ran contrary to the population control policy that Clustania had instated. At the time, Clustania was executing a very scrupulous population control policy to avoid the total collapse of the balance of this world, which was decided after seeing the advantages and disadvantages of the childbirths that the population of that year had. If any person had a child in a year in which it was forbidden to do so, it would be very easy to find and apprehend the transgressors. The Clustania Governorate would then conduct extremely severe punishment over anyone that had children in secret, which consisted in killing both the parents and the newborn babies all together.

The Morocacca Governorate Reyvateils opposed to these policies made by Clustania, and claimed that these measures, no matter what name they were given, were no more than mere infanticide, and should never be performed on either humans or Reyvateils. Then, under the lead of the then-Governor of Morocacca, Youka_cx.President.Blazeforest, they proclaimed that Morocacca would create its own methods to deal with the population increase.

The public opinion gradually swelled up in response to this declaration, and all of the inhabitants of the Great Fang gave their support to the Morocacca Governorate. Youka became extremely popular with the normal people, and this greatly energized all of the inhabitants of not only the Morocacca Governorate, but also the entire Great Fang. However, and naturally, Clustania was not going to allow Youka and her declarations of Morocacca's independence go any further. Clustania initially warned that they would use military force against Morocacca if they continued insisting in gaining independence, but after they decided they wouldn't obey them, a war finally broke out between Morocacca and Clustania. At the time, a great part of the Reyvateils that lived in Morocacca had relationships in a way or other with humans. Youka was in love with a human as well, and together with her love, she wanted to create a world in which both humans and Reyvateils coexisted: a world where both races were equals, and run away from Clustania's government.

However, the war ended in an overwhelming victory for Clustania, and Youka, together with the most influential Reyvateils from Morocacca, were all deported to Clustania and executed. After this, Clustania went to inspect Morocacca, and it was at this time when the Clustanians learnt about the current situation of it.

Morocacca didn't have any sort of facilities dedicated to oppressing the humans. Aside from looking at the humans as equals, the humans and Reyvateils naturally formed relationships between them, and completely disregarded the population control policies that Clustania had implemented, due to the large number of officially recognized wives in the civil registries, and the fact that everyone, even the Reyvateils, gave birth to children freely. In the end, the Reyvateils themselves were the ones that had given birth to these children. This was a reality that Clustania, which had aiming to have a complete control of the population of Sol Cluster, could never overlook again.

VISTAが総帥に

VISTA Becomes the Leader
クラスタ二アの首脳部は、モロカッ力行政区、ひいては 大牙全体をどのように統治していくか、大いに議論を交わ した. そして、その最終的な答えは、妖家が提示した. そ れは、有無を言わさぬ圧力で絶対的に抑えつけ、厳格な 統制をするというものであった. 妖家は、恐怖政治の遂行者としての役割を果たす者に はレーヴァテイルは適任ではないと判断していた. なぜ なら、レーヴァテイルは感情を持つためである. 感情があ るがために、モロカッカに勤務していたレーヴァテイル達 は人間達の感情に「汚染」された. 彼女達はその思考を 翻すことはなく、焼却処分以外に浄化の方法がないほど の「汚染」だったのだ. ゆえに感情がなく、そして頭脳明 断である知能が指揮を執るごとが必要であった. そして、 ただ一人だけ最高の適任者がいた. その存在こそ、ハー ヴェスターシャVISTAである. 当時VISTAは普通のメインフレームであり、人畜無害 な人工AIインターフェイスであった. 最初からそういうも のであり、それ以上でもそれ以下でもないと誰もが思っ ていたのだ. だが、妖家はそのハーヴェスターシャに手を 入れる. そして人間を絶対的な力によって抑圧し、どんな 情にも流されない人格を形成することにしたのだ. こうし て、人間が大嫌いなハーヴェスターシャVISTAが誕生す る. レーヴァテイル絶対帝政の幕開けである.

The war with the Great Fang ended causing large disputes within Clustania's top management about if they actually governed over the Great Fang and the Morocacca Governorate itself, and if they did, in which way they were governing them. The final answer to this came from the Necrofamilies. That answer was that it didn't matter if they actually did or not before, now they had to absolutely supervise and rule over them in the harshest way possible.

The Necrofamilies, which were the same ones that implemented the fear politics that Clustania had used until now, ended deciding that the Reyvateils weren't qualified for governing, because they had emotions. It was due to these emotions that the Reyvateils working at Morocacca got [contaminated] by the emotions of the humans. They wouldn't be able of changing these feelings, as they were a [contamination] that could only be destroyed by being purged with fire. Due to this, it was decided that they would need a being that was both emotionless and had rationality to be the new ruler of Clustania. And there was only one being in the world that had the appropriate conditions for this: Harvestasha VISTA.

At the time, VISTA was just a harmless AI interface that existed within a normal Mainframe. This is what she was from the very beginning, and one thought anything beyond it. However, the Necrofamilies managed to put their hands on Harvestasha, and reprogrammed her personality to become a dictator with absolute powers, that didn't have any emotions among her programing. In this way, the Harvestasha VISTA that despised the humans was born, and the curtain to the absolute Reyvateil imperialism was opened.

戦慄クレンジング法

The Horrible Cleansing Methods
状況は急変した. ハーヴェスターシャは容赦ない指揮 をする. まず最初に、モロカッ力行政区の首都である現 在の上帝門に対し、運動中止と解散を命じる. 従わなければ48時間以内に「浄化」すると宣言した のである. 大牙の人々はヨウ力達の弔い戦争でもあった ため、ほとんどの人がモ口力ッ力に残った. だが、誰もが 甘く見すぎていたのである. ハーヴェスターシャは容赦 なく焼き払い、モロカッ力を完全な灰にしてしまう. 誰一 人として生き残らなかった. 人間もレーヴァテイルも. ハ ーヴェスターシャは、人間に荷担したレーヴァテイルは 例外なく破棄し、その伴侶である人間男性も皆、汚染罪 で処分した. 人々は過去にない程の状況にとまどい、そ して我先にと大牙の地下へと避難したのである. 総帥ハーヴェスターシャはその数年後、クレンジング 去を施行する. それは、この世界にとって有害とみなさ れたコミュニティは、そのコミュニティに住む全員をクラ スタ二アにて再教育、すなわち浄化し、その地の建造者 すべてを無に帰すという法である. 不穏因子が一人でも 発生すれば、その不穏因子と接した可能性のある、その コミュ二ティ全員がクレンジングされるのである. 人々と、人間側についたレーヴァテイルの残党は怯 え、そして地下に逃げ込んだ. その後もレーヴァテイル 達は一人、また一人と確実に処分されていった.

The situation suddenly changed. Harvestasha ruled without any mercy. The very first order she gave was the completely halting and dissolution of the city of Morocacca Governorate, which was located where the city of Ciela Gate is now.

She also announced that if they didn't obey within 48 hours, the city would be [Cleansed]. Because the people of the Great Fang were still making the war memorial for Youka and the others, most of the people remained in Morocacca at the time. However, everyone took these warnings with too much naivete. Harvestasha was completely merciless, and razed the city, turning Morocacca in ashes. No one was left alive, regardless of if they were humans or Reyvateils. Harvestasha annihilated all the Reyvateils that had allied with the humans, and all of the human men that were their partners were condemned due to being contamination sources. The people was left in an unprecedented state of confusion, and then, they rushed to the underground of the Great Fang to seek refuge.

Even many years after Harvestasha became the leader of Clustania, the Cleansing continued being carried out. In other words, any community that was labeled as harmful by them would have all of its members retrained in Clustania (Purified), and the land would be left without anyone to build above it. If anyone tried to protest or cause any kind of unrest, all of the members of the community where that person lived would be Cleansed.

The people and the few Reyvateils that still supported the humans were terrified of this, and ran to the underground. It's certain that many Reyvateils were processed and executed after all this began.

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上帝門誕生

The Birth of Ciela Gate
モロカッカは、敗戦とクラスタニアのクレンジングによっ て壊滅的なダメージを受けたが、それでもまだこの地に 人々は住んでいた. 平和な時代の賑わいは失われたが、 そこが故郷の人、大切な人の敵を討とうとする人など、 それでも多くの人々が残ったのである. モロ力ッ力はそれ らの人々によって、要塞化されていく. 街の名前も「上 帝門」と改められた. これは蒼天帝という神様にあやかっ て付けられた蒼天峰の入口の砦、という意昧である. しか し、ハ一ヴェスターシャ率いるクラスタ二アの対応は早か った. すぐにクラスタ二ア軍を派遣して容赦なく上帝門を 叩き、付け焼き刃でしか砦を作れない人間側は、必敗の 状況に遣い込まれてしまう. だがそんな時、今まで静観を 決めていたアルキア研究所が動き出したのである. アルキアは上帝門に対して、無償で自らの軍事力と技 術を貸し出し、上帝門の要塞の守りをクラスタニアに対抗 しうるほどに強固にした. そのうえでクラスタニアと取引 をし、上帝門への攻撃を中止させたのである. アルキアが上帝門に荷担した理由はただ1つ、上帝門 の存在にメリットを感じたためだった. 上帝門は大牙の要 衝であり、かつ資源の宝庫でもある. なかでも特に豊富 な資源は、実は導力（導体D波）なのだ. 上帝門の付近は 相当な埋蔵量の唄石が存在しており、それによって普段 から大気中に存在する導体D波が、他の地域より高い濃 度で存在している. いわゆる霊場ともいうべき地であっ た. そして、アルキアはそこで大導力輪の試験をすること を目的としていたのだ. 上帝門とアルキア研究所はその 約束をし、数年後アルキア研究所は上帝門に大導力輸を 建設、当時まだ小さな発導会社だった刻の輪製作所にそ の設備を委託管理させる. アルキアが大導力輸の研究を進めた理由は、現在のア ルキア研究所に供給される導力のほぼすべてがベストエ フォート型詩魔法サーバーによるもので、完全にレーヴァ テイル達に依存していたためである. それゆえに、導力の 自給自足を目標として導力開発を進めていた. また、立 地上の条件も適していた. アルキア研究所の製品を大牙 に輸送する際に、上帝門の立地は都合がよかったのだ. そ れゆえに上帝門は、アルキアの保護下に置かれている. かくして上帝門は全滅の危機から救われることになっ た. だが、これから数百年ともいう長い刻を経て、クラス タニアによる残酷で冷徹な統治が始まるのだ.

While Morocacca sustained a devastating damage from its loss in the war and Clustania's Cleansing, a lot of people still lived in this area. Despite having lost these times of peace and prosperity, this was still their hometown, and although there were some who wanted to take revenge for their precious people, still many chose to remain here. And thanks to those people, Morocacca was fortified, and its name was changed to [Ciela Gate]. This name comes from it being a fortress that protects the entrance to the Blue Heaven Peak, which was named after the God Soutentei (Blue Heaven Emperor). However, Clustania, led by Harvestasha, reacted immediately to this. They sent the Clustania Army immediately to attack Ciela Gate, and since the people hadn't still finished making the fortress, it was pretty much a definite outcome that they would end defeated. However, the Archia Think Tank, which had kept its neutral stance for a long time, decided to intervene.

Archia lent its military and technologies to Ciela Gate for free, and firmly protected the fortress from Clustania's attacks. In this way, Clustania was forced to retreat, and completely ceased its attacks against Ciela Gate.

The only reason Archia had to assist Ciela Gate was because they felt that its existence would be beneficial for them. Ciela Gate it's located in an strategic point of the Great Fang, and furthermore, it's a treasure trove of resources. Furthermore, the most abundant resource that can be found in there is Symphonic Power (Dynamic D-Waves), because of having large deposits of Songstones buried in its outskirts. This allowed it to have larger concentrations of Dynamic H-Waves in the atmosphere than any other region. We could even go as far as calling it a sacred ground. Due to all these factors, Archia desired to carry out the experiment of building a large Symphonic Power disc in there. Then both the Archia Think Tank and Ciela Gate signed a pact, in which many years later a large Symphonic Power disc would be made, and its construction and operation would be consigned to the Moebius Factory, which at the time was no more than an small power company.

The reason why Archia embarked on this research was because they currently depended completely on the Reyvateils and the best effort-model of the Song Magic Server for their Symphonic Power supplies. Due to this, they began a research on Symphonic Power with the goal of gaining complete self-sufficiency from the Reyvateils. Also, the chosen place for the construction of the disc complied with the necessary conditions for it, so it was better for Archia to ship their products to Ciela Gate whenever they needed to send something to the Great Fang. Due to all of these factors, Archia put Ciela Gate under its protection.

Thus, this is how Ciela Gate was narrowly saved from its total destruction. However, this only marked the beginning of Clustania's cold and cruel government, which lasted for several centuries.

レーヴァテイリア構想

The Reyvateilia Plan
この頃、クラスタ二ア内部で権力が高まりつつあった のが妖家であった. 妖家がレーヴァテイル側につくこと を選んだのは、妖家の員である絢胤妖家の予知能力 によって、レーヴァテイル達こそがこの惑星を救う存在 であると知ったからである. だが、その予知は盤石なも のではなく、不安定なものだった. あるとき急に、正反対 の予知に変わってしまうことも多々あったのだ. そして、 妖家はレーヴァテイルが世界を救うという予知が変わっ てしまうことを非常に恐れていた. かつて、絢胤妖家はムーシエリエルの災禍直前に、大 惨事の到来を予言していた. この予言をもとに本国の護 りを固めていたととによって、クラスタ二アは抗体の襲 撃による壊滅を免れている. そして、その後にも絢胤妖 家によって、「再び訪れる世界終焉の危機をレーヴァテイ ル達が救う」という予知がもたらされていた. しかし、この段階でその予知が消えてしまったのであ る. その事実が意昧するのはこのままでは世界は滅亡 してしまう可能性が高いということだ. 妖家はその原因の1つを、人間とレーヴァテイルの癒 着と判断した. さらなるレーヴァテイルの神格化と、クラ スタ二アと他地域の差別化を進めることになる. そしてレーヴァテイルを保護するという名目上で、ク ラスタ二アの行政権のすべてを妖家に帰属させること に成功. 妖家は実質的にクラスタニアを支配することに なった. これに対し不満を挙げるレーヴァテイル達もい たが、妖家はそれを優しく上手く丸め込んだ. そして不 満はすぐに沈静化している. 妖家は、レーヴァテイル達 にとって実に魅力的なプランを打ち出したのである. そ れこそがレーヴァテイルによる理想的な国家、「レーヴァ テリア」の創設であった. 人間の時代は終焉を迎え、レーヴァテイルの時代へと 移りゆく. 妖家はそのプロセスをハーヴェスターシャと共 に調査し、具体的な手法を確立した、と発表した. そして、 レーヴァテリア創設を完遂するためには、各レーヴァテイ ルが己の役割を全うし、常に最高効率で全体が動くこと が理想だと訴えた. 迫る危機を乗り越えてそれぞれのレー ヴァテイルが己の役割を全うすれば、その先にはレー ヴァテリアという至福の世界が待っているというのであ る. 今の妖家の統治は、そのレーヴァテリアへと導くため に妖家が先導しているものであり、決して支配をしてい るわけではない、というのが妖家の主張だった. この頃、クラスタ二アのレーヴァテイル達には生誕 の際に行政側から使命が与えられるようになっていた. これより前は、生まれながらの役割が厳密に決まってい たわけではなく、仕事を自分で選ぶ自由が許されてい た. 行政側から強制的に仕事を決められてしまうことに 対し、レーヴァテイル達から不満の声があがるのは当然 である. そんなレーヴァテイル達の不満をそらすために も、レーヴァテリア構想の推進は格好だったのだ. 理想国家レーヴァテリアの実現には、まず中途半端にな っている塔を完成させることが不可欠である. だが、それ にはティリアが必要であり、そのティリアはまさに塔を完 成させる詩「EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.（リ バーシアプロトコル）」を謳ったことによって、姿を持った レーヴァテイルとしての生涯をすでに終えていた. しか し、ハ一ヴェスターシャの知識と計算によると、塔を完成 させるのはティリアでなくても可能であった. しかし、そ れはリバーシアプロトコルの導力量に耐えることが可能 であり、なおかつこの塔のリソースを使わないレーヴァ テイルが存在が必要とされていた. 見難問のように思えたこの条件も、妖家の予知によ って現実味を帯びてきていた. その予知は、遥か遠い地 ソル・シエールで、世界を救う詩を謳うレーヴァテイルが 誕生した、というものであった. そしてついに、彼らは未知の世界へと踏み出すととに なるのである. かつてこの世界には、ソル・クラスタ以外 にも外の世界が存在していた. それらが現在も残ってい る可能性がある. この世界の見知らぬところにいるレーヴ アテイルは、我々の想像もし得ない能力を持っているか も知れない. その可能性を探るというものであった. 当時、妖家を取りまとめていた絢胤諦吏霧浪（アヤタ ネテイリキリナミ）は、その遠方の地が秘める可能性を見 いだす役割を、子息である箕嵩霧浪（ミチタカキリナミ） に委任する. そして箕嵩霧浪はハ一ヴェスターシャのナビ ゲーションにより、第一塔へと向かったのである. またハ一ヴェスターシャの案により、第一塔のサーバ ーにいるレーヴァテイルを第三塔の機能で作用させるこ とができるよう、様々な施設を作ることになった. 結局使 わずじまいであった力イラは、この時第一塔からの導力 を受ける吸収板として、衛星とセットで調整が行われるこ ととなった. こうしてレーヴァテイル達は、そのほとんど がこの中継施設の計画に従事することとなるのである.

At this time, the Necrofamilies were still gaining political power in Clustania. The reason why they chose to side with the Reyvateils was because they knew through prophecy that one of the Necrofamily clans, the Ayatane clan, had made, which stated that the Reyvateils were the beings that would save this Planet. However, this prediction wasn't written in stone, and as such, it wasn't completely trustworthy. There was even a time in which many people tried to get some concrete information from this prophecy, and also, the Necrofamilies themselves were extremely afraid of this prophecy not becoming a reality, or changing what it stated.

A long time ago, just before the Moocheriel Disaster, the Ayatane predicted that a large disaster would be coming. It was due to this prophecy that they strengthened Clustania's defenses, and why Clustania managed to escape from the devastation the Antibodies caused. And later on, the Ayatane predicted that "when a world-ending crisis arises again, the Reyvateils will save us".

However, that prophecy was forgotten and left behind at the time, because it meant that the world had large possibilities of dying away if things continued as they were at the moment.

The Necrofamilies decided that the main cause for the destruction of this world were the relationships between humans and Reyvateils. Furthermore, they had deified the Reyvateils so much that they continued promoting Clustania's discrimination policies against the other regions.

And thus, while they used excuse of protecting the Reyvateils, the Necrofamilies actually had completely gained the control of Clustania's government. They essentially became the rulers of this land. Although there were many Reyvateils that raised their voices in dissatisfaction to this, the Necrofamilies skillfully managed to convince them that this was for the best. Thus, the dissatisfaction gradually died down. This convincing was because the Necrofamilies had created a very attractive plan for the Reyvateils: the creation of a paradisaical country made by Reyvateils for Reyvateils, called [Reyvateilia].

It was time to lead the era of the humans to an end, and move over to the era of the Reyvateils. The Necrofamilies then announced that they were researching a process for doing this together with Harvestasha, and had established a concrete method for doing so. Thus, it was decided that to accomplish the creation of Reyvateilia, each Reyvateil would have to fulfill a determinate role, and if all them accomplished their roles with the highest efficiency possible, that ideal would become a reality. They managed to overcome all the difficulties to which this plan approached: the Reyvateils were told that if they accomplished their roles, the blissful world of Reyvateilia would be awaiting for them. The Necrofamilies repeatedly stated the excuse that they never intended to rule Clustania, but they were doing so to lead everyone to Reyvateilia.

In these times, the Reyvateils in Clustania were given a determinate mission at the time of their birth by the Governorate. Previous to this, the Reyvateils didn't have set roles when they were born, and could freely chose the jobs they wanted, so it was natural that many Reyvateils opposed the new policy of the Governorate that force them to specific jobs since their birth. However, even the dissatisfaction of these Reyvateils was quelled by the idea of making the Reyvateilia Plan a reality.

To realize the paradisaical country of Reyvateilia, it would be necessary first to complete the Third Tower, which was left incomplete during its construction. However, they needed Tyria to accomplish this, and she had already ended her life as an humanoid life form when she sang the song for creating the Tower: [EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.]. However, according to the calculations and knowledge that Harvestasha had, it should be possible to complete the Tower even if Tyria wasn't around anymore. However, it would be necessary to have a Reyvateil that could meet the Symphonic Power requirements that Rebirthia Protocol had, and furthermore, that she didn't use the resources from this Tower for that purpose.

While contemplating how to meet these difficult requirements, the Necrofamilies had other prediction that offered them a solution to this problem. That prediction was that a Reyvateil that could sing the Song that would save the world was born in the faraway land of Sol Ciel.

Thus, they finally took the decision of advancing towards an unknown world. A long time ago, there were other worlds beyond the territories of Sol Cluster, and that prediction meant that there was still a possibility of these lands still existing in the current era. Since that was a world completely unknown to them, they imagined that there could be a Reyvateil in there that had the necessary abilities they sought, and thus, it was decided that they should try following this lead.

At the time, the ruler of Clustania was Ayatane Teiri Kirinami, who entrusted the lead of the undercover mission for finding that special Reyvateil on that land to his son: Michitaka Kirinami. Thus, by using Harvestasha's navigation systems, Michitaka Kirinami and his group departed for the First Tower.

On the other hand, in Harvestasha's chamber, it was thought that it would be necessary to build several facilities, so the Reyvateils that existed within the Server of the First Tower could make use of the functions of the Third Tower. Finally, it was decided that they would use the abandoned Kaira facility as an absorption plate to receive Symphonic Power from the First Tower, and altered it so it could serve as a relay for the Servers of the First Tower in conjunction with an artificial satellite. This was how the Reyvateils of Sol Cluster had planned to make a relay facility for the Reyvateils from the other regions.

アヤタネとミュールの邂逅

The Encounter Between Ayatane and Mir
アヤタネミチタ力はソル・シ工ールに着いて驚愕した. そこでは完全にレーヴァテイルが人間に服従する世界だ ったからである. そしてさらに驚くことに、レーヴァテイ ルの祖たるエオリアですら、人間の味方をしていたので ある. アヤタネは、この世界の現状こそがレーヴァテイル の予知が変わってしまった原因ではないかと、他の妖家 と共にソル・シ工ールの状況について調査を始める. ア ヤタネはまず政治家として世界の中心に潜り込み、レー ヴアテイルによる世界コントロールの計画を知った. そし てそのために開発されたレーヴァテイルこそが、まさに 探し求めていたレーヴァテイルだったのである. その個体 ミュールは、通常のレーヴァテイルよりキャパシティが高 い. アヤタネはこのミュールを奪うために、ネオ・工レミア の研究施設に潜り込み、そこの研究者として振る舞い、 その個体であるミュールに接触を果たしたのであった. しかし、後一歩のところでアヤタネはネオ・工レミアのセ キュリティに引っかかってしまい、ネオ・工レミアの研究施 設内で不慮の死を遂げることになる. この事件の後、ミュールはすでに誰の手にも届かない ところに厳重に隔離され、厳戒態勢が敷かれた. そして、 ネオ・工レミア軍部はアヤタネと志を同じくする組織を反 乱分子と断定し、その存在を暴くべく、しらみつぶしに探 索を開始したのである. 他の妖家はこのショッキングな 出来事と絶望的な状況に撤退を余儀なくされた. こうして 知られざる第一塔への渡航は幕を閉じることになる. ミユールが初めて聞いた「糞望の詩」は、実際には 「EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.」であった. だ がその事実を知らないミュールは、過去に憧れていたメ タ・ファルスの伝承に伝わる詩「メタファリカ」を糞望 の詩だと思い込んでしまった. また、ハーヴェスターシャ VISTAが進めていた第一塔との回線接続に関しても、 この時点で一旦中止の形をとることになる. ミュールは その後、シュレリアによって封印された後に、どこからか 試験波が発せられているのを見つけ、過去の遺産であ る細い連絡線をたどって、ハーヴェスターシャXPにまで たどり着いたのだ.

When Ayatane Michitaka finally arrived at Sol Ciel, he was shocked. This was a world in which the Reyvateils were completely at the mercy of the humans. And what surprised him even more was that even the Reyvateil that served as the ancestor to the others, Eolia, was an ally of the humans. Ayatane couldn't discern why the conditions in which the Reyvateils lived was so different from what the prophecy stated, and thus, with the help of other Necrofamilies, he began investigating about the current conditions of Sol Ciel. The first thing he did was infiltrate in the government agencies that served as the center of this world, and in there, he learned about the Reyvateil Control project. And because of that, he also discovered that the Reyvateil that would serve that role also was the one they sought. That Reyvateil was Mir, who has a far higher capacity than the normal Reyvateils. To steal Mir, Ayatane infiltrated into the research facilities of Neo Elemia, and under the guise of one of its researchers, he established contact with Mir.

However, as soon as he had taken the first step, Ayatane was caught by the security of Neo Elemia, and suffered an unexpected death inside these research installations at their hands.

After this event, Mir was further isolated, and the installations were she was held were put in maximum security, so no one would attempt to steal her again. The Neo Elemia Army then decided that there could be other rebels that had the same intentions as Ayatane, and in an attempt to find them, they began examining every place of the Wings of Horus. Under these shocking events and despairing situation, the other Necrofamilies had no choice but to withdraw from Sol Ciel, thus closing off the curtain to any other potential journeys to the First Tower, despite knowing about its existence.

When Ayatane first mentioned a [Song of Hope] to Mir, he was actually referring to [EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.]. However, since Mir wasn't aware about this, she thought that the Song of Hope he was talking about was actually [Metafalica], the Song that had been passed down in the legends of the land of Metafalss she admired so much. Also, Harvestasha VISTA then took the decision of temporarily halting the construction of lines that connected the First and Third Towers. After this, Mir was sealed off by Shurelia, and while experimenting with releasing her waves in someplace of the Binary Field, she discovered it: an extremely thin line that connected both Towers, a legacy of the past, which was how she managed to contact Harvestasha XP.

第一塔でレーヴァテイ ルコントロールのため に作られた高性能レー ヴァテイル、ミュール. ハーヴェスターシャと の対話から300年以 上の時を経て、惑星を 救う鍵を求めてメタ・ ファルスに渡る.

The high-efficiency Reyvateil that was born to serve as the Reyvateil Control of the First Tower, Mir. 300 years after she talked with Harvestasha, she finally went to the Metafalss to seek the key to the salvation of this Planet.

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近・現代　戦乱と人類進化計画 =Recent and Current Times - Wars and the Human Evolution Project=

クラスタニア・大牙大戦争にとよって幕を開けた第三紀 だったが、妖家によるクラスタニア統制の時代は300 年にわたって平穏な時代を築いていた. クラスタニアに よる圧政は揺るぐことなく、奇妙なバランスによる平和 が続く. その間もクレンジングは数回行われたが、300 年でわずか数回であり、クレンジングというものを知ら すに生涯を終える人も多かった. この時代の人々にとっ て、クレンジンタは、大災害程度の認識であったのだ.

While a great war between the Great Fang and Clustania served as the opening act for the Third Era, Clustania managed to build a peaceful era that lasted for 300 years, thanks to being governed by the Necrofamilies. Clustania's tyrannical ways of governing didn't falter either, creating a lasting peace through a very weird form of balance. While Cleansing was conducted at various times during this period, and the number of times that it was actually performed were very low, the number of people that knew that this actually meant the end of their lives was very large. To the people that lived in this era, Cleansing was considered in the same level as a great catastrophe.

抗体戦争が勃発

The Antibody War Begins
その平和終焉の引鉄は、刻の輪製作所が引いた. 時代は3700年. この頃、刻の輪製作所はかつてない 繁栄を極めていた. 300年前にアルキア研究所から研 究開発を請け負った「大導力輪」をベースとして、導力 供給網の確立ができるようになったためである. グラス ノ結晶を他の物質と融和させることで液化したグラス ノを生成し、高効率かつ柔軟な動力伝送を可能にした のだ. この液化グラスノケブルの開発成功と導力供 給ネットワークの整備により、大牙は地下の街を中心と して大いに栄えた. 特に、巨大な地下都市立だったトコシヱ隧道は、このグ ラスノ伝送ケーブルによって、今までの小規模な導力収 集とは比較にならないほどの導力を得るととができた. その導力は留まることを知らず、大導力輸の吸収導力 量は年々増大していく. そして3700年、その導力量は 跳ね上がり、それによって三度目の抗体爆発が発生する ことになる. これまでと同様に、この災害もまた妖家の予知によっ て備えられていた. 予知では刻の輪製作所という場所ま ではわからず、また厳密な日時もわからなかったが、多 数の抗体に対して数年前から多めに培養していたβ純血 種レーヴァテイル達と、アルキアの軍事力によって被害 は最小限に食い止められた. その後クラスタ二アはモ口 力ツ力行政区にある上帝門を一時的に完全封鎖、刻の輪 製作所の操業を停止する. 上帝門に住む人々は、この地 を去るか、クレンジングを受けるかを余儀なくされる. だ がその後、アルキア研究所が再度上帝門に介入し、交渉 によってクレンジングを阻止している. 当時、アヤタネクレハはまだ幼く、その事について特 に興味を持つてなかった. この時は妖家はまだ多数存在 しており、その中でクラスタニアの政治に関わる妖家は ごく一部でしかなかったのである. その後、妖家のなかでちょっとした騒ぎがあった. そ れは、同じ妖家でも別の妖家で、実の声を間く能力を持 つ「焔魏妖家（ほむらぎようけ：ニノ） が抗体の声を受 信したというもので、人間の導力消費を止めさせて欲し いという内容であった. 今の惑星は、回復してもした分 だけ導力を奪われてしまう、このような状態では回復す るどころか、完全に惑星は死に絶え、バラバラになって しまうというのである. この声を聞いて妖家達は絶望的 な現状を改めて認識した. そして人類を撲滅するための 活動をより積極的に行っていくようになる. 妖家は急遽方針を変更し、手当たり次第にクレンシン グを実行する事にした. レーヴァテイルにとってダイブ要 員としての人間は必要であるが、それ以外のすべての 人間を抹殺する事を決め、ますは大牙に対して働きかけ る. アルキアはクラスタニアにとって厄介な存在であっ たため、手を出さす、アルキアが静観するであろう遠離 地から先にクレンジングを開始したのだ. 真っ先にその 標的となったのが、堕芙峰であった. 堕天蜂のコミュニテ ィは、この時ほぼすべて壊滅させられてしまう. そして その矛先はジワジワと蒼天峰に向けうれていった.

The Moebius Factory was the one who pulled the trigger that ended that peace.

The year was 3700 AD. At this time, the Moebius Factory was enjoying an unprecedented level of prosperity. This was because they managed to establish a Symphonic Power supply network, based on the research that the Archia Think Tank entrusted to them 300 years before, the [Great Symphonic Power Disc]. By combining Grathnode Crystals with other materials, it would be possible to produce liquefied Grathnode, which had a higher efficiency and would allow more flexibility in the transmission of energy. Due to this discovery and the preparation of the Symphonic Power supply network, the Great Fang, having the underground cities as its core, enjoyed a great prosperity.

This was especially notable in the gigantic underground city of Eternus Shaft, which managed to receive even larger amounts of Symphonic Power due to these Grathnode transmission cables, which were in an entirely different league from the small-scale Symphonic Power gatherers that they had used until this time.

Since that supply of Symphonic Power seemed endless, the Symphonic Power absorption rate of the Great Symphonic Power Disc was increased year by year. Thus, when the 3700 AD finally arrived, the Symphonic Power consumption rate had increased so much that it triggered a third Antibody eruption.

Like in previous occasions, the prophecies of the Necrofamilies allowed Clustania to prepare for this disaster. While the prophecy didn't make any mention of the Moebius Factory or the exact day in which it would happen, they cultivated many Pureblooded β-types various years prior to it to counter the large number of Antibodies, which together with the Archia Army managed to extremely minimize the damages. After this, Clustania completely and temporarily blockaded the Morocacca Governorate, including Ciela Gate, and ordered the Moebius Factory to completely cease their operations. Then, they offered the inhabitants of Ciela Gate two options: either they left this land, or they would be forced to undergo Cleansing. However, the Archia Think Tank once again intervened Ciela Gate, and thanks to their negotiations, the Cleansing was prevented.

At the time, Ayatane Kureha was still a child, and never had any special interests on these sort of matters. At this time, the Necrofamilies were still very numerous, although only a few of them were directly related to Clustania's government.

After these events, something among the Necrofamilies caused a great uproar. This was caused by a Necrofamily from other clan, the Homuragi Necrofamily (the Nino Teru Family) which have the ability of hearing the voices of truth. These Necrofamilies had heard the voice of the Antibodies, which ordered them to completely halt the Symphonic Power consumption of the humans. The Planet currently was getting sapped away all of the Symphonic Power the Antibodies collected for its restoration, and if this situation continued, the restoration would be rendered impossible, the Planet would completely die off, and become just a clump of rocks floating in the void of the space. The Necrofamilies that heard this voice then recognized that the situation had gotten quite dire, so they began more aggressive actions to exterminate the humans.

The Necrofamilies altered the plans, and began indiscriminately performing Cleansings. And while the Reyvateils still needed humans to be the Divers into them, it was decided that excepting a few especially picked for this purpose, all of the other humans would annihilated, and decided to begin these actions on the Great Fang.

Given that Clustania had become such a large problem, Archia decided it was time to begin acting, especially since Clustania had just begun Cleansing a faraway land that was under Archia's supervision. The land that became the target of that Cleansing was the Fallen Heaven Peak. At that time, the community of the Fallen Heaven Peak was almost completely destroyed. Then, bit by bit, Clustania began aiming to do the same on the Blue Heaven Peak.

繰り返す抗体爆発

The Repeating Antibody Eruptions
二次抗体爆発については自然発火的なところが あり、第一次、第三次のような目的を持って抗体が 生成され、一点攻撃をするものとは異なっていた. しかしそれは、この時期に惑星の疲弊が少なかっ たため起こったことである. 地上の人間活動が安定 して低消費であった事から、その分惑星の回復が 促進され、抗体を生み出せる数が増えていたとい う事でしかない. 第二次抗体爆発では、大規模な抗 体襲撃こそなかったが、各地の街が襲われており、 全体としての被害はそれなりに出ている.

While the second Antibody eruption was more or less an spontaneous happening, it seemed that, according to the actions of the Antibodies in the first and third eruptions, they were created to accomplish some goal, yet their targets were completely different in these two occasions. However, that happened because of the state of exhaustion that the Planet had reached at this time. To stabilize the activities of the humans, reduce their Symphonic Power consumption rate, and increase the rate at which the Planet itself regenerated in proportion to that reduction, it didn't have other choice than to increase the number of Antibodies it produced. The second Antibody eruption wasn't a really large attack, but they still managed to attack all of the cities in Sol Cluster, and caused moderate damage to them.

アルキア侵攻、絢胤戦争へ

Archia Invades Clustania. The Ayatane War Begins
クラスタニアの大規模なクレンジングに対して、アル キアは別の切り口からその裏にある事実を調べていた. 下手に手を出してクラスタ二ア側に警戒されてしまうと 元も子もないため、堕天峰のクレンジングに関しては静 観の姿勢を貫き、XPシェルのモジュール・ハ一ヴエスタ ーシャに配置されたハ一ヴェスターシャXPを介して、裏 側からさまざまな情報を引き出していたのである. そし て、その調査結果として驚愕の事実を掴んだ. クラスタ ニアを統べる一族、妖家達が抗体とコンタクトを取り、癒 着しているという疑惑が持ち上がったのである. アルキ アは秘密裏に妖家の調査を続行した. そして、ここ最近のログかう、その事実を裏付けるデ ータが多数発見され、妖家の背信が確実なものとなる. 人類にとって最大級の危機であると判断したアルキア は、クラスタニアを沈黙させるべく動き出した. しかし、 ベストエフォ一ト型詩魔法サーバーを採用する第三塔に おいて、レーヴァテイルはこの世界を支える重要なエネ ルギー源である. 加えて、抗体とコンタクトを取ってい るのがあくまで妖家であることから、妖家のみを殲滅して レーヴァテイル自体は温存する方向で計画を進めた. そして、計画を実行する日が訪れた. その日は大規模 な大牙のクレンジングが行われる日で、クラスタ二アの 防備はかなり手薄になっていた. その時を狙って、アル キア軍は一気に塔を駆け上がった. アルキア軍はまず ハーヴェスターシャVISTAをXP経由でコントロールし、 すべての門を開かせる（ゲームでの物語中に門を開か せるととができなかったのは、XPが休止状態だったた め）. そしてVISTAを停止させると、クラスタニア領内 に一斉に攻め込んだのだ. クラスタ二ア軍はクレンジン グ中であったが、この緊急事態に即刻中止し、至急クラ スタニア本国へ戻ろうとした. だがVISTAが停止してい る状態ではその動きは鈍く、そのうえ相手がレーヴァテ イルの生殺与奪の権を握るアルキアであるため、帰還し ないよう警告するメッセージが各自監に届いた. 警告に従 わない艦も数隻いたが、その艦長やクルーはアルキア のSHサーバーコントロールにより命を落とす結果とな る. この頃はJ&Cがソル・シエールから持ち込んだウイ ルスのようなものはなく、レーヴァテイルを無傷で一時 的に停止させるノウハウなどなかったため、即死させる ことしかできなかったのである. そして、アルキア軍はクラスタニア軍を無力化してい る間に、妖家に対する攻撃を開始した. この攻撃によっ て、妖家の実に6割が死んでいる. 妖家達は基本的にク ラスタ二アの外へ出ることがなく、クレンジングに際し でもレーヴァテイルと共に遠征しなかったことが災いし た. その後、この戦争は約3年にわたって続いたが、最後 の妖家であった焔魏（ほむらぎ）妖家の頭首であり、抗 体と契約して融合を果たした焔魏元徳羅浄（げんとくら じよう）を捕獲したところで戦争は終結した. だが、アルキアには重大な見落としがあった. 当時妖 家で最も若かったクレハは、その両親と焔貌元徳羅浄に よって抗体頭脳と契約融合をさせられ、家の床下の地面 に埋められていたのだ. アルキア侵攻時は両親が家を 爆破して自爆死したため、発見されることはなかった. ク レハは後に近辺を見回りに来たレーヴァテイル達によっ て発見され、瀕死のところを救出されて一命を取り留め る. 生き埋めになってはいたが、抗体の生命力によって 生きながらえていたのである. 戦争中は、クラスタニアもアルキアに対して戦闘態勢 で挑んでいたが、アルキア側にSHサーバーを握られて いるうえVISTAを止めうれ、頼みの綱である妖家も力 を失った状態では、対抗するだけの力はなかった. アル キアは戦時中もたびたび、レーヴァテイル達を殺したり しないことを保証し、その代わり過去にそうであったよ うに、アルキア研究所の管理下に戻ることを勧めた. す べての妖家が殺されるまでの3年間、クラスタ二アはそ の申し出を拒み続けたが、最終的にクラスタ二アはアル キアの管理下に置かれることになる.

Opposing to the large-scale Cleansing that Clustania planned to do, Archia decided to investigate the facts about it in secret, using an opening they had found.

Clustania imprudently concentrated all of its efforts in the Cleansing of the Fallen Heaven Peak and left its own security systems completely open. Archia maintained complete silence over the destruction of Fallen Heaven Peak, but they then used Harvestasha XP, which was controlled by the Module Harvestasha in the XP Shell, as an intermediary to extract many kinds of information from Clustania's database. And as a result of this, they discovered the surprising truth. The race that actually controlled Clustania, the Necrofamilies, had managed to establish contact with the Antibodies, and there were even suspicions that they even had formed some kind of relationship. Archia then continued its research on the Necrofamilies in secret.

And in the most recent logs, they discovered some information that backed these suspicions, which made the Necrofamilies intro true traitors. Now having declared them as the largest danger to humanity, Archia decided that they should start acting to completely silence Clustania. However, since the Third Tower used a Best Effort-Model Song Magic Server as its main power source, the Reyvateils were the source of the precious energy that supported this world. And furthermore, since the Necrofamilies were the ones that ultimately contacted the Antibodies, the final plan was to only exterminate the Necrofamilies while leaving the Reyvateils themselves unharmed.

Thus, the day for the execution of this plan finally came. Since this was the day in which a large Cleansing would be conducted on the Great Fang, Clustania had dropped its defenses once again. Aiming for this time, the Archia Army immediately began marching to the Tower. The first thing that the Archia Army was to control Harvestasha VISTA through XP, and force her to open all of the doors in the Tower (the reason why they were unable to open these doors in the game was because XP was shut down at the moment). Then they forced VISTA to go into shut down mode, and simultaneously, they attacked Clustania's territories. The Clustania Army was in the middle of performing the Cleansing, but once they learned of this state of emergency, they instantly stopped the Cleansing, and hurried back to their own homeland. However, since VISTA was shut down, their movements were very clumsy, and because Archia had the complete authority to instantly kill them off, all of the units of the Clustania Army were given a message to not go back to their territories. Although there were a few units and warships that decided to not follow these orders, their captains and crew members were ultimately killed by the SH Server control that Archia had. At the time, there wasn't anything like the virus that J&C brought from Sol Ciel, so because there were no methods to temporarily stop a Reyvateil without harming her, the only method they could use to deal with the rebel ones was instantly killing them.

Thus, during the time that the Archia Army rendered the Clustania Army powerless, they began their attack against the Necrofamilies. Due to this attack, approximately a 60% of the Necrofamily population was annihilated. The Necrofamilies fundamentally never left Clustania, but if they never were with the Reyvateils when a Cleansing was performed, they feared that a catastrophe would happen. After this, the war continued for approximately three more years, which finally ended when the head of the Homuragi Necrofamily, Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou, who was the same person that had made the pact with the Antibodies, was captured by the Archia Army.

However, Archia overlooked something important. At the time, Kureha was the youngest of the Necrofamilies, and since his parents and Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou made a pact with the Antibody Brain to fuse him with the Antibodies, he was buried in the floor of his house to be hidden from the invaders. At the time of the Archia invasion, his parents detonated the house together with themselves, instantly dying as a result from the explosion, and that was why he never was discovered by the Archians. Kureha was later on discovered by Reyvateils that patrolled the surrounding areas, and barely saved from death by them. While he was actually buried alive, it was thanks to the life force of the Antibodies that he was kept alive all that time.

During the war, Clustania also tried to oppose to Archia in combat, but since Archia had the control of the SH Server and had shut down VISTA, even the last ray of hope disappeared: the Necrofamilies lost their powers, and couldn't do anything to oppose Archia. Archia also frequently guaranteed that it didn't seek to kill the Reyvateils, but in the other hand, advised them to return to the Archia Think Tank's control, like they had done at various times in the past. During these three years, all of the Necrofamilies were killed, and while Clustania tried many times to repel Archia, Clustania was ultimately placed under Archia's rule.

抗体頭脳アル・ルゥの発見

The Discovery of the Antibody Brain, Ar Ru
クラスタニアとの戦争に勝利したアルキは、妖 家を事実上の解体に追い込むことに成功した. そして この数百年の間にクラスタ二アが研究してきたすべ ての成果を閲覧し、さまざまなものを発見している. ティリアにダウンロードされていたはずの「EXEC_ REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/.（リバーシアフロトコ ル）」をクラスタニアが保有していたことも驚きだった が、もっとも大きな成果は、抗体という存在についての 新たな情報が得られた事だった. 抗体との交流を進め ていた妖家によって、クラスタニアは抗体に関する事実 を多数把握していたのである. そのなかには、抗体の社会の形成と、指揮系続に関 する情報が含まれていた. 抗体には指揮宮格の頭脳ク ラスと、兵隊格の実働クラスの2種が存在しており. 頭 脳クラスは世界に1体しか存在していない. そして実 働クラスはその行動のすべてを頭脳クラスによって管 理、制御されていることであった. この情報により、さほど高い知能を持たないはずの 抗体が、なぜ連携を取って行動していたのかが分かっ た. そしてその頭脳クラスは肉体を持たない精神生命 であり、惑星の高次の意志であるという事も判明し た. すなわち、惑星自らが持つ人間を滅ぼそうとする意 志が頭脳クラスであり、実際に人間を殺すために作り 出して送り込んだ刺客が実働クラスだったのだ. アル キア研究所は、実働クラスを束ねる存在の頭脳クラスを 「抗体頭脳」と呼び、その個体名を「アル・ルゥ」と名付 け、捕獲を行うべく研究を開始する. アルキア研究所がアル・ルゥの捕獲を目論んだのは、 抗体による人間への攻撃の停止だけが目的ではない. アル・ルゥ自体のデータを収集し、人類進化計画に役立 てるためであった. かつてクロガネが発案した人類進化 計画は、最終的な進化の方向性を決定できずに、保留 の状態のまま現在に至っていたのである.

Archia won the war against Clustania, and successfully drove the Necrofamilies to extinction. Then, they discovered many things upon inspecting the research results that Clustania had kept for centuries. They were surprised to see that the Song that should have been Downloaded into Tyria, EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/., was still in Clustania's possession, but more importantly was the fact that they had now gained new information about the Antibodies. Due to the interactions between Necrofamilies and Antibodies, Clustania had managed to gain a great understanding of the truth about the Antibodies.

Among this, it was the fact that the Antibodies had a social structure, and it also included information about a command chain existing between them. The Antibodies were divided into two classes: the Brain Class, and the Soldier Class. However, only one Brain Class Antibody existed in the world. In other words, all of the Antibodies that had actually appeared in the world were Soldiers, and all of their actions were controlled and governed by that sole Brain Class Antibody.

From this information, while it was supposed that this was an Antibody that shouldn't have any particularly great abilities, it was known that somehow, it had the power to make the other Antibodies work in coordination. Also, this Brain Class Antibody didn't have a physical body and existed only as an spiritual being, which was confirmed to be one of the highest-order Wills of the Planet. In other words, the Brain Class Antibody itself was a Will that the Planet itself had for destroying the humans, while the assassins it created and sent to kill them were called the Execution Class. The Archia Think Tank called the Brain Class, which controlled the Execution Class, the [Antibody Brain], and identified it with the name [Ar Ru]. Then, they began a research on how to capture Ar Ru.

The Archia Think Tank planned to capture Ar ru, but this didn't have only the goal of stopping the Antibodies from attacking the humans. They wanted to gather data on Ar Ru herself to use it for the Human Evolution Project. Given that Kurogane hadn't still decided a final evolved form when he had the idea of the Human Evolution Project, that decision was put in hold until this time.

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人類進化計画再び

The Human Evolution Project Returns
アルキア研究所が推進していた人類進化計画には、以 下の3つのセクションが存在していた. 1.人間を進化させるための起爆装置 2.進化を促進するためのプログラム 3.進化の方向性とその具体的な手法 1つめの「人間を進化させるための起爆装置」は、当 時暴君とまで言われたアルキア研究所の2代目所長、デ ィアンの強引かつ衝撃的な手法によって世界に浸透し た. これは、人間の中にレーヴァテイル質を植えつけ、そ れを強制的に開花させることによって影響力を発揮する というものである. この手法は、第三塔のSHサーバーのフィジカル部 分の書き換えが容易であるという仕様を利用したもの だった. レーヴァテイルのSHサーバーのフィジカル部 分は、ほぼ固定された物理フォーマットが使用されてお り、本来であれば書き換えが許されていない. しかし、 第三塔のSHサーバーはEXEC_FLIPを運用するため に物理フォーマットの書き換えがある程度許可されてい たのである（P.107 「第三塔の詩魔法サーバー」および 「EXEC_FLIPと奇跡」の項を参照）. 人類進化計画の 提唱者であったクロガネは、第三塔のSHサーバーの管 理者でもあったため、人類進化計画の計画遂行のために 意図的にこの仕様を設定していた思われる. 研究は随時進行しており、特に人間質とレーヴァテイル 質の混在した個体に物理ROM書き換えを行う試験に関 しては、レーヴァテイル第三世代を用いた秘密裏の人体 実験によって行われていた. これは、当時より実施され ていたブロッキング手術が利用されている. ブロッキング手術とは、第三世代のレーヴァテイル質 を押さえ込んで消去する、特殊な処理を施す手術のこ とである. 望まずに第三世代になった者も数多くいたた め、当時はブロッキング手術を受ける少女が後を絶たな かった. アルキア研究所も、公共福祉の一環としてブロッ キング手術を無料で行なっていたが、この際に何十人か 一人の割合でこのシードを植えつけていたのである. 被験者のなかには突然身体が溶け出すなどの異変をき たした娘も存在したが、アルキア研究所の手術が原因と 考えることはほぼ不可能であり、たとえ疑問を持つ者が いても事実は闇に葬られた. 光五条の妹、藍紗（あいし ゃ）も、この実験によって命を落とした一人である. 第三世代を用いた研究とは別に、閉じたレーヴァテイ ル質を強制的に開花させる研究も行っていた. これはア クティブフュージョンと呼ばれる手法で、第三世代にな らすとも、常にレーヴァテイル質が開花した状態になるも のである. しかし、開花した先のアドレスがSHサーバー の有効範囲外のため、感情が高ぶり搭のアクセスを必要 とした際、ほとんどの場合は発狂するか、単一の行動を 繰り返す廃人になってしまった. 結局のところ、この研究 は後に「極限病」と呼ばれる病の原因を世界にばらまい てしまうことになる. 2つめの「進化を促進するためのプ ログラム」の研究は、進化の起爆装置とは別のチームが 担当していた. こちらはヒュムノス・工クストラクトの開発 であり、Z計画と呼ばれていた. これが後に生まれるヒュ ムネクリスタル、EXEC_Z/.（ズィー）となる. EXEC_Z/.を謳うレーヴァテイルは通常のβ純血種で も構わないが、唯一の条件として、第三塔のβ-6Dに精 神世界が存在するレーヴァテイルである事が必要だっ た. 他の塔の出身であったり、ティリアのバイナリ野に 精神世界が存在するレーヴァテイル（ティリアとザキ）で は、謳っても効果がない. 最終的にEXEC_Z/.を謳った のは、アルキア侵入に失敗して捕らえられたクラスタニ アの元将軍、リツカリョーシャだった. 彼女は自身の精神 世界が保存されたSHサーバーを盾に取られ、アルキア に協力せざるを得ない状況だったのである. EXEC_Z/.は、開花していないレーヴァテイル質を、 既存の精神世界アドレスと強制的に結合する効果を持 つ. この頃考案されていた計画では、SHサーバー内に テンプレート的な精神世界を人間の数だけ作成し、それ と開花していないレーヴァテイル質を結合する、という ものだった. だがこの手法は成功せず、研究所内ではH 波と影響する別の波が関与しているか、まだ解明できて いない精神世界マップの法則性が存在するか、といった 仮説の下で研究が進んでいた. ちなみに、一人のレーヴ ァテイルのレーヴァテイル質を別アドレスにコピーして もうまくいかなかったため、アドレスに依存する法則で あるという事は判明していた. このように、2つの研究は大きな犠牲を伴いながらも 進行していたが、最後の1つである「進化の具体的な方 向性」に関しては、技術的見地から見たときの進展は皆 無であった. 「抗体と同じ体組成」を利用するということ だけは遙か昔から決まっていたが、その具体的な組成型 を採取するととができなかったのである.

The Human Evolution Project the Archia Think Tank was trying to implement was divided into the following three sections:

1. Make detonators for evolving the humans. 2. Create a program that accelerated the evolution. 3. Set the direction of evolution and create a method for manifesting it in the real world.

The first step, the [making detonators for evolving the humans] was already done by the coercive methods of the second Chairman of the Archia Think Tank, Dian, who at the time went as far as being called a despot. This consisted in planting Reyvateil Genes inside the humans, which exhibited characteristics of being capable of being forced to awaken once it received some kind of external influence.

This method was actually using the specifications of the Third Tower's SH Servers, which allowed to overwrite the memory fields that governed the physical forms of the Reyvateils. That physical form memory uses a fixed format that properly speaking can't be modified in any way. However, given that the SH Servers of the Third Tower make use of EXEC_FLIP, it was modified to allow modifications to that physical format (for more details, please refer to the sections [Song Magic Servers of the Third Tower] and [EXEC_FLIP and Miracles] in Page 107). Given that Kurogane, who served as the creator of the Human Evolution Project, was also the designer of the Third Tower's SH Servers, it's thought that he configured them in this way just to accomplish the Human Evolution Project.

Whenever they needed to advance the research, especially in regards to experiments for overwriting the physical ROM of the people that had a mix of human and Reyvateil genes in their blood, they conducted experiments on living people on secret, using Third Generation Reyvateils. The excuse used for these experiments since back then was the carrying out of Blocking Operations. The Blocking Operation is an special process conducted to suppress and eliminate the Reyvateil Genes from the Third Generations. Since there were many girls who unwillingly became Third Generations, at the time many of them underwent these operations. Even the Archia Think Tank began conducting them free of charge as a part of their public welfare campaign, but this was actually done to plant seeds into a high rate of Sol Cluster's population. Among the ones that underwent the operation, many of the girls suddenly began having sudden anomalies, such as their bodies melting away, but almost everyone thought it was impossible that the methods used by the Archia Think Tank were the cause, and despite being a lot of victims to this, these incidents faded away into the darkness. Hikari Gojo's younger sister, Aisha, also lost her life due to these experiments.

Aside of the research that used the Third Generations, a research to forcibly awaken the inactive Reyvateil Genes was conducted as well. This was done through a method called Active Fusion, which had as its goal making the inactive genes have the same conditions as the Reyvateil Genes present in awakened Third Generations. However, since the people that awakened under this method ended being registered in areas beyond the SH Servers valid ranges, if their emotions were aroused high enough for the Tower to need access to them, they almost always would either become crazy, or become invalids which would be capable of only repeating a single action. In the end, this research was what ended causing and disseminating the disease that was eventually known as the [Border Disease]. The research for the second section of the project, the [creation of a program that accelerated the evolution], was given to a different team from the ones that researched the detonators. This section consisted in the development of an Hymmnos Extract, which was called Project Z, which was what finally created the Hymn Crystal for EXEC_Z/.

It wouldn't really matter if the Reyvateil that sung EXEC_Z/. was normal Pureblooded β-type, but still, she had to fulfill one condition: she had to be a Reyvateil whose Soulspace resided in the Third Tower's β-6D. If she came from other Tower, or if her Soulspace resided in Tyria's Binary Field (like Saki or Tyria herself), the Song wouldn't have any effects, so the Reyvateil who ended being the singer for EXEC_Z/. was a former general of Clustania, Richaryosha, who unsuccessfully failed at invading Clustania and was captured by them. After her capture, she was offered to have her Soulspace being preserved in the SH Server, but only if she cooperated with them.

EXEC_Z/. basically has as one of its effects the forcefully assigning existing Soulspace Addresses to inactive Reyvateil Genes. At the time, the plan was to create template Soulspaces for only the humans, and then unite them to the inactive Reyvateil Genes they possessed. However, this method was unsuccessful, and the research had to progress under hypothesis such as the H-Waves interacting with other kinds of waves, or the Soulspace Maps having rules that couldn't be explained yet. By the way, they at least managed to prove that the Reyvateil Genes were completely dependent on the Addresses, given that the Genes didn't awaken correctly even if they were copied from a Reyvateil having a different Address.

Due to this, the second section of the research was done despite being an enormous number of sacrifices. As for the final section, the [setting the direction of evolution and creating a method for manifesting it in the real world], due to this region having a very technological viewpoint, developing it was pretty easy. It was decided since long ago that the form would be [constituted in the same way as the Antibodies], but they still couldn't collect any concrete samples to see what constituted their bodies.

アル・ルゥによるβ実験とγ昇華体構想

The Experiments in β-types due to Ar Ru, and the γ-Sublimate Plan
抗体自体がどんな成分で創られているかは、抗体の 末端を解剖すればある程度は分析できる. だが、その成 分を人工的に作る、ましてやそれを身体の代謝に組み込 む事は至難の業であった. それは素材の分析という分野ではなく、身体を構成す る物理制御にあたるため、素材の研究をいくら進めても 無意味だったからだ. そして、その抗体を組成するブ口 グラムを発しているのが抗体頭脳のアル・ルつだったの てある. アルキア研究所は、この最難関である3つめの 分野に関し、アル・ルゥの精神世界を完全に取り込む事 ができる素体の開発に賭けることにした. この素体は、通常のβ純血種とは違い、誕生前に精神 世界をプレインストールする手法が用いられた. そして そのブレインストールする精神世界は、「H波合成モデリ ング」という手法によって擬似的に作られている. このH 波合成モデリングには、焔魏元徳羅浄の精神世界が使わ れた. 焔魏元徳羅浄は先のアルキアとクラスタニアの戦 争の際に捕虜となり、拘留されて様々な検査を受けて いたのである. 焔魏元徳羅浄は、自身の体を抗体と融合 させていた. 完全な抗体ではないために、その精神世界 は、本人の妖家としての精神世界と抗体頭脳の一部と思 われる精神世界が融合した状態であった. 抗体頭脳の精 神世界のすべてがそこにある確証はなかったため、暗中 模索の状態で研究が進められていったという. こうしてアルキア研究所は試行錯誤を繰り返して抗体 とレーヴァテイルの融合を試みた. まず素体として選ば れたのは、中核三角環にポディを形成させるという、従 来のβ純血種と同じ作り方をしたレーヴァテイルである. まだ培養槽に入った状態の素体のデフォルトの精神世界 に、焔魏元徳羅浄の精神世界からH波合成モデリングの 技術を用いて抽出した抗体の定常H波を、ROMとして詰 め込んだのである. その手法はγ昇華体のサキアとサキ の関係よりもすっと原始的であり、より残酷なものであ った. 素体となるレーヴァテイルには人格は求められず、 あくまで抗体頭脳の器として扱われていたのである. 実験は成功したかに見えた. 実際に、抗体頭脳を精神 世界に取り込んだレーヴァテイルが完成したのである. この個体は、抗体頭脳の名をそのまま取って「アル・ル ゥ」と呼ばれた. しかし、アル・ルゥは誕生してすぐに発狂 し、暴走を始めてしまう. ほとんど手をつけないままの 抗体の精神世界をプレインストールして生まれたアル・ ルゥは、レーヴァテイルではなく抗体としての思考しか 持ち合わせていなかったのだ. アルキア研究所は、アル・ルゥの暴走を食い止めると とができなかった. 研究所は災禍に飲み込まれ、甚大な 被害を受けてしまう. さらには、この大惨事のドサクサに 紛れ、捕らえてられていた焔魏元徳羅浄が脱走. 命から がらクラスタニアへの帰還に成功している. このように、最初の融合実験は大きな失敗に終わっ た. しかし、そんななかでもアルキア研究所は収穫とい うべきものを得ていた. 惑星の意志をレーヴァテイルに 定着させる際に、惑星の窓口となるのが抗体であるとい う確信を持ったのである. この事実は、のちのγ昇華体 の開発の大きな足がかりとなった. そして最終的に実を 結んだのが、γ昇華体サキアの完成である.

If Archia were capable of performing an autopsy on the extremities of the Antibodies, they would have learned what was the composition of their bodies. However, the fact that they were composed in a very unnatural way, not to mention their incredible regeneration capacity, made this task pretty much impossible.

Since this wasn't anymore of competence to the branch of materials analysis, but actually on the jurisdiction of the physical body structure branch, it would have been meaningless to continue researching on this as materials analysis. Then, they noticed that if anything emitted the programming that governed the Antibodies' physical form, it would be the Antibody Brain Ar Ru. That served as a major barrier for three of the branches of the Archia Think Tank, so they decided to wager on developing a prime field that was capable of completely absorbing Ar Ru's Soulspace.

In the creation of that prime field, the Archia Think Tank used a procedure that allowed them to Preinstall a Soulspace before she was born, unlike the standard Pureblooded β-types. That Preinstalled Soulspace was made through a simulation method called [H-Wave Composition Modeling], and the Soulspace they used as the model for it was the one that belonged to Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou. After he was captured in the Ayatane War, the Archia researchers performed many kinds of analysis in him, because he had his body fused with the Antibodies. Because he hadn't become a complete Antibody, it was though that part of the Soulspace he had as a Necrofamily had partially fused with the Soulspace of the Antibody Brain. Because there wasn't any conclusive proof about him containing completely the Antibody Brain's Soulspace, the research had to advance while looking for clues in the darkness.

Thus, the Archia Think Tank began conducting many trial and error experiments to try fusing a Reyvateil with the antibodies. The first prime field they chose was making a Reyvateil in the same exact way as the Pureblooded β-types: creating a body out from a Triangular Nuclear Loop. However, when she was still in the nurturing tank, they extracted the Static H-Waves of the Antibodies from Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou's H-Wave composition model, and introduced into the default Soulspace of that Reyvateil as a piece of ROM data. This was a very primitive form of the relationship that exists between Sakia and Saki as a γ-Sublimate, but it was done in a much more cruel way. Also, the Reyvateil who became the prime field couldn't develop her own personality, and was treated until her death as a mere vessel for the Antibody Brain.

At first, the experiment seemed to be a success. The Reyvateil that had the Soulspace of the Antibody Brain inside her was finally completed, and like the Antibody Brain herself, she was given the name [Ar Ru]. However, immediately after Ar Ru was born, she went crazy, and began a rampage. Because they had Preinstalled the Soulspace of the uncontrollable Antibodies into her, when Ar Ru was born, she couldn't consider herself as a Reyvateil, but as another Antibody.

The Archia Think Tank was completely unable to quell Ar Ru's rampage. The Think Tank was completely engulfed in this disaster, and received a large amount of damage. And furthermore, during the confusion caused by this, Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou found a chance to escape, and managed to return barely alive in Clustania.

In this way, the first fusion experiment ended in a gigantic failure. However, even during these events, the Archia Think Tank managed to attain what they wanted: this gave them the conviction that attaching a Will of the Planet to a Reyvateil was possible, making the Antibodies into points of contact with the Planet itself. These events created a large basis for the future development of the γ-Sublimate. And all of this ultimately bore fruits when the γ-Sublimate Sakia was finally completed.

抗体頚脳アル・ルゥが顕在した姿. 後に完 成したγ昇華体はアル・ルゥの受口入れが 可能だったが、精神世界内での優先順位が 低く設定されることを嫌ったアル・ルゥは、 フィンネルの精神世界に潜伏した.

The current shape of the Antibody Brain, Ar Ru. While the later-on completed γ-Sublimate was perfectly capable of accepting Ar Ru within herself, since Ar Ru hated being given the lowest priority inside of the Soulspace, she chose to hide herself inside Finnel's Soulspace.

クラスタニア制圧の影響

The Effects of Clustania's Opression
アルキアによるクラスタニアの制圧によって変化が起 きたことといえば、大牙とアルキアの関係が最も顕著 だろう. この時、アルキアは、大牙からの盛大な賞賛を 受けた. 長らくクラスタニアの圧政とクレンジングに苦 しんでいた大牙の人々にとって、アルキア自分たち を救ってくれた救世主だったのである. アルキアにしてみれば、クラスタ二ア侵攻は大牙を救 うためにやったわけではない. しかし、副産物的に大牙 からの絶大な支持を取り付けたことで、世界情勢はア ルキア有利の方向に大きく傾いたのである. アルキアによって管理されたクラスタニアは、レーヴ ァテイルと人間が混在する街となっていた. 多くのレー ヴァテイル達がアルキアや大牙に送り込まれ、人として 見られることなく酷使された. 再び人間とレーヴァテイ ルの関わり合いが増加し、第三世代が数多く生まれて 潜在レーヴァテイル比率（pppr）は大きく上昇する. アルキア研究所自体はクラスタ二アに移転する予定 はなかったが、幹部などはクラスタニアに居を構える者 が多かった. こうして、この世界はアルキアの統治によ る世界と変わっていったのだ.

If we had to mention what changed the most when Clustania was oppressed by Archia, it would be the relationship between Archia and the Great Fang. At the time, Archia received many words of praise from the Great Fang. To the people of the Great Fang, who suffered during many years from Clustania's oppression and Cleansing, Archia itself was like a Messiah that had come to save them.

However, Archia didn't actually invade Clustania to save the Great Fang, and was actually a byproduct of their actions. However, this gave them great support and popularity from the people of the Great Fang, and inclined the conditions of the world in Archia's favor.

Once Clustania began being governed by Archia, it became a city in which humans and Reyvateils constantly intermingled. Many Reyvateils were sent over to either Archia or the Great Fang, were they weren't treated as people and horribly exploited. The relationships between humans and Reyvateil increased, and because of the birth of many Third Generations, the current Reyvateil ratio (PPPR/Person per Potential Reyvateil ratio) greatly increased.

While the Archia Think Tank itself didn't plan to move itself to Clustania, a great part of the executive staff indeed had moved there. This was how the world changed during the time in which it was governed by Archia.

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レーヴァテリア・クルセイダー

The Reyvateilia Crusaders
アルキアの管理下において、レーヴァテイル達はいい ように虐げられていた. だが、一部のレヴァテイル達 はその仕打ちに耐えられず、塔内に隠れ住んで過去の 栄光を取り戻すために活動していたのである. 彼女らは 自らの組織をレーヴァテリア・クルセイダーと呼び、レー ヴァテイル至上主義を掲げ、レーヴァテイルだけの理想 の地を作ることを目的としていた. レーヴァテリア・クルセイダーの組織のなかでも、特に 重要な役割を担っていたのが、絢胤紅葉霧浪（アヤタネ クレハキリナミ）である. 彼は妖家を全滅させた人間に 対し、とてつもない憎悪の念を抱いており、幼少期から の教えによってレーヴァテイルこそがこの世界を救うこ とができる存在であると信じていた. 結成当初は小さな組織であったレーヴァテイル・クル セイダーだったが、クレハの巧みな活動により、徐々に その規績を大きくしていった. この組織の当面の目的目 的として、クレハが当面のところ最重要視していたのは、 アルキアの支配下にあるクラスタ二アの奪還と、レーヴ ァテイルが世界を統治する旧体制の復活である. そし て、その実現のためには、アルキアによって停止させら れていたハ一ヴェスターシャVISTAを再起動すること が不可欠だと確信していた. レーヴァテリア・クルセイダーは、次第にその構成員の 数を増やしていった. 構成員は社会にとけ込み、普段は 決して目立つことをしない. 当時はアルキア研究所内で も相当数のレーヴァテイルが使われていたが、そのな かに多数の構成員を潜り込まぜることに成功していた. アル・ルゥによるβ試験（レーヴァテイルと抗体頭脳を融合 させる計画）が失敗した際に焔魏元徳羅浄を脱走させた のも、レーヴァテリア・クルセイダーの構成員の手引きに よるものである. そして、彼らは、クラスタニア復興のた めに決死のブロジ工クトを決行した. それが、ハーヴェス ターシャVISTAの再起動である. VISTA再起動と言っても、この時のVISTAの停止は 起動鍵を用いて電源を落としたOFFの状態ではなく、 HALT（稼働はしているが処理をしていない、ウェイ卜 状態）であった. 従って、ソフトウェア的に復旧させると とが可能だったのである. ただし、アルキアが仕込んだ VISTA停止コントロールプログラム（クラスタニア側か ら見ればウイルス）を奪ったり解除したりするととはでき なかったため、レーヴァテリア・クルセイダ達は、さら に根本からの回復に挑むことにした. そもそもアルキア のプログラムを用いて解除したところで、また同じプロ グラムで停止されるのは目に見えている. それならば、 まず根幹から回復し、VISTAのセキュリティ対策をすれ ば良いわけである. いずれもハ一ヴェスターシャのバイ ナリ野にタイブすることで実現が可能であった. だがそれは、溶鉱炉に飛び込んで元栓を開けるような ものであり、実行するには相当の犠牲を覚悟する必要が あった. アルキア研究所で働いていたレーヴァテリア・ク ルセイダーの構成員達は立候補者を募り、クウに向かう 部隊とアルキアでコントロールする部隊の二手に分かれ た. いずれも決死の覚悟を固めていた. そして決行の日の夜がやってくる. レーヴァテリア・ク ルセイダは、見事な連係で計画どおりにことを進めて いった. そしてわずか50人足らずのチームで、VISTA の再起動に成功したのである. この時、クウからバイナ リ野にタイブした10名は全員が死亡. コンソール側にい た40人も、そのうち38人が帰らぬ人となった. クーデター後、研究所にいたβ純血種は可能な限りク ラスタニアに逃げ、アルキアは大混乱に見舞われた. こ の事件をきっかけとして当時の所長の支持は急落，十 数年後、ラファ工ーレにその座を譲ることになる. 完全勝利をおさめたクラスタ二アは既にアルキアと対 等な関係を結ぶつもりはなく、縮小していたパリエ行政 区を強化してアルキアの国家権を剥奪する. クラスタニ アのレーヴァテイル達は、例えアルキアがSHサーバー のコントロールによってレーヴァテイル達の命を奪おう とも、最後の一人まで闘うという気迫に満ちていた. その後、クラスタニアは以前のように世界を席巻する ようになる. 総帥たるハ一ヴェスターシャVISTAが復活 し、完全に勢力を取り戻したのである. アヤタネクレハ を筆頭とするレーヴァテリア・クルセイダーに対する賞賛 は相当なものであった. このレーヴァテリア・クルゼイダ ーは、後世になっても絶対に人間社会にはその存在を秘 密にするようレーヴァテイル達で誓いを立て、以降も秘 密組織として大いに暗躍していくこととなる. 今回の事件によって英雄となったクレハは、クラスタ ニアを表裏の両面から支配する者となった. 表の行政で レーヴァテイルを育て、人間達に圧力を加える. そして 裏の行政で反乱分子を取り締まり、大牙で反抗的なコミ ュニティを見つけた際は潰したり、要人の暗殺などを行 った. これらはすべてクレハの考案によるもので、その 遂行により、クラスタニアはアルキアでも止めることは できない程に盤石な支配体制を築き上げたのである.

Under Archia's rule, the Reyvateils were pretty much oppressed. However, there was a group of Reyvateil that didn't endure this abuse, and went into hiding in the inner sectors of the Tower while carrying out actions for regaining Clustania's former glory. They called themselves the Reyvateilia Crusaders, announced their Reyvateil supremacy doctrine, and had as their final goal creating a paradise only for Reyvateils.

Even among them, there was a person who had an especially important role: that was Ayatane Kureha Kirinami. Due to the total Necrofamily annihilation the humans conducted, he had an unreasonable amount of hatred towards them, and believed that the teachings he was given since his younger days about the Reyvateil being the ones who would be able to save this world were true.

While the group was originally very small, thanks to Kureha's clever actions, it gradually grew in size. Their most important goal, as Kureha himself had stated, was rescuing Clustania from Archia's rule, and restoring the former order, in which the Reyvateils ruled the world. Thus, for this to become a reality, they believed that it was essential for them to first reboot Harvestasha Vista, who was shut down by Achia. The number of member of the Reyvateilia Crusaders grew little by little. The members attempted then to blend in with the rest of the Corporarchy, so they wouldn't stand out from the other Reyvateils. Given that at the time the Archia Think Tank used a large number of Reyvateils, the members of the Reyvateilia Crusaders were successful in their infiltration.

Then, they were guided by the instructions that Homuragi Gentoku Rakujou, who escaped after the experiments in β-types due to Ar Ru (the plan to fuse a Reyvateil with the Antibody Brain) gave them. Once they reached their target, they began executing a project for which they were ready to die, and which would revive Clustania. Said project was the reboot of Harvestasha VISTA.

Although we might be saying "reboot VISTA", at this time, VISTA wasn't actually shut down by cutting her power through the usage of her boot key; she was actually HALTED (a wait mode in which she stays operative, yet can't execute any processes). Therefore, it was possible to reboot her through software. However, since they weren't able of stealing and canceling the control program that Archia used to keep VISTA halted (which was a virus from Clustania's viewpoint), the Reyvateil Crusaders had to take to attempt restoring her from her very core. Although they actually managed to cancel Archia's program, it was visible that other similar program immediately started and continued keeping VISTA halted, so attempting to just cancel the program was a waste of effort. Therefore, to restore VISTA from her core, it would be necessary to just reboot her security protocols, which would only be possible be diving into Harvestasha's Binary Field.

However, since doing this was similar to opening an stopcock to jump into a blast furnace, they had to resolute themselves that there would have to be large sacrifices for this plan to come to fruition. The Reyvateilia Crusaders then recruited members from the Reyvateils that worked at the Archia Think Tank, and divided into two groups: one that would operate the controls at Archia, and other that would head for Ku. Both of them were pretty much ready to die.

Then, the night for carrying out the plan came. The Reyvateil Crusaders marvelously did everything as it was planned, and with an small team of 50 people, they managed to successfully reboot VISTA. However, all of the ten members that Dove into the Binary Field at Ku died. Likewise, of the 40 members that were operating the controls at Archia, only two remained alive.

After this coup d'etat, the Pureblooded β-types that were in the Think Tank ran to Clustania as fast as they could, and Archia was cast into an enormous chaos. Due to these incidents, the Chairman at the time completely lost the support of the public, and after a few decades, he was replaced by Raphael.

Having attained this crushing victory, Clustania didn't recognize Archia as an equal anymore, and instead, deprived it of its status of independent government and turned it back into the Parie Governorate. The Clustanian Reyvateils then were filled with an spirit that drove them to fight until the last one of them fell, even if Archia used its control over the SH Server to kill them.

After this, the world was completely conquered by Clustania once again. Now that the ruler, Harvestasha VISTA had returned, she recovered completely her political power, and deemed the Reyvateilia Crusaders, with Ayatane Kureha as their leader, as worthy of admiration. The Reyvateil Crusaders then became a secret society that swore to keep existing secret, no matter if the world was once again completely ruled by the humans, and even after this, their members continued mostly mobilizing in complete secrecy.

Due to these events, Kureha became a national hero, and also, the ruler of Clustania, both in the surface and in secret. On the surface, he raised the Reyvateils, and pressured them to hate the humans. And on secret, he eliminated any rebel elements that arose within Clustania's administration, such as destroying the rebel communities in the Great Fang, and assassinating important rebel figures. Since these were all Kureha's ideas and accomplishments, Clustania became once again a government so strong and solid, that even Archia didn't have any chance of stopping them.

エンシェント派とネオアトラス派

The Ancient and Neo Atlas Factions
アルキア側からすれば、支配権を奪われようがそうで なかろうが、あまり関係がなかった. そもそもアルキア がクラスタニアを攻撃し、支配するような形を取った本 来の目的は、惑星の上位意志のサンプルを取得するた めであり、その目的は達成していたのである. アル・ルゥ よるβ試験は失敗に終わったが、データとしてハーヴ ェスターシャXPに保存されているサンプルは消えるこ とはないため、何度でも研究ができる. アルキアは人類 進化計画の進展のために、またクラスタ二アを油断させ るためにも治安部隊などの支配や軍事に関係するシス テムを縮小し、研究方面への事業集約を行なった. 実は、この時期のクラスタモア奪還はアルキア幹部に とっても好都合だった. クラスタニア制圧は、思わぬ内 部分裂を引き起こしていたのである. アルキアがクラス タニアを支配したとき、行政区よりもさらに上部にリン カーネイションという施設を確認した. レーヴァテイル達 が聖地と呼んでいる場所だが、アルキアは塔が未完成 であったことからも、リンカーネイションは機能していな いと考えていた. しかし、調査の結果、その稼働が正常 に行われているととを確認したのだ. りンカーネイション の役割は、塔ごとに意味が変わってくる. 元々が物質で あった第一塔は、単純な管理者接点であったが、第三塔 はそれよりも多彩な機能を持っている. 塔そのものがテ ィリアであるという第三塔は、リン力ーネイションがティ リアと対話するためのインターフェイスとなっているの である. さらに、新たなレーヴァテイル素体をポッドに入 れるととで、ティりアの精神とリンクをさせ、次の管理者 とすることもできる. そして極めつけは、ティリアと完全 にシンクロした人間素体である「フォログラフィ」を生成 することも可能だったのだ. このフォログラフィはいわば 「人形」であり、通常のレーヴァテイルと違って独立思 考は持てず、塔の離脱限界距離もかなり短い. それでも ティリアを復活させることは、当初予定していた惑星再 生計画を再開できるということを示している. アルキア研究所はすでに人類進化計画を主体として 活動していたが、惑星再生計画を支持する研究者達の 熱は冷め止まず、研究室を分化することになる. そして、 それぞれを「ネオアトラスブロジ工クト」と「工ンシェント プロジェクト」と銘打ち、研究を進めさせたのであった. しかし、クラスタニアが奪還されたあとは、当然ながら りン力ーネイションからも追い出される. 同時にアルキ ア上層部も研究ができなくなったことを理由にして、エ ンシェントプロジェクトを閉鎖しようとした. だが研究者 達は食い下がった. 研究者達を支えたのが、当時の研究 室長であったキラハである. 熱狂的な惑星再生計画の 支持者であるキラハはエンシェントプロジェクトの中刻 の一人であり、大きな発言力を持つ研究所幹部だった. ネオアトラス派の室長であったラウドネスとは犬猿の仲 で、この時もここぞとばかりに潰しにかかってきたラウド ネスに抵抗を続けたのである. かくして所長はキラハの 主張を取り下げることはできず、以前より縮小はされた ものの、エンシェントプロジェクトは存続した.

On the other hand, to Archia, the fact of being robbed of their supremacy in this world was almost of no consequence to them. In the first place, Archia had already managed to attack Clustania, and while this allowed them to attain the power from their HQ, it was actually regarded as an achievement because of this having allowed them to take a sample from one of the higher-ranked Wills of the Planet. While the experiments in β-types due to Ar Ru had already finished in failure, since the samples they collected were preserved in Harvestasha XP as data, they would be able to experiment countless times in them. Because they were so concentrated in the development of the Human Evolution Project, Archia lowered its guard against Clustania by reducing the importance on the public security, government and military systems, all to intensify their research.

Actually, the fact that Clustania had regained its supremacy was very convenient for the heads of the Archia Think Tank. Clustania's pressure ended causing unexpected rifts within Archia itself, because during the time that Clustania was under Archian rule, the researchers managed to go beyond the Governorate, and climb up to the facility called the Rinkernator. While this was called a holy land by the Reyvateils, Archia thought that the facility was useless because the Tower was left incomplete. However, according to their research, it was confirmed that the facility worked flawlessly. The Rinkernator's functions were now going to change the meaning of the Tower's existence. While the original Rinkernator, the one in the First Tower is merely a single-bit IO point for the Administrator, the one in the Third Tower has many more functions beyond this. Because Tyria herself is the Third Tower, the Rinkernator also works as an interface that enables conversations with her. Furthermore, if a new Reyvateil prime field is inserted into one of the pods, she can be linked to Tyria's mind and turned into the new Administrator. And even better, it's possible to even create from that prime field an humanoid body completely synchronized with Tyria in this way, called an [Holography]. The Holography would be better called a [doll], since unlike normal Reyvateils, it lacks an independent way of thinking, and can't be separated long distances from the Tower without disappearing. However, this would make possible to revive Tyria, suggesting that it would be possible to restart the Planet Regeneration Project that the Tower was originally planned to accomplish.

While the Archia Think Tank was already completely focused in working in the Human Evolution Project, the zeal of the researchers that supported the Planet Regeneration Project was so great, that the laboratories had to be divided into two parts. Thus, the [Ancient Faction] and the [Neo Atlas Faction] were formed, and each one continued with its research independently.

However, after Clustania regained its power, naturally, it expelled all of the humans from the Rinkernator. At the same time, due to being unable to continue their research, the upper management of the Archia Think Tank decided to shut down the Ancient Project. However, the researchers persisted, mainly supported by the ones that served as the Laboratory Chief at the time: Kiraha. He was a wildly enthusiastic supporter of the Planet Regeneration Project and the very core of the Ancient Project, whose great ability with words allowed him to attain a very high position in the management of the Think Tank.

The Laboratory Chief for the Neo Atlas Faction at that time was Loude, and both men got along as well as cats and dogs. Even at these times in which the Ancient Faction was about to cease existing, Loude still continued opposing to their ideas. Thus, the current Chairman had no choice but to yield to Kiraha's demands, and allowed the Ancient Faction to continue with their research, albeit with a greatly reduced budget.

γ昇華理論確立

The Establishment of the γ-Sublimation Theory
その後の20年程度は、平和に過ぎ去った. それは、ア ルキア研究所のネオアトラス派の研究が飛躍的に進展し たためである. 特に、「γ昇華」というレーヴァテイル製 造理論が確立したことは大きな進歩であった. γ昇華に よって、惑星の意志と従順なレーヴァテイルを一つの魂 にすることができるようになる. γ昇華の理論が確立し てから実際に製造が始まるまでにはかなりの時間がか かったが、着実に進行していた. その後γ昇華は実地試験に移るが、これは難航した. 先のアル・ルゥの暴走については研究が進んでおり、抗 体の凶暴性を持ったままでの取り込みは難しいという 判断になっていた. この件は、逆相を充てるヒユムノスに よって解消する案が有力となり、アルファージの研究開 発へと繋がっていく. また、ミラーリングがうまくいかな い問題に関しては、レーヴァテイルのボディを形成してい るのが中核三角環ベースであることが原因と判断する 声が多く、太古に何度か生成されかけていた四次正角 性中核環が求められていた. 実際に四次正角性中核環 があれば、研究はほぼ最終段階へと移行するととろまで 来ていたのである. その間、エンシェント派はリンカーネイションに入れな くなったことからほとんど進展がなくなっていた. その 現状への油断からか、原初の塔の探索をしたいというエ ンシェント派の申し出を許可してしまう. 原初の塔は、数 百年前の抗体襲撃の時に大崩壊し、表向きは停止したこ とになっていた. 実際はハ一ヴェスターシャXPがまだ健 在であり、重要な施設はしっかり稼働しているわけだが、 だからこそ立ち入りは固く禁じられていたのだ. キラハ を始めとする原初の塔調査隊は、エンシェント派にとっ て非常に重要なものを発見することになる. それは、ヒユムネクリスタルのコスモフリブスと、ハー ヴェスターシャの起動鍵であった. コスモフリブスはティ リアしか謳えないが、ティリアさえ復活すれば、すぐにで も惑星再生計画が進行できる状況に持って行ける. 残る 導力問題は、研究所に残る資料を分析したところ、量大 瞬間に必要な導力量を紡げれば良いことがわかってい る. そのために、エンシェン卜派は早いうちから刻の環製 作所との友好関係を築き上げており、大型導力輪や、そ の発展系であるDFP（D波フレアパルス発生装置）の展 発を進めていたのである. かなり優勢だと思われたネオアトラス派であったが、 この発見によって両者は横並びとなった. 「四次正角性 中核環」の生成が確立すれば、ネオアトラス派はアル・ル ゥの転写を、工ンシエント派はティリアの復活を成功させ ることで、あとは計画を実行に移すだけというところま で来ていたのである.

Around 20 years after these incidents, the peace ended. This was because the Neo Atlas Faction began progressing extremely fast in their research, especially because of having established a Reyvateil production theory called the [γ-Sublimation], which was progressing at an amazingly fast rate. Due to this theory, it would be possible to put a Will of the Planet and an obedient Reyvateil inside a single soul. While there was a long span of time between the time in which the γ-Sublimation theory was established and when the Reyvateils from it began to be produced, it still advanced steadily.

While the γ-Sublimation later on moved to the field test phase, to road to it was a pretty difficult voyage. When research was performed in why the ancestor to the γ-Sublimates, Ar Ru, went berserk, the conclusion was because it was next to impossible to tame the brutal nature of the Antibodies. Due to the above mentioned, it was decided that the research would be then conducted in parallel to the development of the vaccine Hymmnos, Arphage, which would allow to eliminate that brutal nature. However, there were many ones that protested against this plan due to it using the Nuclear Triangular Loop that serves as the basis for creating the body of the Reyvateils, because the mirroring of her Cosmosphere in the SH Server would cause many problems in the process, and it was decided to attempt seeking a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, which they attempted to create since long ago. If they actually managed to obtain one of them, then it would be possible to push the research directly to its final stage.

On the other hand, the research of the Ancient Faction didn't progress at all due to having no access to the Rinkernator. It might because they were unprepared for the circumstances brought by Clustania's return to power, but the request they filled for exploring the Tower of Origin was finally granted. The Tower of Origin had suffered large collapses due to the attacks from the Antibodies centuries ago, and seemed to be completely shut down. While Harvestasha XP still functioned perfectly within it, meaning that all of its essential facilities were still operating, it was terminally forbidden to set foot in it. The Tower of Origin exploration squad, led by Kiraha, then discovered something that would serve as a tremendous breakthrough for the Ancient Faction.

What they discovered were the Hymn Crystal for Cosmoflips, and Harvestasha's boot keys. Cosmoflips was a Song that only Tyria could sing, but once she was revived and had it Downloaded into her, it would be possible to continue with the Planet Regeneration Project. As for the problem of the Symphonic Power remaining in the Tower, according to the research documents that were preserved in the Think Tank, just generating a large amount of power for single instant would serve good enough as well. Because of this, the Ancient Faction immediately began establishing good relationships with the Moebius Factory, due to their Great Symphonic Power Disc, and helping them with the development of the DFP (the D-Wave Flare Pulse Emitter).

While the Neo Atlas Faction was thought as superior, with these discoveries, both factions were now in equal terms. However, they still needed to establish how to create a [Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop], so it would be still some time before both factions could execute their corresponding projects: the Neo Atlas Faction and its transcription of Ar Ru into a Soulspace, and the Ancient Faction and their resurrection of Tyria.

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四次正角性中核環

The Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop
ネオアトラス派と工ンシエント派の争いをチャンスと考え た男がいた. その男こそがラファエーレである. ラフ ァエーレはネオアトラス派の信奉者であった. 惑星が再 生したところで、人間が変わらなければ結果環境は変わ らない. それより、人間という存在の改変をすれば、こ のような世界であっても快適な環境を創り出せる. 彼は そう思っていたのである. そして、ラファエーレは直属の上司であるラウドネス ことともまた、邪魔だと思っていた. 彼は有能な科学者 であったが、政治に関してはまるで素養がなく、ラファ工 ーレから見れば、何度もあったエンシェン卜派解散のチャ ンスを逃していたのである. トップに立つ者は研究者とし ての才覚よりも、人を動かす力が必要であり、自分の理想 とする体制を思い描ける人である. ラファ工ーレは自 分であればそれを達成できると自負しており、ラウドネス を何とかして排除したかった. そんな時に、四次正角性 中核環の話が出てきたのである. ラウドネスは四次正角 性中核環のノウハウが第二塔にあることを知っていた. それは以前、ラファエーレと共に調査した成果であった. 過去の文献を調べたところ、太古にAHPPは、第二塔で 四次正角性中核環の実験を行い、一応の成功を収めて いた事実が判明したのである. 第三塔の四次正角性中核 環の生成は完全な失敗であったことから、第二塔へ文献 を取りに行くことに最後の望みを賭けていたのだ. 場所が場所だけに準備を入念に行っていたラウドネス であったが、エンシェント派が四次正角性中核環を求め るための計画を始めると、途端に焦り始めた. 気性の激 しいラウドネスはここでもラファエーレにきつく当たる. しかし、ラファエーレはラウドネスの性格をうまく利用 し、現地で四次正角性中核環を生成できる者は貴方しか いないとけしかけ、第二塔に送り出すことに成功. これに よって、ラファエーレはネオアトラス派のトップとして実権 を握った. ラファエーレがアルキア研究所の所長の座に のぼりつめるまで、さほど時間はかからなかった.

There was a man that thought of the fight between the Neo Atlas and Ancient Factions as a chance: that man was Raphael. He was a believer of the Neo Atlas Faction, and thought that even if the Planet was regenerated, if the humans didn't change, their environment wouldn't change either. More importantly, if they changed themselves, they would be able of creating an appropriate environment for themselves, even in a world as ruined as this.

Also, while Raphael had Loude as his direct superior, he didn't think of Loude as anything else but a hindrance. While he was a very skillful scientist, he didn't have any abilities in politics, and from Raphael's viewpoint, he wasted the many chances he had gotten to eliminate the Ancient Faction. He was the kind of person that imagined himself as the ruler of his own perfect world: that at the top, instead of a researcher, it should be someone that had the power to order everyone around himself. He was so conceited that he believed that he achieve these delusions of grandeur, and began plotting how to get rid of Loude. At that time, the topic of the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop was raised, because Loude had learned that the methods for creating them could be found at the Second Tower. This was the result of the research the he and Raphael had conducted in the past. From investigating ancient documents, they found at the AHPP began conducting long ago experiments on the Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, and in fact confirmed that they succeeded into creating one. Given that all the attempts to create a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop in the Third Tower ended in total failure, they decided to bet on this last hope, and depart for the Second Tower.

Loude was at first extremely cautious and scrupulous about preparing to go anywhere, but as the Ancient Faction began their own projects to seek a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, he began growing impatient. Due to his own violent personality, Loude was pretty much ready to assign Raphael to the mission of going to the Second Tower. However, Raphael skillfully took advantage of Loude's personality by telling him that no other person in the current times would be able of creating a Selfstabilizing Tesseractal Nuclear Loop, and successfully sent him off to Metafalss. Due to this, Raphael ended becoming the leader of the Neo Atlas Faction. After this, he didn't require much time to climb all the corporate chain and end up occupying the Chairman's seat.

ラファエーレの台頭

Raphael's Rise
ネオアトラス派の実権を握ったラファエーレは、γ昇華 体はさほど長生きである必要はないと考えていた. 更に いえば、歩けなくてもよく、人型をしている必要すらない と考えていた. 惑星の意志が生きた状態で流れ込み、そ のフィジカルなデータを吸い出す迄の時間さえ生存して いれば、それで良かったのである. この点が、レーヴァテ イルを外見的にも美しい完全体として生成することにこ だわっていたラウドネスと対立する部分でもあった. そのため、ラウドネスが旅立って自らが研究室を率い る立場になると、ラファ工ーレは真っ先に中核三角環に よるγ昇華体の可能性について研究するように部下に申 しつけた. すると、惑星の意志がキャパシティを越えてい なければ、「力」を使わない限りそれなりに耐えられる、 ということが判明する. ただし、「力」を使えば、数回もし ないうちに死んでしまう. これは当初想定した完全なγ昇 華体とは違う部分であった. この計画にはその「力」の行使がどうしても必要にな るため、今までそれで中核三角環による製造は躊躇して いたのである. 「力」が使えないγ昇華体など、通常のβ 純血種と何ら変わりはなかった. また、その程度で死んで しまうと言うことは、すなわち惑星の意志が少しでも己 の力を制御できなければ身体が持たないということで もある. だが、ラファ工ーレはそれでも構わないと判断し た. 全てをお膳立てし、「力」を使うとき以外は稼働させ なければいい. すなわち、γ昇華体はアルファージを謳う その日まで稼働させずにコールドスリーブをさせるとい う形での運用を計画したのである. この計画を聞き、最も強く反対したのはエンシェント 派のトップであるキラハであった. エンシェント派は、レ ーヴァテイルを生命として見ていることもあり、今回のγ 昇華体に対する生命とも思わないような扱いに対して強 い反発を示したのだ. ラファエーレはこの意見に対して 穏便に検討するという歩み寄りの姿勢を示したが、その 裏でエンシェント派一掃の計画を着実に進めていた. そして彼は遂に、以前のハ一ヴェスターシャVISTA再 起動とそれに伴う損害についての責任問題で現所長を 糾弾し、失脚に追いやることに成功する. 人望が厚いラフ ァ工ーレは、そのまま他の幹部のご機嫌を取り所長へと 就任、就任後まずエンシェント派の完全な解体を行うこと にした. 方法はあまりにも簡単であった. 辞令によりエンシェン卜派の全員をそれぞれ全く関係 のない部署に配属し、エンシェントプロジェクトを事実上 の解体に追い込んだのである. さらには、敢えて能力と して欠落している部分を調べ上げ、最も苦手な部署に配 属させた. いずれ研究所を去るよう仕向けたのだ. その 一方で、ネオアトラス派の研究員には研究進展の報奨と 称して全員にボーナスを支給している. 決して体制や所 長に対する批判を起こさせないよう、常に計算しながら 組織の運営をしていたのである. ラファ工ーレは研究者 としてよりも、政治面の手腕に優れた人物だった. ラファ工ーレの工ンシエント派排斥のための工作は、す ぐに成果が出た. キラハの部下であったアオトの両親を 始め、熱烈なエンシェント派研究者は次々とアルキア研 究所を辞めていったのである. やがてエンシェント派の研究者はほとんど去り、アルキ ア研究所はネオアトラス派一派による巨大な人類進化計 画の研究施設となった. なお、第二搭に渡ったラウドネス からの報告は受信していたものの、返信や援護を送るとい ったことはしていない. ラファエーレは、もはやラウド ネスを迎え入れるつもりはなかったのである.

After he became the leader of the Neo Atlas Faction, Raphael thought that it wasn't necessary for the γ-Sublimate to have a particularly long life span. He thought that even if she was unable of walking, it would more than enough if she had a human-like shape. If she could exist just until she absorbed a Will of the Planet, and they extracted their physical structure data, that would be enough. Also, the physical structure data was the point in which he and Loude constantly argued, since Loude was always obsessed with producing the Reyvateils with a beautifully, complete external appearance.

Because of that, after Loude left the Archia Think Tank for Metafalss and he began leading the laboratory instead, Raphael's first action was ordering his subordinates to research how possible it would be creating the γ-Sublimate from a Triangular Nuclear Loop. It was then decided that if she couldn't exceed the capacity for the Wills of the Planet, it would be better to not put on her a limit for the quantity of times she could use her [power]. However, if she used her [power], she would gradually decrease her life span, which could ultimately end in her death. This was the only point of difference that it had with the hypothetical perfect γ-Sublimate that was originally planned.

Since it became necessary to make her use that [power] at any cost to continue the project, many researchers hesitated against the prospect of creating the γ-Sublimate by using a Triangular Nuclear Loop. If she didn't use her [power], she would be exactly the same as a normal Pureblooded β-type. Still, she could die depending on the degree she used her [power], or in other words, if the Wills of the Planet couldn't control her powers at least a little, she would lose her body. However, Raphael decided that this was inconsequential to the project. Once everything was prepared, it wouldn't matter if she wasn't operative except for the time in which she would use her power. In other words, it was decided that the γ-Sublimate would be used by keeping her in cold sleep, inoperative, until the day for singing Arphage came.

Kiraha, the leader of the Ancient Faction, was the one that opposed the strongest against this project once he learned about it. The way in which the Neo Atlas Faction treated the γ-Sublimate as a non-living creature received an strong backlash from the Ancient Faction, which saw the Reyvateils as living beings. While Raphael announced that he would make a concession to calmly ponder about these opinions, he actually began steadily working in secret in a project to eradicate the Ancient Faction.

Then, he finally pushed all of the blame for the reboot of Harvestasha VISTA and all of the subsequent damages that event caused into the current Chairman, which made him lose all the support he had, thus making Raphael successful in getting rid of him. Due to his great popularity, Raphael managed to gain the favor of the top executives of the Archia Think Tank, finally being appointed as the Chairman. Once he got to the top, the first action he took was completely dissolving the Ancient, which was extremely simple to him.

Due to personnel changes, all of the members of the Ancient Faction were relocated to areas that were completely unrelated to each other, which was what actually pushed the Ancient Project into oblivion. Furthermore, Raphael deeply researched what skills were the ones each member of the Ancient Faction lacked the most, and relocated them to areas that fitted the skills they lacked, which induced many to leave the Think Tank. On the other hand, he announced that he would supply bonuses to all of the members of the Neo Atlas Faction that continued pushing forward the development of the Human Evolution Project. And so no one would criticize his order or his way of doing things, he managed the Think Tank in the most calculating way possible. While Raphael didn't have much ability as a researcher, he had an excellent talent in politics.

Finally, his maneuvers for expelling the Ancient Faction bore fruits. Beginning with Aoto's parents, which were subordinates to Kiraha, the passionate researchers of the Ancient Faction began resigning from the Archia Think Tank one after other.

In a short time, almost all of the researchers of the Ancient Faction had left, leaving the Neo Atlas Faction as the only party in the Archia Think Tank. This turned the Think Tank into a gigantic research facility dedicated only to the Human Evolution Project. By the way, while they did receive reports from Loude, who went to the Second Tower, they never bothered to send replies or reinforcements for him. As you can see, Raphael never had any intentions to receive Loude again in Archia.

ラファエーレ、 ラウドネスのクリスタルについて

The Crystals That Both Raphael and Loude have
ラファエーレやラウドネスの体の一部に埋め込ま れたクリスタルは、支配種と呼ばれる者の特徴であ る. 元々存在していた人類進化計画は、現在のそれ よりも遙かに理想的なものであり、人間が現在のす べての機能を維持した状態で雲海の毒などに適応 できものであった. ぞの理想にどれだけ近けら れるかは、惑星の意志から得る情報によるところが 大きかったが、アルキア研究所は惑星の意志からの 回答を得ていなかった. そして彼らは、死の雲海に 耐えられる身体を持つことは人間らしい生き方を 捨てることになるという結論に達したのである. ア ルキア研究所はコントロールする側とされる側とい う形で人類を分類した. アルキアの幹部達は全員、 支配種としての手術を行うこととなる. クリスタルは頭に近いほど制御力が強く、大きい ほど影響カが強くなる. しかし、外見上の問題もあ って、熱心な研究者であったラウドネスほど自らの 見栄えを変えてしまう者は他にいなかった. ラファ エーレのように、脳幹に近い目立たない場所に埋 め込むのが一般的だったのである.

The crystals that both Raphael and Loude have buried in a part of their heads are a characteristic of the people called the "Master Class". From the very start, far before the current Human Evolution Project was created as know it now, the ideals it had were allowing the humans to maintain all of their vital functions by adapting to elements such as the poison from the Sea of Death. The way that most chose to get closer to that ideal was by acquiring information from the Wills of the Planet, but the Planet never gave the Archia Think Tank any sort of information. Thus, they ended getting to a theory that stated that they would have to acquire bodies that resisted the Sea of Death, which would lead these people to abandoning their human way of life. The Archia Think Tank then decided to divide humankind into "Masters" and "Slaves". All of the top executives of the Archia Think Tank had undergone an special operation to become part of the "Master Class".

The closer the crystal is to the head, the stronger control powers it will have, and the large the crystal is, the stronger influence power it will have. However, since the external appearance would end becoming a problem, no researchers made them greatly visible, aside of the zealous researchers like Loude that proudly showed the results of their operations. The most typical way of burying them is like what Raphael did with his crystal: putting them near the brain stem, where they won't stand out.

アオトの両親とキラハの計画

Aoto's Parents and Kiraha's Plan
アオトの両親は、夫婦共にアルキア研究所の所員で、 エンシェント派に所属していた. キラハは直属の上司で ある. アオトの母はレーヴァテイルβ純血種だった. アオ トが持つ強いレヴァテイル質は、この母から受け継い だものだったかもしれない. ラファエーレによる工ンシ工ント派の排斥を受けたア オトの両親は、2人ともアルキア研究所を辞めることにし た. しかし、それはむしろ計画的な行動であり、キラハと の取り決めでもあった. ラファ工ーレによるネオアトラス 派至上主義が蔓延しているアルキア研究所では、エンシ ェント派の研究はままならない. ましてや研究自体が阻 止されたうな形になってしまった今では、研究を続け たいのなら別の場所に行くしかないだろう. だが、全員 で辞めてしまっては勘ぐられてしまう. そこで、まずはアオトの両親2人が刻の輪製作所へ行 き刻の輪製作所の所長に現状を伝えて協力してもらう ことにしたのだ. ラファ工ーレは、エンシェント派を排斥 した際に、その実行に必要不可欠な大導力輸を製造す る、最大取引先の刻の輪製作所との関係を切っていた. そのため、刻の輪製作所とアルキア研究所との関係は冷 え込んでおり、エンシェン卜派の者が行けば喜んで受け入 れてもらえると考えたのである. アオトの両親はアルキア 研究所を辞し、密かに名前を変えて上帝門で住民登録を した. そして刻の輪製作所に所員として入り込んだのだ. その際にキラハは、アオトの両親にハ一ヴェスターシ ャVISTAの起動鍵であるペンダントを委ねた. ラファエ ーレに見つかることを警戒したのである. そしてもう一 方のXPの起動鍵については、自らが持っととにした. キラハはこのとき、ラファエーレに怪しまれないよう、 アオトの両親と一緒に行動するのを避けた. また、あま りにも哀れな存在であるγ昇華体の製造を阻止しようと 考えたのである. しかし、すでにγ昇華体は秘密裏に培 養が始まっていた. 命が宿っている以上、壊すととはで きないと考えたキラハは、γ昇華体の完成を待つことに する. そして機を逃さず、成長したγ昇華体サキを連れ だした. このとき、キラハは隠し持っていたXP起動鍵を 用いてXPをシャットタウンし、ネオアトラス派の計画を 中断させてから脱走したのである.

Aoto's parents were a married couple that worked in the Archia Think Tank, and were part of the Ancient Faction, as direct subordinates to Kiraha. Aoto's mother was a Pureblooded β-type Reyvateil. Maybe Aoto has such strong Reyvateil genes because he inherited them from his mother.

Once Raphael began his plan to expel the Ancient Faction, both of Aoto's parents resigned from the Archia Think Tank. However, they decided together with Kiraha to continue working systematically. Since the supremacy of the Neo Atlas Faction had proliferated thanks to Raphael, the Ancient Faction was unable to continue working in there, which completely halted their research. However, all of the researchers still wanted to continue with their research, no matter if it was in other place. But soon it became suspicious that all of the members of the Ancient Faction had resigned so quickly.

Then, the first thing that Aoto's parents did was to move over to the Moebius Factory, and after telling the Factory Chief about their current situation, he gave them their cooperation. At the time Raphael dissolved the Ancient Faction, he also cut all the ties Archia had to the Moebius Factory, after they had been their largest clients during centuries due to the creation of the Great Symphonic Power Disc that had become so essential to the inhabitants of Sol Cluster. Because of that, the relationships between the Moebius Factory and the Archia Think Tank got colder, which was the reason why they were so happy to provide help to the members of the Ancient Faction. After they left the Archia Think Tank, both of Aoto's parent secretly went and changed their control names to indicate their new statuses as residents of Ciela Gate. Then, they began working as staff members of the Moebius Factory.

At that time, Kiraha attached Harvestasha VISTA's boot key to a pendant, and entrusted it to Aoto's parents, who always were on guard to avoid being found by Raphael. On the other hand, Kiraha kept Harvestasha XP's boot key on his person at all times.

At this time, Kiraha began avoiding acting together with Aoto's parent to avoid drawing Raphael's suspicions. Also, he planned to stop the production of the extremely pitiful being that would become the γ-Sublimate. However, when he infiltrated into the Archia Think Tank, he saw that the cultivation for the γ-Sublimate had already been initiated in secret. Now that she was alive, Kiraha couldn't bring himself to kill her, and retreated, awaiting for the day in which she would be completed. Once that time came, he infiltrated again, and took away the now-grown γ-Sublimate: Saki. Then he used the boot key he held to shut down Harvestasha XP to interrupt the projects of the Neo Atlas Faction, and escaped.

ゲンガイとの交流

The Relations with Gengai
アオトの両親は、刻の輪製作所でその目的を確実 に達成していた. エンシェント派寄りの刻の輪製作 所はラファエーレの現体制に否定的であり、それも 相まってアオ卜の両親を快く受け入れた. ちなみに、アオトの両親のこの時点での名前は 「零央（れお） .Ix＿絡種上帝門」と「リネール.sx＿ 絡種シェリ工IV」である. アルキア時代の名前は、昂 （すばる）と珠々（じゅじゅ）. 2人は職場内恋愛で結婚 した. 零央は上帝門出身であり、研究所に採用され てからアルキアに移る. まだ研究所に入る前に大牙 軍の兵士として対クラスタニア防衛に参加していた こともあり、ゲンガイとは同じ隊の上官と部下であっ た. そのことが縁となって、零央が上帝門に戻っ た際は管理名の偽造などで世話になっている. もっ とも、後に自らの子供を託すまで世話になるとは、 想像もしていなかっただろう.

Aoto's parents managed to achieve their goals while they were in the Moebius Factory. Since they were against Raphael's regime, the members of the Ancient Faction were pushed between the sword and the wall, which made the staff of the Moebius Factory very willing to help them.

By the way, at this time, the names of Aoto's parents were [Leo.lx_Mechanic.Ciela Gate] and [Linnelle.sx_Mechanic.Series IV]. When they worked in Archia, their given names were Subaru and Juju. They met and fell in love when they worked in the Archia Think Tank, and married shortly after. Leo was a natural from Ciela Gate, and once he began working in the Think Tank, he moved over to Archia. However, shortly before he began working in the Think Tank, Leo was part of the Great Fang Militia, which always participated in defending the Great Fang from Clustania. He was in the same company as Gengai, and he was subordinate to him. This relationship greatly favored Leo, because when he returned to Ciela Gate, Gengai made him the favor of forging the control names of both him and her wife. As you can guess, they trusted each other so much, that Leo himself entrusted Gengai with his son a few years later.

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キラハの逃亡

Kiraha's Escape
キラハはすでに生まれていた1体のγ昇華体をこの研 究所から逃がす決意をした. 幸い、しっかりとした人型で 生まれ、健全な肉体と思考を持つという. γ昇華体は、生 まれた後に1年間の教育期間が設けられていたが、キラ 八はその1年間の最後の日にγ昇華体を連れ出す計画 を立てた. γ昇華体サキアの世話役、エルティアの協力 を得た彼は、エルティアを失いながらも、なんとかサキ を連れて脱出することに成功した. この事態を重くみたラファ工ーレは先手を打ち、キラ ハの逃亡先となる可能性が高かった刻の輪製作所に対 してテ口行為を行って牽制した. この際、テロに巻き込 まれる形でアオトの商親は亡くなっている. 逃げ場所を失ったキラハは、パリ工にいるエルティア の友人の露那（ロナ）の家にサキを預けると、そのまま 姿をくらました. パり工内で人間が行動できる特区に住 むことになったサキは、ロナが保育園の園長を務めてい たことから、園児の子供達と一緒に育っていく. そして、 小さい頃から口ナの仕事を手伝うようになり、保育士と して頑張っていくことになる. 保育士としてのサキは、その持ち前の優しさと明るさ で、子供達に人気があった. お話や紙芝居を作ったり、歌 を歌うのが大好きなサキにとって、保育士はまさに天職 だったのである. ただし、自作した紙芝居や歌は例によっ て独特のセンスが発揮されたものであったため、その評 判は決して良くはなかったが....... この幸せな生活は、 12歳頃から3年間続くことになるが、15歳のある日、サ キが起こしたある事件によって突然終焉を迎えた. このとき、サキは自分を育ててくれた口ナが死んでし まったことにショックを受け、初めて「奇跡」を発動して しまったのである. 発動の際に生じたH波は広範囲に伝 播し、逃亡したサキの捜索をしていたアルキアの特殊部 隊に所在を掴まれてしまった. 研究所から逃亡して7年が 過ぎた日のことだった. サキは駆けつけたキラハに連れられ、再び逃亡生活を 送ることになる. サキにとって、保育園の子供達にさよな らの挨拶ができなかったことが心残りとなった.

Kiraha then decided that he would take away the now-born γ-Sublimate, and run with her from the Think Tank. Fortunately, since she was completely created with a human shape, she had a healthy body and mind. While the cultivation period for the γ-Sublimate was of one year, Kiraha planned to wait until the very last day of that period before taking her away. Kiraha managed to gain the cooperation of γ-Sublimate Sakia's project coordinator, Elthia, and while later on he lost contact with her, at least he could successfully take Saki away from the Think Tank.

Once Raphael noticed this great hindrance to his plans, he thought that Kiraha most likely would have run to the Moebius Factory, and began conducting terrorist activities against the Factory in an attempt to restrain him. Aoto's parents unfortunately got caught in these terrorist attacks, and died as victims of them.

Now that he had lost a place to which he could run away, Kiraha ended entrusting Saki to the family of one of Elthia's friends: Lona, who lived in the Parie Governorate, and then he kept himself hidden. Since the Parie Governorate was an special economic zone in which humans could conduct all kinds of business, Lona was employed as a the principal of a preschool, and raised Saki together with her other students. Thus, Saki helped Lona with her job since she was very young, and did her best to become a teacher as well someday.

When Saki became a teacher, she became very popular among the children thanks to her natural gentleness and cheerfulness. To Saki, who loved to sing songs, and create stories and picture stories, being a preschool teacher was her lifework. However, because her songs and picture stories were self-made, and exhibited her unique sense of making things, they might haven't been very popular at all... This blissful life lasted for three more years after Saki turned 12, but on a certain day after Saki turned 15, due to a certain incident she herself provoked, all of this came to an abrupt end.

At that time, Saki got extremely shocked due to her surrogate mother, Lona, dying, which also caused her to use her [Miracles] for the first time. When she used them, the H-Waves she produced propagated around a large area, which allowed an special squad from the Archia Think Tank that was assigned to search for her to pinpoint her exact location. This happened exactly seven years after she was taken away from the Think Tank.

Kiraha immediately came to take Saki away, and they returned to their life of running and hiding. The only thing that Saki regretted this day was that she wasn't able of saying goodbye to the children of the preschool.

アヤタネクレハとリッカ

Ayatane Kureha and Richa
キラハとサキが逃亡した後、クラスタニマでは四度 目の抗体爆発が発生していた. アルキアはこの抗体爆 発に関し、規模が非常に小さなものであっで事と、発生 場所がクラスタニアであった事から、関心を持たなかっ た. しかし、この事件の裏には、世界の行く未を左右す る重大な陰謀が隠されていたのである. 実際には、この抗体爆発はアヤタネクレハが仕掛け たものだった. 抗体は、決してクラスタ二アを襲いに来 たわけではなく、アヤタネクレハと抗体頭脳が交した 契約を元に、器となる人型の素体、すなわちレーヴァテ イルのボディを譲り受けに来たのだ. しかし、要意され ていたボデイは惑星の意志に適合出来るように作られ ていない通常のβ純血種のものだった為、惑星の意志 との融合に失敗した3体は死亡. 4体自のフィンネルに おいて、ようやく成功する事となった. この抗体との契約は、クラスタニアという組織レベル での契約ではなく、アヤタネクレハが個人的に抗体頭脳 との間で交わしたものである. その内容は、原初の塔 に存在するSHサーバーの占拠および人間の追い出し と引き替えに、ムーシ工リエルを抗体頭脳に譲渡する、 というものだった. そして、この契約に関する不安事項について予知を したところ、将来的に抗体頭脳を脅かすことになる存 在がアルキア研究所にいることを突き止める. そこでク レ八は当時のクラスタ二ア将軍であった立華陸沙（リッカ りョーシャ）にそれを潰すように命令し、パリエ行政 の権限でアルキア研究所の捜索をするよう命じた. だ が、リッ力はアルキア研究所の捜索中にアルキア側の罠 にはまり、捜索に向かったレーヴァテイル小隊は全滅. この作戦は失敗に終わる. 結局のところ抗体頭脳を脅 かす存在が何なのかは判明せず、アヤタネクレハは自 らがその存在を暴くために動き始めることになる.

After Saki and Kiraha ran away, a fourth Antibody eruption happened at Clustania. Since the scale of the eruption was very small, and the epicenter of said incident was Clustania, this didn't cause any concern to Archia. However, this incident had a handful of hidden circumstances, which would lead to a great conspiracy that would completely change the path this world would walk down.

Actually, this Antibody eruption was no more than a trick made by Ayatane Kureha. The Antibodies didn't come to attack Clustania, rather, they came to claim the humanoid prime field, or Reyvateil body, that would become the vessel for the Antibody Brain, as it was stated in the pact that Ayatane Kureha and Ar Ru made. However, since the prepared body was only a normal Pureblooded β-type instead of a body especially made to be compatible with the Wills of the Planet, a total of three Reyvateil died when they failed to undergo the fusion with the Wills of the Planet. The only successful fusion ended being the fourth body that was tested for this purpose, which happened to be Finnel herself.

However, this pact wasn't made with all of the organization of Clustania, instead, it was something that Ayatane Kureha individually made with the Antibody Brain. This pact was basically that in exchange for helping them to occupy the SH Server located in the Tower of Origin and expelling the humans from there, he would lead the Antibody Brain to Moocheriel.

And, since he also predicted that there was something in the Archia Think Tank that could completely ruin this pact, due to later on becoming a being capable of annihilating even the Antibody Brain herself, he wanted to make sure about this. For this task, he ordered the Clustania General of the time, Richaryosha, to search for that something inside of the Archia Think Tank, in the Parie Governorate, and once she found it, to destroy it. However, while Richa was in the Archia Think Tank searching for that something, she fell in a trap, and all of the platoon that accompanied her was annihilated. This strategy ended in failure. So since Ayatane Kureha was ultimately unable to make sure if there was a being capable of annihilating the Antibody Brain, he began conducting activities just to expose that being himself.

カテナとキラハとミュート

Katene, Kiraha and Mute
カテナとミユートは、共にアルキア研究所の研究員を 親に持つ2人である. カテナの父キラハとミュートの父 ラウドネスは対立するチームであるエンシェント派とネ オアトラス派のそれぞれの室長であったが、共に要職 にあったため、好き嫌いはともかくとしてそれなりに交 流があった. キラハとラウドネスは、アルキア研究所の 二本柱となるプロジェクトをになら者として、研究者同 土切磋琢磨していたのである. 激論を交わすこともあ り、自らの研究成果を相手に自慢することもあったが、 研究者としてはお互いを認め合っていた. そんな2人は、よく研究所に子供を連れて来てい た. 子供達は施設内の託児所に預けられていたことも あり、お互いがお互いの遊び相手になっていたのであ る. この頃はまだ幼かったこともあり、お互いの記憶は ほとんどない. ただ、力テナはラウドネス博土のミュー卜 に対する溺愛ぶりを見ており、自分との境遇の違いを うらやましく思ったことだけは記憶している. キラハは 不器用であった事も災いし、力テナに対して愛情を見 せなかった. それどころか、研究に没頭するあまり、託 児所に数日間預けっぱなしなこともあったという.

Katene and Mute had in common that both of their fathers were researchers in the Archia Think Tank. While Katene's father Kiraha, and Mute's father Loude were in the opposing research teams of the Ancient Faction and the Neo Atlas Faction, and served as their corresponding leaders, because they both had important functions, they constantly exchanged opinions and ideas, despite of any personal feelings they might have had about each other. Kiraha and Loude were both the leads of the projects that served as the two foundations of the Archia Think Tank, and as fellow researchers, they both applied themselves to their respective researches. Of course, they had heated discussions, but they also boasted to each other about the results of their respective researches, which made both to mutually recognize and respect each other.

Also, both of them frequently brought their children to the Think Tank with them. The children were left in an special daycare inside the facilities of the Think Tank, and in there, they became mutual playmates. They were very young back then, so their memories about these times are very scarce. However, Katene always saw how Dr. Loude always treated Mute lovingly, and remembered how envious was of her due to the stark contrast between the ways in which they were raised. Kiraha was both clumsy and disastrous when it came to emotional matters, and never showed Katane any sort of affection. On the contrary, he immersed so much in his research that there were even times in which Katene was left in the daycare during many days.

バックグラウンド ストーリー リッカと光五条

Background Story: Richa and Hikari Gojo
リッカは一人で逃げまくった. どこへ入っているのか分からないくら い、必死で逃げまくった. そして辿り着いてしまった. ハーヴェスター シャのサーバールームに. クラスタニアではハーヴェスターシャは既 に沈黙していると聞いていたから、最初は何の部屋なのかまったく理 解できなかった. 原初の塔にまだここまで稼働している場所があるこ とも衝撃的だったが、それ以上にハーヴェスターシャのことはショック だった. ハーヴェスターシャは驚きと共に歓迎した. だがその直後、後 ろから来たアルキア兵に中角三角環ブロッ力ーを撃たれてしまった. 起きるとどこかに監禁されていた. アルキアの研究所のようだっ た. 身体はある程度治療されていた. 捕まったのか、とその時思った. えらい人が来て、私のことを色々喋った. なぜかりッカリョーシャとい う名前、クラスタ二アの将軍だったこと、その他色々な情報を知って いた. そして、私はハーヴェスターシャを見たから返すわけにはいか ない、と言った. ハーヴェスターシャなんて嘘だ、と言ったが、嘘では ないらしい. そして証拠として、とんでもない事を喋った. 私のヒュ ムネコードだった. ヒユムネコードを握られたら命を取られたようなも のだ. 「どこで知った！」と聞いても、ハ一ヴェスターシャで検索しただ け、と言う. どうやらハ一ヴェスターシャが稼働しているらしい. とっ くに停止しているはずなのに. えらい人は言った. 私に協力して欲し い、と. それと引き替えに、すべての真実を教えよう. 私には、従うか 死ぬしかなかった. 私はアルキアに従うことにした.

クラスタ二アではすでにリッ力は死んだことになっているらしい. 中核三角環ブロッ力者撃たれたときに、SH＿RAMが死亡判定を出 すという. クラスタ二アには私が戦死した事になっでいる. 恐らくあ の事件でたくさん死んでいるから、私の死は不自然だと思われない と思う. その時隣にいたのが、光五条先生だった. 私の主治医として しばらく一緒にいるらしい.

先生はとっても優しくて楽しくて、そして私のタイプだった. すぐ に好きになってしまった. だけど先生はこの研究所の専属ではないら しい. 今回みたいに重症な重要RTがいるとき以外は10日に1回くら い来るだけ. 普段はパリ工の中に自分の病院がある. そんなわけで、 10日に1回のペースになってからも、私は仮病を使って毎回先生に 診療してもらった. しばらくは研究所外には出してもらえないみたい で、窮屈で退屈. 色々覚えさせられたりもした. それだけに、先生の 来る日はとっても楽しみだった.

ある目先生は、診察の後で食事のアドバイスをしよう、と言って食 事に誘ってくれた. 先生が手作りのお弁当を作ってきてくれたのだ. 誰もいない公園で二人で食べた. 明らかに口実なんだけど、私はバ 力だったので先生も私のこと気に入ったのかと舞い上がってしまっ た. そこで初めて先生は、自分の仕事の話をしてくれた. 危ない事に、 大牙にまで診療に行くらしい. そんな熱心な先生に更に惚れてしまっ た. そして自分の仕事のことも色々話をした. その時口を滑らせてし まったのだ. 私が元クラスタニアの将軍だった事や、今アルキアラボ が行っている最も重要な研究のこと、人間進化計画の話を. 少しだけ だった. 今人間を進化させる研究者していて、そのためにレーヴァテイルを 実験体として使っていること.

正直この時私は、その現状が辛くて仕方なかった. 同族が実験台に されているわけだから. 自分ではなくて良かった、とは思うけど、そ もそもこの組織はレーヴァテイルを人として扱っていない. それは研 究員の話の端々から感じ取れた. そして私はそれがかなり精神的に 来ていた. 私はそれすらも、私に対するアルキアの挑戦なのではな いかと勘ぐって「絶対にへこたれない！」と思って気丈に振る舞った. 何ともない仕草を誰の前でもしていた. でもそれと精神的重圧はま た別. 実際心の奥にはかなり溜まっていたのだ. 先生ならそれを分 かってくれる、と思ってしまった. きっと同情してくれるに違いない. 私の本当の気持ちを分かってくれる人がほしかった. そして黙ってい てくれる人が. 先生は絶対にできると思っていた. だって、ここ時私 は舞い上がってしまっていて、絶対に先生と結婚するんだって決めて いたから. 反応は予想どおりだった. 先生は私を気遣ってくれたし、誰にも言わないと言ってくた. 夢 ごく心が軽くなった. 話してよかったと思った. すごく先生に近づいた 気がしていた.

でも、その後大変な事がわかる. 先生が立ち入り禁止の研究棟に 入ってしまって、捕まったらしい. そしてそれ以来、研究所には来なく なってしまった. 私は自分のせいだと思った. その時私は、先生が私の言で同情も 通り越して行動してしまい、その研究を潰そうとしたのだと思ってい た. 私の言葉で先生が危ない目にあった、そしてへタすると私のこと を喋ったりしたら...しかしその後、なにもなかった. 先生に会えなくて寂しかった. 数ヶ月後、初出て外出許可が出て. パ リエ市街地をあることが許された. 真っ先に先生の診療所へ行った. でも、すでに診療所は閉まっていた.

Richa continued running all by herself. Despite not knowing at all where she should go, she continued frantically running. Then, she finally arrived to it, to the room where the Harvestasha Server was stored. Because she heard at Clustania that Harvestasha was already silenced, at first she couldn't distinguish in which room she had gone in. She was shocked to find that there was still a room in full operating state inside the Tower of Origin, and then she was shocked when she saw Harvestasha. Harvestasha also welcomed her with a very surprised expression. However, immediately after that, the soldiers from the Archia Army struck her with a Triangular Nuclear Loop Blocker from behind.

"Then, I was confined in an unknown place by the Archia Think Tank. I began being treated. I wondered if I was actually imprisoned during this time. However, a terrible man came, and began telling me many things. Somehow he knew that I was Richaryosha, Clustania's general, and many other things about me. And he also told me that since I saw Harvestasha, I wouldn't go back to Clustania. While I said that Harvestasha must have been a fake, it wasn't at all. The proof of that was that man said something impossible: my Hymn Code. If anyone got the Hymn Codes of us Reyvateils, it's the same as if they had our own lives in the palm of their hands. I asked "Where did you learn it!?", but the man simply replied to me that he found it by searching in Harvestasha's database. If that was true, then Harvestasha must have been functioning, despite us believing it was shut down. Then the terrible man spoke. He said that he wanted my cooperation, and that in exchange, he would show me the truth about everything. This meant to me that I wouldn't die if I obeyed their orders. That was why I decided to obey Archia.

To Clustania, Richaryosha had already been declared as dead. Once a person has been hit by a Triangular Nuclear Loop Blocker, the SH_RAM classifies them as dead, so because of this, I became KIA to Clustania. Most likely, since many other died in that incident as well, no one thought it was unnatural for me to have died as well. And in that time, Dr. Hikari Gojo was at my side. He always was with me, as my personal physician.

Doctor was very kind and fun, and was pretty much my type. I immediately fell in love with him. However, he wasn't anything but an exclusive physician to the Think Tank. Except at the time in which there were many important Reyvateils with serious diseases, he only came to see me once each ten days. He normally always was in his clinic inside the Parie Governate. This meant that whenever he began coming so infrequently, I began feigning I was sick just to make Doctor come to examine me. Since I was imprisoned all the time inside the Think Tank, I was extremely bored from being confined in it. I began remembering many things, but the only times in which I had lots of fun were when Doctor came to see me.

A certain day, after Doctor examined me and gave me advice on what kinds of food I should eat, he invited me to lunch. Then, he gave me a bento he prepared with his own hands. Then, we sat to eat in a park where there was no one aside from us. Obviously it was only an excuse, and I felt like an idiot for making Doctor worry so much about me, but I also felt as I was flying in the skies. Then, I talked with Doctor about our jobs for the first time. It was a pretty dangerous business, which involved visiting Reyvateils even as far as the Great Fang. Doctor's enthusiasm for his job only made me fall further in love with him. Then, I began telling him all sorts of things about my job. However, I talked too much at that time. I told him about me being a former General of Clustania, and about the maximum secret research that the Archia Think Tank was conducting: the Human Evolution Project. However, I didn't tell him too much about this.

The most I told him as that the researchers, in an attempt to evolve the current humans, were using the Reyvateils as experimental subjects.

Honestly, at this time, I didn't have other choice than to greatly suffer because I had to witness how members of my own race were being used as guinea pigs. I thought I was glad that I wasn't one of them, but from the beginning, this organization never treated the Reyvateils as people. That was the feeling I got from the conversations I heard from the researchers. And later on, I ended getting that same mentality as well. So one would ever suspect I intended to challenge Archia, I behaved while firmly thinking [Never lose heart!]. I even did this in from of others. Still, I had quite a lot of other emotions pent up inside my heart. Quite a lot of them. I thought that Doctor could understand me, I was surely that he would sympathize with me. All I really wanted was a person that could truly understand my feelings, and listen silently to what I had to say. I thought that Doctor would surely be able of doing that. That was why I got in high spirits once again, and decided that I would marry him at any cost. I really expected him to return my feelings. Doctor was really worried about me, and told me things that he never told anyone else. Then, my heart got lighter beyond I could have ever dreamt. I thought I was glad of having talked to him, because I felt I had gotten much closer to him.

However, a few days later, I learned about something terrible. Doctor was caught trying to go inside an strictly forbidden research facility. After that, he never came again to the Think Tank.

I thought this was my fault. At that time, I thought that Doctor tried to go inside that place to shut down that research just because he had sympathized with my words. Doctor exposed himself to a great danger because of what I said so carelessly, and I thought that he would even insult me for this... but nothing happened.

I became lonely because I couldn't see him again. Several months later, I was finally allowed to go outside, as far as the cities that formed the Parie Governorate. The first thing I did was to head as far as I could to Doctor's clinic.

But, he had already closed down the clinic by then."

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バックグラウンド ストーリー

ココナ達の旅立ち　～にゃにゃ屋クラスタ本店～

Background Story: Cocona and Sasha's Journey ~The Cluster Branch of the Nya Nya Store~
時折見せる日差しが、この星の暖かさをより一層引き立 たせる. 見上げればそこには巨大な大地、メタファリ力が天 を被っていた. ここは「こゃにゃ屋」. わすか数ストンという狭いところに建つ雑貨屋である. そ のあばらやに似つかわしく広い客人達が、その日差しを眩 しそうに見つめながらベンチに座って話をしていた. この世 界をまとめ上げ、そして今空を覆う大陸「メタファリカ」を創 りあげた二人の御子様だ. 「できました、新しいクルルクの粉で作ったクッキーです！」 一人は大喜びをし、もう人はげんなりする. だが彼女も 口に運ぶと驚きの声を挙げた. さーしやはクルルク嫌いの ル力に配慮して、クルルク独特の臭みを消す方法を開発し ていたのだ. 元々クルルクが大好物なクローシェはもちろ ん、二人は争うようにとの新種のクルルククッキーを食べ 続けた. 「でも、きっとメタファリ力に移ったら、もうクルルクの実を 作る人はいなくなるかも知れませんね」 さーしやは天を見上げながら言う. 厳しい大地でも育つ貴 重なタンパク源であるクルルクの実は、メタ・ファルスにと っては神の食糧であった. だが、肥沃な大地ともなれば、も っと美味しい作物はたくさんある. 「そうとも限らないよ？世の中の女性が胸にこだわり続 ける限り、鼻を摘んででも食べたい子なんて山のようにい るはずだし」 確かに、と笑うさーしゃ. その笑顔を見ながらクローシェ は、さーしゃに自分の気がかりをつたえた. 「ねえ、さーしゃ. そろそろメタファリ力に移住してもいい頃 じゃないかしら？　例の飛空艇の開発だって、毎日空港まで 通うのは大変でしょ？」 クローシェはさーしゃのために、メタファリ力の首都「イン フェリアーレ」の一等地に土地を確保していた. だが、さー しやはいつまで経っても移住をしなかった. なぜなら、ここ が唯一の肉親であった祖母の形見の家だからである. 祖母はメタファリ力を見届けた後、安らかに息を引き取っ た. 今までの人生のすべてに満足したような、至福の笑みを 浮かべながら. でもこの古い大地は、もういつ落ちてもおか しくない. さーしゃも、もうわがままを言っていい時期は終 わりだとわかっていた. だからこそ、近々最後の大ワガママ を言おうと思っていた. もちろんこの二人はまだその事を知 らない.

「クローシエ様、ル力さん！　もう、二人とも早すぎだよ！」

そこには大きな荷物を背負った少女が立っていた. すっか り無くなってしまったクルルククッキーをちょっと惜しそう に見ているのに気づき、さーしやはすぐに家の中からお代 わりを持ってくる. 「ココナ、いよいよテスト飛行ね. 頑強ってね」 「でも大丈夫？　飛空艇の操縦なんて、そんな簡単にはで きないよ？」 「大丈夫だよ. さーしゃだって一緒に乗ってくれるし」 「はいです！　さーしゃが懇切丁寧に指導しますから！」 それなら安心、と顔を和ませたル力は、新しく出てきたク ッキーをココナよりも先に奪い頬張った. さーしやは、ルカとクローシェの要請を受けて、ココナを ハーヴェスターシャの元へと運ぶための飛空艇の設計をし ている. その場所はインフェリアーレ郊外にあり、さーしゃ は毎日そこで、有志達と共に飛空艇を作っていた. 昼は飛 行場で実技試験、夜はにゃにゃ屋に戻って計算と製図という 毎日を繰り返すさーしゃを、クローシェは大鐘堂飛空艇での 送迎でサポー卜した. そして数ヶ月経過した今、初フライト の日が訪れたのである. 今日から出発の日まで、さーしゃは 大忙しとなる. 機体の調整と試験飛行は昼夜両条件で行わ なければならない為、しばらくにゃにゃ屋には帰って来れな いのだ. 出発の時、さーしゃはにゃにゃ屋に向かって深くお 辞儀をした. 実にさーしゃらしいその光景は、だがク口ーシ ェからしてみたら違和感を感じたのであった.

試験飛行は少々のトラブルはあったものの、たくさんのス タッフとココナの頑張りもあって、予定通り順調に行われて いった. その間の5日間、クローシェとルカは公務の間を縫 い毎日訪れ、タルガーナやクロアもさーしゃとココナの激励 に来ていた. もっともクロアは、二人が乗る飛空艇を心配の あまりまともに見ることができず、帰るときにはどっぷり疲 れていたようだが. ココナ達にとっても、この5日間はなかなかに過酷なスケ ジュールだった. だが、昼夜関係無しに空を飛び、その眼下 に新しい首都インフェリアーレの姿を見る度に元気が出た. 太古の昔、第一紀と言われていた時代の、スピリチュアル思 想が生きていた時代. その時代の文献から学んだ、誰もが 豊かに暮らせる都市計画によって生まれた街が、そこに広 がっていた. メタファリ力創成から数ヶ月経った今、インフェ リアーレはまだ殆どの家が作り途中だ. 新生大鐘堂もまた 同じで、まだ基礎部分しかできていない. だが、そこで働く 人達は皆、明らかに活気に満ちあふれていた. それを上空 千ストンからでも確認できるのってすごい、とココナは改め て「変わりゆく世界」を実感した.

そして5日後、すべての試験行程は終了し、無事飛空挺は 完成に至ったのである. その日の夜は、にゃにゃ屋で祝賀会＆壮行会が開かれるこ とになった. ココナとゆかりの深い人達が集まり、皆でココ ナの出発を応援した. ......とはいっても、状況はいつもと何 ら変わらない. お酒を浴びるように呑み、日頃のストレスを ぶちまけるタルガーナ、それをなだめるクロア、ゲロッゴ談 義に華を咲かせるクローシェとココナ、ル力を冷やかすアマ リ工となだめるレグリスなどなど......そこには普段と何も変 わらない人達が存在していた. さーしゃは一人、その様子を 見ていた. それは何だか少し寂しそうな眼差しだった. 「ちょっと恥ずかしいよねえ、さーしゃ！」 「ひぇっ？　は、はい！」 そうアマリ工に呼ばれたとき、話を聞いていなかったさー しゃは思わずはいと返事をしてしまった. それは、ココナが 劇的に別れを演出してみたものの、準備まであと数ヶ月か かることを知り家に戻った、恥ずかしい思い出の話だった. 夜も更け、帰る人がいて、ここで泊まっていく人がいてあ れだけ騒がしかった宴の席は静かになっていく. クローシェ がル力の膝の上で寝て、クロアも酔いつぶれてしまった頃、 さーしゃはココナと二人で話をしていた. それは、とても真 剣に考えて考え抜いた結果の答えだった. そして次の日. さーしゃはみんなに告白したのだ. 自分 もココナと一緒に第三塔へ向かうと. クローシェを始めとし て、みんなが猛反対した. クローシェにとっては大切な人だ った事はもちろん、皆にとってもさーしゃはメタファリ力の 期待の星だったから. でも、さーしゃの決意は固かった. そ れは、この飛空艇を設計し始める前からずっと悩んでいた、 長い長い問いかけの答えだから. 「せっかく独り身になったんですから、今までできなかった ことをしたいんです. 第三塔にはここにはないテクノロジが 沢山有ると言います. 必ずその技術を持って帰ってきます、 そして、もっともっとメタフアリ力を素敵な国にしますから」 さーしゃの想いに押し切られる形で、皆はさーしゃを見送 る. ココナもさーしゃを護ると言って皆を安心させた.

実際、さーしゃのお陰で飛空艇は順調に第三塔に向かうこ とができた. でも、さーしゃの心の内にはもう1つの、誰に も明かしていない理由があったのだ. 祖母が亡くなり、にゃにゃ屋はさーしゃにとって唯一の形 見になった. 思い出の場所. でも、その場所はあと数年で落 ちてしまう. これはどうするとも出来ない. わかつてはい ても、それを目の当たりにはしたくなかった. すっと祖母と 共に歩んできた、想いがいっぱい詰まった店だから. それは 逃げかも知れない. そんなことはさーしゃ自身が一番よくわ かっている. でも、逃げでも何でも、自分の一番大切な思い 出は、砕けて落ちてほしくはない. 出がけにクローシェは、さーしゃのためにゲロッゴマスコ ットをプレゼントしてくれた. ル力はこれがあれば生きてい ける！　と自称伝説のそろばんをプレゼントしてくれた. ココ ナもク口アから、髪飾りをもらっていた. 御子達からは以前 に、これでもかという程に、たくさんの贈り物をもらってい た. 二人とも、みんなから大切なものをもらっている. さー しゃにはそれがよくわかっていた. だからこそ必ず帰ってこようと、二人とも無言の内に思 った. メタファリ力の皆の想いを話されて、二人は遠い地 へと旅立つ. 離れゆく大地を見ながら、二人は同じ事を思 っていた.

メタファリ力いいなあ. でもこんな素敵な世界で 世界中の人が共に過ごせたらもっといい.......

尚、たくさんのゲロッゴがココナには秘密で、クローシェ からさーしゃに託されていたのは、後に判明する事実であ った. もちろんそれは、第三塔での布教用以外の何もので もなかった.

Although the sunrays could be seen sometimes, there was another layer between where they stood, and the warmth that this Planet received. If they looked up, they would see a large continent, Metafalica, floating in the skies. This was the [Nya Nya Store].

It was a general store built in an extremely narrow area of only a few Stons in width. While the store building was so rundown that it seemed it would never attract a large number of customers, there were a few people sitting on a bench, talking while they looked up to the dazzle of the sunrays. Among them, there were the two Maidens that had saved this world, and created the [Metafalica] that now concealed the skies.

"I did it! I managed to make cookies with my new Kururuku Flour!"

One of them was greatly overjoyed, while the other just resigned to this. However, even she released a little scream of surprise. Sasha took in consideration how much Luca hated the smell of the Kururuku, and developed a method to eliminate its characteristic horrible odor. Of course, given how much Cloche loved the Kururuku in its original form, they both began arguing as they continued eating the cookies that Sasha made with her new kind of Kururuku seeds.

"However, it's true that once we've moved to Metafalica, there's the possibility that no people will continue cultivating the Kururuku fruits"

Sasha said this as she looked to the heavens. Even in a land as harsh as this, the children needed proteins to grow, which the Kururuku fruits provided. That was why the Metafalssians called them the fruits of the Gods. However, once they moved to a much more fertile land, they would be able of producing many other kinds of delicious crops.

"We can't be sure about that. As long as there are women worried about their chest sizes in this world, there will be many children that will want to eat these fruits, even if that means having to eat them with their noses plugged."

Sasha then smiled as she agreed with that. Then, as she saw her smile, Cloche told Sasha her own worries.

"Hey, Sasha. Don't you think it's a good moment for you to move to Metafalica? Hasn't the usual development of the airship reached the necessary point for you to land it in the airport everyday?"

Cloche had already reserved for Sasha a rather large plot of land in the best residential of Metafalica's capital, [Inferiare]. However, no mater how much time passed, Sasha refused to move to Metafalica. That was because this house was the memento left by her only blood relative: her grandmother.

After her grandmother finally managed to see Metafalica with her own eyes, she passed away silently and in peace. While all of the other people in Metafalss were filled with satisfaction and smiled in maximum bliss. However, it wouldn't be strange for this old land to fall off someday. Even Sasha ended understanding that this was the time for her selfishness to end. Because of this, she thought that the time for saying her last and largest selfish request was approaching. However, the two Maidens didn't know anything about this.

"Lady Cloche, Luca! Whoa, you two came very early today!"

They saw in that a direction a girl carrying a great amount of luggage. Having noticed that not even one of the Kururuku cookies remained, Sasha saw the empty dish with pity, and after briefly going into her house, she came out carrying a second round.

"Cocona, it's finally time for the test flight, right? Let's do our best."

"But it'll be okay? It isn't so easy to fly an airship around, right?"

"It's okay! I'll be flying it with Sasha."

"Yes! I'll lead her on flying it as thoroughly as I can!"

Being reassured by this, Luca's expression became more relaxed, and stuffed her mouth with a Kururuku cookie she had just stolen from Cocona. Sasha had been tasked by Luca and Cloche to design an airship that could safely take Cocona to the region in which Harvestasha lived. Sasha and other volunteers worked everyday on this project, in a place in the outskirts of Inferiare. At morning, she performed the practical tests on the airport, while in the night, she returned to the store make calculations and sketches. In fact, this had become a routine to her, and Cloche always saw her off from the Grand Bell airships to cheer her up. Thus, many months passed from these days to the current one, in which the airship would actually fly for the first time. From that day until the time of their departure, Sasha was extremely busy. Since she was the one that had to spend all the day and night making adjustments to the fuselage and coordinating the test flights, there was almost no time for her to go back to the store. When it finally was time for her and Cocona to depart, Sasha returned to the Nya Nya Store, and deeply bowed before going in. This was actually something very typical of Sasha, but this gave an uncomfortable feelings to Cloche, who was watching her.

Then, five days later, all of the tests finally came to an end, and the airship was completed flawlessly. On that night, a celebration and farewell party was made in the Nya Nya Store. All of the people that had any sort of close bonds with Cocona gathered to cheer her up on her journey... but despite this, the situation hadn't change at all. Targana had already got drunk from drinking sake, and was venting all of the stress he had during the day, while Croix tried to calm him down. Cocona and Cloche were having a lengthy discussion about Gergo, while Amarie was making fun of Luca while Leglius tried to keep her from going too far... The kind of life that all of these people had didn't change at all from how they used to be. Sasha was alone, looking at the others. For some reason, she was giving a lonely gaze to all the others.

"It'd be somewhat embarrassing, huh!? Sasha?"

"Hyeeeh!? Y-yes!"

When Amarie called her, Sasha wasn't listening to the conversation, and replied back without thinking. What they were talking about was that Cocona had made such a dramatic farewell for both of them, if they returned to Metafalss in just a few months after making so many preparations, it would become something embarrassing for them.

As it grew late, many people left, while there others that continued making a lot of noise over mats until everything calmed down. Cloche fell asleep on Luca's lap, and when even Croix was knocked out from the drunkenness, Sasha began talking earnestly with Cocona about everything she had thoroughly thought until this point, and gave her final answer.

Then, the following day came. Sasha confessed that both her and Cocona would go to the Third Tower. Everything began protesting, beginning by Cloche. Of course, Sasha was a very important person to Cloche, but everyone else also held Sasha as the star of hope for Metafalica. However, Sasha's determination was unshakeable. This began because of the worries she had from before she started designing the airship, and continued questioning herself for a long time until she arrived at this answer.

"Because I'm alone now, I want to do everything I couldn't until now. I've been told that there are all sorts of technologies in the Third Tower that we don't have here. I'll make sure to come back here carrying all of these technologies back here, and make Metafalica into an even more wonderful country."

With Sasha's feelings having touched them so deeply, everyone just went to her and gave their farewells. Cocona also reassured everyone that she would protect Sasha the best she could.

After all, it was thanks to Sasha that the airship that she would ride to the Third Tower was completed. However, Sasha had other reason for going hidden in her heart: a reason she hadn't shared with anyone else.

After her grandmother passed away, the Nya Nya Store became the only memento that reminded Sasha of her. It was a place of memories. However, this place would fall down someday, too. There was nothing that could be done about it. Despite understanding it perfectly, she didn't want to see that happen. The store filled with memories, where she always walked together with her grandmother. This might have been her way of running away, and she knew it better that anyone. But despite being running away or anything else, no one would ever want to see their most precious memories being broken apart to pieces like that.

When they departed, Cloche gave Sasha a Gergo Mascot as a present, while Luca gave her a self-styled traditional abacus, while telling her "As long as you have this, you must continue alive!" Even Croix ended giving his hair ornament to Cocona. And aside of this, the Maidens gave them many more other presents since a long time ago. They both received many precious things from all their friends. That was something that Sasha knew very well too.

So they both thought to themselves that they would do everything that was necessary to come back. The feelings of everyone in Metafalica would be with them, even if they were traveling to a faraway land. While looking at land after it had gotten a long distance from them, Sasha and Cocona thought the same thing.

"Metafalica is amazing. But, I want everyone in the world to live together in a world as wonderful as this..."

By the way, the many Gergos that Cocona had stored in secret were actually entrusted to Sasha by Cloche, which was clarified later on. Of course, aside of being used for advertising Gergo itself at the Third Tower, they never came up again in their conversations.