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Armored Core Lore The story of Armored core It begins in the year ED070 when the earth suffer a massive population growth all over the blue planet. With little space left on the planet to home these people and a future of being starved for resources the worlds governments proposed the building of underground cities to make room for their new growing populations. By the year ED096 powerful corporations and world powers would then turn to space for an answer as the population never stopped growing and along with them bringing the need for more resources to cloth and feed them. To answer this he first Mars terraforming project is executed. A pioneering fleet equipped with artificially intelligent robots is sent to Mars to begin planetary remodelling however the project would take too long as by the year ED100 the earth began to fall apart. More than half of the large cities in developed countries have become slums, while ever-increasing crime and shrinking investment have created a hollowing out of the economy. Industrialized companies have been competing with each other for the interests of developing countries, and with the development of the new technology, problems such as the rise in temperature due to the increase in carbon dioxide and the increase in harmful cosmic rays due to the expansion of the ozone hole have become increasingly worse. The Developing countries also lose most of their concessions to corporations from developed countries, and in addition to environmental destruction, they have been unable to solve basic problems such as economic disparities that will never be filled and food shortages caused by the population explosion. This causes Discontent and grievances in many countries with environmental pollution that has halted the earth's natural ability to cleanse itself. Soon, dissident organizations emerged in various regions and garnered a lot of support. The spark to this war was small. It was a statement by a supporter of a developing country that terrorism against a major power was acceptable. Feuds between major powers and developing countries became evident and other powers began to interfere with them. Soon, in the name of eradicating terrorism, the major powers began their march, and developing countries requested the assistance of third world countries leading to Skirmishes that should have been mere local conflicts to quickly spread and flared up around the world. The People's discontent exploded, and riots broke out in many countries with the economic disparities among nations becoming clear along with the various others problems such as resources, territory, ideology, ethnicity, and religion all erupting into a major war involving all. All this would force the hands of the major powers of the worlds to race to the idea that they would end the war in one fell swoop by deploying large-scale weapons with destructive power far beyond that of nuclear weapons. However, this war was different from the wars of a century ago, because now other countries also brought out similar weapons, and the fields of battle became more like a weapons testing ground. Blasts and boom came from all over and in the end these large-scale weaponry would everything into waste dust. The destruction of the natural environment and ecosystems could not be stopped as these weapons of justice rained down on earth leaving only a few survives. Their planet ruined by war, the survivors had to choice to make their new homes in the underground cities that was once going to solve their problem of overpopulation, now became their only hope of survival. It would take until E.D.0107 before Social systems would begin to be developed and expanded among several underground cities centred on Isaac City. In this process, several large corporations take the lead in reconstruction projects as a replacement for the nation that collapsed due to the Great Destruction. This group would become to be known as the union of corporations and with their minds and cash they would stabilize The urban environment of the underground cities by ED0110 and exchanges between underground cities will become more active. This growth came thanks to the union overcoming the biggest technological hurdle at the time to increase the efficiency and mobility of the work equipment. The answer to this problem, which seems obvious to mankind, which must make the most effective use of its few remaining resources, was to "develop humanoid machines that can withstand practical use.” These would become Muscle tracers and their use quickly spread as The system was used in resource mining, which had been a problem, to improve the efficiency of operations, and was later adopted in space exploration, which had been stagnant. The first shuttle was developed in a short period of time and it showed a strong presence in all kinds of environments, including extreme conditions such as outer space and immigrant planets, and even came to be regarded as a beacon of hope for mankind. This looked to be a fresh start for mankind as such the research and advancement of MT took precedence over everything else in research and development, and within a short period of time, it made dramatic progress. This would be the "core concept” or core system a standard for general-purpose work equipment that could actively respond to any situation by connecting various attachments via "turret points" on each part of the "core," the basic chassis that contained a powerful generator. The Companies of the union designed and produced various parts under this common standard, which was applied to many fields including military. The MT's inherent versatility led to a rapid shift in the entire weapon system leading these new mts with the core concept turning them into fully armored machine of war, these would start to be produced as Armored cores. With such a force behind them in ED.0115 the coalition of business proposed the "Centennial Plan," a major project focusing on the comprehensive development and operation of the entire underground community. It would be a plan that progresses expanding the function of the underground city while at the same time making economic disparities become more noticeable between the population. It also caused conflict within the union of corporations with the need to grow and profit they would form the Raven's Nest as the spearhead of inter-corporate conflicts, it becomes home to a large number of ravens and for a short while would fall under the command of Chrome, one of the corporations within this union. It within the next fifteen years that out of the union two of the corporation would experience rapid growth Chrome and Murakumo Millennium. These two would advance their research faster, their mts development would expanded as well as their business. By ED130 these two corporations controlled most of the under ground cities, the union would fade into the shadows of these mighty corporations and raven’s nest would now have a new operator, one that neither chrome or marakumo seem to question. It is during this time when a new raven would join the ranks of raven nest, their motives unknown yet the actions of this raven would change the world. Its here history will tell of two tales, the first of the raven who sided with Chrome, this would see the raven take on missions for the chrome corporation these would include reclaim oil facility, attack urban center as well as a range of attacks agai9nest the space station and luna base of their rival marakumo. This path would lead the raven to give chrome all the power it would need however the story would not end well much like if the raven choices to work for Murakumo. Its a series of missions that see the take down of chromes own private terrorists, the fall of Chemical-dyno experiment and finally the end of Chrome itself. The most important parts of this tale however will tell us this raven down the 2nd rank raven, becoming a powerful foe as a raven and finally that this new strength frighted the true master mind behind all this. An Ai said to be controlling the top ranked raven, nineball as well as a range of mts in it own private force. Its seeing the power of this raven that made the ai see them a threat to the world they wanted as such the final mission destroy floating mines is nothing more then a trap to get off of this raven threatening to ruin it perfect plan to guide humanity. However the raven would not die here, instead taking down the two nine balls that act as guards for this ai the raven and ai would come face to face, a machine built to guide humanity and a human who wanted to be free. The AI asks the raven for what they wish for? The answer is clear when the raven destroys thje ai causing the underworld cites to suddenly stop functioning and the last largest corporation to fall in ED0158 leading to a new period. The period that would become known as the underground war where after the fall of both chrome and murakumo the smaller companies at the time began to battle for power once more. They wanted to run the cities like chrome and Murakumo did as such this war would last a long 29 years before in ED.0187 the birth of the Formation of the Underground World Ceasefire Commission, this commintiy would handle the ceasefire in the Great Depth War and Along with the ceasefire, the "Treaty of Isaacs", a war treaty, is signed. While thje contents of the treaty is never shown by the year ED.0188 The Underground World Ceasefire Committee was scheduled to be dissolved after the ceasefire process was completed, but it was decided to continue in order to rebuild the inter-company information network and reuse company-owned land. The committee will concentrate the military forces of the remaining organizations, and will become a powerful controlling force. This would evolve by E.D.0190 to the The Earth Government, led by the Underground World Ceasefire Committee, founded with the goal of restoring human life. The Earth Government advocates a return to the surface in order to break through the extremely exhausted situation of the underground world. It begins to investigate the aboveground environment. And just one year later in ed0191 The Earth government, having determined that it is partially habitable on the ground, promotes the migration of people to the ground. In the end it seemed like earth population would return to the surface, however it was then a new and upcoming corporation would present the idea of living on mars.
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Armored core lore The story of armored core five It begins around 200 to 300 years ago when for an unknown reason the world lost most of its population and contained areas became uninhabitable. Take from page 04 of the armored core v book the fact this event is best explained as this. There are various theories as to the causes of the devastation of the once prosperous world. Among them, two theories are "resource shortages due to population growth" and the "widening gap between rich and poor" led to repeated wars・ They are highly credible considering the numerous weapons that have been discovered. It is also believed that the world was undermined by the leakage of pollutants from the weapons used in those battles. Alternatively, there is a persistent theory that environmental changes due to natural catastrophes and extreme weather conditions were the cause of the devastation. Now that the ancient records have been lost, there is no way to know which theory is true. All we know is that many people have died and that the "viable areas" where people can live have dwindled to a very small number due to the spread of the contamination. Survivors continue to huddle together in viable areas to survive, but this degraded environment isn’t enough to override human nature, and conflicts over territory and resources continue to erupt. This would be known as the old era A hundred years later when Migrants started to appeared; they used special equipment mask, suits and helicopters to walk around in the contaminated areas and discovered weapons used in past wars in the contaminated areas, which slowly led to the discovery of the humanoid weapon "Armored Core" (AC): a high-performance military weapon. To allow for a better understanding of what this means Migrant is the general term for couriers who travel between viable areas and trade for a living. Many of them are loyal only to profit and live for the purpose of obtaining money and valuables. Therefore, they have two roles: one as peddlers who help people by transporting daily necessities, and the other as merchants of death who deal in weapons and ammunition and promote conflicts. Others go to contaminated areas to search for supplies used in past wars. In many cases, those who can pilot ACs use their strength as a commodity and make their living as mercenaries. Mercenaries go to the field when requested and act as a temporary force. The client may be an organizational entity such as the resistance, or it may be an individual migrant who needs personnel for a conflict or an escort for a search. Is it here that the search for viable land would be begin causing conflict between migrant group as they became territorial and fighting over the viable land the most well known being the city. A large city in a viable area. It seems to have had a unique name in the distant past, but the records had already faded and it was simply called "The City" It is also during this time people who are not migrates would become known as ash people who would venture out to find these viable land themselves. This would be known as the pollution era. It is among these ash people a man by the name of Jack Batty who since a child had been working as a burglar in the city. Would form his own bandit group to continue his life of crime which would lead to this group attacking a migrate by the name of Don Tyrell. He had been picked up by a Migrant Group as as a young man, however it split and fell apart due to internal strife, allowing him to acquired an AC amid the chaos and become a straggler Migrant. After being attacked by Jack’s gang they would rob him of the ac but let him live on the condition that he would teach them how to pilot the armored core. Even after such a meeting, Jack and Don would quickly become friends and with the new weapon Jack’s bandits would become quite the force in the city allowing them to rob resources and send other groups packing with their power. However the city was a lawless place and with more migrant groups fighting for land and resources each day, Jack’s bandit group would be killed off during these battles leaving the only survives being Jack, Don and the daughter of one of his fallen men Frances Curtis. Seeing no other choice and separated from Don, Jack would flee in the ac with Frances to become a mercenary. While Don vanished from the city and return to life as a migrant, the despair of his lost friends by these wars made him realize the meaning of power. It’s here he decided to take back what he lost and would dive deep into contaminated areas to return alive with many successes and attracting a great deal of attention for other migrate groups. It with this that Don Tyrell would then begin to organized various Migrant groups by forceful and cunning means. Leading to within a few years to became one of the most powerful forces in the city. It around this time that another a group would also be making waves within itself the men of honour. This groups birth is Originally down to a mirage group known as the Stratford family that operated solely within its family members. A turning point came however after the death of the families leader and a turf war broke out with other Migrants for their land and resources. However the Stratford’s new leader, Elizabeth Stratford the wife of the original leader and later nicknamed leopardess would show her talent and charisma as a leader. She united the rival Migrants and founded the men of honour with her ruling it for the next dozen years. However time caught up with this leopardess and she was ready to hand over the leadership to one of her daughters, however there was trouble. For Elizabeth had three daughters, Goneril, the eldest, Regan, the second, and Cordelia, the third, and all three were raised as heirs. Cordelia, in particular, was brilliant, displaying a boldness and talent for negotiation that surprised even her mother. Ironically, however, this talent became a source of friction between the sisters, leading to factions within the MoH fighting over who would take the throne. Cordelia, who disliked the inconvenience of the organization, left the MoH herself, and as a result, Elizabeth shifted the management to a collegial system before her death. The factional strife subsides. While Goneril, the eldest daughter, copes with the change in position and secures a stable position, Regan, the second daughter sees the state of the family as a downfall and is consumed by a desire for revenge against those around her and her sister. It this family war that would lead Cordelia to change her name to rosary and begin a new life as a migrant. Who will play an important role later on. For now returning to Jack and Don, the pair would years later reunite working together as the heads of one of the city's most prominent migrant groups. Tyrell cooperates with the City's other powerful migrant group within the city for a while, but his self-righteous, no-holds-barred approach causes him to clash with them at every turn. Leading to fighting between them all with two well known battle between Jack and Leon Dantes Leon at the time was an ace of a certain Migrant group that was known as a martial fighter in the City. However after losing to Jack the first time, he would clash with Jack again only this time it looked to be his end that was until he was rescued by a migrate by the name of rosemary. As a result of his two defeats by Bhatti during the war in the city, he lost his position in the organization and lived as a low-ranking member. It after these battles and more that Jack and Tyrell would finally achieve unification of the city under their group. After this Tyrell becomes the "representative" of the city and Then realized that they did not have the capacity to provide for all of the City's inhabitants with the amount of supplies they had at the time. So he decided on a policy of segregation of the inhabitants. This was the result of his choice to ensure the survival of even a small portion of the population, rather than to have them all live in harsh conditions and possibly perish, which was the best course of action for the future. He created a social system controlled under a strict status system. The status is dictatorial, with those concerned in close proximity to the Tyrells being treated as the upper class, and most of the rest as the lower class. The immigration area was also divided according to status, and the lower class people were forced into worse living conditions. These living condition would see the lower class go underground using tunnels and old underground network as their homes. This sight hit Jack hard who did not agree with Tyrell’s new world policy and as such during a mission to push back some rebellious migrant groups within the city Jack would flee underground. To Tyrell this was a friend he thought he could trust betraying him as such Jack Bhatti would be labelled as an exile from the city and Tyrell would begin to turn the city into a military fortress. He established a security force for his own safety and to suppress terrorism and strife among rebel groups. The security force handled weapons used in former wars and used military force to maintain security in the city. They also deployed surveillance units and built watchtowers throughout the city to ensure full security. In truth During Tyrell's reign, the people living in the City were guaranteed a minimum standard of living, but they were not given complete freedom. They were placed under a system of total control, supplies and food were rationed, entertainment was non-existent, and the people were forced to focus on simply surviving. Naturally, some were dissatisfied with such a harsh lifestyle, but the thought of being sent underground prevented them from rebelling. It Is also worth noting that there were industrial facilities within the City, and the bare necessities of life were produced there. But to the people forced underground by Don and his rules this was no life and when Jack Batty came to them, he managed to organize them all into what would become know as the resistance and begin to fight Don rule with small scale skirmishes first. Among these underground people would be Leon Dantes who even after learning that it was Jack Batty who lead this resistance. He would follow Jack into battle and becoming Operations Counsellor within the resistance and would hold this position until the first major attack by the resistance against Don who now had become known as father. Possible because he was seen as the father figure of the city with how he ruled along with the emblem common to all members of the unit was inscribed with the words "ODIET AMO meaning I hate and I love which is the same as the City's logo. These very words would come from the Latin poet Gaius valerius catullus who used these words in one of his poems or to masterfully express a love hate feeling so seemingly contradictory and yet so frequent with his lover. It reads in full I hate and I love. Why I do this perhaps you ask? I do not know, but I sense that I happens and I am tormented. To return to the topic at hand. All this would happen in the beginning of the era which would be known as the Migrant conflict era along with one more event, a force named Vendie would be established in the mid Mid-continent by a man named Cesar Venide. To better show this a map is showing on screen of its location along with where Don and the men of honour are operating at this time as well. Finally this is where the rest of the events of this era can be seen through the game armored core v as such we shall begin. It begins with what would be called the first counterinsurgency operation where the resistances first major attack on the city would be learned ahead of time as such as representative of the city would reinforce the city own security with the firepower of another Migrant group named the corporation. Very little is known about this group at this point nor how they and Tyrell would meet. However the best description of the group and the answer to how the meeting between them is suggested to have happened comes from the armored core v book the fact which described the corporation as A type of Migrant organization that uses its own combat capabilities as a commodity, it maintains a powerful force centred on "autonomous weapons" that cannot be operated by other organizations. And on how the two met It is said that the corporation and Tyrell came into contact either 40 years ago, when Tyrell went to the contaminated area to conduct a search, or before the first counterinsurgency operation, but no evidence of this remains. A group hidden in secrets and one where the hero of this story would first show up working for the corporation as a mercenary in their force. From this point on this mercenary name will change as the story goes on for some texts will refer to him as simple mercenary while other will name him the dark raven. For this retelling I will be using the dark raven name as to not confuse this ac pilot with other mercenaries of this era. The dark raven is brought to the city under contract by the corporation to fight back the resistance that is launching a large scale attack on Tyrell and his security forces to overthrow him. As a corporation mercenary he is directed by a corporations member name Carol Drury who reminds the dark raven that the corporation expect results from their forces. As if to answer this the dark raven would remain silent as he heads into battle within the city, his skills are proven within minutes as he is able with the overwhelming odd of the corporation forces to over power the fighting resistance forcing them to flee to the western part of the city where their leader Jack Bhatti would act as a distraction for the fleeing resistance members in his own armored core named Vendetta. This armored core would not simple run about instead taking the fight head on as a number of other corporation hired mercenaries would meet their end at Jack’s hand that was until he and the dark raven crossed path. The two quickly battle and the dark raven manages to damage Jack’s ac forcing him to retreat into the underground of the city, this is when the commander of the corporation forces named chief comes over the radio to give the dark raven his next order. A chase would start as the dark raven pursues Jack taking down a transport helicopter trying to block his route into the underground before finally the two armored core pilots meet again. Jack however plans not to die here as he is ready to finish this battle between them with a very large weapon on the back of his ac. This would become later known as the Grind Blade one of the few ultimate weapons that over rides the normal limits of an armored core and allows the craft unlimited energy to use an ultimate weapon to destroy a foe with overwhelming power. The downside to this is the weapon can only be used once and that the armored core using the ultimate weapon is prone to losing its left arm after the weapon is used due to the armored core computer system being unable to deal out the heat output resulting in the loss of the left arm. Yet in jack’s case he would not get to use the grind blade as the chief attacks him from behind. Firing shots and Ramming into the already damaged resistance leaders armored core leading to Jack death. It here however that another voice would come over the radio to speak to the chief Paul O Brian captain of the police force within the city and the force that protects Tyrell. This is a crushing defeat for the resistance who is forced back underground with their leader dead and their forces depleted it would take a year before another would become the resistance leader and her name is Frances Batty Curtis. Inexperienced as a leader the young women seem to lack the skills and charm of the last resistance leader leaving the planning and negotiating with Migrant groups for more weapons and supplies to launch a second attack on the city in the hands of Leon Dantes who survived the first operation. This is how rosary and her henchman RD would be brought into the service of the resistance as a Migrate group for supplies and weapons. Leon would also hire the dark raven as the resistances only armored core force. luckily thanks to the chaos of the first attack and huge losses to the resistance no one could link the dark raven to being the mercenary who chased Jack Batty to his death. With this new team and more supplies the time to launch the second major offence on the city and Tyrells forces. This according to the both the armored core v the fact and Armored core verdict day the after would be named the second counterinsurgency operation. The first steps in this operation would be to destroy the control facilities of the city’s surveillance units located in the high rise district of the city which has four. To do this they would send in a team to do this however due to the city police being stationed in all districts they would have the dark raven act as a distraction in the low rise district to pull the attention of the city police away. It during this missions start we see that rosemary is not too happy about the new leader of the resistance and seems to be only here for the money and that the dark raven once again shows their skill as any who try to attack him are left burning. Causing enough of a distraction the dark raven is then ordered by Leon to head into the high rise district to aid the resistance combat units in the fighting which the dark raven would do only to be confronted by security force eleven in the underground passage the raven had to use to reach the high rise district. A battle between the security force and the dark raven would play out in the underground passage leaving the dark raven as the victor who would speed through the tunnel heading towards the high rise district. Here the resistance fighters are facing heavy fighting from the city police who had highly mobility armored core units and support weapons on their side. The dark raven assistance however allows for breathing room for the fleeing resistance member as he eliminates the defence forces including an armored train filled to the brim with weapons. But when ordered retreat along a different route the resistance radio is hijacked by the corporation commander chief. What follows this conversation between Chief and the resistance is from the another armored train autonomous weapons are fired from it making the escape of the dark raven that much harder. We later learn these the missile type autonomous weapons used here would be named ootheca that seem to be able to home in and even chase target for a period of time. The resistances armored core however manages to escape these weapons and flee the high rise section leaving the resistance aware of the fact the corporation had access to their communications all this time as such their plan would need to be looked over again. The resistance witnessing the weapons the corporations have at their disposal knew they would need more firepower to even stand a chance at surviving against such a foe. As such a search party is formed with Rosary and RD as guides, the dark raven as security and Fran as commander of the mission to head outside the city. Where only a vast wasteland which covered most of earth surface can be seen and it is this that is known to many as the contaminated area. Where the first armored cores would be found and now where the resistance hoped to find more weapons for their cause. It while searching some sites within the area and fighting off more autonomous weapons which are stationed at the sights that Rosemary is questioning Fran in her leaderships skill to the point she even teases her when Fran get angry at rosemary's content pushing of trying to make Fran give orders. In the end however the search of the three main sites turn up nothing leading the search team to enter into another site which make RD nervous. It is filled with autonomous weapons and quite the fight for the dark raven who manages to clear the sight allowing Rosemary to land and begin a search however it is then RD senses something. A large unknown weapon, it attacks without hesitation and Fran seems unsure on what to do that is until rosemary tells the dark raven a weakness to this weapon, its legs when they up open up to fire a large energy blast. In what can described as show of skill, the dark raven takes out this foe amazing rosemary and Fran however RD is not so thrilled about the next conversation between Fran and Rosemary as the team leaves the site. Days later the resistance would launch an attack on the southern part of the city known as the coastal district where a Martine facility is based. The goal of this mission is to make his way to the executive district and clear it of enemies so the resistance can use a bridge there leading to the central command where Tyrell is based. To get there the raven would first have to make it through the coastal district, to do this the dark raven would first take an underground passage from a deserted marine facility into the coastal sector. Yet after taking out the city police patrolling the passage he arrives at the district to find it is being guarded by corporation forces. This leads the raven to fight his way past a number of autonomous weapons once more and two large and powerful weapons that looked like bird named scavengers. Once again the dark raven is able to down these weapons allowing him access to the executive district where the city police are waiting with their own ac to challenge the dark raven. No matter the foe however the dark raven goes on taking out the city police armored core and all the forces here before being ordered to pull back to the passage leading back to the marine base this is when Leon give more details on what the attack plan is for the resistance. Heading back the dark raven picks off more forces of corporation and city police until they find RD waiting to pick them up on a flat bed truck. It as the pair travel back through the passage that RD talks to the dark raven for the first time however it is cut short. An attack from a city police force. The resistance is confused and shocked however the mission goes on with the dark raven taking down the attacks as finally he arrives at the marine facility to see it now being guarded by a huge force of city police and we learn how this was possible thanks to the chief of police. With this many hostile units here the dark raven is ordered to clear them out leading to more battling for the raven as he clears the area only then to have the city police chief show up to deal with the raven himself. This battle between the two is short as another ac soon joins them, Hangman the armored core of chief the corporation commander and he does something unexpected. Killing his own ally, the chief then keeps firing with his ac ultimate weapon forcing the dark raven to hide behind cover and dive under the ocean to avoid shots as he makes his way towards the attacking armroed core. When he does get close the dark raven rams Hanged man making the armored core burst into flame as carol the secretary of chief has this to say. The dark raven and the resistance after this would move right on with their plan the invasion of central command. This plan would see Leon and a team move in with a team to capture Tyrell in his base while the dark raven and resistance forces would battle the forces outside. To aid with this the resistance would cut the power to the area and the dark raven would also take out the back up generators to ensure this power loss would stay that way. It while this is happening however the corporation would turn up and drop an LLL into the area forcing the raven to fight the mighty tall machine of war before heading to the front of father tower. The final part of the plan to capture or kill tyrell is in motion and for the dark raven his job would be keep the city police and cooperation forces at bay while Leon and his team invaded the tower. This battle would be no cake walk though as the corporation would drop in more units and another mercenary armored core pilot who is hired to defend the tower. All these however do not stop the dark raven as finally Leon announces they have captured Don Tyrrell only but this victory is short lived. What should have been a victory for the resistance now sees the city began to be destroyed by the corporation who’s unit go about attacking resistance member and even city the police force. Major panic set in as Rosemary is in shock but Fran orders all resistance members to retreat underground including the dark raven who does this. The city a blaze and the corporation forces killing whoever they come across the city is slowly taking a bit, piece by piece all the while reaching the underground they meet another ac however this armored core seem familiar and the voice of it pilot too. Betrayal for the sake of living, RD however is no match for the dark raven who sends him pack before coming into contact with another armored core deeper in. Somehow Chief is still alive and even with his joking it results in not one battle but two bas Chief’s armroed core even in a critical state after the first bout with the dark raven manages to battle again this time using a pillar as a club. It still ended with the chief defeat however the dark raven does not stick around as hangman once again blow up as now he heads off to aid with the resistance evacuation. Guarding helicopter that try to pull resistance member and people living in the city while corporation force rain down bullets and laser all around them. Whatever the outcome the dark raven then flee with rosemary's aid as now they watch the city burn. This nightmare would not stop here for the dark raven and the two women with him as while escaping rosemary helicopter would be shoot down by RD once again in his new armored core vengeance with the grind blade. He sees the only way to escape his fear of death is to kill the dark raven and is eager to end his life. Yet even an ultimate weapon can not stop this raven as RD comes to see when the dark raven takes his life. Another life taken by the dark raven even Fran admits she is scared of him as everything he touches turns to ash. Sadly this would not be the final battle for them as even after recovering rosary from her helicopter the three would have to deal with one final encounter with the corporation. In the wastelands of the world the three would wonder until the corporation final weapon caught up with them. The exusia a large flying armored core that looks to be the foe to put the dark raven in the ground with its power. Yet once again the raven turns this weapon into scrap and with it the corporation seems to fall quiet after this loss leaving the three to wonder the wasteland for the next two years as migrants. It during this time the three of them would return to the city once more, now a battleground for migrants who are savaging the resources left over and turf wars. It is here and in other sectors that large group of men of honour fighters would clash with the dark raven. Known now had as the mercenary who survived the second counterinsurgency between the resistance and Tyrrell. These units are out of his league however as the dark raven swiftly kills his foes they are unaware that in the background a senior head of the Men of honour is watching Regan. She recognizes rosemary’s emblem and at once sends out Neon a men of honour armored core mercenary to kill her and sway the dark raven to her side. In her mind She needed his power make the Men of Honour strong again under her family and rosemary she had to go after all she could not have her sister Cornella try to come back and steal her seat of power. However her senseless attacks sending Men of honour members to their death against the dark raven would soon lead to Regan orders being ignored by men of honour members with the only men of honour member willing to listening to her as she ordered him to kill her sister. This man is named Oswald Warrickshire. Another wander of the wasteland earth who as a child lost the group he was travelling with and ended up being taken in by the head of the Men of honour at the time Elisabeth Stratford who would put him through the training of the men of honour leading him to become a bouncer for Regan, a personal guard to be more on point. In two battle he would square off against the dark raven fleeing once due to damage and secretly knowing he was no match for his foe. However the second battle would be Oswald’s last as the dark raven kills him here with Rosary asking why did he work for such a man. In truth Oswald has his reasons and one is that he felt pity for Regan, who was caught in the grip of her own greed and obsession with power. His death however would send Regan into a rage and grief stricken rant as she tries to escape the place where her final chance at killing her sit sat burning. Only for this to happen. Attacked by an unknown armored core, all the dark raven, Fran and Rosemary have to go off is her sisters final words. Is that Zodiac? For the three of them the next few battles would be more zodiac armored core catching them off guard trying to kill them and finally it is clear these zodiacs are out to kill the dark raven. Knowing this rosemary comes up with a plan to work out where these zodiac armored core maybe and as such the group set out to hunt down all Zodiac members. To go into more detail All of the ACs belonging to this group were white-coloured and wore emblems resembling the constellations of the zodiac signs. ACs from No.1 to No.12 have been confirmed, each with extraordinary combat power. They suddenly appear on the battlefield and attack indiscriminately, then disappear without a trace, leaving behind the opponents whom they have defeated. But why do this? It is wrote in the book armored core v the fact page 26 that In recent years, a document was discovered that is strongly associated with the Zodiac. The documents described a being called "designed," whose aptitude and ability as an AC pilot had been enhanced by various artificial means. The Zodiac was a group of AC pilots who had been experimented on by these "designed" pilots. Designs were produced in past periods of major warfare through various types of experiments, and various models, including prototypes, were produced. The knowledge and technology related to design research is difficult for us to understand today and impossible to reproduce. From this, it can be inferred that Zodiacs were created in the distant past and have continued to live until recently. There are two hypotheses as to why they have transcended the fetters of life span and existed in the present. One is that the subjects' physical enhancement has resulted in a longer lifespan than usual. The other is that they have been in hibernation for some reason and have been inactive until recently. However, both theories lack evidence, and since all members have now died, the truth is still unknown. But even after the defeat of all 12 zodiacs, the story of the dark raven, Fran and Rosemary has one final chapter known to many as the forgotten days. To tell these events I shall read them from the translated pages I own from the armored core verdict day book the after pages ten and eleven. After the battle with the Zodiacs, Fran, Rosemary and the dark raven would set off in search of a safe haven. However as soon as they started their search the three are attack by an unknown unit which the dark raven battles with. It after the battle however that the captain of the attacking unit would contact Fran over radio informing them that a client wishes to meet with them and if they refuse he will repeat the attack as many times as needed to make them agree. Fran is reluctent to go however the three of them have little choice and head off with this unit to see this client. To the suspire of the three the client would turn out to be Goneril of the men of honour who wanted to chat with her sister and her friends about a job she had for them. It is here a semi crippled man is brought before the three named Issac. Goneril tells the three of them that this man is a witness to something called the tower, A gigantic structure of unknown nature and she wants them to find it for her with issac’s help. With little choice on the matter Fran’s team sets out on the hunt for this tower with issac in tow, however he is tight-lipped as a dead man and does not offer any help in any. With their source of information not talking the group have no choice but to gather information leading to countless battles with other migrant and the rescue of a man name Edgar Storks. Storks tells the team that he is the leader of a group named The Storks, who specialise in infiltrating deep within the contaminated areas along with telling them how he rescued issac. The story goes that issac was wandering around the city where he lived before it was swallowed up by contamination and while this was happening Issac saw the shadow of a huge tower at the far end of the contaminated area. Hearing all this Stork brought issac to the Men of honour as a live witness to the event and was paid. Although he does note that issac was in a lot better shape when he handed him over to the men of honour. This information certainly would help the group and with stork knowledge on some very interesting subjects they asked him to join them in their search. The man would in gratitude for them rescuing him but also because he had taken a liking to the dark raven, a mercenary who made quite the name for himself. With this agreed the now five strong group would follow strokes guidance deep into the contaminated area in the southern continent where he rescued Issac. It is as they do however that they find a remains of a strange facility. It is an odd sight as the facility looked like one the resistance used during the second attack on father, yet before any exploring could be done the group is suddenly hit by artillery fire making the team scatter with the dark raven ac being dropped allowing him to quick find where this attack came from. An armored core, but what is strange is it is the same model and has same emblem as the corporations Chief's armored core Hangman. To make things more strange a voice comes over their radio, the voice of Carol Dorry who calls Fran and the other failures and advises them to stop searching for the tower. At this moment issac who previously appeared to be a dead man, suddenly reacted to carol’s words asking her who she is? Carol however does not answer as the chiefs armored core leaves without another shot or word. Roseary is surpised at the suddenly reunion of old foes, however fran has a guess about who these two are. She believes that the chief and Carol are something non human that has been watching humans for a long time. After reaching the southern continent and heading deeper in, the group take a rest in a relativity unpolluted area. It’s here stork make the group aware that the place he rescued issac is nearby and that there are rumours of an unknown group attacking anyone they come across. It just as this conversion ends that the group is attacked by an unknown force, leading the dark raven to attack group and take out what looked to be the leader of the groups armored core which has a red Vendie emblem on it. This name is unknown to the group yet Issac speaks up explain that the Vendie unit is from a continent across the ocean and their goal was probably the tower. Hearing this the group rush back to their search. However more Vendie forces attack them and while small in numbers, each member of this force is a skilled fighter making the fight tough for the dark raven. Yet he would fight them off only then for a helicopter to drop in a single armored core with its pilot showing no will to fight. The pilot praises the strength of the dark raven and introduces himself as Caesar Vendie. Caesar would then go on to tell the group about this goal to obtain the tower as only the strong in his mind can control its power. Fran however is not to pleased with this as she believes its power could be used to help build a great civilization without power. Caesar is unmoved by this and instead say that he will settle this matter at the tower. Its as the group approaches the tower they notice the concentration of the contamination is increasing as if the tower itself is source of the contamination. Arriving at the foot of the tower, the vendie unit members are waiting there and the battle between Caeser and the dark raven begins. Yet this battle is interrupted by a volley of fire from the chief’s armored core hangman only this time there was not only one hangman but many. It’s seeing this that carol comes over the radio only to be interrupted by Caeser who asks if she and the others are collaborators of his father? Her answer to this is that venide and the city are experiments to explore human potential and that these experiments are their mission. Chief warns Caesar not to go looking for the truth before calling the dark raven, a dark raven as his many armored cores attack. The dark raven and Caeser would work together to battle the many hangman armored core and as they do carol speak about the reason for her and the chiefs existence. It was that they were created to protect the world and the human beings on it and by doing their mission that is what they are fulfilling. Issac however reacts strongly to this and denies the existence of such beings. He hated the humans who created this polluted world and thought anything created by these foolish humans was nothing more then a defective product. It a statement that shock Carol who asks what he really meant by this? Issac answer to her is total destruction and along with this he announces his willingness to accompany Carol and chief in their mission to prove humanity is flawed. The conversation leads Carol to active a super sized weapon to finish off the dark raven and Caeser. The pair however despise being heavily damaged from the fight with the many hangman armored core manage to destroy this super weapon. Only when they did a large amount of contamination is released from it, luckily for them stork is able to save them before the area around the tower becomes so polluted that going close to it would result in a quick death. It as they flee however that Issac has gone and no one knows where he went. With only Fran, Rosemary, Stork, the dark raven and Caesar alive, the vendie pilot tells the rest he is going to restore humanity even if he has to be apart for the administrators plan. It is hearing this that Roseary and Fran respond back by telling Cesar that they to would start their own forces against him and the entity behind him. Fran also knew that issac would become a real threat as such once safe the three of them would part ways. With Caesar retuning to mid continent, Fran and Rosary would swear to make forces that function by complementing each other as they two parted way with Rosary going back to the men of honour while Fran would go with stork. This is the end of a story buried in history, a turning point in the future of humanity. The three never talked about this journey and perhaps that was done to prevent anyone from taking the tower away from them. As for the dark raven, what happened to him remains unrecorded. This ends the story of armored core v.
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Armoored Core The story of Armored core 4 and for answer The story begins seven years before the national dismantlement with an earth much like our own only more technology advanced and with a population growing rapidly, the planet is much like our own with corporations looking to make money, the governments trying to please the people and the people making a lives for themselves. Among these people would be a researcher who to this day seems to have been wiped from history, who would discover a new particle in the south pole. This miracle particle opened the doors for corporations like akvavit and Raylonard based in Canada who at once started to research and design technology to use this particle that seem to advance their military technology to far beyond what was on offer at the time. That being at the time the use of normals and Muscle tracers, these are best described as the first humanoid style machine of war with Normals being more human like with arms and legs and able to carry weapons. While Muscle tracers are best seen as labour machine modified for war or turrets with legs. However with Kojima techonogy the next step to these would be huge machine of war that would come to be known as next. Large, powerful machine of war that could be customized with weapons so large a helicopter would needed to simply lift it into the hands on these machines of war. They would come with armour thicker then anything on offer and a new shielding technology that would make machine gun fire of mts and normals bounce off it. However the designing and production of these super machine of war would take years and be done in secret, no government on earth would know of their production however other corporations would not be so blind. For soon another corporation Omer Science technology a West Asian military company would start to dive into this research too. A secret information war would begin between the three as they sought to discover what their rivals had built or discovered this information however would not take long to slip into the hands of other corporations who also began to build and research these new super weapons. It during this time of next research that a professor by the name of Jarnefelt would come up and design the new piloting system for these nexts during his time working for a research institute by the name of Aspina. The Allegorical Manipulation System where The pilot's nerves are wired, or "linked" into the NEXT's electronics allowing for lightning-fast reaction time and perfect manipulation of parts. This along with The Integrated Regulation System, the centralized AC control system stored within the craft's head. This computer would processes data output from the AMS to turn electric signal into data, then fills in any gaps in the pilot's commands and then relay them to the parts. The IRS system also handled the data from the AC's camera eyes and sensors. It was this man team that pushed Next beyond the idea of simply being upgraded Normals and made these super weapons something now not any solider or pilot could jump into and use. The reason for this is this new system required its user to be compatible with it otherwise these Next would simple becoming lumbering, stuttering and highly ineffective if gang up on by normals as such Aspina would become the first to test this technology with help from our sponsor Omer Science and become the experts on this new system. However this discovery could not be kept hidden for long as soon other corporations caught on, the information war between corporations would not let any discover slip as such Aspina would soon find corporations paying for this technology for their own nexts. Aspina like any institute went along with some even claiming it hid the research from government or simple had Omer Science encourage them to keep this technology this way. It would lead to years passing with the total number of nexts rising, the world however was not thriving. For during these years the earth experienced a period of rapid population growth, which put a strain on global food and energy supplies. The gap between the wealthy and the poor became more and more with poorer families unable to feed their children, keep themselves warm or enjoy life it quickly lead to unrest. Protests and peaceful actions however did nothing as earth governments tried to reassure people it would be fixed or simple ignored the cries of their people. In the end violence began to erupt and the governments quickly lost control of their populations as their cities were consumed by terrorism and anarchy. No one was safe, looting of stores and the killing of law official's became more and more common as people turned on each other. In the end scared for their lives and seeing this as their only option People began turning to corporations, complete with private armies, to keep them safe from the chaos. To the people these corporations became their last hope, But to the six largest corporates at this time Global armament of America, Eqbal, the Bernard and Felix Foundation, Leonemeccanica Rayleonard and Rosenthal. They saw this as an opportunity, the governments of the world had failed and people were desperate that they had abandoned the law that protect them. The perfect time to rise up and take power for themselves and so they did. They launching a full scale war on the nations of the world which would become to be known as the National Dismantlement War. The corporations were ruthless as using their own private armies supported by Nexts the corporations obliterated the forces of the nations and declared victory in less than a month. With the nations of the world toppled, the corporations set out to work on a new system of government. This new era of government would become known as the "Pax Economica" Economic Peace where loyalty and service to the corporations guaranteed food and survival. However behind this fancy name the truth is the people of earth were forced into corporate-run colonies where they would become slaves serving wealthy corporate masters with hard manly labour with no unions or health and safety to protect them. These new rulers of earth rationed the resources and food to the people as they could not trust a population to turn on them like their governments before. However its among these colonies that one remained independent, the home of professor Jarnfelt Anatolia. After his time with Aspina, the professor returned to the colony where with his team of next scientists He single-handedly supplied the core of Anatolia's prosperity with the profits from his designs and creations. Some of these designs include the AMS NEXT control system which the corporations still needed help with. Its during this time of independence however that the daughter of the professor a young women by the name of fiona Jarnefeld would rescue a raven from his next. It was not unusual as these ravens where in fact mercenaries who still pilot the normals for corporations as colony guard even since their wipe spread use in the national dismantlement war, but since then have either been forced into working for a corporation to fur fill basic needs or join independent groups to survive be they terrorist or warlords. What was strange about this raven was the fact he was piloting a next, the new sign of power for these corporations. Even at this time most corporation would not simply let one go however for Fiona she seem to only care for the pilot who seem to be in bad shape and needing care while the rest of the scientists of anatolia did what any scientist would they recovered the damaged next and transported it back to the colony piece by piece. Sadly even though the raven would recover he would be unable to speak leading him to become dependent on fiona and the colony. The science team of anatoila would rebuild the next but soon after the years would soon catch up to fiona’s farther and after just four years after the end of the national dismantlement war he would die leaving the colony in trouble. For without the professor, the colony lost its main income leading to many of his team to leave anatolia and take up new lives in the Aspina leading to more loss of income. This change put the colony of anatoila into economic crisis as without a way for them to buy food and resources they would be forced to become a corporation run colony leading to a hard and cruel life. As such The colony's welfare the fell upon the shoulders of Emil Gustav, a member of the professor's development staff. He however was no young man himself and his knowledge on next designs where nothing like the professors instead he was more a political player. The man had been the one to make the deals with corporations for food and resources, he knew how these corporations thought as such he came up with a plan to help anatolia. His plan was to use their now resident raven and his rebuilt next as a mercenary for hire. It was a plan that rested the life of the colony solely on the shoulder of this raven and with the fact these people had rescued him what choice did the silent pilot have? Of course being the kind young women she is Fiona at once seem to argue with the political minded elder. However her young mind was not match for a man who dealt with mind of far greater manipulation as such seeming to notice the care she held for this raven Emil would put pressure on her too explaining this is the only way and that she would have to play a part too as the operator of their new mercenary for hire. In his own words he even admits to using the raven and through him Fiona but he did what had to be done to keep food on the table. After this the preparations would be for the rise of anatolia’s mercenary with Emil weaving his political mind and words he manages to get their new mercenary a sponsor through Global armament. This corporation had started to fall behind the other in next development making them weaker in the eyes of the other corporations and being the largest of them all spread across countries like America, japan, china and even some parts of Europe their forces were stretched thin they needed all the firepower they could. However for this deal to be sealed, GA wanted to see this mercenary in action as such he was given his first mission codenamed first strike. This mission would have the mercenary go in alone against a large terrorist force that set up shop in Gryphon an independent city who had been taken over by the terrorists. These terrorists wanted this place as base of operations to strike back at their corporate overlords yet GA wanted to rebuild it for their own purposes. As such with a transport plane supplied by GA, anatoila mercenary would be picked up from its home and move to the city. Anatolias mercenary performance here would be enough to impress GA representatives who later would shake hands with emil as the pair entered into this sponsorship all the while Fiona seem to try and distance herself from the man she saved with professional attitude towards him however her worry could still be heard. After this Anatolia’s mercenary would become a key part in taking down the largest terrorist group known to the corporates at the time, the Maghrib Liberation Front. Originating from White Africa which is guessed to be located in south Africa, the front quickly grew to become a threat to the corporations with two nexts within their arsenal, normals and conventional forces. They spread across the world with other groups joining the cause, anatolai mercenary would kill many of these terrorists who occupied normal producing factories to even power generation plants most would either die by the mercenaries hand or flee for their lives only to be hunted down by the corporations forces after. Anatoila mercenary most notable missions during this time would be the take over of two of the Mag liberation front bases, the Eritrean Stronghold where the front had acquired nuclear missiles and was using it as a staging area to launch these attacks from and the Gelts'a Fortress a large heavily armed area believed to be based located within a canyon near Marrakech, Morocconear. It was used before the national dismantlement war. in ethnic cleansing done by warlords however the liberation front moved in after and made it a key base in their operations. And the defeat of one of the liberations most prized and heroic members, the lynx Amazigh and his next Barbaroi. He had proven himself a true force against the corporations and won many battle for the front when it began making him a hero in their eyes. However as famously said all heroes must die and amazigh time would come by the hands of anatolia’s mercenary in Former Peace City believed to be located north of Ha'il in Saudi Arabia. It was to be an ambush where the mercenary would catch the hero whilst being transported by a large truck leaving him unable to fight back. There are very different reports on what happened with some claiming the mercenary managed to get the drop on the terrorist hero while other will say he fought with the mercenary as he knew about the ambush. In the end however the hero and the main power house of the front would die leading the corporations to perform clean up operations of the front soon leaving their number limited as anatolia mercenary fame would only rise as would his price. For all this time emil would not let the corporations underpay, the killing of such a figure made the mercenary worth more which emil would use to keep the pay coming and the corporations seem to accept this. However this victory however seem to be all part of the corporation plan for all this time the six corporations had kept up with their information war and development rivalry of kojima technology, in fact the front had been so well supplied thanks to them, funding them from the shadows to try and undermine each other. The front however had grown too strong as such they had to go finally leaving the corporation no choice but to take matters into their own hands. Anatolia Mercenary would once again be brought into battles however this time the foes he’d be fighting would even more organised as if they had military training however the raven did not ask questions leaving the talking to emil and Finoa The next few missions would see him attack a terrorist supply line with omer flying normals as guards, protect a BFF ice breaker tanker from submarines which are produced by omer science however the corporation claimed they had no idea about the attack, protect anatolia from the remains of the mag liberation front who come for revenge, the death of Sus the last mag liberation front next in a last stand and finally a mission codenamed inter purge. This missions goal was this. It turns out all this time the eurpeon branch of GA named GAE had be working on Kojima technology however they had become almost zealots about the research. They even started to communicate and even share designs with a company called Akvavit. A company working with rayleonard since the start of kojima’s discovery the two wanted to break into the ballistic market in europe and by working with GAE they hoped to do this. However with GA consequently blocking this idea and even going as far as to launch an attack on the main base of GAE known as the hedi arsenal disguised as a terrors group some months ago which was stopped by anatolia mercery who was hired by GAE. This time the Globel armament eurpo branch decided to break away and join Akvavit of their own according which in turn threatened the market GA had in that area as such this purge was issued as the branch could not be allowed to take any information or tech with them as such anatolia’s mercenary was ordered to take out the sol dios GAE lastest war machine and dela with the GAE guards if they try to stop him. And so the mercenary went, the attack was devastating as with no nexts on sight and all sol dios still being worked on the mercenary ripped through the nromals on guard and destoired the objectives only then to suddenly hear. Fiona had picked up a next expecting an akvavit next both her and anatolia’s mercenary are surprised to discover that it was in fact a ga next. Was it here to help them? Sadly not as soon the ga next opens fire on the mercenary leaving him not choice but to fight back. The battle is over just as fast as it began as finally fiona manages to get data on the defeat next as Mio ruh GA ace lynx and an original next from the national dismantlement war. This confuses her as what would mean? Did Ga send their one of their to get rid of anatolia mercenary when he was done or was this next a akavit spy who came to help her company. The truth may never be known as Mio ruh would die there and little did anatolia mercenary know that he had just started a war. For with this action akvavit came out swinging claiming that the purge was a direct assault on them it would be the first open conflict since the pax inception. This however echo through all the corporation who at once went to war without ideology or reason turning the earth into a battlefield once more and in emil eyes the perfect chance to gain more money for anatolia through their know well known mercenary. Rumors of him being as powerful as any lynx from the national dismantlement war who where known as originals. Fiona dreaded this as she knew the man she healed would be put into harms way more but of course emil could not see this as he weaved his political skills once more to encourage the now waring corporations to hire their powerful lynx. Antolia mercenary would soon sortie again his missions would see him take down other originals like Lamda from leoinmeccia in the mission line of defence, Sadhanna the number 2 original from equal, critique from aldra a small company looking to expand it terroty along with reclaiming Gyron city from leonmeccia forces and destorying their power generator megalis. This list however did not end here as also during this early war phase the mercenary would discover that raylonard had been developing a new type of next in an underground faclity named the levanteer. Here he would battle three of these powerful new nexts only to discover from fiona that these next looked to be from her fathers old designs. These nexts looked like the prototype next, a machine that killed it pilot from how much information it feed the pilots brain and nerves. It also polluted the areas it operated in with how much kojima particles it released during use making the professor destroy it plans and research. However it seem rayloenard would not let this machine of death die and instead taking another of the professor designs the 002b created these automated machines that would deadly even to nexts. It seem rayloenard was willing to win by any cost. Anatolia’s mercenary however had little time to rest as once again he was soon sent out taking out another orginal by the name of Mary Shelley from the berend and flexi corporation before finally performing a mission that would send the war between corporations into full force and take sides. The codename for this mission was break the white lance, its details are this. The death of all high ranking official on the berand and fleix water based headquarters known as queen’s lance. The Mercenary would not disappoint as fighting his way through the fleet that protected the queen he showed no mercy as he blasted it killing thousands inside and ending one of the six corporations that started this new world. It was a victory that shocked even fiona who at this point had been allowing herself to grow closer to the mercenary now admit she misses the days she saw him as something other then what he had become. However the unstoppable anatoila mercenary and his operator had little time to rest as soon their home became under attack from an unidentified large scale destructive weapon in the underground gear tunnel that brought supplies to the colony. Picking this weapon fiona for the first time pleads the mercenary to stop it. As always this unrivalled mercenary does he job and stops the giant weapon, this would later be found to be called the URSRAGNA a corporation made giant weapon. It this that sends shiver down the spine of fiona as she realises that their home is now a target for the corporations and their target had to be the colonies unstoppable mercenary who had become a threat to all corporations with his skill and power. His actions had brought upon the start of the lynx war where raylonard and akvavit feeling the pressure gathered all their resources and launched suspire attacks on the corporations of GA, Omer science and Rosenthal. Countless colonies fell and the kojima contamination from these nexts went unchecked. These three would enter into a truce and fight back while lecommecia hide away letting the five fight. In the early stage of the war Omer’s force would be hit hard resulting in them taking a defensive war against the invading forces its here the mercenary would learn of another mercenary who seem to share his skills in a next. Joshua o brain from the colony of Aspina, Fiona friend and a face that anatoila mercenary could put to the white next who came to his aid or hinder him. The two however would have little time for words as under omer orders Joshu would head off into battle to aid their forces while anatolia merceny had his own missions. These would include cleaning up benard an fleix remainders including the heir to the corporation Francisca and her brother Eugene and the occupations of several former bff locations including the Razghul colony’s subterranean faclity, the zextex airport and The kojima sphere faculty who’s ownership would be fall under the alliance of GA, Omer science and Rosenthal during this time. After this antolia mercenary and Joshua would meet again in a mission codenamed sol dios which asked the pair to destroy the a new force of the same weapons from the heidai arsenal only now they were complete and crushing colonies under their feet as they moved toward sing the biggest GA colony in asia. At once the pair moved out and again there are two account of what happened one will tell that the pair worked together to take out this force and another will say that Joshua had to retreat due to damage leaving anatolia’s mercenary to take care of the whole lot. However the hard battles for anatolia mercenary kept coming with a call to take out another original by the name of Anjou a raylonard next who captured the Hazen Facility and has ben luring nexts their to kill them with close range combat. However Anjou would only cross swords with anatolia mercenary once before he put her down. It after this fight that fiona comment how it sounded like Anjou was having fun in that battle and how relived she is that the mercenary came out as the winner. Its here that it seems the operator and the mercenary have become close and this would seem to be prove the case on the next mission. Marche au supplice In this misson the mercenary is tasked with working together with a rosenthal and omer ally nexts namely Noblesse oblidge and Null to take out the elite group of raylonard originals. If they are taken out raylonard will be without nexts. It after all this is explained that Fiona has words for her raven. With this anatolia mercenary heads into battle, however depending on reports one will say that the mercenary go their in time and aided his fellow lynx in defeating the rayleonard next. However there is another report one that puts anatolia’s mercenary alone against the four, this at once panics fiona who at once requests a retreat in a panicked tone however it seem emil either pulls her away from her duty or take over as she goes into panic as he tell the mercenary to carry on the mission as the four will be weak after the battle with their two downed allies. It is as far as anyone is concerned a miracle or a real show case of anatolia mercenary skill as he manages to defeat all four of the nexts as he comes to a stop to hear Emila say After returning to the transport Fiona is stunned, she admit she is amazed at what the mercenary has just done and how unfair it was to ask of him. She even suggest that after this is all done that she and him get away from all of this. A wish to take away the man she saved from al his hardships. The young women wish however would have to wait as the mercenary is called for one last job. To end this war GA and Omer would order Joshua and anatolia mercenary to take down the headqauters of Akvavit and Raylonard. Joshu would take akvavit while the mercenary would take down raylonard. Both would succeed and that day the lynx war would come to a close. With victors of this war taking their prizes from the fallen corporations including scientists, tech and land. Anatolia mercenary job seem to have finally be done, he was granted leave with Fiona as anatolia had accumulated enough cash to survive for the time being. However it seems a certain corporation was not done with him yet. As after a small rest anatolia would come under attack by an unknown foe. Fiona is the first to pick it up and she seem shocked as she even tells the mercenary to stay back but he goes out to meet this foe. By the time he arrives however the foe has already taken out most of the colony and suddenly a voice come over the radio. The voice of Joshu o brain. Piloting the prototype next it would come out later that omer had blackmailed the young man into piloting the craft or is home colony of aspina would suffer. He had no hatred toward his fellow mercery he just wanted to save his home, the two best fighters in this war clashed and anatolia mercenary would come out the victor. Yet this battle would not end even after this as suddenly an omer next attacks, this lynx named Celo came looking to kill the wounded mercenary however he would be the one to die here. Its here that as the mercenary stands there catching his breath that a voice would come over his radio. He had saved what he could of their home and finally his time as anatolia mercenary would come to an end here. As emil puts it best. However though it may not be his place, it is mine. For after this anatolia mercenarys tale would continue and become a legend even the remaining corporation would come to fear. In aftermath of the war between the six corporations that took over the world now only four remained Global armament, Leonemeccanica, Raylonard and Omer Science. The war had left them all going into recovery as production of normals continued and next developments continued while their rebuilt their forces. However the four giants had a new problem. The world they ruled over had become poisoned, thanks to their unchecked use of Nexts, these machine of war that ran on kojima particles had contaminated the planet and their work force was dying. People who came into contact with the contaminated areas would suffer the same side effects as radiation poisoning and seeing this the corporate leaders made it their goal that they would not die the same way as such research into a solution began. It during this time a lot of change would begin, starting with Leonemeccanica who would complete it merge with another smaller corporation known as Melies in Africa. This small corporation specializing in lasers and rocket engine technologies had entered merge talks after the national dismantlement war however like any merger the process took years to iron out, with shareholders votes, CEO’s approvals, supply lines and the matter of negotiations of terms its finally here that a new corporation was created. Bearing the name interior union this new corporation would now hold Africa and some parts of Europe causing new friction with Global Armaments. As being based in Europe as well this new corporation had managed to control the fossil fuel market forcing the other corporations who could not produce their own fuels to buy from them and Global armament would be one of these. Along with this however what also caused the blood of GA to boil is that the interior union also help fund a new start up corporation which would be named torus. The issue here is this corporation came from the remains of the Global Armaments Europe meaning the effort GA had put in to put down these people had been wasted. Torus would not only cause trouble for GA however as later on it would be documented that akvavit and some raylonard researchers would come seeking employment within this new corporation putting some of the greatest and perhaps dangers minds back into kojima research and put them on par with the minds of Omer science research team. Still what this new corporation had done did not please GA and after the last war they did not have the supplies nor firepower to take on this untouched corporation and their side project as such GA did what any corporation did best and reached into its deep pocket and brought stakes in the new interior union corporation. This allowed them a small return from the profits the inter-union made, however all this was doing was getting a small amount of their own money back to them when they brought the fossil fuels, a case of balancing the books. Another factor that also prevent Global armament from trying to take over is the fact that the corporation had started to invest heavily in a reforming Bernard and Felix corpora tion. For through nationalistic centripetal force the corporation had found new leadership and managed to maintain most of their assets and lands however the new leadership quickly took side with Global armaments perhaps due to the fact that the biggest power at the time not only invested heavily in them to help with the rebuild but also installed some of their own within as advisers. This quickly allowed them to become the second largest power base in the world however what they really became was a puppet for GA. Who’s influence would soon be felt when BFF started to produce next weapons again only this time they seem to share the build philosophy of GA rather then what they produced before. Yet while these corporations were rebranding and bring back the dead, Another corporation was taking control in a different way. Omer Science technology, this corporation may have seem like a large player during the lynx war however in truth at the time they where simply a subsidiary of the Rosenthal corporation meaning that Rosenthal partially owned them and when the war came it was Rosenthal that put the most into the war effort. However after rayleonard fell, Omer quickly stepped into to employ some of their next engineers and researchers giving them an edge on their kojima research and products as they started to incorporate the knowledge of these minds to their products. This was the tipping point as Rosenthal started to lose a grasp on their subsidiary in fact while Rosenthal is recorded to be more wealthy then any of the other corporations, it seems they lacked the political and business skills of Omer as quickly after Omer would be able to buy all of the Rosenthal shares in Omer and become independent. While they were throwing money about they made technocrat a military company that was once a state-owned enterprise of the former nation of Russia their subsidiary given them some control in Russia and formed an alliance with the newly rebranded equal in south Asia who had become Algerbra after suffering loses in the lynx war. Omer Science however did not stop here as with all this behind them, the corporation political minds would become another weapon they would use as they came up with the league of corporations. Since all these new corporations had started to spring up and what happened in the last war the corporations saw that they could not have one person rule everything try as they wish. Because the simple fact was should that person fall they would all go back to fighting one another and be unable to focus on keeping an iron grip on their lands. As such the league was born, this union of corporation who’s goal was to keep the peace and order in this corporate run world. This quickly however became dominated by Omer science who seem to have sway within the league making corporations like GA and Torus start to act independent with GA doing so because they felt the league was holding back their ambitions while Torus acted out due to background of where it came from. In truth the league was falling apart before it began as the corporations true interests lied in surviving and becoming stronger. And for them the answer to how they would survive came soon after on the form of floating cites which would be named Cradles. Massive airship colonies holding millions of civilians at 7,000 meters above the ground. The League of Ruling Companies created them to save the elite from the rising pollution on the surface, these new saviours however required power to stay afloat as such the corporations went back to the very particle killing their plant. Ground-based Kojima power production facilities known as Arteria's which transmit power to the airships through microwaves. It seems the league had saved the population for the problem they had caused, however there was a problem. For taking information from the book armored core a new order for nexts. The only two corporations who could produce these life saving cradles was GA and Interior Union leading to other members having to rent or purchase them. This would only cause more friction between the league members and if this was not enough the arteria to power these cradle also fell under ownership of other corporations like rosenthal this project to save earth had turned into a business for these corporations. Still money would trade hands and soon these flying cities would start to become homes for earths people. Yet again there was a catch for the first up in the cradles were not the everyday man or women, no the first up would be the corporation leaders themselves, their family and anyone they deemed necessary. This caused a public outrage, selective picking while everyday more and more became ill. The league of course had their private military keep order and encourage people that everyone would get a chance to have a new home. The truth however is that would only half of earths population would find new homes in these cradles as they could not be built fast enough and the flame of a rebellion grew. This rebellion however started out not violent but a message as thousands grew tired of the corporation lies and what they had done. Thousands of people from all backgrounds and races came together to form the largest ground base power on earth at the time and created a maritime city-state named Link Ark. The message from this new group was clear This message however did not shake the corporations in fact they ignored this group for a while allowing them to walk in and take owner ship of megales. Little did they know that among these people would be the very raven that brought down their foes in the war before and his operator who some believe held some power within link ark as soon Anatolia mercenary would rise again under a new name White Glint. He however was not the only lynx to survive the war and the league had still been using nexts for disruption operations during their rebuilding. It can not be argued however that it was anatola’s mercenary actions in the last war that had made one thing clear to the corporations. They could not trust these lynx nor nexts, their war machines of the last war where too uncontrollable as such they needed a new machine of war they could control and a way to try to keep an even closer eyes on old and new Lynxs and restrict them. The answers to these problem came to the league in the form of Collard and Arms-forts. Collard would be the name of the earth based organisation responsible for management and control of the worlds Lynx. Under the jurisdiction of the league all lynxs would now have to be registered and be bond to receiving missions only from this organisation who would act on behalf of both parties. Non registered lynx would be give the name irrigators and treated as threats to the league goals. In reality however collard was simple the league way to keep an eye on nexts numbers and control them after all they did not want another anatolia mercenary. However while effective at first with old lynx either retiring and new lynx accepting the system as normal the league focus shifted soon after to the replacements for nexts and collard slowly started to become corrupt and simple another omer pawn. As for their new controllable military might, these would be become Arms-forts and they are best exampled as Controllable military might, the lives of millions of people all under the thumb of corporations in one colossal machine of war. If one is pull back the curtain of the league it is These new war machines that are the real reason the cradles took so long to make. Proprieties shifted once the elites were safe and to ensure their control over their lands remained these new powers had to be out before another corporation got their first. And slowly these machine of war rolled out taking between five to seven years to build, they put down irrigators and any unskilled collard lynx that dared attacked them and the might of the corporations on show for all to see epically other members of the league. In fact the truth is during all this the corporation had been at war. An Economic war which saw the corporations working on developing their power and profits while not involving themselves in a full-scale conflict. Small skirmishes and even next battles had been happening even and the league was nothing more then a front for corporations to hide behind while they tried to undermine each other. But it is one event would cause the corporations to lean back into their next using ways. The near defeat of an armsfort and link arks only ever attack on a league arms-fort, the battle between Line Ark’s only next White Glint and the Bernard and Felix arms-fort the spirit of mother will. For link ark all this time had not sat about either, building the largest ground based force on earth and giving anatolia’s mercenary a new next to pilot. Thanks to corruption within collard Anatolia mercenary had managed to register as pilot named unknown with only the name of his new next White Glint on record this allowed him to take mercenary work from the corporations which had lead to this battle. A member of league had sent out the enemy of the league to take out a fellow corporations super weapon. Although not an uncommon task, it is the arms-fort near defeat that shakes the corporations into action as at once the corporations see blood in the water. The time for more active strikes had come and with that came the need for more Lynxs. Among these new lynxs that the corporations would hire would be a pilot by the name of strayed, there is no record of exactly where this pilot came from however what is known is that the lynx was mute. Not exactly the best for a pilot, however it seems this lynx had someone to be his voice for him. A women by the name of Serena haze, how the two came together is rather unclear as some reports will say she was the lynx mentor and came with him as a mercenary team, Others will say that Collard teamed her up with lynx to train him for the league. Whatever the case maybe what is important here is that this women in no simple collard instructor or mercenary with little experience. For her real name is Katsumi Sumika a former lynx of Leonemeccanica who had left her role as a corporation lynx, now becoming the mentor and voice of this new lynx. Her attitude however is not that of kind women helping a poor pilot, it is more a strict instructor as she refers to the lynx as rookie during their first mission together as Lynx and Operator under Collard. This mission would prove simple for the new lynx as with their next, he eliminates the defence forces of Line ark made up of MTS and Normal before pulling back in this little show of force requested by the league. In truth however the negotiations between the league and Link Ark would not improve as the fighting between the corporations went on and Line Ark not willing to bend to the will of the league. Strayed however would not be out of work as the missions keep coming from the waring league members as the lynx would take part in a series of missions from either from GA or their partner The Bernard and Felix corporation. These would include taking out an inter-union navel fleet in dock, Stopping an omer attacking force trying to take over BFF Kojima sphere facility or destroying an Algebra forces guarding the Richland Agricultural Plant. However these are not the only missions strayed could have taken as also missions from Omer Science or inter-union came to the new lynx too. These included taking down his first armfort a giga base being guarded by BFF 8 th fleet which we see that a new invention the Vanguard over booster used by White Glint in it fight against the sprit of mother will is still in it test phase as it nearly explodes while carrying strayed. Making Serena comment about how their employers are treating strayed like a gunnies pig for their unfinished project. And escorting inter-union transports through a GA held territory which would be used later for another of strayed mission where the lynx would battle his first next Wonderful body. Its in this mission that Staryed and his operator will notice how strange the piloting of wonderful body is as the craft seem to hop a lot and boost about very little and is even hear over the radio while fighting saying. Its a sign to both of them knew meant that this lynx is a case of a normal pilot being promoted up to lynx, only he seems to still being using normal pilot tactics in a next. Strayed however show no mercy as he kills his foe before his operator comments Mission complete. You handled it flawlessly. Better than I expected. Then again, he was hardly a real challenge. A harsh but truthful comment but one that show the skill level that strayed was performing at even at this early stage of his time as a lynxs. Never the less there is also the chance strayed could work for omer science taking out the defences of Torus mining faculty or clearing out the now flooded shanghi of BFF and GA force. Whatever missions strayed chooses they all boil down to the league members fighting among themselves. However it is after these missions that strayed would be called into action by the league itself asking the lynx to retake an empty cradle with the explanation (Play take back cradle 21 miaaion breif) Terrorists, it seems even the league was not safe from their past with anti-establishment groups, strayed however is quick to answer with his operator explaining the force is only made up of normals. However this is not true for among these terrorists would be a four 002b. The automated nexts that years ago anatolia mercenary had fought. Seeing this Serena is able to explain to staryed what these crafts are and warn him to watch out for blades showing the information on these new nexts is now common knowledge. Yet what the appearance of these automated next really show is that a corporation was supplying terrorists with weapons again. However since the next had become common knowledge pin pointing where it came from would only lead to speculation as cradle 21 ownership is never discussed fingers could be pointed at all of them. But for staryed and his operator this was no concern of them as what really concerned them is the next missions they would receive, as either one would finally put staryed on the map as an elite mercery. For strayed would be presented with choice as both GA and Omer science came to the lynx with a job, Both corporations wanted the lynx to take down an arms-forts, on GA’s side they wanted the lynx to take down cabrcan an algebra arms-fort effectively taking down a large military asset of a league member and ally of Omer Sciene. Oh the other hand from Omer science they wanted the lynx to take down the spirit of mother will, the foe white glint nearly did. To them this would take out a military asset of a rebellious league member. Though there is no definitive answer on which mission strayed took for the shake of history I shall cover them both. Should strayed choose to take down Cabrcan not only does this take out perhaps Algerbas only arms-fort however what also shows is the general lack of information shared to lynxs by corporations and disliking of lynx within the corporations own private forces. The first example is after strayed destories the tracks of Cabracan as requested in the mission brief however suddenly the sides of the arms-fort drop off and large Arial drones start being fire out and attacking. Serena is shocked about this and even complains later when Ga reinforcement announce their apporch saying sh, the cavalry huh? Looks like they new about the situation. They just left us in the dark. You hear that? They're coming to reinforce us. Hang in there. The next point comes short after as suddenly the commander of the reinforcement says We've run into trouble. Our Arms Fort has suddenly halted. We can't provide support. You're on your own. You're the one getting paid the big bucks, right? Take care of the situation. Trouble? What the hell are you talking about? You've got some nerve, don't you. We'll have a little chat after this mission's over. The private forces make an excuse not to help the mercenary and it seems to be over pay. Another way the corporations have turned the public against Lynx? This may be the case however even alone staryed is able to complete the mission and this become his first downed arms-fort. On the other side of the coin should strayed choose to take out the spirit of motherwill, the lynx will not only take down the arms-fort making his mentor operator praise him, but the lynx will also take out Killdozer, a low ranking next who seems to be suffering from the use of AMS as he can only speak in short sentences and tends to simple growl or make noises over communications. Still Staryeds take out of either arm-fort would not go unnoticed by two groups, the first being the higher ranking lynx of collard who will talk about it for a moment before talking about an attack on an ateria, the power source for the cradles. Wynde fancion one of collard top lynx mention the ones who attack the ateria and how they attacked it in broad day light before Wang sho lung comments. If you cannot follow the rules then you can not play the game. its the same whether your link ark or the ghost of raylonard. Though no names are mentioned should strayed instead defeat cabracan he will get this communication between a different group. This communication would be between Orca members, a force that would come into action later on in time. However what is important to take from here is the name Hari, a collard lynx that a member of this group say he may let him off his lead too early. With both these communication together the true picture comes together as one of the lynx to attack the artira would be Hari who would be recognised thank to him piloting the same craft he regiestered with Collard. This would lead to him being expelled from Collard however this information would not be shared with collard lynx instead kept internal. This would also be back up in the book armored core a new order for nexts on page four. However since they was used to describe the attack force either Hari had Orca forces with him or another next with him. A theory here comes from the line the ghost of raylonard itself as this would point to another member of orca Shinkai a former raylonard next test pilot who excelled. He is on record as shown by his bio An authentic Rayleonard Lynx, the only survivor. This would make him the ghost of raylonard and perhaps Hari partner in this attack. Still speculations aside and returning to strayed. The Lynx would see more action taking down another collard next by the name of Irbis Ornstein former commander of the bhret squad in the mission attack on PA-N51, A GA armsfort Great wall and unbeknown to the pilot at the time he would start to fight members of Orca who seem to become more active since their rushed attack on one of the aritrias. The first Orca member Staryed would face is a man named Luster 18 in the mission defeat unknown next at the Richland Agricultural Plant where it seems he has been active for a while as comments from the Lynx Dario Empio who states An Irregular? Looks like many of Collared's NEXTS have gone down here. Hmph. This won't be a waste of time after all. Along with Luster 18 own comments during the Misson where he says. Whose peon is it this time? Perfect timing. I was getting tired of Arms Forts Staryed would put this lynx down with ease before moving on to his next mission where again he would face off against not one but two Orca Lynx and a very unlucky collard lynx patch in the mission Defeat Unknown NEXT + No Count" The two Orca next here to fall to Staryed would be Buppa Zu Gan the green quad next and PQ the brown next. As for no count there are different reports as some will state the collard next begged for his life leaving strayed to let him go while others will say no count would fall here too. The reason for them all? The answer is that these orca members where all out here taking out league assets. Lynx, next's, arm-forts even conventional forces. All in an effort to weaken the league for the next part of their plan. However for Staryed their defeat would make the lynx beecome more and more known and his power being recognised even by the league and Link Ark. It here then that the history of this lynx becomes spilt as it seem depending on his choices the history of Staryed would lead to three different outcomes. As such I shall spilt these down as they have become to be know, the league path, the orca path and the destruction path. I shall start with the league path The league path After proving his might and some would say loyalty to the league, Strayed is contacted by the league to perform a task most would consider suicide. To defeat White Glint at his home in Line ark. However he would not be alone however as explained in the mission briefing. Together Ostrava and Strayed would strom line ark with leagues covensal forces dealing with link ark own. The two would face down the lynx who skills his rank did not justice, his operator giving the attacking lynx a warning before they attacked that lethal force would be used. Strayed and the number one collard lynx however would not back down as the two over-boosted into battle with Line arks protector. The battle was not an easy one, for even against two lynxs, White Glint proved to be more then capable seeming to force ostrva to be more argressive in his battle with the neck breaking speedy white next. Ostrva seem to be goading his foe telling him how he had surpassed the lynx and how all the legends of white glint would end today by his hand. However this would not be the case as staryed with his attention either taken by some line ark normals or having to rest behind cover from the fight. Ostrva and White Glint would engage in a fast and furious air battle above Line ark, two blinking light is all that could be seen before suddenly over the radio. Ostrva had been hit in his main boosters, the part that would allow him to stay above the water. Without it strayed could only watch as his league mission partner fell into the sea, sinking quick and leaving White Glint to turn his attention on Strayed. The battle would continue between the two and finally after more close shaves and assault armour blasts it looked to be White Glint turn to sink into the oceans depth. Yet as Staryed stopped to watch suddenly the protector of line ark would rise again, to this day there is question of too how this lynx did this yet his booster engaged and strayed once again fought back. In the end however White Glint would meet his match, sinking into the depth of the ocean as strayed would watch, this time with weapons ready in case. However the next stayed down as such the mission was over and strayed would retreat back to leave the league to deal with the line ark forces. To the world that day collard lost its number on Lynx and link ark had lost their protector. It would be an easy victory for league, they had put down the one power that threatened their cradles. Or so they would have the world believe as in truth this battle was all part of a plan. For after strayed left, the league forces also started to pull back. Why? Because they had been ordered too. The league had done what it wanted to do without White Glint Link ark was a matter they could clean up later as such while the battle seem to be a link ark victory in truth it left them weak and not paying attention. As while Link ark force gave chase, an orca underwater team would extract the down league pilot and take him with them for he would needed for the next part of their plan. Its along with this that at the same time a rescue team would be sent out to recovery White Glint Lynx by link ark. However they could not bring up the next they still would be able to save the man Fiona had grown to love. Alas hidden from this all Strayed would continue to serve the corporations in missions leading to him to down four more collard nexts named red rum and strka in the mission defeat red rum and straker. And Wiz and Yei in the mission Defeat Silent Avalanche allow omer science to finally lay claim to the sphere facility. Along with these strayed would take down a Torus Sol dios arms-fort, the power recycling plant megales leaving Link ark powerless and take down the 8th fleet of BFF. Staryed loyalty to the league had been proven however it seems suddenly out of nowhere that the loyal league lynx would be called into action by Rosenthal. A corporation that had been quiet since the start of this new war they suddenly had a mission for Staryed Your assignment is to protect the large-scale Arteria facility, Carpals. We've received intelligence it'll be attacked by several unknown NEXTS. Our current information is unconfirmed and possibly unreliable. However, as Carpals is one of the key facilities supporting the Cradle system, it goes without saying, the client is taking no chances in the defence. Rosenthal has deployed its most powerful NEXT, Noblesse Oblige, to guard Carpals. Work with Noblesse to take out the attacking NEXTS. Carpals is also protected by its own highly effective defence system. You shouldn't have any major problems It was an odd request seeing as the corporation felt it defence system is so effective however the loyal strayed would head out with his back-up too soon see these was not in fact several next but one next and it had wiped out all the defences of Carpals. Staryed partner for his mission noblesse oblige is shocked. However he goes in commenting he is targeting a blue irrigator. Yet this next they are fighting is white? Staryed did not ask questions as he set off to join in the fight. The lynx they would fight would be an orca member named Julius Emery and she seem to be able to hold her own against the two taughting strayed as she says . What's wrong? Aren't you the Line Ark survivors? Here taught however do not phase the silent lynx as finally she is put down by the pair and yet the battle would not be over. For suddenly another next would ambush the two league next, another orca member by the name of Totient. His next flew at the pair and at once unleashed it assault armour before staring to fire upon the pair making them scatter. As he is fighting this lynx comments Julius Emery, defeated like that? And Malzel somehow saw it coming... But it's too late now. Arteria Carpals belongs to ORCA now. Yet the two lynx do not go down even with this attack as finally this blue attack next is put down with Staryed looking over at his battle partner. Did he know about this hidden next? His question would go unanswered however as now a new threat came for the league and their cradles. The Orca brigade, a powerful revolutionary group that stood toe to toe with league, there numbers allowed them to hold over half of the ateria’s powering the cradles and wage war with the league. They had come to purge the world of the corporation sin, the people in the sky needed to come down if humanity wanted to escape this poisoned fate. It seem to cause passive panic in the league as Collard would be put under strict terms that no other missions would be allowed to be given out unless they came from the league itself and quickly GA and Torus seem to re-join the league in an effort to put down this threat to their lives. Strayed would be called upon soon again by the league as his missions would see him protect another cradles from an orca member name old king would had brought three 002bs with him to down these cradles. Staryed would also take down five Orca Arms-forts named Jets in the old peace city only the strange thing here was that the league sent in conventional forces first, a strange if not stupid tactic against any arms-fort. However in truth it was not done for tactics it was done as a punishment as most of these league forces would come from GA and Torus, the two corporations would had causes the league so much trouble before all this. In the end Strayed would be the one to take them down before being issued a new mission "Attack Anti-Satellite Cannons" The league suddenly had discovered three large anti satellite cannons and now needed strayed to take them out. These however were there before the lynx war and this sudden find was a mistake for these cannon would be part of Orca’s plan to purge the corporations sins. Still there is a problem with this mission but that can see talked about in the Orca path as for now the important facts here are that Staryed would take down three of these cannons, another Orca members by the name of Neo Nidos and a rebuilt prototype next. Piloted by hari it seem history here would state that hari here had a few words for strayed. He apologizes to the player for his actions, stating that ORCA does not have the luxury of choosing its methods, and expresses great regret that he will not be able to personally experience outer space upon his defeat. Strayed however does as his order too and downs the craft. His missions against orca however do not stop here as with little time to rest he is sent with Wynde fancion to Orca main base. Another suddenly discovery by the league, the pair set out to Big box. a fortified city that years ago served as GA America's main centre of power. However, it was abandoned when the Cradles were built. Leading to ORCA who saw their opportunity and illegally seized the facility and now have the BIG BOX defence system restored to its peak operating capacity. It here strayed and Wyndde would take down two more Orca nexts Malzel and Vaoh. The pair piloting heavy and hard hitting nexts they however can not stop strayed and Wynnde as the league next kill them. It seem here the league has Orca cornered with this many lynx lose and the league force still strong they could crush this threat. At least that is what everyone through. For then. This secret pact however is not as described for in fact tit seems the league and Orca are very much connected. Malzel was a lynx from Omer science and the second in command of the orca forces he had formed Orca with the help from Omer science all in an effort to enact the closed plan. The plan for all those years ago during the lynx war. Because in truth while everyone had been looking on the ground, the corporations had been slowly filling up earth atmosphere with weapons known as assault cell. These space weapons would rain down fire upon anyone who got to close and the problem was by now in this time there was so many that no one could get into space. That is what the anti-satellite cannons were really for to take out these assault cells. So in the end Orca all along was nothing more then another omer puppet and Omer had convicted the other corporations this plan would be best for them too. Millions would die to allow these corporate overlord a chance to escape their mistake and spread to space. And they may have done it if not for Wyndde fancion for in this path, she would break away from collard making herself an irregular, she then would reach out to staryed asking for him to help her in Defend the Arteria Cranium. This Arteria is different from the rest as whoever controlled this would be able to transfer the power of the other arteria away from the cradles. If Orca could control this, the cradles would fall to earth and th people on them would all die slow and painful deaths. Its here that staryed would join her as he too broke away from collard ignoring a direct order to leave orca alone from the league the two set out. This battle would be short and sweet as the only foes for the pair was the leader of this cause Maximillian thermidor and another lynx shinka. The four lynx engaged each other and the outcome of this battle deferrers from who you ask. Some will say the ex league lynxs would win the battle only to be taken out later by the league after being marked as threat to their rule and others will say all four lynx died that day either during battle or from their wounds. For in the end the league would give eulogies to their savour, something you only give someone who is dead. This is the league path where even though staryed had stayed loyal to the league even protecting the people the league said they would. In the end he would die for his loyalty or killed because he got in the way of the corporations. A loyal hero who’s death did nothing to stop the corporation desire. The Orca Path In this path it seems strayed would feel for link ark as he would agree not only to help protect megales for them but also battle along side white glint when the league came for him. In this battle however like before Ostrva and white glint would sink into the ocean along with fragile the only aspina next to be seen and here he would sink into the ocean too. It after this that strayed would receive a request from Orca leader Maximillian thermidor a request to destroy a GA America's Arteria facility, Ulna. Perhaps driven by this cause strayed would perform this mission allowing him to join the ranks of orca with a personal message from the leader himself. After this strayed would then become part of the closed plan as he is assigned to Attack on Arteria Carpals alone while his fellow orcas members did the same at other Arteria's. For strayed this mission would lead to him down two collard nexts namely noblesse oblige and transcend and allow the first phase of the closed plan to get underway. It then while resting or aiding in the defence of the Atria he just capture that strayed would then be sent off to Defend the Anti-Satellite Cannons the linch pins in the closed plan. He would work along side Neo nidus and together the pair would take down an eclipse arms-fort and another collard next by the name of Lilium Wolcott who was ranked 2nd. Strayed work however was not done as the leader of orca and his second in command order strayed to then attack the newly built arms-fort the answerer which as the briefing explains. This was a suicide mission, fighting a kojima power house it should have been clear that Maximillian was sending Strayed to die. However the new orca next takes the kojima beast down and returns for repairs. However its then the final curtain call on this path begins as after repairs strayed is given his last mission by Maximillian Thermador. The last member of orca and he was to capture the Arteria Cranium and divert all power from keeping the cradles up to the assault cannons to clear humanity a path to space. Strayed had chosen his answer and he would see it out as the battle for the Cranium would put him against now marked irregular lynx roy sanders and wyndee fancion. However it after takes down Roy that suddenly a blue nexts joins the battle and at once Serene recognises it. Betrayed in fact the leader of Orca had been nothing more then omer top ranked lynx ostrava, dropping his act as orca leader he seem to be here to clean up both remaining lynx and switch the power himself before claiming he got there too late to stop the last remaining orca member but still took him down. A fake hero and a fake leader the omer lynx had played his parts well however strayed did not let him play anymore parts. Killing both Ostarva and Wynide he would direct the power from the cradles before fleeing as now he would be hunted down not only as a terrorists but a mass murder of millions of innocent people. The unknowing pawn of orca and in the end another irregular to be hunted down and killed by the corporations. The destruction path In this path some would say strayed has had enough, the lies, the secrets, the rules of the league have driven the next to join orca only instead of following a pawn of orca, he chooses to follow the words of a terrorist. This path would start after orca revels itself to the world with the attack on the arteries. However instead of follow theromidor Staryed is taken in by the ideas of another member of Orca Old king, the ex leader of the terrorist who attacked the empty cradle 21. He gives strayed this task. To put it bluntly this mission is sickly easy for the strayed, it is nothing more then the act of terror and mass murder as here Serene leave him seeing staryed as nothing more then another murdering lynx who only know how to kill. Here strayed murders not only the powerless normals trying to defend the cradles but 1 hundred million people as he shoots outs the engines of the cradles sending them crashing to the ground. Its a sight old king loves however the world turns against the two for quickly after suddenly strayed is sent a mission by interior union, it nothing like a usual one and what is said at the end is a clear sign this is a trap. Staryed however driven by hatred or simply hungry for more death accepts this and head out to Arteria Carpals. When he and old king arrives, the place however is empty. Staryed goes to check it out only to have a message come through from the interior union representative. Of course it was a trap and what finally made this a fact is when five nexts came towards the pair. These fives nexts consisted of Roadie the ranked 4th collard next from GA, Otsdarva the number on collard ranked lynx back from the dead, Lilium Wolcott the rank 2 collard next from the Bernard and Felix foundation, Wynne D. Fanchon the ranked three collard lynx from interior union and finally is own mentor piloting her next from her days as Kasumi Sumika The five are quickly say there piece with Ostrava calling strayed an animal while Serene tells strayed that he has fallen into her trap and she just wants him to stand still so she can cut him down. Her breath however is wasted here as strayed and old king fight the five, old king however does not survive as he sinks leaving strayed to finish their foes. The monster of a lynx is ruthless as he cuts down each lynx till none remain and with that he then turns his attention on the league themselves. From lynx to blood hungry monster in a machine, strayed would go on to kill more cradles, more lynx and anything that stood in his way. This is the end of the destruction path. Once a lynx now a monster who craves the blood of anyone who tries to stop him. This ends the report on the story of Armored core 4 and Armroed core for answer.
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the story of last Raven the year is now Edo261 at the sixth month of the world being bombarded by unknown weapons found by navis the world and its people are in a critical State the three major corporations of the time Cress Mirage and Kisaragi have suffered heavy losses from this barbarment and are left with another option than to work together to try and maintain the order and power they all once had before this attack it would be a rocky start for this new power named The Alliance as building had to be done trying to establish order along with building up a military power to protect and enforce the laws of the alliance given some time the alliance would have its new world order with the military might to back it up yet it's during this time a new power would form by the name of vertex and would strike out at the alliance to overthrow them Bloodshed could not be avoided as it's after one battle between the alliance and vertex that a raven would deliver a declare relation to the alliance forces in 24 hours vertex would launch their final attack this would be the start of what will be known as the story of last Raven but the events at this period vary on who you ask and what you read for after all in some stories more than one Raven survives While others Tales live up to the name of last Raven in total there are six different accounts each one telling a different tale of this 24-hour War let us begin with the first polarizer route the first pool Horizon route this Terror event begins at eight o'clock in the morning where a new Raven supported by the ex Mirage information lead Celia is first greeted with emails from the alliance and the vertex the email delivered at 5 45 am from the alliance reads about how there is 24 hours until vertex declares time of attack and how they should have taken care of vertex a long time ago when they first posed a risk however they hesitated resulting in this to the alliance is very clear the vertex cannot hope to match them in resources however the worries the number of highly trained Ravens within vertex's ranks as such the key to Victory is to take them all out as for vertex email it reads of their most recent victory in capturing the deorgan distribution center and how it will help their cause it goes on to read that all Ravens know what this power is capable of as such anyone who does not cooperate will pay with their lives time is running out and they sincerely hope any reading this email will make the right choice both sides have made their point and that's such this new Raven was set out on their first mission eliminating Intruders from vertex this would see the new Raven taking out Intruders in Cirque City home to the headquarters of vertex the mission would not prove too hard for the Raven with only a few muscle traces being the foes they would finish off this Mission quickly unaware that after they leave another aim by the name of Zenaida would come to the area to see no one around this Mission along with travel and repairs would take around two hours leaving 20 hours until the declared attack time for vertex it is now 10 AM the new Raven would get more mail this time from two Ravens the first being Evangel the alliance Special Forces leader who is writing to the Raymond to announce that the special forces of the alliance are ready to attack vertex and their interests while irasi has no idea what Jaco's intentions are he makes it clear that he will not force any Raven to work for the alliance however if anyone stands against them they will be eliminated the final email is from a raven named Zenaida who writes that she never failed a mission given to her until now she doesn't know who the Raven is but they should watch their back as next time they turn around she will be there the time is 10 AM and so far no Ravens have been killed the next mission for this raven is about to begin remove Bridge Invaders this would come from Evangel asking the Raven to secure a transport route for the alliance in Ruger tunnel where vertex Defense Force is in place an easy mission for the New Haven who jumps across the bridges of the area to kill all the Defenders only return to base to learn this is the main route Into the Heart of Cirque City vertex's Home Base the remaining time to the final attack is now 18 hours and while repairs are done to their armored Core the new Raven will read a new email from vertex own leader Jacko who addresses it to all Ravens he writes how the alliance organization was formed by a group of Corporation Executives bent on controlling the world and forcing others to do their bidding he writes on to say that even though the resources they have pale in comparison to the alliances it is through the strength of vertex's Ravens that will lead them to Victory he finishes the email writing we must strike out at those who would suppress us some strong words there from vertex leader maybe one the new Raven takes to heart or maybe simply ignores as time moves on for them for now the time is 12 p.m and two Ravens are dead greenhorn a warlord and principal an alliance Raven the next mission for the new Raven would see them once again help in line Special Forces as they followed withdrawing muscle Tracer for a material storage facility one linked to vertex's Main Headquarters it's a strange move as such an Evangel wants for him to get inside the facility and follow the withdrawing forces before the leader mission however is not so simple as while following a withdrawing Mt The Raven is attacked by security mt's another Defense Forces they seem to be holding position in the tight area yet it's as the Mt enters into a large room telling the Raven they have walked right into a trap that they see there stands vertex leader Jacko in his armored Core however instead of firing on the new Raven Jaco instead shoots the Mt that guided The Raven here before commenting their true strength can't be gauged from this and leaving it's a strange turn of events however the Raven's mission is done and their operator Shelia will comment how they should ask Ed who she's talking about is Ed Wise a military researcher who gathers and analyze information relating to various conflicts and battles of the world he used to make a living performing such duties for the corporations but now works the Ravens however what the Raven will get from Ed is a short report based on what what information was given it seems Jacka was trying to get a feel for the Ravens capabilities however Ed is still unsure why Jaco did not take the chance to finish off a raven working for the alliance it is now 16 hours until vertex's attack and with the clock ticking down more emails wait for the new Raven one from a raven named Rimfire who writes how he does not know how the Raven figured out it was a trap however the Ravens should enjoy life while they can as he is not the only one who wants them dead it's a strange email however the Roman can only guess this is about a mission they did not take as for the final email it comes from the alliance tactical Force who praised The Raven for their amazing work done on the last mission and how they know the Ravens continued support they know they can be vertex the time is now 2PM and one more Raven has died zuban El jinubi another Warlord as for the new Raven their next mission would see them help the alliance itself this time in a mission protects the cargo where the Raven would as the title suggests protects the top secret cargo of a crashed Alliance helicopter which has spread over a small area of the gavan desert the foes here would be unknown Affiliated helicopters which point to this being the work of one of the Warlords still around once again the Raven returns from Mission with now 14 hours till vertex's final attack repairs and reloading give the Raven time to read new emails one from Jacka which reads about how Evangel the Special Forces commander and some of his fellow Ravens have now joined vertex and while this may be a big loss to the alliance he is sure they have plenty of tricks up their sleeve and they cannot afford to let their guard down the time is now 4pm and another Raven is dead named Shade and unaffiliated Raven another Alliance mission is next for the new Raven and this time it would be killed another Raven by the name of trichurat a raven who followed Evangel to vertex this would take place in the gala desert once more and be the new Raven's first armored Core kill this Mission would take the new Rave in two hours to do and once again emails await the Raven on their return this time there would be three the first from the alliance themselves who write about the death of criturate and how traitors like him will face Justice Just Like Evangel will soon the second from the alliance Special Forces who write they believe evangel's turn code ways is distracting the alliance from the real threat of vertex and how they should be focusing on taking out this SPO and bringing peace to the world and finally the last email is from vertex themselves who writes there has been strange sightings of unknown units appearing in various locations during the last few hours and has been a factor in recent losses of their forces they are unsure of their new alliance weapons as such all they ask is if any new information on the unknown unit is found please report it to them the time is now 6 pm and along with trichurat two or more Ravens have been killed kaspin and Alliance Raven and cerber's Graham are even working for the warlord MooMoo an alliance Special Forces mission is next for the new Raven this time the river will be bringing vertex seal hydroelectric plan to a standstill they ask this is currently both sides are equally matched and crippling this plant would be a large blow to vertex it's a bit of a maze to the Raven however should the Raven be fast enough the alliance will offer the Raven another mission while there this would see the Raven help with a transport plane landing at a hostile airstrip leading the Ravens have to quickly take out the foes there and the control Towers allowing the crack to perform an emergency landing two missions are once certainly wear on the new Raven however with both of them complete they head back to repair their AC As Time ticks away with only 10 hours left until the planned attack as always this brick allows Raven to read their mail this includes an email from the aligned Special Forces which talks about how they have now had sightings of a new unknown weapon and believe it may be vertex is doing as such State requests destruction should any be encountered and another from Jacko who writes that it seems there is roughly 10 Ravens left after all these battles it's going to make the conflict one-sided have everything seems to be going as planned the time is now 8 pm and jack is not wrong for adding to the list of ravens is a viola Volante wonton from Busca two independent Ravens and Omega a Vertex Raven perhaps feeling of a Vertex after taking out their power production facility new Raven will take on a Vertex Mission this time prevent reactor meltdown taking place at the queer energy plant vertex has noticed a normal signal emitting from one of the cores of the energy plant they suspect an ongoing Alliance attack however cannot be sure as such they're sending the Raven in to clear it out and ensure the reactor does not melt down it's quite the mission for the new Raven as after taking out Mt forces outside they enter the plan to be attacked by what is best described as giant insects both which crawl on the ground and fly in the air along with this the reactor's temperature would rise forcing the moment have to destroy the power controllers for the generators facing the Heat and huge bug-like creatures The Raven would survive this Mission feeling the heat drop as they take their leave Ed will report back after that the attack would be confirmed to be being a bio weapon attack done by the alliance however he would not mention the names of these weapons which I will for this report they are called amidas and the flying ones would be called evolved amidas products of Kisaragi scientists still Tai would keep rolling with eight hours left until vertex attacks and the list of dead Ravens would rise with one new one G Faust a Vertex Raven being added to the list but for the living new Raven emails are the only rests from the fight as three more come to them the first being from the alliance Special Forces who write their reported sightings of one of these unknown weapons in the area around Cirque City and believe now it is something produced by vertex and have given it the name polarizes the second is from the alliance itself comparing how their search review Angel is not going well and how it is their goal to be a role model for the people of the world and only by killing these traitors will it restore the stability the people need the third and final email is from vertex who writes they have no link to the weapons the alliance are calling pulverizers as they have witnessed these weapons attack indiscriminately their own forces have been attacked as has alliances and they have no idea why the alliance is insisting vertex is associated with these pulverizers The Time Is Now 10 pm and into the darkness The Rue Raven goes for their next mission tracking down Evangel it's a mission from the alliance which sees the new Raven head to hordes mining site as they believe this is where he is hiding out and make it clear they can take out anyone who gets in their way the new Raven takes his mission without question heads out taking out trucks of hired soldiers and what looks to be construction muscle traces which have had armored Core Parts stuck onto them not the force the Raven expects to be guarding Evangel after all vertex has better MTS than this going through the mine however Evangel is not found even after all the forces are removed how the lines still cause it complete Sheila offers an explanation that the information must have been wrong as such they simply let you go on an eventual Mission leads the Raven back to their base six hours until the final attack and the list of ravens meeting their maker Grows by one more bolt a Vertex Raven is next to be put on the list and soon another would join him as the Raven gets a mission from Jacko asking the Raven to kill sorcerer who he writes has betrayed him however after taking this Mission the new rev notices that sorcerer seems surprised about this attack even saying Jack it's me like he seems to think the Raven has forgotten who he is nevertheless his words do nothing as Jacko orders his death and new Raven obeys with jacko's final word being we only need those who are truly strong forgive me it's an odd way to send off someone who betrayed you and even Ed's report suggests after that there was no evidence that the killed Raven was even a traitor to the vertex cause so this was a very foolish move by vertex to do this it is now only four hours till the vertex attack and with no new updates on Raven's death and no new emails the New River moves out to their next mission now 2 am in the morning another aligned special force Mission would send the Raven to the Tartus headquarters an old Corporation Headquarters to investigate a recent attack which wiped out their forces they have no idea who's behind the attack as such they want the Raven to check it out it's here at this site The Raven would encounter their first pulverizer on what seemed to have wiped out the alliance forces stationed here a battle between the Raven and the pulverizer begins and after a trade of blows for a few minutes the pulverizer explodes into pieces as the Raven red axes now only two hours from the planned vertex attack there is little time for the Raven to rest yet emails keep coming in and the list of ravens has an unexpected change as Evangel is now noted as lost not dead but simply lost the Raven can only think the alliance has finally stopped their search and decided to instead for publicity sick to Mark the raveners Lost In Action to save face as for the emails The Raven would have three waiting for them one from Zenaida who writes how she is disappointed that the Ravens sided with the alliance and how even the alliance most recognized Raven Evangel was not brave enough to face her and how he was a fool to think he was the one sadly this means nothing to the rate as the next email is from Evangel himself which reads about how he was foolish to listen to Jack and how he should have done this long ago as there is nothing to compare with the power of evolving indefinitely before going on to write how he will defeat Zenaida The Raven and Conquer everything the final email is from the alliance who's received reports of an unknown Force appearing in Cirque City however that is all the details they have they also mentioned they've got a strange email from Evangel I believe he may be behind the unfolding events it seems the alliance is ready to take this Victory as they now give their new Raven a mission to take out another Raven and his AC side Hawk it turns out a scout Force has discovered a large facility under Cirque City and they are trying to find a way in however cytalk is preventing this as such he must go arriving at where cytalk is in versus Highland the area has been raised and the weapons that caused all the trouble six months ago are falling from the sky again the burning and the early morning background is the scene where side hawk and The Raven fight as the two machines of war Clash as death Reigns around them however the new Raven would down the hall and with that start to flee the bombarding foes only for them to suddenly stop it's a strange sight however it has this battle ends that the Raven is informed by Celia that the Elias has found their way into the facility the timing of them finding a route and the stopping of the barman has both Celia and Ed wondering if there's a link for the Raven however they return to base to rest as finally there is only one hour left before the final attack while there is no new emails side Hawk would join the list of Fallen Ravens how there are still some Ravens alive these are Jacko jouster mollycoddle MooMoo Rimfire and finally Zenaida the time has come for the Ravens final mission underground investigation the Raven would be tasked by the alliance Special Forces to investigate this underground facility under Cirque city as their forces have suffered heavy losses and don't have the manpower to perform a survey as their final mission the new Raven would take this however arriving at the facility The Raven had wanted to be forced to run around the facility as the suicide weapons from The Battle Before are back falling upon them it's a mad dash to avoid being hit and for a while there looks to be no way out of this that is until a door opens and Jacko comes over the radio calling the Raven over here it's a mad dash for the open door and once inside the Raven seized Jaco his arm of course barking an arm missing annealing as if on its final legs he has some final words for the raven what did he mean by all that the Raven would find out as he Dives deeper into the vicinity what awaits them is a large area and there floating is a polarizer not like the one before this must be what Jacka was talking about and it's at this point the pair meat eyes before the pool variety just charges the reason as if he wanted to battle the pair of Jewel in their small Battlefield clashing and trading blows until the pulverized is blown onto its back it seems to lay there like it's dead only to rise up weekly to speak saying you're one as well a dominant before exploding where it stands this would be the end of the first polarized route as the Raven returns to the surface with an alliance Victory however this is but one of the six roots of this timeline as such I will let another Raven tell the story of another route The Jacka route in this route the new Raven starts with the same two emails from the alliance and vertexes in the last route the alliance email is about the vertex declared attack time and how Ravens are vertex's main strength while the vertex one reads about their capture of the G organ Distribution Center the time is 8 AM and with no Raven deaths recorded the new Raven sets out on their first Alliance Mission Scout the Distribution Center this Mission would send the new Raven to the recently vertex captured deorgan Distribution Center to scout it out and take out any foe they encounter as this will help with recapturing the base later arriving at the base some time later the new Raven finds that the basis defenses are sparse and moving in to take out a few muscle traces that DARE stand in their way before coming to an open area of the base it is here a Vertex Raven named bolt in his armored Core is waiting it's a bit of a shock to the Raven however after trading blows with one another bolt is killed however the disaster they have left that the leader of vertex shows up I expected this would be the outcome hurry foreign it seems the new Raven's actions already have vertex's attention the time is 10 AM and the new Raven has one new email from an alliance Raven named Evangel which reads how the alliance article Force he is leading is now ready to tackle vertex in his interests the new Raven reads it before they move on to their next mission from Jaco it's a simple mission to pick up some supplies that a warlord has promised to give vertex at horders minings for the site it seems a bit of a waste using an armored call for a pickup job yet the new Raven accepts the job only to hear from Jaco on arrival but the supplies have been stolen and the ones behind it are still around as such the Raven heads deep into the site shooting down muscle traces that have tried to stop them before finally coming face to face with another much larger muscle Tracer and greenhorn a warlord piloting in armored Corps the pair attacked the new Raven fights backping both of them in the ground before returning to base vertex would get their supplies according to Ed he believes Jacko knew more than he let on seeing as the world was waiting for the new Raven time is now 12 pm and with one new email from Jaco about how the alliance is just a group of corporate Executives who want to control the world the new Raven focus is more on the list of dead Ravens which now has three names on it these being bolt greenhorn and principle time however does not wait for the dead as such the new Raven takes their next mission pursue a drawing muscle Tracer this will take the Raven to the vertex Walton material storage site where they are to follow the withdrawing vertex Force following one of these vertex muscle traces however leads to the Raven being ambushed by other vertex forces before witnessing Jaco kill the muscle Tracer who the new Raven had been following this Mission ends with Jacko leaving with some parting words jacko's reason for not killing the new Raven when he had the chance has Ed wandering yet time moves on with only 16 hours before the final vertex attack and illicit dead Ravens now has four names on it with Zubin Elgin Ubi losing his life the next mission The Raven would take is to retake the organ Distribution Center a task from the alliance tactical Force to recapture the center from a group working for one of the Warlords it is not a difficult Mission seeing as the force is mainly made up of muscle Treasures with only an hour passing since the last mission The Raven is quick to move out again this time aiding the alliance in recovering cargo from a crash transport carrier the admit it may already be too late since it happened over an hour ago however they still wish to send in the new Raven yet when the Raven arrives at the crash they see no cargo and suddenly come under attack from small muscle traces named moles which move under the sand of the desert where the transport crashed the alliance is made aware of this by the Reagan's operator I request these machines be taken out as part of the job while the Raven would do this the alliance would be quick to blame their slow response time for the cargo being lost as noted by Ed's report after time ticks on now with only 14 hours left the Raven would hear about Evangel switching sides from the alliance to vertex both by an email from Jaco and from the alliance who brand him and those who followed him traitors along with this news another Raven named Shade is reported dead as the new Raven heads out to the help of Warlord the mission is to protect the warlord's air force that is heading through ursul Dam as this is the best route to attack cess City again the new Raven would do most of the fighting as the warless Air Force will make their way to pass the Dam's defenses another mission done news of another Raven named titrate death would come in the new Raven has little time to rest however as their next mission would see them helping the same world from the before as their attack on cercity had been successful but now they wanted the Raven to guard the transports of captured materials through the old near Industrial Area the reason for the extra foul power is is that the location is a vertex stronghold The Raven takes this job and finds it another easy one with only muscle traces at this location they are no match for an armored Core another easy Payday for the Raven as with only 12 hours left before the vertex attacks new emails come one from the alliance about the death of treachery a raven who left with Angel to join vertex another from the alliance tactical force on how the alliance is too focused on hunting down traitors and finally one from vertex warning about new weapons which we now know as pulverizers along with all these emails another Raven by the name of Cerberus Grimm would be added to the list of the Dead rings yet for the new Raven all this would simply be another part of their life as they move out to Aid the alliance tactical force with securing terminal area of the vertex own walls and material storage site the Ravens task would be to act as a distraction to the security forces while the Tactical force would send in a strike force to capture it a straightforward mission that would lead the Raven to battle Omega a well-known vertex Raven with quite the battle record it's a tough fight with a tight space both Ravens have to fight in yeah the new Raven would kill Omega allowing the strike force to move in and add another Raven to the list of the Dead the new Raven proved to be quick on this Mission as only an hour had passed since they last came back to base as such with no new information to read over they would end up helping the alliance tactical Force again this time rescuing an alliance Force who went in to investigate the recently captured material storage site only to come under Fire from a force which they are guessing is vertex the new Raven finds out this not to be the case and the foes are not vertex but instead the bioweapons used years ago named amida however while the new Raven may not have known this Ed would take an educated guess as where these foes came from as a group of scientists still are using the kiyosagi name and have been working to improve the bioweapon in secret 10 hours is all that is left until the attack and it's here the alliance tactical forces right to the new Raven to suggest these new weapons are vertex Creations well another email from Jacko points out that there are only 10 Ravens left this is true with the death of two more Ravens named vola Volante and wonton Busker the list of Raven may be going down but the jobs for the new Raven keep going up as their next mission from Alliance tactical force will see the new Raven take out the Defense Force while the vertex owned qrng plant as the alliance want to send in a squad of unmanned units The Raven didn't ask questions and was done within no time at all there is now eight hours until vertex's final attack and the new Raven will get three new emails two from the alliance tactical Force one asking for the Ravens continued support from the other naming the unknown weapons as pulverizers as for the final email it would come from vertex claiming that they have nothing to do with these pole writers that they too have been attacked by them with this new information The Raven heads out to help the alliance tactical Force by defending a bridge that their supply train is traveling as a warlord's force is planning to destroy the Ruger tunnel bridge which the train is traveling on and it's the Raven's shop to protect the bridge from the attackers with a few dead muscle traitor Pilots later the Raven returns to the base this leaves only six hours remaining until the final vertex attack and with no updates nor email to the new reaven heads out to Aid the alliance had to force once again this Mission will see the new Raven pull out a spy the tactical forces within the old near industrial area and again with only resistance being muscle tracers the new Raven and their armored Core proved more than enough to get the Spy out unharmed four hours until the final vertex attack and with this new information from their spy the alliance has decided to launch a full-scale attack on the vertex headquarters in certain city along with all this Alliance News more Ravens named g-faust and sorcerer two vertex Ravens are reported as dead however the new Raven's next mission would show The Alliance is not all it seems as they issue a mission for the Raven to Aid them in getting rid of one of their own facilities the Trident by Activity Center where deadly research has been taking place due to the electronical failures they can't self-destruct the facility themselves as such they need the Raven to go there activate the backup generators and leave once it's done yet things are never that simple on these sorts of missions as the Raven see a meter that can fly as well as other bio weapons that the Raven guesses are the deadly research that has been going on here but they are not the only foe The Raven faces as after the backup generators are activated a warlord by the name of Mumu attacks the Raven there are different accounts The Raven either kills Mumu here or simply fled from the fight either way the Reagan would return home to learn that the facility would be leveled and no bioweapons data would remain now with only two hours left until vertex's final attack the Raven resupplies and repairs their armored Core as they get an email from the alliance tactical force it reads they have not heard from their spy they sent him to vertex since he was founder however they believe he can hold his own as such they will search for Jaco after the attack on Sir City it's here that the Tactical force will have the Raven help them Begin by giving them this mission near elements of the alliance Tactical Unit are in active pursuit of Jacko we'd like you to assist us in these efforts by taking part in the mission as a diversionary target for the enemy forces your objective will be to shut down the old nyer industrial area's defense systems by destroying the energy Supply pods located on the sides of the Central Building as far as Jack's whereabouts are concerned we have some good leads it'll be found soon you're free to leave the area once the enemy's attention is sufficiently focused on your AC it's a mission that proves tough for the Raven however it allows the alliance tactical forces to do their job as on their return the new Raven would learn the tactical forces of a managed to track down Jaco along with a route that leads right into the heart of Surf City with only an hour left before the attack the Raven would get free emails one from the alliance task force who informs the raven that vandrum has returned from his secret mission to spiral vertex shown his betrayal as Alliance information gathering and the other two emails are from Evangel who first apologizes to all within the alliance as his goal with his fake switch of sides was only to learn about vertex's plan and stop them he then shares with the new Raven that he has learned the vertex forces are depleted and that the pole Rises were nothing to do with vertex in fact even with vertex on the edge of defeat Jacko never wavered as if his real intentions was something like this all along with this in mind the new Raven heads off into their final mission defeat Jacko it is the Raven's mission to put an end to vertex and Jacko yet it's as they come face to face with the leader of vertex deep within sir City they see his armored Core is already in bad shape and that Jaco has some things to say to the new rave I wanna be he talks about how it is done and how she has done it at this time the new Raven would have no idea what this means however what this boils down to is that another Raven names in either would already have destroyed the plan making pulverizers and now all Jacko wants is a final battle that the world will remember him for the final wish of Othello rape the new Raven would give Jacobus as finally the leader of vertex is brought to his needs with some final words foreign route ends and yet there are still four more possible endings to these events as such let us hear from another Raven about the Evangel route this Roots would begin with the new Raven taking on the mission to destroy the military base from vertex who wants the Raven to do as much damage as possible to an alliance space that's still in construction named Camp Fort Hood as soon as the base is under attack they request reinforcements this means the Raven only has three minutes to damage the base before they need to leave it is not a difficult task for the new Raven the men and the helicopters defending the base are barely a threat to the Raven as they tear down tents shoots trucks and take out buildings on this Mission before fleeing just as the Raven leaves something far away is approaching the damaged base it's the leader of the alliance tactical Force Evangel accompanied by two other Alliance armored cores named trichuritz and Caspian along with six owl muscle Tracer units that show up to the distress call of the base as Evangel observes the damage space he praises the attack as being well executed before being asked by trechwitz if they should give Chase only to have the leader on to her patience it is too early to consider them our enemy this attack the travel and the repairs would take two hours as the time is now 10 AM they would get an email from Evangel about how the alliance tactical force is ready to launch an attack on vertex and its assets there would be no Ravens deaths at this time and so the new Raven would head off to their next mission escort Allied Mt this Mission would come from a warlord who wants the Raven to help one of their muscle tracers escape from a raid they did in the hordes mining site as enemies have managed to take out most of the team except as one unit an escort mission is perhaps not what the Raven expected however they head out to help the solo Mt who comes Under Fire from small spider like MTS called uo3m termites before returning to base with Ed's report telling the Raven how their responses to warlord's requests may affect how Alliance and vertex sees them another two hours of repairs and reloading allows the Raven to catch up on events Jaco now emails all Ravens to tell them how Alliance is nothing more than a group of corporate Executives who wants control over the world and wants others to do their bidding speaking of ravens it is now two Ravens who have met their maker the first being a warlord by the name of greenhorn and an alliance Raven by the name of principle time however must go on as the new Raven makes their next move a mission to Aid vertex in reclaiming the Walter material storage site after an alliance Tactical Unit attacked it as their main military supply Source Vortex cannot let stay in Alliance hands as such all foes must be wiped out it is noted that vertex will pay the Raven more money if the unit Commander is taken out as such with money in sight The Raven heads out to the site it is quite the battle as it seems the alliance Tactical Unit have dug in with MTS already on site and their numbers are quite high as they make their way through it varies from reports to reports about whether the Raven managed to get the command either way the mission would be complete and the Raven would head home the time is now 2 pm and while resting and repairing The Raven would get two emails the first from a raven named Rimfire who writes with surprise about how he didn't expect the Raven to know that the mission he gave was a trap and that they should watch their back the second email is from vertex they ask the Raven to keep supporting them throughout this war the new Raven starts their next mission investigate enemy activity at the tortuous headquarters an old Corporation Headquarters which suddenly receives interest from Alliance as such vertex cannot let Alliance simply investigate the site without disruption so the Raven is sent in during this Mission Jaco comes over the radio and tells the raven that these targets are not worth the bother and to head back which The Raven does Ed's report afterwards suggests there is something going on here but one is why Jack pulled the Raven out especially since time is ticking away the time is now 4 pm and with new emails from both Alliance and Jacko alerting them that Evangel has drawn into vertex it seems a shift in the war is coming the new Raven would play a role within this shift with their next mission the elimination of an alliance AC by the name Raging torrent his death would not be quick as this Alliance Raven brings reinforcements with him in the form of MTS however by luck or skill the new Raven kills this Alliance Raven in the universe's Highland before returning to base two hours pass with repairs being done to their armored Core it's during this time the Raven would read over some male once more this time one from Evangel who writes about how he's heard great things about the Raven and how Jacko even suggests the Raven is a dominant however Evangel finds this hard to believe and writes that when he kills the Raven he will show Jacko he is the true dominant a threat from a fellow Raven is nothing new anymore for this Raven as such they move on to the next email from vertex which tells of unknown weapons being seen on the field of battle this again would be the first sighting of the pulverizers the final email would again be from vertex which suggests Evangel is acting strange and while he's under Jaco's command they can do nothing about him but they want the Raven to keep an eye on him it seems the time to watch over Ravens has come as the list of dead Ravens has some new additions to it including cerber's quarm shade and Caspian the pilot of raging torrent the number of ravens falling has become apparent and yet the war rages on as the Raven heads out to their next mission defend against assault this would see the new Raven fight off waves of Alliance MTS as they move through the sewer system of the vertex owned Walter material storage plant it is a dark and smelly mission for the new Raven who thanks to night vision manages to fend off the attacks within the sewers only to have vertex send them straight off to another mission with no time to resupply or repair they are sent to the Airfield where the raven would have to clear the field of Alliance MTS before finally taking down the real Target and Alliance Air transport two missions back to back is not easy as such the new Raven heads back to rest with 10 hours left before the vertex attack they would get new emails and the list of dead Ravens expands this time it includes the Raven Molly coddle who would be put in the ground along with a volar volunte and Bhaskar and omega as for the emails there's one from the alliance Tactical Unit reporting on the unknown weapons and how they believe vertex is producing it and another email from Jacko who writes that there are only 10 Ravens left and now for both sides the real battle begins perhaps for the Raven the battle already felt real however if a raven has time to ponder then there is work they are missing out on as such the time for the next mission had come protect Reactor Core it's sure that the new Raven will be shooting down unmanned units which plan to crawl into the reactor core of vertex owned queer energy plant it's a case of switching from taking them out in the air to shooting these units as they crawl up the tower towards the reactor it's a mission where the new Raven must be accurate and fast however they pull it off and return once more eight hours left until the attack the Raven's death list is updated again with another Raven named g-fost and more emails come to the new Raven the first email comes from the alliance Tactical Unit who finally gives the name pulverizers to the unknown weapon seen on the battlefields there is an email from Jacko alerting the raven that there is a traitor among vertex and he would like them to be taken down the final two emails B from vertex one claiming they have nothing to do with the pool varieties production and the second one thanking the Raven for their loyalty to their cause with this the Raven heads out to take out this trade route to vertex a raven by the name of Bolt in the Grove desert however what is more odd is what bolt says you betrayed us and that can't be forgiven it is odd since as the new Raven understood it bolt was the traitor to vertex so what was this Raven on about nevertheless confused by this the two Ravens in battle and the new Raven is the one to come out alive six hours remain until the attack and as the new Raven rests up an email arrives from Zenaida who writes she taught the new Raven and Evangel were better Ravens and to join the vertex aside all she wants is to stay true to herself and be the best Raven she can the words of this raven inside the list of Ravens grows with boats joining in and soon another as a new Raven is sent out by Jaco to kill sorcerer his second in command it is a strange Mission as it seems Jackal is unmoved by a second in the command's words as the new Raven and sorcerer fight yet in an armored Core Battle words mean nothing as the new Raven finally puts down sorcerer before returning rest is short for the Raven as with no new emails and the only new item being searched for being added to the dead Ravens list they move on to their next mission launch pre-emptive strike it is in this Mission The Raven will be sent to torturous headquarters where Alliance forces seem to be gathering to attack them and while the Raven would do a good job of this the alliance had their own surprise as before the Raven's eyes a battle ready Leviathan is launched from the base an old war machine not seen since navis used one 55 years ago it's not an easy fight for the new Raven however the old beast of the parts would fall making the alliance pay a heavy price with only two hours left before the attack it looks to be a Vertex victory in the emails Evangel is now reported as lost on the list of ravens however there are still Ravens who have avoided the grim reapers grasp yet while these Ravens did the alliance forces would not be so lucky as vertex reports that this special weapon has emerged from underneath Cirque City again and this time it wiped out all the alliance forces however they would not call it a victory the new email is from Evangel he asks if the Raven knows what a dominant is he explains it as Born to Be Warriors that excel in the art of combat but then he goes on about the last mission and how he will show Jacko he is the one to do it and not the new Raven I will not accept the possibility that you are a dominant stay out of my way this is how he ends the email it is not something The Raven understands however the final email from Chaco is even more troubling as he writes that vertex discovered a weapons manufacturing facility deep beneath Ciroc City this is what is creating the pulverizers and the world is once again facing extinction if nothing is done about it with this vertex has one final mission for the Raven and it goes like this unknown target has ended the facility located beneath search City we have unconfirmed reports that this target is in fact Evangel if this is the case and it names his true loyalties are actually to Alliance after their last defeat in our hands Alliance Headquarters has been steadily pulling back their forces a single AC unit isn't going to change the tide of battle I have no idea why the Evangel might be up to in any case we know he is not to be trusted it's time for him to be removed from the picture our vision of a new world order is close at hand a final battle with Evangel is what the Raven gets and as the two meet the alliance Raven has this to say before they chill what if this is no place for an ordinary Raven you don't get it do you I guess there's only one way to help you understand then the Battle of dominance ensues and in the end the new Raven proves to be the real one the battle is not over yet for while the two fought a pulverizer shows up and the entrance to the weapons in manufacturing facility opens up behind the Evangel however he does not run into it with his armored Core sparking he tells the Raven to head in as he will take care of the pulverizer and as the next few words of Evangel could be heard as is lost inside the Raven would fall deeper into Cirque city until they come to the power sources of the pulverizer-producing facility they see no other way to stop it and set about destroying the generators that are protected by energy defenses the new Raven manages to shut down the facility leading to what their operator hoped is a peaceful world this is the end of the Evangel route however there is still more ways the events of this timeline could have gone as such the next possible route will be told by another Raven the Leviathan route in this route we see the new Ravens start with the mission eliminate Intruders from vertex which will see the Raven take down an unknown force that has entered the Cirque City the homo vertex headquarters a quick and rather uneventful Mission it is on their return with nearly a day before the attack the new Raven will get some emails one from Evangel writing on how the alliance tactical force is ready to strike vertex and all their assets and one from Zenaida who writes she has never failed a mission until now and how the new Ravens should watch their back as she'll be there yet the new Raven moves on to their mission to destroy the AC Sundial an alliance Raven vertex once dead again while an armored Core battle is never easy the new Raven pulls it off turning Sundial into scrap before returning to base 18 hours till the final attack and two weapons fall out of the sky green horn a warlord and principle the pilot of Sundial it's the new Ravens first armored Core kill yet there is little time to celebrate or ponder over it as they are sent out again by a Vertex to the Walter material storage site a lot of placement vertex as it holds their military supplies and has a link right into Cirque city which is currently being attacked by the alliance technical forces vertex offers the new Raven more credits for the death of the commander of this Force than any ribbon is more than happy to hunt down this Commander as they blast through the forces inside another quick and dirty job for the new Raven leads to two hours passing for repairs and supplies along with reading new emails and seeing another Raven is now dead named Zubin Elgin Ubi as for the emails one is from a raven named Rimfire writing about how he is not sure how the Raven figured out one of the missions was a trap but they should watch out as he is not the only one that wants them dead and the final one is from vertex who wishes the new Raven to support them more in the future the new Raven would have little time to think on this as their next mission would be from the alliance wanting them to remove Intruders in the Triton Eco Activity Center the alliance can't seem to say why anyone would break into the lab conducting Environmental Studies however they want The Intruders killed while on the mission the new Raven would learn these Invaders are part of a group working for a warlord and seem to be getting ready to leave when the Ravens Hoops in to take their lives another easy mission for the new Raven they would learn that the alliance is winning an illegal bio experimentation program however it is of no concern to the Raven as they head back to rest and resupply once again more time passes as the Raven reads new emails and sees that another Raven by the name of shade has been killed as for the emails they are from vertex with two from The Alliance One talking about how Evangel and one of his underlings have turned against the alliance and are now working for vertex and one asking the new Raven about their skills and if they have heard about the idea of dominant Pilots existing it's not something the new Raven has ever heard about however the time to wander is over as the Ravens next mission comes in from vertex asking the new Raven to take out an Airborne Squad invading aerosol Dam vertex believes this attack is simply the squad passing through on their way to Cirque City their real Target however they want them all dead before that as such the new Raven is sent on another easy mission where their AC is pitted against a squadron of helicopters time ticks on as the new Raven gets more time to read new emails want to smoke Angel himself who writes about dominance and how he keeps hearing people saying the new Raven is one and how he will prove them wrong when he kills the new Raven the final two were emails from vertex about unknown weapons on the battlefield and how they do not trust Evangel as he has been acting strange recently the list of dead Ravens also grows with caspin and Alliance Raven Cerberus garm an independent Raven working for a warlord and Shredder rate the turn Kurt Raven who followed Evangel to vertex worth 12 hours till the final attack the new Raven gets a new Mission from vertex this time a warlord has managed to get inside their seal hydroelectric plant and place bombs within vertex wants the new Raven to equip you to get in there and remove the bombs making sure to keep the plant in one piece it's a Race Against Time however with a cool head The Raven manages to remove all the bombs before returning to base and all within an hour now with little time used the new Raven is quickly thrown into another mission this time from the alliance who wants the Raven to take out an enemy Force within their recently captured diorgan Distribution Center The Raven would head in taking out mostly MTS until they managed to reach outside the base only to be ambushed by another Raven named Molly cuddle who has this to say it seems you've been doing well too bad you were tricked it looks like the alliance is coming to kill the new Raven as they have not been loyal having swept between them and vertex yet all this really achieves is the death of mollycodile the new Raven heads back home to rest once more as more emails come in this time from the alliance technical unit who write about the unknown weapons being cited in battle and one from Jack who writes that there are only about 10 Ravens left and the time for the real battle has come Jack would not lie here as along with Molly cuddle three more Ravens would be knocked out of the sky and including vola Volant watan Busker and finally Omega with the number of ravens falling the new Raven will be sent by vertex to protect their nuclear reactor and the queer energy plant from unmanned units being flown in by the alliance it's a mission that tests the Ravens long-range shooting but is done with ease by the new Raven before heading back to base once more with eight hours left the new Raven gets more mail this time one from the alliance Tactical Unit who would now name these unknown weapons polarizers and two from vertex one which thanks to the Raven for the continued support and how the pulverizes are nothing to do with them even if the alliance Tactical Unit says otherwise and the second from Jago who wants the new Raven to take out a trainer to the vertex cause the only new Raven death would be G Faust at this time and with all that done the Raven heads out to their next mission it would be an intercept mission of another Airborne warlord Force at Camp forth they're headed to suck City to attack however it is the Raven's job to stop them and they do so before returning to base on their return with only six hours left the only email the new Raven gets is from Zenaida who mocks The Raven for siding with vertex and how all she wants to do is be the best Raven she can be as for the number of dead Ravens bolt a Vertex Raven would join this list yet so would Evangel but not as dead instead being listed as Lost In Action yep well Evangel may be lost the new Raven would soon put another Raven down by the name of sorcerer the trader Jago writes about and the second in command of vertex he tries to talk to Jack as any room and attacks him however the up-and-coming Raven is focused on the fighting and brings about sorcerer his death four hours left and the Raven gets no rest as the next mission is thrown at them sent out by Jacob again to kill a raven at Camp fourth or the foe's identity is unknown at this time however when the Raven arrives they see this foot was none other than Evangel who wants to show Jacko what real power is with both being skilled Pilots the pair of ravens fight with all they have yet on the new Raven returns from the fight now with only two hours remaining vertex is quick to email the new Raven telling them how the forces of the alliance are very nearly depleted and I need just one more push to achieve their goal with Evangel now marked as dead rather than lost the new Raven heads out to finish all this off by aiding vertex with their last few missions the first would be to guard the old nyer industrial area from the remains of the alliance tactical Force who are trying to take control of it and what a battle it would be the new Raven fights MTS and a raven by the name of jouster who manages to check out the main defense weapons of the area however losing his AC's head in the process before the new Raven takes his life this only takes an hour and the alliance tactical forces no more it is then time for the final battle against the Alliance Headquarters last standing forces in the versus Highland and all Airborne Force they would throw everything they had at the new Raven from fighter planes to helicopters until finally left with nothing else the alliance lets loose two leviathans that Circle the raven like birds of prey the new Raven however is no prey for anyone and downs them both after a long battle leaving vertex the Victor in this war with the hope that they will bring peace to the world again this is only one ending to this timeline so now let us let another Raven tell the events of the second Paul Verizon route the second pulverizer route in this route the new Raven's first mission comes from vertex who wants the new Raven to destroy the camp Fort herd military base currently being built by the alliance it is a simple mission for the Raven as their foes are humans helicopters and stationary objects The Raven causes as much damage as they can within the three minute time limit before leaving the area after this escape the Rune base receives the backup cool during the mission a team of three armored cores and four owl muscle traces the three armored cores would be the leader of the alliance tactical forces Evangel his second in command trichurat and caspin a high-ranking Alliance Raven and they share some words about the attack sir should we give Chase a successful mission for the new Raven they returned to have an email from Evangel which reads that the alliance tactical force is ready to strike against vertex and their assets it is however the start of this war between politics and the alliance as the new Raven's next mission is to Aid a warlord Mt who is currently trying to escape the horders mining site after a raid where the single Mt is the only Survivor and more enemy forces are on Route it's not a difficult Mission as the Raven sticks close to the Mt as they make their way taking down the enemies as they go they aren't nothing to write home about as most are u03m termite MTS that are no match for an armored Core all this takes around two hours including the time to resupply and repair damages to their armored Core the new Raven also has a new email to read and is told about the deaths of two Ravens named greenhorn a warlord and principal an alliance Raven the email turns out to be from Jaco the leader of vertex and it reads about how the alliance is nothing more than a group of Executives who want to rule the world and have others do their bidding it's a call to all Ravens to take vertex aside have new Raven another mission catches their eye eliminate enemy AC it comes from a warlord who wants the new Raven to head out to the R11 AC garage area and take out an armored call there the mission breathing goes into details about the armor core and how the Ravens should equip their own armored Core it's a little odd and the Raven only has to do some research about the place to find out this is not as the warlord describes however with that many credits on offer the new Raven does not take the advice of this warlord and heads out with their wits about them their caution would be worth it as when the Raven arrives at the garage area there is no armor core in sight that is until one comes out a garage with some words for the new Raven now you will pay for your mistake a trap and to make matters worse this raven came with backup another Raven by the name of Rimfire then joins The Fray it's a hard-toed battle and a close one for the new Raven how they managed to put both Ravens into the dirt a tricky operation may have been but the Bounty for the two Ravens is more than enough to allow for repairs and supplies while this happens near a Raven gets an email from another Raven by the name of Zenaida which reads it seems you're being quite busy lately perhaps you really are worthy of being a raven many claim they are but so few live up to the title this war between Alliance and vertex is pointless I don't care about ruling the world all I want is to be true to myself and fight for my beliefs you and I should do battle sometime it's a strange email for the new Raven after all they have never met nor seen this Raven and yet it seems their action have impressed this Zenaida however what the Raven does know too well is that the names Rimfire and Zubin l janubi now join the list of dead Ravens and their next mission would be the battle Zenaida wanted a mission from the female Raven herself to Jewel with her at Camp Fort Hood it looks to be another tough battle for the new Raven and they suit up and head out to meet this Zenaida however the jewel does not go as planned attacked by an unknown force is neither and the new Raven work together to fight off the first wave of foes before she leaves with some of the second of the foes in tow as for the new Raven they would have to face another Raven by the name of shade it's a tough battle but nowhere near as tough as their last AC battle as such the new Raven put shade down before leaving although the two hours of rest and repairs leaves the new Raven more than enough time to learn from the emails from both the alliance and vertex now the Evangel the alliance tactical Force leader has switched sides and is now working for vertex the alliance wants him dead and vertex is sure this switch is only going to bring more trouble their way the new Raven also gets an email from Zenaida who writes about how it was a shame they could not battle last time however her research assistant has found some information on the raven that eluded her on the mission in Cirque City and how she looks forward to taking care of the new Raven and this unknown Raven a strange woman yet with another Raven on the death list the new Raven heads out to the next mission from a warlord who wants the Raven to take out the control towers located at air Soul Dam this would allow the warlord's force to later use this as a route to Cirque city as vertex is busy fighting to stop the alliance again it is not a hard Mission at first as the Raven dips about taking out vertex Defenders before the towers only then for an armored Court to show up piloted by wonton Busker this raven is AC attack the new Raven leading to a battle which ends with wonton's death but the new Raven is not in the clear yet as suddenly another Raven shows up by the name of Viola Volant who also attacks the new Raven leading to back-to-back battles it is reported the raven could battle these two or flee however mix reports do not paint a clear picture nevertheless the Raven would return home either with two more Ravens added to the death list or happy to Simply Be Alive yet the time to rest would have to wait as the vertex leader Jacko had a mission for the new Raven destroy transport Convoy a mission that would see the Raven head to the old na Industrial Area to take out a convoy of Transport trucks being used by a warlord after they raided City for materials The Raven would head out at once only to find one of the escorts of the Convoy and armored Corps piloted by a female warlord named MooMoo is already there a battle begins between the two as the Raven is quick to take her down before another Raven shows up by the name Cerberus Graham who's seeing MooMoo killed goes for the new Raven however this new Raven quickly takes out the Convoy before putting this dog of Hell To The Flame the bounties for the two Ravens and the mission pay is sweet music to the new Raven who uses it to upgrade and repair their armored Core while catching up on some emails this time two from vertex we won talking about how an unknown weapon has been seen taking out of vertex forces and another about how they concern the strange behavior of Evangel recently it's perhaps the new Raven vertex should have been looking at as this Raven's next mission would come from another warlord this time they wanted the Raven's haircut vertex defenses at the seal hydraulic plant as the warlord wants to Ransom it back to vertex elimination of all Targets is what this boils down to and the Raven wipes out the vertex Defense Force before leaving the plan to the warlord however on the return to the base it would be learned that vertex would not settle on a price for the ransom and instead decide to go on without this energy plant it's along with this news of another Raven's death comes in one by the name of Omega a Vertex armor core pilot Ravens were falling out the sky and yet the new Raven did not seem to worry as they take on another mission for a warlord this time at the Tartus headquarters an alliance base where supplies are being stockpiled the Raven would Aid the warlord by taking out the ECM devices at the site and any forces that tried to stop them more running and gutting the new Raven's armored Corps made short work of any Foe and the ECM devices however in the end the warlord would be pushed back as the alliance made sure to reinforce it quickly after the Ravens attack this however is no concern for the new Raven and now with only 10 hours until vertek's final attack it's becoming clear how many lives are being taken by this war as an email from Jaco reads that there is only now 10 Ravens left the alliance tactical forces also writes an email to new Raven about an unknown weapon attacking their forces they think it may be a Vertex weapon but are unsure it seems the war is claiming its victims and so far the new Raven has not picked aside as they now head out to Aid the alliance tactical force in taking out vertex queer energy plant by destroying the plant's power supply controls the mission would not be simple however as while the Raven would be able to take out the vertex mt's guide in the plant it would fall into darkness without power as the Raven with their AC's night vision would make their way out only to be ambushed by a raven named G Faust as they do the Ravens duke it out in this tight space of a plant before finally the new Raven kills g-fuss and manages to make it outside only out there waiting for the new Raven is a large Red Machine of war with huge energy blade for arms the battle worn Raven has to be quick as they fight back against this new foe with all they can until finally the Red Machine a war explodes this according to Ed would be one of the unknown weapons everyone is talking about the next few hours of the Raven's West would include reading through emails from the alliance tactical Force writing how they've decided to name these unknown weapons pulverizers and how they would like the Raven to attack Warlords who oppose the alliance as this will allow the Tactical force to be able to keep all their units on the task of taking out vertex along with these emails vertex would also request the Raven to keep their wits about them as even though vertex feels the attacks they have launched on the alliance is working too many vertex Ravens are being killed off as such the balance of power will shift if any more are lost they also right to make it clear they are not the ones producing these pulverizers as they too have lost units to them it seems both sides need the new Raven's help and yet this raven chooses instead to protect a warlord Force based at horde's mining site the warlord learns that the alliance is going to attack the site as they believe Evangel is being harbored there by the grouper the truth is however this group has nothing to do with Evangel and the Atlantis is assuming this to launch an attack but the warlord lacks a pad stop it and that's why they've asked for the new Raven's Services a force of muscle traces of all shapes and sizes would be the alliance attacking force and it's clear to see the alliance wanted this group gone with the force the Raven manages to fight off back at base after with only six hours left before vertex final attack the new Raven gets an email from Jacka reading it's impossible at this current time to destroy the pulverizer weapon but there will be no deviating from my plan there are only few Ravens alive but I am confident that one among them possesses the strength I seek the conflict will end in our favor it seems Jacko is hunting for a certain Raven for whatever he has planned yet the Rue Raven did not care as once again they take their next mission from another warlord to an attack on an alliance transport train heading towards Ruger tunnel the warlord seemed to take vertex side and once this Supply transport train taken out as it will damage the alliance front lines and also not go unnoticed by either side it's quite the easy mission for the new Raven as they arrive early to take out the light Defense Force on the bridge where the train is traveling on before then firing on the defenseless train destroying it within seconds it's not even a challenge as new Raven would head back with two more hours ticking by before they head out again this time to Aid vertex in defeating an alliance Invasion Force heading to Cirque City via the Grava desert the force seems intent on reaching Cirque City however the briefing mentions that the alliance strength is waning and how they won't last but for a few more hours as such the Raven heads out ready to take on this weekend Alliance force and after a few MTS and helicopters it would seem the Raven was done that is until a pulverizer showed up however this one is different from the last one as it now has quad legs instead of tank ones Jaco is quick to come over the radio to tell the new even if they attack the pulverizer they will lose but the Ravens operator Shelia things otherwise as the pool risers start to attack the new Raven making her tell the Raven to attack it as the situation demands it the new Raven had no choice as they battle it out with his quad-legged polarizer before finally pushing it down Jaco seems impressed by this commenting that maybe they can be destroyed as of the new Raven they are just happy to be alive two hours remain until the final attack and while the Raven rests more emails come in as do names of more dead Ravens these would include Evangel caspin Molly coddle sorcerer and bolt leaving only four Ravens alive Jacko jouster Crow and Zenaida speaking of Jaco he would email the Raven again and this time it reads the war between vertex and Alliance is in its final stages I assume neither side will secure a total Victory but I'm not concerned about the outcome my plan is in its final stages as well all the fighting that has gone on before has been leading up to this just what is Jacko up to the thought may have passed the mind of the new Raven however with time ticking and a need for cash The Raven takes a mission with vertex to destroy the armored Corps called Heaven's Rey that is attacking the old na Industrial Area other Tech strongholds The Raven sets out to meet their Foe and the pair of ravens Square Off the battle between the two however short as new Raven now skilled with their craft takes out their foes swiftly however this battle is not yet over as suddenly another pulverizer shows up a bipedal one and it attacks the new Raven as the pair meet a back-to-back battle is tough on the Raven ah Victory is theirs as the pulverizer goes down this would not be the only victory for vertex Harbor as on the new Ravens return they would learn from Ed that with Heaven's Rey's death the alliance tactical force is no more and the alliance would face the same fate as they tried to attack cert City with an Airborne Force only for it all to be destroyed it looked to be a Vertex Victory yet the Raven would soon learn this war was not over with Heaven's raised pilot jouster and Crow another vertex Raven dead only Jacko and Zenaida remained as active Ravens this however would soon change as Jaco had one final mission for the raven of this mission traction or weapons that gather data from their battles this data is then transmitted to and processed by the internessing new and more the internet scene has to be destroyed in order to eradicate the pulverizers once and for all we're counting on your help to accomplish this to ensure that the mission's objective is met you and another Raven are Cirque City the different routes one of you will go after any pulverizers roaming free while the other focuses their efforts on the internet scene you must succeed if there is to be any hope for our future to put an end to the pulverizes would fall on the new raven's head yet things would not start off great as arriving at the site of the mission Theory Raven sees the death of Jaco thanks to a damaged floating pulverizer before it starts to attack the new Raven It's a battle that pushes the new Raven skills and yet the new Raven managed to destroy the Red Machine to death before heading in to take out the power supplies for the internet scene only when they arrive it is already offline and zenitha is already there but she is in battle with another pulverizer thank you foreign izer how is that possible now I was the last Raven standing it all falls to new Raven as they do battle with the last pulverizer made by the internet scene it's not an easy feat as with an energy field and fast speed this final pulverizer pushes the Rave into the limit of piloting as the two trade blows yet in the end the Raven is the one left standing as the Victor and as the last Raven of this war yet this again is only one of the many endings to this timeline as finally the last Raven shall tell you of the final route in this final route the new Ravens first mission comes from the alliance who want the Raven to scout out the vertex occupied deorgan Distribution Center formerly under Alliance rule they intend to retake the base but not without having a look around first this look would be done by the new Raven who would along the way take out vertex muscle tracers guarding the base however as the Raven goes deeper and deeper into the base they are ambushed by another Raven going by the name of Bolt this raven seems to have been waiting for the new Raven as the first thing he says over the radio is what took you so long my orders are to kill you it's not exactly what the new Raven expected making it quite the fight as the paratrade blows however due to skill and perhaps luck the new Raven kills bolt before taking their leave unaware the base would have another visitor Jacko the leader of vertex and he claims to have already known the outcome of this battle still this would be the first Raven kill for the new Raven and after returning to base to repair and restock they would learn that Evangel the leader of the alliance tactical forces is ready to strike against vertex and their assets what is more important however is that bolt would be the first Raven to die in this route and it would be by the hands of this new Raven certainly unexpected but it seems vertex would not be one to hold grudges as the new Ravens next mission would come from vertex to take out an alliance Raven by the name of principle at the versus Highland was this a case of eye for an eye or as the brief said the only way to limit the power of a side in this war is to take out their main power the armored cores and the Ravens who pilot them no matter what the new Raven chooses to believe principle and a few Alliance units would fall to the new Raven making this the second Raven killed by this new pilot another mission done the new Raven would rest once more as Jacko sends an email to all Ravens denouncing the alliance as a group of greedy corporate Executives bent on controlling the world and having others do their bidding Jaco's thoughts would be pondered by the new Raven however with their income relying on War the new Raven is soon back to work with principle along with a warlord Raven by the name of greenhorn joining the list of dead Ravens this time the Raven's Mission would see them head out to an area r-11 AC garage under orders from a warlord about a raven they wanted killed off however it is Odd as the brief seems to give detail about how the new Raven should equip their armored Core more noticeable however is the fact that this location does not belong to any warlord making the new Raven wonder what this is all about yet with the promise of large pay and a bounty on his foe's head the new Raven heads out it turns out this mission is not what it seems to be as the new Raven is greeted by another Raven who has this to say you walked right into my trap a trap and the new Raven had fallen for it hook line and sinker yet this trapped bird would not fall so easily as the fight between the new Raven and The Mastermind behind this trap Zubin al-janubi would end with zubin's death it's as the new Raven recovers that another foe steps onto the battlefield a raven by the name of rim fire and he would show no mercy to the battleborn Raven as the two enter into battle once more it's no easy fight as the machine guns of Rimfire rattle the new Ravens already damaged armored Core with each hit yet again thanks to skill and a bit of luck the new Raven puts down Rimfire allowing them to finally catch a break with this battle over the new Raven returns to base to rest however while they do they get an email from another Raven named zeneda she writes about how she has been hearing a lot about the new Raven and how she thinks this war between Alliance and vertex is pointless she claims all she wants is to be true to herself and fight for her beliefs and that they should do battle soon it's a strange email however that battle would come sooner than expected as the new Ravens next mission would be a duel with zeneda at Camp forthrad they move out to meet with zeneda however things do not go to plan for this simple duel between ravens foreign watch out Raven unidentified units are headed your way another force and another Raven by the name of shade show up and try to take them both down zeneda however does not stick around and heads off with some of the enemies chasing her leaving AC shade to the new Raven shade however is nothing compared to the previous Ravens that the new pilot had fought and soon shade Is Burning Alive within his own armored Core before it explodes erasing the pilot within shade joins the list of dead Ravens when the new Raven returns to base although the fight with Senator did not go on she is quick to email the new Raven writing that it was a shame that they did not get to fight however her research assistant had found some information on another Raven who eluded her in Cirque City and now she can't wait until she's taken care of both the new Raven and this raven who had eluded her along with this the alliance in Jaco would email about Evangel swapping sides with the alliance tactical leader going from Alliance to vertex although Jackal seems to think that this turn will only make the alliance fight harder to kill the traitors all this killing and betraying made the new Raven wonder what this war had turned people into they didn't have an answer and instead head out on their next mission from vertex this time taking out an attacking warlord Force who has invaded the airspace of airsol dam and vertex wants them gone it seems an easy Mission with only basic aerial units in action the raven could shoot them out of the sky like swatting flies however after swatting these flies suddenly the new Raven is attacked by another Raven wanton bunker no sooner had the Raven taken down wanton sinking him into the water of the dam another Raven shows up vola Volante wanton's Raven Ally who had come to support him the two Ravens dance with death as they try not to become part of the dam yet vola would be the one to fall here with this Victory going to the new Raven once again adding two more Raven kills to their name it's now only 12 hours till vertex's final attack and as the new Raven rests up they get more email from vertex this time it's warning them of an unknown weapon seen taking out vertex forces with ease and the concerns they have over Evangel as he seems to be acting strange yet it's also among this transmission that the new Raven will see wanton and vola are not the only Ravens to die within these last two hours as one Alliance raven and a former Alliance Raven would die by the names of caspin and trichurat Ravens are falling faster than ever and this would not be the end as the next mission for the Raven would come from Evangel who wanted Aid in taking out a suspicious force in garof desert these MTS would later be learned to be named moles however it's after taking out these MTS that Evangel would then start attacking the new Raven the pair would battle for a while until evangel's AC is sparking at which point he leaves saying it's a confusing encounter however it's one the new Raven survives only to get an email from Jacko explaining that Evangel has not been seen since the last mission he suspects Evangel was spying on vertex for the alliance although he is impressed by how hard of a Time the new Raven gave Evangel and wonders who would be victorious if they both went head-to-head Jaco would not be wrong for now on the list of dead Ravens Evangel would be marked as lost while two more Ravens would join the list as dead namely server is garm and Omega the new Raven had to wonder how many more Ravens were left as the new Raven takes on a new Mission from the alliance tactical Force to take over a Vertex airstrip named sinus this time from the alliance tactical Force who had now been attacked like vertex by an unknown weapon and are wondering if vertex is the one behind it the Raven receives an email from Jacko writing that there are only 10 Ravens left alive indeed with the death of an alliance Raven by the name of Molly Cottle the number of remaining Ravens sits at 10. yet it seems the new Raven would soon change that as their next mission once again from the alliance tactical force would have the new Raven go into the vertex Zone queer energy plant and shut down its power generators in this Mission The Raven would have to deal with the heat of the defenses and they would be forced to fight another Raven by the name of G Faust and finally come face to face with the unknown weapon they've been reading about both G Faust and this unknown weapon would be killed by the new Raven and rest is something the new Raven really needed after these back-to-back battles sadly that rest would be reading four more emails with three out of the four being vertex and Alliance asking for the Ravens continued support to their cause the fourth would be from the alliance Tactical Unit and would name the unknown weapons as pulverizers this dump of information makes the new Raven sigh as being a sought after mercenary certainly had its downsides once again Jacko wants the new Raven to get rid of zeneda at Camp forthrad because no one knows whose side she's going to take this Mission turns out to be Jacko testing the two Ravens against each other however as the pair battle they are interrupted by a pulverizer after the machine gives Chase to zeneda the new Raven returns to base to have more emails waiting with Jacko being the first talking about how strong the pole risers are but this will not stop him looking for the one among the last remaining Ravens it all seems like Babel to the new Raven and what's more zeneda also emails the new Raven talking about the pulverizer and how she's never seen one before and wonders if there are different types the new Raven seems to choose not to answer this question even if they know the answer instead getting back to work by killing off another Raven This Time by the name of sorcerer there's no time to rest however after this AC battle as the new Raven is once again sent out by vertex to take out an alliance Force heading towards Cirque City through the garof desert it feels to the raven that the alliance is running low on Fighters as all they battle is MTS that is until the pulverizer that chase denada shows up Jaco tells the new Raven not to fight it as the machine is too powerful however being fired upon by it their new Raven has little choice but to fight back or be buried here in the desert soon another pile of scrap is added to the desert and the new Raven breathes deeply in their cockpit as Jacko over the radio is impressed that the new Raven destroyed the pulverizer it's a brief moment of respite for the new Raven on their return as they see another Raven has joined the list of dead MooMoo it's nothing new by now and Jacko already has a new mission for the Raven with no other choice the new Raven takes it seeing them head back to garav Desert as Jacko has picked up another Alliance Force passing through more MTS meet their Doom by the new Raven's hand but this battle is far from done as Jacko and his armored Corps shows up and attacks the new Raven it's a quick battle and Jacko has some words for the new Raven but there's still something that needs to be done we must hurry what is Jacko up to the new Raven didn't know but they would learn after the mission The Jacka would go missing marked as lost on the list of ravens leaving only three active Ravens jouster Crow and zeneda new transmissions would come in for the Raven the first from zeneda who writes she thinks the alliance and vertex should be working out what these pulverizers are not fighting the second email comes from vertex reporting on Jacko Vanishing and finally the last one is from Jacko himself who writes how underserk City they found the facility making the pulverizers he named it in terencin and how he wants the new Raven to carry out his last request he ends the email writing you must be dominant to have lasted this long the new Raven had no clue what Jaco was on about after all this the leader of vertex had attacked them used them as a Hitman and now he called them dominant it made them wonder what he was even on about yet the life of a mercenary is never easy and questions would have to wait as vertex sends the Raven off to fight an alliance Airborne force in the versus Highland as this seems to be the alliance's final resistance the fight is tough with small targets like Fighters and helicopters and great numbers however the new Raven would ground them all only to return and have more news both Crow and jouster are now dead leaving only them and zeneda as the last Ravens zeneda would send her fellow Raven an email titled final battle it speaks of weapons that can evolve they'd grow stronger after every battle and would eventually become invincible the only way to stop that from happening is to take out both internacine and pulverizer at the same time you and I are the only ones who can carry out something like that it's as the new Raven closes this email they see a new Mission from Jacko and its brief goes like this assignment is one that many Ravens would hesitate to accept it is my sincere hope that this will not deter you though my final request is that you destroy the internet scene and bring an end to the pulverizers the pulverizers are weapons that gather data from their battles submitted to and processed by the internessing to create a new and more deadly version of pulverizer your target is housed inside the facility located beneath Cirque City it's guarded by swarms of unmanned suicide weapons it produces to defend itself everything has been leading up to this moment Raven to rest in your hands the final mission is to take out the pulverizer and the facility making it The Raven takes this Mission and heads out this time to end it all as they make their way deep into Cirque City they would travel through a tight Corridor with small red Bots that destroyed the corporation's year ago flying at them at high speed once inside the facility The Raven would then take out the power supplies of the facility finally it all seemed to be over or was it for then someone drops in you I had a feeling we'd meet again I've always wondered what it is that sets certain Ravens apart from others maybe I'll find out once I've gotten rid of you this would be the final battle between the new Raven and zeneda who pushes her armored Core to its limits and yet she would still lose to the new Raven as this worthy foe dies she shares some last words with the raven what I am I thought being the best would justify my existence are never that simple though Raven It's you who deserves the title this is the end of the zenada root and the final chapter in the story of armored Core last Raven the secret ending to finish this report on the story of last Raven let us take a fine look at what is known as the secret ending where the last Raven will get a mission from an unknown person who reports that another polarizer can be found below Cirque City this one will be much tougher than the past ones however they know the last Raven has the skills to kill this final machine of war the issue faced here with this ending is that we know of two routes that would lead to their only being a last Raven the second pulverized route and the Zenaida root each one would see a single Raven survive the events of this period and along with this Siege is shutting down of the facility producing these machines of War along with the war machines themselves so where does this leave this Mission as said before in theory we could suggest this happens after either the second pulverizer route or the Zenaida root due to the fact they are the only route where there is truly one last Raven but of course which one is very much up to debate since the record of this single battle is limited and has no substance to link it back to one of these roots in truth one possible answer is that during the second pulverized route that Not only was the second pulverizer made after the new Raven killed the one in Cirque City but so would this blue variant who slipped away as for the zenitor route this also would be the case only it fled before the new Raven arrived but again there is a problem here as from what we know pulverizers require the data of the last one to be made so they could be better if this is so then what stopped it from spitting out two pulverized at the same time during the events of armored Core last Raven sadly there is very little to go on and with this event seeming to have nowhere to call home within the events of last rain even Perhaps it is best left to other Ravens to decide if this really happened or if this battle is simply an extra tale it is with this
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Armored Core: Last Raven
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Armored Core Lore The Story of Armored core 2 The Year is ED0158 after the fall of both Chrome and Murakumo, a new war for power broke out between the smaller companies within the underground cities lasting until ED0187 when finally the war would come to a stop with all sides exhausted and the citizens of the underground world seeking an end to the twenty nine years of war as some starts to head back to the surface where the world is starting to show signs of recovery. It just a short year after this that the Formation of the Underground World Ceasefire Committee is made to handle the ceasefire in the Great Depth War. Along with the "Treaty of Isaacs", a war treaty, is signed. While the treaty itself is never disclosed to the public, it seems the Underground cease-fire commission which was meant to disband after all remaining companies had signed however it was decided that the work of the committee was not done as such they would continue in order to rebuild the inter-company information network and reuse company-owned land. It is never stated who or where the members are from however it is very likely some are from the remaining corporations allowing them with their ties and the issac treaty to concentrate the military forces of the remaining organizations and become a powerful controlling force. In just two short years in ED190 the committee would rename themselves as the Earth’s government with a new goal of returning humanity to the surface, they begin an investigation above ground. However while they do this it has become clear that the earth government is not completely free from corporation influence as the funds of these investigations and equipment have to come from somewhere. A year is all it takes for the investigation to happen as with report of surface partially habitable promotes the migration of people to the ground. However while some people took this chance others refused wanting to spend the rest of their days underground as such the rebuilding of earth and the running of the underground cites would be continued to support the choices of all citizens. It during the next five years however in ED0196 that one of the major corporation on earth at the time Zio Matrix the succeeder to Murakumo Millennium found data inherited from the former MURAKUMO Millennium containing the plans of the Mars terraforming project started in ED096. Taking these finding to the new earth government an independent exploration of Mars it was discovered that the terraforming of Mars was in progress for while the corporations of the past had been battling underground the pioneering fleet equipped with artificially intelligent robots sent to Mars had kept on working. Its with this report that Zio matrix sends a survey mission to Mars it is presumed on an agreement with the earth government and Determines that Mars has a habitable environment. It should be noted here that among these people would be a raven named Leos Klein who acted as security for the team and seem eager to be apart of the team. All this was only good news for the government as earth in it current state could not handle the population it had as such migration to Mars began. However with the earth government still dealing with earth and the underground cities the migration task was handed off to Zio Matrix due to their advantage in Mars research. This would let Zio Matrix get a head start on the new planet over their rival corporation named Emeraude as they quickly began to develop and build their own cities, power stations and mt factories. However like the corporations before them the chase for power began as the two would soon begin to fight on Mars, a place where the earth government could not interfere due to the lack of power and distance between them. With earth government busy and lacking in man power to deal with the Mars divisions of these corporations. Two more organisations would head to Mars, the first being nexus Concord which had began to function as the new Raven umbrella organization on Earth however relocated to Mars and began to function as an intermediary organization there resulting in ravens from earth going to Mars as that is where the work was and creating a rifted between Mars born ravens and earth ravens who believed the ravens from earth are make their homes economic system unstable. Along with this group another corporation by the name of Balena, they seeked to gain a more equal footing on mars with the other corporations unlike they have on earth. However their earth division would not supply them with the resources for such a task as such they are given the bare minimum for the task and while the mars division is no where near as large or resource heavy as Zio matrix or Emeraude they managed to establish themselves with enough military might to fend off the other corporations and facilities to build ac parts. All this would lead to the red planet becoming a battlefield once more, as fighting to control the planet the corporations would battle all over the planet hiring ravens and even using their own miltary might to secure or take over bases and others arenas of importance. This all happening between the years of ED0199 and ED0210 when finally the earth government tried to stop this with their own branch the LCC the Large Scale Enterprises of the Central Committee. However with limited resources, a general lack of Mars war fare and having little to no armored cores on their side the LCC became nothing more then a dog with no bite on mars as the fighting between corporations to went on. After thirteen years of corporation war this is when a new raven would spread their wings under the guidance of another raven by the name of Strung. The test is explained to the new raven in this briefing. This mission is designed to test your abilities. The objective is simple: Find and destroy all MTs that have entered a particular area of the city. To be registered in the arena as a Raven, you must succeed in this Mission. If you fail you will be executed. A Raven will accompany you as an examiner. He will not help you under any circumstances. We're eager to see what you learned on Earth. The location of this mission would in Zio Satellite City and the raven would show their skill easily completing this mission by taking down seven mts. After this the raven is welcomed into the Nexus Concord as a raven and an arena combatant. After this the raven is greeted by new emails the first being from nerves Concord explain their role and what they expect of the raven while the two email is from his new Concord liaison manager, the person in charge of his assignments and communication support Nell Aulter. She welcome s he new raven and explains her role to the raven and that it will up to them how long she remains as their manger. She also writes a line that speaks about how the life of a raven really is. Some birds can fly and others can not. Its these word the raven keeps in their mind as they look at the options open to them as along with missions the arena is also open to them. A place where a raven could climb all the way to the top to gain the title of nine breaker and be seen as a powerful and skill raven. Whatever route they pick the raven would have to do both to become a know figure on mars and earn their keep. As such the raven would do this climbing the ranks of the arena and completing missions such as elimate informer which would see the raven working for the LCC to kill an LCC employee that is selling their information to corporations, MT suppression which will see the raven work for Zio matrix to take out prototype muscle tracers in their Bundle mts factory which may have started malfunctioning due to electrotactic magnetic field of a passing meator and defend the bridge which see the raven destroy all Zio Matrix mts in the area as it it under the jurisdiction of the LCC. After this and climbing the ranks in the arena taking down foes such as werehound who has a reputation of putting new raven back in their place. The raven would then get a message from Nell with the subject disorder units it reads as follows We have a request for the removal of disorder units. These are unmanned, armored weapons known to have existed prior to the martain development. Disorder units display organised insect like behaviour and appear unannounced in various martain cite and facilitates causing great damage. It’s not exactly known what the disorders are. We only know they’re dangerous and that a number of different types exist. The mission called remove disorder units comes from the LCC and will send the raven into the 17th district of the underground high-speed railway. Here they will encounter these small green armored looking spiders who vary in size from large to small and all able to fire an energy shots. The small mass of units would destroy a train before the raven arrives showing even for their small size these foes could cause real damage together. Never the less the raven gets to work, blading and shooting these Disorder units until the tunnel is clear allowing the other services to clean up the tracks and wreckage. After this the raven would resume missions and climbing up the arena ranks all the while the war between Zio matrix and Emurade would go on along some of these would include Defuse explosives where the raven is hired by Emeraude to remove explosives which had been planted there by an unknown force, Attack Rektena Installation another request from Emurade to take out the Rektena installation in the Hellas Plain. It is a Solar power station with solar devices blanketing the area, collecting sunlight and converting it into energy for use in the major Martian cities. The idea is to undermine the public trust in the corporation by showing them the corporation can not supply them with power. Another mission the raven takes is capture cargo a mission from Emeraude that will have the raven attack Zio Matrix transport vehicle travelling on the T-20 highway which they believe is carrying information on a newly developed technology. However once the raven causes the transport vehicle to crash the back of lift up and a disorder unit walks out. Nell is surprised at this but tells the raven there is no way to recover it so they are to destroy it and then return. After the raven does they return to base to find an email from Nell talking about the event titled Zio Martix and disorder units. In the message the young women write about how the concord confirmed that it was a disorder unit being transported however it is a type not seen before. She also question how and where this corporation is capturing these units before ending that if the concord find anything she will let the raven know. It seems the red planet has many secrets however in their job the raven can only keep moving forward as such their next mission that comes the raven way after more arena matches is one titled spaceport escort. It comes from LCC requesting the raven to guard The Vihul Spaceport the main hub for travel between Earth and Mars. Since One of their Earth Government spaceships is scheduled to land at the Spaceport. They believe the attack is probably intended to prevent it from doing and suspect one of the corporations is behind it so the raven job is to make sure it is clear for the incoming spaceship to land. It seems a simple mission and arriving at the spaceport all is quiet even one of the mts who also guarding the spaceport comments that everything seems normal. That is until the mts is blown up by attack making the rest scramble and the raven ready themselves for action as the spaceport become under attack from a number of jet fighters before a bomber show up to. The raven is able to complete the mission taking down all forces and once again returns to concord only to have a new message waiting for them. This time it is from the LCC who thanks the raven for their work writing that the spaceship arrived safely and now they can move forward with their plans. The raven pays little mind to this unaware that on this ship the LCC had just brought AC’s of their own a group called the freighters. Stillthe raven goes on to perform more missions and climb the arena ranks once more. Some of these mission include Escourt armroed train where for the first time the corporation Balena would request the raven to guard their armored train black tail from emurade forces as it is carrying new armored core parts. In this mission the raven will kill the raven Cruel Justice who shows up as part of the attacking force. As such like any raven killed on a mission he will be removed from the arena. Another mission is Assist Malea Base where a secret zio martix base located in the Barreld Desert is being being attacked by disorder units and they want the raven to clean them out along with reminding the pilot that this base is a secret and its location must never be disclosed to other parties. After this however the raven would be contacted by emeraude, they request the raven to head to the talent underground factory which has come under attack by LCC force. The reason for the need for a raven is while this factory looks to be a simple mt factory in truth it is where they storge all their ac information as such they believe LCC attack is because they have learned of this. As such the raven is to go in and take out the LCC forced before they reach the data with the added bonus that another raven will already be on site to aid. To the raven it seems like a simple mission after all at this time the LCC is still a rather weak power so they head off to shoot their way through the place only as they do they hear their ally having trouble as over the radio frighteners already on mars followed by a cry of pain as they are destoried. Luckily the raven is just behind the door of the room where this is taking place and opens it only to be confronted by two armored cores. One points its enegry machine gun at the raven ready to fight however a radio call on an open channel calling these ac pilots by their names Boyle and Remille tells them that the mission is over making the pair leave as the raven stands there before his allies wreaked ac. Nell words shake over the radio as she says the name frighteners before telling the raven that the mission is complete and to return home. However in truth the raven had failed as such they would end paying out for repairs and ammo. Luckily their time in the arena had allowed them to save credits from the wins. With a sour taste in their mouth the raven returns to concord only to have two emails waiting for them. The first is from LCC how writes address all martain citizens about how the existence of the corporation might ruin Mars with their environmentally risky development and excessive arms race it could cause another great destruction. As such as the governing body they will ensure that this does not happen as such all corporations on Mars are henceforth under their control and will be regulated by them. They also threaten drastic punishment for corporation promoting aggressive tactics and this goes for the raven working for them too. It is a clear message that the LCC seem ready to take over mars however the raven knew corporations simply do not roll over as such they move on to the next email from Nell explain about the frightener it explain how they are the earth government special forces, most are ex ravens and have come to enforce order among the waring corporations along with weaken them by taking out Ravens and she believe they can do it as their leader is a man named Leos Klein a rumoured nine-breaker from earth who never surrender his number one ranking in the arena. It with this information on hand that the raven heads out more taking on more mission like ground based attack, save water generation plant and rescue research team. All these would show the corporation paid no heed to the LCC rule and instead went on as they were and Nell would message the raven again about clear it was becoming clear that frighteners where targeting ravens and warns the raven to be careful. The raven also get an email from the conord itself addresses about how very early on terraforming project how there is a large number of ancient structures unearthed proving that at some point in the distant past was inhabited by an advanced civilization. However all this has been kept a secret from the people living on mars as they need hope not silly stories of the past. The secrets of mars and now the LCC going after ravens, it would seem mars is about to go through a change however for the raven life would go on as a new mission comes in infiltrate rader base. This request would come from Balena who wants the raven to aid them in taking over the emeraude zamda radar base. This would be done in a joint effort with the LCC who will come in once the radars of the base are taken out. The raven would take this mission and compete it however after they would then receive a new mission this time from Emeraude. It seems the loss of their ac data and the LCC last attack is forcing their hand as this mission ask the raven to feign an attack in the arden river which will drawn away the defence force and allow their own team to attack. They are doing this as they believe to crush the LCC, Zio martix technology must be incorporated into their own. However while on this mission things do not go as plan as during the mission the raven recoves a call from Nell stating the attack force from Emeraude as been wiped out and calls for a retreat. An email later from Nell would confirm the attacking forces of emeraude were wiped out by the frighteners. This puts them in a very bad position as this attack has made them lose nearly all their military strength, forcing them to be pushed into a corner by LCC. However it is clear they will not give up without a fight. LCC however would not stop here as the raven would then get two missions from Zio martix one requesting them to guard their head quarter rooftop as the LCC is launcing n attack on it while another asks the raven to detsory top secret files in containers that were being transported by their own transport plane before got shot down. This would not be the only mission as the raven would also be asked by LCC to detory the rader base they captured not long by taking out its main computer giving emeraude no mean in which to continue battling. If this was not enough to keep the raven busy its made clear by an email that the Balena corporation are working with LCC upgrading their ravens as it seem this coprtaion was simple aiding the side it thought is winning but also trying to push it own power on mars. The LCC had lots of moving parts and it seems Leos is a key part as the raven gets a mission from strung the raven who watched over him during the test to take out a Zio martix reseach team only then to turn on him saying Leos was right, your too powerful. The raven however does not die here, putting the veteran raven into the ground they return once again only to be sent off by zio Martix to recover some stolen files from balena ac research lab a mission which would see the raven recover the files but also plant a bomb to detsory the lab. It in this whirl wind of missions that Concord would update the raven on some records they found from Murakumo millennuin archive that state that disorder untis are guard unit created by an ancient martain civilization. However it seem they are not acting on their own as they are being guided by some remote control tower. However no such tower has been found, but if it was and someone could take it over it would be relatively east to conquer mars. The mysterys of mars would keep unravelling as would the battles as the raven is once again call into action by balena who’s facing Emeraude last trick as they have two large surface weapons named SRBIA advancing through the barreld desert toward be balena’s satellite replays which if detsoried would cripple their information network. As always the raven is ready to strike taking down these weapons along with two ally mts however what this will result in is the end of emeraude’s mars power grab as both the mars branch earth branch have agreed to come control of the LCC and the earth government. With one down, Zio Martix and Balena are the only two corporations still active in the fighting however even this is not all clear cut either. As it would be learned that Zio matrix earth headquarters and their mars division relationship is deteriorating at a rapid pace due to the earth headquarters not wanting to damage it ties to the earth government however the mars division is only concered with consolidating power. In such a case the raven missions would not let up as their next mission would take them to the Murakumo dome a structure left over from the first terraforming. They want the raven to sneak in as Leso Klein as been seen entering and leaving it a lot and hope they will find something to oppresse the LCC. However in the end this turns out to be a trap set by LCC who fire a missiles at the dome to destroy it while also sending two loyal LCC raven to kill the intruder. Luckly the skill of the raven allows them to escape taking the lives of the two LCC ravens as they do. However rest is not allowed for the busy raven as the next mission comes in fast. This time from the Zio martix earth headquarters. It tells the raven that they are now at war with their mars division thanks to the heavy handed tactics of the LCC. However since the battle is no in their favor they made a peace proposal with the LCC during an earth meeting. The mars divison made it very clear they did not want this and left the meeting saying we still have a card up our sleeve. It made Zio earth headquarter worry as after this the mars branch ceased all commnications and sent troop to the underground railway on mar which they believe is where this card is being kept. So the raven would set off, clearing out any who oppose them before finally they find this card, a very large disorder unit hiding in one of the tunnels. A battle begins between the two and the raven comes out the winner putting this card down, however the zio mars branch is not done as straight after this another mission comes from Zio’s earth headquarter as now their mars branhc has declared independence and now are readying to fire high density napalm missiles from an occupied quire missile station at major martain cities. A desperate attack however the pay is so high the raven can not say no as they go in killing two ac’s who are guarding the missiles named Heilos and time keeper before stopping the lauch. It here finally it seems the war on mars stop as after this the LCC send a message to all ravens. Unchecked corporate competition has taken it toll on mars, just as it had on years years ago. However now that the battles have ended a;; corporation will fall into line under the LCC’S Control. We the LCC hereby make a declaration we have achieved the unification of mars and brought order and peace to this planet. It looks to be all over as the LCC would send the raven a mission in it is a request to stand guard at the Vilhil spaceport as with this new order, the LCC is getting a new director from earth. The job is simple stand there as a show of power after all this will be their last job as an independent raven as soon all raven will work for the LCC. The end of wars on mars and of ravens. The thought passes through the mind of the raven as they stand there watching as the shuttle lands with the vip. However suddenly an mt is down by gun fire coming from the special force escort of the new director, an announcement blares out over the communication radio. A rebellion by the special forces quickly saw the shuttle of the vip filled with bullet as the raven fights to clear the base of the attack force. In the end however the new director would be killed and the speical forces would leave mars shaken. As for the raven they would return to concord to be greeted by more emails, one from Leos Klein the leader of the special force we write that raven have too many restrictions, as such those who wish to create a world where racens are totally free should follow me. The other would be from the earth government itself, writing that the LCC is no longer functional due to the mutiny of the speicals force and how they will be taking control of mars temporary with the gaol of suppressing all rogue elements starting with Les Klein. They ask for the ravens understanding and support. A new war began on Mars and now the raven found themselves in the middle of it as soon the earth government is sending the raven on mission after mission some of these including surpassing the zio city where LCC had taken over Zio own city and there headquarters, space station assault which see the raven remove more sepical force from the hammerhead space station and the removal of a large flying disorder unit, Underground lab where the raven is sent in to clean up the remains of the special forces that fled to the underground lab of Zio Matrix headquarters where here the raven will witness and fight another strange discorder unit. The battles wore down the raven and rest for the fighting mercenary is only filled with Nell writing to him about what concord has discovered about Klein. He wrote a report during the first mars research team stating that a central control systeam exisits on mars and all information regarding the history of mars is stored there. The only ones that have access to this system however are armored machines unique to mars, the disorder unit they have been fighting. However they have no idea where this system is and somehow does Klein know something about it location already? It all questions and no answer and the raven has little time to think as another mission is given to the raven this time the government have confirmed Leos Klein location in Rapture core, the earth to space elevator. The raven heads there thinking that after all this maybe the war would end however after battling their way to the core to meet and battle Leos Klein who is waiting for them in the reactor suddenly the leader of the LCC starts to repeat himself, again and again until suddenly his ac blows up. However Nell points out that its unmanned, this ac did not have a pilot. Leos was not in it and soon the raven would learn why as their return would lead to their next mission. For this battle had been a diversion while the special forces took over an LCC military facility and launched Balena STAI battleship from it. The earth governments admits in the briefing for the mission that this battleship has enough power to destory the entire planet and now they would be sending a team of raven to deal with Klein inside who seemed to be headed for Phobos, one of the two moons orbting Mars. While the purpose of this is unknown at the time to the government and the raven, Phobos is an ancient Martian construct designed as some kind of super weapon that served as the control unit for the Disorder units. Yet unknown to both parties at the time the raven sets off with the team of other raven to shit down the STAI battleship. All of the team expect the raven is lost either in transport to the battle ship or inside leaving only the raven to fight a waiting leos who has some words for them. Its a quick battle however Klein is no finished for making his escape he tells the raven he will be waiting on Phobos to be reborn. The ramblings of a mad man or where the real final battle would be? Nell would confirm in an email after that concord has learned that Probos is the martian control system however they have no idea what is goal is there and what he would gain from this information. There is more questions then answers yet for the raven the next mission that lands on their lap would be one of great important to raven history and the future of mars. The earth government recives a transmission from Leso Klein on phobos it claims the moon is in fact an artifact left by an ancient martain civilization. He claims its an enormous mobile weapon controlled by a high tech computer. While they had a hard time believe it, as recent calculations done by earth scientist have shown p hobos orbit has already shifted. The government does not care if it is wepaon or not the fact is if phobos plummets to mars then the damage it would do to mankiind would be irreparable. The raven must stop klein. If they do in return the earth government will grant all ravens their freedom, they relinquish their control over them and allow the raven to live as independent mercenaries. It is the greatest reward offer to raven ever and as such what choice did the raven have. To live free as a bird, they could not turn away from this offer. The battle on Phobos would be the toughest the raven have faced having to take down, a large disorder unit, one of Leon right hand raven named Boyce, see leon betray his last remaining ally as she is left to die and finally having to face Leon himself in a strange and power machine disorder unit in two forms known as Scarabaeus and Filial. After its defeat the raven still recovering would hear that the moon is falling towards mars at an increased rate leading to Leos to tell the raven to destroy the orbit control mechanism further in as it will cause it to stop before it hits mars. The raven does this however the damage causes phorbos to start deteriorate leaving the raven no time to escape. However as the raven makes a run for it and as they do Klein asks the raven what is their last wish? It seems that wish is to escape, for as phobos explodes Nell shares one last message with the raven as the story of armroed core 2 comes to an end.
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Armored Core 2
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Armored Core Lore The Story of armored core Project Phantasma The year is ED0156, in Amber City a doomsday organisation known as the Wednesday agency is active and performing research in the closed areas on their new project. The citizens of amber crown have been forced into living in slums while the Wednesday agency only expands taking over laboratories, training grounds and even the city defences. The corporation of chrome and Murakumo have no interest in the city leaving this group to take over as little tyrants. However it during this year that a raven would receive a message from an unknown group in their emails. By passing the usual checks of R and even ravens nest, the email request the raven aid in a mission located in amber city. However before this, they have a test for the raven to see the pilots true power. It here the location coordinates for a Materials dump is supplied and along with it a very large credit offer. The raven being one not to turn away from a challenge accepts this mission and heads out to this material dump only to find it light guarded. With this in mind the raven is set on a path as they engage the defence force wiping out mts as calls for help echo from the radio of the foes. The raven however is quick destroying what they can in the time given before fleeing, this bird of darkness would pass the test with flying colours and it would not be long before the unknown group who first contacted would be in touch again this time with a real mission for their now hire raven. Infiltrate Amber base, This would be the first mission the raven take to counter the doomsday organisation although not know at the time by the pilot it would be the start of the downfall of the group as well. For being dropped outside the city the raven is quick to destroy the four generators that power the security door keeping the energy shield of the entrance to the city operational before storming in. In a hail of bullets and two lift rides later the raven is finally at his targets, four underground condensers that the raven destories allowing the pilot to enter amber crown and complete the first of many mission from this unknown group. This would lead to the first encounter with Stinger, an irregular raven who seem to have a bone to pick with the people who he seem to be working for. The mission was set to trap the raven working against the Wednesday agency however Stinger has other plan as he kills the supposed target of the raven before comment. With a fail trap and the unknown group making it clear to the raven through email that the last mission was not from them. This would cause the raven to be a little cautious towards the next mission the group has as they send him off to rescue an ally of their from a laboratory. The detail as always were limited however with the basic information in hand that to even have a chance to rescue the prisoner the raven would have to destroy the main power generator of the lab to open the security doors of the lab he was off. With little to no defence forces outside the lab, the raven storms into the laboratory taking out any mts that stands in his way before meeting stinger once again. Acting as a guard for the laboratory the pair of raven battle it out with bullets and lasers flying before finally stinger is disabled by the raven attack. His ac on it knee as the raven head deeper into the lab, the security of this lab is a joke to the raven as clearing out any who get the mercenaries way before finally taking out the power generator. This sets off alarms all across the base and seems to give the raven target the chance to escape as over the radio a message is heard. It seem the prisoner is not about to sit about and wait to be recovered as such the raven heads to the third sector to find this running prisoner cornered by two other battle rigs. For the raven the rigs are easy picking as after their death the raven and his target now flee together toward the laboratories air transport area where a transport plane awaits them. A daring escape of dodging bullets and a count-down till the base goes into lock down finally leads the pair of escape in the plane before the prisoner introduces herself. Sumika a raven from amber group and also the unknown group who had sending the raven messages. She would from here hire the raven as her personal mercenary to combat this doomsday organisation and their project phantasma. The pair would forge a quick alliance as soon after this the pair get to work Sumika and her raven would first take out a military force from the Wednesday agency performing a military drill. Sumika believed this to be a way for the group to get data for this project, however the raven did not comment as their only job was to kill and so they would. After what could only be described as a bloodbath of oil and metal, Sumika would not slow down the assault on the doomsday organisation as she would then send the raven off to disput the shipping lanes of Wednesday agency. It seems after their last attack the group seem to be trying to send new supplies to the military base however the ravan would be there to stop them. The truck of supplies and even their defences again had little chance against the skill of the raven who with the aid of sumika would stop them all with bullets and lasers before heading back to the slums of amber crown to get his next mission. The pair seem to have little rest as sumika and the raven move out this time to capture a vip from the Wednesday agency testing ground in the south west of amber city. More jungle then city, the raven and sumika sneak about the testing ground until the arrival of a well dressed man who is dropped of by helicopter. After he enters the building the pair strike wiping out the defence force of the base before sumika captures the VIP at gunpoint. With prisoner in tow the pair then flee back to the slums of amber city where sumika plans to interrogate him however the pair are ambushed by stinger and Wednesday agency mts. A battle between them ensure with the raven being the driving force behind the attack while sumkia defend their prisoner. Its here again stinger would feel the sting of defeat from the raven before he flees commenting. This would allow for some time to rest and interrogate the Vip leading to the raven to learn from sumika email that this wednesday organisation is being funded by a conglomerate and aided by companies in an effort in their research. It seems outside help is allowing for this group to function and have such military might however it seems they that trust was breaking down. After learning about this the next mission would see the raven and sumika take out a detracment of the group that seem to be looking for their vip. Those Sumika is not such why there are in the south of amber city, however she take no chance and with the raven wipes them out. Another battle over, the pair return to the slums to rest before sumika comes to the raven with another mission shortly after. The raid of the Wednesday agency head quarters, the mission is to get into the base and retrieve data on project phantasma as it is still an unknown quality and more information is needed to make their next move. This mission is a lot more difficult for the raven as the base is armed to the teeth with mts and defences that stand in the way. It would be after more fighting and boosting that finally the raven and sumika would arrive at the computer room where the data is stored. However while sumika extracts this data, the raven must hold back a wave of foes before finally the pair make their escape. It is a hard fought battle out yet it is far from over as the pair witness bombers bombing the base while dropping off para mts as well. It seem to be the sponsors of this group wanting to wipe off the base out and them along with it, yet once again the skill of the raven saves them before they both flee into the darkness as the base burns into ash. Sumika and the raven however have no time to rest as the new information leads the pair to the north highland. A snowy area of amber city where the the remains of the doomsday organisation and stinger are hiding with the project phantasma. Its here the raven would deploy before being put to the test once again by the forces of the Wednesday agency and finally the first real sighting of project phantasm being piloted by stinger. The pair of raven duel in their machines of war with the raven forcing stinger to flee once again with damage to the new project. He takes flight leaving the group as the raven take their leave only to find the new base of sumika are under attack by the wednesday agency at the Northern Old Castle. This seem to be a last rush as the mts keep coming and coming as they seem to throw everything they have at the two. Yet it is not enough and when the battle is over Sumika thanks the raven for their assistance however knows they can not stay here as such the pair must move on with their task to take out the project. This new drive would lead them to the place where sumika believed stinger and the project can be located in the subway area of Amber Crown. Its an area looking to be war zone with large holes in the ground however a security system is still in place leading sumika and the raven to have to take it out before finally the raven and stinger meet again. This time however the irregular is more aggressive and seems determined to not let the raven get project phanstama. The raven however is not one to back down who after another gruelling battle between Stinger and the raven stinger cries out in a rage before running off in his damaged armored core. The raven gives chase only to see stinger has taken off with the project once more and this time sumika orders the raven to give chase and finish him off. It is then after this that the raven would return to base to recover however he would soon get a emial from stinger himself. A call out to end this once and for all, the raven would answer and head to an area known as Sealed Establishment Abyss where the real project phantasma would be seen. Scarlet red as blood, the machine had merged with Stinger who rambles about being unstoppable and how the raven will now die. It is not a si9mple battle but war between a new machine of war and the known armored core as laser flash, missiles fly and machines clash. The end comes for stinger as the raven kills him before escaping the explosion of the project as finally he and sumika share some final words between them. After this the raven would return to issac city and as for sumika she would remain in amber city, the fate of sumika would not be shown. However for this raven, the pilot would go on to become a nine-ball killer.
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Armored Core: Project Phantasma
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Armored Core Lore The story of Master of Arena The year is ED0130, where a now rebuilding human race is living in underground cities controlled by two corporations known as Chrome and Murakumo Millennium. These two giants of production have made nearly all the cities their own however even that is not enough for the power hunger corporations. For one young raven, his story begins when his home of issac city becomes a battlefield for one of the many battles between these corporations. During this battle where civilians ran for their lives while corporation forces simply pushed on against their foes. Their reckless fire and the power of a certain red armored core would cause the loss of many lives including the lives of the family member of this young raven. Their deaths would be the match that lights a fire of revenge inside him burning with hate for the red armored core that they knew killed their loved ones. For months the young raven would hunt for information about the red armored core through the city’s information network known as nerve, and finally through endless nights of searching he would learn the name of the pilot of the red ac who killed his family, hustler one. The number one ranking raven in the organization known as raven nest. But to him, it did not matter how high this killer was, this young man would do anything to kill the one who took away his loved one and that is when he gets a message, a message from someone named Lana Nelson and in it subject heading it read Do you want to be a raven? It would be a message that sets the young man off on this path of revenge as he answer with images of the red ac in his mind was yes. From here she would direct him to raven’s nest the home of Hustler one and to many mercenaries for hire. Here is where he would take the test to become a raven before finally he would receive another message for Lana Nelson. Congratulations how does it feel to finally be a raven? I’m your ravens nest contact and the person in charge of handling negations with requesters to sort out your missions. Orders must be followed to the letter. It would go on to advice the male raven to take caution in missions and there is no telling what he may come up against. Also his first mission was waiting for him. The first mission for this new raven would be fugitive capture, a hacker known to target corporations. The issac city guard did capture this criminal however he escaped, hijack an armored car and flee into the botanical zone. A zone where plants are grown for the use in skin and hair products and others that are derived from a plant such as flavouring agents. The hacker had already taken over the mts security force on site as such the issac city guard wanted this done quickly and effectively by a raven. With this information the raven sets off to the arena and proceeds to destroy 30 MTS called Spatula as seen here from the armored core master of arena guide book. After this and destroying the controls for the gates to the area the hacker is hiding, the raven is quick to corner the hacker who admits he has not chance against a raven and is getting out the armoured car to surrender when. (Play nine-ball clip of his killing hacker) It was if the killer of this ravens family knew he would be here, even mocking the raven who is told by Lana that they need to talk back at raven nest. Here the raven and Lana will talk through email once more this time she reminds the raven that the first time they met on the network meaning nerve the network all information passes through in the underground cities. That he wanted to become a raven to kill someone only then to bring up Hustler one name, his ac known as nine-ball and how that raven is rank one in the arena stating that is all we know on the raven your after. To do this she tells him that he will need to have a corporate sponsor to even get into the area before warning the raven that anyone who attempts to face nine-ball in battle will surely be destroyed. If your willing to risk your life, I can arrange it so one day you will fight him. That is all. The message made it clear to the raven to even get a chance to kill hustler one, he would have to find a corporate sponsor, a task that could only be done by showing his skills in missions as such the raven moves out performing missions such as destroying the maintenance computer in protechs weapon manufacturing factory which has malfunctioned resulting in the factory being over run with faulty mts which attack anyone in sight. The mts found in this mission would be called Triguard. Another mission would including recovering a meteor from north rock’s heaven ane supply point for a corporation named R and G industries. The raven would be there to witness the meteor crash before having to kill flying mts name kafars and another raven by the name Inky and his armored core Regulon. This Raven and ac have different names in the Japanese version of the game. After this the raven would perform more missions including one from protech once again to attack a transport trucks filled with unknown martial and recover secret files where a research group by the name of izumo materials is attacked and files about their research are stolen. The thief is making a get away in an armored truck and the raven has to give chase stopping the thief before he flies off in a helicopter waiting for him at a nearby airport. On this mission the raven can either kill another ac by the name of Frog-man or let him live and only kill the thief. Its after this however that things would start to really move for the raven as he receives a message from Lana again this time it reads. A corporation has extended an offer to sponsor you in the arena, the sponsor is progtech. One of the companies operating in the arena. There is one condition though you must defeat all ravens current associated with the arena. The Company wants to see what you capable of. I have done some research and it does not matter who you fight. But remember they are all ravens just like you that is all. What is means is the raven has to kill off a current raven in the arena to make room for himself and it would seem Lana already had three targets in mind for the raven. However since this was simple for his benefit he would not get paid for the kill as such this was coming out of his pocket. The three targets Lana had found for the raven include a raven named Sweet devil and his ac Evil kiss who the raven could kill in the mission cavern invasion. IA female raven named ideal and her armored core goldly in an issac city construction site under a false mission brief to lure her in, however if the raven does take this mission he will also kill another raven named Superb hunter and his ac Super bow. And finally a raven named Bugsy and his armored core Hercules outside of chrome head quarters as he is acting as a guard there. No matter who the raven kills, Protech will see his skill and sponsor the raven however he will only be able to fight in the sub arena. An arena where ravens have to prove themselves before begin allowed to enter into the higher rank where only the top class raven are and where nine-ball reigns as it top contender. It clear at this point to the raven that the path to hustler one would require him to fight in this sub arena and take missions to allow him to upgrade his own armroed core for the fights to come. As such that is what he would do, climbing the ranks of the sub arena while also taking on missions such as defend submarine where the raven would fight off helicopter bombers named slings and a battle cruiser. And others like Enemy fortress where the raven would take out the defences of a large fortress located at the north west White Land Old Castle. Here he would take down a number of anti aircraft gun, large artillery, Bubby and a raven name Ninya and his ac Stalker. It then after all that suddenly the raven would get a message form his sponsor Progtech requesting his aid with an emergency. Their marine lab has come under attack by an unknown force of mts, while they seem to have no clear objective they came in force and so far progtech has already dispaced one raven to stop this attack however all he was able to do was stall the attackers for a while. In truth they have an important company official housed within this lab and he needed to be rescued and brought to safety. While the raven was not sure since this mission seem to not been passed through raven nest, however in the message it made clear progtech would not wait for an answer as with their right as a sponsor they had temporarily revoked the raven licence to participate in the arena. This situation left the raven no choice without the arena he would never be able to reach hustler one as such he accepted the mission and headed out. The raven would arrive the sea bond lab on a hover transport from protech before jumping off and attacking a number of Mts called Stink bugs that seem to be the attacking force or what reminded of them. After their defeat, a door of the base would open and the first raven from his mission fritz would roll out to thank the raven for his help as his ammo reverses had run. It should be noted here that this seem to be done only in English version where it even add what looks to be a grim reaper tarot card on the shoulder of this ac. In truth however this ac is meant to be another raven named Hydranger who is said to have replaced his water intake to be beer instead however in the English version he shares fritz name. However the pair have little time to chat more suddenly from the water a large mt jumps out like a creature from the sea depths and lands on the floating base. This MT would come to be known as merman, an mt capable of amphibious operations however at this time Fritz would run for it in his ac with the mts firing upon him. It unclear here if the raven was able to save fritz or not either way the raven would take down this new foe and return to base. Upon returning however the raven would have two emails, one from a man named Elan Cubis, he introduces himself as the head of development at progtech. He thanks for the raven for the rescue from the marine base however he does want the raven to know he think the amphibious MT that attacked is odd as no corporation or company as achieved yet as such he fear an unknown group is using technology before the great destruction to attack progtech. The next email is from Lara and her words are a very different kind of warning as she writes. As I explained earlier, I am you RAVEN’S NEXT contact and the one who will supply you with your orders. You will follow the orders you’re given and do as your told. Even if you are approached by a sponsor, you are not to accept any missions without my approval. Don’t let it happen again! That is all. It clear the raven will now have to tread carefully after upsetting Lana as such he continues to rise in the ranks of the sub arena and perform more missions she send him including destroying a giant tank being used by a group of terrorists, destroying a cannon designed to take down satellites which would also see the raven kill another raven by name of Locagos and his ac Toll-keeper. Board the space ship which would see the raven try to find his way through a vertically crashed spaceship to find protech research team which had come under fire. After this and climbing more ranks in sub arena protech would once again contact the raven with another request. However it would through lana this time who write how the raven seems to have flown up the ranks of the sub arena and how it would soon be time for him to enter the arena where hustler one makes his home. Its reading this the raven at once heads out to support his sponsor this time with a secret material that was stolen by a raven named The wolf. He fled into an abandon mine and now progtech wants the raven to get the marital back. Once again the raven right to battle in the arena is revoked until this mission is done. As such with little choice the raven head out, deep into the abandoned mine taking out MTS named Float suits and Spatulas before killing wolf in his ac and recover the material. While this success it pleases progtech who sends the raven a message after sending their congratulations on a job well done and how they have now registered him as a contender in the area. They explain usually a raven would have to wait for one of the fifteen ravens of this area to drop out however a space recently opened up as such he may take their place. The reason this space become available is thanks to the raven killing wolf who held rank 14 in this arena as such the raven would now step into the arena where hustle one waited at the top. As such the raven would focus on climbing the ranks of this arena once more, however it is when he defeat the rank 10 raven Shadow master that suddenly Progtech contacts him again. Another emergency request this time to defend their lab located in the centre of issac city as an unknown group of mts are attacking in groups to break in, they fear the target of the attack is Elan cubis and request the raven help in this. Of course the raven hands are tied once again as his arena licence is temporarily revoked again as such he head out to the lab. One there the raven with be dashing from gate to gate that leads to the lab to stop the invading groups spilt forces consisting of mts called Wasps before a single foe is reported near a gate, the raven heads there hoping this is the last one however to his surprise this foe is none other then hustler one’s ac Nine-ball. A battle ensures between the raven and nine-ball with cannons fired and energy shots burning the pillars around them finally the raven damages nine-ball to the point the ac flees. Its a tough battle however things would only get tougher for the raven when he returns to read his emails. One would be from Elan thanking him again for saving him and how he had no had any luck with his research on the amphibious mt, however seeing that this time nine-ball came he decides he will looking into this ac instead. The other email however is of much greater importance as it is from lana nelson with the title support cut off and it reads. You were warned not to accept any request without my approval. I am no longer acting as you contact at ravens nest. In fact I’m cutting off all support to you. Good luck, you’ll die soon enough. Losing the support of Lana however does not bother the raven as with enough credits in his pocket and progtech paying the repair bill for his arena fights. The raven would only focus on the arena raising from rank 10 to 4 before he called upon again by Progtech and another email from Elan. Opening elan message first the raven reads that Elan has discovered that any corporation that has to do nine-ball either experience massive growth or a rapid decline. The attacks of progtech he believes are to finish the company off however the reason behind it still remains unknown to him, however it seem this raven has a hidden agender. Putting this aside the raven then reads the request from progtech, a mission request to elimate intruders in the progtech headquarters. It seems after transferring Elan to their head quarters suddenly has come under attack with elan inside. The attacker are again are an unknown force and on site security is unable to stop them as they race towards the building core where elan is based. Once again with his licence suspended by his sponsor, the raven moves out storming the headquarters to take out this invading force consisting of Stink bug and Heavy bold MTS as he dies however Elan contacts him. Nine-ball appears to be waiting for him where Elan is hiding as such the raven make this way their only to met by the red ac itself who has some words for him. Another battle between the raven and nine-ball after with more hole being blasted in walls, energy shot marking the raven ac while his fires off his own weapons at nine-ball until finally the red ac blows up. It looks to be the end of nine-ball and hustler one, the raven take a moment to breath before elan radios him to report that all the remaining forces are retreating and he wants to talk to the raven later about nine-ball. The raven however paid little mind to this as for him, he had killed his target and with that his revenge is done. Or so he thought, for returning to the nest and checking the ranking he finds that still sitting at the top of the area is nine-ball? The raven knew he had killed him, he’d seen it with his won eyes yet there at the top of arena nine-ball remained. Elan would also have the same thought as the raven as in his email to the raven after the mission he would question how nine-ball is still alive too. However what Elan did find is that Raven nest had been tampering with his data, but for what purpose he did not know yet. Whatever the case the raven had no time to stop and think, his families killer is still alive as such he would have to keep climbing the ranks till he could face nine-ball. The raven would do this taking the number 3 raven Max and the number 2 raven pandora in the arena before again he would be disturb by emails One from Elan who reveals he did some digging in the nest data base on nine-ball and found a strange word H-1. To Elan this is strange as it sounds like a part not a raven name as such he suspects that hustler-one may no even exist and along with this the raven previous contact with the nest Lana Nelson name is also in with the data on nine-ball meaning she must be connected in a way. At this point the raven head is spinning at this suggestion before he see the other email is from none other then Lana Nelson which reads. It has been a while. Congratulations on reaching the second highest ranking in the arena. I never thought you would achieve such success. Your skill has far exceeded my original estimation of you. You have become too powerful. Do you remember? I told you I’d arrange a meeting with nine-ball for you one day. Well that day has arrived. The raven had no idea what she meant until he receives a mission from none other then Lana, this mission asked him to come to a factory outside of issac city no one knew about and meet her there if he’s got it all figured out. To the raven this clearly screamed trap however if nine-ball had something to do with Lana then what choice did he have. As such the raven would head there alone with only his armored core, he would enter only to sudden become under attack from nine-ball however the ac feel too easy, something was not right as such the raven went deep in. As he does the voice of Lana comes over his radio. Then hustler one voice joins in mixing with Lana’s. The pair seem to moulding together talking about their purpose and how they created all corporations, armored core. Just who are these people? The raven would not find that answer out however walking down the corridors he would see lines of nine-balls ac all waiting. Nine-ball was not one ac but seem to be mass manufactured and he would see this as the raven then has to battle two more nine-balls. A hard battle fought and won, The defeat of these two nine-balls would lead for the voice of Lana and hustler one to speak again. Purpose? The raven did not understand, however he carried on down a lift until he came to a new foe. A monstrous looking nine-ball which seems to have modified and taller then then an ac it is here the final battle between raven and the final line of defence of whatever called itself hustler one and Lana. This machine of death and terrifying power would later to be named nine-ball seraph the final defence of as would be learned much later was the same ai from ac1 who had used the name of hustler one and lana as covers to keep control over everything. However with the raven defeat of nine-ball seraph, he would watch as the machine burned all over, flame spouting out of it arms and legs it body shaking as it insides fried and yet it tries for a final shot at the tired battle worn raven only for its arm to blow off and finally fall too it knees. After this battle the raven last action is to leave the arena, his destination unknown what would be clear however is just a short time after raven nest and all it function would fall silent and the underground world would fall into a war known as the underground war. This end the report on the story of armored core master of arena.
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Armored Core: Master of Arena
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Armored core Lore The story of Armored core 2 another age It has been five years since the rebellion on Mars where the LCC special forces and their leader Leos Klein tried to control the red planet. The Earth government having spent a lot of resources and money on stopping this rebellion has the governing body now focusing on building military assets instead of rebuilding the planet they call home. It is the only option in their eye as after all with the corporations who waged war on Mars first still active on earth the government needed to show the might of the government to these business, who tried to escape their regulations to simple make more money. As such the rapid military growth of would soon lead to the government having proxies like the Bureaus of Control and the LCC to govern locally while they tried to focus on environmental reclamation and the re-population of Earth's surface. However while this was going on the corporations ceos would be brought before the government for questioning about the war on mars. The Emeraude corporation who had surrendered first to the government would be the most servery punished as reports and information from officials would show that this corporation deliberate went out of their way to go against the LCC forces along with trying to undermine the government like paying informers for inside information. All this and more would see the emeraude corporation being heavy restricted by the government and while it is never made clear what these restrictions are from a look over some real word restrictions it would be a stretch to suggest the earth government put a limit on the number of MTS and armored core parts the corporation could produce, limited the trade this corporation could do on earth and mars along with a stricter process on the corporations use of ravens after all though ravens have been granted to right to operated independently the government could still ask for details about why and when a raven was used by emeraude. In effect what all this did is cripple earth largest corporation who went away to secretly rebuild their own military might, their hunger for power not stopping as soon they would strike out again to become number one as with all these restrictions it made them fall behind the next corporation to be seen Zio Matrix. Unlike Emeraude, Zio made its case that the war on mars was not the fault of the earth branch, they only wished to make mars a home for earth’s people however it seems they misjudge the excitative they placed in charge of the mars branch. They lost sight of the parent companies goals and went rouge causing terrible damage to the image of Zio Martix and all its affiliates. A business like apology and with all the evidence to back up their claim, Zio would not face so harsh as restrictions like Emeraude however the earth government would still place similar restrictions on their Mts production and AC part production. This allowed Zio to function better as a business then emeraude making them now the number one corporation of earth. However with the government growing might and the always watching eyes of the bureaus Zio would more cautious in its dealings with the government and all other future ventures. Finally Balena’s ceo would also be questioned as it was their parts and modifications that allowed Leos klien and his forces to be able to perform their rebellion. The corporation would be clear in their answers that the balena corporation did so as to aid the earth’s governing body on mars the LCC, it like many did not expect someone the government personal selected to lead their forces to rebel and use the parts for war instead of keeping the peace which is the goal they along with all the people of earth want. Its a statement the earth government certainly could not argue back with after all they had been advised to select Kelin for his knowledge on mars and his ability with an armored core. This would lead to Balena being let off by the government however while the government did not punish this small corporation Zio Matrix and Emeraude would by cutting off all trade and ties with them as for these two saw them as supporters of the government. While the loss of business from the two did hit Balena hard, they would continue to do business with the government but also start to support a new group who would rise from the underground cites known as the indies. They did not to support the reason the indies are fighting for but with a terrorist group running about the government would need their ac parts and weapons, they created a problem to make more money. With all this the government would go on to form more Bureaus to tackle the issues on earth and Mars as tensions between the corporations and government would grow to a breaking point. They would be the only one however as with the government's efforts currently focused all over the place resentment towards the governing body from the general populace would also reach a breaking point. Tired of being neglected the people living in the underground cities would take matters into their own hands and incidents of armed revolt would start to become a daily occurrence as the rise of the indies group would only see the government once again having to turn to ravens as the corporations and indies would use the independent mercenaries to wage war on again. This is where history takes a twist for some will say a new raven rose from the ranks of earth’s Nerves Concord or this will be the return of the raven from AC2 who stopped leos Klein rebellion and returned to earth. Either way this raven would perform a number of tasks from all the corporations, the indies and even the earth government themselves from rescues, defence training, attacks on bases to even fighting off a relic of the past however in truth the world is tuck in a motion of war with the corporations seeking power, the Indies wishing to overthrown them all and the earth government trying to retain order for all on mars and earth. The events of this time are very normal for the life of mercenary to be honest, in fact its fair to say that the battles the raven fights here all are simply creating a never ending cycle where corporation fight on another to gain power from the earth government, the government will try to maintain order by investing heavily in military which in turn means the funds can not be spent on aid the population who in turn form groups like the indies who battle against the corporations and the government who simple are not supplying them a decent life above or below ground. Yet it is from this normal life of raven that we do see some important events and the affects the mars rebellion has for this final stop for the first timeline of armored core. Starting off the continuation of human re-engineering, the mission Target Elimination it here we learn that project like human plus are still going on even after the fall of murakumo and this time the one’s doing it are emeurade which is understandable seeing as the corporation is looking to use power to fight back against a growing earth government. The target here is a man named Gespent who not only escapes Emeraude but also steal a zio matrix armored core that is using part that zio believes will revolutionise armored cores. What this really shows however is that the human plus idea is still being used by the corporation and again much like the corporations before them Emeraude prays on people in large amount of debt. Another important event is seen in Eliminate Biological Menace, it here we see the return of bio weapons much like the Warrior bugs as seen years before created by chemical dye co. While a creator is never name it here at the Hilda Abandoned Facility where these flea seem to live and repopulate suggesting either one of the corporation is playing god again or that these weapons have been here before the fall of chrome and Murakumo. The stimulatory between the two bug like bio weapons are so close and even require a bio sensor to lock onto them once again suggesting that either chemical dye co left these experiments behind or that one of the current corporations did this. Still while this was a bringing something from the past, the next key event would be in the missions Destroy Top-Secret Unit and Destroy Top-Secret Unit which will have the raven fight a very large and power mts in two way. This mt would be named the grey cloud, armed with two rapid-fire grenade launchers mounted as weapon arms, two energy machine guns mounted on the shoulders, and eight missile launchers as back weapons. The grey cloud also came armed with an orbit cannon mounted in the head and Its legs have integrated boosters for flight capabilities along with four large boosters on each side of its rear. To some ravens this massive mt may look very much like the Leviathan seen in armored core nexus and last raven. This however would be the mt first appearance in armored core 2 another age with it coming from Balena finding it in a newly discovered research facility in Zearm Desert. It is believed to have come from before the great destruction making this mt a focus point of many questions about it origin as it would later be shown in armored core 3 timeline as the Leviathan. Finally the last event to cover would show the state of mars and the raven still up there, the mission Free Rapture Orbit Elevator. In this mission from the earth government that reads This is a direct request from the Government. We're sending you to Earth's Rapture Orbit Elevator to take care of several ACs that have entered the facility without authorization. The perpetrators all hail from Mars and are demanding transfers to Earth. In an attempt to make us comply with this demand, they've seized Junction Station Bliss. Because of their actions, all operations relating to Rapture have ceased, which in turn has created an economic backlash. You are authorized to resolve this situation through force. Their leader, Antares is one of the most feared Ravens on Mars. He should not be taken lightly. Good luck. From this mission we can learn that since no corporation is active on mars thanks to them all being absorbed or destoried that Mars is peaceful. The need for ravens on the red plant is at an all time low and since only the LCC would be active at the time all the missions would payed for by the government who was weary of using raven in the first place. This mission would also suggest that a raven could not simple hop a lift down to earth to find work as due to government restrictions as such nexus concrod would be focusing on giving jobs to earth based ravens over the mars one forcing these three ravens to take action or be out of work. This is important to note as this shows that with one single power, the red planet is at peace with no wars and the need for machine of war are at an all time low. While this is seen as a terrorist attack in truth this could be seen as a cry for jobs from mars and without the wars between corporations raven could not feed themselves and if this was the case for them what about the factory workers, the guard anyone who once worked for the corporations. Did they become employees of the earth government or where they replaced? While this question is never answer what is shown to come from Mars is disorder units making the earth government look straight at Zio Matrix since there mars branch was so interested in them the government is quick to point the finger however once again the reason behind these disorder unit apperiacte is not explored. In the end this really is the story of Armored core 2 another, it is a story about what a raven life is like after being a hero of the world, everyone just goes back to their old way with corprations fighting, the earth government still fighting againest them and the people suffering all the while.
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Armored Core 2: Another Age
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Armored Core Lore The Story of Armored core 3 This timeline begins before there was even a date system in place with the Construction of the underground cities of Layard beginning with no date system in place all we know is these cities would be completed before the outbreak of the The Great Destruction." The few survivors would be relocated to the first layerd city. Its here we learn from the book armored core complete works 10 that the city would be run by management. It is unknown at this point if this management was human or AI, however it is highly likely due to the loss of lives that an AI was already active and was the management spoke of within these pages. A strong case for this is when The Layard calendar is established by the administration as a standard of living for people living in Layard. The year in the Layard calendar is not based on the earth's orbital period, and the day is not 24 hours long. Furthermore, the length of the year and the length of the day in the Layard calendar has changed many times, making it impossible to measure the exact period of time. It would be later discovered that This was a measure taken to deprive the people the rhythm of life and to get them ready for underground life. Could a human do this? Perhaps however in truth this would be the first recorded date of this timeline E.D.0000. Its during this time The administrator would confirm that some terrestrial environments have been restored to human habitable levels as such once again adjusts the Layard calendar to the length of one year and one day on earth for the peoples return to earth. However that return would never come, in fact for the next a hundred and fifty three years the administrator would govern the cities and in turn the lives of the humans within, its in this time corporations would be established and humanity would once again begin to flourish with the corporations building in sectors of layered, the rise of jobs and even the first muscle tracers pro types more commonly known as MTs by both mirage and crest would begin production and testing. Its three years later that these two powerful corporations would then start to mass produce these mts for practical use within their own factories and other manual labour intensive jobs. However perhaps like all corporations these machines are not enough as they seek to expand and make more money research of these mts into a more military use would begin if not already in progress. By the time of ED0166 the research of these mts in combat would lead to the Development of the next generation MT incorporating the "core concept" where we start to see these working mts now take a human like shape and gain the name armored cores due to their much heavy armor when compared to other muscles tracers. These new machines of war would rapidly becomes popular for the corporations as products and a new age war machine to fight each other with. However these corporations would not not escape the eyes of the administrator who already seem to have a plan in motion. For while there is no written account of when and how it seem this Ai administrator had already assigned a place for these ravens in fact it made it clear to all that to become a raven one would have to pass a test and be assigned such a role by the administrator itself. This seems to have been the birth of global cortex, a middle man service for raven to be hired by the corporations. It here where all ravens would have to registered and while they seem to enjoy some freedom from the administrator rules, they would still be held to account for how they acted which is made clear by the email when the raven of armored core 3 becomes one of these armored core pilots. This business would boom and along with it the rise of the arena where ravens would battle it out for the entertainment of the people of layered. However it should be noted this middle man business would remain neutral during the wars between corporations and only follow the rules of the administrator of layard. But this is when trouble would start to brew in the peaceful world of layerd for in ed00172 a disaster would happen many Layered citizens would die from a deterioration of water quality and air pollution due to the failure of an environmental control system. Crest in particular would be heavily affected. However they swept this under the carpet quietly and quickly. This would lead fifteen year later for a rebel group by the name of Union to be formed when an information leak reveals that the administrator has kept secret that the surface has been restored. Armed clashes between Union and the administrator's faction follow. However it in the year ed0187 where the raven of armored core would become a key figure in this history, It begins with his first mission end employee stand off, the raven would be sent to remove rebelling workers from the Crest owned Zidan weapons factory after they made the decision to shut it down to use the space to build more housing. The raven being fresh and new will take this mission and cut down the workers perhaps with a thought for them as what this means is that these citizens would be reassigned jobs by the administrator which we would learn has the name controller if there was any. The raven however would complete this task with ease only to return to have an email from crest thanking him for a job well done. They explain that it was not their decision at all to close the area but instead the controllers who they believed is making the right call for all humanities survival. This would be one of the many missions the raven would face as other include the removal of a smaller corporation force called Kisaragi by the largest corporation at the time Mirage. This being done due to the fact this smaller corporation found a vein of rich metal ore and it was decided all three corporations would share the mine however Kisaragi even after agreeing to this would continue to mine breaking the contact they made with both crest and mIrage as such their force would have to be removed to fixed this. Another mission would see the raven defend the area from a terrorist force who seem to want to shut down the arena by attacking it. After this however the raven would go back and forth between the three corporations with missions all the while nothing seems to be happening. This would change however with a mission from crest named Eliminate intruders which would sent the raven to city sector 513, a sector said to have been heavy damaged by earthquakes a few years back and has been deserted since with strict access over who may enter. Crest however has picked up moment in the area and wants the raven to go in and make sure none of them leave alive. It is not an usual request as such the raven takes it only to find this sector said to have had earthquakes look untouched even his operator noticed this and find it all very odd. However the raven keeps going killing these intruders in their mts and tanks before also killing another raven by the name of Crossback who comes to aid these trouble makers. After the mission Laine the operator of the raven would contact the raven by email with information about the sector being breached by an underground organisation named union. It is believed that this group is responsible for behind the number of recent uprisings making them a threat to layered as their ideas conflict with the Controllers however their main goal is still unknown at this time. Laine also notes there has been an unusual rise in sectors being closed off and wonders if the union has something to do with it? However the raven would also get an email from crest this one explaining that once again the decision to close this sector was the controllers and they followed the orders. Because they believe the controller is doing this to help them survive, this is our last refuge we have, no harm must come to it. They also make it very clear to the raven that the truth as far as he is concerned is that the sector was damaged by earthquakes and that the truth. Hiding the truth about why a sector is close. It here that we see that crest seems to know more then letting on. However the raven has no right to question them as such he must move on, taking on more missions for the corporations that would see him used as missile training and preventing crest information capsules from falling into the hands of hijackers. Its after these however he would get his first message from Union, they tell the raven they are in need of pilot like him as they write the lies that govern our existence must be exposed and the truth revealed, the controller is hiding a power that even a raven could not stop. It asks the raven to think about what is going while they continue to act. The raven perhaps more confused then curious has this email put aside as his work goes on putting down a mirage force by the request of Kisaragi before finally seeing something strange in his next mission defend ruglen labatory it here it is claimed a mirage force is attacking this crest laboratory however when the raven arrives the mts on site are not what he expect instead large sphere shaped ones that no corporation seems to have used, could this be a new mts type? Question however would have to wait as the raven saves the ally mt cold heart here before rushing off to aid the other raven night flyer sent here only when he finds the raven, his foe is not who he expects it a strange ac with skills that seem to be unusual for the average ac pilot as it hops and fly about in a way that would make most raven sick. The raven depending on report either manages to save his allies and defeat the strange ac or flees the battle. It is twist in history we may never know the answer to yet what we do know is on his return his operator has an email for him and so does the union. Starting with his operator the raven reads that there is some questions about his foe has the ac is not registered with global cortex a rule that all ravens must follow by the word of the controller. She also write that after analysing the ac that it seem this ac has levels of performance beyond that of an ordinary ac unit. It however the email from union that would start the wheel of fate turning as it reads that they believe the attack force was not mirage at all but the controller itself. But this raises the question why would the controller attack a corporation that is loyal to it? The union plan to find out and show layard what is really going on with all these recent incidents. Confused and perhaps a little shaken by this, the raven puts the messages aside to get back to work after all being born under the controller rule was it possible? What could it mean? Never the less the raven has little time to question before more work comes in this time the raven would see himself fighting a giant spider in the water ways of layered, grab the cargo off a sinking mirage ship and escort a new alloy sample that crest created to their research lab. Its after this however that the union would email him again this time writing this We’ve had abrupt interruption of power supply, the changes in the eco system due to the failure of the environmental system and the forced closure of sectors due to the run away core. These anomalies ,along many others are becoming too common occurrences. Layred is no longer a utopia maintained by the controller. The truth of the matter is the controller is malfunctioning. The time has come to take action we will attempt to enter layered hub, where the controller is believed to reside. This would explain all these rouge attacks, the change in weather that suck mirage ships and the fact that sectors are being closed off when there is clearly no damage to them. It is hard however for anyone to see this after all the controller had guide them for so long was this really the truth? Perhaps the raven thought so as he would then take a mission from the union to aid in the take over of a crest data storage facility where he and a number of raven would secure the facility for the union by taking out the generators that powered the defences along with any crest forces on site. It is noted here that Mirage also seem to be working with the union however they would not show up as learned after in an email from union. The raven would also learn that the group was unable to obtain the information on how to gain acsess to the controller they believed crest had. The mission was a failure. And things would only get worse for then union as the next mission the raven would take is from crest themselves who believe the union next move is to bomb the waste disposal network underneath the city backed by Kisaragi They found this out through one of their spy and even seem to dismiss the idea that the controller is malfunctioning. The raven will take this mission however the act of bombing a certain area of the city does not seem to fit with the unions past activates in fact it suit that more of Kisaragi who already blew up one of mirage bridge with bombs. Never the less once the bombs are removed and the raven return possible killing the ac Volcano see the raven return to more emails. One from this operator who write about how recent rumours put the union is to blame for all the trouble affect layered and crest see this backlash as the perfect time to wipe them out and already is massing forces to rid layered of this group. While these two fight however the raven would get back to work with mirage having the raven attack a crest assemble plant shutting it down and defend water process for Kisaragi before finally being asked by crest to help them fight the union on the mission destroy gun emplacements. It here the raven learns crest interrogated a capture union operative to find out the union base is in sector 614 a conservation area lush with vegetation with thick fog and heavy rain the union is using this as natural cover for large gun emplacement to defend their headquarters. They want the raven to take them out. It a mission the raven takes and along with this has the choose to join the attack on the headquarters or not this would see the raven act as distraction while crest readies missiles for an assault. After the missiles are launched however and the raven returns to base there is another email from his operator. It read about an emergency development during his time returning as it seems while it seemed crest would overrun the union suddenly a new large force entered into the fray and started to attack both sides, forcing heavy casualty for both sides. Along with more of these unknown forces have started to appear all over layard and seem to only wreak havoc where they go. It is suggested from reports that these unit share the same enhanced performances levels as that one ac the raven fought in ruglen laboratory. Global cortex best guess is that these attacking forces are being lead by the controller however they are not sure. It seem this unknown force had thrown everything into chaos and the raven would see this first hand with his next mission when mirage pay for his aid in defending one of their cities, trene which has been invaded by some of these unknown forces. Yet the true extent of these attack would only by read about the raven on his return from this mission where his operator once again emails him to let him know that the controllers forces are targeting corporation assets and even the life systems of layard itself. With this mirage is trying to develop a program to access the controller. It is no clear however is they are stop the controller or use this as chance to try to take control of it for their own purposes. Layard is in chaos and yet the raven would keep getting jobs as corporations would keep on fighting each other even during this time. Some of these mission include destroying the remains of kigaski force in a mine, the removal of pulse generators set up by crest in the vents of in waste disposal layer which mirage facilitates has been suffering constant system outages. Even as the world around them burned these corporations would only do things to suit themselves. It would only be one mission from mirage that seem to be doing something as they ask the raven to take out radar equipment on a crest base they need to work on their program to access the control making the raven head out to do this. It here inside the base he would kill the ravens back breaker and Flare up. A hard mission with a result the raven may not be happy with as after returning he gets an email from mirage They attempt to access the controller had failed and to even try again they would need time, something they did not have as the controllers force now where causing major leak of water, radiation and oxygen. They end the message by saying as the controller abandoned us. It a clear sign that even mirage is feeling like they have lost yet the raven had little time for the worries of a corporation who only made things worse with their fight as next he would be requested by crest to defend their headquarters. The raven would be guarding the ventilation duct to stop controller forces and while he would succeed the news on this return would not be so good. Crest headquarters feel as their line of defence was wiped out by the controller force and now is spreading into all the other area under crest control as well. Mirage is gathering forces to defend it own areas but the outcome looks bleak. Perhaps anger or even scared the raven then reads a message from crest that reads we appreciate the help raven, but crest is through. We no longer have the mean to retaliate That the controller has been malfunctioning has been known to use for a long time. Malfunction or not if the controller has decided to destroy us, then that is our fate. People cannot survive in a world without order, even if that order is simple an illusion. So it is here that crest give in unable to do anything as the controller force march on, for mirage however they are not done yet as they have a mission for the raven. This mission would see the raven destroy a massive underwater mt that mirage believe only the controller has in a sector that was closed due to becoming flooded. However it after this that mirage send an email asking for the raven help. Not in their usual way either it was very kind and talked about the people of layered hoping he would take this mission as if he was a savoir. It was strange and the raven knew this. However a job is a job as such he would be sent by mirage with another ac named huntress to investigate manga ruins as they believed there was a way to get to the controller here. On arrival however the pair of acs are attacked by cloaked controller forces before then another raven enters. A trap and it had been laid to kill the raven as his own partner turns on him as for trying to destroy the controller. In the end however the raven of armored core 3 would kill off both huntress and Fanfare. Spitting feather at this point, the raven returns there is a message from mirage who state they never intended to get rid of the controller, simply wanting to administrate it power. As they rely on the controller for their continued existence. If you act in haste will condemn us all. Spoken like a member of a cult, it seems the raven had become the bad guy however there was one group left willing to hire him, the union who wants the raven to do this. And so the raven would do this along with this killing the raven named Nocture. After which the union would mail the raven telling him they are decoding the location as fast s they can however the controller force have take over the energy reactor for layerd which is destroyed would start a chain reaction causing extensive damage through the city. The raven would set off to do this destroying a weapon very much like the justice seem in the armored core 1 timeline before having to face a controller ac. It destruction however would seem to send the controller into an all out attack mode as it send out another massive mt this time a flying fortress of a machine and the raven either take it down alone or with a partner. The name of this mts would be D-C001 armed with Large Missiles, Pursuit Missiles and Laser Cannons the mt would be a hellish fight for the raven as it spilt in two to have another way to attack. However it end would finally let the raven do what needed to be done. His final mission would be Infiltrate Layered Hub where finally he would make his way to destroy the controller. The place is a maze with pillars he has to jump on to access the higher areas, room filled with controller mts before finally he comes to a room with two controller Armored cores. No a word is spoken as the three battle it out, by the end however the raven is the last one standing as finally he enters the room these two controller acs guarded to come face to face with the controller. A large AI data base protected by a powerful shield and small mts, it here the raven would have to destroy the piece of the centre pillar the ai sit one to revel its emergency reactor. Its destroying this the raven sees the final moment of the ai as it shuts down saying this. The end of controller rule as he looks up to see the once dark ceiling of layard open up, the surface once destroyed by mankind had become full of life, rolling green hills and a bright sun that shone brightly into the depths. This is where the story of Armored core 3 ends.
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Armored Core 3
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Armored Core Lore The story of Silent Line The year is ED.0188 a year after the raven of armroed core 3 has put down the controller and humanity steps back into a restored world from the great destruction of the past. However these beautiful hills of grass, flowing rivers and wild animals would be transformed as the three corporations Mirage, Crest and Kisaragi would begin what they would call the Pregate project. A plan for research and development to be done on the ground as these three have moved their activities on the ground. With no controller to manage these three power hungry corporations the building of corporation buildings began and the expansion of areas they control would quickly begin above ground. It would take until the year ED0194 for the growing of these corporations to hit a roadblock in their expansions as one unit working for one of these corporations is conducting a ground survey in this new world that suddenly they wiped out without warning. This makes all three corporations point the finger at one another however subsequent investigations identified an area where intruders were bombarded by satellite artillery and attacked by unmanned weapons. The corporations try many times however with one ending in failure it is decide to leave this area alone and expand to other areas outside of this hostile area should be committed too as a result this area which no corporation could enter is given the name "Silent Line". After continuing to expand for another nine years till ED0203 the three corporations start to run out of places to go. With Crest and Mirage taking a majorly of the land while Kisaragi is just able to lay claim to some of this new world, tension rise and with only one place to go the corporations start to wage war on one another for land and to try and be the first one to expand into the silent line. This is where Global cortex who had also expanded their services to above ground now would see a rise in a use of their services as ravens would once again take to the battlefield for credits and glory including a new raven or the return of the raven from armored core 3. There is much debate about who this raven was however their part in this history would begin here and they would be assigned an operator by the name of Emma Sears. There first mission would come from Crest about the elimination of an engineer currently working on a facility that would serve as Military outpost. As such the build is being kept quiet and all engineers who are working on the facility are to be held there for an unspecified amount of time upon its completion to maintain its secrecy. However one of the engineers refused and took control of the security system leaving crest not choice but to have him killed to ensure his silence. It is a rather easy mission for the raven, however it is the type of job that shows that even after being freed from ruling of the controller, the corporations still valuable their own assets over the humans as such this engineer is killed by raven by request of his employers. Missions like this would keep coming to the raven with some such as taking out a group in sector 517 which is under mirages control however an Anti Mirage group was trying to sway the resident layer citizens of this sector 517 to destabilize the corporations position there. It is believed crest is behind this as ever since the control was taken out the corporation has been trying to fill the void. Which would make sense due to their loyalty to the ai back in armored core 3. However what this mission also shows is that the corporations are struggling to control both the areas of layrad their own and their newly gain surface areas with the resources they have as some people only want to live in layard and not on the surface. Other missions like this would see the raven protect a power plant, guard a submarine and Distract security team this mirage mission would see the raven working with a mirage recovery team to intercept a transport from Crest carrying information on silent line. The ravens job would be to distract the highways civil security team to allow the mirage recovery team to get this information, to do this the raven would step on moving cars, trucks as they travelled along the highway killings men, women and children as they travelled on this highway. A mindless attack that according to different accounts the raven would face off against security mts or the raven Shooting Star who was hired by the Civil highway forces. Either foe is defeated by the raven which allows Mirage to take this information from the transport of Crest. The missions would keep coming for the raven including to protect a Crest air transport, recapturing a sector in layard and Defending a mirage solar power plant from a crest attack. That is until an important mission would come from Kisargi which would ask the raven to deal with an outbreak of a fires within one of their power plants. While this seems a typical mission the truth is the workers at the plant can not find the source of how the fire started and the fire suppression systems are not activating. It is looking to be a sabotage by one of the other corporations however as the raven goes around dealing with security mts and turning on sprinklers that they will encounter a large white Armored cores armed with a grenade launcher, an energy cannon and missiles system who seems to be the one response-able for the fires. Unknown to the raven at the time this unit would later be known as I C003 IN, one of four Ai controlled armored cores. However after defeating the large white AC, the raven would return to have two emails waiting for them. The first would be from a women named Sera Cross, she introduces herself as an employee of the artificial intelligence office and thanks the raven for what they did at the power plant. She goes on to explain the large foe the raven downed is very much like the units that attack faculties near silent line and how her group is analysing the wreak now. Sera would go on to say how research is becoming harder with the corporations being at war and how she believe that they all should have stayed underground and let the controller manage their lives. Since we do not know if this raven is a new raven or the one from armored core three it possible Sera words meant nothing to the raven or caused the raven to simple ignore her words due to their past actions. Never the less with one email down the next email the raven gets is from their operator who express how she is happy to see they made it back as more of the units like the raven fought have been popping up more and more and sadly not all ravens survived their encounter with them. She will give the raven a break down on who the Artificial intelligence office are stating. the Artificial intelligence office consists mainly of researchers, scientist and engineers. Its basically a think tank whose goal is to develop AI protocols for use in a variety of equipment. Emma goes on to explain that AIO technology has already been sold to the corporations, but the real concern is this groups private research which has not been seen by anyone. Global cortex is looking into it, but so far have uncovered nothing. With this the raven would return to work taking on missions destroy a reinforced mirage transport cargo train, defend the new fortress named fortress vg 924 which thanks to Crest rapid explains on the plant has left it inequitable defended and finally holding the kisaragi area across the zanar river against a crest force. Its also noted here that Kisaragi does not have the resources to keep up with crest or mirage and as such has been approached by crest before this attack to surrender to them with the words join us or die. The raven however would take this mission and push back the invading crest forces leading to more emails on their return. The first would be from Kisargai with the title disruption of power, this email reinforces that the corporation is struggle to keep up with Crest and Mirage who only keep on growing while they struggle to hold on to what they have. Without the controller keeping the balance between the three, Kisaragi is just holding on thanks to Crest and Mirage focus on the attacks from silent line. While some may feel for the corporation in truth, the falling of corporations is not something a raven could not show too much care for as after all there are simply employers and only those with credits will ever be able to hire a raven. However the next email is more interesting as Sera from the AIO who write she has been keep tabs on the raven and see their recent success. She would then go on to write about how the corporations are trying to deal with attacks on their faclites near the silent line and so far have been coming up with nothing. The AIO however will keep researching silent and all they have for now is that believe something with great power exist there. Its certainly food for thought for the raven as they take their next mission infiltrate fortress which will see the raven now attack the fortress VG 924 while a mirage investigation team enter to be finished Ai controlled base to take over it. The raven will have to sneak in first before launching an attack on the defence force to give the mirage team to work. However should the raven be quick in mopping up the defences Mirage will request the raven to head inside with another of their hired raven named Carom to take out two AC inside the base acting as guards. The raven depending on report either take this mission or not. However if they do this result in the defeat of both ravens named Mileage and 7th Heaven before the raven moves on to their next mission named defend lawdas facility which is as follows. (Play mission brief) Its here the raven would experience their first taste of silent line issue as while fighting a lager laser beam will rain down from the sky as a content threat along with this the raven will also encounter another large white armored core here just showing what silent line is throwing at anything close to it borders. The raven after such a task of dodging fire from all angle returns to find an email waiting for them. It is from his operator that explains while the raven was on their last mission, globel cortex learned that the satellite weapon was put into service around the same time layard came into being with it purpose clear now to be defending the borders of silent line. The units like the big white unit they fought are mostly likely for the same purpose however no one can figure out why? What is there that needs this much protection? These questions however would have to wait as the raven is sent on more missions these including stopping a group of rioters who are believed to be from layard who say the corporations are neglecting them for the people who chose to live above ground. Mirage however simply to say this is just another corporation ploy to focus their attention elsewhere however they have some of their backers who live here and would like to protect them. In this mission the raven will end the life of another raven by the name of struggle. Other missions include Repel assault which asked the raven to defend a mirage solar power conversion plant from an enemy assault while it hooks up it defences to the solar collectors. This will result in the raven defeating another raven by the name of Deathgrip before another email from Sera from AOI is brought to the raven attention. She questions why the corporation are so focused on expanding into silent line? The amount of lives lost are shocking and yet they don’t seem to care. When presented with such an obvious threat shouldn't people accept it at face value and heed the warning? Or should they push on to try and solve the mystery? What is your thoughts raven? Whatever the raven thought however did not matter as they had to fight to learn a living, the savaging bird does not get to pick its meals, it takes what it can. As such another mission of defending Varges airport, a crest owned airport coming under attack from missiles being launched from the silent line. While the raven will protect the airport, an email from crest after shows the corporation is tired of these attacks, they are costing them too much time and money and worse Mirage is grabbing land while they deal with repairs. The only way they see to stop this is to first deal with the silent line, they don’t have a plan yet but they will. Its not exactly a soild plan from the corporation however the raven will simple go with their job as they will be asked to take an exam against two other ravens for a special mission in the future, this ends up with the three ravens fighting each other until only the raven of this story is left standing. This is quickly followed by a mission from mirage who have learned thanks to their intelligence network that crest is sending a raven into the layered hub, where the controller once ran their lives from. They believe crest is after information on silent line which maybe in the controllers data banks however this is unknown as such they would like the raven to take out crest raven and get the data from the controller data banks if there is any. Again depending on if this raven is new this may mean nothing to them however if this raven is from ac3, then going back to where they shut down the controller may bring back memories good or bad. Never the less the raven will take this mission which will lead the raven to defeat not one but three ravens, one by the name of Ori who attacks the raven in the lift down to the controller and then two more Cypress and Gold Bit in the room before the now shut down controller. Thanks to this the raven will return to have two emails on about how their skills in the exam have entitled them to be offered a high risk mission from kisargai and a second from mirage that explains their team they sent in after the raven cleared out the layard hub was about to get information from the controller data banks and are analysing it now hoping it will give them the location of the satellite and how to control it. It is a big break through yet a ravens work is never done as such they will take this special mission to rescue scientists from Vilius Laboratory. While this seems like a simple rescue mission if the raven is fast enough they will learn that these scientist have been playing god and now have released a bio weapon they cannot control and need the raven to kill them. Its sadly not a time of rest for the raven as their return would see them then head off to destroy an AI prototype that Mirage and Kisragi have been working on to make an all AI force. The raven will do this before getting a message from crest that explains they have learned that mirage has finished analysing the data they got from the controller and now they fear the corporation maybe able to use it to turn the satellite weapon on them. This is a threat they cannot ignore and they will not simply sit by. It seems the rivalry between the corporations would only get worse, however the raven simple a middle man in all of this would head out on their next mission from Mirage itself who asks the raven to do this. Exploring the satellite that has been causing all this chaos, the raven and his partner for this mission Diligent would not however spend long there as after the security of the satellite is activated forcing the ravens to retreat. It on the raven return however they get another email from Sera from the AOI, she admits it won’t be long before mirage can data link with the satellite and she ask what do you thing they’ll do with that much power at their fingertips? She writes on that humanity has a long history with misusing power they are untrusted with before asking the raven if the past is about to repeat itself? The raven may have thoughts on this however again who are they to answer after all it is this choas of power that allows them to work. And that power will always lead to more money and missions much like the next misison the raven will take defend mirage headquarters as it seem crest was not lying as now they launch a full assault against the headquarters of mirage to try and stop them from taking control of the satellite. Its a real fight for the raven not only defending the air but also taking down two ravens who aid in the assault named Apophis and Prominence. This battle however was only the start of things to come as on their return the raven would have two emails the first from emma his operator who explains the corporations had enforced a martial law on all the areas they control as suddenly all their AI equipment from mts, fortress even the satellite weapon are all out of control. The causes of this is unknown however it is believed to be mirage attempt to data link with the satellite that caused it. The next email is from sera cross who talks about how a choice has been made and she wonders what the results of it will be? The raven however has little time for the questions of an ai employee as the next mission from crest would see the raven work with another raven by the name of Eclair to Secure Fortress NK-432, an crest ai run where the two will need to destroy the computer controlling the fortress and take out an ai controlled AC. A hard fought battle and on their return the raven will get a message from crest thanking for helping to regain the fortress and now they believe they have found the reason behind why the ai went haywire. A powerful override signal from an unknown origin, however they are working to trace it. It seems now all focus would be on stopping this haywire ai and even mirage seem to get on this train as the raven next mission will have the raven work with a team of other raven to disable the satellite that has been raining down death on the population. This will be done by taking out the generators that power the cannons of the satellite on it and so the team of ravens head up to do this only for the raven and one of his fellow raven named shade to have to battle another AI controlled ac in the room where the generator are stored making for another tough fight for them both. Successful however the mission was and more would be learned as mirage would point out that there is a striking simulatory between the technology on the satellite and the technology proved to the corporations by the artificial intelligence office. What is even more scary is that the technology is very much like the ones used by the controller all those years ago. It certainly points the finger and with more news from his operator it is learned by the raven that the override signal point of origin is within the silent line region. The corporations are now sharing what they know about the AI malfunction and agree the AOI technology has something to do with it, to add to this all communication from the AOI have stopped and the location of Sera cross is unknown too at this point. It turns out none of the corporations met with anyone from Artificial intelligence Office as all communication was done remotely. This has lead to the corporations to agree on a joint mission assignment to pin point the origin of they override signal leading the raven to head into the silent line for the first time in the mission Secure Unexplored Region which will see the raven alone taking on a force of unmanned mts and two Ai controlled Armored cores. The battles however are not done for the raven as their return would be greeted by another email from his operator emma which reads that after the mission a team from the corporations found a fortress located in the area in an enormous cavern beneath a creator. While it does not seem to be the point of origin for the override signal it has been confirmed to act as a rely point and the corporation are eager to take it to learn what it hides. This leads to another mission for the raven where he and a team of raven will enter the fortress to take out its power core allowing for other teams to move in to investigate. Its during this mission a some raven of the team will be lost while other retreat due to being out of ammo however the raven will be the one to find the core and once again have to fight another I C003 IN before taking out the generator. However it is noted the raven hears an unknown voice speak to him. It is believed to have been sera voice but nothing is made clear. Blood, sweat and tears are the price of this victory and with them all new information comes in, the research team that went into the fortress found a tunnel leading to another layard, this is where the override signal came from and now the corporations want a raven to head in and found out. The final page in this raven’s history is about to begin as headed into the layard, sera voice speaks out to the raven saying I am waiting all the while his operator radio signal is lost. Into the depths of this layard the raven would go fighting off ai mts and one more I C003 IN before falling deeper into the layard where another voice comes over the radio registered as IBIS as it starts up a registering process as the raven makes their way through a series of doors. It at the end where the raven will finally come face to face with this IBIS unit, to certain eyes this unit shares the look of a certain AI from another timeline. But here this black unit stand alone before the two engage in a fast battle between them, shots would fly, a style in combat would come before finally the raven would take down this IBIS. What follows next is the final words of this Ai and the freedom for the corporations to finally expand into the silent line region at last. The year is E.D.0204 and this is the end of the story of armored core silent line.
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Armored Core 3: Silent Line
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Armored Core Lore The story of Armored core nexus The year is now ED0259, fifty five years after the corporations managed to secure passage into the region named silent line, their growth and power have only doubled in that time with Mirage being seen as the most power corporation, Crest industries as the second and Kisaragi who seem focused on research leaving room for a new company to try and stand with these corporation giants. Navis and they would so this thanks to their recent discovery of a new resource which allows them to build advance technology. However the little upstart company would soon face the reality of playing with giants as Mirage at once would request this new resource be shared among the other corporations for the good of everyone. This would be put before the OAE, the Organization for Administrating Enterprise designed to police the corporations and keep them all in check. However in truth it held very little power and when it tried to enforce this idea Navis would simple ignore them making it clear it had no intention of sharing this new resource with anyone. Its here then that after this meet that a war between corporations would begin, with mirage taking the first move a year later by moving in a team into an area controlled by Navis said to be where this new resource is and in return Navis would send in a raven to take them out. This is the first mission for the raven of nexus, a new pilot working for Raven’s Ark, the successor to global cortex. It functioned very much like its old self however it is noted that the ark had one rule that separated it from once underground roots, no Raven could directly accept a contract from a client without going through the Ark first. Put in place to keep the corporations influence out of this neutral corporation, the raven of nexus would be told all this through an email before being introduced to their operator in another email before being sent off on their first job. Acting on Navis behalf, the raven would attack a squad of three mirage blue mts in ruga cannon, it is reported that should the raven be poorly lacking in the skill to complete this mission they will have it completed by another raven by the name of Jack-o who will mock the skills of the downed raven. However conflicting reports leave this unknown. However what is know is this attack would quickly be reported to Mirage, this sees the companies executives calls an emergency meeting to discuss this being an attack from Navis who at the time refuses to comment on the matter. It would be the match that starts the flames of war burning between these two as shown by Mirage as the next report the raven reads is about the corporation building a base deep within Navis territory to learn about the new resource. In the report its state this will require building a forward staging base on the Abax plain well within navis controlled territory and strong resistance is expected. Mirage state this base is not being built for their own benefit but instead that it vital to the future of all corporations and OAE support their efforts. It is the start of raven seeing the political side of mirage in action, putting pressure on an organisation that is meant to maintain order among these corporations. However a raven has little time for the battlefield of words as their next mission would take them to this half built base in the Abax plan. The goal to protect it from a squad of attack helicopter and it seems this base would need all the help it could get given the performance Mirage Mts show during the attack. The raven however would not have this trouble as shooting the squads down they would return to the Ark for more missions and reports from their operator. One important report would come to be about the newly built training facility built by Mirage but operated by Raven Ark, the facility is completely sound proof and able to survive fires and earthquakes. This facility would allow ravens to train there for a price and any research there is done within strictest confidence making it already get praise from Kisaragi a corporation with a history in testing and research that could only benefit from secret place to conducts their experiments. However in truth this was more a money making effort by Mirage and Raven Ark who it is guessed would spilt the earning made by the area. Along with learning this the raven would also get some history on the OAE as explained they are meant to be an organisation who I meant to oversee corporation on going and maintain order among all business. However they are too timid in their actions when dealing with corporations as such their influence within their role is best described as non-existent. As if to make this even more clear there is another report that state that now Mirage demands OAE now supply the corporation with supplies since their base building effort is facing some setback and the OAE fold like wet paper. That said it is made clear that within the ranks of the OAE, criticisms of this and seem very open to report where these supplies are being kept as if to want them to be taken. Perhaps to make sure the point is made clear, the raven of nexus next mission would be from OAE to destroy the supplies they intend to give mirage. Naturally with a large pay check and a bonus on the line should all the supplies be taken out the raven takes this mission and puts all the supplies to the torch. Its an attack that instantly is reported on when the raven returns along with another report on an ac arena being opened up close to the territory of Navis. It is noted this means now all ravens would be ranked and higher ranking ravens would be offered more lucrative jobs, but anyone who thinks it is a quick way to make money should know only the top rankers among raven will be profiting from this. It is a new way for the raven to make money as well as for the ark to show off their ravens to corporations representatives and milk the public for their money too. All this entertainment aside, what the raven would focus on is the report on the attack on OAE supplies bond for mirage. OAE would make the security footage of the raven attack public and branded it a barbaric act of terrorism and significant delays to mirage base are to be expected. Nothing like being made to look the villain in someone else plan, it is however something all ravens must accept that behind closed door these corporations and organisations would say one thing and then spout another to the public. Never the less, the work of a raven is never done as they would move on to their next mission to take out mirage special forces muscle tracers which are invading Bayload City, Navis wall city in the desert with a large population and where Navis headquarters is based. It would be a tough fight for the raven with these MTS which would be learn named Owls would be equipped with Ecm jammers making targeting them hard. However with only an attack force numbering four in total the raven proceeds to take out two of these attacker before the last two call for a retreat however as they do another raven shows up on scene. The meeting of Genobee to the raven is flashy and stylish, as expected from the rank 1 raven however the pair do not share a word before the rank 1 raven departs. Its the end of the attacking mirage force and the raven returns to base wondering if Navis hired this raven as back-up in case they failed or if he was there for another reason? Questions however would have to wait as on their return the raven would get reports that the attack on Navis most secure locations has seen it now come under marshal law by the corporation putting the city in a state of uncertainty. While this was going on it is also reported that a terrorist group would take over a mt factory in the lectus plain region, this factory is a joint investment project by both Crest and Navis however with operations at the factory slowing down, security personal where cut down to minimum numbers leading these terrorist who oppose corporation rule to act. While the report speak no more of the two corporations next move, the raven only has to look to see their next mission from crest would be taking place in the Lectus plain so they knew the answer to these terrorist would be them. However before moving out the raven operator report that they have made it into the ranking of ravens making it a big step in their career as a raven and should they improve they will only climb higher. So now the rank 30 raven of nexus head off into battle against the terrorist force inside the mt factory, the battle however is very one sides as even outnumbering the raven, the terrorist forces are no match for the raven who puts them down even before crest intervention force arrived. Another battle done the raven would return once again to be given a report on the attack on the mt factory, be given the name of the raven who they saw in bayload city Genobee and finally have a situation run down by their operator on current plan of the corporations with Mirage planning a full scale invasion into Navis putting preasure on OAE to aid them with this, Navis is trying to resist this attack and have been seen to have a large number of crest manufactured weapons leading to questions of if crest if supporting them. Crest has not made any major moves only now thinking of putting forces into the now retaken mt factory and have been noted to be talking with OAE and Navis. It certainly looks to be a battle between the combined force of Crest and Navis verves Mirage, however with no action being taken at this point by Crest, the ravens next few mission will see them fight an area battle against Dark charm or test Kisagrai’s new bio weapons which look like large bug before having more reports thrown at them. These would include that OAE has now resumed transporting supplies to the mirage base being built and that all these would now be escorted by a security force, but the reported number of these is so small that it show OAE is not supporting the idea as much as they seem to on paper. Crest has made a move to move a force into the recaptured mt factory done by the raven however mirage believe something is afoot as this factory has been dormant for a long time now and suddenly crest want to move a permanent security force in? A war between crest and mirage is looking to be coming and for the raven this could be seen even more clearly with the missions on hands including attack mt transport which will see the raven attack crests transport squad heading toward the mt factory, another mission for OAE asking the raven to take out their own transports heading to mirage base. Which ever one the raven does as always reports will come in, one being that OAE tried to hold a meeting with the corporations to find a peaceful solution to this new resource only to then be pressure into aiding Mirage by attacking Navis garrison guarding the tunnel leading to Navis mine amd secure the area for safe passage. And along with this that Kisagrai and Navis are having a disagreement about the research going on at the cultivation plant they and navis are working on, as Kisagari want to stop all research fearing Mirage would attack while Navis states that it is not a military structure and is safe from such reprisals. More reports means more missions as next the raven would then take on the mission Eliminate Navis security, this would see the raven attacking Navis garrison on a bridge guarding the tunnel leading to Navis mine. The Flying mts and sniper mts of Navis fight back with all they can as the raven is forced to leap between the bridges that they guard however the mercenary skill far surpasses their own as the bridge is soon secured by the raven. Another job done and the events of the world keep on rolling as the raven would read about how the water supply to bayload city stopped this morning and the corporation has no idea why at this moment. Crest has finally completed the move of their forces to the once joint built MT facility and has now made it a crest military base making this there first military action within the region, OAE thanks to the raven was able to go as mirage requested them however they now fear Navis will gather more forces at the mine itself and have asked mirage to postpone their investigation. A terrorist bombing would happen outside the wall of bayload city with a mt loaded with explosives would ram into one of the cities wall only for it to be very lightly damaged and finally mirage announces it will launch an investigation in the cultivation plant jointly operated by Kisagragi and Navis claiming dangours research with the new resource is being done there which Navis would responed too by media saying this was not true and all they wanted to do was one day turn the regions desert one day into an oasis with Kisagrai’s help. It perhaps then came to no surpise to the raven to then be sent a mission request by Kisagari to attack the research facility. The very one that Mirage wanted to investigate. Its here the raven will encounter the bio weapons again before taking out their objective eight cultivation tanks leading to another round of reports when they return from the job. This time its report mirage has finished building their base at last allowing them to focus all their efforts on investigating Navis. The smaller corporation knows this is not an ideal threat and already has been seen to be bolstering it defences. This in turn has crest and the other corporations now looking to make sure mirage does not monopolise on the new resource as rumours about OAE and Crest strengthening ties and a weapons company named use is seen to be developing a new weapons program to sell to the warring corporations. In a final report it seems the business relationship between Kisiragi and Navis breaks down after the attack on the research facility with Navis claiming the attack was done by a raven Kisigrai hired while the other claims it was an accidental fire. This blame game results in the pairs partnership to end as just like that it seems the only ally Navis seems to have is crest. Yet as always the jobs keep coming for the raven as next missions the raven can take is either an area battle with brimstone or killing a VIP in a helicopter. Completing either will lead the raven to have one report waiting and a two missions at the Kolios lake water filtration station, the only way the people of bayload city can get clean water into their homes and one from crest to train against one of their AC’S an idea the raven thinks is odd since up till now they have only met ark registered ravens, However back to the paperwork, The report the raven receives would read about how navis found what was causing the water blockage of bayload city and it turned out to be a living organism getting caught in the filtration system however they do not go on to give more information about the organism. Its here the raven can either choose to fight the Crest AC which will turn out to be Genobee which if the raven should win against will hear the crest operator say this. A slight modification, it is debated about this however from the fact Geobee can fly and fire his back weapons it is suggested Geobee is in fact using OP-INTENSIFY optional part which would allow him to do this and explain the shock the crest operator expresses since it seems only a few raven have this. We can confirm this later thanks to outside sources from the book armored core 10 complete works page 128 which state is an enhanced human is also a big factor and the armored core nexus perfect guide Which show a bright blue box on Geobee bio page with the words strengthened human inside it. However while the raven of nexus may not know about this, this battle however win or lose would not move events on until the raven takes the mission capture filtration plant. This mission would see the raven act as the attacking force of Mirage as the corporation wants the raven to take over the plant which the raven does with ease however it as the raven goes to return that suddenly two Armored core hired by navis named Trasher and Vernhunt will be dropped in to stop the raven. It is a battle between the three where Vernhunt will be killed while trasher flees letting the raven finally return home to a report that mirage has now moved in and now control the main water supply for bayload city. This however is only going to get worse for the citizens of the city as the raven then take a mission from a terrorist group to attack the power plant that gives power to the city and the raven does this leaving the city in darkness and without water. For their efforts the raven is now rank 20 among the raven ark ravens, for cutting off a whole city from water and electric they are rewarded for it. Never the less, the next missions of the raven would see them help Crest test a new MT with large heat cannons on its back before being asked by navis to help repel forces that have entered the black out city. The raven accepts this taking out he mts invaders only to learn later this attack was done by a terrorist group who then threaten the raven by email calling them a corporate lacky. Threats however come with job as such the raven moves quickly on to their next mission, an arena fight with Trasher. The raven from the filtration plant mission, the raven either defeat this raven or is mocked by Trasher for losing resulting in a rank change. However its after this battle that the raven is greeted by a report that Mirage is using their newly captured water filtration plant as a launching point for their planned attack on bayload city and are already moving forces there. It seems that mirage is ready to take out the little corporation who wishes to fights giants however for the raven life goes on as once again they will help crest retest their mts before being updated on the world situation by their operator. In an email titled power struggles three, in it they explain that Mirage is steadily expanding their influence in the region by taking the water plant and using OAE to launch attacks on Ruga cannon. Navis has been the subject off attacks from both mirage and terrorist groups leaving their main city bayload without water or power and are just holding on barely. Crest is biding it time with mts test showing the corporation is planning something in the future and finally Kisaragi has broken all ties with Navis to avoid the wrath of mirage. Yet while Kisaragi would avoid the wrath of the Blue coloured corporation giant, this would not stop them from attack their former research partners as the raven would see on the mission destroy Kisaragi force from Navis which would see Kisargai try to take over a water test facility being built by Navis in Koilos lake. They did this because they believe there is an ancient relic resting at the bottom of the lake, however the raven of nexus put a stop to their plan. Yet this is not the only plot the raven of Nexus would stop as taking a misson from crest, they would protect a crest fuel tank storage from a terrorist force and remove Organisms from mirage occupied water filtration plant, mirage rule this as not an attack done by Navis as it is beyond their capabilities. More missions and another reports come to the raven after these missions, the report talk about OAE plans to carry out an investagtion into the new resource mine controlled by Navis. A monorail will take the team there and it seem the organisation is now follow mirage policies on what to do next after failing to find a peaceful solution. But Navis would not take this sitting down as the ravens next misison would see them attack the very monorails the OAE team is travelling on. It is a quick and brutal attack that wipe out the monorail with ease thanks to their ac weapons and the death of this group is quickly reported about on the ravens return. The report would see OAE call out Navis as an ignorant and dangers corporation after this attack to which in return Navis would break away from the OAE leaving it alone now as the battle between them and mirage rages on as the corporation intends to fly reinforcements directly through Navis territory showing the confidence they have in their victory. In response to this the raven will either help defend the underground tunnel of bayload city from Mirage invading mts or shot down Mirage transport planes. Either one will result in more reports for the raven which include talking about the mission they completed and OAE is now preparing a counter attack against Navis forces at ruga tunnel which navis show no concern about however OAE as requested the aid of the corporations and raven ark with this. With all this the raven is then called to an arena match against a foe name evangel, friendly raven is skilled and reports vary on if the raven defeated him or not. However after this OAE would request the raven helps in destroying the armored monorails of Navis, one could say OAE was looking to do an eye for an eye trade with this battle and the raven would gladly shoot out the eyes of navis for a large credit pay. With this action the raven would allow OAE to take control of the ruga tunnel and force navi forces back into the mine as a last line of defence. Along with this it seem crest is also making a move as a large crest force now marches on Mirages forward base looking to take it and with mirage forces so spread out it looks to be an easy crest victory as this sudden show of force has caught mirage off guard. It comes perhaps as moment of wonder for the raven as to how mirage was so caught off guard after the fact crest had been seen moving forces about the place. Never again what numbers could not fix money could as mirage is quick to offer the raven of nexus a large sum to defend their forward base and who are they to turn down such a offer. The battle would see the raven taken down a number of large mts with heat producing cannons and fight a raven from crests own personal stable of ravens name agraya who the raven of nexus forces to retreat after trading blow with her. The raven return comes with a report on the attack stating how it was unsuccessful attack and how the crest strike force took heavy losses during it. It also point out that mirage will now have a much harder time with crest now starting to attack them. With this news of crest now double production of mts at it mt factory makes the headline as Navis force morale seems boosted by this news as they celebrate it. It seems the war would gain another member and while this is going on the raven would either take another area battle against an ac named wily tank or help Kisaragi with testing new AI controlled armored cores. These AI however are not match for the trained mind of the experienced nexus raven who returns to read about how bayload city has now fallen into Crest hands. They attacked and easily took the city from navis forces who thought crest was an ally, survives of the attack are fleeing south while crest set up base in bayload city. It is clear Crest is on the war path too against navis as the raven is given a mission to protect the flee citizens from Crest forces who are hunting them down in search of Navis high ranking officials. But the raven will also take a mission by Mirage to take down Agraya who after her defeat apologies to geobee. It seems Geobee maybe closer linked to crest then thought, however that would have to be looked into later as the raven would return to a report of Agraya being reported as missing before being emailed by their operator about how they have become rank 10 among all ark ravens. It is quite the climb however a raven does not sit down when there is more to be done as now mirage sends the raven to the borbos mine to remove Navis defence force there this will include a raven by the name of Pin fire who is taken out by the raven after a harsh battle between them both leaving Navis in a very struggling position as Mirage assesses it force for a final blow. The raven would also get an email from an unknown sender and their operator, The first from the unknown sender would read that the raven will pay for what they did. This email is not spoken of again however we can speculate due to further knowledgeable of future events that this email would come from Pinfires son Rim fire who would be seen later. However to focus on the here and now the email from the raven operator is another wrap up on what is happening in the world with it read about mirages using the water filtaration plant as their main base with their forces gathering, crest having taken bayload city is now gearing up for now fights with Mirage, Navis has retreated into the new resource mine and is holding out the best it can and Kisagrai has been quiet with report pointing at them being the one’s behind the organisms who infected Mirage’s water filtration plant. Update over the raven moves on with another arena fight with evangel before taking on either kisaragi mission to test their ai AC more or to attack crest defence forces in the tunnel of bayload city. Either one will result on the raven return to read that Evangel has broken the key rule of being part of Raven ark and has been dealing directly with Crest as such he is removed from the ark ranks and as a raven under their employment. With one less raven to fight for jobs, the raven has to wonder why evangel did this? After all he seems to be a capable pilot, however perhaps the allure of money was greater. Never the less while evangel maybe gone the raven of nexus would return to work this time taking a mission for Crest to destroy a mirage deport. The raven would take this and there are mixed reports if Jack-o another raven was there acting for mirage however reports are unclear and all that is know is the raven of nexus would clear this mission. After this the raven would then be sent be Kisaragi to clear a terrorist base in aurus Canyon, not only to learn more from it but also to reuse it as a base for excavation areas aimed at uncovering lost technology. Mirage would also send the raven to clean up navis force who have staged a defence at east Ruga canyon after mirage drove them their after many battles. It after these more reports will come in with one stating it has become clear that raven play a large part in this war between corporation however Mirage hired raven seem to outclass crest ones at every turn. Along with this the Ceo of Kisaragi purposes the corporations enter a peace treaty where all hostilities would cease and the research of all lost technology would stop as cooperation between corporation is the only way to a better future. Sadly as the raven would find out after taking a mission to attack a navis warehouse that the other corporation as less then eager to accept this purposed peace as they believe it only benefit kisaragi as they are know to have researched heavily in lost technology and therefore can not accept it, Navis has refused to comment and only the OAE show total support for the idea however given their role to maintain peace its not hard to see why. Another mission would pass for the raven here wiping out more navis force in the derset region before more news comes to him, this time it seems OAE is taking point as they tell mirage their actions will no longer be tolerated and station forces outside a mirage base however have made no attack thus far. It shows perhaps that OAE does have a backbone however since nothing is being done instead the raven is sent to take out the power supply of the mine Navis is hiding in. There return however would see a lot of change in the world and a new email from their next arena foe Rim-fire who will tell the raven how tomorrow they will square off and how it will be the raven last day. That aside the more important matters to the raven of nexus are first a report that Kisaragi has started to prepare to assault Mirage with their new model AC while another report comes from a high ranking raven named Jack-o who has discovered an administrator of raven Ark has been engaging in illegal activities with mirage as such the raven has taken drastic measures and removed all old administrators and replaced them with new one. He ends the report by saying should any of you have a problem with this decision, then the new ark has no need for you… And finally that that crest industries is struggling financial this is due to less profit being made on AC parts and the spending on raven during this war with mirage. Profit and war, without one the other can not work. However for the nexus ravan cash is not a problem but to deal with threat is. As such the raven will then head off to their arena match up to put down this rim fire before returning to see one of Jack-o new operators contact the raven about taking over from their old one also pointing out that a few ravens will leave but they expect these exiled ravens will find a place among the corporations. Its seem the world is changing fast and along with it the corporations in it as next the raven would have the choice to either defend a mirage missile outpost or aid OAE in their attack on the mirage forward base. Either one will result in a report on the selected mission as well as other news such as Crest now announcing their withdraw of their force from Navis territory as their headquarters believes they will lose more then they gain if they continue however their regional officials disagree force Crest headquarters to issue the retreat order again and stop all future supplies to the region. Top officials from Kisagari have disappeared day afters the purposed peace, it is rumoured they are being held by s group of Kisargai insiders who are opposed to the peace treaty. Fighting within these corporations only made them look weaker as the ravens next missions would see them take back the terrorist headquarters from Kisagrai who are forced to retreat and Ambush crest hq forces. This would see the raven battle three Crest AI armored cores for the rebelling Crest regional officials the effect of this would be felt at once when the raven returned as it clear through the new reports that a war between Crest HQ and their regional forces is now in full swing. The raven however could only see more work as next after another an arena battle with Ruin, the raven would then head out on another mission for mirage this time the raven would head to Koilos lake to take out the Kisagrai defence force there and the ac guarding the facility Call Limit. However all is not well as while the raven of nexus is fighting suddenly mirage start firing missiles at the facility without warning, it a clear sign that mirage wanted to not only get rid of the facility but also be rid of the raven of nexus they hired. This is even pointed out by the raven operator who state that this is a serious breach of contract and how they can not go unpunished. The raven perhaps happy to simply be alive returns to base to see the fallout of this serious breach of contract by mirage. A report that suggest Mirages conducts is being questioned. Its not exactly what one would expect after all most tend to act quickly when a deal is broken between two parties. However once again a raven’s place is not to be their own sword but instead another as such they head off to a new mission from Crest Hq to take out the transport planes of their regions forces who have stolen an AC called bail out. It is hardly a challenge for the raven of nexus who shoots the transports out the air forcing them to drop the stolen ac from a great height. This result in the armored core blowing up as it dropped leaving the rebelling forces of crest without this ac and more losses on their side. A return to base once again sees that even the report seem to think the crest headquarters has the upper hand in the war with the rebelling region commanders. In other news Ravens ark makes it clear to all raven mirage’s last action will not result in them retaliating in the same way however they will be putting heavy sanctions on the corporation. And finally There has been powerful electric discharges seen in the south Marea desert and fearing it could be a military threat mirage plan to investigate the area. In fact the raven of nexus is even offered this job, however they may choose to either do another arena fight or take on a request made by the ark itself. This would see the raven attack a mirage base and cause as much damage as possible to it before being pulled out by the ark. It a little bit of revenge for the raven if they choose to take it. Taking any of these however will see the raven return to more news, this includes a report that the force mirage sent in to secure Borbos mine has not been heard from since they set off and this has started fear among the mirage officials as navis is almost gone, so is this something done by navis or a terrible accident? They would not have an answer yet however the raven of nexus would be the one to be sent in to rescue these force if they choose too. If they do the raven will see there is no survives and the mine is filled with small red mt looking bot that crash into the raven ac without care. Still like always a return from any mission sees new emails and reports for the raven. One is that Crest headquarters has all but dealt with the major leaders of the rebelling regional forces however a rouge ac is still holding out and they plan to deal with him soon. Mirage will report that there force sent into the mine was complete destroyed by unknown weapons however it is unknown if these are navis made weapons or another unknown forces. And finally The electric discharges seen the desert have been found to be an arry of massive generators and the sheer size of them as many wondering they are working and who controls them is still under investigation. A new force? Who could this be? Sadly questions would have to wait as the raven is sent by Crest HQ to deal with this rouge Armored core in bayload city causing them trouble and perhaps to the ravens surprise they see the rebel ac is none other then genobee who talks to the raven about how their roles could have been so easier reversed and how the relics of the past will never bring mankind prosperity... Reports vary on how this battle went down with either this being Genobee’s last battle or him fleeing and being unable to be found. Either result will see Crest fully withdraw from the region leaving mirage, Navis and Kisaragi as the only active corporations in the region. However there is an email from Navis titled last request. Its reads the corporation even being on the edge of being eradicated by Mirage continued their research into lost technicology resulting in the activation of a massive weapon. However they can not control it as such require the raven of nexus to destroy it. Navis has this massive weapon in one of their last remaining mt storehouse and as the raven fight this large grey monster of a machine, it clear that it seems this lost technology is quite a fight as the raven weaves and hides to avoid it blasts. It should be noted here that should the raven fail here it is seen that Mirage being the only corporation with the power and resources in this region would march on to become the dominate force taking out Raven arks and all other corporations in the region as they march on to a total victory with evangel leading them. However this is vision of a mirage rule is not the true as the raven of nexus would not fail in putting down this massive weapon which we would later learn to be named the leviathan before returning to one final mission and a few more updates. First with the updates is that Navis is no more with the discovery of their last stronghold which held the Leviathan, its destuction leave the corporation without anywhere to go and no more assets resulting in the end of Navis. Mirage has decided to indefinitely surspent all investigation into the region after the loss of their team in the mine, Crest has full withdrawn from the region and kisagrai is in such disaary due to inter fighting however research of lost technology goes on. The final mission of the raven unknown to them comes from Kisagari who sent in a reseach team into the mine where mirage lost its force to the unknown weapons. They write that they fear the team has activated control devices for a lost technology weapon and they don’t want to repeat the same mistakes of the past. It maybe too late for the team but the corporation want the raven to take out the control devices. The dive into the mine for the raven would show an advanced area within it with energy weapons as defences and these large control devices taking a lot of destroy, the raven does not escape it without some damage however its then this happens. A battle with an unknown red weapon, its speed and fire power put the raven in a real tight spot pushing the ravens piloting to the limit as it zips and zaps around at high speed making targeting difficult. Again there are reports that should the raven fail here a vision of the future sees an endless waves of mts marching towards an ac who fires off their machine gun with the shells falling to the ground in great numbers however the horde of mts would never end. Yet this vison again is not what we know happens as the raven would do battle and beat this unknown foe only to suddenly see swarms of those small unknown weapons that took out the mirage force start to fly at great towards the surface. The raven gives chase and even tries to make a last stand against them however the unknown weapons keep coming and coming as they dive bomb the surface world plunging it into six months of a never ending rain of death and destruction. The new resource Navis had found is now destroying the world and no one could stop it. The year is now ED0261 and This is where the story of armored core nexus ends.
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Armored Core: Nexus
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Armored core lore The Story of Armored core verdict day It was after the events of the armored core forgotten stories that we learn that the three major figures of this story would part ways to build up factions. With Cesar returning to the Vendie base of operations in located in the mid continent, Rosary would return to the Men of Honour group located in the Northern frontier while Frances would travel with stork to the Far East. For next 100 years known as the reconstruction era, the three would grow their factions into powerful forces thanks to the discovery of more tower and their own personal goals. For Venide would undergo a major transformation when Cesar returned from his journey to explore the Tower. Cesar, determined to restore humanity after the events at the Tower, began to seek further expansion of power. His methods relied on direct violence rather than political tactics, and the less powerful organizations had no choice but to give in. His death during this time would see Carlos Venide become the next ruler of Vendie The world that Venide aspires to, is the world of the powerful. They do not hesitate to profess that the Tower is a weapon to realize this, and that it was given to Venide, the chosen people. And to make it a reality is not an aspiration for them, but a mission to be fulfilled. As for Rosary she would go back to using her real name of cordillera startford and with her return to the men of honour she would quickly seize power within the group ousting her only sister before making sweeping changes to the group. She like her mother made herself the head of the organisation as She then became obsessed with expanding her sphere of influence, and through skilful negotiation, brought many of the migrant groups in the NORTH FRONTIER under her control. Her death years later would lead the men of honour to be renamed as Sirius with a new system of rule in place. The faction is seen as a federation of several small powers, and has the character of a federation state. Each of the small powers has its own self-governing region, and the basic principle is mutual non-interference. This is due to the fact that Sirius has repeatedly merged with neighbouring small powers in the process of its establishment. Therefore, there are several small powers with different ideologies and customs within Sirius, but because of the principle of non-interference, there are rarely conflicts among the small powers. Each sub-power is characterized by the fact that, although it has the authority of self-governance, it is not equipped with military power beyond that of self-defence. Therefore, it is essential to have a military authority for the entire Sirius, which is the "Joint Command," an independent organization that does not belong to any of them. The minor forces are not involved in any military affairs, and the self-defence forces do not participate in the battle for Sirius. Institutionally, the Command Center is on an equal footing with the minor forces, but in reality it has an extremely strong influence over Sirius as a whole, and is recognized as the supreme authority. The Joint Command is a group of elites selected from among the various subcomponents, and is composed of the Commander-in-Chief, who is the chief executive officer, and several commanders who assist him. In addition, under it are various base units, led by the 101st Unit, which reports directly to the Joint Command. Many of the descendants of Cordelia Stratford, who built Sirius, have excelled from generation to generation and have made significant contributions from the Men of honour era to the present Sirius. Gloucester Stratford, who serves as Commander of the Joint Command, is a representative of this group, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is a heroic figure who excels in all aspects of skill, brains, and charisma. Finally there is evergreen the faction created by Frances, Based in The FAR EAST, it was in a deeper state of pollution than other lands, so it is easy to imagine the difficulties she would have faced. It is said that Frances led ash people and used their “migratory” ability to discover a new tower in their lands. It is said that the ash people people used the knowledge and skills learned at the tower to create a safe haven for their people. They greedily absorbed knowledge and skills from the tower to create EGF. However, not much of her life after above said events is clear. It is said within EGF that she was with the ash people until she passed, but also that she disappeared with a few of her friends one day after securing some bases. These rumours have made Frances somewhat of a Saint in EGF’s eyes and it is safe to say that she has had an impact on EGF’s religious beliefs. These beliefs being that they have a tradition of relying on the knowledge and experience of the most senior members of the group to lead them through polluted lands. Based on this culture, EGF members are prone to follow and praise their leaders. To the Ash people who wandered without purpose at the time, Frances seemed like a savoir. She lead the ash people to many new areas and was praised as a “guru”. The Ash people were “taught” that some day the world would be cleansed of all pollution and that a green world would be brought back. They strongly believed in Frances’ message and work to make their vision a reality. Although EGF members are united in their teachings, the level of belief varies from person to person. Members who strongly believe in the teachings believe in strict obedience, but people who loosely believe have an “As long as I don’t do anything that goes against the teachings, I’ll be ok” attitude. Some people believe that this is the result of people losing faith as the leaders of EGF have changed over time. Some members do not praise their leaders in a faithful way but praise them simply because of their personalities or skills. The EFG’s goal is to gain control of all towers, which are the base of their faith. By destroying the towers, they believe that their god will bring back a peaceful, green world that was left behind in the olden days. They fight mercilessly for their faith. What this has lead to is the EGF’s leadership structure called the “Elderly Council”. As the name of the council states, the religious leadership is made up of many “elderly” members and they represent the core values of EGF in the real world. Part of this movement is the creation of the “Wartime Special Forces.” This team is made up of 13 influential people who were chosen by the Elderly Council. They are considered Imperial General Headquarters and are expected to use their influence and power to go all-out to overcome difficulties, like wartime commanders. The 13 members of the Wartime Special Forces are all appropriately consulted for their leadership and were chosen through vote by EGF. However, the youngest member, Karin L. Murakumo received the most support, and it shows in her mannerisms. With these three powers building up, the pollution of the land began to fade and the new leaders of these group would set out to achieve their goals. Vendie wanted to rule the world with power, Sirus wanted to secure peace and the Evergreen wanted to destroy all towers to bring about their new green world. Its during this time more towers would be found on each continent allowing the three major powers to grown stronger by studying what they could of the towers allowing them to produce multiply armored core. This in turn along with land grabbing of all the factions slowly causes the old migrant group to fade into the pages of history or be killed off such as the group who an orphan who would grow up to become known as Fat man belonged to. He would be taken in by the strokes group the same one’s that aided the dark raven years ago and later become their only surviving member as the three power start to expand their territory. The first two to meet and clash would be Sirius and Vendie both around the same military might and each wanting to expand into the south frontier, the two quickly began to wage war on one another while evergreen thanks to the pollution still being heavy in the far east would have to build its strength. Sirius and Vendie would wage war for a few years with Vendie looking to finally be winning only for the sudden advancement of EDF forces to turn the tide. However unlike their original creator Intentions EDF would also attack Sirius and they in return would do the same creating a world war between the three powers. This is when another organisation would show up named the foundation It emerged as a group of researchers studying lost science and technology and restoring it, providing the three major powers with various technologies, including newly designed parts and UNACs. In a sense, they had a huge military power, but as an entity that only sold technology, they advocated neutrality. It was rumoured to have been founded by peddlers formerly known as "migrant" peddlers who have existed before the establishment of the three major powers, although none of these rumours are substantiated. The details of how the Foundation was established are unknown, but it is highly likely that there was only one representative member of the Foundation. They would start to produce technology unlike any other seen by the three faction and share their technology with the three factions this would include the UNAC unit. It is best described in the Voice of War report which reads An autonomous control system for ACs furnished by the Foundation. Also used to describe the unmanned ACs themselves. Comprised of a physical unit installed in the core and the base program "Formula Brain" built into it. By adapting the autonomous control technology previously limited to a very small subsection of specialized weapons to work with ACs, the mainstay of modern combat, the Foundation became a focus of attention overnight. Today, this technology is the Foundation's core product, and is used heavily by all three factions. While UNACs are capable of a wide variety of user-customized combat behaviours, those used by the three factions most commonly employ simple tactics shared by large, unified squads, relying on strength in numbers over clever strategy. With this rise of power, a women by the name of Magnolia Curtis would join the EDF forces only to leave sometime later to become a mercenary. Its here that a rumour of a team of armored cores named the reaper squad is killing off skilled pilots as the three powers wage war. During this time Magnolia forms a contract with Fat Man to transport her armored core to battlefield however on one mission Magnolia is nearly killed by a reaper squad member named J but in rescued in time by Fat man. However she is heavy injured leaving her unable to pilot an armored core leading her to become an operator for Fat Man’s new mercenary parter. And it is here where the rest of the story of armored core verdict day can be seen in the game armored core verdict day. The story of a lone mercenary begins with the mercenary being transported by Fat Man who drops the mercenary into a battle between Sirus and Vendie forces with a job as explained by Magnolia or Maggy as she goes by now. It would be a quick and dirty battle for the mercenary as they head back unaware that someone is watching as the three leave. What follows next for the mercenary is a series of missions to take out small forces from each faction and one mission to take out a bandit group who’s leader Burt Barton got his hands on an armored core with a new weapon from the foundation after a raid. This new weapon would be weapons arms seen for the first time by the Mercenary as he fights this bandit with fat man suggesting only the foundation would create such weapons. This new foundation weapon does little however to help the bandit leader as the mercenary is quick to kill him before moving on to take out another member of this gang with another stolen weapon arms specialized ac. His named would be WR with his blade weapon arms ac gambit. Dealing with the small fry as they go on the next major mission for the mercenary would come from EgF who have had one of their bases near a tower in fort Denis has been infiltrated by one of the other factions combat teams. As such the EGF hires the mercenary to come in and capture the foes however arriving on scene maggy is quick to notice this is not a simple capture mission. The she haggles with the commander and in the end after the job is done The mercenary is paid double for the work even if this was done with threats and insults being flung about by both parties before the mercenary departs. The mercenary would then go on to deal with more small time jobs like taking out a criminal gang, eliminations of other mercenaries like Alberto Gunther as well as working with one named Carius to take out some vendie forces. This is when the mercenary next big job comes in from a vendie commander to aid in invading EGF territory and take out a transport convoy moving through it. It here we see not everyone in Vendie is eager to die in combat and that this mission would not be as easy as expected. Help from a red and black armored core seems to cause maggy mind to wonder as after the unac defeat she goes on to explain who this ac might be. This reaper squad would not be mentioned again for a while as the mercenary would go on with more of the usual work taking down more mercenary armored cores and fleeing EGF forces until the mercenary gets a job from an unknown source. All the details are kept secret until arriving on sight and well as long as the money is good the mercenary would go to find out what this was all about. Fighting this unknown weapon which we known now To-605A, the mercenary would prove themselves even with the loss of the unac helping them. Making their employer sound suspired at this victory. The battles from here on continue to show the skills of fatman’s mercenary as they take out autonomous arms said to be weapons from the last age, more armored cores and more of the three faction forces, each victory however seem to shake maggy as admit on one mission 4-6 she is not sure if she should be impressed or scared of the mercenaries skill she even seems unsure on her answer when fatman comments how the team is lucky to have a pilot like the mercenary on their side. Her unsure answer would not faze the mercenary from combat as soon another major mission comes in from Sirus who wants the mercenary to back up its intelligent squad who are fleeing from a vendie controlled territory. It goes to hell straight away as the chopper carrying the team is shot down leading the mercenary to have guard it till help arrives. It take a few minutes but soon a unac team is dropped in by sirus to help out, however these AI armored cores suddenly begin to act different. The unac turn on their allies and the mercenary however it clear this is not sirus doing this as they sound just as surprised and shocked about this. The mercenary waste not time in putting these ai mechs down before maggy and the sirus commander share a few words. It turns out thanks to the voice on war report that it is learned all the unac’s under the command of the three major powers are turning on their own forces and some have managed to capture the towers the factions hold. Anyone of lesser standing Unac seem to operate fine making this as the report suggest an internal attack. For the mercenary this matters little as they go on with more jobs taking out more mercenary ac’s, an anti verdie rebellion within Vendie territory and one notable mission 5-6 where the mercenary would be asked to guard a helicopter from a force however things do no go as planned as the pilot seems to be going slow and worse a member of the reaper squad shows up. Its a strange time and with it another major mission comes to the mercenary from a vendie commander. This battle of stopping these unac headed toward one of vendie towers leads to the death of the mercenary named Erik as well as the appearance of the reaper sqaud once again. Like last time the squad aids the mercenary but when the leader of this group shows up to recover them maggy and him chat. It after this reports from the voice of war suggest the reaper squad are working with the unac and that the foundation has still not said anything about the unac turning making the two linked, but this speculation at this point. This mixed news would have made many think but Fat man mercenary would simple keep on fighting taking down more mercenary armored cores including two from a cult called the beehive that was established a hundread years ago before the dark raven wiped them out. Yet one mission that should be noted is mission 6-6 where Fat man’s mercenary not only wipes out an elite squad of vendie forces but also kills two ac in the same mission making maggie say this. She seems shaken yet she goes on as the next major mission would send the mercenary to take out force said to under foundation control and its here we learn more about what is happening in the world. The mercenary would clear out these foes with ease before another weapon shows up and this one mean business we now know it is called the Grey Lotus and while the mercenary is able to down it the foundation leader talks with Maggie who here walks away from her time with fat man to join the foundation. With this maggy would leave Fat man and the mercenary side as the two head back into the fields of war with more jobs to do. More mercenaries fall to the pair, more foundation machine of war bite the dust as finally another major mission come to the pair to defeat an unknown foundation weapon approaching one of the bases of the three forces. However when they arrive this mission is a trap set by the reaper squad themselves who fatman mercenary battles, the first reaper to fall is called K before another reaper squad member D and two unacs come for a fight. Fat man’s mercenary reaps this reapers soul too before a final foe show up, one that surprises them both. Maggy she had joined the reaper squad and return to piloting her old armored core blue magnolia to now face her former friend in combat. She however is not match as the battle would lead to her retreat after fat man mercery manages to damage her heavily. Maggie had made her choice and so fat man and his mercenary would fight on taking down an EGF force, more foundation weapons and more fellow mercenaries until finally the two would set off on a mission to destroy the reaper squad and the remaining foundation forces which the other three power had been fighting all this time. The first foe they would meet would be maggie as she and fat man have a chat about a story of the dark raven. She wanted to be like that raven yet fate had other plans for the blue magnolia and fat man’s mercenary would outclass her forcing her ac to right arm to blow off as she insist she can fight on leaving Fat man’s mercenary no choice but to finish her as Maggie and Fat man have one final chat with one another. Her death however means little to the foundation leader who come over the radio after. Another battle with a foundation weapon this one called the scavenger, it looked to be all the foundation had left, throwing all they had at this mercenary who in the end would still turn it all into scarp as the foundation leader then rants on after. Its here Fat Man and his mercenary would give chase as finally the pair would meet the leader of the reapers J in a machine we now know named N-gix its a machine that share a lot of characteristic of the nexts of armored core 4 and for answer with its speed, Over guard van booster entrance and primal armored that seem to be not quite as functional as it should be we learn about J here from the foundation itself. This does look to be a fight the foundation is sure to win and yet even after pushing this Ngix to its limit and having all this combat knowledge, J falls to the mercery with the foundation man and fat man sharing some words as the mercenary leaves the battlefield. With this all said the battle for the towers would go on between the three factions and the weapons the foundation man spoke off. Its here in this report it is highly like the foundation leader is issac from the period of the dark raven who has managed to become an ai like Chief and Carol who seem to have vanished. As for these weapons he talks about includes a series of weapons from past eras like the red exusia, the LIV Lady in vortex who is suggested to be the once zodiac designed Angie, the spirit class moving fortress and Automatous weapons like the ammo series. However none of these foes are fought within the main story and instead must be noted down as fought by the three powers forces or mercenaries after this event. In the end the verdict war had only really begun with the three factions now fighting with all they have against each other and these left behind foundation foes. The tower which the three faction use to maintain their power continues to power the foundations left behind weapons. It seems this world would either fall into the hands of one of these factions or forever be stuck in a never ending war. This ends the story of armored core verdict day.
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