Thanks to all ya'll, I've been reading up on to refresh my memory to where I left off in my game... And stumbled onto this synopsis about the events leading to where the game starts. Holy shit... Apparently, I didn't know jack and shit about the details of the story... I mean I thought I had a pretty good idea of what was going on, but this guy's write up pieces it together pretty damn well.
:drudge OBVIOUSLY STORY SPOILERS :drudge
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These are the events leading up to the game.
A super weapon called the Yahweh interplanetary invasion system was created by an interstellar federation. During its testing, and unbeknowest to the Federation, its power source trapped a hyperdimensional being that gave tremendous power to the system, which then went rogue. After the test, it couldn't be destroyed or deactivated and was instead separated into its components for transport for decommissioning. Basically "I'm going to throw this dangerous, defective piece of shit as far out of federation space as I can"
The components were the Zohar Modifier, its power source, and Deus, its biological core.
These components were placed on the USS Eldridge, a colony ship nearly 300KM long.
During transport, Deus became aware of the situation and attempted to assimilate the Eldridge. The captain of the Eldridge initiated a self destruct to prevent this from happening. While the assimilation was happening, a lost little boy named Abel was longing for his mother and somehow happened upon the containment room for the Zohar Modifier. Seeing an opportunity to escape, the hyperdimensional being trapped inside the Zohar, which we call the "Wave Existence" "Contacted" Abel and gave him some of its power. Abel becomes the first Contact, and his existence becomes tied to the Wave Existence.
Abel was the only human survivor of the crash of the Eldridge. Yahweh's biological component fell into the sea with most of the Eldridge's stardrive section (Mahanon), and some of the nose of the hull landed mostly vertically, forming a hollow tower (Babel Tower). Some turrets also survived (Ft Jasper) Debris and tech rained down from orbit for a while, including every gear seen in the game.
Deus was majorly fucked up; but it had a plan. It initiated a system called Kadomomy, which created a human entity who was both the first Miang and the first Elly to began the regeneration process. She gave birth to emperor Cain and the Gazel Ministry, as well as the ancestors of every single "human" on the planet, except Abel. Kadomomy woman then returns to the Kadomomy reactor and dies/goes into stasis/leaves the story.
So, as a result of the Eldridge disaster, every human on the Xenogears planet isn't human, they're genetic simarculi born for the sole purpose of creating enough biomass to reconstitute Deus' biological core. One of the children that Kadomomy woman birthed was the Compliment, or as we know her Miang Hawwa. She is part of the system that guides development of society so that the biomass would be suitable. Because this is her job, every single female on Xenogears Planet has the Miang Gene, and any time a Miang dies, another woman becomes Miang, with all of her memories.
Because the Zohar is part of Deus, the Wave Existance has some ability to touch the world..and it creates a woman based on Abel's longing for his mother. This woman is the Antitype, and her existence becomes tied to the Wave Existence.
The antitype's name is always Elly. The Contact's name is always different. Throughout the ten thousand year history of the Xenogears World, they are both reincarnated by the Wave Existence to be the catalyst for freeing the Wave Existence from the Zohar.
In every lifetime, Elly has always died for the Contact.
Notable lifetimes:
The first one where they were hunted down by Cain and his men, and Elly shields the contact from the gunfire. "LIVE!"
Four thousand years before the game starts where a society called Zeboim was genetically stagnant and Elly and the Contact, this time named Kim, created a nanomachine colony that could fix genetics (Emerelda), but Miang couldn't have that, it would screw up the Kadomomy system's intent, so she had them both killed and started a nuclear war to reset the genetics of society. Elly ended up taking one for the contact again "LIVE!"
Five hundred years before the game starts where Elly, as Mother Sophia of the Nisan church, and her Contact named Lacan were fighting in a war between Shevat ( An advanced society based on part of Zeboim tech and pieces of the Eldridge, who was allied with the surface people ) and Solaris, ( The floating country run by Emperor Cain, who is still alive and the Gazel Ministry, who are sorta alive ) and suicides her flagship, the Excalibur, into the enemy forces in order to stop the war and save her people. "LIVE!"
During this Solaris-Shevat War, Bart's ancestors were made aware of the Anima Relics, which are basically pieces of Deus' system. When aligned with a gear, that gear becomes an absurdly powerful Omnigear. They were looking for them, and they found one which was used to make the gear Andvari.
Lacan is a might bit pissed off about this, and goes to seek power. What he finds is the Zohar Modifier. Since his Antitype is already dead, he couldn't fulfill his role as contact, so he got the power of the Wave Existence but only as a persona of Lacan that inhabited his body until he died...and then stole another body.. He became Grahf. (Do you desire power?)
Meanwhile, a young man who had been sent to kill Sophia who had met and befriended Sophia when she was 13 and helped her recover from a sickness, but found himself unable to..instead he was the leader of her armies. When she sacrificed herself, he refused to believe that a God that could let this happen could exist. He would create God himself. His name was Krelian, and within a few years of coming to Solaris he had the Emperor and the Gazel Ministry under his thumb. As an end result of the war, Solaris erased every surface dweller's memories of Solaris, hid themselves behind a dimensional gate, and controlled the surface dwellers into fighting each other so they would never get advanced enough to be a threat again.
About four hundred eighty years in the future, getting close to game time, Krelian is pissed off that he can't find the contact, so he used Emperor Cain's DNA to synthesize one. Ramsus becomes conscious even before being born because of his artificality and gets a slightly debilitating inferiority complex. The latest Miang dies of old age, and what do you know, the next person to become Miang is Karen Wong.
Fei..well, He's the Contact of this generation. Miang knew this, and so Miang, as Fei's mother, did some tiny, little..extraordinarly torturous experiments on him while his father, Khan was away. This released his power as a Contact and also fractured his mind, creating ID. When Grahf finds out that Fei exists, he wants to get back into what is effectively a reincarnation of his old body..and he starts attacking Khan. Karen(Miang) stands by and watches..before Fei releases his ID power, frying Grahf, but Grahf's energies were heading straight toward Fei, presumably to take him over. Karen's maternal instinct is able to push Miang out long enough to shield Fei from the blast..and she dies in his arms..Fei retreats into his own mind as the "Coward" and Id becomes the primary personality..and Grahf, denied Fei, has taken over Khan's body. With Karen Dead, Miang wakes up in a woman in her mid twenties and finds Ramsus, seducing him to gain power in one of Solaris' factions.
Now one thing about Miang and Elly. In the JP version of the game, Elly is Elehayym and Miang is Myyah Hawwa. Her name is the reverse of Elly's, omitting the "El" which presumably means god in Hebrew.
Fei evidently has another ID incident, knocking Grahf out and letting Khan take control, who as the wiseman, left Fei at Lahan Village. Since Solaris knew about Fei, they dispatched an agent Hyuuga to watch him...Hyuuga lived in Lahan as Citan Uzuki.
Grahf had a gear built with a bunch of weird components to his designs..essentially a downgraded copy of his own Omnigear, Alpha Weltall. He manipulated Gelber forces to raid the factory and steal it, and arranged for it to crash land near Lahan, knowing that Fei would be drawn to it and ID would come back out again. It worked perfectly...and that was the beginning of Xenogears. The pilot that Gelber sent to fly Weltall back to the country of Aveh? Elly.
Let me know if you want me to get more into the storyline of the game itself.
Needless to say, I've immediately put the game back on my phone and riding that fresh re-hype again.
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It’s the ship in the beginning of the game. There’s a dungeon and you basically go through. The entire ships wreckage which is now a tower. The lifeform forms into purple hair lady who births life on the world.
Disc 2 owns
This is also why it’s the best love story in a game.
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Fei and Elly reincarnated a billion times finding each other and falling in love each time. Every instance is tragic and Elly or Fei fall into bad circumstance as they are murdered. Fei and Elly in this incarnation are the first ones to finally not be killed and have their love see to its final conclusion.
GOAT. Thousand year love story