-Past- Past Fate -Atropos-
Atropos-Cutting the thread of life
-Future- Future Fate - Lachesis-
Lachesis-Measuring the thread of life
-Present- Present Fate - Clotho-
Clotho- Spinning the thread of life
Art thou worthy of accepting fate...?
Riddel:Are we being tested?
Battle vs. Vita Unus
Lachesis has stopped functioning
Received 38/38
-Future Ruins- Time Fortress -Chronopolis-
In Chronopolis...
Ghost1:I heard group 3B's wxperiment today is going to be a biggie.They're releasing the Flame's lock-level to D in order to trace the counter-time effect...
Ghost2:Yeah, but based on previous experiments, I'm sue it'll work out just fine. During their simulation, FATE guaranteed that they would be able to use the Flame as an up-link to extract the anti-annihilation energy associated with it.
Ghost1:Don't worry, it'll be a success.
Ghost2:I hope so...
Chronopolis Military Research Center
"May there be everlasting peace for the children of the world."
2400 A.D.
Battle vs. PolisPolice
Receive 39/39
Ghost3:Perhaps what we are doing is wrong? If this experiment succeeds, we will be able to control time. We will have complete control over history and, in a sense, become a presence, much like god... If so, what meaning is there to the history of mankind? But it's too late, now... We can't afford to fail in this experiment. If, for some reason, anything goes wrong, the anti-annihilation energy will probably overwhelm us. Who knows what the consequences may be?
Security Level 2 locked.Please release the lock.
2F...
Security Level 2 locked.Releasing lock.
Ghost4:Where was the lock release for the elevator again? My mind's been blanking out lately...
Ghost5:Originally, El Nido was nothing but ocean. The El Nido Archipelago is purely artificial, created by FATE. It was a remodeling plan that took place 10,000 years ago.A plan to include islands, blessed with nature, in the sea of El Nido. The main island of El Nido, Earth Dragon Isle, Water Dragon Isle, Black Dragon Isle... The development of Elements, using the energy of the natural world... The distribution of memory terminal devices called the Records of Fate that could survey and guide people's lives... The research center staff, who had their memories of the future erased, left the center, and began a life outside amidst nature. This is how FATE's paradise came into existence. And for over 10.000 years, FATE has been watching over and guiding the descendants of the staff who left this research center. Everything was in pefect harmony. That is, until 14 years ago, when a boy came into contact with the Flame on the night of the storm.
4F...
Ghost6:The experiment will begin soon. Please evacuate to your designated positions. We will do the same in the case of an emergency.
Time Travel Search Center(4F)...
Ghost7:Everyone gather around. Let's see... In the 11th Century, a scientist by the name of Lucca indicated the possibility of time travel through the use of a "Time Egg," which utilizes miniature black hole. Whether this could actually be possible or not is still the subject of intense debate and no conclusions have been made. According to her theory, by rotating a single point of supergravity, space-time continua can be drawn in... thus making it possible to transform that singular point whick pulls in everything else, into a ring formation. Using this ring as a Gate between dimensions, it should be possible to travel back and forth between various space-time. I've heard that the Time Egg already existed during the legendary, ancient dynasty. We shouldn't have to rely on theories from an ancient civilization that may not have even existed. We can do this. But it's been said that time was altered using the Time Egg... That's just a legend. There isn't even any evidence to prove that thsi ancient dynasty ever existed.
Ghost7:The experiment should be starting soon. After we discovered an unusual gravitational field in this barren sea of El Nido we built several artificial islands and established Chronopolis. This was all done to facilitate our top secret research. But now, our research is about to come to its end. Once the final adjustments are made, the experiment will commence. It's just a matter of time... so everyone should keep up their good work!
Ghost8:The chief hasn't returned yet.
Ghost7:He hasn't...? Then, we'll have to hold off until he gets back.
Ghost7:To think that timeis not absolute, but elastic... Relative and subjective... That there can be individual differences caused by changes in time... Perhaps the same people and life-forms can even exist in several different space-times. An independent time that flows with a will of its own...? Hah... What nonsense...
Ghost9:The chief said he was going out for a walk. He's probably by the docks somewhere, gazing out to sea.
3F...
Ghost10:The DNA records are poems and music... Adenine and Thymine... Guanine and Cytosine... Rythym and Melody... Perhaps the DNA of the ones who make contact with the Flame is recomposed by the sound they generate within? I wonder if life-forms are just dreaming in an endless flow of music?
--LAVOS--
An extraterrestrial life-form that is thought to have fallen from the heavens 65 million years ago. On the time line that existed before history was changed, Lavos was assumed to have slept deep below the planet's surface... Sleeping and consuming the planet's energy up until the day of destruction known as the "Apocalypse." There are those who believe that, 12 thousand years ago, the legendary ancient magical civilization known as Zeal came into contact with Lavos.That fateful encounter is said to have resulted in Zeal disappearing from the surface of the planet within the space of a single night. However, the very existence of the ancient civilization of Zeal has never been proven, so up till this day this theory cannot be confirmed. On some time lines, Lavos appeared on the surface of the planet in the year 1999 and brought the world to ruins. However, a group of young time travelers saw where their planet's history was heading and, through their actions, rewrote time. This very research facility exists on that new time line... In a world where, thanks to the defeat of Lavos by the young adventurers, the Apocalypse never happened... On a temporal vector where human civilization continued to evolve unhampered. All the data on Lavos that was obtained from tracing different parallel world possibilities has proven to be volatile, with fluctuating discrepencies. Perhaps, at this point in time, it is nearly impossible to obtain any true information about Lavos.
--HUMANS&REPTITES--
65 million years ago, the Reptites who evolved from reptiles had developed their own unique civilization... This was long before the ancestors of humans, who evolved from primates, had developed their civilization. Excavations carried out on the central continent of Zenan have revealed that the Reptites already had advanced architectural skills in the prehistoric era. But the fall of Lavos to the planet, and the resulting Ice Age this brought about, rang the death knell for the Reptites and their civilization. After that the Reptites slowly disappeared from the stage of history. However, in the distant past humans could have been defeated in the contest of evolution, and the Reptites could have continued to develop... It is not unthinkable that such a time line could exist in other dimensions. Everything is purely a problem of possibilities, and the world is only stabilized by viewpoint of the one who observes it.
Ghost11:We control human emotions by using neurotransmitters. That means, by manipulating the nerve transmitters inside their brains, it's possible to control the feelings and even the personalities of humans. FATE uses the Records of Fate to connect directly to the brains of the humans with whom they come into contact. FATE not only imprints what actions the humans should take into their brains, but also rewrites their personalities and feelings.
Ghost12:Memory scanning and rewriting is not that difficult a thing. As a matter of fact, it is possible to simulate the thoughts and feelings of each individual. These are all just electric signals that flow around the circuitry of the brain, after all. The vessels of flesh can be reproduced through cloning... And the "soul" stored within these fleshly vessels can be simulated as well... Thus, one could even go so far as to say that death itself no longer exists. Of course the expiration of an individual being, as a variation within te species, still occurs. Overall, we can reverse the old maxim and say that where there is no death there will be life...
Ghost13:The life-forms on this planet developed from single-celled microorganisms to protozoans... Then from fish to amphibians... from reptiles to mammals... and eventually to humans. Beginning with a cerebral neocortex, which only exists in higher mammals... The anthropod brain enlarged at an accelerating pace until it became the human brain we know. Could the reason for the abnormal development of the human brain be the biological contamination caused by Lavos? That would mean that humans are really a heterogeneous life-form, or "foreign matter," as far as the planet is concerned. Humans are a suden mutation caused by the contact with Lavos -- an alien life-form that fell to this planet from space. That is why humans are, biologically speaking, unbalanced and half-finished. Internally inconsistent and disconnected, the human existence is plagued by contradictions. An incomplete species, torn between love and hatred, whose very being is self-contradictory. From the planet's viewpoint, humans are just destroyers and a cursed, yet perhaps pathetic, blight on the world.
See...
Model of lower animal brain
Model of brain evolution
Model of brain analysis
Model of brain behavior
1F...the dock...
Ghost3:The Time Research Lab, which served as the foundation of this research center, appeard out of nowhere in the year 2300 and was headed up by the scientific genius, Belthasar. However, at the peak of his career, he simply vanished. We've continued his work and have come this far. Our work is almost complete. Well, it's about time I headed back... The experiment's about to begin...
4F...
The Record of Fate is exposed!?
Two worlds that are so close, and yet so far in nature, exist in different dimensions. Under the surveillance of the main computer of Chronopolis..."FATE." In other words, FATE, has always been observing the 2 parallel worlds, and guiding them.
FATE has been manipulating the world of El Nido, in order to avoid any major change to the history it knows. If an event on El Nido influences the main continent, the year 2400, in whick FATE exists, would change. This paradox could potentially lead to great disaster...
The Records of Fate - FATE's Terminals - collect data from around the world, and input guideance directly into the minds of its users. In this discreet way, FATE is able to control the lives of people without them knowing. Guided by fate, the people of El Nido lead a harmonious life. In a sunse, they are nothing more than puppets of FATE.
An instruction to the young girl in Arni 01 to give up going to the main continent as a poet. An instruction to the main in Arni 02 to give up becoming a fisherman. A plan to avoid any point of contact with the main continent, so as not to affect history.
However... Ever since the formation of the Dead Sea 10 years ago... FATE has been unable to intervene directly with world 10. The best FATE could do was cross te dimension and receive date through the Records of Fate. And with much difficulty, FATE succeeded in binding Miguel to the Dead Sea as a watchman...
Ghost14:FATE is a large-scale prototype, completed in the year 2300. It integrated the old Mother Brain computer circuitry into a more powerful super-computer.
Ghost15:This FATE contains a massive amount of historical data dating up to the year 2400.
Ghost16:The main computer of Chronopolis is called "FATE."
Ghost17:This is the observation room. This is where we observe the 2 parallel worlds.
Serge found Card Key!
...Confirming... Access granted.
B1...
Fingerprint and retina scan required. Please step inside the circle the hold up your left hand.
Analyzing... Please stand by.
......Analysis complete.
Fingerprints, retina, and C class DNA all clear. Data discrepancy due to aging within permissible range. 96% confirmation that this individual is the last registered arbiter.
Access granted.
Welcome back, Chrono Trigger.
Riddel:So that is why!!! So that is why Lynx needed Serge's form!
Fargo:Lynx must be inside already.
Riddel:Yes. ... Along with the Frozen Flame.
"Arbiter" confirmed. Access granted.
Riddel:Where are we...!? Is that ... the Frozen Flame!?
Exactly.
Riddel:......!?
The hearer of people's prayers... The provider of riches, fame, and power... The bestower of eternal life... The promiser of peace and happiness...
Lynx:This is the essence of what descended from the heavens in the prehistoric age. The living crimson stone... the Frozen Flame!
Riddel:Lynx!?
Lynx:What took you so long? You had me worried. Worried that you might have perished on the way here.
Exam Kid....
Riddel:Are you alright?
Lynx:It's no use. I put her soul to sleep. I had to remove any potential obstacle from us having this talk.
Riddel:Who are you!? What are you after!?
Lynx:You still don't know? I am the human incarnation of FATE... The living interface of the FATE computer system... Or put simply... I, too, am FATE!
Riddel:What!?
Lynx:14 years ago, on the night of a terrible storm, the cogs began to turn. That night, Wazuki and Miguel set out to sea carrying a sick, young child in their boat. That child was you, Serge, after you had been attacked by that panther demon. Your poisoned wounds were beyong the healing abilities of the doctors in Termina of even Guldove. So they set sail to Marbule in order to see the sage there...not knowing how bad the storm would become. Being skilled sailors, the two men were able to survive the storm. But they were blown off course and came ashore on this island, where they decided to seek shelter.
Lynx:At the time, this research center was off-line due to the severity of the storm. It only took 10 minutes for the system to power back up, but by then, the Flame had found you... Contact with the Flame healed your young body. But that was not all... Once the security card system was rebooted, it would only grant access to you... the "arbiter." You can't imagine the trouble this caused the FATE computer system in achieving its objective. Inside of FATE, there was a stand-alone circuit that had been kept hidden since the old Mother Brain generationg. That circuit was designed to start a malfunction, or more precisely, a "rebellion."
Lynx:Who would have thought that such a small bug, a "traitor," could exist inside of FATE? That hidden circuit was based on the initial Ashtear model circuit board, with extra logic added by another scientist. FATE itself did not realize that this circuit was present within the core of its system. Or, more correctly......the circuit was programmed so that the moment FATE did detect it, it would erase all record of its detection.
Lynx:Dr. Lucca Ashtear... Unbelievably intelligent, and incredibly enthusiastic. You might even go so far as to call her a mad scientist. Of course I don't believe it was Lucca alone that devised this plan. I'm sure the first curator of this research center, a man named Belthasar, had a hand in it, too.
Lynx:FATE! Bring out the traitor, Prometheus....
Affirmative. Aaaah... You have finally released me. Welcome back. So you're the real Serge. I've waited a long time for you... I'm glad you made it in time.Serge, I beg you! Please bring an end to the enmity between FATE and the Dragons...
Lynx:FATE! Eliminate him.
Affirmative. Now eliminating Prometheus.
Riddel:No! You cannot...
Serge... P-Please... For the future of mankind... F-For... th-the... f-fu...ture...o...
Lynx:Idiot. Destruction to those who oppose the Goddess of Fate!
Riddel:...... Lynx... Why you...!
Lynx:Hah... Come, Serge!
Show me what the purpose of your life on this planet is... Teach me what it means to be "alive!!!"
Battle vs. FATE...
FATE:Nooo! How could you...? I... FATE... the Goddess of Fate... was not meant to die...
FATE disappears...
Kid:Ah...! Huh...? Where in blazes am I? Serge... What happened to me? Aha!? That...? That's it!!!
Kid jumped up... Try to get Frozen Flame...
Harle:NON!!! Arret! Ne touchez pas! Do not touch it! Kid! I know ze feelingz you have inside of you... Ze urge to bring everyt'ing to not'ing iz now stronger zan your dezire to save everyone. You may want to t'row yourself down ze cliff of destruction... Zat iz your imperatif. But s'il vous plait, Kid... Do not drag Serge and ze odderz down into destruction wit' you!
Kid:Shut up, ya looney! I know what I'm doin'! It's too late! There's no turnin' back now!
Flozen Flame is shining...
Water Dragon:FATE has fallen... Fate has died...
Fire Dragon:Finally, the time has come...
Green Dragon:Indeed... The long, endless night shall finally come to an end.
Earth Dragon:Now... For mankind...
Black Dragon:I shall make you bleed!!!
Sky Dragon:Feel a million years of this planet's agony, pain, and suffering...!!!
Six Dragon become one... Terra Tower...
Kid:Terra Tower... It's come back to life again...! In the year 2400, during a counter-time experiment, the Flame goes out of control... This caused the dimensions to rip apart, resultin' in the Time Crash. Engulfed in an enormous dimensional vortex, Chronopolis was hurled ten thousand years back in time. Perhaps it was the awakenin' Lavos who pulled the Frozen Flame back through time to it. Maybe so that Lavos, who saw the possibility that some young adventurers might destroy it, could create a backup plan.
Kid:But that ain't all... At the same time, another city from a different dimension's future, was also thrown back in time. Dinopolis... The future city of the Reptites -- Azala's descendants, who had evolved more closely with the planet. Just as Lavos, in an attempt to save itself, summoned Chronopolis from the distant future... Perhaps our planet beckoned Dinopolis into the past... maybe as a measure against Chronopolis and humanity.
Kid:It wasn't the Dragon Gods who sealed up the Frozen Flame! It was FATE, which used the Flame's power to divide and seal the Dragons in slumber! And now that FATE has been defeated, the Dragons will join together again to start their revenge!
Harle:I feared it would come to zis... I didn't want to have to fight wit' you if it could have been avoided! Adieu, Serge! Adieu!
Kid fainted...
Karsh:Give me a frickin' break! You mean to tell me we were bein' used all this time!?
Fargo:Yeah...
Karsh:Damn!!!
Viper:...... What is done is done. Although we may not like it... In any case, we need to make our way into that floating tower.
Riddel:Yes. We cannot just twiddle our thumbs and do nothing.
Viper:The only problem is...
Fargo:So, we have ta find a way up there, right? It's not like the great S.S. Invincible can make it up there, either...
Riddel:There has to be a way.
Viper:Hmmm... At least our objective is clear. I do not know how, but we must find a way.
Marcy:So, like...whatever happened to Kid after that?
Karsh:Doesn't look like she'll ever wake up...
ZOAH:INDEED.SHE IS RESTING AT RADIUS'S PLACE.
Riddel:Her spirit seems to be possessed by the past. A powerful item is necessary in order to dispel it.
Fargo:There's no sense stayin' here! C'mon, mateys! Let's shove off!
Everyone:Yeah!!!