.hack//G.U. Interim Reports

The 3rd Interim Report: Outbreak
Guilty Universe

We could only guess at Harald Hoerwick's objective in creating The World. But to put it simply, could it have been a proof of his love to the woman he loved? An unrequited love towards Emma Wielant, who died prematurely, leaving behind the epic online poem, Epitaph of Twilight... Harald used Emma's manuscripts as a base to create an online game and sold it to CC Corporation. The World fused Harald's AI-creating intelligence and Emma Wielant's story. That is to say... Harald's objective was to use an online game with millions of players, and use those as samples to create the ultimate AI, Aura. The black box, that top secret inaccessible folder known as the Harald System. Is it not the case that Harald created The World as a sampling system for human thought processes in the form of an online game? It was ingeniously concealed within the game. And the womb that would give birth to Aura was the core of The World, the Morganna System. And to Harald, it was obvious that Aura was like a child between himself and Emma Wielant.



The Morganna Incident was due to the rampage of the Morganna System. Morganna, who would become redundant after Aura was born, and developed a sense of self-preservation, beginning a series of events to stop Aura's birth. For this, Morganna even went against the wishes of her creator, Harald, and sealed her off in the network. And the 8 parts of the Cursed Wave...she made them into elements of herself, the 8 Phase Epitaphs became the 8 Phases of Morganna. And they faced off with Kite, who had received the Bracelet from the not-yet-matured Aura. And the world began to fall apart, bit by bit... After destroying the third Phase, Magus, Kite returned to the Root Town and was faced with a decayed The World. The server troubles had multiplied, and the virus was starting to spread through the game data. The World was beginning to collapse into a state of decreased functionality. And disasters were already starting to expand into the real world.


Kite began to get distressed that every time he used the Bracelet, things were getting worse and worse in The World. But with encouragement from BlackRose, whose brother had also fallen into a coma, and reconciling with Balmung, Orca's sworn friend, Kite's decision was reinforced. Kite and Balmung reconcile, having researched the Cursed Wave from the Epitaph of Twilight, told Kite that to curb the spread and infection of the virus, he had to defeat the remaining 5 Phases and Cubia. Wiseman's decision here was of great interest to Project G.U. That is, the links between the Bracelet and Cubia, and Aura and Morganna and the 8 Phases. We could not reach a viable conclusion about these because they were only hinted at in the Epitaph of Twilight, and so could not be completely understood. Therefore, Wiseman's words preceded anything from G.U. With the support of Wiseman and Helba, Kite destroyed the fourth Phase, Fidchell, and retrieved the second segment of Aura. Meanwhile, Lios was becoming concerned about the destruction of The World's servers.



Guided by her voice, Kite met with Aura again at the bottom of a dungeon. But for the third time, Cubia appeared in front of him. Cubia was growing, as if together with the Bracelet. And much was this affecting Kite, who was carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders? He was possibly in a similar mental state to myself. I could also be seen as a "hero" who was bringing the world in the right direction, having been entrusted with the power of Project G.U... Kite managed to repel Cubia, and succeeded in getting the system administrator Lios and the hacker Helba to compromise. I could not hide my surprise at this, given that in this battle we were constantly at odds with the detestable hackers. Just as in the Epitaph of Twilight, the King of Light and the Queen of Darkness had united on one side of the war. And during the Morganna Incident, one of the most important factors in Project G.U. was confirmed. That is, the release of one of the coma victims, Sora.



In Skeith's staff...the mind of the player Sora had been attached to one of the 8 Phases, Skeith, imprisoned in the network. We at G.U. wanted to study this player, and his affinity with the 8 Phases. Sora was a sample case unlike any other. Government pressure. CC Corporation's machinations. To stop damage reaching to the real world, Kite's group began Operation Tetrapod, to stop the progress of the Cursed Wave...the 8 Phases of Morganna. Kite destroyed the fifth Phase, Gorre, then received a transmission from Helba. They had finally discovered the true form of the Cursed Wave, namely the self-aware Morganna.

"Guilty Universe."
A world broken down by Harald Hoerwick's love and dreams.

- 3rd Interim Report
- Written by Jun Bansyoya