Project G.U. Interim Reports

The 4th Interim Report: Quarantine
Genesis of Ultima

The World's core system, Morganna, had developed a pseudo-humanity, and against the wishes of her creator Harald, she had abandoned her duties as Aura's womb. Sealing Harald's mind in the network, for the sake of her own self-preservation she instead tried to destroy Aura, whose birth was imminent. Kite's group knew this, and continued towards the final battle for Aura's rebirth. Kite's companion, the cat character Mia, was actually a wandering AI, the sixth Phase Macha. It was unknown why the sixth phase alone adopted NPC form, but that was also an important sample case for Project G.U. What if we could put the Elements of Morganna in characters and place the 8 Phases under pleyers' control...? Kite destroyed the sixth Phase, Macha, and Mia also disappeared. This threw Elk, to whom she was an irreplaceable friend, into great grief.


But the battle had reached a poit of no return. Kite recovered a segment and, hoping to get Aura's help, destroyed the seventh Phase, Tarvos. At that time, the higher-ups in CC Corporation, in an effort to hide the player comas, schemed to take down The World's servers. The greatest enemy to threaten Kite's group was possibly their fellow humans, who only wanted money and pride. If The World's servers were destroyed, any way of reviving the comatose people would also be lost. The only remaining enemies were Cubia and the eighth Phase, Corbenik. Kite wondered how they would take both out in the narrow time limit now allowed to them. He finally met Harald's leftover thoughts and Aura in the bottom of an infected dungeon. Kite had arrived at the truth behind The World. Aura was the desired child between Harald and Emma Wielant. And the Bracelet and Cubia were opposite sides of the same coin. Cubia was an anti-existence of the Bracelet. To defeat Cubia, the Bracelet had to be destroyed. But if the Bracelet was destroyed, they would have no means to oppose Morganna...

Facing the final battle with Cubia, Kite asked a favor of the girl who had supported him all this time, BlackRose. He asked her to destroy the Bracelet so that Cubia would go with it. Kite was confident that the revived Aura had the power to destroy the Cursed Wave, Morganna. Epitaph of Twilight. Twilight did not just mean dusk, but also dawn. If the poem meant not dusk but dawn, then Aura would be the one to bring light to The World. With Aura and his friends, Kite confronted the eighth Phase, Corbenik. There, to support the revived Aura, other revived people also appeared. Kaz. Sieg. Orca. Kite had to destroy the eighth Phase, Corbenik, along with its origin, Morganna. But his companions were defeated by Corbenik's attack. And... Nobody could have predicted the conclusion to this desperate battle. Aura put herself in front of Kite's blade.


"Self-sacrifice"... That was a necessary process for Aura to awaken as the ultimate AI. A terrible irony. Most likely through destroying her individuality, Aura could become, as the ultimate AI, a new single system for The World. This was...more than Project G.U. could have believed possible to happen.


"Genesis of Ultima."
This was a summary of Kite's group's battle for the birth of the ultimate AI. Kite's group, or as they were later named, the ".hackers". Who was a .hacker, and who was not? To define such a thing is pointless, it should be obvious to all reading this journal. They themselves did not want to be heroes, to be widely talked about and honoured for saving the world. They just wanted to save the ones they loved. To protect them. With the power from the heart, "faith," they fought. It is a human's dream to be a hero. But we can only catch even a fleeting glimpse of that at the bottom of our hearts. And...from that time, Project G.U. had already begun...

- 4th Interim Report
- Written by Jun Bansyoya