Lunasia
There are two characters in the world of Girls' Frontline with the name Lunasia.[Note 1]
Neural Cloud model[edit]
Lunasia von Oberstein was the eldest daughter of Rudolf von Oberstein[3][4] and the older sister of William von Oberstein, who searched for ways to bring her back from the dead. Long straight black hair is a trait shared by characters close to the original Lunasia. Lunasia herself is associated with blue morpho butterflies.
Biography of Lunasia von Oberstein[edit]
Lunasia was born in Bonn in 2037, and her brother ten years later.[5] Her family called her Luci.[6] In the 2040s, she often visited the lab of Lycoris and Persicaria at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, which was directed by her father,[7] before the von Oberstein family was forced into hiding after Rudolf's political standing fell through due to his connection to Relic Technology.[8] In an undated memory found in Avernus, Lunasia was forced out of the family mansion by her father to be brought to an unknown destination. Rudolf invoked that this unclear situation constituted a necessary sacrifice, but Lunasia only saw it as her father tormenting her for his own gains.[9] Years later, it was well-known in the entourage of Rudolf that he missed his daughter dearly,[10] and William and Lunasia's names and faces had been scraped off the painting of the von Oberstein family tree in the abandoned mansion.[11][12]
During the latter half of the World War Three, Lunasia's mother suffered from mental issues and a faith crisis, and the family fragmented after its transfer to Heidelberg by the US Army in 2049.[5] Lunasia's mother took her children to join a cult based in the Rhine region only known as the “█████ Evangelical”. During the early 2050s, the group became the largest postwar cult in West Germany and the young Lunasia was appointed as their "saint" by her mother. The group was monitored by the Stasi and was eventually violently disbanded by the government in what is called the First Purge.[4][Note 3] Lunasia's mother was killed and Lunasia handed her brother over to the government, but herself escaped their control and she later reappeared as a member of a humanitarian youth movement assisting survivors of the First Purge in the Yellow Zone.[4] In 2050, she was arrested by the German government while her group protested a surplus food collection operation. She was diagnosed with mid-stage ELID and admitted to a Berlin medical facility in December 2050. On New Year's Day 2051, she was transferred to Switzerland for further treatment at her father's request.[5]
There are contradictory sources about what happened to Lunasia after this point.
According to Persica and memories from the Virtual Image Consciousness of Nytos and the Neural Cloud of AR M4A1M4A1M4A1, Lunasia died from illness[8] shortly before the end of World War Three[13] (this time frame is also alluded to in Secret Documents#Speculation on the Decline of Religions) while staying at the family's manor in Berlin, and her little brother took care of her in her final years.[14][8]
Stasi sources suggest that Lunasia joined back her youth movement. The agency debated Lunasia's threat profile at the time: her status as the eldest daughter of Minister Rudolf von Oberstein and political inclinations was worrying, but this was tempered by her psychological disorders and inability to live beyond the confines of the former cult's rules. Stasi intel initially determined she was not involved in political activism, but she was eventually deemed a threat after becoming a leader of her movement and forming connections with movements in key cities.[4] According to Stasi files, Lunasia was killed in a city bombing during the Second Purge.[4][Note 3]
William's quest[edit]
After Lunasia's death, William sought to avenge his sister, and resurrect her in a form that would also enable him to use Relic Technology.[15] As a member of 90wish, he contacted Lyco and Persica and provided them with a human brain imprint to make a Neural Cloud from it, but after they discovered Lunasia's memories in it, they refused as themselves and Rudolf were opposed to such experiments. William then used a more devious plan to reach his goals.[8]
William first had a Pike node delivered to Lyco after he joined Sangvis Ferri.[16][15] The OGAS code base in the node enabled Lyco to create Elisa in 2054.[17][Note 3] As he continued to enhance her, he realized she was capable of interacting with Relic technology, and that he was being manipulated by William. Lyco sabotaged parts of her code,[18] but was killed in retaliation during the 2061 Butterfly Incident.[8]
William also created biological clones of Lunasia and had them attack several Griffin & Kryuger bases during the course of 2057.[Note 3] Through G&K's connections with IOP and 16LAB, Persica realized the nature of the attackers and made scans of their brains herself to use as a base for her research.[8][19][20][21] Wanting to match Lyco's research progress, Persica decided to ignore that she was being manipulated by William,[8] and even shared the scans with Lyco to use as a personality baseline for Elisa. Persica claimed the human origins of the data model made it closer to a soul,[22] but the data had a limited number of use.[23] She used the scans to create AR Team: first AR M16A1M16A1M16A1,[24] then AR ST AR-15ST AR-15ST AR-15 and AR M4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD II, then AR M4A1M4A1M4A1,[25][26] and finally SMG RO635RO635RO635. The initial results produced Neural Clouds which could not be duplicated and backed up, effectively making them “mortal”.[27] Persica reduced the amount of Lunasia's personality in RO635's Neural Cloud and managed to make it more stable and backup-compatible.[23]
After all personality limiters on M4A1's Neural Cloud were lifted by Persica,[19] Elisa, Dandelion and the Isomers identify her as Lunasia[28][29] since her Neural Cloud is the most perfect recreation of the original model yet (though M4 herself rejects this name)[30] while AR-15 had an excellent but imperfect Neural Cloud.[31] The voices in Zion recognized that M4 wasn't Lunasia, whose soul had been broken into countless pieces.[32] Dandelion has also been recognized as Lunasia by Nemhran,[33] as well as SMG ErmaErmaErma by Sana (albeit for the sole reason that Erma had reached the Lake of Consciousness).[34]
Following a private encounter with M4A1,[35] Morridow was in possession of a memory from Lunasia, where she visited William in a garden during the exile imposed by their father, and apologized that her feebleness was keeping William from his research. Morridow later claimed to William that she knew how to contact Lunasia again and he rewarded her.[36][37]
Meanwhile, William created biological clones of Lunasia, cybernetically enhanced their bodies and modified their brains to develop a Neural Cloud, before implanting them with an OGAS consciousness. Subjects who could not withstand OGAS were discarded and called Isomers,[38] while those whose mind remained intact were called Nytos. However, no Nyto was considered sufficiently close to the original model.[39]
In the early 2060s, the Stasi encountered a woman that looked like Lunasia in her 20s meeting an unidentified man in a cafe, as the agency was investigating a Paradeus signal in Belgrade. The case was chalked up as someone assuming the appearance of a dead citizen to exploit the fact that Germany did not share its databases with other countries of the Pan-European Union.[4]
Lunasia's name appeared on a fountain located at the core of the Summer Garden virtual space created by Arthur Hume, along with another fountain labelled Nadia. When SMG ErmaErmaErma and SG Stevens M520Stevens M520Stevens M520 accessed the fountains after damaging the Summer Garden, only Nadia's fountain was active and they didn't interact with Lunasia's fountain.[40] According to the collection of Erma's lost memories, “the complete Lunasia” (完整的露尼西亚) was one of the three entities, alongside “the false Nadia” and “the future Erma”, who could reach the “Heaven” sought by the Nytos.[41] Nadia and Lunasia's fountains were included in the remains of the Summer Garden that Erma gave to Dandelion before Erma sealed her own fountain.[42]
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The Lunasia lookalike photographed by the Stasi in Belgrade in the early 2060s.
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Cartesian Theater key art.
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Lunasia in Angular Gyrus.
Three Goddesses test subject[edit]
This Lunasia is one of the three test subjects produced during the Three Goddesses project in 2078, along with Noylu and Jefuty. Her DNA is a mix of human and GAVIRUL genes, and a reproduction of a test subject from the earlier Black Lily and White Rose project, Rose.
When the Three Goddesses project fell through due to political tensions in 2085, Lunasia went under Antarctic Union control, while Noylu fell into the hands of the Union of Rossartrism Nations Coalition and Jefuty's whereabouts were lost in the confusion. However, both Noylu and Lunasia fell short of initial expectations when they failed to activate relics sites. Both factions then went to search for Jefuty.[43] Lunasia's situation is unknown as she was not involved in operations Bakery and Tinder like her two sisters.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ The name is written 露尼西亚 (lùníxīyà) in reference to the T-Doll brain model in Girls' Frontline and Confidential Files 2, and 露尼西娅 (lùníxīyà) in reference to the Three Goddesses test subject in Confidential Files 1 and the Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery artbook. It was translated “Lunixya” by fans and is officially translated “Lunasia” starting with Singularity. Lunasia's portrait in game files is titled "lnxy".
- ↑ Concept arts of this illustration can be found in the artbook of Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery. The artist comments that the original concepts looked too much like an evil AI, and so the final artwork is closer to M4A1 as a result.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Secret Documents#Investigation into the Origin of Religions lists two crackdowns against Yellow Zone cults in 2055 and 2058, implying that the First Purge would have occurred in 2055, and the Second Purge that killed Lunasia in 2058. These years are not compatible with the dates expressed in Secret Documents#Razor Surveillance Report: Subject Information, as well as with the timeline of the first artbook, which states that by 2054, Lunasia was already dead and William had tricked Lyco into working on Elisa, and with Girls' Frontline 13-5, which states that William similarly tricked Persica in 2057.
References[edit]
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 10-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Rekindling Starlight IV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Decreasing Entropy VII
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, Secret Documents#Global Affairs and Impacts on Religion
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, Secret Documents#Razor Surveillance Report: Subject Information
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Fixed Point, "Dead Sea"
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 3
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-5
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, Projection Experiment Area
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Decreasing Entropy XII, Decreasing Entropy XIV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Mirror Stage, Pandora’s Box III
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, E1-5D
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-2
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Subsurface Homecoming I
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-4
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort I
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Timeline
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Polarized Light, Blackbody Radiation I
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-4E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Infinite Connections
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Confidential Information VII
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Chapter 2 Splinter Point
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Girls' Frontline, Continuum Turbulence, Neural Fragment
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-1E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 6-4
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 9-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Polarized Light, Molding
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort IV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Fractured Cognition IV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Isomer II
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Infinite Connections
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, Death and Fire
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E17
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Reversing Entropy IIB
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Fixed Point, Ascent
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, White on White
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Subsurface Homecoming II
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 12-1
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E14
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E18
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E20
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Confidential Files, part. 6