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Dimitri uses Nigredo to infiltrate the Durandal and takes the Zohar Emulators into Abel’s Ark. Everyone follows Dimitri into Abel’s Ark to try and stop him from using Abel, the Zohar, and Omega.

Summary: 

• You escape from the bright light to find everyone fine, and the Elsa in the same area of space as the disappearing landmass was. Then all of a sudden Abel’s Ark appears as well. Someone guesses that they needed the power of both Shion’s, past and present, to summon it so when Shion went all crazy it summoned Abel’s ark to the present.
• We find out that Abel’s Ark is emitting some kind of wave that will make anything just disappear apparently, that at this rate the Federation fleet will all be gone in 72 hours. They guess that it is headed for planet Michtim because of the upcoming operation.
• Sellars and Dimitri talk and they talk about Abel, we find out that Abel must be over a thousand years old or more, meaning he existed since “that” era. Dimitri says he needs Abel to pilot Omega, once he gets the Zohar and Zarathustra he will be able to fight God.
• Pellegri and Margulis talk and Pellegri says how Abel’s Ark is the object that was said to appear when the Messiah was crucified. They say how they believe Zarathustra to be on Michtim, which explains why Abel’s Ark and the Federation Fleet are headed that way.
• Shion is sulking in her room and Jin tries to comfort her but is unable to do so. KOS MOS talks with her and Shion asks why she protects her, if protecting her was a priory Kevin put in. She says she doesn’t know but its part of her core functions.
• Nephilim appears and tells Shion not to reject everything, if she stays like this she will wind up alone. She says how what she wants from Kevin and what Kevin wants from her are different, that his salvation may not make her happy. If she goes to him then she will have to make a painful and difficult choice.
• We learn that the battle over Michtim has begun, and because of the wave thing half of the federation planets have disappeared. We find out that Dimitri wants Abel’s Ark because it has the original Zohar. Everyone makes plans that they have to do something so they head out for Michtim.
• In the E.S.s you infiltrate the Merkabah and eventually at its core come face to face with Sellars. Jr. yells at him for all the people he’s killed but he just says how he is no different. When Jr.  asks where his father is Sellars tells him to search himself, he should be able to find his comrades. Jr. is surprised, asking Gaignun and not believing it. Sellars says that unit 668 and 669’s purpose was to destroy 666, the red dragon, Jr. he also say that 669 had an additional purpose, the rebirth of Dimitri. Sellars also says that Dimitri needs the emulators to for something, which are all on the Durandal but Sellars laughs saying they can’t do anything about that now.
• We see the Durandal and in front of it Omega appears. The Durandal is then attacked and the ship is infiltrated by Dimitri’s men, Nigredo leading them. Eventually Nigredo gets to the bridge and shoots Mary. Juli yells asking what he is doing and he turns into Dimitri. Dimitri says how he needs some code from Mary and Shelly which is inside them. All of a sudden Canaan jumps out of no where and attacks Dimitri but Citrine jumps in and stops him.
• Everyone arrives at the Durandal and after seeing all the people dead, you go to try and save whom you can and free Shelly, Mary, Canaan and Juli. Then head over to the emulator hanger where you run into Citrine.  After defeating her you run up to Dimitri. Jr. yells at him to stop and he says how he doesn’t understand why he is here. He doesn’t’ want to kill U-DO, nothing can ever kill it. Dimitri says how in the past people were one with God, loved him and feared him Out of fear they sought power and became gods themselves. With their relics like the Merkabah and Omega he will make it so they can become gods once more. He says U-Do is a god of this dimension. Dimitri says if God cannot be destroyed then we shall be the ones to become gods ourselves.
• Dimitri pilots the Durandal into Abel’s Ark so he can get the original Zohar. Everyone manages to escape on the Elsa and we see Dimitri with the emulators and the original, powering up Omega.
• We see Kevin talking with Wilhelm. They mentioned Omega’s wakening and Kevin asks if he should send Albedo. Wilhelm says he really wants to go huh?
• The Elsa heads back into the fight and after talking Doctus says they can go after Dimitri by gate jumping inside Abel’s Ark. The Elsa does that and everyone eventually makes their way through, and get to Dimitri. After fighting him and then Omega Res Novae, Dimitri just says how they can’t defeat him, how he is going to ascend U-Do and awaken it. Jr. yells at him to stop and then White Testament says how it is not Dietary’s power to control; he is just being seduced by it.
• White Testament reveals himself as Albedo and says how they need to do something about these, and Abel and the Zohar float out of Omega and disappear, and Dimitri is pulled out and dropped to the ground. Albedo asks what Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes is doing and Dimitri yells at him but Albedo says he is not talking to him; he is talking to the one in the shadow. Dimitri says he can’t hear him but Albedo says he thinks he can. An image of Nigredo appears and asks Jr. to kill him while he still has his will. Jr. says how he can’t do it but Albedo says he won’t save anyone like that; he has the power, kill him! When Jr. says he can’t kill his brother Albedo says that he killed him, it’s the same thing.
• Albedo says that Jr. has the power to kill him, that he needs to link up. He says to Nigredo how he hates the idea of having to link with you, but it’s for Ruebedo, so join up. Jr. asks what he is talking about and Albedo says he is contaminated by U-DO, they were designed to neutralize it. They start the link and tell Nigredo to go into Ruebedo’s body so he isn’t blasted away and once everything goes, Nigredo goes into Albedo’s body. Nigredo asks about Albedo’s true feelings, why he is here. He tells Albedo to go back into Ruebedo.
• Nigredo talks to Jr. saying how he was only built to destroy him. All along he shouldn’t have existed, and Albedo knew this purpose and hated him for it. They talk a lot and eventually, Nigredo dies/disappears, and Albedo is either dies and goes away or his soul rests inside Ruebedo, Nigredo being gone for sure.
• We see Kevin and Wilhelm talking, some portal thing activates and Wilhelm says how it is time, let us go Joshua. Then there is a big flash and the Vector ship all of a sudden looses all its power.

Impressions:

I thought the whole scene at the end of this chapter, about the three URTV brothers was amazing. It was an awesome scene I thought because all throughout these games, Jr.’s complicated past and as well as his brothers and what they were made for has always been a deep interesting focus. I thought it was so sad that Nigredo died I mean for the most part all of the drama up until now was about Jr. and Albedo, because Jr. was good and Albedo evil, kind of. But then when they killed Nigredo it was just stunning, I don’t know, there was something about that scene altogether that was brilliant, the music, the emotions of the characters. Both Nigredo and Albedo dieing, well Albedo I’m not to sure about but he became less existent then he was before lets say.

Wilhelm is still so much of a mystery. I mean, you get caught up in watching all of this stuff go on, watching Dimitri explain his plans to basically become a god and you forget that behind that, Wilhelm is like orchestrating EVERTYHING. I mean, seriously I nearly forgot about him, being caught up in everything Dimitri was doing that when they showed Wilhelm, and showing that basically everything that happened was part of his plan, that was just amazing. He is defiantly one of the more interesting bad guys in several video games I’ve played.

They talked a lot more about Zarathustra in this chapter, and I’m getting more and more interested to find out what exactly it is, as it is OBVIUSLY important, because as I’ve stated before it’s in the damn games name, Also Sprach Zarathustra. Doesn’t that translate into Thus spoke Zarathustra? So that implies that Zarathustra might be a living thing. Going with that theory, Zarathustra is on Michtim so it can’t be like Shion, KOS MOS, or chaos. The only thing I can think of now, if we’ve seen Zarathustra thus far, is that it might be Nephilim. But it is entirely possible if Zarathustra is a being that we haven’t encountered them before.

Abel is still a big mystery, as he is still around and now apparently on Michtim as Albedo said They have hardly explained anything involving him or his past or what not, they just put him in there and have him be the pilot of a complicated machine. I just hope they explain it and don’t leave it open ended.