Eleanora Report

Project Exodus ID Number: 00008453

ID Name: Eleanora C. Antoinette

Date of Entry: Miran calendar day 537

Subject: BLADE Lieutenant Cross, ID Number XXXXXXXX

I am mostly writing this report for future record keeping and study, since as of now it holds very little meaning or weight in regards to it's subject.

Said subject is BLADE Lieutenant Cross, one of the supposed 'Super Soldiers' that was created by an unnamed initiative prior to Earth's destruction (For simplicities sake I will refer to the initiative as Project X).

The goal of Project X, as it was explained to me, was to use several forms of selective memory erasure, consciousness alteration, systematic brainwashing and several other personality alteration practices in order to create highly skilled and fanatically loyal warriors that would aid in Humanities's struggle to survive amongst the stars.

Cross was not one of these subjects. He was a washout, one of the defectives that was 'damaged' by the techniques employed by this organization. Despite this 'handicap', I appealed to Project X's leaders to allow him passage on board the White Whale regardless. Any potential risk would almost certainly be outweighed by the gains. When it's the end of the world, we can't be afford to turn away such valuable weapons merely because of a slight risk.

There is much to talk about in regards to Cross. He has made an impact on our city of NLA, and on me as well. Dividing this report into distinct segments will make classification easier.

Physical Abilities: Perhaps we should start with the more mundane, but necessary, list of what exactly these soldiers, even a defective one, are capable of.

While Cross has the natural strength and advantages of a MIM, there has obviously been some alterations made to his MIM that afford it several distinct advantages over more conventional ones.

Firstly, it is far more powerful than a standard MIM. Due to the artificial nature of MIMs they are unable to acquire more muscle mass, thus the strength of a MIM is necessitated by it's body type and weight. If Cross's MIM and Vandham's were to arm wrestle for instance, Vandham would win simple due to his greater mass. Instead Cross's MIM has proven superior to Vandham's, winning several strength competitions and clearly outperforming other MIMs in other feats of strength. It's my belief that these soldier's MIMs were altered by Project X, giving them these enhanced abilities. There was also a store of replacement limbs specifically set aside for these Soldiers in the White Whale's cargo, clearly someone was planning ahead.

Aside from their strength, these MIMs are also far more durable than the standard models, being able to take a direct hit from a Qmoeva Skell-class energy weapon and merely lose an arm, as opposed to the entire side of the body that was struck. I've recommended to the other leaders of NLA that we study these MIM's spare parts and try to adapt it's alterations to our own bodies.

As for my second point we come to the real threat this warrior poses, his martial and mental skills.

If there is a martial art of some sort that Cross is not versed in at this point I am not aware of it. From Eastern martial arts such as Kung Fu, all the way to Western styles such as Baroque sword fighting. He also employs some unheard of styles as well, such as the one he labels Weiji Do (Way of Manifestation). He has also taken astonishingly quick to several Xeno's styles of fighting as well, despite the differences in physiology.

Initially his weapon skill set was rather limited, likely something to do with him being washed out of Project X. In recent months however he has undertaken strict training, rapidly becoming nothing short of a master in nearly every known weapon in the city. From knives to sniper rifles, swords to assault rifles, Spears to Rayguns…the list is quite extensive.

What makes all this knowledge particularly lethal however is his mental fortitude and strength. His reaction time was clocked at an unheard of 0.013 seconds, almost ten times faster than the fastest recorded Human speed to date, allowing him to react to a move almost as soon as he sees it. He also has incredible mental composure and stamina, during a BLADE stress test he spent an ungodly 8 hours in combat conditions, fighting every few minutes before his performance started to degrade. Utterly insane. Not to mention his reading speed, which clocks in at around 3500 words per minute, allowing him to read through quite a bit of old Earth literature in record time.

These mental skills also allow him to forego large amounts of sleep, as a few minutes of meditation leave him refreshed and able to perform other duties. He is also very hard to, 'keep down', as the saying goes. Despite learning of both his heritage and it's more unpleasant facets, as well as his status as a reject, he was able to recover from these revelations within weeks, if not days, of learning them. Had I known he was this resilient, I would not have so vehemently opposed letting him learn of this information.

Personality: What most people don't seem to consider is the specifics of how Cross gained his personality, and this is a very important insight into how he works.

Put bluntly, the person we know as Cross isn't necessarily an individual. Rather he is an amalgamation of all the people he has met and come to care about.

Perhaps an explanation for this statement is in order.

When Cross first came to NLA, he was a blank slate. Whatever memory modifications Project X gave to it's subjects likely didn't take well to Cross, as he only had basic language skills, his knowledge of combat, and likely a very vague want to help 'Humanity' as his base state.

What others fail to realize is just how observant and confused this mind was. With almost no means of making sense of it's environment, I hypothesize Cross's mind and brain were working overtime to create a sense of self, and used the surrounding environment to help in that construction. Naturally, the sources used were those he interacted with continuously.

The two major contributors to the person we call Cross were Colonel Elma (Exodus ID: 00000591) and Lin Lee Koo (Exodus ID: 00010053), BLADE operatives who were his initial team. From Elma he learned loyalty to a higher cause as well as the importance of leadership, while from Miss Koo he began to showcase humor and enthusiasm, as well as more advanced sarcasm. These two formed the core of his personality, although many others contributed as well.

From Phog Christoph (Exodus ID: 00946571), Hope Alanzi (Exodus ID: 03461322) and the Ma-non Ackwar (BLADE ID: 2075) he began to show signs of humility and unconditional compassion, and was shown to empathize with others more.

From Hector Birtwhistle (Exodus ID: 00133890), Frye Christoph (Exodus ID: 00813456), Bozé Lowes (Exodus ID: 00054672) and Doug Barrett (Exodus ID: 00076451) he started to display confidence and pride in his skills, as well as H.B.'s ideas on the concept of meritocracy. From Bozé he also began to show curiosity in teaching others.

The list goes on, including such people as Yelv Jameson (Exodus ID: XXXXXXXX), Irina Akulov (Exodus ID: 00020986), Gwin Evans (Exodus ID: 00734716), Alexa Reyes (Exodus ID: 00351900), Sharon Effinger (Exodus ID: 00176351) and others. But to delve into the minute changes they made in his overall personality would go beyond the scope of this report (See additional file attached to this one for more technical data and explanations).

There was one other person that made a significant impact on Cross's personality, Lao Huang (Exodus ID: 00071342). Lao and Cross were good friends, up until Lao's betrayal. What Cross took away from this betrayal, as well as the revelation of the composition of the Lifehold's passengers, was the idea of both revenge and forgiveness. From what I personally saw before he and his team went to confront Lao, he was fully prepared to kill the traitor. Once they returned to the city however, with the mission a success, he was merely bitter and distracted.

I feel we were very, very lucky that Lao spilled the details of his history with Project Exodus, garnering the sympathy and understanding of Cross. Had he merely killed Lao, he likely would have considered death a fitting punishment for a betrayal of trust, and we would have had a very different person defending our city. Thankfully the lesson he took away from that disaster was that understanding and comprehending someone's actions is a far better alternative than merely doling out 'justice' as the situation sees fit.

It's because of that event that he has staunchly supported myself, Chausson, Nagi and Vandham despite the several secrets we have kept from him, and to this day continues to stay on good terms with all of us.

After a certain point Cross seems to have stopped absorbing facets of other people's personality, his own 'self' stabilizing and becoming 'unique'.

Conclusion: For a supposed reject of Project X, Cross has quite the impressive service record and list of talents. I consider it no small exaggeration to say he was instrumental in keeping NLA safe in the hectic first year of our stay on Mira. I am even more proud to say that he is a…friend of sorts.

My only regret is that if this is a supposed washout, I can only imagine what one of the 'true' soldiers would be like, and will likely never find out due to their presumed KIA status.

(End Report)


It wasn't until I was writing this that I realized a fair number of characters were only given a first name and nothing else. Which is fine for the game but would have looked kinda weird in this scenario. So I just went ahead and thought of a few random names for the characters, I quite honestly didn't put much thought into it (more than the games writers did though, ZING!).