Disclaimer: No part of Xenosaga belongs to me. The only thing I do own of it is the enjoyment I get from playing the games
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Miltian Star System: Miltian Conflict
Zayn had been wandering around Miltian space for the past half hour. She couldn't remember where Miltia was. It wasn't like she'd been there too many times before. Most of the operations she had worked rarely were located on Miltia. She tried following the faint song, but the wavelengths came and went. It would become strong then go silent; it was taking its toll on Zayn's response functions and her ability to concentrate at all. She didn't let it discourage her from getting to Miltia. She tried listening to the U.M.N. broadcasts, but they weren't helpful. She still didn't know why she had the urge to go to Miltia in the first place.The feeling had hit her much like the impulse to take her gun for the meeting with Captain Rowan: and her feelings were usually never wrong...
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The realians' offensive is beginning to grow weak. The Miltian Government has deserted along with the rest of the evacuees. The realians continue their destruction. Many civilians are still left on Miltia, but the Federation has stopped sending rescue teams due to the risk. Only military units remain to fight the realians. Vector released a statement earlierabout the affected realians.They believed a series they developed 20 years ago is alsobeing affected. Vector says that the Special Ops. series was built with a few bugs in the prototypes, one of them being that many of the prototypes were built with a program that overrode their ability to take all orders and commands. One was even built using a human heart and brain. Vector says they destroyed all of the prototypes early on, #000, the one with the human organs, being one of the first. They also stated that they can deactivate the rest of the series with an override device located at Vector's control center on Miltia; measures are already being taken to locate the control center and deactivate the series.
Zayn listened to the broadcast, astonished. Vector had lied; if anySpecial Ops. had been destroyed, it wasinservice.Zayn alsoknew thatnone of her former comrades had been stationed on Miltia for a while or were even currently in the Miltian Star System. She went through all her databanks and the only Special Ops.she found was herself. She wondered why Vector was lieing and taking measures to destroy a series that had nothing to do with the present conflict. She sat and thought for a while thencame to agrim conclusion: Vectorwas covering their tracks. The public was not supposed to know about the series, but someone must have dug too deep inthe company's archives. She realized then that her premonition had been confirmed when she had the impulse to escape from the Onberis.It was her reason for being here; she was the only one who could stop the deactivation. Ifthe series were deactivated, she would be too. Her realian body would stop working. Even though she had a human heart and brain, she knew they weren't enough to keep her alive. She had to get to the control center before somebody else did. She knew where Vector's control center was located on Miltia, but she still didn't know how to get to the planet. She sat thinking about his, but her mind kept returning to what Vector had told the public about all the prototypes being destroyed. It was true that many of them were built with that program, herself included because of her human brain, but Vector had lied about destroying them all, but it still didnt make sense. She to felt angry about all the unethical things Vector had done resulting in her creation as a realian. Just then she heard the song grow stronger. She screamed in pain once more but then caught on to it: the wavelengths, she was sure they were coming from Miltia or at least near it. She put the craft into hyper drive and sped toward the source, the pain growing stronger…
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Elsewhere on Miltia
With news of what was going on on Miltia, two vigilantes were sent in to recover the U.R.T.V.s. The two vigilantes, chaos and Canaan had been traveling around Miltia for quite some time without success. They, too, heard the song every so often and it worried chaos because he knew it had an affect on realians, which is what Canaan was. The knew something was wrong when the song's wavelengths didn't stop like the usually did. They were ambushed in their E.S. by teams of realians outside of Vector's control center.
"They think we're the enemy, any ideas?" called Canaan back to chaos.
During this time, their craft, the E.S. Asher, is being fired upon by the units.
"Yeah, we send an emergency I.F.F. signal. We can't let anything stop us from reaching our objective," replied chaos. He was typing into his arm console, sending the I.F.F. "Something's wrong, they should be receiving our signal." The Asher was showing that it was in an emergency state. Chaos worked to find the source of the problem. "This is…it can't be!"
Just then, the right arm of the Asher was shot off and the craft fell to its knees. Things were beginning to look bad for them, especially when Canaan began gripping his head.
"No, close your mind to it Canaan. Don't let the song affect you." The craft then began to glow. It stopped when out of nowhere, a slash mark appears on the enemy craft that was closing in on them, taking it down.
"Is he…with us?" asked Canaan.
"I'm not sure, he's sending an I.F.F. signal."
The craft then spoke, "Attention, unidentified craft, I've received your I.F.F. signal; the other crafts have been tainted, but you seem unaffected. Are you an ally?"
"Seems like he's one of us, what do you think, chaos?"
"Our first priority is to get out of here; I think we should stick together." Chaos sent the I.F.F. signal back and the craft complied. He took out the remaining enemy. Once he did that, he got out of his craft. One of the enemy were still alive it was about to get the man with semi long black hair pulled into a ponytail. They were about to warn him when he unsheathed his sword and took the craft out. Apparently he worked just as well on foot as he did in his craft…
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Zayn entered Miltian space and was racing towards the control center with alarming speed. She was having trouble regaining control due to the song. Her head was still pounding. The control center became within sight. She tried landing but to no avail: the craft hit with dead speed right into the building. Canaan and the others had already continued on their way on foot. They heard the crash and recognized it as coming from where they just left.
"It was probably a federation craft shot down, we have to keep going," stated chaos. The party did. Zayn lay on the floor of the control center unconscious for a few minutes. When she came to, she saw the hole in the ceiling and realized she had crashed. Despite being realian, she still had blood running through her. Blood was essential to the heart, so the doctor's installed a circulatory system in her with artificial lungs. Her head had been cracked open and blood was streaming down her face. She looked around the room, looking for the override device. She opened the craft and fell out onto the floor. She was still in pain from the song. It kept resonating through her head and wouldn't stop. She still had to reach theoverride before whatever tac team did. She limped toward it and saw that it hadn't been touched yet. She thought this odd because on her way down, she saw many realian A.M.W.S. combating outside with another A.M.W.S. She knew it was luck that they hadn't heard the commotion and come to complete their mission. Zayn extended her arm and a blue sphere of light formed in her right hand. She released it and it vaporized the device. She then limped back to her craft. She knew it was hopeless to think it would start. All of a sudden the song grew to the strongest it had been so far, she collapsed once again, clutching her ears. When the strength subsided, she limped, crawled, and struggled to find the exit. When she did, she saw a partially destroyed A.M.W.S. and a perfectly good one. She decided to take the undestroyed one, but never made it. She collapsed at the base of the craft…
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"The U.R.T.V.s are inside," said Canaan. He and chaos stood outside what looked like a ship. It was thin upside down pyramid.
"According to my briefing, they should be."
"Let's go."
The man with the sword had left them already. His name was Captain Jin Uzuki, a rival of the U-TIC organization. They U-TIC was behind what was happening on Miltia and the song that played. The Song of Nephilim was what it was called, and the ship Canaan and chaos now stood before was named The Song of Nephilim. Canaan and chaos entered the ship and reached the top level. Only two U.R.T.V.s looked alive: one with red hair and one with black. They looked no more than 13 or 14. Both were unconscious. Chaos picked up the one with black hair, Canaan the one with red. They traveled back to their damaged A.M.W.S. only to see Zayn unconscious. They put the two boys in the craft. Chaos was preparing for takeoff while Canaan examined Zayn.
"It's a realian. Her serial number is '000.' It looks like she was created by Vector." Canaan looked closely at the serial number and saw the vector logo. He then noticed her series identification. "This…is impossible."
"What is?"
"She's one of the Special Ops…they were supposed to be deactivated."
Chaos looked up and saw the name of the building; it was the control center. "It looks like we interrupted them."
"She's still alive, we must have."
"Stay here, I'm going to go and investigate. It looks like she crashed; do you see the exhaust trail?" chaos left him and went inside. He saw the destroyed console and craft. He went back outside and saw Canaan still kneeling beside Zayn. "She finished it before they did; she destroyed the override device."r
"Then what do we do with her? We can't just leave her."
Chaos looked sympathetically at Zayn. "Wait…what did you say her serial number was?" Without waiting for an answer, he knelt beside Canaan and looked at her neck. "Number '000.' The prototype with the human heart and brain, as well as a functioning circulatory system. You're right, we can't leave her. Without a doubt U-TIC is still patrolling the area for anything valuable. She'd be the perfect prize."
"What do you mean?"
"Vector told the U.M.N. and the rest of the star system that all the prototypes were destroyed, her being one of the first. It would give U-TIC the ability to discredit Vector; if that happened, no one would trust Vector anymore and turn on them and the federation government, exactly what U-TIC would want."
Canaan nodded and picked her up and carried her to the Asherwhile chaos continued with preparing for takeoff. The Asher was damaged, but they could still use itto depart from Miltia.
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What happened after the rescue of the U.R.T.V.s is still unknown. After Canaan was returned to the Federation, chaos took Zayn and the U.R.T.V.s back to the Kukai foundation, a new organization that was taking in refugees from the conflict. Zayn became a free agent aftershe became conscious, taking odd jobs from organizations and even governments who requested her service. She and chaos are good friends, and is deeply involved in thefight against the U-TICShe has also become an ally to them herself. 14 years would pass before the significance of the Miltian conflict would come back to haunt them all...