The Coral.
That's what we call the organisms discovered in Rubicon that resides in the planet, as our People that lives with them says: the Source of Energy and Life native to our World, 'Coral, Abide with Rubicon'.
The Rubicon Research Institute discovered a way to use the Coral as an energy source. From machine, to buildings, to cars and roads, to simple appliances, Institute City experiments with Coral to find its limit.
Because of this energy, we were able to live very comfortable lives. But sometimes, that alone isn't enough.
Assistant Scientist Dornez, my Father, thought so. He began to used Coral in nasty ways, injecting it to people. Experimenting the limits the Human Body can withstand. Thus, the Human Augmentation Gen. 1 was born.
But he didn't stop, he continued to kill and kill, and toy and toy with even more lives to satisfy his curiosity. Leading to New Generations of Augmented Humans for Armored Cores.
Buyers began planning to sell Coral in the Highest Bidder.
And people...people are intoxicated to it. The euphoria, the bliss, they hunger for more of that priceless addiction.
Dosers started to appear, addicts who would pillage and plunder for more Red High.
With this, we unknowingly began the countdown of our end.
Nobody came to try and stop Dornez with his unethical experiments, not when greedy people are backing it as well, and killing anyone who got in their way. RRI had created a special Machine designed for the Augmented Humans, the C-WEAPONS, designed to be the cutting edge in terms Warfare and Development.
Against them, Dr. Nagai created his own C-WEAPON, not to propagate warfare, but to make a stopgap at Continuous experiments with Coral. To prevent Coral Collapse.
The HAL-826.
But that's not enough, one man against all this Madness. The descent of Institute City fell faster than it was built.
And at the center of it all, is CORAL.
So Dr. Nagai began to find ways to get rid of it. Not just with the Paranoia of something he noticed beyond understanding, but because of every bad thing that can happen when the line is crossed.
But at the cost of an entire Planet?
With how the City became a Den of Greed, and it started spreading across the land, He thinks this sacrifice is more than Worth it. Just to stop another War.
There were surprisingly no battles. Not when everybody is united to abuse Coral.
So Dr. NAGAI made use of that, to get rid of everything.
And then, it came.
The chosen day. In the end, the planet itself had to suffer Humanities Hunger to stop it for good. DR. Nagai used the Largest CORAL Well as a cleansing tide. Stopping the C-WEAPONS completion, with the HAL-826 being the only Complete Product for IBIS AC.
And when it burst out of the earth...all the fighting...all the greed and sadness...
...in Flames and Red Tides...
...everything was washed away...
"Cinders yet remain, so I leave it to you light the remaining Embers." It's been two decades since he told me that.
And I intend to finish what he started all those years ago.
