Armored Core Lore The story of Armored core It begins in the year ED070 when the earth suffer a massive population growth all over the blue planet. With little space left on the planet to home these people and a future of being starved for resources the worlds governments proposed the building of underground cities to make room for their new growing populations. By the year ED096 powerful corporations and world powers would then turn to space for an answer as the population never stopped growing and along with them bringing the need for more resources to cloth and feed them. To answer this he first Mars terraforming project is executed. A pioneering fleet equipped with artificially intelligent robots is sent to Mars to begin planetary remodelling however the project would take too long as by the year ED100 the earth began to fall apart. More than half of the large cities in developed countries have become slums, while ever-increasing crime and shrinking investment have created a hollowing out of the economy. Industrialized companies have been competing with each other for the interests of developing countries, and with the development of the new technology, problems such as the rise in temperature due to the increase in carbon dioxide and the increase in harmful cosmic rays due to the expansion of the ozone hole have become increasingly worse. The Developing countries also lose most of their concessions to corporations from developed countries, and in addition to environmental destruction, they have been unable to solve basic problems such as economic disparities that will never be filled and food shortages caused by the population explosion. This causes Discontent and grievances in many countries with environmental pollution that has halted the earth's natural ability to cleanse itself. Soon, dissident organizations emerged in various regions and garnered a lot of support. The spark to this war was small. It was a statement by a supporter of a developing country that terrorism against a major power was acceptable. Feuds between major powers and developing countries became evident and other powers began to interfere with them. Soon, in the name of eradicating terrorism, the major powers began their march, and developing countries requested the assistance of third world countries leading to Skirmishes that should have been mere local conflicts to quickly spread and flared up around the world. The People's discontent exploded, and riots broke out in many countries with the economic disparities among nations becoming clear along with the various others problems such as resources, territory, ideology, ethnicity, and religion all erupting into a major war involving all. All this would force the hands of the major powers of the worlds to race to the idea that they would end the war in one fell swoop by deploying large-scale weapons with destructive power far beyond that of nuclear weapons. However, this war was different from the wars of a century ago, because now other countries also brought out similar weapons, and the fields of battle became more like a weapons testing ground. Blasts and boom came from all over and in the end these large-scale weaponry would everything into waste dust. The destruction of the natural environment and ecosystems could not be stopped as these weapons of justice rained down on earth leaving only a few survives. Their planet ruined by war, the survivors had to choice to make their new homes in the underground cities that was once going to solve their problem of overpopulation, now became their only hope of survival. It would take until E.D.0107 before Social systems would begin to be developed and expanded among several underground cities centred on Isaac City. In this process, several large corporations take the lead in reconstruction projects as a replacement for the nation that collapsed due to the Great Destruction. This group would become to be known as the union of corporations and with their minds and cash they would stabilize The urban environment of the underground cities by ED0110 and exchanges between underground cities will become more active. This growth came thanks to the union overcoming the biggest technological hurdle at the time to increase the efficiency and mobility of the work equipment. The answer to this problem, which seems obvious to mankind, which must make the most effective use of its few remaining resources, was to "develop humanoid machines that can withstand practical use.” These would become Muscle tracers and their use quickly spread as The system was used in resource mining, which had been a problem, to improve the efficiency of operations, and was later adopted in space exploration, which had been stagnant. The first shuttle was developed in a short period of time and it showed a strong presence in all kinds of environments, including extreme conditions such as outer space and immigrant planets, and even came to be regarded as a beacon of hope for mankind. This looked to be a fresh start for mankind as such the research and advancement of MT took precedence over everything else in research and development, and within a short period of time, it made dramatic progress. This would be the "core concept” or core system a standard for general-purpose work equipment that could actively respond to any situation by connecting various attachments via "turret points" on each part of the "core," the basic chassis that contained a powerful generator. The Companies of the union designed and produced various parts under this common standard, which was applied to many fields including military. The MT's inherent versatility led to a rapid shift in the entire weapon system leading these new mts with the core concept turning them into fully armored machine of war, these would start to be produced as Armored cores. With such a force behind them in ED.0115 the coalition of business proposed the "Centennial Plan," a major project focusing on the comprehensive development and operation of the entire underground community. It would be a plan that progresses expanding the function of the underground city while at the same time making economic disparities become more noticeable between the population. It also caused conflict within the union of corporations with the need to grow and profit they would form the Raven's Nest as the spearhead of inter-corporate conflicts, it becomes home to a large number of ravens and for a short while would fall under the command of Chrome, one of the corporations within this union. It within the next fifteen years that out of the union two of the corporation would experience rapid growth Chrome and Murakumo Millennium. These two would advance their research faster, their mts development would expanded as well as their business. By ED130 these two corporations controlled most of the under ground cities, the union would fade into the shadows of these mighty corporations and raven’s nest would now have a new operator, one that neither chrome or marakumo seem to question. It is during this time when a new raven would join the ranks of raven nest, their motives unknown yet the actions of this raven would change the world. Its here history will tell of two tales, the first of the raven who sided with Chrome, this would see the raven take on missions for the chrome corporation these would include reclaim oil facility, attack urban center as well as a range of attacks agai9nest the space station and luna base of their rival marakumo. This path would lead the raven to give chrome all the power it would need however the story would not end well much like if the raven choices to work for Murakumo. Its a series of missions that see the take down of chromes own private terrorists, the fall of Chemical-dyno experiment and finally the end of Chrome itself. The most important parts of this tale however will tell us this raven down the 2nd rank raven, becoming a powerful foe as a raven and finally that this new strength frighted the true master mind behind all this. An Ai said to be controlling the top ranked raven, nineball as well as a range of mts in it own private force. Its seeing the power of this raven that made the ai see them a threat to the world they wanted as such the final mission destroy floating mines is nothing more then a trap to get off of this raven threatening to ruin it perfect plan to guide humanity. However the raven would not die here, instead taking down the two nine balls that act as guards for this ai the raven and ai would come face to face, a machine built to guide humanity and a human who wanted to be free. The AI asks the raven for what they wish for? The answer is clear when the raven destroys thje ai causing the underworld cites to suddenly stop functioning and the last largest corporation to fall in ED0158 leading to a new period. The period that would become known as the underground war where after the fall of both chrome and murakumo the smaller companies at the time began to battle for power once more. They wanted to run the cities like chrome and Murakumo did as such this war would last a long 29 years before in ED.0187 the birth of the Formation of the Underground World Ceasefire Commission, this commintiy would handle the ceasefire in the Great Depth War and Along with the ceasefire, the "Treaty of Isaacs", a war treaty, is signed. While thje contents of the treaty is never shown by the year ED.0188 The Underground World Ceasefire Committee was scheduled to be dissolved after the ceasefire process was completed, but it was decided to continue in order to rebuild the inter-company information network and reuse company-owned land. The committee will concentrate the military forces of the remaining organizations, and will become a powerful controlling force. This would evolve by E.D.0190 to the The Earth Government, led by the Underground World Ceasefire Committee, founded with the goal of restoring human life. The Earth Government advocates a return to the surface in order to break through the extremely exhausted situation of the underground world. It begins to investigate the aboveground environment. And just one year later in ed0191 The Earth government, having determined that it is partially habitable on the ground, promotes the migration of people to the ground. In the end it seemed like earth population would return to the surface, however it was then a new and upcoming corporation would present the idea of living on mars.


Armored core lore The story of armored core five It begins around 200 to 300 years ago when for an unknown reason the world lost most of its population and contained areas became uninhabitable. Take from page 04 of the armored core v book the fact this event is best explained as this. There are various theories as to the causes of the devastation of the once prosperous world. Among them, two theories are "resource shortages due to population growth" and the "widening gap between rich and poor" led to repeated wars・ They are highly credible considering the numerous weapons that have been discovered. It is also believed that the world was undermined by the leakage of pollutants from the weapons used in those battles. Alternatively, there is a persistent theory that environmental changes due to natural catastrophes and extreme weather conditions were the cause of the devastation. Now that the ancient records have been lost, there is no way to know which theory is true. All we know is that many people have died and that the "viable areas" where people can live have dwindled to a very small number due to the spread of the contamination. Survivors continue to huddle together in viable areas to survive, but this degraded environment isn’t enough to override human nature, and conflicts over territory and resources continue to erupt. This would be known as the old era A hundred years later when Migrants started to appeared; they used special equipment mask, suits and helicopters to walk around in the contaminated areas and discovered weapons used in past wars in the contaminated areas, which slowly led to the discovery of the humanoid weapon "Armored Core" (AC): a high-performance military weapon. To allow for a better understanding of what this means Migrant is the general term for couriers who travel between viable areas and trade for a living. Many of them are loyal only to profit and live for the purpose of obtaining money and valuables. Therefore, they have two roles: one as peddlers who help people by transporting daily necessities, and the other as merchants of death who deal in weapons and ammunition and promote conflicts. Others go to contaminated areas to search for supplies used in past wars. In many cases, those who can pilot ACs use their strength as a commodity and make their living as mercenaries. Mercenaries go to the field when requested and act as a temporary force. The client may be an organizational entity such as the resistance, or it may be an individual migrant who needs personnel for a conflict or an escort for a search. Is it here that the search for viable land would be begin causing conflict between migrant group as they became territorial and fighting over the viable land the most well known being the city. A large city in a viable area. It seems to have had a unique name in the distant past, but the records had already faded and it was simply called "The City" It is also during this time people who are not migrates would become known as ash people who would venture out to find these viable land themselves. This would be known as the pollution era. It is among these ash people a man by the name of Jack Batty who since a child had been working as a burglar in the city. Would form his own bandit group to continue his life of crime which would lead to this group attacking a migrate by the name of Don Tyrell. He had been picked up by a Migrant Group as as a young man, however it split and fell apart due to internal strife, allowing him to acquired an AC amid the chaos and become a straggler Migrant. After being attacked by Jack’s gang they would rob him of the ac but let him live on the condition that he would teach them how to pilot the armored core. Even after such a meeting, Jack and Don would quickly become friends and with the new weapon Jack’s bandits would become quite the force in the city allowing them to rob resources and send other groups packing with their power. However the city was a lawless place and with more migrant groups fighting for land and resources each day, Jack’s bandit group would be killed off during these battles leaving the only survives being Jack, Don and the daughter of one of his fallen men Frances Curtis. Seeing no other choice and separated from Don, Jack would flee in the ac with Frances to become a mercenary. While Don vanished from the city and return to life as a migrant, the despair of his lost friends by these wars made him realize the meaning of power. It’s here he decided to take back what he lost and would dive deep into contaminated areas to return alive with many successes and attracting a great deal of attention for other migrate groups. It with this that Don Tyrell would then begin to organized various Migrant groups by forceful and cunning means. Leading to within a few years to became one of the most powerful forces in the city. It around this time that another a group would also be making waves within itself the men of honour. This groups birth is Originally down to a mirage group known as the Stratford family that operated solely within its family members. A turning point came however after the death of the families leader and a turf war broke out with other Migrants for their land and resources. However the Stratford’s new leader, Elizabeth Stratford the wife of the original leader and later nicknamed leopardess would show her talent and charisma as a leader. She united the rival Migrants and founded the men of honour with her ruling it for the next dozen years. However time caught up with this leopardess and she was ready to hand over the leadership to one of her daughters, however there was trouble. For Elizabeth had three daughters, Goneril, the eldest, Regan, the second, and Cordelia, the third, and all three were raised as heirs. Cordelia, in particular, was brilliant, displaying a boldness and talent for negotiation that surprised even her mother. Ironically, however, this talent became a source of friction between the sisters, leading to factions within the MoH fighting over who would take the throne. Cordelia, who disliked the inconvenience of the organization, left the MoH herself, and as a result, Elizabeth shifted the management to a collegial system before her death. The factional strife subsides. While Goneril, the eldest daughter, copes with the change in position and secures a stable position, Regan, the second daughter sees the state of the family as a downfall and is consumed by a desire for revenge against those around her and her sister. It this family war that would lead Cordelia to change her name to rosary and begin a new life as a migrant. Who will play an important role later on. For now returning to Jack and Don, the pair would years later reunite working together as the heads of one of the city's most prominent migrant groups. Tyrell cooperates with the City's other powerful migrant group within the city for a while, but his self-righteous, no-holds-barred approach causes him to clash with them at every turn. Leading to fighting between them all with two well known battle between Jack and Leon Dantes Leon at the time was an ace of a certain Migrant group that was known as a martial fighter in the City. However after losing to Jack the first time, he would clash with Jack again only this time it looked to be his end that was until he was rescued by a migrate by the name of rosemary. As a result of his two defeats by Bhatti during the war in the city, he lost his position in the organization and lived as a low-ranking member. It after these battles and more that Jack and Tyrell would finally achieve unification of the city under their group. After this Tyrell becomes the "representative" of the city and Then realized that they did not have the capacity to provide for all of the City's inhabitants with the amount of supplies they had at the time. So he decided on a policy of segregation of the inhabitants. This was the result of his choice to ensure the survival of even a small portion of the population, rather than to have them all live in harsh conditions and possibly perish, which was the best course of action for the future. He created a social system controlled under a strict status system. The status is dictatorial, with those concerned in close proximity to the Tyrells being treated as the upper class, and most of the rest as the lower class. The immigration area was also divided according to status, and the lower class people were forced into worse living conditions. These living condition would see the lower class go underground using tunnels and old underground network as their homes. This sight hit Jack hard who did not agree with Tyrell’s new world policy and as such during a mission to push back some rebellious migrant groups within the city Jack would flee underground. To Tyrell this was a friend he thought he could trust betraying him as such Jack Bhatti would be labelled as an exile from the city and Tyrell would begin to turn the city into a military fortress. He established a security force for his own safety and to suppress terrorism and strife among rebel groups. The security force handled weapons used in former wars and used military force to maintain security in the city. They also deployed surveillance units and built watchtowers throughout the city to ensure full security. In truth During Tyrell's reign, the people living in the City were guaranteed a minimum standard of living, but they were not given complete freedom. They were placed under a system of total control, supplies and food were rationed, entertainment was non-existent, and the people were forced to focus on simply surviving. Naturally, some were dissatisfied with such a harsh lifestyle, but the thought of being sent underground prevented them from rebelling. It Is also worth noting that there were industrial facilities within the City, and the bare necessities of life were produced there. But to the people forced underground by Don and his rules this was no life and when Jack Batty came to them, he managed to organize them all into what would become know as the resistance and begin to fight Don rule with small scale skirmishes first. Among these underground people would be Leon Dantes who even after learning that it was Jack Batty who lead this resistance. He would follow Jack into battle and becoming Operations Counsellor within the resistance and would hold this position until the first major attack by the resistance against Don who now had become known as father. Possible because he was seen as the father figure of the city with how he ruled along with the emblem common to all members of the unit was inscribed with the words "ODIET AMO meaning I hate and I love which is the same as the City's logo. These very words would come from the Latin poet Gaius valerius catullus who used these words in one of his poems or to masterfully express a love hate feeling so seemingly contradictory and yet so frequent with his lover. It reads in full I hate and I love. Why I do this perhaps you ask? I do not know, but I sense that I happens and I am tormented. To return to the topic at hand. All this would happen in the beginning of the era which would be known as the Migrant conflict era along with one more event, a force named Vendie would be established in the mid Mid-continent by a man named Cesar Venide. To better show this a map is showing on screen of its location along with where Don and the men of honour are operating at this time as well. Finally this is where the rest of the events of this era can be seen through the game armored core v as such we shall begin. It begins with what would be called the first counterinsurgency operation where the resistances first major attack on the city would be learned ahead of time as such as representative of the city would reinforce the city own security with the firepower of another Migrant group named the corporation. Very little is known about this group at this point nor how they and Tyrell would meet. However the best description of the group and the answer to how the meeting between them is suggested to have happened comes from the armored core v book the fact which described the corporation as A type of Migrant organization that uses its own combat capabilities as a commodity, it maintains a powerful force centred on "autonomous weapons" that cannot be operated by other organizations. And on how the two met It is said that the corporation and Tyrell came into contact either 40 years ago, when Tyrell went to the contaminated area to conduct a search, or before the first counterinsurgency operation, but no evidence of this remains. A group hidden in secrets and one where the hero of this story would first show up working for the corporation as a mercenary in their force. From this point on this mercenary name will change as the story goes on for some texts will refer to him as simple mercenary while other will name him the dark raven. For this retelling I will be using the dark raven name as to not confuse this ac pilot with other mercenaries of this era. The dark raven is brought to the city under contract by the corporation to fight back the resistance that is launching a large scale attack on Tyrell and his security forces to overthrow him. As a corporation mercenary he is directed by a corporations member name Carol Drury who reminds the dark raven that the corporation expect results from their forces. As if to answer this the dark raven would remain silent as he heads into battle within the city, his skills are proven within minutes as he is able with the overwhelming odd of the corporation forces to over power the fighting resistance forcing them to flee to the western part of the city where their leader Jack Bhatti would act as a distraction for the fleeing resistance members in his own armored core named Vendetta. This armored core would not simple run about instead taking the fight head on as a number of other corporation hired mercenaries would meet their end at Jack’s hand that was until he and the dark raven crossed path. The two quickly battle and the dark raven manages to damage Jack’s ac forcing him to retreat into the underground of the city, this is when the commander of the corporation forces named chief comes over the radio to give the dark raven his next order. A chase would start as the dark raven pursues Jack taking down a transport helicopter trying to block his route into the underground before finally the two armored core pilots meet again. Jack however plans not to die here as he is ready to finish this battle between them with a very large weapon on the back of his ac. This would become later known as the Grind Blade one of the few ultimate weapons that over rides the normal limits of an armored core and allows the craft unlimited energy to use an ultimate weapon to destroy a foe with overwhelming power. The downside to this is the weapon can only be used once and that the armored core using the ultimate weapon is prone to losing its left arm after the weapon is used due to the armored core computer system being unable to deal out the heat output resulting in the loss of the left arm. Yet in jack’s case he would not get to use the grind blade as the chief attacks him from behind. Firing shots and Ramming into the already damaged resistance leaders armored core leading to Jack death. It here however that another voice would come over the radio to speak to the chief Paul O Brian captain of the police force within the city and the force that protects Tyrell. This is a crushing defeat for the resistance who is forced back underground with their leader dead and their forces depleted it would take a year before another would become the resistance leader and her name is Frances Batty Curtis. Inexperienced as a leader the young women seem to lack the skills and charm of the last resistance leader leaving the planning and negotiating with Migrant groups for more weapons and supplies to launch a second attack on the city in the hands of Leon Dantes who survived the first operation. This is how rosary and her henchman RD would be brought into the service of the resistance as a Migrate group for supplies and weapons. Leon would also hire the dark raven as the resistances only armored core force. luckily thanks to the chaos of the first attack and huge losses to the resistance no one could link the dark raven to being the mercenary who chased Jack Batty to his death. With this new team and more supplies the time to launch the second major offence on the city and Tyrells forces. This according to the both the armored core v the fact and Armored core verdict day the after would be named the second counterinsurgency operation. The first steps in this operation would be to destroy the control facilities of the city’s surveillance units located in the high rise district of the city which has four. To do this they would send in a team to do this however due to the city police being stationed in all districts they would have the dark raven act as a distraction in the low rise district to pull the attention of the city police away. It during this missions start we see that rosemary is not too happy about the new leader of the resistance and seems to be only here for the money and that the dark raven once again shows their skill as any who try to attack him are left burning. Causing enough of a distraction the dark raven is then ordered by Leon to head into the high rise district to aid the resistance combat units in the fighting which the dark raven would do only to be confronted by security force eleven in the underground passage the raven had to use to reach the high rise district. A battle between the security force and the dark raven would play out in the underground passage leaving the dark raven as the victor who would speed through the tunnel heading towards the high rise district. Here the resistance fighters are facing heavy fighting from the city police who had highly mobility armored core units and support weapons on their side. The dark raven assistance however allows for breathing room for the fleeing resistance member as he eliminates the defence forces including an armored train filled to the brim with weapons. But when ordered retreat along a different route the resistance radio is hijacked by the corporation commander chief. What follows this conversation between Chief and the resistance is from the another armored train autonomous weapons are fired from it making the escape of the dark raven that much harder. We later learn these the missile type autonomous weapons used here would be named ootheca that seem to be able to home in and even chase target for a period of time. The resistances armored core however manages to escape these weapons and flee the high rise section leaving the resistance aware of the fact the corporation had access to their communications all this time as such their plan would need to be looked over again. The resistance witnessing the weapons the corporations have at their disposal knew they would need more firepower to even stand a chance at surviving against such a foe. As such a search party is formed with Rosary and RD as guides, the dark raven as security and Fran as commander of the mission to head outside the city. Where only a vast wasteland which covered most of earth surface can be seen and it is this that is known to many as the contaminated area. Where the first armored cores would be found and now where the resistance hoped to find more weapons for their cause. It while searching some sites within the area and fighting off more autonomous weapons which are stationed at the sights that Rosemary is questioning Fran in her leaderships skill to the point she even teases her when Fran get angry at rosemary's content pushing of trying to make Fran give orders. In the end however the search of the three main sites turn up nothing leading the search team to enter into another site which make RD nervous. It is filled with autonomous weapons and quite the fight for the dark raven who manages to clear the sight allowing Rosemary to land and begin a search however it is then RD senses something. A large unknown weapon, it attacks without hesitation and Fran seems unsure on what to do that is until rosemary tells the dark raven a weakness to this weapon, its legs when they up open up to fire a large energy blast. In what can described as show of skill, the dark raven takes out this foe amazing rosemary and Fran however RD is not so thrilled about the next conversation between Fran and Rosemary as the team leaves the site. Days later the resistance would launch an attack on the southern part of the city known as the coastal district where a Martine facility is based. The goal of this mission is to make his way to the executive district and clear it of enemies so the resistance can use a bridge there leading to the central command where Tyrell is based. To get there the raven would first have to make it through the coastal district, to do this the dark raven would first take an underground passage from a deserted marine facility into the coastal sector. Yet after taking out the city police patrolling the passage he arrives at the district to find it is being guarded by corporation forces. This leads the raven to fight his way past a number of autonomous weapons once more and two large and powerful weapons that looked like bird named scavengers. Once again the dark raven is able to down these weapons allowing him access to the executive district where the city police are waiting with their own ac to challenge the dark raven. No matter the foe however the dark raven goes on taking out the city police armored core and all the forces here before being ordered to pull back to the passage leading back to the marine base this is when Leon give more details on what the attack plan is for the resistance. Heading back the dark raven picks off more forces of corporation and city police until they find RD waiting to pick them up on a flat bed truck. It as the pair travel back through the passage that RD talks to the dark raven for the first time however it is cut short. An attack from a city police force. The resistance is confused and shocked however the mission goes on with the dark raven taking down the attacks as finally he arrives at the marine facility to see it now being guarded by a huge force of city police and we learn how this was possible thanks to the chief of police. With this many hostile units here the dark raven is ordered to clear them out leading to more battling for the raven as he clears the area only then to have the city police chief show up to deal with the raven himself. This battle between the two is short as another ac soon joins them, Hangman the armored core of chief the corporation commander and he does something unexpected. Killing his own ally, the chief then keeps firing with his ac ultimate weapon forcing the dark raven to hide behind cover and dive under the ocean to avoid shots as he makes his way towards the attacking armroed core. When he does get close the dark raven rams Hanged man making the armored core burst into flame as carol the secretary of chief has this to say. The dark raven and the resistance after this would move right on with their plan the invasion of central command. This plan would see Leon and a team move in with a team to capture Tyrell in his base while the dark raven and resistance forces would battle the forces outside. To aid with this the resistance would cut the power to the area and the dark raven would also take out the back up generators to ensure this power loss would stay that way. It while this is happening however the corporation would turn up and drop an LLL into the area forcing the raven to fight the mighty tall machine of war before heading to the front of father tower. The final part of the plan to capture or kill tyrell is in motion and for the dark raven his job would be keep the city police and cooperation forces at bay while Leon and his team invaded the tower. This battle would be no cake walk though as the corporation would drop in more units and another mercenary armored core pilot who is hired to defend the tower. All these however do not stop the dark raven as finally Leon announces they have captured Don Tyrrell only but this victory is short lived. What should have been a victory for the resistance now sees the city began to be destroyed by the corporation who’s unit go about attacking resistance member and even city the police force. Major panic set in as Rosemary is in shock but Fran orders all resistance members to retreat underground including the dark raven who does this. The city a blaze and the corporation forces killing whoever they come across the city is slowly taking a bit, piece by piece all the while reaching the underground they meet another ac however this armored core seem familiar and the voice of it pilot too. Betrayal for the sake of living, RD however is no match for the dark raven who sends him pack before coming into contact with another armored core deeper in. Somehow Chief is still alive and even with his joking it results in not one battle but two bas Chief’s armroed core even in a critical state after the first bout with the dark raven manages to battle again this time using a pillar as a club. It still ended with the chief defeat however the dark raven does not stick around as hangman once again blow up as now he heads off to aid with the resistance evacuation. Guarding helicopter that try to pull resistance member and people living in the city while corporation force rain down bullets and laser all around them. Whatever the outcome the dark raven then flee with rosemary's aid as now they watch the city burn. This nightmare would not stop here for the dark raven and the two women with him as while escaping rosemary helicopter would be shoot down by RD once again in his new armored core vengeance with the grind blade. He sees the only way to escape his fear of death is to kill the dark raven and is eager to end his life. Yet even an ultimate weapon can not stop this raven as RD comes to see when the dark raven takes his life. Another life taken by the dark raven even Fran admits she is scared of him as everything he touches turns to ash. Sadly this would not be the final battle for them as even after recovering rosary from her helicopter the three would have to deal with one final encounter with the corporation. In the wastelands of the world the three would wonder until the corporation final weapon caught up with them. The exusia a large flying armored core that looks to be the foe to put the dark raven in the ground with its power. Yet once again the raven turns this weapon into scrap and with it the corporation seems to fall quiet after this loss leaving the three to wonder the wasteland for the next two years as migrants. It during this time the three of them would return to the city once more, now a battleground for migrants who are savaging the resources left over and turf wars. It is here and in other sectors that large group of men of honour fighters would clash with the dark raven. Known now had as the mercenary who survived the second counterinsurgency between the resistance and Tyrrell. These units are out of his league however as the dark raven swiftly kills his foes they are unaware that in the background a senior head of the Men of honour is watching Regan. She recognizes rosemary’s emblem and at once sends out Neon a men of honour armored core mercenary to kill her and sway the dark raven to her side. In her mind She needed his power make the Men of Honour strong again under her family and rosemary she had to go after all she could not have her sister Cornella try to come back and steal her seat of power. However her senseless attacks sending Men of honour members to their death against the dark raven would soon lead to Regan orders being ignored by men of honour members with the only men of honour member willing to listening to her as she ordered him to kill her sister. This man is named Oswald Warrickshire. Another wander of the wasteland earth who as a child lost the group he was travelling with and ended up being taken in by the head of the Men of honour at the time Elisabeth Stratford who would put him through the training of the men of honour leading him to become a bouncer for Regan, a personal guard to be more on point. In two battle he would square off against the dark raven fleeing once due to damage and secretly knowing he was no match for his foe. However the second battle would be Oswald’s last as the dark raven kills him here with Rosary asking why did he work for such a man. In truth Oswald has his reasons and one is that he felt pity for Regan, who was caught in the grip of her own greed and obsession with power. His death however would send Regan into a rage and grief stricken rant as she tries to escape the place where her final chance at killing her sit sat burning. Only for this to happen. Attacked by an unknown armored core, all the dark raven, Fran and Rosemary have to go off is her sisters final words. Is that Zodiac? For the three of them the next few battles would be more zodiac armored core catching them off guard trying to kill them and finally it is clear these zodiacs are out to kill the dark raven. Knowing this rosemary comes up with a plan to work out where these zodiac armored core maybe and as such the group set out to hunt down all Zodiac members. To go into more detail All of the ACs belonging to this group were white-coloured and wore emblems resembling the constellations of the zodiac signs. ACs from No.1 to No.12 have been confirmed, each with extraordinary combat power. They suddenly appear on the battlefield and attack indiscriminately, then disappear without a trace, leaving behind the opponents whom they have defeated. But why do this? It is wrote in the book armored core v the fact page 26 that In recent years, a document was discovered that is strongly associated with the Zodiac. The documents described a being called "designed," whose aptitude and ability as an AC pilot had been enhanced by various artificial means. The Zodiac was a group of AC pilots who had been experimented on by these "designed" pilots. Designs were produced in past periods of major warfare through various types of experiments, and various models, including prototypes, were produced. The knowledge and technology related to design research is difficult for us to understand today and impossible to reproduce. From this, it can be inferred that Zodiacs were created in the distant past and have continued to live until recently. There are two hypotheses as to why they have transcended the fetters of life span and existed in the present. One is that the subjects' physical enhancement has resulted in a longer lifespan than usual. The other is that they have been in hibernation for some reason and have been inactive until recently. However, both theories lack evidence, and since all members have now died, the truth is still unknown. But even after the defeat of all 12 zodiacs, the story of the dark raven, Fran and Rosemary has one final chapter known to many as the forgotten days. To tell these events I shall read them from the translated pages I own from the armored core verdict day book the after pages ten and eleven. After the battle with the Zodiacs, Fran, Rosemary and the dark raven would set off in search of a safe haven. However as soon as they started their search the three are attack by an unknown unit which the dark raven battles with. It after the battle however that the captain of the attacking unit would contact Fran over radio informing them that a client wishes to meet with them and if they refuse he will repeat the attack as many times as needed to make them agree. Fran is reluctent to go however the three of them have little choice and head off with this unit to see this client. To the suspire of the three the client would turn out to be Goneril of the men of honour who wanted to chat with her sister and her friends about a job she had for them. It is here a semi crippled man is brought before the three named Issac. Goneril tells the three of them that this man is a witness to something called the tower, A gigantic structure of unknown nature and she wants them to find it for her with issac’s help. With little choice on the matter Fran’s team sets out on the hunt for this tower with issac in tow, however he is tight-lipped as a dead man and does not offer any help in any. With their source of information not talking the group have no choice but to gather information leading to countless battles with other migrant and the rescue of a man name Edgar Storks. Storks tells the team that he is the leader of a group named The Storks, who specialise in infiltrating deep within the contaminated areas along with telling them how he rescued issac. The story goes that issac was wandering around the city where he lived before it was swallowed up by contamination and while this was happening Issac saw the shadow of a huge tower at the far end of the contaminated area. Hearing all this Stork brought issac to the Men of honour as a live witness to the event and was paid. Although he does note that issac was in a lot better shape when he handed him over to the men of honour. This information certainly would help the group and with stork knowledge on some very interesting subjects they asked him to join them in their search. The man would in gratitude for them rescuing him but also because he had taken a liking to the dark raven, a mercenary who made quite the name for himself. With this agreed the now five strong group would follow strokes guidance deep into the contaminated area in the southern continent where he rescued Issac. It is as they do however that they find a remains of a strange facility. It is an odd sight as the facility looked like one the resistance used during the second attack on father, yet before any exploring could be done the group is suddenly hit by artillery fire making the team scatter with the dark raven ac being dropped allowing him to quick find where this attack came from. An armored core, but what is strange is it is the same model and has same emblem as the corporations Chief's armored core Hangman. To make things more strange a voice comes over their radio, the voice of Carol Dorry who calls Fran and the other failures and advises them to stop searching for the tower. At this moment issac who previously appeared to be a dead man, suddenly reacted to carol’s words asking her who she is? Carol however does not answer as the chiefs armored core leaves without another shot or word. Roseary is surpised at the suddenly reunion of old foes, however fran has a guess about who these two are. She believes that the chief and Carol are something non human that has been watching humans for a long time. After reaching the southern continent and heading deeper in, the group take a rest in a relativity unpolluted area. It’s here stork make the group aware that the place he rescued issac is nearby and that there are rumours of an unknown group attacking anyone they come across. It just as this conversion ends that the group is attacked by an unknown force, leading the dark raven to attack group and take out what looked to be the leader of the groups armored core which has a red Vendie emblem on it. This name is unknown to the group yet Issac speaks up explain that the Vendie unit is from a continent across the ocean and their goal was probably the tower. Hearing this the group rush back to their search. However more Vendie forces attack them and while small in numbers, each member of this force is a skilled fighter making the fight tough for the dark raven. Yet he would fight them off only then for a helicopter to drop in a single armored core with its pilot showing no will to fight. The pilot praises the strength of the dark raven and introduces himself as Caesar Vendie. Caesar would then go on to tell the group about this goal to obtain the tower as only the strong in his mind can control its power. Fran however is not to pleased with this as she believes its power could be used to help build a great civilization without power. Caesar is unmoved by this and instead say that he will settle this matter at the tower. Its as the group approaches the tower they notice the concentration of the contamination is increasing as if the tower itself is source of the contamination. Arriving at the foot of the tower, the vendie unit members are waiting there and the battle between Caeser and the dark raven begins. Yet this battle is interrupted by a volley of fire from the chief’s armored core hangman only this time there was not only one hangman but many. It’s seeing this that carol comes over the radio only to be interrupted by Caeser who asks if she and the others are collaborators of his father? Her answer to this is that venide and the city are experiments to explore human potential and that these experiments are their mission. Chief warns Caesar not to go looking for the truth before calling the dark raven, a dark raven as his many armored cores attack. The dark raven and Caeser would work together to battle the many hangman armored core and as they do carol speak about the reason for her and the chiefs existence. It was that they were created to protect the world and the human beings on it and by doing their mission that is what they are fulfilling. Issac however reacts strongly to this and denies the existence of such beings. He hated the humans who created this polluted world and thought anything created by these foolish humans was nothing more then a defective product. It a statement that shock Carol who asks what he really meant by this? Issac answer to her is total destruction and along with this he announces his willingness to accompany Carol and chief in their mission to prove humanity is flawed. The conversation leads Carol to active a super sized weapon to finish off the dark raven and Caeser. The pair however despise being heavily damaged from the fight with the many hangman armored core manage to destroy this super weapon. Only when they did a large amount of contamination is released from it, luckily for them stork is able to save them before the area around the tower becomes so polluted that going close to it would result in a quick death. It as they flee however that Issac has gone and no one knows where he went. With only Fran, Rosemary, Stork, the dark raven and Caesar alive, the vendie pilot tells the rest he is going to restore humanity even if he has to be apart for the administrators plan. It is hearing this that Roseary and Fran respond back by telling Cesar that they to would start their own forces against him and the entity behind him. Fran also knew that issac would become a real threat as such once safe the three of them would part ways. With Caesar retuning to mid continent, Fran and Rosary would swear to make forces that function by complementing each other as they two parted way with Rosary going back to the men of honour while Fran would go with stork. This is the end of a story buried in history, a turning point in the future of humanity. The three never talked about this journey and perhaps that was done to prevent anyone from taking the tower away from them. As for the dark raven, what happened to him remains unrecorded. This ends the story of armored core v.