Abel's Ark
Abel's Ark is a is a star system-sized object that was percieved as a giant Gnosis in the Xenosaga series.
Description[edit]
When it first appears over Old Miltia, Abel's Ark resembles a crystalline tree. The ringed object in the center is not a planet, but an energy field. After taking the Zohar, Abel's Ark is able to observe the lower domain more steadily. When Dmitri Yuriev rams into it with the Durandal that houses the Zohar Emulators, Abel's Ark transforms to resemble either a sword or a cross. The Ark's interior is mostly organic in appearance. The core is surrounded by four colored orbs, each of them contains a pocket dimension where three Zohar Emulators are held as well as being guarded by a heavily mutated Gnosis. It is said that Abel's Ark appeared when the Messiah was crucified.
Story[edit]
Episode I[edit]
Abel's Ark is first mentioned by Wilhelm in the ending, saying that Albedo is the only person who can open the door to Abel's Ark.
Episode II[edit]
Abel's Ark first appears in the ending after the Space-Time Anomaly disappears, in which it absorbs the Zohar and then disappears just as the Durandal was prepared to collect it.
Episode III[edit]
In Shion's subconscious, after witnessing her parent's death again, in addition to her subconscious self, Shion resonates with the Zohar, calling forth Abel's Ark. The Ark then makes its way to the planet Michtam through the U.M.N. because it seeks the "eternal circle": Zarathustra, causing many planets in its path to disappear in its wake, A 100-Series Observational Unit aboard the Durandal estimates that half of the Federation planets will vanish within 72 hours due to it. Dmitri Yuriev later hijacks the Durandal, loaded with the Zohar Emulators and slams it into the Ark, transforming it. Now aboard the Ark, Yuriev replaces Ω Res Novae's counterfeit Zohar with the real one, transforming it as well. KOS-MOS then confirms the Abel's Ark is not a Gnosis at all, but something else. As Matthews is debating on how to board it, Doctus suggests to gate out inside of the Ark and which they do, narrowly avoiding the debris on the way. After landing, party ventures on the Ark to confront Yuriev and manages to defeat him at the cost of Gaignun's life.
By the time of Yuriev's defeat, the Ark manages to reach Michtam and encircles the planet, not to destroy it, but to "observe" changes in the consciousness of the lower dimension. In the ending, Abel's Ark reconfigures its shape to resemble a cross as chaos and Nephilim performs a dimensional shift to transport Michtam to Lost Jerusalem.
Abel's Ark is U-DO's observational terminal in the Imaginary Number Domain; as such, it does not exist in the Real Number Domain, causing many to mistake Abel's Ark as a Gnosis. Abel conversely takes on the role of the Real Number Domain's observational terminal. He and Abel's Ark act in conjunction to observe the Lower Domain for U-DO. Although without malice, Abel's Ark has a great destructive power that will kill trillions by means of disappearance phenomena.
As an area[edit]
- Main article: Abel's Ark (area)
Abel's Ark is visited as an area in Xenosaga Episode III - Also Sprach Zarathustra and serves as the penultimate area of the game.
Database[edit]
Episode III
Abel's Ark
A perceptual phenomenon that is the tangible form of U-DO's consciousness.
A perceptual phenomenon that is the lower-dimensional, tangible form of the (imaginary-space) consciousness of the higher-dimensional being U-DO (Abel). It is a perceptual phenomenon in the same way that the Gnosis are, but it is also a completely different form of existence.
Abel's Ark (U-DO) observed Albedo's consciousness during the fall of Old Miltia. It later took in the Zohar as a connection point in order to more steadily observe the lower dimension.
After Shion's awakening, the Ark's imaginary-space transformation accelerated, Detecting the operation of Zarathustra, an anti-higher-dimensional system construction ages ago, it took the planet Michtam into itself.
This action was not taken in an attempt to destroy Zarathustra; it was purely trying to "observe" the changes in the consciousness of the lower dimension.
Trivia[edit]
- Abel's Ark contains many references to Xenogears.
- After the Zohar Emulators are activated, its appearance morphs to one resembling that of the Eldridge.
- The main room with four sub-dungeons surrounding the core is visually reminiscent of the room containing Deus and its pillars.
- The boss of each sub-dungeon is visually based upon an Omnigear of one of the party members:
- Natus Flamma is based upon Andvari.
- Natus Glacies is based upon Fenrir.
- Natus Lumen is based upon El-Renmazuo.
- Natus Tellus is based upon El-Stier.
- The dungeon's main boss, Ω Metempsychosis, has an appearance based upon Deus's final form. The mechs in its hands are based upon Weltall and Vierge.
- The dungeon's music features an accompaniment line based upon One Who Bares Fangs at God.
Gallery[edit]
Screenshots[edit]
Abel's Ark in Episode II.
Abel's Ark appears over Miltia.
The interior of Abel's Ark.
The Durandal's wreckage.
The core of Abel's Ark.
The red "dimension".
The blue "dimension".
The yellow "dimension".
The green "dimension".
Natus Flamma's lair.
Natus Tellus's lair.
Natus Glacies's lair.
Natus Lumen's lair.
Abel's Ark's core after defeating the four sub-bosses.
Central chamber.
Abel's Ark encircles Michtam.
Abel's Ark reconfigures its shape to resemble a cross in the ending.
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Models[edit]
First form
Second form
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