Ariadne

Ariadne
System	Unknown
Diameter	Unknown
Terrain	Cityscape Grasslands
Place of interest	Zohar research facility
Political affiliation	Galaxy Federation U-TIC Organization

Ariadne was a planet in the Xenosaga series. It was the home to a Zohar research facility, as well as one of the Zohar Emulators. Ariadne disappeared after the failure of a Link Experiment with the Emulator held there.

Description

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Story

History

Years before the events of the games, Andrew Cherenkov lived on Ariadne and was tried for several murders during this time. Each trial resulted in further stages of Personality Reconditioning. Eventually, he was recruited by Margulis to join the U-TIC Organization after killing many of the authorities stationed at the correctional facility where he was held.

Due to a failed Zohar Emulator Link Experiment overseen by Cherenkov in T.C. 4765, a localized Space-Time Anomaly occurred, causing Ariadne to disappear. This disappearance prompted the Galaxy Federation's deployment of the 117th Marine Division to escort the Woglinde in the disappearance's investigation. Cherenkov and various other forces from the U-TIC Organization, including Vanderkam, hid themselves within the 117th Marine Division after their escape from Ariadne.

Episode I

When the Woglinde finds and retrieves the Zohar Emulator left behind from where Ariadne was, it winds up attracting the Gnosis. As a result, the Woglinde and its accompanying vessels are destroyed. Cherenkov is able to escape with Vector Industries employees who were stationed on the ship, Shion Uzuki and Allen Ridgeley, along with the anti-Gnosis weapon system KOS-MOS.

Later on, Cherenkov gets separated from the others when the ship that rescued them, the Elsa, is drawn into the giant Gnosis known as the Cathedral Ship. It's revealed that this very Gnosis is made up of the planet Ariadne and its inhabitants as the result of a Dimension Shift into Imaginary Space caused by the Space-Time Anomaly. Shion and her companions are rescued by the Elsa once more after they're forced to kill Cherenkov in his newly Gnosified form. The Durandal also arrives, but is unable to hold off the Gnosis. In the end, the Cathedral Ship and the surrounding Gnosis are destroyed when KOS-MOS uses her X-BUSTER to absorb them.

Trivia

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Database

Episode I

planet Ariadne

A planetary member of the Galaxy Federation which vanished during the Zohar emulator experiment. It had a population of approximately 1.5 billion.

An experimental laboratory owned by the U-TIC Organization was located here. It was also home to Cherenkov after his personality corrective procedure.

Episode III

Planet Ariadne

A Federation planet that vanished in a link experiment involving the Zohar emulators.

A medium-sized (population: 1.5 billion) divided into three sections: a zone filled with greenery, a zone surging with businesses and research facilities, and a living space for regular citizens.

The business zone housed the headquarters of a company which focused on the artificial plant industry. The planet's green zone was dominated by the artificial plants of the business, and new types of flowers, amongst other items, were sold to the citizens of the main planets. The "Ariadne Flower," with its unique blue petals, was an especially popular product.

However, lurking beneath all of this was an experimental facility owned by Ormus--the U-TIC Organization.

A link experiment with the Zohar emulators, carried out in this facility under Andrew's command, caused a space-time anomaly that annihilated planet Ariadne, turning it into a Gnosis.

This event was later referred to as the "disappearance of planet Ariadne," and the Woglinde was dispatched to investigate it.

Disappearance of Planet Ariadne

Planetary disappearance incident resulting from the Zohar emulators going out of control.

In T.C. 4765, the U-TIC Organization was conducting connection experiments with the Zohar emulators at their facility on planet Ariadne. However, a space-time anomaly was produced as a result of the Zohar emulators going out of control, and Ariadne completely disappeared along with 1.5 billion inhabitants.

While it is unknown why Ariadne had been chosen as the location for the connection experiments, it was on this planet that the experiments' director, Andrew, had lived in a sham marriage. Here, he had committed murder repeatedly and had been placed in a personality reconditioning facility; it may be that he specifically chose Ariadne to be the land of his martyrdom.

There are confirmed reports of fierce winds on the planet's surface immediately before its disappearance, as well as lights in the sky similar to a multi-layered aurora.

It is held that only a small number of spaceships managed to escape, including those owned by the U-TIC Organization; thereafter, Ariadne became a Gnosis Cathedral Ship, made to wander the far reaches of space.

Freaks

アリアドネ

ソハルエミュレーターの起動実験の失敗で消失させられた感星

連邦に属する感星。人口約十五億人。U-TIC機機関の実験施設があり、エミュレーターの起動実験によって局所変移が起こり、ゾハルの暴走事故によって消失した。アンドリューが人格矯正措置後に身を置いていたが、そのアンドリューがアリアドネ消失に関わっている。星団連邦政府は調査部隊を設立しで消失のを調査しているが、シオンやアンドリューたちが聖堂船に取り込まれた時の状況から、どうやらアリアドネそのものがグノーシス化したと思われる。

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Xenosaga I & II

惑星アリアドネ

人口は約15億人で、緑豊かな区画と、企業や研究施設が乱立する区画、そして一般市民の居住区画に分けられる中規模の惑星。
企業区画には人工植物業界を中心に展開する企業本社がある。
惑星の緑豊かな区画はこの企業による人工植物が占めており、新種の花などは主星圏の住民に向けて発売されている。
中でも、独特の青い花弁を持つ「アリアドネフラワー」は大人気商品である。

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惑星アリアドネ　その２

多くの研究施設に隠れて、U-TIC機関の擁する実験施設も存在していた。
アンドリュー指揮下、その実験施設内で行われた、ゾハルエミュレーターとの連結実験は局所事象変移を引き起こし、惑星アリアドネは消滅、及びグノーシス化してしまう。
後にその事象は「惑星アリアドネ消失事件」と呼ばれ、その調査にヴォークリンデは出動したのであった。

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惑星アリアドネ消失事件

T.C.4765、U-TIC機関は惑星アリアドネの施設で、ゾハルエミュレーターの連結実験を行っていた。
しかし、ゾハルエミュレーターの暴走事故により局所事象変移が発生、アリアドネは15億という民と共に、跡形もなく消滅する。
連結実験がアリアドネで行なわれる事となった経緯は不明だが、指揮を執っていたアンドリューはかつてこの星で偽りの夫婦生活を営み、殺人を繰り返し、幾度も人格矯正施設に収容されていた。
惑星が消失する直前、地上では凄まじい暴風が発生し、オーロラのような光が幾重にも渡って空に連なる現象が確認されている。
その後アリアドネは、宇宙空間を彷徨い続ける聖堂船タイプのグノーシスと化した。

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