Erich Weber

Erich Weber
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	28
Appearances	Xenosaga: Pied Piper

This article is about the character in Xenosaga. For the character in Xenogears, see Erich Van Houten.

Erich Weber is a character in Xenosaga: Pied Piper. He is a U.M.N. dive technician for Jan Sauer's team, and Bugs' creator.

Appearance and personality

Erich is a bald man with dark eyes. He wears the garb of the Archon police, a gray overcoat with black and red trims.

Erich is a man of few words and generally keeps to himself. He has a deep understanding of the U.M.N. and many tools for accessing it, many of which surprise even his colleagues. In private, he uses narcotic drugs.

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Story arc

Erich works as a subordinate for Jan Sauer, who is investigating Voyager's activities. He typically works as an operator along colleague Mikhail while Jan leads operations in the field. He also was responsible for developing the robot Bugs, who sees him as a father figure.

During a dive operation to recover Goodwill Ambassadors that Voyager has taken hostage, Erich dives in himself in order to help Jan and the others when they are unable to escape. Shortly after diving in however he is deleted by an extermination program. Back in the real-world Erich's body is brought to the Galaxy Police Hospital but he awakens during the autopsy and walks out. He returns to Police Headquarters and tells the others that it was a character double that was deleted, not the real him.

Later, Jan witnesses Erich in the locker room, preaching words from Revelation and injecting himself with a drug. Jan and the others worry for him as his performance lags but conclude that it is aftereffects of what he experienced. He assists as an operator on later missions and reveals to Jan and the others that Patriarch Julius has been assassinated. He is eventually arrested along with the others after the investigation is shut down. Erich assists in efforts to escape their capture.

Erich is eventually outed as being Voyager when Sharon is able to match DNA from a victim of Voyager with DNA collected by Erich when he was believed to be dead. Jan and the others find Erich's body, him having dived into the U.M.N. They dive into Erich's brain and are able to speak with him. Erich admits that he is Voyager and explains how he became this way.

In the aftermath of the Pilgrimage Meeting, Erich is publicly revealed to be Voyager, although he disappears and as such remained uncaptured.

True identity

Voyager
Species	Human Testament
Gender	Male
Age	150+

Main article: Voyager

Erich is Voyager, the main target of Jan Sauer's team and the main antagonist of Pied Piper.

Database

Episode III

Erich Weber

Voyager's human name.

Originally from Planet Abraxas, his prefrontal cortes has been damaged since early childhood. His compensatory habit of constructing a working memory within the U.M.N. brought with it the side effect of net addiction.

Though his ID showed him to be 28 years old at the time of T.C. 4667, his true age is believed to be over 150 years old.

His official occupation was as a police officer, and his role was to provide external support as an operator to members diving into virtual space through the U.M.N. Additionally, one of his major responsibilities was to operate Bugs, the support robot.

Gallery

Artwork

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  Concept art by Minohara Noboru.

Screenshots

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  Erich with Jan.

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  Erich with a headache.

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  Erich uses a narcotic.