168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Xenoblade Chronicles franchise is well known for being crafty about tipping its narrative hand. In all three mainline installments, what initially seems to be a simple tale of petty conflict soon s🧜pirals into existentialism and world-threatening stakes riddled with religious allegories.

Despite the wackiness of Bionis, Alrest, and Aionios, though, these worlds have an origin far closer to home; specifically, on Earth, via the actions of one ambitious (and only slightly deranged) human scientist, Klaus. Klaus' story, and the events on Earth which led up to the Xenoblade trilogy, are delivered piecemeal as the games progress – but we now have more than enough information about this enigmatic man to pool together.

Klaus is effectively a walking spoiler, as the very nature of the Xenoblade universe being tied to our own Earth is intended as a jaw-dropping reveal. If you don't want to know anything more about the progenitor of Shulk, Rex, and company, now would be a good time to stop scrolling!

What Was Klaus' Job?

What Were Aoidos And The Conduit?

Klaus (whose surname has never been revealed) was a brilliant, forward-thinking engineer employed by Aoidos, a leading scientific corporation which aimed to unlock that ever-elusive frontier: life. Aoidos' research was focused almost exclusively on artificial intelligence, and applying it to robotic machines for the betterment of humanity; to this end, they created the Artifices, gigantic hulking mechs which served to guard their facilities.

On an expedition to Africa, Aoidos employees discovered a source of infinite power which they nicknamed 'The Conduit.' The Conduit was a glowing, rectangular stone described as a perpetual motion machine, and when hooked up to computers, it appeared to be attempting to connect to other planes of existence. Aoidos scientists tꦜoiled away, wondering whether this Conduit could be the final key to their revolutionary work.

What Was The Low Orbit Station?

Aoidos' discovery of the Conduit brought them such global attention (and therefore capital) that they were able to construct their own research facility in space, known as the First Low Orbit Station. Connected to Earth by a series of colossal elevators, the base consisted of three habitable 'nodes' joined in a ring, and it is here that Klaus, alongside his closest colleague Galea, was stationed.

The station was controlled and maintained by the Trinity Processor, a supercomputer powered by the Conduit. The three 'cores' making up this processor - Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma - would go on to manifest as the characters Alvis, Malos, and Pyra/Mythra respectively, following the disaster on the base.

Driven, intelligent, and with ideas above his pay grade, Klaus watched his fellow workers study the Conduit, but felt that they were too afraid to unlock its true potential. In particular, the scientists were hesitant to fully activate the stone, for fear its power could overwhelm Earth. Klaus' disillusionment simmered in the background for months – but growing political unrest down on the planet would force it to the surface one fateful day.

How Were The Worlds Split?

How Did The Saviorites Attack?

Earth, at the time of the Conduit experiments, was governed by a single unified power. This meant that any changes to legislation were difficult, if not impossible, to enact, and democratic opposition was essentially unheard of. A rebel group calling themselves the Saviorites, which had been building up for years and took issue with this method of governance, initiated an armed conflict against the authorities, and it soon tumbled out of control, with Aoidos' Artifices being called in to aid the war effort.

It still isn't exactly clear who the Saviorites were or why they were so discontent with their lot – but a radio transmission heard in the background during a flashback in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 refers to a 'Saviorites Human Rights Bill' having failed to pass in Congress. We can infer from this that the Saviorites were likely a marginalised group of some kind who grew tired of their oppression; but whatever their cause, their actions would lead to Earth's undoing.

What Did Klaus Do?

It wasn't long before the conflict reached space, and the Saviorites turned their crosshairs onto the First Orbit Station, viewing it as a monument to the government's arrogance. With the base under siege, the scientists busied themselves activating Aion, the largest Artifice in the fleet – and Klaus decided to seize the opportunity to end the battle and demonstrate his worth in one fell swoop.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Klaus snuck into the Conduit room and sealed the door. Only two others were in the chamber, including Galea, who recognised what her colleague was about to do and attempted to talk him down, to no avail. A🤪s the other workers pounded on the door, Klaus delivered a self-important speech:

We are about to bear witness to the birth of a universe. Once, only a god could perform such a miracle. But today, mankind moves one step cꦚloser to t▨he divine!

What's the alternative? Do you want to just surrender this place to them? The Conduit is a gift from some divine entity. It is a gateway... a gateway that will take us to an entirely new world. Galea... we humans are fools. We've ravaged the planet... we are on the verge of burning even the skies above. But the Conduit...could transform us into something so much more! Galea, this is the birth of a brand-new universe!

And with that, Klaus powered up the Conduit to maximum. The effect was immediate: a temporal blast rocked the station and the whole planet, rocketing across the entire galaxy. In that moment, reality was split asunder, with Earth left a smouldering, uninhabitable rock, and a majority of its human life sent hurtling into a newly created pocket dimension. Klaus himself became a man of two halves: Zanza and 'The Architect.'

Who Is Zanza?

What Was Bionis?

It is within Klaus' 'perfect' new world that the events of the first Xenoblade Chronicles occur. In this reality, there exists nothing but an ocean, save for two gigantic, warring nations atop the backs of gargantuan mechanical beasts, Bionis and Mechonis. Bionis housed all organic 🍒life, while Mechonis was a land of technology.

The people of Bionis had no memory of Earth or the events that led them to be in such a surreal universe, but some key figures from the original dimen💃sion manifested as important figures there all the same.

Klaus (or rather, the domineering half of his personality that was transported into Bionis) became Zanza, a power-hungry idealist who, like his originator, was obsessed with resetting reality in his own image. Galea, meanwhile, became Lady Meyneth, the more even-tempered leader of Mechonis who served as the yin to Zanza's yang.

What Was Zanza Like?

The spitting image of Klaus, Zanza may have not recalled being the arrogant scientist in his past life, but he certainly retained all of his drive and ambition. He saw the people of Bionis as mere 'vermin' and fodder for the world's twisted life-cycle. When the humans (or 'Homs', as they're referred to) die, they become Ether, a primordial gaseous matter that fuels the hulking landmass in its struggle against Mechonis.

A self-described 'god', Zanza would enlist numerous disciples to his cause, and was not above possessing innocents to further his warmongering goals. In particular, the benevolent giant Arglas fell to Zanza in battle, and became a vessel for part of his soul – a vessel that the villain uses to trick Shulk and company into assisting his plans.

What Happens In Xenoblade Chronicles 1?

Tinkerer Shulk and his friends become entangled in a steadily escalating series of events when the war between Bionis and Mechonis reaches boiling point. A number of revelations are made - including that Zanza had been possessing Shulk since he was a lad, explainꦡing their physical similarities - which culminate in a fina𒉰l battle between the young heroes and Zanza himself.

Shulk emerges victorious thanks to the power of the Monado, an awesome time-bending sword infused with the powers of Ontos, one core from the Trinity Processor. Shulk is offered the chance to reboot the universe by Ontos, and the boy accepts, creating a fairer, juster version of Bionis without conflict or self-appointed gods.

What Was Klaus' Legacy?

What Was Alrest?

Meanwhile, the ravaged Earth became Alrest, the setting for Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The remaining half of Klaus (his physical form with naught but regret left in him) covered the planet's surface in an almost impenetrable layer of fog, which came to be known as the Cloud Sea. The ruins of the First Orbit Station were soon overgrown with thick vegetation, giving it the appearance of a gigantic tree – the citizens of the Cloud Sea would come to revere this as 'the World Tree.'

From atop the World Tree, Klaus, calling himself 'The Architect,' set about repopulating Earth. He created Blades, semi-organic facsimiles of life, who soon took on personalities of their own and began a complex life-cycle spanning centuries. This would eventually spawn Titans, leviathans upon whose backs societies were built, and enough humans for them to once more thrive.

The biology and reproductive cycle of Blades and Titans is, as is tradition for the Xenoblade franchise, absurdly complex and far too in-depth to get into here. It should say something that the cutscene outlไining the process within Xenoblade Chronicles 2 lasts upwards of 10 minutes!

All you need to know, really, is that Titans are Blades who have 'expired', or outlasted the Core Crystals from whi𒁃ch they are repe💜atedly birthed.

How Does Klaus' Life End?

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 follows Rex, a young scavenger who gets pulled into a heap of trouble when he inadvertently bonds with Pyra, an ancient Blade who's part of Pneuma from the Trinity Processor. Various villainous factions have their sights set on Pyra, including Malos, the manifestation of Logos – so the chase is 🍌on for the friends to evꦍade capture and make their way to the World Tree, where they hope to chat to The Architect and sort things out.

At the climax, Rex meets with Klaus, who shares his tale of woe. He's now a derelict old man, barely alive, and with one half of him quite literally missing. He apologises for all the suffering he's caused, and says he intends to put things right; but just then, we hear a familiar voice echoing from the Conduit portal. It's Shulk, delivering his badass one-liner to Zanza before administering the killing blow, and hence revealing that the events of Xenoblade 1 and 2 occur parallel to one another.

Recognising that when his other half dies, he will too, Klaus acts quickly to leave a parting gift for Rex and the gang. The station is destroyed by Malos, who's managed to find the keys to Aion, and the team plummets to the planet below... only to find the various Titan nations of Alrest have united at Klaus' behest, forming a unified society at last.

Finally content, Klaus fades away as Zanza is defeated in the other dimension, leaving us with these last words:

This is t꧅heꦐ last gift I can offer you… the rest is up to you... my children...

With Klaus' life having come to a close, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is less concerned with the man himself and is more about tying up the 𝓀loose end of the split worlds.

It deals with the cataclysmic moment where the two realities attempt to reunite – which is then frozen in time by Z, a malevolent entity, creating the 'Endless Now.' This is the reason why the game sees𓆉 residents of both Bionis and Alrest inꦦtermingle.