[Fluff][Notes]Crossover Guide
Ghost in the Stratosphere/鬼牢寨/ＵＮＩＯＮ ５０/使魔連鎖/修羅之影/Devouring Dark/Phantom Break
鬼牢寨<>使魔連鎖
Animalis Mages (Official name for Familiar Mages) avoided that place like the plague, because that place was one single living entity of unfantomable unconscious. Literally every being that existed within would eventually become a part of its dream(re."舊寨成癮症").
Familiars refused to go near The Fort, and The Fort seemed to be hostile toward other supernaturals, especially those with affinities close to Earth.
There was a possibility that, just like Transcended/Lost Animalis were merging of Mage and Familiar, The Fort might have been the merging of *something* and that Land itself? Nobody knew for sure though.
鬼牢寨<>ＵＮＩＯＮ ５０/Ghost in the Stratosphere
The hidden faction within the Fort, "The Mausoleum", had devoted centuries to learn about the Fort.
They have managed to, under specific conditions, take physical parts of the fort out in the world while retaining its special properties.
One branch of the Mausoleum supporter in the outside world had seeked everlasting life. Yet safe, sustainable access to the conscious soul had always been a barrier.
30 years ago, Dr.J___ J____ W______, an outside consultant who never knew about The Mausoleum, wished to bring back his dead daughter in whatever form possible. He utilized Mausoleum knowledge and created the "Soul-Activation" technology. It would activate selected dormant Brainwave pattern released into the stratosphere after death, where it would accumulate into a residual energy pool that directly influence further human development. The Woken Soul would then existed as electric pulses sustained by the Soul Activation System, as a form of cyber-ghost that was from the will of the original dead.
After the "Ghost in the Stratosphere" incident, The Mausoleum took over the few remaining notes of the so-called "Soul-Activation" tech, the portion that mainly focused on activation of the "digital ghosts", and merged the special quality of The Fort's Dream into the theory in order to achieve the goal of true resurrection and everlasting life.
The "Silver Sarcophagus" The UNION used, was actually an extension of the Fort itself: If anyone managed to open up a "Silver Sarcophagus" without triggering the explosive failsafe AND without causing a BLACKOUT INCIDENT, they would only find a very basic computer system linked up to a small chunk of the Fort. There wasn't even a battery as it was completely self-powered. What little electricity it needed was only to power the computer screen on it, put on separate power source for the sake of subterfuge.
The reason of the UNION's completely randomized nature of doing things, were because they were running on the incomplete thesis of DR.W______'s tech powered by the literal realization of a chaotic dream. The "Agents" were dead souls given properties of a variation akin to High-Level Contaminated Fort Residents, and they existed in their pocket of little dreams cloistered from under the Fort's when they weren't inhabiting a body. All of the 50+1 bodies accessible, at least for the few with identities known to Mausoleum, were all Fort-Level Contaminants (#1,8,22,37,39. One of them was actually Mausoleum Inner Sanctum), and they were all probably alive deep in the Fort somewhere, with the UNION only having extremely weaken version of their physical copies to use. (The highly-specific usage of powers the Shells have, were probably from how they would use it if they were themselves. And their Maximal Overdrives *not listed in rules* were small snippets of their individual Final Contaminant Forms.)
The "melting away after almost 3 weeks" aspect of UNION agents, were almost exactly the same as those with high-level 舊寨成癮症 trying to leave the fort. Both of which were likely due to the Fort not able to maintain that dream outside of itself for an extended period, though UNION shells were able to alleviate it somewhat due to both Mausoleum processes and the Souls were not actually part of the Fort's Dream.
The Mausoleum was the mysterious backer who was mainly using the UNION as lab rats, even if the Archivists themselves thought they were doing good.
The Mausoleum itself had already developed their own "Gen-4" version of the technology for in-house use, more pinpointed and lenient in every way with a different set of 50s on another level. Their outside factions also rarely operate in the outside world, but there their fort-related resources would be extremely limited, as even lower-grade fort entities would only have an extremely small window to exist at reduced effectiveness.
But its a waste to not use a good rat.
(Come to think of it, while The UNION might seemed to be pseudo-scientific, underneath it all its actually wholly necromantic. A fact that none of its members knew. @3@ )
UNION ops were strictly forbidden to enter The Fort. Period.
使魔連鎖<>ＵＮＩＯＮ ５０
The Animalis Mages understood what the UNIONs were on a basic level. (A strange variation of earth-elemental revenant) but not their link with the Fort.
The UNIONs were seen as amateur goodie two-shoes just as easy to help as to be in the way. Avoid if possible. Though sometimes clashes with individual Animalis Mages did happen.
ＵＮＩＯＮ ５０
If a Returned/Operator managed to recollect their full memory(49,50), something would happen.
Despite their special properties, none of them ever managed to make it that far.
And then someone did.
修羅之影
Happened a few decades after the things above.
The UNION was not active by that time.
All the others have stayed in the own niche to wait for things to blow pass, just like they always did.
鬼牢寨<>Devouring Dark
While the "World Gone Dark" event had its own perfectly reasonable origin.
It would likely NOT be as far-reaching or severe if The Fort didn't exist.
Or as permanent.
Or as dangerous.
鬼牢寨<>Phantom Break(Motorcider?)
Its the Fort unfolded and shone after the World Gone Dark.
The Phantoms were stabilized Contaminant Forms.
There's only dreamers.
(The Ride Knight's Raid Gears worked under almost the same mechanics as MotorCides.)
Devouring Dark<>Phantom Break
While they existed in the same time period and on the same continent, they were not aware of each other. And given how the world was, The Dome would be impossible to reach The Bright City.
修羅之影<>Devouring Dark
The Revised genetic templates used in the Dome were refined with data from Shura-DNAs, and the biocomputer/nanoweave system were also partially Shura-tech.
There were a few basic Dome-grade test colonies around the solar system by then, what with the Showroom one on Earth actually made some sales in the industry. The biggest ones were Lunar and Mars and the Juno-Observatory Base.
Most of them would be gone in a short time. Lunar and Mars might survive though. And Juno too if they managed to crack that project on Jupiter.
They wouldn't be going home for a long, long time though. If ever.
Still they were likely the last bloodline of Original Humans, as Dome people have been Revised and the Bright City was... Something else.
修羅之影<>Dragon Line
A potential future if the colonies survived and if they cracked Jupiter.
The Rail Suits were Near-Shura Class Powerarmors.
『創：滅』
Nope. Seriously? v=w=v