Eden

Fade to black. We see an object with major static distortion as if on TV. The screen turns off. In space, we see a green vertical wireframe cylinder with TV monitors on its inside wall. Eden is also inside the cylinder. Our vision changes to Eden's point of view as it hurtles down the cylinder toward a light. On the battlefield, a light appears in the sky. A massive shadow descends over the area, followed by Eden. The enemy is surrounded in complete darkness, as glowing neon rings emerge from beneath it. Another wireframe plane forms below the enemy. The background is swirling plasma. The grid rocks and oscillates, and begins to curl upwards. The whole plane eventually forms another cylinder around Eden, this time horizontally. The enemy is standing upside down on its inside, directly above a large eye-like laser on Eden. There is a massive build up, and the laser fires. Geometric imagery, similar to Diablos's, forms on the plane, with the enemy at its centre. We switch to view the whole planet as the image spreads over it. It ends up forming a large circle, with twelve smaller circles around it. Each of the smaller circles contains a Roman numeral, so the end result is like an neon clock of archaic symbols. It begins to rotate. We see the side of the Earth. This image is apparently mirrored on the other side, but is not aligned. After a while, the two images are aligned and there is a large click. We return to the enemy, still standing upside down on the centre of the symbol. It begins to stretch away from Eden. Back to the view of the planet. The wireframe grid beneath the imagery can now be seen, and it is now a sphere. The grid begins to distort and part of it shoots off to infinity, as if the planet were hanging in a net bag. Eden's laser, and the enemy, are shot along the asymptote and out into space. More symbols appear at regular intervals, with their centres on the laser. We track the enemy as it rides the laser until it collides with the centre of a galaxy. The laser vanishes. The centre of the galaxy expands in a large purple ball, spewing purple sparks. It grows to half of the size of the galaxy, then glows white hot. The battlefield returns, and the enemy falls back to the ground.

Duration: 2:20

Interpretive note: The grid may represent the relativistic view of gravity, where mass causes dips in a plane. If this were the case, then the enemy is propelled via an intense gravitational distortion. -Science Ed

Drawn from Ultima Weapon at the Deep Sea Research Facility, hidden in the far south-west corner of the map. This may only be accessed via the Ragnarok.