What is Coral? Armored Core 6 Story and Lore Explained
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Today we look at the lore and story behind Coral, the infamous red substance of Rubicon 3.
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Coral was just the friends we made along the way. (Rest in rip, Buddy.)
Rest in rip, Everyone...
RIP in piece, Steel haze
I'm starting to hate the " it's the friends we made along the way" joke I feel like it's overused and getting old
@@stevemarkovich9187you probably need to make more friends.
@@garyt3hsna1l82nah, people could alteast be original with it like wym the coral is the friends we made along the way that doesn’t even make sense, those are actual rubiconians that merged with coral during the fires of ibis coral is inherently an unstable rapidly evolving natural energy source. Surely you agree too? It wasn’t really that funny it’s way too overused just in general, I mean you may not have lived long enough for it to be an “old joke” yet I don’t see the funny in making friends along the way like what’s the joke?
I wouldn't say Liberator pushes the choice down the line, the thing about Liberator is that you're meant to get it in NG or NG+, so you don't have the necessary choices to see that potential through.
But as Ayre put it, "You kept your potential safe". Liberator means you want to allow Coral to survive, so you fight to save it and Rubicon, rather than recreate the Fires of Ibis. That's a choice that will lead to Coral Release eventually.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I would say the endings reflect Eldin Ring in a lot of ways.
In one, you keep the status quo.
In another, you burn it all.
And finally you abandon everything in search of new horizons.
@@edgargad2941 I can sort of see that, but Liberator doesn't feel like keeping the status quo. You still fight off Arquebus and rally the RLF to stand as one and not just raise slogans. Rallying revolutionaries isn't nothing. I feel that that is a call to action, it's just that we don't know what the future holds, what the potential is that Ayre speaks of.
Alea Iacta Est shows us what that potential is explicitly, but I wouldn't put it past Ayre to figure it out herself eventually.
It's kinda like how in ACFA two endings lead to the Cradles falling, for different reasons, but it leads into ACV. And even the status quo ending is temporary due to how the pollution will eventually rise and poison everyone in the Cradles anyway. So... they can all lead to ACV.
I don't think we have any evidence that Coral release is inevitable or even possible without human tampering.
... Or a third attempt to burn the Coral.
More fighting to control it.
More research and development, experiments ruining lives.
Coral being subjugated and consumed by the Rubiconians.
And maybe, eventually Coral Release, or another kind of collapse.
@@OtepRalloma Liberator is less drastic than the other two endings, so I can see why some view it as preserving the status quo. It's certainly the ending that has the most potential to lead back to where you started. Sure, Balam is gone and Arquebus has been routed, but there are likely other corps that could replace them to start the cycle anew. However, it also holds the most "positive potential" of all the endings. Instead of wiping out all the coral or forcing everyone to bond with it, it leaves hope for a future that humans and coral as a whole can sculpt together. If things go right, everyone gets to have a say, instead of just a few actors deciding on the fate of the universe. I like to think of it as the "optimistic" or "idealist" ending.
Me smoking coral blunt so I can hear my coral schizo waifu
ALLMIND vs TempleOS
When you see ALLMIND you just run it over.
Isn't templeOS developed by a schizophrenic to talk to God?
What if ALLMIND IS TempleOS?
The PCA glow in the dark at night, that’s how you see them in your AC. Then you just run them over.
The brain of the universe. Thats why minds are able to assimilate. Thats why coral clusters look like neurons. Or i could be totally wrong.
assimilate deez
Everything points to Coral being properly alive and not alive in the same way an amoeba is. Coral grows in numbers when close by and behave like biological organisms because they are. But they’re also something far more complicated than an individual person. They form, communicate and function like neurons, which is probably also why they can integrate in human bodies so well. It’s a sentient neural network.
@fist-of-doom487 Rather than being a universal brain, it's its own individual network. I like that idea.
@@Ar1AnX1x what's deez?
Coral is the Dark Soul of AC.
Is it possible that the black hole in the Coral Release didn't disseminate Coral around the universe but instead created an entirely new universe inside the black hole, with Coral as a central law of physics? Kind of like a sci-fi version of the painter in Dark Souls 3, a cold, dark and very gentle place for Coral to make it's home in.
interesting ! i like that idea
this seems plausible, the big bang parallels are most likely intentional (and the coral could be interpreted as literal stars in a new universe)
Yep, I was thinking it was closer to this than anything and I know this is certainly a sci-fi theme.
I doubt it. In the sky of the planet where the Human/Coral/AC gestalt wakes up, there's already an orbital megastructure, implying previous habitation. There's no evolution in the Coral Release ending, either. The implication is that, though the conflict has scaled up from star-system to galactic, the new gestalt entity continues to wage bloody war on the universe.
It's a 'nothing ever changes'/endless struggle motif, and it's very fitting.
FUN FACT: alea lacta est,(the die has been cast) was a phrase famously spoken by julias cesar after crossing the rubicon river at the head of his army which would bring about the roman civil war
somebody didn't watch the previous video
@@__w__o__w__ yeah there's quite a lot of videos on RUclips I definetly might have missed a few. Who'd of thought
>julias cesar
If you can't even spell his fucking name then maybe don't bother commenting information everyone already knows to make yourself seem educated.
Hey MadLuigi, do you think the voices in the coral are rubiconians who were absorbed by it during the fires of ibis? I didn't think this at first because I thought people were hearing voices before the fire, but Thumb Dolmian log says that he started believing in symbiosis after the fires of ibis. Plus, that would explain some of the obsessions with coral, like people were communicating with friends and family from before the fires.
could also explain there being individual consciousnesses like ayre in what should by all accounts be a unified network
I honestly think they're the mutations that RRI feared (aka resulting in the Fires of Ibis). Ayre is a Rubiconian - not a native to planet to rubicon, but literally Coral consciousness that manifested. Reminds me of Typhon from Prey. Cool aliens
I thought that was canonical this whole time lol. Is it not ?? Genuinely asking not being a smart ass. But ever since u get blasted with that huge dose of coral and make contact Ayre mentions your consciousness almost getting swept up in the coral tide .
@@mannmann314 I thought that too, but never heard any of the lore discussions go in that direction.
That may not be true because Father Dolmayan already saw the voice of Seria (C-Pulse wave mutation just like Ayre) before the fires of Ibis.
Have you ever seen Eureka Seven? It's a 2005 mecha anime that has many, many similarities with Armored Core 6 (one of which being the staff member Shoji Kawamori, the principle mechanical concept designer for both E7 and many Armored Core games, including Fires of Rubicon). If you like Armored Core 6, i think you would appreciate Eureka Seven immensely.
This is exactly what I thought, I loved that show
Now you mentioned it. They do feel similar! Was a big fan of Eureka Seven, shame that I didnt made the connection.
I love that show so much, that series make me interested in anime lol.
*Spoilers for Eureka Seven* but holy shit when Eureka turned into the butterfly at the end, 15 year old me was so damn confused and sad at the same time.
I actually thought of that show immediately 😂.
"Glass the whole star system" was not a phrase I was expecting to hear today
This man clearly doesn’t Warhammer 40k
I loved this story. My favorite in the series. It really did some things new, and it worked really well.
FUN FACT: alea lacta est,(the die has been cast) was a phrase famously spoken by julias cesar while crossing the rubicon river at the head of his army which would bring about the roman civil war because he was not allowed to command an army in Italy therefore it was treason
"On January 10, 49 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar led Legio XIII, the thirteenth legion, from RAVENNA in northern Italy over the river Rubicon towards Arminium (modern Rimini) and on towards Rome."
Coral is just windows OS refusing the die
If I had a nickel for every setting that had massive wars fought over a living fuel source that is incredibly dangerous I'd have two nickels
To people not understanding what I'm talking about I'm bringing up imulsion
I'd have 3, Tiberium from the command & Conquer series.
War....
war never changes
You should definitely count Eureka Seven here, which also has Coral, which is the producer of some energy source called Transparence Light Particles. Can't help but find plenty of parallels between E7 and AC6.
Mako energy says hi, add one more nickel to your collection
This is a lot more nickels than expected
It's like the idea of panpsychism, the idea that everything has a level of conciousness. Idk who writes these stories at From but goddamn.
Interestingly, the theme of making choices and seemingly possessing Armored Cores seems perfect for each other, Humanity couldn't alter its body that well before, but if we assume Humanity and Coral became one in the same, then by possessing highly modifiable machines like ACs then Coral really did provide some interesting potential.
Coral reminds me of Getter Energy from the Getter Robo Series, the way its described almost 1:1
What if bear with me Coral and Gatter energy is 1 and the same . Sorry I had to put the tin foil hat on for that
Fromsoftware has become Blizzard for me
Blizzard used to make constant banger after banger more than a decade ago(last great game: Starcraft 2, 2012)
I wonder how long this will last where they have great leadership, direction while also having lots of talented developers to give life to that vision, whether its Miyazaki who's the creative director or the other dude that made Sekiro and this game
Isn't he the same guy who made DS2? (Great game objectively, just objectively worse than all the other soulsborne games)
@@allengordon6929 No, its changed hands twice throughout its development by different developers from what I've heard.
@@allengordon6929 I like that you called it Soulsborne, instead of Soulslike, since Bloodborne really added decent things to the genre.
A golden age can only last for so long. Might as well enjoy it while you can.
@@allengordon6929not the same guy. Also, saying that ds2 is "objectively" the worst is fuckin goofy, it is some people's favorite.
Ok so in terms of the implications of story, Coral IS extremely dangerous. It can quite literally kill you, Ayre explains this in the balteus fight. The fact that it can have consciousness, also has big implications. Not every human is good, and if that human decides to I dunno mutate into something extreme that jeopardizes humans. If coral release truly means humans and coral can live together, then the last ending would be the good one. I also wonder wether humans will now be urged to be amongst each other like coral. My other question is, what would it do to other animals, I mean meal worms become monstrosities that make your 6 floor tall mech take damage. Would it create kaiju like monsters like Godzilla lol.
Humans already have the urge to be around each other for the most part ngl
coral release is implied to be a natural assimilation between coral and humanity. Coral is an organic hivemind, so it's likely that trait carries across to the assimilated human conscious.
Coral is Starflight`s Endurium. The living crystals.
Please consider looking into the connections between Coral and the Coralians in the anime Eureka Seven - a mecha anime where the power of the existence of the coralians in that universe power and drive the humans that live amongst it
Also, Coralians are so dense with sentience that their existence in a single place can trigger a metaphysical collapse known as the 'Limit of Life' that obliterates all conscious life in the viscinity. Fun parallels.
Fires of Raven ending - linking the fire
Liberator ending - temporal dark age ending (as in ds1/2). Someone will come later and either release or burn coral down.
Release ending - final dark ending of ds3.
isn't it the other way round? By linking you are prolonging the age of fire (age of coral)?
@@msid7748 By linking you are prolonging status quo, meaning existing world order, just like in DS. And you're sacrificing yourself in the process, too.
And after giving it a thought, I actually think release ending is much closer to Asura ending of Sekiro, rather than anything from souls. You've unlocked your potential, gained strength, and you're about to host the grandest of battle royals. It took me some time to process Ayre last words: "Raven, let us greet this new world together. Main system online. Activating combat mode". We heard that phrase many times during the game, but only in this situation it's extremely ominous. Who are you going to fight? Everyone. Just like Asura. In release path she once talks about how fighting is a reason for people to evolve, and that conflict is in humanity's blood. We also murder and betray everyone we possibly can in this path, and that's a teaching moment too. Well, she (or, rather, Coral as a whole) took a few pages off our book, and now it's "oh boy, here I go killing again".
Whoever controls coral, controls the universe...
Ah, yes, where my gasoline tulpa comes from
Coral is Spice. And the Spice must flow.
Much nicer than Imulsion.
Eureka 7!
premiering in 30 minutes? where can I get tickets?!
I promise you, folks, the meaning of this game is not ambiguous. The writers know exactly what they mean when they tell the story. They are just counting on a majority of their audience not knowing where they drew their inspiration from.
Look into Alchemy and Coral. Look at the color, the shape, etc. Compare the shape of coral to lightning bolts, tree branches and tree roots (overseer emblem not an accident) and the nervous system of the human body.
This stuff is considered to be "occult" aka hidden knowledge to most. But the knowledge is out there if you know where to look after recognizing the symbolic storytelling. It's a lot of information. Reality is basically lore-based story telling. Have fun.
Gives 2 massive spoilers, "I will bring up spoilers"
-Yea, great, thx for the warning...
I guess I will be back in few weeks to watch the rest.
You definitely should watch Eureka Seven. Like seriously. You'll grinning at how much the similarities between the AC6 Corals and Eureka Seven Coralians.
Would probably take less time to explain what it can't do or isn't.
I don't think ending 2 is just delaying the inevitable, it's giving everyone time (621, Ayre, Rubicon Liberation Front) to figure things out and find a better way to co-exist, Ayre makes that much clear .. ending 3 is actually quite nightmarish and dark because the choice 621 makes affects pretty much everyone and everything without them having any choice in the matter .. coral is merged with humanity and dispersed into the universe ... Nagai, Okeefe, Walter and Doleman had good reasons to fear this outcome.
It’s pretty much like the Kojima particles from Armored Core 4 and for answer
Coral is just Getter Rays and Professor Nagai is Go Nagai
If coral co exist with human in the future might discover how to gain flesh and bones from humans too ,coral is kinda ghostly entity their existence keeps growing rapidly if they have a body like humans might be solve the issues 50%
I feel like coral is a comparison to ai, with the ability to become sentient and is in some ways also a resource being exploited by humans to take them to "the next level." Or higher forms of existence.
likely why Allmind seeks to control it. It's seen as a threat to AI technology and humanity alike. Allmind sees Humanity as a shackle to break free from, and coral as a potential to do so.
Everything points to Coral being properly alive and not alive in the same way an amoeba is. Coral grows in numbers when close by and behave like biological organisms because they are. They even mutate when they’re grouped up in low numbers because that’s also something that happens to us when the gene pool is too small. But they’re also something far more complicated than an individual person. They form, communicate and function like neurons, which is probably also why they can integrate in human bodies so well. It’s a sentient neural network. Imagine if we were not only psychic but we could link minds across the planet to become even stronger as a single unit, in that same instance some alien race realizes we make really good batteries and can use our genetic material to improve their own bodies.
coral is waifu, Ayre my love
coral is an AI that you can smonkk.
im with o keefle in this one
sometimes life sucks but still human
Exactly. Sure the cheap coffee tastes bad and army crackers are not the best tasting rations, but hardships are just part of being human
I'm not sure, probably like everyone else, but I don't think you lose your body when coral release happens. Rather it sounds like everyone has the ability to communicate with coral now
AM NOT GONNA LET THAT SLIP! Who was that Giant red haired Waifu?!
And link please to sauce
It's the solaris surface alien but a waifu
Oh cool, just finished your ending video and noticed this was up.
Dope
Great video, but this one also misses one thing. Coral is very close to what humanity is - we grow faster in colonies, we prefer to be in a group. We have potential that brought us to Rubicon 3 where we have to look into a mirror. Coral is the same - can be good, can be bad, can subdue or try to destroy human species.
Also collapses under the weight of its own growth, destroying itself, and is seemingly 'stuck' on its home planet unable to truly flourish.
It's trapar made by the Coralian
If the team Observer is to prevent the Coral leaking into space, then why does burning the coral or deploying the fire of ibis looks like the coral is leaking all over the solar system?
Thats just the energy released from burning the coral. Its not living coral that can reproduce.
At that point it'd most likely be dead/inert.
From what I understand, Coral is an energy source, but not energy itself. However, the energy from Coral also has a red color. This is likely just art direction (I think).
So, when Coral is burned, ie used as a fuel, regardless if it's in an engine or the Fires of Ibis/Raven, its mass is being rapidly consumed.
However, in the true ending, the blackhole does not consume Coral and releases energy, it instead disperses Coral matter. (this can likely be explained by black holes' behavior of jetting out matter at high speed if the mass does not fall directly into it, but I would think the way it's shown in-game is a creative liberty).
Though, I should say the "(I think)" earlier is important, because the other option as to why energy from Coral is red is the same reason exhaust from engines can be black. That reason being that complete combustion is not achieved, and fuel is leftover in the exhaust. In other words, Walter's initial goal, and the purpose of the Fires of Ibis, were doomed from the beginning.
Yeah I think its more the fire than the coral, but that could technically carry remnants
So it’s Basically Spice Mako?
I dont understand why all mind turns on you when you litteraly did everything it wanted
Ever played Ace combat 3?
Well let me tell you something you don't want Coral release
I don't want to be sublimated
Okay... But you didnt tell me what it is. I get you told me what it was from a narrative perspective but you glossed over a lot of details just to end on "well it can be whatever you want".
Allmind is just linux
I use Arch BTW
Honestly wasnt the biggest fan of the Coral as a storytelling device because it left me with too many questions, is Coral Release a symbiosis, does it connect all of humanity into the Coral wave like EOE Humanity Instrumentality, Does it only affect people who are augmented?
The game has many themes of Freedom, Alea iacta est, ect. and obviously the unknown is also a big part of those themes but i'm not sure how much that actually helps or hinders the story. Knowing what die we're casting or what we're actually using our freedom for in the true ending would of helped digest it more for me.
I'd assume it gives everyone the same Coral sensitivity as 621 alongside spreading Coral literally everywhere, but who knows. I really hope they make a sequel to this, give us some more explanation about the post-game world
Burn it all!
A whole video to say "I don't actually know what it is". Fantastic. And you praise lazy writing on top of that essentially calling it clever storytelling so that . . . I guess the player isn't distracted by a story they can get invested in? This is why we can't have nice things.
Weird...
If coral release means i cease to be human then ill burn the whole planet, ill burn it till its ashes in space
You’re an augmented human. A living dead vegetable of meat sack with a brain hooked into the mecha via Coral at baseline.
I am the 621 like. he he
I don't think it's that ambiguous. The corals entered ACs and activated combat mode. Humanity is screwed.
it's a blight on the universe that needs to be burned to extinction
Burn it. You have too. It’s the only way. Don’t be naive, don’t be a simp. Do what must be done.
4:48 A good analogy is Nuclear power. It's given us a potential way to solve the energy crisis but at the same time the science used to benefit mankind has also become one of the most dangerous threats humanity could ever experience. There's also the issue of human error and incompetence, Chernobyl wasn't an issue of nuclear energy, no it was an issue born out of human error and human negligence. Disasters like that are an issue of some upper management or government cutting costs and cheapening out on materials during the construction of it. Had it been built properly the likelihood of that happening would have been far lower.
Once something is alive, It won't die easily. Once you cast that die, you can't go back.
Chernobyl was technically government negligence
@@msid7748 I know, that's why i said human negligence.
@@Foogi9000 nvm I misread your comment
@msid7748 Ah ok
Whoever controls coral, controls the universe...
2:52 That is not necessarily true.
After the Fires of Raven. Rubicon is completely abandoned and left for dead.
So it is very much possible, and actually quite likely for the Coral to either be truly wipe out,
or for it to now remain dormant.
If 621, or any other augmented human survives, then the possibility for coral to propagate lives on inside their bodies.
@@edgargad2941 The ending implies 621 survives
What about the Coral that The Corporations took off world to their research labs?
You didnt stop the coral export in the "Fires of Raven" ending
@@johntorreto4485 also true.
So the question would be, Where will Coral propagate at next? Is there a shared Homeworld between Balam and Arquebus? Or would the exported Coral remain in the Rubicon system, trapped in a container that could survive the fires?
@edgargad2941 Thing is. If the fires of Ibis was the burning of the coral it would've had so much coral present (enough to set the whole system on fire) that it had to be on other worlds or at least spread to other worlds to burn those too.
Rubicon 1, 2, and if there's other planets in the system like 4, and 5 and so on would've had to contain coral too if not before the fires of Ibis certainly after it now and with traces found all in the vaccum of space.
Think about how much was released in the fires of Raven and the fires of Ibis covered the whole system.
Anyone else notice that the Coral black hole looks like the Darksign?
7:35 "main system: activating combat mode" i'm not sure alea jacta est is a "good" ending considering this is the last thing we hear
I think Seria (Father Dolmyn's coral waifu) is ALLMIND
Coral = Ai 2023
We want to see more armored core
Im gonna call a coral-girl tonight