Heartbeat could be the Phileon, too, given what we've heard about it.
And on that note, I did some more Sifting this week. Sento can probably corrobrate this or not once he's back to himself, but...
The Phileon was the seventh of seven prototypes, which started development some time after the Battle of Tharsis. They were developed in secret before the Core and Phileon were demonstrated and sold to the ESDF. The projects were called TRAVELLER, MAGUS, ENIGMA, TIARA, LIONHEART, PALADIN, and ARCHER, the last of which became Phileon. All of them showed promise, but Paladin turned out to be a catastrophic failure.
The ESDF wasn't directly responsible for it, and didn't provide much oversight, but there were a few highly placed observers.
Dara was smart enough to hide her true reasons, but there were some private emails with a Lin Xiao that indicated that she was having increasing moral reservations, which eventually resulted in one message that just said "I need your help."
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And on that note, I did some more Sifting this week. Sento can probably corrobrate this or not once he's back to himself, but...
The Phileon was the seventh of seven prototypes, which started development some time after the Battle of Tharsis. They were developed in secret before the Core and Phileon were demonstrated and sold to the ESDF. The projects were called TRAVELLER, MAGUS, ENIGMA, TIARA, LIONHEART, PALADIN, and ARCHER, the last of which became Phileon. All of them showed promise, but Paladin turned out to be a catastrophic failure.
The ESDF wasn't directly responsible for it, and didn't provide much oversight, but there were a few highly placed observers.
Dara was smart enough to hide her true reasons, but there were some private emails with a Lin Xiao that indicated that she was having increasing moral reservations, which eventually resulted in one message that just said "I need your help."