Noah Project

Noah Project (ノア・プロジェクト Noa Purojekuto), is a scheme orchestrated by Unchained in Digimon Liberator, serving as a central conflict within the story.

Overview

The Noah Project is conceived as a form of "twisted salvation" for the metaverse spaces Cross Connectia and LACUNA. Driven by deep despair and disillusionment, Unchained views the existing world as irreparably "poisoned" and seeks to erase and recreate it through drastic means.

Description

The primary goal of the Noah Project is to purge the current state of LACUNA and the Digital World, replacing it with a purified existence according to Unchain's ideals. This plan reflects a warped interpretation of salvation, prioritizing destruction as a precursor to rebirth.

Apperances

Manga

Digimon Liberator

When Unchain was created into LACUNA, he noticed that a miasma of unknown nature is killing Digimon in Cross Connectia, and hordes of Digimon were migrating from it to LACUNA where they will also inevitably perish. Amidst the Digimon however, was a Yolkmon who possessed a unique antibody that made it immune to the miasma. Unchain managed to clone the antibody and administer it onto a Metatromon who begged it to save its other half, and then used his Alter Ride to turn other Digimon into copies of Maquinamon with the immunity. Unchain's end goal is to merge Metatromon and Dalphomon into Ex Maquinamon, a Digimon that possesses the divine power to merge both Cross Connectia into LACUNA, to merge both worlds into a single land exclusively inhabited by Maquinamon immune to the miasma.

A key component of the Noah Project is the Digital Lifeform Close, who was originally created by Unchained to function as the project's "ark." In this role, Close was meant to preserve selected data or entities deemed worthy of surviving the destruction, mirroring the symbolic concept of an ark safeguarding life during a great flood.

The attack proper occurred some time following the debug team's suppression of Imperialdramon: Fighter Mode (Black). There, Unchain disguised the attack as the final boss event of the main scenario of Digimon Liberator to catch normal players off-guard, but the debug team are not fooled by it. The rules of the supposed final event is that Unchain will release countless NPCs hijacked by Maquinamon that would duel anyone they come across, and if one gets enough points, they will have a chance to challenge "Xeno", actually Zenith, who voluntarily allowed Unchain to restore him into a brainwashed NPC, which would apparently trigger the final event. Unchain further adds that under no circumstances should one lose to an NPC, as the Maquinamon will then hijack their minds instead.

In actuality, the second phase of the attack will trigger as soon as someone manages to reach Zenith and duel him; Owen Dreadnought's duel against him prompted Unchain to execute the attack. He instantly transforms the partner Digimon of everyone without a Unique Emblem into Maquinamon and turns the players themselves into shields for E.G.G. The Debug Team goes to stop him and were quickly joined by Cool Boy and Dalphomon, but Dalphomon was quickly absorbed by Metatromon as Unchain desired. Metatromon and Dalphomon then Jogress Evolve into Ex Maquinamon, the centerpiece of the Noah Project capable of merging both worlds. Unchain has Ex Maquinamon fuse Lacuna and Cross Connectia together, but the emergence of Ex Maquinamon was also in Cool Boy's expectations; in actuality, Dalphomon was injected with a virus that turns Unchain into a standard NPC that cannot turn away from any dueling request. Kazama Shoto then returns at the middle of the battle, and both him and Owen manage to hold down Unchain with help from the rest of the Debug Team. Yao Qinglan then isolates Unchain, Owen and Shoto inside a fake Shinjuku where he can be dueled with and suppressed. The Noah Project came to an end when Shoto manages to defeat Unchain, who realizes the errors of his ways and is transferred into the body of an NPC.

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