Augusta Tower Augusta Tower is a location in " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " , built by the Academy in 13 AF . In 300 AF , a timespace anomaly has thrown the tower into chaos and turned the interior into a maze . Datalog . " ACADEMY DATANET FILE " " Augusta Tower is the central information processing facility of the Academy . The entire edifice is occupied by the machinery of an artificial intelligence that possesses unprecedented processing power . " " The tower also houses the Proto fal ' Cie Project , an ambitious plan to create a man - made fal ' Cie . " " Augusta Tower is the giant electronic brain of Academia . The AI mind that occupies the tower stores precious data and records from centuries ago that cannot be found anywhere else . Apparently , there are freelance data miners who do nothing but search the archives for new information discoveries . " " When the tower was first built , a number of galas and parties were held featuring the tower mascots , Augy and Towpy . When the tower was closed to the public the mascots were discarded , to the dismay of small children everywhere . " Story . After having discovered in Academia 400 AF that they were entombed in a tower at 200 AF for learning the " forbidden history " , Serah , Mog , and Noel travel to that time to discover the truth . As they explore the tower , they find images of their time in Academia and discover various data logs about the Proto fal ' Cie project . Serah , Noel , and Mog spot Caius ascending the tower and are instantly suspicious . Serah and Noel find the people within the tower lifeless and encounter Alyssa Zaidelle near the main elevator . She unveils the people within the tower — including herself — are duplicate s , holograms designed to look exactly like their original counterparts . Presuming that Caius has business on the top floor , they ask the Alyssa duplicate to take them there . Along the way , they are attacked by groups of enemies and see images of 13 AF which show that the AI in charge of the tower , as part of the Proto fal ' Cie Project , rebelled against its creators and killed the staff , including the original Hope and Alyssa . The AI created the fal ' Cie Adam which created the duplicates to cover up the incident and to kill any who found out the truth . At the top the Serah and Noel encounter the Yeul they countered in Oerba , who reveals Caius is immortal and retains memories of all of the timeline ' s events . As Noel and Serah step through the Time Gate to face the Proto fal ' Cie Adam , Yeul envisions a bright future before dying as Caius takes away her body . Noel and Serah end up in a junction between timelines , and find Adam . They realize the fal ' Cie used the time junction to take control of the AI and instigate its own creation , making it a living paradox . After defeating it the fal ' Cie regenerates by traveling back in time and negating its death . Serah yells out at Hope for making the machine . This outburst was recorded in an Oracle Drive in 13 AF , and after seeing Noel and Serah fight it , Hope abandons the project , and Adam is erased from existence . Areas . The Augusta Tower is a 52 - floor high tower located presumably somewhere on Gran Pulse . It consists of the central lift used to move around various floors . Many rooms have rotary properties and computers . Creation and development . Motomu Toriyama , director of " Final Fantasy XIII " , has explained that the developers believe in adding a complex dungeon in the middle of the storyline to act both as a trial and a story turning point . Augusta Tower was designed for this purpose in " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " , as a futuristic dungeon peppered with puzzles . The player has to search the whole Historia Crux to access the heart of the tower making it a challenge . The " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 Ultimania Omega " producer and director interview reveals scrapped plans for a Hope DLC scenario episode , involving a journey through the Augusta Tower . Players would have ventured through the tower , completing a number of Live Trigger s as they did . The aim of the DLC was to stop Alyssa from killing Hope and based on player ' s Live Trigger choices , the player would have either continued the game or receive a Game Over . While this scenario was scrapped from the game , it was basis for a chapter in " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 Fragments After " . Musical themes . " Augusta Tower " composed by Mitsuto Suzuki , plays as the location theme for the Tower . A remixed version of the song titled " Augusta Tower - Aggressive Mix - " plays whenever enemies are present . In Augusta Tower 200 AF , " Eclipse " also plays after a certain part in the game . " Yeul ' s Theme " plays in a scene associated with her at the top of the tower . Etymology . Augusta is a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus , and is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places named after him .