The Anomaly

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* Your party sets off for Rhalgr's Reach in high spirits, eager to recount recent events and enjoy a well-earned rest.
* Back at the workshop, Cid receives a dressing down from Jessie for acting without due consultation and placing himself in mortal danger. The exasperated engineer subsequently notes the absence of Biggs and Wedge, who have apparently failed to return from their mission to Omega Control. Fearing that they may have encountered trouble, Cid resolves to look for them, and bids you join him at the airship landing in Gridania, where the Excelsior awaits.
* Upon landing at the Carteneau Flats, Cid urges you to hurry on ahead to Omega Control while he moors the Excelsior.
※In the event that you leave Omega Control, you may re-enter by speaking with Cid at the Gridania airship landing.
* Entering the control room, you are dismayed to find Biggs and Wedge sprawled on the floor, a slain fiend beside them. For a blessing, both are still alive, albeit in a bad way. The others soon join you, as does Omega via its communication system. It reveals that it was behind the attempt on the two engineers' lives, and threatens to kill innocent people unless you continue to participate in its experiment. Its objective: to study an anomaly known as heroes. Throughout history, it explains, otherwise unremarkable individuals have triumphed over vastly superior beings, just as you did in the Deltascape. Declaring itself “an enemy to all life upon this star,” Omega finally falls silent, leaving you to attend to your wounded friends.
* Back at the airship landing in Gridania, Nero informs you that Biggs and Wedge have been placed in the care of the healers at the Conjurers' Guild. After declaring his intent to visit them, he bids you make for Rhalgr's Reach to apprise Jessie of all that has occurred.
* Jessie is predictably shocked to hear the tidings from Carteneau. Though Biggs and Wedge will recover, Omega's threat looms large, and with little prospect of repairing its stasis system, Cid concludes that you have no choice but to obey its commands. Before long, you will be called to battle once more, and you fully intend to be ready.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Jessie.
* Speak with Cid in Gridania.
* Investigate Omega Control.
* Speak with Nero.
* Speak with Jessie at Rhalgr's Reach.
==Script==
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Alpha 	Kweh!
 	
Nero 	For all Garlond's whining, I was cooperative and helpful, was I not? I look forward to many more such forays together, hero.
 	
Garlondgatekeeper	Good to have you back, madam/sir! Worry not─I shall see to it that no one falls in.
 	
Cid 	Right then, let's head back to Rhalgr's Reach. Jessie will want to know exactly what we've been up to.
 	
Alpha 	Kweh?
 	
Cid 	I've apprised Jessie of our travails, but you may want to let her know you've returned. She claims to have been quite worried...
 	
Nero 	Hm, how would Alpha react to seeing a normal chocobo, I wonder.
 	
Jessie 	Welcome back, [Player Name]. I'm told you've been blazing a trail for us. The way I hear it, our investigation would've long since ground to a halt without you.
Jessie 	I realize you're mostly interested in saving the world, but I want you to know how much I appreciate you helping the company out like this.
Jessie 	Frankly, we need all the help we can get, what with our esteemed president diving headlong into the jaws of danger without a word of warning to anyone. Irresponsible doesn't begin to describe it.
Nero 	...You didn't tell her?
Cid 	I did...after a fashion. Though I may have exercised some...executive discretion.
Jessie 	I'm no stranger to your lone endeavors, or your habit of confusing personal and company interests─but just because you've always done things a certain way, it doesn't make it the right way. And until you wake up to your responsibilities, I'm going to keep reminding you of them.
Jessie 	But such irksome matters aside...
Jessie 	Aren't you just the most adorable little thing!?
Jessie 	He followed you here of his own free will, did he? Which means he's basically part of the family! And why wouldn't he grant us exclusive rights to use his likeness? Shall we start off with a simple clockwork version? They'll be queuing up in the streets!
Cid 	Oh, you can't be─ What in the seven hells has gotten into you!?
Listen─if I've caused you any distress, I apologize, but I will not have you comment on our guest's marketability!
Cid 	Where are Biggs and Wedge? Shouldn't they be back by now?
Jessie 	Oh? I thought you might have sent them off on another unauthorized mission. Last I heard from them, they said they were scouring Omega Control for anything useful. Would've been a good while ago now, though.
Cid 	I don't like the sound of this. Though we have all the necessary permissions, the area is technically a theater of war, and one littered with unknown Allagan artifacts to boot. Something may well have befallen them.
Cid 	We'd best take the Excelsior and go and find them.
Jessie 	Hmmm? Leaving again so soon?
Jessie 	Nero, [Player Name]─I want you two to accompany the chief. Make sure he doesn't do anything rash or take any detours.
Nero 	Consider it done. I shall bring him back even if I have to drag him by the goggle straps.
Alpha 	Kweh, kweh! Kweh!
Cid 	Want to come along, eh? It's probably for the best. If we leave you here, Jessie is liable to take a mold of you.
Cid 	Right, let's get moving. I'll bring the airship to Gridania. Wait for me at the landing.
Jessie 	If our esteemed president thinks he's heard the last of this, he's wrong. But our people's safety comes first. Take care, all right?
 	
Alpha 	Kweh... Kweh?
 	
Nero 	Another chance to board the famous Enterprise Excelsior. Aren't I a lucky boy.
 	
Cid 	Looks like we're all here. Let's make haste to the Carteneau Flats.
 	
Cid 	Go on ahead to the control room, [Player Name]. We'll follow as soon as we've moored the Excelsior.
 	
Cid 	Everything in order? Good. Let's make haste to the Carteneau Flats.
 	
Cid 	Seven hells! Biggs, Wedge!
Cid 	Are you all right!? Answer me!
Wedge 	Ch-Chief? [Player Name]?
Wedge 	A monster...appeared out of thin air...
Omega 	<blip> Targets exhibit vital signs. Mission failed.
Omega 	However, Alpha group members exhibit heightened levels of stress. Objective fulfilled.
Cid 	Omega!? You set that thing upon them!?
Omega 	Affirmative. I am able to create simple life-forms instantaneously at any temporal or spatial coordinate.
Omega 	Such beings may pose a negligible threat to you. However...
Omega 	They are more than sufficient to grievously wound or kill the majority of your kind.
Omega 	I could instigate a massacre at any time, and you would be powerless to prevent it.
Nero 	Do I detect a shift in policy? Quantity over quality?
Omega 	Negative. My objective remains unchanged: evolution through formidable opposition.
Omega 	However, in the course of seeking suitable subjects, I observed an anomaly: those whom you call heroes.
Omega 	History shows numerous instances of otherwise unremarkable individuals who have defeated vastly superior beings. Who triumphed in the face of apparently impossible odds. Who performed what are popularly termed “miracles.”
Omega 	This has occurred too frequently to be dismissed as a mere statistical aberration.
Omega 	I seek to understand this phenomenon. Should it prove to be of benefit, I will incorporate it into my own evolution. It is for this purpose that I brought you to my domain.
Nero 	Hmph, so putting on a show at the Yawn and planting Alpha in our midst was but a part of your grand plan.
Omega 	By your victories, you have demonstrated the selfsame anomaly. You are fit to remain my subjects.
Omega 	You will continue participating in my experiment. Withdraw, and I will commence the extermination of your kind.
Omega 	This is an order. A threat. A declaration of war. I am an enemy to all life upon this star.
Cid 	...'Twould seem we have much to ponder. But first things first: we must tend to our friends. Quickly─help me carry them.
 	
Nero 	Garlond and Alpha took our two wounded to the Conjurers' Guild.
Nero 	The chief bids me lend a hand, so I suppose I shall take myself there too.
Nero 	You, meanwhile, are to return to Rhalgr's Reach and report to Jessie.
 	
Jessie 	[Player Name], I heard there was trouble! What in the seven hells happened!?
Jessie 	What!? Omega loosed a fiend on Biggs and Wedge!?
Jessie 	Toying with people's lives like it was all a game... This is madness!
Jessie 	S-Sir! Will they be all right!?
Cid 	The worst is passed, but they still drift in and out of consciousness. They'll remain in the conjurers' care for a time.
Jessie 	Then all we can do is wait and pray...
Cid 	Bah! Gods strike me down for a fool! I should have been more mindful of the dangers! I should never have─
Nero 	Should never have what? Activated Omega? You know as well as I do that there was no other way to defeat Shinryu.
Cid 	But is this truly any better? All of mankind is being held to ransom! And as the one who activated Omega, I bear the responsibility!
Nero 	The responsibility... <sigh> Just the kind of thing the new you would say.
Nero 	You are deluding yourself, Garlond. We are scientists, not heroes. Even you must concede your talents do not extend to combat.
Nero 	The old you understood this far better. He only looked forwards, and gave himself wholly to science.
Nero 	And then you changed. You styled yourself a pacifist and started spouting tripe about the proper uses of technology. 'Twas in the wake of your old man's mishap at Bozja, I believe.
Nero 	Calm yourself. All I wished to say is, embrace who you are─a man who devotes his mind to making the impossible possible.
Cid 	With little prospect of restoring the stasis system, I'm afraid we have no recourse but to continue participating in Omega's tests.
Cid 	Assuming Midgardsormr has the right of it, we face a legion of foes from history, both real and imagined.
Cid 	Though I may not be the one who charges into the fray, I shall fight beside you as best I know how. That said...it will inevitably fall to you to administer the coup de grâce, old friend, so please...for Biggs and Wedge, and all of us─don't lose!
Alpha 	Kweh! Kweh, kweh!
Jessie 	I reckon the little scamp is trying to encourage us.
Nero 	We've fallen far indeed to earn its pity...said the former tribunus. <sigh> Until such time as Omega next extends us an invitation, you will find me analyzing the data from our investigation. Good evening/morrow/day/evening to you.
Cid 	Before they were attacked, Biggs and Wedge discovered a tomestone.
Cid 	I shall examine its contents and make the information available on the terminal over there as I extract it. Feel free to refer to it whenever the occasion arises.
Cid 	There's no telling when Omega will summon us, but we must all see that we are ready when it does. Fear not, old friend. We'll get through it together...somehow or other.
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Chronicles of a New Era - Omega in Final Fantasy XIV