Lufenian Reports

The Lufenian Reports are collectibles found in the Archives of Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. They are experiment logs detailing the Lufenians’ oversight of Cornelia and their many interferences within.
== Lufenian Reports ==
=== Regarding Our Collaborator ===
==== Lufenian Log 01_???? ====
: Our collaborator appears to be named ███. They appear to be willing to share information without any favours in kind, and for what purpose I do not know. Still, I don’t care who tries to build bridges with us or why. I'll check that their information is genuine—you can never be too careful—and then use it for Lufenia's own ends.
=== The Stranger Project: Origin ===
==== Lufenian Log 01_0125 ====
: The balance of light and dark in Cornelia has collapsed, and already forms begin to grow indeterminate and vague. If this situation is allowed to continue, it has been observed that in approximately two thousand years unstable energies will accumulate critical mass and result in Cornelia's total annihilation.
: Preventative measures are necessary, and to that end we have set the Stranger Project in motion. This plan will place light and dark directly under our control so we have the tools required to reduce or proliferate either variable. To summarise the Project simply, human resources acquired from that other world—Strangers—will be utilised and set to the task of maintaining this balance. (Note that their equipment must, for convenience, match the local civilisation level, and must be appropriated on-site.)
: This is by no means an easy task, however, and feelers have already been sent out to our extraplanar collaborator to provide the technology necessary for this undertaking.
=== Dimensional Crystal Matrix ===
==== Lufenian Log 01_0239 ====
: After some negotiation, our extraplanar collaborator has agreed to furnish us with what they call a dimensional crystal matrix. Note that this crystal appears to be different from those which we have installed in Cornelia.
: This dimensional crystal matrix allows us to travel backwards in time and reconstruct the world from a chosen point in the past. We have named this process a "reset" for clarity. A reset gives us the ability to carry out trial and error experiments on a global scale without fear of consequence, and is a tremendous step forward for the Stranger Project.
: Appendum: In exchange for this crystal, our collaborator has extracted a promise from us to transfer the vast energies produced by a reset to them.
=== Light, Dark, the Human Dilemma ===
==== Lufenian Log 03_1413 ====
: We have placed crystals throughout the world to stabilise the elements and maintain order, but the humans cling to their radiance and draw hope from their presence. This is unideal, as it increases aggregate light and invites imbalance.
: Our solution was to pump darkness in to counteract this trend, but that introduced a new problem: humans infected by darkness causing sharp shifts to the opposite side of the spectrum, inviting the dangerous possibility of the Chaos entity's manifestation. (Humanity's existence is a continuous blight, and we should have wiped them out during our period of open conflict with them long ago.)
: These faults in the project have forced us back to the drawing board.
=== Dark Crystals ===
==== Lufenian Log 07_0012 ====
: Materials required for dimensional transfer device activation and memory data control have been supplied to project leaders. These materials have been designated "dark crystals" based on appearance and origin.
: Memory and emotion require tremendous amounts of data to transport successfully during teleportation, complicating transference greatly. To avoid undue risk, functions to safely store vast amounts of data and to absorb stray data fragments have been installed.
: As a side effect, dark crystals imbue their wielders with incredible boosts to physical and magical prowess. The effects observed in our Stranger team leader were particularly strong, and so a special dark crystal was entrusted to him. This has allowed us to induce an uncategorisable power in him that can only be described as some sort of spiritual radiance. Further investigation required.
=== The Stranger Project: Failure ===
==== Lufenian Log 16_1866 ====
: A powerful hatred of Chaos has been implanted in the Strangers to provide the drive to seek out and destroy darkness. We had attempted direct control through them during previous cycles, but though initial results were promising, the experiment ended in utter failure when a single Stranger was possessed by Darkness and transformed into Chaos.
: Until this point, "Chaos" was understood to be a mere concept. We paid a heavy price to learn that if conditions are met, it can manifest into a physical vessel and cause significant and sustained disruption by weighting the balance heavily in the favour of darkness.
: A more troublesome hiccup, however, was that the abilities given to Strangers backfired on us. It appears that any Stranger possessed by darkness will leave behind echoes of their memories that somehow cannot be scrubbed even by world reset. Further research is required to discover methods by which these stains can be purged.
=== Reports ===
==== Lufenian Log 17_1640 ====
: Though the total quantities of darkness and light are managed directly on site and we receive regular updates from agents, we have yet to receive any results of significance. From the information our collaborator has shared with us, it is the uncertain and unstable nature of human emotions that is the primary cause of our current lack of success.
: To expand on this, our collaborator has explained that the light of order and the darkness of chaos have but one source: the emotions generated by the human heart. The balance of the world can easily tip towards light or dark so long as humans exist to weight the scales. It is my humble opinion that a drastic solution to the human problem is necessary to solve this particularly thorny issue.
=== A New Project ===
==== Lufenian Log 18_0258 ====
:Over the course of countless experiments, we have determined that the very fact of human existence is the source of chaos phenomena. Though we had hoped to bring all native organisms with us into our glorious future, I strongly urge the removal of any life-forms that prove unmanageable. With seemingly perfect timing, the latest proposal from our extraplanar collaborator seems in line with this suggestion, and official consideration for enacting both ideas in tandem is in progress.
=== Collaborator Proposal ===
==== Lufenian Log 18_1025 ====
:The outline of the proposal made by our collaborator is as follows:
#After the Strangers deal with the fiends (which continue to defeat our efforts to control them), we will increase darkness levels until local negative energy reaches its maximum threshold.
#Though this may cause all of humanity to transform into monsters, that will a) save us time as they kill each other, b) lower the difficulty of reducing total darkness, and c) simplify the human problem. If all humans are monsters, the question of whether we should just exterminate them is a foregone conclusion. 
#Our collaborator request that the energy generated by this process be transferred to them. As we have no use for this energy, we readily agree.
In conclusion, once the Strangers have destroyed the fiends, we will recover our agents and initiate the above proposal. Note that this document has also been shared with Astos. 
=== Report from Central ===
==== Lufenian Log 20_000 ====
:Transcript of Report from Central:
:-Station 19 discarded after total corruption by chaotic energies. Those in charge have been removed.
:-A number of falsehoods have been uncovered in organic reconnaissance unit Astos's reports. Considering these developments, unit's memories will be wiped and unit will be permanently removed from service.
:-Incursion by the being assumed to be Chaos was halted at Station 19 by completely severing the timeline in which it exists from our own. All projects relating to said timeline, compatriots located on site, and facilities have been abandoned. (A lamentable loss, but it is not like Chaos would have been so kind as to leave any trace of us either.)
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