Voyager

Voyager, also identified as the Black Testament, is an antagonist in the Xenosaga series. In life, he is a U.M.N. cyberterrorist. Voyager is the primary antagonist of Xenosaga: Pied Piper.
==Appearance and personality==
Voyager is a ghoulish bald man with red eyes. Before becoming a Testament, he wears a simple white hooded cloak. As a Testament, Voyager wears black full body armor and a wing-shaped cloak.
Voyager is a serial killer who stalks and kills his victims via the U.M.N.. Similarly to Dmitri Yuriev, he has an extreme fear of U-DO after encountering it through the U.M.N., and aims to conquer his fear of U-DO by making a deal with it. By extension, Voyager greatly fears death, and becomes a Testament to gain power over it. 
==Story arc==
===Pied Piper===
Voyager in Pied Piper acted as a terrorist within the U.M.N. and was responsible for shedding the blood of many people. He specifically targeted those that he called the People of Zohar, believing that by doing so he could finally fulfil his contract with U-DO. 
Voyager acts several times during the story: he kills the Goodwill Ambassadors, a large number of fetuses at Jacob Medical Imprinting, and Patriarch Julius XVIII, each time evading capture by the Archon police.
Voyager is eventually identified as Erich Weber when Sharon is able to match DNA from a victim of Voyager with DNA collected by Erich when he was believed to be dead. Jan and the others find Erich's body, him having dived into the U.M.N. They dive into Erich's brain and are able to speak with him. Erich admits that he is Voyager and explains how he became this way. Seeking a large number of victims who are the people of Zohar, he is able to do so at a gathering of individuals following the Immigrant Fleet. He is able to capture Sharon and Joaquin, who are among those present. Jan and the others confront him and he kills both Sharon and Joaquin. Bugs tries to stop him with a suicidal attack which fails. Voyager calls for U-DO to answer him, but nothing happens. Wilhelm then appears and tells him that it won't respond. He offers to make Voyager a Testament, which he accepts, becoming the Black Testamaent. Voyager overpowers Jan and tells him that he has the choice of becoming a Testament as well or being killed by him. In response Jan kills himself. 
In the aftermath, Erich is publicly revealed to be Voyager, although he disappears and as such remained uncaptured.
===Episode I===
Voyager is briefly seen in Ziggy's flashback as Andrew Cherenkov transforms into the .
===Episode II===
Voyager's E.S. unit, Dan, appears when Shion escapes from the Dämmerung and heads into space to catch up with the Elsa as it heads towards Old Miltia. Voyager appears in person at Ω System when he and the Red and Blue Testaments appear to kill Sergius XVII. The sight of Voyager, who is not wearing his Testament mask, gets Ziggy enraged and he fires at him, trying to kill him, to no avail. Brief flashbacks show Voyager appearing with a pool of blood on the ground. He appears in the final scene of the game with Wilhelm and the other Testaments. He does not have any dialogue in his appearances in this episode.
===Episode III===
Voyager appears with his fellow Testaments at Rennes-le-Château, observing the coffin of Mary Magdalene. Within Shion's subconscious, Voyager raids the room where KOS-MOS is in within the Elsa to steal her capsule. Matthews, Tony, and the party try to fend him off. Ziggy then confronts Voyager, demanding him his real objective. Voyager does not answer and instead throws Ziggy into the ground and telepathically strangles Shion. In response to Shion's life being threatened, KOS-MOS awakens within her capsule and successfully fends off Voyager. Before departing, Voyager taunts Ziggy through his former name, Jan Saurer. After Wilhelm reveals Ormus's lies to Margulis, he and the Red Testament surround the latter.
Voyager later appears in Michtam, piloting E.S. Dan who collected E.S. Gad, Joseph, and Issachar's Vessels of Anima after their respective pilots falls. Voyager later confronts the party at Archon Cathedral and reveals that Canaan is in fact, Lactis and that Wilhelm is using him to monitor the party through Program Canaan. He also reveals his motive to become a Testament is to achieve immortality and escape death, and that his obsession with Ziggy is due to his desire to share his immortality with him. Voyager then battles the party within his E.S. unit, Dan.
After an exhausting battle, Dan's Vessel of Anima is later collected by E.S. Judah. Ziggy later exits E.S. Zebulun to finish Voyager off, but is pinned down by him. Overcome by guilt over being used for surveillance, Canaan offers Voyager access to the Compass of Order and Chaos in exchange for Ziggy's life. Voyager accepts the offer and dives through Canaan's memories, hoping to become a god with it. However, when he made contact with the Compass, he and Canaan disintegrate into nothing as it was never meant to be touched by mortal hands and perishes alongside Canaan.
Voyager's true identity is Erich Weber, a subordinate of the police officer Jan Sauer who tried to chase down Voyager. He typically would work as an operator along colleague Mikhail while Jan led operations in the field, and pretended to assist the police in tracking Voyager.
==Lore==
* From his childhood, Voyager (as Erich) had suffered from damage to his prefrontal cortex. To try and compensate for this, he constructed working memory inside the U.M.N.. He became a slave to information and a netholic, unable to control the growth of his curiosity.
** Voyager's U.M.N. explorations led to him to discovering U-DO and hacking into the U.M.N.'s core structure. He dove into the U.M.N. repeatedly and became convinced that U-DO was akin to the end of the world. He would have nightmarish visions of U-DO.
** Rather than simply resign himself to the end of the world, he decided to consider himself U-DO's eyes and ears, taking up the nickname of Voyager. He got in contact with Dmitri Yuriev, the first human to be tormented by U-DO.
==Database==
==As a boss==
===Xenosaga: Pied Piper===
* Voyager (Archon Cathedral) (part 1)
* Voyager (Archon Cathedral) (part 2)
* Voyager (Archon Cathedral) (part 3)
===Xenosaga Episode III===
* Voyager (Elsa)
* E.S. Dan (boss)
==Trivia==
* Voyager's English voice actor, D.C. Douglas also voices H.B. in Xenoblade Chronicles X.
==Gallery==
===Xenosaga Episode I===
Voyager (XS1).png|Voyager in a flashback.
===Xenosaga Episode II===
Voyager (XS2).png|Voyager at the Ω System.
Voyager avoids Ziggy's missiles.png|Voyager avoids Ziggy's missiles.
Black Testament (XS2).png|Voyager appears from a pool of blood in a flashback.
===Xenosaga: Pied Piper===
====Concept art====
Erich Weber concept art.jpg|Concept art by Minohara Noboru.
====Other====
Xenosaga Pied Piper.png|Voyager as depicted on the logo of Pied Piper.
====Screenshots====
Pied Piper Scene 27.png|Voyager in Jan's dream.
Pied Piper Scene 49.png|Voyager before he becomes a Testament.
Pied Piper Scene 54.png|Voyager becomes a Testament.
===Xenosaga Episode III===
====Character portraits====
XS3 character portrait Voyager normal.png|Neutral Voyager.
XS3 character portrait Voyager angry.png|Voyager angry.
XS3 character portrait Voyager arrogant.png|Voyager arrogant.
====E.S. portraits====
Voyager Dan.jpg|Voyager attacking while piloting the E.S. Dan.
====Models====
Black Testament (render).png|Black Testament.
Voyager (Black Testament) render.png|Voyager.
Voyager (boss).png|Voyager in combat stance.
Voyager demon.png|Voyager's demon.
===Xenosaga I & II===
====CG images====
XS1&2 scene40.png|Voyager reveals himself to Ziggy
====Character portraits====
VoyagerXSDS01.gif|Voyager with his mask on.
VoyagerXSDS02.gif|Voyager with his mask off.
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