The Exodus Construct

> "Cytus is a realm built from the ground up on human suffering. Mountains of flayed flesh that give way to oceans of cursed blood. Endless caverns molded from the sinew and bone of the damned. The very walls of Cytus cry out for deliverance... and I will give it to them."
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> - Crifiscia Alinor, The First of the Unseen, "A Monument to Horror"

The Exodus Construct is a superweapon of Unseen design created over 2,000 years prior to the events of Unseen VII: Shades of the Unseen. It is the source of the mysterious Pulse heard by all who enter the Highfair Region.

It's completion is the primary goal of Crifiscia, the First of the Unseen in her efforts to liberate every last living soul from the eternal suffering of Cytus itself. Outside of the Hellstar Contagion, the Construct is the only known means of removing the Dawnstar Tranquility's effects from human life.

First established over two millennia before the events of the first game, the construct was originally created by Jennifer Lorian upon her arrival on Planet Calithos' Highfair Region. Successfully lying to the survivors of Earth's destruction and subsequent transformation into Cytus, she convinces them that in order to remain hidden from their ruthless pursuers, they must sustain the construct with an annual sacrifice of life. Her work in keeping her followers "safe" causes them to rename the planet from Calithos to Lorian in her honor.

Unbeknownst to them, the sacrifices were not intended to conceal their location from the Advanced, (as the Dawnstar Tranquility makes the very idea an impossibility) but instead to eventually bridge the gap between both worlds, allowing every last soul in Hell to be liberated and brought to Lorian in preparation for an all-out assault against the Advanced, the architects of Earth's downfall and Cytus' rise.

Eventually, this deception is discovered by one of her followers, who together with a number of other allies, engage and defeat Jennifer in combat after commandeering the power of the Exodus Construct and using it to unlock their Catalysts. For her deception, Jennifer is sacrificed to the construct herself.

However, as the construct was of her creation, Jennifer was able to prevent her death at the abominable tower's hand, instead using it's power to transfer her body to Cytus while her mind remained inside the construct as the earliest version of The Chromatic Pulse. This separation of body and soul results in the creation of Crifiscia, the First of the Unseen, as her body experiences the full extent of Hell's agonies over more than 15 centuries.

Over the years, the descendants of her followers created the city of Highfair, which by the time of *Shades of the Unseen*, has become known as Highfair Central. Without it's annual sacrifices to sustain it, the construct begins to enter a state of dormancy, a state it was left in for over 1,500 years until the construct was found by Prioriton engineers surveying the area for the construction of a new medical center in the area. Fascinated by the discovery, Edwin Carver went to examine the construct in person, and fell victim to it's only defense mechanism, the Hellstar Pulse.

When the local Enforcement Services and Prioriton investigation teams showed up, there was no trace of the personnel that came before. The only thing left standing was the Exodus Construct itself, much larger and more grotesque than ever. Vincent Carver, Edwin's son, now having assumed full control of the corporation, ordered an immediate evacuation of the area upon closer examination of the construct - underneath the unholy tower's endlessly flowing rivers of blood, he saw something gleaming underneath the team's flashlights - his father's wedding ring.

The entire site was immediately evacuated and sealed off.

The ENVISION, PRESERVA, and HELLSTAR initiatives were approved the next day. The upcoming medical center's construction became a part of a much larger project - The Advanced Research Center.