Paradise Project

The Paradise Project is a scheme controlled by Geist to provide a home for the Cains to live on, all while keeping them safe from Quietus. Aria's parents were the ones who created this project.

## Background

The Omens constructed the Orbital Cradle to store the Cains and the Proto-Seaslight, which was to help trigger a mass evolution and provide life on ReGaia for the people of Lost Gaia after Quietus made the planet uninhabitable, but because ReGaia has now developed a new species of humans (referred to as the Abels), the Omen have to choose which species of humans they must sacrifice as the planet cannot hold both, and before the Cains awaken from their hibernation (it is not known when they will awaken however). Little did they know, Gaia has her own plans for the project. Once the Protagonist and their friends learn of this, Geist has Aria decide. Although she is against destroying either species, she is overwhelmed by her insecurities and self-doubts, driving her into choosing to save her people, but little did she and Geist know, they are being played into Gaia's hands. All of this and Gaia's influence causes her to take the role of the Harbinger. With her administrative control over the Omens, she attempts to drop the Proto-Seaslight onto ReGaia to wipe out the Abels for her people, but the Protagonist stops her at the last second. She then tries one final attempt to kill them and although it looked like she had succeeded, her efforts ultimately ended in failure as the attack somehow opens a way for the Protagonist to access her consciousness instead of killing them. Ignoring discouragements from a young version of Aria and using Aria's diary to break through her insecurities (proving that she isn't completely beyond help despite Young Aria believing otherwise), they manage to convince her to change her mind and not to hide from who she is before freeing her heart from her self-doubts, allowing her to overcome her insecurities and Gaia's influence, which turns her back to normal. Now knowing that what she's doing is wrong, Aria then decides to not go through with her plan and instead decides to find another solution that will save both the Cains and Abels, but Geist had known this would happen. Because the project cannot wait due to Quietus approaching, the Admin rights is transferred to the Protagonist, allowing them to make the same decision, but they do not want to massacre innocent people despite Geist insisting that they pick, instead wishing to end Quietus to save all of humanity (which was first thought to be impossible). Geist finally, albert reluctantly, respects their decision; however, Gaia reactivates Aria's plan and orders the Proto-Seaslight to land on the Castle to Illusion instead, which will destroy the Abels along with rendering it an uninhabitable place for the Cains, dooming both species. The Omens' control over it is disabled to prevent them from stopping it. Realizing that her plan has gone haywire and can no longer be controlled, Aria and the Protagonist manage to stop it by forcing it into an accelerated reentry so that it would crumble harmlessly into the northern ocean instead. Although Aria chose to sacrifice herself to ensure that the Proto-Seaslight cannot hurt anyone else due to her feeling guilty of her earlier wrongdoings, the Protagonist came back to rescue her despite the danger. The Paradise Project was abandoned after this and they decide that the only way to save both species now is to stop Quietus.

The refusal/failure of this project unlocks the door to Geist's room containing a robot named Geist Mk-II, who reveals more on the Paradise Project and his original plan to stop Quietus.

During the ending, the Omens create a new Paradise Project under Aria's command to ensure that ReGaia is made into a peaceful world without harming anyone while also planning to restore the presumably-recovering Lost Gaia.

## Trivia

* A bad ending will occur if the player chooses to sacrifice one of the human species, which can be avoided if they refuse to sacrifice either and say that they want to end Quietus instead.