Orbital Cradle

### Resources (Mine & Gather)

Hard Siltstone, Orichalcum, Black Plate, Heavy Plate, Small Philosophy Core, Large Philosophy Core

### Enemies

Range Type Guard Omen, Melee Type Guard Omen, Support Type Guard Omen, Range Type 2 Guard Omen, Melee Type 2 Guard Omen, Support Type 2 Guard Omen, Frost Element, Thunder Element, Ajax, Agateram

### Boss(es)

Harbinger Aria

The **Orbital Cradle** is a space station the resides in space above ReGaia. The people of Lost Gaia/Earth (referred to as the Cains), who are kept in stasis, and the Proto-Seaslight are stored here.

## 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 (however, they didn't know that the Proto-Seaslight is self-aware). Geist had arranged for a plan called the Paradise Project to provide life on ReGaia, but because the planet 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. 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. This turns her into her corruptive persona: the Harbinger, and has administrative control to decide for the Omens, and 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, but although it appears she had succeeded, this instead somehow transports the Protagonist into her consciousness. Using Aria's diary to break through her insecurities, 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. Aria then decides to not go through with her plan, now understanding that it is not the right solution to save her kind and instead decides to find a different solution, one that will save all of humanity rather than half of it, but Geist had known this would happen. Because the project cannot wait, the Admin rights is transferred to the Protagonist, allowing them to make the same decision, but they are unwilling to murder any innocent lives despite Geist insisting that they pick, as they want to instead save both the Cains and Abels by ending Quietus. Geist finally respects their decision; however, the Proto-Seaslight's artificial intelligence suddenly reactivates Aria's plan and redirects itself to land on the Castle to Illusion instead to complete its own goal, which will destroy the Abels along with rendering it an uninhabitable place for the Cains, dooming both species. It also disables the Omens' control over it to prevent them from stopping it. Realizing that they can no longer control the project, Aria and the Protagonist manage to foil its plot 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, 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. Following the end of Quietus, the Protagonist later returns to the Cradle where ReGaia tells them about their origins (should they choose to know the truth after being warned that there's no going back to their old life), revealing that they are actually a Cain whose conscious is linked to a dead Abel body and given the role to save both human species all while making sure that they don't undergo the same misdeeds as Aria.

## Trivia

* It is unknown when the Cains' hibernation expires, as they are shown to be still in stasis after the end of Quietus.
	+ It is also implied that the Cains will return to Lost Gaia, which is apparently starting to recover, once they awaken. Aria and the Omen are possibly planning to restore the planet by the time that happens.
	+ They may have already awakened sometime after the epilogue, but this was never mentioned.

* If the player does choose between sacrificing the Cains and Abels, it will lead to a bad ending.
	+ This can be avoided by either trying to leave and refusing Geist’s demands to choose or using the console to select one to sacrifice, refuse that choice, and then try to leave, which will lead to same outcome as the first path. Further actions needed to avoid the bad endings involve choosing one to sacrifice and then refusing if the console wasn't used, and then saying that they want to end Quietus.