Project: Nova
This will be an atempt to document everything known about the Nova, since there seems to be many disagreements of what happened to the Nova after Kreissack's death. This is sorted by the years: 2097, 2099, 2117. There is also a reference to Nova from the game Tyrian, and i have added that to the 2117 part, there is also a link to the Datacube itself.


Year 2097: (1 Player Game)
  What is known:

Nova is a project Started by Kreissack, the specifics about the project is completelly unknown.

  Rumors: Regarding the experiments

Ibrahim: "These experiments could save lives."
Shirro: "How can you say that Nova is evil without knowing what it is?"
Ibrahim: "The experiments didn't start out evil. We were trying to prolong life!"
Raven: "They want to be able to keep a human mind alive inside a robot."
Ibrahim: "The experiment your father worked on should have never started."

  Rumors: Regarding the death of two Nova researchers

Steffan: "You should ask Iron Fist. They now work for Kreissack."
Cossette: "It was a mercenary band called Iron Fist that destroyed the shuttle."
Raven: "Your father should have never left the Nova project."

  Facts: After Kreissack's death

Nova was a HAR created by Kreissack made for warfare, also the ability to keep a human mind inside the HAR. Every scientist in the project was killed in a fire, together with all records of the Nova.
Dr. and Mrs. Devroe was killed in an aranged space shuttle accident, when the Dr. wanted to jump off the project after he realised what Kreisack was using hes research for. The accident was ordered by Kreissack himself, and he hired the Iron Fist mercenary band for "research" and gave them 1500K$ payoff. Iron fist destroyed the space shuttle with laser fire.

  Facts: Rebuilding the nova:

Steffan and Jean Paul want to continue building the Nova as a means for military force. to further they own goals. Shirro wants the Nova for the immence power it showed. However, he does not cherish the thought of becoming another Kreissack. So he will probably recreate it for the sports sake as a normal HAR, and is very likelly to hire Ibrahim, hes friend, to do the design. Ibrahim fell in love with the design instantly, and started drawing upp plans right away. But as a normal HAR, with normal brain link and not brain move. Cossette on the other hand, fully plans to take advantage of the mind transferance, and want to rebuild the Nova but slightly different, and as the Cossette robot instead.

Crystal and Angel completelly opposes the creation of the Nova. Milano, Christian and Raven do not offer any comment on the Nova whatsoever.


Score:

Crystal...: no
Steffan...: yes
Milano....: no comment
Christian.: no comment
Shirro....: yes
Jean Paul.: yes
Ibrahim...: yes
Angel.....: no
Cossette..: yes
Raven.....: no comment


Current score is 5 vs 5,

In any event, even if Crystal won, Ibrahim would have seen the fight and decided to recreate the bot. That would also hold true for just about every combination of victorys posible. Exept that if Cossette won she might have influenced the design into the Cossette robot, instead of Nova. Another minor difference, is that without the resources of Ganymede creation of Nova would be more difficult. But not overly so, it would at worst slow down the work, and even if Ibrahim didnt win, some of the others like Steffan and Jean Paul would likelly hire him for hes expertice on HAR design, he is after all known as the greatest HAR designer in WAR. If Crystal or Angel won, they might have tried to hush the design down. It would most likelly not work, as Ibrahim and Cossette as famous HAR designers allready have considerable power and influence on all aspects of HAR design.


Summary:

Half the pilots are interested in creating the Nova again, varying reasons and what aspect they liked the best, the mind robot, or the fighting HAR. But no matter what they prefer at least three (Shirro, Ibrahim, Cossette), will be continuing the work. So the Nova will be recreated in some way or another. And Ibrahim's idea seems the most likelly, even if he lost.


Year 2099: (Tournament Play)
What is know:

The Tournament sport is going for full, so Shirro must have gotten hes wish come true. The Nova exist as a normal HAR, so Ibrahim seems to have completed hes dream. We do not hear anything about any political triffles in 2099, so it is does not sound like either: Crystal, Steffan, Milano, Christian, Jean-Paul, Angel, Cossette or Raven won. This leaves Shirro and Ibrahim the most likelly alternatives, but that is irrelevant right here.

The Nova is fully operationall, and even used by certain high ranked pilots. So in short, Nova is back!


Year 2117: (One Must Fall : Battleground)
What is know:

The tournaments have developed even further, it is now an all consuming sport with sponsors and prestige, However. The Nova is not known to exist at all in 2117, at least not in use at the tournaments.

We do have a reference from Steffan in a "future" as he messages hes friend Trent a datalink. The datalink is available here for research reasons: Datalink from Steffan.
But in short, Steffan seems to have controll over Ganymede, and that he hope Trent havent lost hes skills in piloting the Nova III. Now this might not be the same reality as the current OMF reality, but still, it is a consideration.

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