Atolm2000's Panzer Dragoon
Page
Last Edited - 8/23/00
I am now going to college,
as i mentioned on my main page. I will not be bringing any of my
gamesets; I will try and finish the walkthrough in the one week I have
left before I fly out.
A dying world, waiting to
be reborn from its ashes. A world where mankind's folly has destroyed
him once, where the mistakes of the past are openly visible to learn from...or
repeat. This is the world of Panzer Dragoon, where the "Ancient Age"
ended with the great bio-weapons spinning out of control, turning humans
into scattered colonies, refugees on their own world.
A great Empire has arisen,
trying to recreate the Ancient Age without thought for its mistakes; this
Empire was born from the Seekers, a deceptively "disorganized" clan that
wanders, collecting knowledge about the Ancient Age, seeking to learn from
the mistakes of the Ancients. And over it all, hope rides on dragon's
wings.
The series has spanned
two rail shooters, an RPG, and an anime movie. And through it all,
one dragon, a rogue bio-weapon, has devoted itself to protecting mankind
from the killing machines of the Ancient Age.
-- Images
-- Walkthroughs and Hints -- Fanfic
-- Outside
Links --
Trivia
-- Back
to Homepage
A
Basic Chronology:
-The
Ancient Age Mankind develops awesome biotechnology, and
gains control of the very forces of nature.
-The
Fall Mankind makes a fatal mistake; the Ancients develop
a piece of biotech to surpass all others, the Towers and their control
center; and create the dragons to protect it. The Towers turn on
them, destroying the Ancient Age. All that is left are scattered
survivors, ruins, and monsters.
-The
Seekers Form A long time after, some of the struggling
humans band together, forming an order with one duty: to bring mankind
back up to his fullest power, to free man from the mistakes of the Ancient
Age, and to avoid repeating them. They are highly organized, but
quickly discover that the other humans-who believe the ruins to be left
by the Gods-do not appreciate them. They go into semi-secrecy, hiding
their colonies. They travel alone, only meeting occasionally, so
that all the others will believe that they are scattered, harmless loners.
-The
Empire is founded A rogue Seeker decides to use
the machinery of the Ancient Age to take back the world. He grows
power-hungry, and forgets his original mission. This Seeker is the
first Emperor. He builds a capital and begins an airfleet of Ancient
airships. The Empire grows, and an academy for the study of the Ancient
Age is founded. It is decreed that all Ancient technology is the
birthright of the Emperor and the Empire; the Seekers are shot on sight
as thieves.
-Panzer
Dragoon Zwei In a border town, a mutant khourieat
is born-one with wings and a mysterious glow in his throat. This
khourieat grows to what his owner, Lundi, believes is adulthood; while
attempting to get Lagi to fly, Lundi watches helplessly as his hometown
is destroyed by an Ancient airship, tailed by Imperial craft. Lundi
and Lagi arrive too late; the town is rubble, haunted by monsters.
He leaves to pursue the Empire. After destroying a Black Fleet base
and dealing a small blow to the Air Fleet, he discovers that the airship-Shelcoof-is
his true enemy. Lagi grows into a mighty dragon. Together,
they track down and sink Shelcoof.
-Lundi becomes a Seeker,
and starts a journal so that all future riders of Lagi "the Heretic Dragon"
will know of his history.
-Panzer
Dragoon/Panzer Dragoon Movie A careless Imperial
Fleet attracts the attention of a sleeping Tower. The D Type 02,
the Tower's guardian, activates to reawaken it fully. Lundi and Lagi
(called "Blau" in the movie) mobilize to destroy it. However, the
D Type 02 proves to be deceptively powerful, as it kills Lundi and leaves
Lagi riderless. Meanwhile, a pair of Hunters and a lady companion,
Alyta, are passing below; the battle quickly carries over to them.
The D Type 02 chooses the blind Alyta, who has a special connection to
the monsters, to bond with, then kills one of the hunters. The other
hunter, Kyle, partially bonds with Lagi and goes off to stop the Black
Dragon and rescue his lady. Along the way, they wreck most of the
Black Fleet. Kyle and "Blau" defeat the D Type 02 and free Alyta,
but not before the D Type 02 awakens the Tower. Lagi sends the pair
off and flies into the center of the Tower, destroying it but annihilating
his physical body in the process.
-Kyle becomes a Seeker
and picks up Lundi's journal; he notes that, while Lagi seems to have died,
his spirit lives on, and is simply waiting for the perfect time to return,
choose a new rider, and fulfill his purpose: to free mankind from the mistakes
of the Ancients. (I'm assuming this, since that's the only way the
entry about Lagi attaining spirit form could have happened, seeing as how
Lundi dies before that.)
-Panzer
Dragoon Saga The Black Fleet's new commander,
Craymen, rebels against the Empire, stealing a newly discovered dragon
and a strange specimen from a dig site. While getting ahold of the
mysterious ancient machinery- Azel- he makes an enemy: a boy named Edge,
who seems to be killed in the ambush. Edge is rescued from a group
of monsters by Lagi, who bonds with Edge and takes him to finish Lagi's
purpose. Craymen and the Emperor enter into a race to find the central
Tower, which connects to the astral control center for all of the Towers.
The Emperor seems to win, catching Craymen inside the Tower; however, Azel
awakens the Tower, which immediately kills both leaders; Azel collapses.
Edge takes Azel out of the Tower, and with Lagi, barely escapes.
The Seekers help him discover his true destiny, and with Azel's aid, he
destroys the control center, shutting down the Towers once and for all.
Mankind now has control of his own destiny once more, no longer shackled
by past mistakes. Azel and Edge are separated; Edge and Lagi are
last seen rejoining the Seekers, and Azel is last seen travelling across
the desert to find Edge.