[Ganon: Beast of Darkness]

I know that Ciel created Copy X, but from what blueprints? I know she did not build Copy X randomly from a box of scraps... Somehow the original blueprints for X must have survived some how. Some files and data must have survived.

[Solren]

He's based on X's DNA, which theorically would work even better than blueprints.

[Terminus]

By that time, X's body was analyzable. Not hard to imagine that there is something around, especially within higher-up documentation.

His Cyber-Elf is a better option, as Solren suggested. Especially since Ciel can communicate with Cyber Elf's.

[Ganon: Beast of Darkness]

@Zechs

I agree with you. After all, someone managed to create a near-perfect copy of Zero's body, and for the entire X series, no one could analyze Zero and/or X. The people who came the closest are Serges, Gate, and Isoc.

[Solren]

By that time after the Maverick Wars ended there were already specialists who worked in DNA revival, Ciel and Weil take a very special mention here, as well as Ciel's ancestor who built Zero's copy body.

Still, I read that Cyber-Elf X had no paticipation in the creation of Copy X, and this is sort of backed up for the very reason of creating a Copy X in the first place. Since X wasn't around anymore to be the leader of Neo Arcadia, and nobody could manage to communicate with X in his Cyber-Elf form, not even Ciel (at that time), so Ciel used X's DNA to create a copy of X that would replace him as leader. And since X's body was still around by that time it was possible to get a sample of his DNA.

Aaaand we all know how that ended up later~ :3

[Terminus]

For the Ciel and Cyber Elf X part, she wouldn't need his Cyber Elf, there were 4 others that were later bestowed into bodies.

[Zan]

Copy-X's body is intended to revive X. But as a Cyber Elf, he chose not to inhabit it.

[TheDoctor]

I wonder why not? Surely it would have been better than having that pirate copy of him wreak havoc in his name.

[Oakie620]

TheDoctor, on 03 May 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

I wonder why not? Surely it would have been better than having that pirate copy of him wreak havoc in his name.

He didn't care anymore. After Zero was put on stasis, X had to carry on the fight on his own for a century. The pain and sadness from all the battles took their toll, and he was horrified upon realizing that his heart had hardened over the years.

In short: he needed a bleeping break.

[Zan]

Plus, recall he actually had to focus on keeping Dark Elf at bay.

[Oakie620]

If memory serves, he wasn't concerned about the Dark Elf until the Baby Elves awakened in Z2.

[Solren]

TheDoctor, on 03 May 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

I wonder why not? Surely it would have been better than having that pirate copy of him wreak havoc in his name.

Maybe it wasn't a thing about not wanting to do it, but not being able to do so.

[Craven]

I know that Harpuia, Fefnir, Leviathan and Phantom were created after X's cyber elves, but Copy X had a part of X's Soul? Or was he the only "new hero" who lacked of this?

[Zan]

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If memory serves, he wasn't concerned about the Dark Elf until the Baby Elves awakened in Z2.

The situation would be very different if he occupied a new body. Only his body would seal her away, no longer be any willpower behind it. What served as the final line of defense would be broken before Elpizo even got there.

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I know that Harpuia, Fefnir, Leviathan and Phantom were created after X's cyber elves, but Copy X had a part of X's Soul? Or was he the only "new hero" who lacked of this?

X's soul had split into five parts: the Four Guardians and himself. A new body for X was made from the same technology that gave the Four Guardians life, but X's soul did not occupy the empty shell; instead, a copy came to be.

[Oakie620]

Zan, on 05 May 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:

The situation would be very different if he occupied a new body. Only his body would seal her away, no longer be any willpower behind it. What served as the final line of defense would be broken before Elpizo even got there.

Ignoring the fact that X couldn't have anticipated Elpizo's actions, we could theorize that if the real X had occupied the new body, Neo Arcadia's ironfisted policy wouldn't have happened and therefore Elpizo wouldn't have threatened the seal.

[Telos]

Zan's point, Oakie, is that if X had taken the body, the seal would've broken on its own, meaning that Elpizo becoming rebellious or not would be irrelevant - the Dark Elf would still have been freed.

[Princess Luna]

How would the seal have broken if Elpizo hadn't destroyed it?

[Solren]

Look at it this way:

The Dark Elf is sealed inside a box with a single opening, which is being blocked by X's body.
Now if the body were to be removed, either by being possesed again (and eventually moving away) or by destroying it, the opening would be freed and the Dark Elf would be able to escape.

[Oakie620]

Telos, on 06 May 2012 - 03:01 PM, said:

Zan's point, Oakie, is that if X had taken the body, the seal would've broken on its own, meaning that Elpizo becoming rebellious or not would be irrelevant - the Dark Elf would still have been freed.

Except there is no instance whatsoever of Cyber-elf X worrying about the seal prior to the awakening of the Baby Elves; quite the opposite, in fact. X's Zero Collection profile states that his soul continued to wander the Earth, and X himself requests Zero to let him "rest in peace for a while". Cyber-elf X only makes an actual attempt to protect the seal when Elpizo manages to breach Yggdrassil. He sacrificed his body to keep the Dark Elf at bay with his anti-virus countermeasure, not his will.

[Zan]

X notes on two separate occasions that he's making a conscious effort to keep her sealed, and that his power as a Cyber Elf is limited while holding the Dark Elf at bay. He is unable to stop the Baby Elves in direct combat. Furthermore, X's countermeasures, Limitless Potential and so forth, have always carried an aspect of will power.

As such, occupying a new vessel is only distancing himself from his original body even further, and severely weakening the seal before Elpizo even damages Yggdrasil, or finds the Baby Elves for that matter. Even when a similar antagonizing force has yet to appear, that is a rather large risk to take when dealing with the very power that nearly destroyed the world.