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Mission icon SEED A BARREN EARTH
General information
Japanese name リンクス戦争
Classification Conflict
Appearances Armored Core 4,
Armored Core: For Answer,
Armored Core: A New Order of "NEXT",
Armored Core Designs 4 & for Answer

The Lynx War is a massive conflict between the Pax Economica corporations. Although the corporations had for some time used anti-establishment groups like the Maghrib Liberation Front, unidentifiable factions,[1] or small groups of company troops that could maintain plausible deniability by their company (such as the Omer Science Technology submarines that previously attacked Eocene Base),[2] this is the first open conflict between the companies since the Pax's inception.[3]

The two "sides" of the war are comprised of the corporations Global Armaments America (GA), Eqbal, and Rosenthal, as well as key subsidiaries like Rosenthal's Omer against Akvavit — with Global Armaments Europe (GAE) elements — the Bernard and Felix Foundation (BFF), Leonemeccanica, Melies, and Rayleonard. The colony Anatolia is independent but they end up contributing much to the GA Group as GA is a frequent client.

History[]

Prelude[]

GA attacks[4] the Hejde Arsenal, a facility where their European was developing Kojima Technology despite their parent group forbidding it. Akvavit had partnered with GAE on the Hejde Arsenal so they see the attack as a direct assault on them as well, motivating Akvavit to lash out against GA in retribution. The other corporations follow suit, plunging the world into war.[3]

Mission icon BREAK THE WHITE LANCE

A BFF fleet escorting the Queenslance at the North Atlantic Sea

The early stages see Akvavit and Rayleonard lending their allies the spotlight, whereas GA fights BFF, Leonemeccanica, and Melies in grandiose fashion while Omer acts from the sidelines. The GA Group's patronage of Anatolia proves fruitful when their mercenary defeats[5] multiple of the enemies' prominent Originals, the highly skilled first generation Lynx of the National Dismantlement War. GA then has Anatolia's Mercenary destroy BFF's mobile headquarters, the Queenslance,[6] resulting in the company's near-total destruction and the end of Pax Economica.[7]

Lynx War proper[]

The BFF Group loses its military infrastructure with BFF's defeat. Despite Rayleonard's Kojima Technology breakthroughs such as the first few NEXT models like the 00-ARETHA, its fragility as a newer company became apparent. Now pushed to desperation, Rayleonard switches to riskier, more direct attacks, pooling their NEXT resources together with Akvavit's dangerous new technological mammoths to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the opposition with NEXTs attacking the enemy's core. This marks the beginning of the Lynx War. Several colonies are toppled and Kojima contamination spreads across the planet unchecked.[7]

Omer had already been fatally weakened earlier in the conflict and was being forced into defensive by the Akvavit-Rayleonard strike, forcing them to rely on Joshua O'Brien, the Aspina colony's Lynx and an ally to Anatolia. O'Brien and Anatolia's Lynx are so effective on the battlefield that it scares even their own allies.[7]

Meanwhile, BFF remnants continue to fight despite their company's defeat. Colony spaces[8] and an enemy base[9] are taken over by them whereas others hold out at BFF's prized Kojima energy facility, Sphere.[10][11] Anatolia's Mercenary is dispatched to terminate the resistance. BFF's Rank 15 Original, Unseel also remains active.[12]

Mission icon MARCHE AU SUPPLICE

Former Peace City, the site of a battle that sees Akvavit and Rayleonard losing their mightiest NEXTs

The war reaches its peak in a key battle wherein the Akvavit-Rayleonard squad comprised of Originals Berlioz, P. Dam, Unseel, and Zanni are defeated by the combined forces of Anatolia's Mercenary, Mido Auriel — Omer's talented princess — and Rosenthal's Original, Leonhardt.[12] Around the same time, Akvavit's Kojima Technology behemoths, the Sol Dios Cannons had been crushing several colonies until they are disabled on their way to Sing, Asia's largest colony by Anatolia's Mercenary and Joshua O'Brien.[13]

Rayleonard's headquarters, Exavil and Akvavit's headquarters are then by destroyed Anatolia's Mercenary and O'Brien, respectively, putting an end to the worst war humanity had experienced up to that point. The conflict leaves the planet immensely contaminated.[14][15]

Aftermath[]

In the end, the Rayleonard group and all but one of their NEXTs are destroyed along with their partners in Akvavit. Their remaining assets are taken by the surviving companies — Rayleonard goes to Omer whereas Akvavit and GAE (which would both go on to form the Kojima Technology specialists TORUS) are absorbed by the nascent Interior Union, the merging of Leonemeccanica and Melies. Meanwhile, GA America's assistance allows BFF to rebuild, albeit essentially as a subsidiary. For the most part, all the corporations take heavy losses, as even Eqbal, GA, and Omer lost much of their forces, such as their NEXTs.[16]

In the wake of such a devastating conflict, the remaining companies form the League of Ruling Companies, which does not prevent wars so much as it makes disputes between the companies more mundane and less costly (a defining aspect of the Economic War that would ensue) thanks to the newly-formed Collared, an effective mediator for the League and the Lynx they hire.[16]

Infobox Cradles

The Cradles, home to half of humanity

The destruction of so many colonies during the Lynx War[3][13][17] along with the ensuing rampant Kojima radiation covering the planet's surface prompt the League to create the Cradles, gargantuan airships that house millions of people several thousand meters above ground where the pollution cannot reach.[18] The Cradle system, in turn, is perceived by some as an abandonment of the surface and its people for solely the elite, which, combined with the corporations' actions during the war and their widespread devastation of the environment, leads the dissatisfied to form the independent city-state Line Ark in the hopes of creating a future free from corporate control.[16]

CGI movie Motherwill

The Spirit of Motherwill, an Arms Fort 2,400 meters long and 600 meters tall

The NEXTs had once more proved their effectiveness but the corporations start to dread the risks in placing so much power with a single person as well as the threat posed by independent NEXTs.[19] To make sure that the corporations would continue to have similar might but in a more controllable form, they create the Arms Forts (AFs), titanic war machines that dwarf every other weapon in history and possess extreme firepower far exceeding the average NEXT. As AFs are manned not by a single person but thousands of expendable soldiers, the corporations had found their new, trustworthy symbol of dominance, leaving the Lynx behind on the surface as NEXTs slowly fade to obscurity.[18]

Gameplay[]

The Lynx War and the events surrounding it are the plot of Armored Core 4. The conflict itself plays out in the game's fifth chapter.

Its outcome makes up much of the setting for the sequel, Armored Core: For Answer.

Trivia[]

  • Subsidiaries like Technocrat (of Eqbal), Aldra (of Leonemeccanica), as well as Couger and MSAC International (both under GA) side with their parent companies, so most company-aligned NEXTs in the conflict used only parts from their respective factions.
  • Armored Core 4 establishes that the battle between Anatolia's Mercenary and the Aldra Original Sherring in "Sea of Blood" took place shortly before the Lynx War whereas Armored Core: A New Order of "NEXT" considers it part of the conflict.[20]

References[]

  1. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Dangerous Waters"
  2. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Swarms of Red Eyes"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Armored Core 4, Chapter 4 opening cutscene
  4. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Internal Purge"
  5. Armored Core 4, Chapter 4: Towards Zero
  6. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Break the White Lance"
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Armored Core 4, Chapter 5 opening cutscene
  8. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Unseen Assailant"
  9. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Hail of Bullets"
  10. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Silent Avalanche"
  11. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Futile Resistance"
  12. 12.0 12.1 Armored Core 4, Mission: "Marche Au Supplice"
  13. 13.0 13.1 Armored Core 4, Mission: "Sol Dios"
  14. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Bitter Obligation"
  15. Armored Core 4, Chapter 6 opening cutscene
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 Armored Core: For Answer
  17. Armored Core 4, Mission: "Seed a Barren Earth"
  18. 18.0 18.1 Armored Core: For Answer, Chapter 1 opening cutscene
  19. Armored Core: For Answer, Chapter 2 opening cutscene
  20. Armored Core: A New Order of "NEXT", page 234
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