Plot twist Hideo Kojima found the particles

“Work slaves- I mean citizens.” Made me laugh.

"Kojima is God!" - Kazuhira Miller, MGS Peacewalker

>Hideo Kojima recently released a interview about his future will stay in a AI Oh dear god no Kojima, dont start Armored Core 4 now

Ive always thought that Kojima particles were analogous to Nuclear power. Something something about most Japanese are anti-nuclear and instead of nations and corporations flinging nukes at each other conventionally, they are using NEXTs to do it.

With Armored Core 4 and FA being seemingly more influenced by Gundam in comparison to other AC games, I think it is reasonable to assume that Kojima particles were inspired by Minovsky particles from Gundam. Those are described as high-energy particles that are created as a byproduct of running specially designed helium-3 fusion reactors. Other possibility I was thinking about is that Kojima particles might be a type of plasma, given how similarly do Kojima weapons work to plasma weapons and that they are in some way related to polar auroras or atmospheric ionization/plasma phenomena in general.

Noice! This is a subject that's probably confounded a lot of us. Nuclear energy is the most intuitive inference. I hadn't thought about neutrinos; neutrinos would be very difficult to capture and use in weapons and armor. A new exotic super-heavy hadron might fit the bill - I don't know enough about nuclear physics to say whether you could derive energy from them. Whatever it is, it has to fill the roles of weapon, primal armor, and energy source. Fissile material could be used as a nuclear plasma and energy source; I don't know of any physics that allows you to suspend the particles around an object in such a way that it acts like armor. OH! Fissile material could also hypothetically be produced by a generator of sorts, if the rotating generator had some sort of centrifuge apparatus that constantly ejected fissile material. So, in-craft production is another requirement. The following is really long. MS Word says it's about 1300 words total, enough to be a short college essay. I'm not really proofreading it, so forgive repetition, spelling, and grammer. Going into some in-unverse development, actual Kojima facilities must have been huge. The only ones we see are BFF's sphere, Torus' B7, and a room with prototype Nexts that has a high Kojima particle density. Well, Omer and Akva Vit were the forerunners of Kojima research, while Torus is a relatively new conglomerate company, and BFF were never seen as Kojima pioneers. I'm guessing Omer had massive and highly advanced Kojima facilities for energy production, R&D, maybe even other purposes we don't even know about. Oh sh-wait, Sphere...! Silent Avalanche. Mary Shelly. Oh man! Here's another Where WAS Sphere? In the mountains? The Arctic? Noo.. Remember that you fight Mary Shelly in Antarctica. I always thought it was random as hell that you just fight her at the world's bottom. That whole fight makes a lot more sense if Sphere and other BFF interests are located in the Antarctic. We know that Shanghai has flooded, so global warming SWEPT throught he world. Antarctica is much warmer in the AC universe than it is in our own - it's safer and easier to build a large scale facility. Assuming Sphere's in the Antarctic, there's another point to be made. What happens when you fight Mary Shelly? AP depletion due to the ridiculous concentration of Kojima particles in the air. What happens any time you fight around Sphere? Not that. Based on the above, here's my recharacterization of BFF's Kojima involvement, Sphere's unstated (possibly primary) purpose, and the reason Omer was so eager to take control of the facility. BFF's research into Kojima wasn't primarily focused on harnessing it for productive purposes. They were dumping resources into protection from Kojima and ultimately eliminating it. Their most prominent developments were the Sphere facility and the specialized Normals that could operate in environments with lethal Kojima particle concentrations.Given that the Antarctic had a high Kojima particle concentration, but the area around Sphere had concentrations low enough to operate in, I'm guessing Sphere had mechanisms to draw Kojima particles out of the atmosphere (maybe from the ice?) and use it up. I think it's possible that energy generation was a secondary effect of Sphere; its primary purpose might have been Kojima particle elimination. That Kojima elimination technology might have been the reason Omer was so eager to take control of Sphere. Omer was the most reckless corporation with regards to Kojima production - think of how much pollution Answerer-type Arms Forts caused. Couple that with their absorption of Rayleonard's assets - probably many contaminated facilities, and Omer could have been dealing with overall contamination an order of magnitude more than any other corporation. They needed a solution, but BFF wasn't sharing their tech. BFF's top brass, in contrast with Omer, were probably the most afraid of the health effects of Kojima contamination, hence why they all lived and worked ON A FRIGGEN SHIP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN! And in For Answer, what happens? Oh, half of the human population has to flee Kojima contamination and live in the sky. And for those who had to stay on the ground, where was Line Ark? In a huge body of water. BFF was ahead of their time in terms of tackling the Kojima problem. The entire Cradle development might have been based on the measures BFF took to protect its employees from Kojima particles. BFF might still hold a technological advantage in Kojima protection technologies and practices - the fleets you fight and wipe out are so massive BFF might have the largest surface-based population in AC For Answer. Consider also other corporations' attitudes toward Kojima particles. The GAE split was partly because GAE was engaging in Kojima research, which GA had forbidden; this is according to the wiki, and by Internal Purge's debriefing calling GAE "the heretical zealots of GA." So Global Armaments was against Kojima research in general (exception: there's a single Cougar-made Assault Armor Over Booster). Rayleonard and Akva Vit barrelled forward with Kojima research, often poisoning their pilots (Tepes V) in the process. Eqbal/Algebra and Technocrat didn't have any special Kojima research aside from Nexts, that I know. Torus made Kojima weapons and Kojima missiles, which is interesting since Torus didn't really specialize in missile tech, but they decided to dump resources into a Kojima missile, even though the missile experts at MSAC never made one. Arisawa Heavy - no Kojima. Interior had those nasty Kojima Arms Forts in Ac4. Aldra - doesn't seem like any Kojima research. Ultimately, aside from Nexts, the world was divided in terms of further Kojima development, with BFF on one end combating Kojima spread, and Omer/Rayleonard and Akva Vit/Torus purposely focusing on weaponizing it. Kojima tech is an extension of other 'wonder' technologies of the past. As we can see in-game, fossil fuels have caused large parts of the world to flood. I have no idea what the geography of AC4 /4A even looks like, but we can be assured total land mass is greatly reduced due to melting glaciers. The damage from nuclear weapons is conspicuously absent, which is worth asking why. I can't think of any firm answers. In the real world, lead was seen to be a wonder material, added to gasoline, made into silverware and dinner trays. But lead poisoning was known to be a thing going as far back as the Roman empire. It was incredibly reckless to use it and probably all people born before the year 2000 has some form of lead poisoning (nice little graph here: ourworldindata.org/leaded-gasoline-phase-out), which includes most of us watching these videos. Kojima tech is another 'wonder technology', enabling the construction of massive Arms Forts, Line Ark that eclipses the pre-Kojima buildings surrounding it, the Cradles which float perpetually in the upper atmosphere, the settling of Antarctica, and I'm sure many more things that we never see in-game. But the health effects are worse than any other wonder technology. Where fossil fuels caused much of the world to flood and lead caused survivable global poisoning, Kojima tech arguably made the entire land surface uninhabitable. And Kojima poising was much faster acting than radiation or lead - in the Orca ending, there's mention of helpless mothers with their feebly coughing babies. Environmentally, do we see a single instance of animal life anywhere in the AC4 universe? Well, wait. I think the only instances of wildlife in the whole franchise are a raven in AC3's opening, and a raven and bug in AC: Last Raven's opening. So scratch that idea. But aside from green Anatolia (which used a map originally featured in Chromehounds), I can't think of a single other tree, or bush, or grass in any AC4 mission. That's how BAD Kojima particles are. Even in AC5/Verdict Day I don't remember any signs of natural life, only rocky crags, endless dirt and desert, and massive man-made structures. Wow. I think Kojima killed everything.

The most kojima thing that didn't involve hideo kojima.

Love these Armored Core lore videos. The games are amazing, and I always sensed that there was a large backstory hidden behind the cryptic storytelling, but i was never smart enough to piece it all together myself. Keep up the good work!

The ghost-particle read is very interesting. I appreciate the deep-dive into the books especially. Very good video. Thank-you. Great stuff as always.

My guess is kojima particles were discovered in aurora borealis in south pole. Because they shared the same colour.. Then Kojima guy managed to made device that simulates and create aurora phenomenon to harvest kojima particles to use it.

Ima say this once, and im sure people would disagree. But I honestly think Kojima Technology was a necessary evil.

Kojima is God.

I was under the impression that Kojima particles were a "useful" byproduct from whatever advanced reactors are used in NEXTs and the like. Basically weaponized nuclear waste in a way.

Awesome. Just awesome. Glad you made this video dude. Based on the subject matter of the next video, it seems like you may be finishing up with Gen 4, which is a shame. But, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the lore to this point. There are a couple more LINX and little things I would have liked to learn about. Pilots like Wong Shao Lung, Takafumi Arisawa and the Walcott siblings Francisca and Eugene. I’m also pretty curious about former Chinese Shanghai and what happened there, as well as what the ethnic cleansing wars in White Africa were. But I know those are deep cuts with not much info out on them.

Kojima particle = Minovsky particle in Gundam UC timeline Coral = LCL aka "Orange Juice" in Neon Genesis Evangelion and then coverted into GN particles in Gundam 00

Nice Work man on the Kojima Particles

keep going dude, love your videos. Really nice to run in the background while playing ac/building gunpla etc.

Oh boy, I can't wait for Armored Lore VI to come out.

If they are artificial particles my theory is they could be magnetic monopoles. Magnetic monopoles are Hypothetical quasi particles they are a kind of “higgs field knots” that exhibit having only one magnetic pole either only north or only south magnetic pole. Hence monopole They are believed to only be produced during the early high energy universe and the energies needed is greater than our current large hadron colliders to produce one If they exist they would appear as a kind of larger than normal particle with only north or only south Magnetic fields lines. Its not exactly clear if they could be used in some way but some potential exists for say propulsion by containing a lot of monopole in a magnetic chamber then pushing them out as a propellant. Like a kind of compressed air propellant but in this case your pushing out compressed clusters of magnetic monopoles. They should atleast repell each other. Their bizarre nature makes them a perfect candidate for kojima particles in my opinion, since maybe all kojima particles are only of a pole that makes them thus attracted to the south pole gathering there en mass. Perhaps in this world they figured some ways to create, manipulate, and utilize monopoles even more. As for their raidioactive and or poisonous effects im not really sure? They are said to have a large mass, so perhaps them being magnetic and being massive can disrupt some molecular processes? But idk I’m just a physics enthusiast not exactly an expert. I mostly base my understanding of it from PBS space time

Great video man I always wanted an explanation of Kojima particles

A theory of mine is that kojima particles are martian in origin. A possible colonization effort by the Martians before there collapse. It would make a cool connection to AC2.

Now that you mention it, those dudes tending to White Glint mk 2 all are wearing respirators. I just figured it was for the atmosphere, but maybe they're wearing NBC gear because of the Kojima particles.

Aw hell yeah AC lore lets go thanks for doing vids on this :)

Kojima Particle, or what I like to call "The Demon Particle". Everything has been explained pretty well by you, so I will let out all my thought about it. Why do I call it "The Demon Particle"? Mainly because it almost have the same behavior as "Demon Core", and I'm sure you know it by meme and all, otherwise, it's the third bomb that about to hit Japan, but when Japan surrender it is retained for testing and potential later use. In the case of Demon Core, when Slotin accidentally slipped thus completely covering the Demon Core and instantly enter supercritical, releasing an blue-light intense burst of neutron radiation for half a second... what happen if it was more than half a second? Then what's the deal between Kojima Particle and Demon Core? Both has pretty similar behavior of being destructive weapon within a small thing. One thing that stick the most is certainly Assault Armor, when activate it 3~ seconds of delay before exploding within 50m-200m radius for another ~3 seconds. Not to mention AA is larger than Demon Core and mostly in spherical-shape, so it is almost safe to assume the Assault Armor work almost the same as Demon Core. One can imagine the devastating power it hold... maybe like the explosion in Front Mission 3 during Emma's route, but leave more radiation behind? Or you know... Kitasaki Junction. "50,000 people used to live here... now it's a ghost town." This bring to the other similar particle... The GN Particles from Gundam OO. I honestly forgor what's OO is about, so I'm just gonna briefly explain. GN Particle are particle that created by the GN Drives which used for modern mobile suit technology (mirroring Kojima become the foundation for NEXT, the "NEXT" step of Normals). GN Particle also behave like an EMP, while also having the ability to improve the cutting ability of a blade, and able to increase/decrease the mass and therefore weight of an object. And this is the most important part, GN Particle can also inflict poison to anyone exposed to it and caused cellular damage. As a reference, Gundam OO aired in 2007, while Armored Core 4 released in 2006. Thank you for coming to my TED-Talk, see you next video.

5:08 "Work slaves"? Did you say WORK SLAVES?!?!? How are the people in the Cradles expect to work in such cramped conditions?!?

Only thing I can think about is the Kojima is God easter egg from mgs peace walker

Looking back at this, I kinda wish ACVI had more MT types. Be interesting to see an Arquebus or Balam made MTs instead of just BAWs equipment.

Your video is good, keep it up!

I mean besides the analoges of nuclear power and corporations having basically PMC, i always seen kojima particles as a non newtonian particle. With properties to become dense as needed or literally just radiation the applications seem to indicate such. Basically imagine if humans had a better form of plasma thats not just a new state of matter and energy but it's also dense if need be. But its radio active.

I don’t know what’s on your schedule, but I’d be really interested to see AF Giga Base one day.

"Kojima is God!!" -Kazuhira Miller-

You doing CUBE at any point? Im loving these videos.

Koijima Particles are essentially Minovsky particles... or GN particles, or whatever any given Gundam series claims to use as a power source.

Armored Core 4's not-space magic.

Good vid

Honestly kinda wonders what it kojima particle is made of, but beside that i'm more interested in how its controlled and its applied tech, since i feel like a lot of shit i know from mechanical stuff and electrical stuff kinda don't apply here or is basicly more into the atomic stuff. For example mechanism of quick boosting it self. When quick boosting happen you need to wait for a while if you do it too much if its a high power booster like the aaliyah's, and some booster can be perma flight booster like omer. Like is there some kind of kojima based carborateur where like a toilet tank if you press it, dumps the particle and possibly mixed with hydrogen fuel into a combustion, but having to wait if the said tank went empty ?. And does it even require pressure chamber because... in how Assault Armor works tbh, it blast the Primal armor bubble with all available generated kojima particle, i imagine in order to create an outward blast pressure, there must be a something to hold the pressure build up pre explosion. What we know however is bullet passing primal armor have reduced damage, so i imagine KOJIMA PARTICLE SON either HARDEN to PHYSICAL TRAUMA erhm... or become overheated sandpaper, either by nature or sensor inputed as being constantly solid would make movement impossible for legs and arms. now hear me out what if manipulation of kojima particle characteristic of being able to turn from gas to solid at will via AMS allow any of this, the closest we have is magnetic field in its analogy, but even that doesn't have much in way of how PARTICLES like billion of little sands or gas is manipulated at will by the NEXT AMS, and does anything at all in the next even works with the same priciple we understood right now ?. Like does next thruster even have fuel or compressor system ? Or does it just straight up go on basicly kojima jet fire, while compressing said kojima with other kojima with the similar bubble system as primal armor ?. Does round shape had to do with resisting Assault armor pressure cooking ?. Theres so many stuff to dig tbh. Hell even how does AMS control these particle ?, how AMS Compatibility even relate to this does kojima magic enchance human psychic power to literraly manipulate the matter at will ? And along with that does FRS memory came from machine ai optimising or the human senses being more attuned with kojima manipulation that they can pick and choose which part to boost with it ????. Shit the whole tech it self has more sketchy things than all dark souls lore combined.

Its the same as minovsky particles/GN paricles/space magic to justify the existence of giant robotto

KOJIMA IS GOD

maybe you can do lore video about older ac game ?

I swear high density kojima particles Hi-De(I don’t know the o) kojima

Maybe a bit late here, but I assume that the kojima particles being dense in the south pole is mimicking other types of pollutants such as CFC's getting caught on the wind and settling on the poles.

kojima is death, emptiness, silence. choral is life, fire, igniting new and burn old. immagine kojima exposure on rubicon.

Don’t the Exusia and the L.L.L also use Kojima particles?

Can you make a video about the final boss in verdict day

In armored core 6 coral kinda act like kojima particles but it acts differently its living beings or in this case Sentient

tbh looking back at this video and its thumbnail seeing "God's particle" something came up on my mind its 3 letters one word

its official now..........HIDEO KOJIMA IS GOD

When trying to describe what a Kojima particle is, I think you mistake atoms and particles. You compare it to known nuclear materials, but those are all elements. Radiation itself is a particle, so they can't give off radiation by themselves, they'd have to interact with something to produce more radiation than the presumably already radioactive Kojima particles themselves.

Is there an explanation as to why they stop using Kojima?

I gotta know are the Kojima particles part of the timeline with the great destruction or are these in an alternate timeline

How do they tie into the world of DeathStranding?

Very Metal gear vibes but I like both

4:03 you said "inhabitable," I think you mean "uninhabitable." I know "in" is a common negation root, but it's not in this case. "To inhabit," for example.

I never had like anybody to discuss lore on these series I knew one girl who was kinda into AC but that was about it. I wonder about lore for AC V and VD same as many games as 4 and 4A but 5 has no lore really corp wise it was same production and director was it? Just the last 2 games flopped imo. I go with MW as a stand by now

Gn drive tau

I hate verdict day with a passion

In Modern times, GOD IS -force- KOJIMA

Good timing. I appreciate you my good man.

man just like the minovsky particles in gundam but more dangerous