I found it so interesting that Chrome operated Ravens Nest, does that mean Chrome once had sole control over Armored Cores and Ravens? I always assumed Nineball controlled all three behind the scenes.

The legacy of Nineball continues as an A.I. it can transfer data to another, I believe the controller is related as well

You know, I always consider Armoured Core 1 & Master Of Arena taking place in the same time in different locations and the ending slide for the first game shows that after he destroy the AI in the Raven's Nest HQ, Humanity is plunged into a new Dark Age. My theory is that the reason there are different ranking and such is the fact that it takes place in different locations which explains why the ranking system is different per game. It also explains why in Master Of Arena, Chrome seems to be somewhat still be in operations due to them hiring a Raven to protect their HQ. It also explains the reason why all the Raven's Nest and other networks linked to nine-ball collapsed after the defeat of Seraph. It simply doesn't make sense for why defeating an upgraded model knocked out most if not all operations in the underground cities unless if you also took account of the Nine-Ball destruction ending in Armoured Core 1 which would have happened in the same time as Nine-Ball was trying to eliminate them both.

Well worth the wait

Now we get into the awesome stuff. AC4 is good and all, but the OG timeline series of games is where it's at. We need more channels talking about how this series started it all and why it is the benchmark of everything that came after it and is influenced by it. So happy you made a video on this. Definitely loved it. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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Can't wait until you cover Nerves Concord.

Annihilator must've save scummed a whole lot to beat Seraph, what a Chad.

Man, this content takes me back. I am completely on board for more. I miss this game series so damn badly

i like to think that the ps1 trilogy all happened around the same time and in between the missions and arena fights each raven met each other and became friends/rivals through slice of life anime hijinks

I never got the chance to play master of the arena back then. Getting AC was already fairly hard in europe. Never knew you had similar endings.

Good work man who knew An Ai controlled the Ravens Next

finally we on AC1 topic! can't wait for other lore and as always i appreciate for you still post AC lore. keep it up my friend!!

Fantastic clarity on Raven's Nest! Is there any mention on how long that war between the corporations lasted after annihilator did what he did?

Excellent work on this report! Since we're on the subject of Raven's and Nine Breakers, any chance that you will do a segment on Leos Klein? Again, great work!

Kinda off topic but it's creepy that in Armored core 2 AA there's a left over Nineball roaming around just killing Ravens. I suspected the government knew about that because immediately after you complete the story mode you unlock an area called *Lost Field* then they ask you to destroy several dangerous unmanned weapons, the last one being Nineball Sereph. Makes me wonder WHO created Nineball in the first place.

Well done. Thanks for clearing some things up timeline wise as well. The games never explain that this is all happening at the same time. At first I thought they just happened in chronological order from each other, but that would beg the question why no one noticed Nine-Ball was gone for a while only to come back later, or why the Nest kept functioning after R's "death", backups aside. Other ideas I had heard/read explained Master of Arena as a retelling of AC1, but that doesn't work because Chrome and Murakumo would be back, and they're not. An obscure comment also suggested the Raven from Master of Arena was the child of Sunika and the Raven of AC1 who went through Project Phantasma, which while plausible has no support from any sources either. In the end, it all happening roughly around the same time works best, though it'd have been nice if they made that clear at all in the games.

The beginning of the legend!

Here's something to ponder: with the ambush of Boss Savage after you mop up the Chrome remnants, it's likely he was acting under orders of the AI (proto-Controller/Hustler 1 AI). How many people in-universe knew Hustler One's secret? In AC1 I'm sure everybody playing for the first time was surprised by the giant computer waiting for you at the end. (Some of us were also VERY aggravated when we got to that point without a blade equipped and the only ammo we had left was missiles - you couldn't lock onto the computer and would have to restart the mission.)

This is some good stuff a worthy Raven

Like your lore videos.

Hey just found your channel pretty recently. Still going through the older videos and it's good to see that you're checking out the older games. I've noticed you read and respond to comments fairly often. I have a request but it is not one that you'll probably be able to accept anytime soon as you'd to go through multiple Armored Core games. There's a couple terms that comes up, one is a Ninebreaker. I think most fans of the Armored Core series are pretty familiar with it, at least the ones who started before the 4th generation. However there is another term that comes up much less frequently, a *Dominant.* As you play through the series, if you finish playing through the series, can you keep an eye out for that term coming up and keep track of who and want *Dominants* are. It might not have come up yet and sorry if it's a bit of a spoiler but I wanted to make sure I asked you before I forgot.

if you play armored core now and were able to play the originals, then even today we ARE RAVENS

Good thing Nineball's army never came through, though this would mean the AC1 protag and MoA protag are two different people if I am following this correctly.

So, as I explained in Armored Core 6 after beating nightfall Ayre says raven isn’t a individual call sign it’s a title passed down for many generations champion the name raven so dose that mean like the dark raven from armored core 5 and player raven from gen 3

First gen ac lore Let's goooo!!!

The Ravens and corporations didn'tgo want to take responsibility for 9 balls acts that resulted in their newcomer wanting the other gone. Pay close attention.

interesting!!!! but theres alot of evidence that AC1 and AC Project phantasma take place around same timeline. So the main player of AC 1 could be the player in MOA