History Fridge / AstralChain

** If Jena is correct, then most if not all of the Chimeras were ''also'' humans, corrupted by the Astral Plane to the point where there's no trace of their humanity left beyond their basic form. These include the Chimeras that were chained up and made into your Legions, which might make you [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil reconsider]] how you and the rest of Neuron have been treating them as super-powered attack dogs.

** If Jena is correct, then most if not all of the Chimeras were ''also'' humans, corrupted by the Astral Plane to the point where there's no trace of their humanity left beyond their basic form. These include the Chimeras that were chained up and made into your Legions, which might make you [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil reconsider how you and the rest of Neuron have been treating them as super-powered attack dogs.]]

** It then cuts to Olive and Brenda, who are later shown to have a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with each other.

* In the reports at the beginning of chapter 6, Lappy mentions that at the Christmas party of 2068, nobody wanted to eat the cookies he baked for everybody and actively avoided his attempts to hand them out, except for captain Max, who Lappy gave all the others’ cookies as well. Elsewhere in the reports, Max mentions his hospitalization… in December of 2067. Meaning he would’ve been the *only* person not to know how terrible the cookies were the year before and act accordingly.

** This is easily the most apparent with the Legions and how you fight with your Legion rather than allowing your it to do all the work for you (or conversely doing all the work yourself [[WrongGenreSavvy because you don't trust it]]). There's also Sync attacks, which make use of both player and Legion.

* Why did Yoseph choose Akira instead of the player's twin to be the basis of the Raven Corps? Sure, he had easy access to them while treating them from the injuries they got from Jena, but since both are registered cops it shouldn't be too hard to get a DNA sample from either of them, and at that point the player is clearly the superior Legion handler. Perhaps he got a hint that [[PhlebotinumRebel you might turn against him]] and so chose the twin who would be more likely to cooperate, especially [[IOweYouMyLife after saving their life?]] Is there a second, secret army of player-character clones somewhere, just waiting to be armed with Legions and unleashed?

** This is easily the most apparent with the Legions and how you fight with your Legion rather than allowing your it to do all the work for you. There's also Sync attacks, which make use of both player and Legion.

** This is easily the most apparent with the Legions and how unlike a [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure certain manga]] that also makes use of a PuppetFighter mechanic, you actually have to take part in the fight as well rather than allowing your Legion to do all the work for you. There's also Sync attacks, which make use of both player and Legion.

** Marie is shown next, hiding the Lappy suit behind her back. This in reference to both to the OpenSecret that she is Lappy, and also the fact that she doesn't really fit in with the rest of Neuron.
** The opening then cuts to a bunch of scenes from the game before showing Hal, Jena and Yoseph who also have scenes cutting between their reveals. This shows that neither one of the three characters actually have anyone they're close to and likely have their own agendas. Hal never actually turns up to work and is only seen in his Odd Drone. Jena is a terrorist and was never a part of Neuron in the first place. Though, it may seem odd that Yoseph, the director of Neuron is shown alone, this is foreshadowing the fact that he only viewed Neuron as a means to an end and viewed every single member of Neuron as expendable if necessary (as shown when he makes massive downsizes to the organization and fires practically all of the above people at some point in the game.
* The opening also foreshadows the future of Neuron, with everyone depicted in the first half of the song being the ones who kept their allegiances to Neuron or at least to the Neuron before Yoseph started making changes towards his goal (even Max never actually defected from the cause and if the fan-theory that he has indeed merged with the Axe Legion is correct, he's still technically working for Neuron) and everyone in the latter half of the song having gone against Neuron in some way or form (Hal never goes back and is implied to be working with Kyle, Jena was always against Neuron and Yoseph disbanded Neuron once it was no longer needed for his goals).

** This is easily the most apparent with the Legions and how unlike a [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure certain manga]] that also makes use of a PuppetFighter mechanic, you actually have to take part in the fight as well rather than allowing your St-Legion to do all the work for you. There's also Sync attacks, which make use of both player and Legion.
** Both of the villain's methods of escaping extinction involve merging humanity to the Astral Plane. Jena herself admits that this is simply the natural order of things and the Astral Plane is simply bringing parts of Earth back into itself to be reorganized.

*** In file 2, both twins nearly die for going against Max's orders and later on in the file, the player character is only saved from dying because the [[BigDamnHeroes rest of his team appeared at the right time to save them]].
*** In file 6, the player character once again fails and it can also be attributed to them going against Neuron. They are only saved by Akira, who was JustFollowingOrders, and in the next chapter we find out that they were arrested for going against the team. Hal, himself was fired for the same actions.
*** We find out in file 8, that Max failed to tame his Legion again and some of the data files suggest that he always had trouble co-operating with his Legion.
*** In fact the only Legion that is continuing to work for Neuron by the end of file 2 was the player character's Legion and they had previously shown exceptional teamwork in contrast to the rest of the team who tended to just let their Legions do the work. This is possibly the reason the player character was able to yield better results taming their Legion compared to Akira and Max.
*** In file 9, Jena finally meets her end after having the rest of her 'allies' disposed of. In fact anytime Jena manages to get away, it's with the use of other beings following her orders. She also has a considerably harder time against the player character in file 9, than in file 4, after the player character has gotten better at syncing with their Legion. It's somewhat fitting that she, who never actually worked ''with'' anyone but rather created Homunculi to work ''for'' her, is killed by a literal fusion of the player character and their Legion.
*** The player's Legionic Fusion only fails when two conditions are presented; 1) there is an internal struggle between the player character and their Legion, thus preventing it from getting anything done and 2) through better use of teamwork. The Legion Fusion is utterly curb-stomped by the Raven Corps, who utilize their teamwork at such speed that it can't react in time. In the next chapter, Akira's Legion Fusion is able to curb-stomp the Raven Corps because the Legion's chimeric instinct is completely overriding Akira and thus there is nothin preventing the Legion from using it's body to their fullest potential but even they end up defeated because the player character is able to maintain their own sense of self, instead of being consumed by their chimera's instinct, and actually work with their Legion.
*** Yoseph's plan is to merge both humanity and the Astral Plane into a being called Noah, thereby achieving godhood. He first accomplishes this by having the Raven Corps fuse with their Legions and then fuse even further into Noah and then fusing Noah into himself. The result, Noah; Soul of Ambition, is so powerful that the player character cannot fight it but try and escape it. Even when, the player character encounters Yoseph again, they cannot damage him because he's fused with the Astral Plane.
*** Much like Legionic Fusion, Noah is only defeated through internal struggle and as such when it is not fully united. The first time is when the player literally goes inside it to defeat it's core. The second is when Yoseph is finally killed by Akira, who he had forcibly fused with, attacking him. They could only do this because they too had fused with the Astral Plane. The third is when Noah's death, which consists of the player character quickly switching between Legions and dealing a chain of sync attacks on it before Akira finally breaks free of Noah's control and makes it vulnerable enough to allow a fatal blow to be dealt on it.

* Yeah, Max sacrificing himself to save the rest of Neuron's frontliners is already tragic enough, but imagine if he managed to stay alive. He'd have to bear his older child sneaking into Zone 09 for an illegal mission when they know that is off-limits to police and his younger child being cloned ''en masse'' for an army of soulless Legion-wielders. ''Then'' there's the matter of his superior Yoseph turning out to be EvilAllAlong with an omnicidal savior complex.

*** In fact the only Legion that didn't go berserk in file 2 was the player character's Legion and they had previously shown exceptional teamwork in contrast to the rest of the team who tended to just let their Legions do the work.

*** Much like Legionic Fusion, Noah is only defeated through internal struggle and as such when it is not fully united. The first time is when the player literally goes inside it to defeat it's core. The second is when Yoseph is finally killed by Akira, who he had forcibly fused with, attacking him. They could only do this because they too had fused with the Astral Plane. The third is when Noah's death, which consists of the player character quickly switching between Legions and dealing a chain of sync attacks on it before Akira finally brakes free of Noah's control and makes it vulnerable enough to allow a fatal blow to be dealt on it.

* It's repeatedly shown in the game that Chimeras drag civilians off to the [[DeathWorld Astral Plane]]. Most of the time, there will be side quests that involve you going into the Astral Plane to rescue these civilians but that somehow makes it worse. The Chimeras have been on Earth for ''decades''. [[InferredHolocaust How many men, women and children have died]] because there there was no one capable of saving them? Heck, one side quest involves you trying to find a woman's fiancée, only to turn up with [[TragicKeepsake only their ring]]. Even you can only do so much, it seems.

* It's repeatedly shown in the game that Chimeras drag civilians off to the [[DeathWorld Astral Plane]]. Most of the time, there will be side quests that involve you going into the Astral Plane to rescue these civilians but that somehow makes it worse. The Chimeras have been on Earth for ''decades''. [[InferredHolocaust How many men, women and children have died]] because there there was not one capable of saving them? Heck, one side quest involves you trying to find a woman's fiancée, only to turn up with [[TragicKeepsake only their ring]]. Even you can only do so much, it seems.