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Pleroma

Pleroma as it appears in Episode I.

Pleroma is a hidden base of the U-TIC Organization, located on a series of asteroids. It is technically not a "planet" -- it is actually a planetoid built by fusing several asteroids together. Its solemn exterior evokes an air of sanctity.

History[]

This structure was originally a shrine for the Ormus religion. In the past, it was a place of worship used by Ormus. It was eventually abandoned and remained uninhabited for centuries. The U-TIC Organization reopened it after the Miltian Conflict; Patriarch Sergius XVII named the fortress "Pleroma" after the name of the immigration spaceship that Ormus followers used to leave Lost Jerusalem.

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Ziggy saving MOMO on Pleroma.

In Episode I, Margulis uses Pleroma as a prison for the 100-Series Observational Realian, MOMO Mizrahi. An Ormus cathedral is located in the center of the asteroid, which is briefly shown in the game. Pleroma is later infiltrated by S.O.C.E. agent Ziggurat 8, who manages to free and rescue MOMO.

With the secrecy of the base compromised by the Galaxy Federation, it is abandoned in Episode II and destroyed by order of Sellers.

Etymology[]

In Gnostic lore, Pleroma refers to a 'divine light' that exists above (non-spatial) the physical realm, occupied by spiritual beings self-eminating from the pleroma--called the "aeons" (Greek ὁ αἰών, 'forever') or "archeons" (Greek ἄρχων, 'ruler'). Yeshua is an intermediary aeon from the Pleroma who can help humanity recover the knowledge of its divine origins, bringing humanity back into unity with Pleroma. Yeshua's counterpart, Sophia, separated from the Pleroma to form the demiurge, giving birth to the physical realm.

According to Carl Jung, pleroma is a state of both nothingness and fullness where "both thinking and being cease, since the eternal and infinite possess no qualities. In it no being is, for he then would be distinct from the pleroma, and would possess qualities which would distinguish him as something distinct from the pleroma."[1]

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  1. Jung, Carl Gustav, and Basilides. The Seven Sermons to the Dead. Unknown, 1916, www.gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm.
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