One of the Zohar Emulators as seen in Episode I in the Cathedral Ship, labeled a Hebrew א, or 1.
The Zohar Emulators were created from the Original Zohar by Joachim Mizrahi. Although they resemble the Zohar, they operate by emulating the wavelengths of the twelve Vessels of Anima, which draw their power from the Original Zohar. This could mean that they were attempts to create artificial Vessels of Anima, in addition to their functionality as ignition keys to aid in the use of the Original Zohar.
There were twelve Emulators created by Joachim Mizrahi, and a thirteenth inferior emulator created by the Hyams Group and their elite scientist, Sellers.
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The Zohar Emulators on the Durandal.
Dmitri Yuriev (Durandal Isolation Hangar)
Dmitri Yuriev activates the Zohar emulators.
As of Xenosaga I, most of the Emulators, including the one that resulted in the disappearance of Ariadne and the Woglinde tragedy, are in the custody of the Kukai Foundation and located on the Durandal in the isolation area. Post Miltian Conflict reparations granted the Kukai Foundation the legal right to retain all Zohar Emulators.
The thirteenth emulator is the only one still unrecovered by the Kukai Foundation, as it is in the hands of the Galaxy Federation's Salvator Faction led by Dmitri Yuriev. Sellers acknowledges the inferiority of the thirteenth emulator in conversations in Episode III and indicates it was hastily created as a makeshift temporary made out of spare parts in place of the original for the purposes of his experiments with the military. Then, it is hooked up to the Federation's new weapon Ω Res Novae and used as its primary power source.
All of the Mizrahi emulators are named after one of Jesus Christ's twelve Apostles from the Bible, selected by the game designers from varying Gospel accounts. (The four Gospels do not agree as to the actual names of the twelve. The Gospels give differing names for them.) The names given in the game are:
- Andrew
- Bartholomew
- Boanerges
- James
- John
- Judas
- Matthew
- Peter
- Philip
- Simon
- Thaddeus
- Thomas
- Marienkind (the original Zohar)
Zohar Emulators each have a red Hebrew letter instead of the Original Zohar's blue jewel. Seller's emulator is metallic silver in color with black highlights and a flashing blue emblem of the Galaxy Federation military in place of the jewel or Hebrew letter as seen on the Original or Mizrahi's emulators.
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