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.
Appearance
Zohar Emulators each have a red Hebrew letter instead of the Original Zohar's blue jewel.
Sellers' 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.
History
There were twelve Emulators created by Joachim Mizrahi, and a thirteenth inferior emulator created by the Hyams Group and their elite scientist, Sellers.
The Zohar Emulators were presumably located on the Proto Merkabah, not Miltia or Labyrinthos, which is why the Zohar Emulators weren't locked in the Abyss.
Post Miltian Conflict reparations granted the Kukai Foundation the legal right to retain all Zohar Emulators. Emulators 2 to 12 became in the custody of the Kukai Foundation and located on the Durandal in the isolation area.
Along with the first emulator, the thirteenth emulator is also 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.
On Ariadne, a link experiment with the first Emulator resulted in the planet disappearing.
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Betty
The Zohar Emulators on the Durandal.
In the intro of Xenosaga Episode I, the first Zohar Emulator is seen being found in space. Someone touches it and disappears. This Emulator is the one from the Ariadne incident.
Later, this Emulator is obtained and transported to Woglinde tragedy. Gnosis, however, are drawn to the Emulator. The Gnosis successfully take the Emulator and bring it to the Cathedral Ship.
When the Cathedral Ship disappears, the Durandal finally obtains the first emulator.
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra
Dmitri Yuriev (Durandal Isolation Hangar)
Dmitri Yuriev activates the Zohar emulators.
Sellers' Emulator is hooked up to the Federation's new weapon Ω Res Novae and used as its primary power source.
Names
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)
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