In evangelion, in order to resist the invasion of the "Apostles", human beings became the "NERV" responsible for the investigation and study of the "Apostles" and the annihilation of the "Apostles".
NERV Commander TongyuanTang
The commander of the "NERV" is Tsubondo, which is headquartered in the underground hollow of the third new Tokyo City and has many branches around the world.
The headquarters of "NERV" has a tactical operations department, a technical development department, a security spy and other departments, and the important thing to keep the entire "NERV" running is that it has a super intelligent computer and operating system - MAGI (MAGI System).
MAGI hardware skin
The entire MAGI system is equivalent to the brain of the "NERV" institution. It was developed by Naoko Akagi, the mother of Dr. Ryoko Akagi, the current chief of the technology development department of NERV.
However, after the development of the MAGI system was completed, Naoko Akagi committed suicide for some reason (the cause of death was related to Tsubondo). After that, the entire system was taken over by her daughter, Dr. Ryoko Akagi, who continued to take care of the maintenance work.
Dr. Ritsuko Akagi's Mother-Naoko Akagi
The MAGI system consists mainly of three modules: MELCHIOR-1, BALTHASAR-2, CASPER-3.
The names of these three modules are taken from the Three Doctors of the East in the Bible's New Testament, which is said to have blessed them by trekking from the East to Jerusalem at the birth of Jesus.
Schematic diagram of three modules
The three modules that make up the MAGI system also represent naoko Akagi as a developer: scientist, mother, and woman.
Naoko Akagi implanted these three logical thinking modes under personality into three modules, MELCHIOR-1, BALTHASAR-2 and CASPER-3, respectively, so that they simulated the multiple identity thinking patterns that humans have.
Three personalities
In addition to the daily calculation function, decisions on major matters are also voted on by these three modules, and a one-vote veto system is adopted.
That is, in the module representing the three personalities, as long as one module opposes, it will lead to the final decision of the system not passing.
One-vote veto system
Moreover, the hardware system contained in the entire MAGI system is also quite complex, in addition to the dense line layout, the internal use of biological structures that simulate the human brain is also designed.
Personality implantation, human brain structure, these elements illustrate that the MAGI system is closer to the characteristics of human thinking.
Internally similar to the structure of the human brain
There is more than one MAGI system, and in addition to the MAGI main system at the headquarters of "NERV", each of its divisions also has a copy-replicated MAGI system.
For example, the figure below shows the main MAGI system located in the third new Tokyo city (TOKYO-3), as well as several MAGI systems such as MATSUSHIRO in Japan, MASSACHUSETTS in the United States, Beijing (BEIJING) in China, Berlin (BERLIN) in Germany, and Hamburg (HAMBURG) in Germany.
MaGI systems for each division
The MAGI system has always played an important role in the high-speed computing and decision-making services of human beings against the "apostles". However, it has also been invaded by the apostle, who is the eleventh apostle in the story, the "Angel of Terror".
Eleventh Apostle "Angel of Terror" (IROUL/Ilor)
The eleventh apostle , the Angel of Terror " , is the 9th apostle in the story , whose name comes from the Jewish legend of the Angel of Terror , " Iroul " .
According to the animation, the "Angel of Terror" is an apostle the size of a bacterium. Humans cannot effectively perceive its specific appearance, only that it can erode the target and appear in the posture of the eroded person.
The "Angel of Terror" entered NERV HEADQUARTERS with external parts. Initially, it began to erode from the protein wall in the sterile chamber in the base, after which there was an explosive proliferation and intrusion into the EVA mimetic experiment.
The three EVA pilots who were in the simulation experiment at the time were only forced to eject outside the base along with the cockpit.
Three drivers in the experiment
The real scary thing about the "Angel of Terror" is that it has super adaptability and evolutionary ability. It can quickly evolve the structure and ability to blend into the surrounding environment by touching its surroundings.
In the story, the horror angels who could not survive in the ozone sterilization environment adapted to the ozone environment in a very short period of time and evolved the ability to promote their own proliferation by absorbing ozone.
Outbreak proliferation
When the Angel of Terror completely invaded the EVA simulator, it once again evolved hyper-adaptively by touching the relevant equipment. Its optical shape even shows the structure of the electron circuit.
This means that in addition to the original biological attributes, the "Angel of Terror" also has an "electronic attribute".
Optical shape of the electron circuit that appears on the EVA simulator
Many viewers may feel incomprehensible that the "angel of terror" has both "biological attributes" and "electronic attributes", and the explanation of its "electronic attributes" in the play is described as follows: by the small individuals gathered into groups, in a short period of time to form intelligent circuits, achieving explosive evolution, and finding a system that can cope with any situation.
This shows that the "angel of terror" is arranged into an electronic circuit structure through countless tiny individuals, thus obtaining "electronic properties". For the convenience of understanding, it can be understood for the time being as a design similar to "nanorobots".
What is even more frightening is that after the "Angel of Terror" evolved the "electronic attribute", it began to invade the computer system of the base - the MAGI system.
The Angel of Terror first invaded MELCHIOR-1 (Scientist Personality), the first module of the MAGI system, and proposed a "base explosion" by it. This proposal was quickly rejected by the remaining two modules.
Let the base where NERV is located explode, this is the real purpose of the "Angel of Terror".
Self-detonation proposal
Subsequently, "Angel of Terror" invaded the second module, BALTASAR-2 (Mother Personality). The only hope, then, lies in the remaining third module, CASPER-3 (Female Personality).
In this regard, Dr. Ryoko Akagi, the chief head of the Technology Development Department, proposed a plan to accelerate the evolution of the apostles and promote their own demise. Because the end of evolution is death.
Dr. Ryoko Akagi intends to connect directly with the "Angel of Terror" through the MAGI system, and then enter a program that promotes its self-destruction to carry out a reverse invasion.
The key to the ultimate success of this program depends on whether THE MAGI's self-extermination facilitator runs faster or whether the Apostle controls CASPER-3 faster.
So Dr. Akagi climbed into the internal structure of CASPER-3, which had not yet been eroded, and opened the computational hub of CASPER-3.
CASPER-3 represents the female personality of MAGI developer Naoko Akagi, whose central structure is equivalent to Naoko Akagi's brain. Under the operation of Dr. Akagi Ryoko, a procedure to promote the apostle's self-destruction was entered into it.
At the last critical juncture, the self-extinguishing facilitation process came into play. The "Angel of Terror" was affected by it and automatically perished before it could fully control CASPER-3, and the self-detonation crisis of the base was lifted. The three EVA drivers who were forced to eject outside the base were also waiting for rescue somewhere.
At this point, the eleventh apostle "Angel of Terror" officially rolled off the line.
Other feeders
Although Dr. Ryoko Akagi defeated the invading apostles using the MAGI system developed by her mother, she has a special ambivalence for her mother.
She didn't know her mother, she respected her mother as a scientist, but she hated her mother as a woman.
Ritsuko Akagi
Such ambivalent feelings are precisely because Dr. Ryoko Akagi and her mother have followed the same path: they are both infatuated with NERV's commander, Tsubakido.
Such deformed feelings are also doomed to the final tragic end.
Notes in MAGI: Tsubasa is a jerk
Naoko Akagi's fall
In the story, the arrangement of CASPER-3 (female personality) as the last module to defeat the apostles also has a different meaning.
Because CASPER-3 represents the personality of Dr. Ryoko Akagi's mother as a woman, until the end of the story, her mother also prioritizes maintaining herself as a woman.
Mother and daughter
If the personality of the scientist represents "objectivity and reason", and the personality of the mother represents "maternal love and selflessness", then the personality of the woman represents "the selfishness of the self".
This is better reflected in the theatrical and manga versions: after Dr. Akagi Ryoko was disillusioned with Tsubakido, when her program to modify THEGI attempted to destroy the NERV headquarters by self-detonation, CASPER-3, which represented the personality of the mother woman, rejected Akagi Noriko's proposal to explode at the last minute.
It is a self-centered consciousness of a woman (the personality of a woman) that "chooses the man she loves and betrays her daughter".
Betraying her daughter
At last
The subtitle of the chapter "Angel of Terror", LILLIPUTIAN, refers to the villain in Gulliver's Travels, symbolizing the smallness of the apostles in this article.
Although the part does not have a grand battle scene, the elements shown in it are very interesting. For example, the direction of future computer biochemistry and the electronic characteristics of biology have been imagined to a certain extent. There is also the sentence of Yuantang in the play, "The end of evolution is death", which is really impressive.
At the end of the article, we will conclude this content with the beautiful Miss Akagi Ryoko, the female chief of the NERV technology development department.