The Matrix lives on…

There has been a lot of story happening in the Matrix world since the end of the movies.  I’ve listed some of it here, but I thought I’d post a little bit of an update on the Matrix Online story.  :)

Early on in the Matrix Online story, there were the3 organizatios for which you could fight: Machines, Merovingian (Exiles), and Zion.  However, even in the beginning, there was a sort of 3rd organization, if you could call it that. There were strange enemies that fought against all orgs…Agents with red, glowy eyes…Agents that looked like Neo…etc.  Some weird goings on, to be sure.

The red-eyed agents appeared to be making reports to someone called “The General” in some documents that operatives found on them. We knew nothing more about them or their shadowy leader, however.

Eventually, the General made himself known and began helping all of the orgs one against the other. However, this proved to be somewhat short lived when the General produced something he called “Cheat Codes”.  They granted strange powers, etc.  During all of this, it began coming to light that this General was definitely a program of some sort.  When you come up against a program, you must ask, “what was its purpose before going into Exile?”

Evidently, the General’s purpose before Exile was as a Sentinel! It has been revealed though documents found in missions as well as dialogue that his commandos were actually programs that controlled the sentinels that made the fateful attack on Zion during the end of the war. When the command was given to stop the attack, the General rebelled against his orders. The Machines would have deleted him, but he went into exile, along with his commando sentinels.

The next thread that has become important is concerning a relatively minor character from the movies named Sati.  I don’t know if you’ll rmember, but Sati was the little girl whose family was sending to the Matrix.  Her family met Neo in the train station where he was defeated by the Train Man.  Sati has become a more important character than at first we appeared.  Here’s what we know about Sati.

• The Oracle personally took charge of her from her parents. Given this important tidbit, her role in the future of the Matrix may be much larger than the movies led us to believe.
• She has a great deal of control over the weather.  At the end of the 3rd Matrix movie, Sati made a beautiful sunrise (or was it a sunset) in Neo’s honor. Not every program appears to have this ability, so she’s got something special about her.
• The movies did focus a lot on her well-being after she was sent to the matrix. The scenes with her and the Oracle were central to the plot of the movies, though mostly just because of the Oracle.  However, the triumph of Neo over former-Agent Smith restored everyone to their pre-Smith form and mind, but the only people who were really shown to be restored were the Oracle, Sati, and Seraph (the Oracle’s bodyguard). Why is she special?

Given all of that, it is somewhat troubling to note that the General has actually captured Sati.  We don’t know why, as of yet. Sati does not appear to actually control the weather, it should be noted. The Matrix had weather before she got there, and it should continue to run the way the Architect programmed it to with her absence.  However, Sati being kidnapped appears to have altered the weather patterns to be significantly different. At this time, the atmosphere of the Matrix is red.  Very Mars-like.  There is rain, etc…but whenever there’s light, the skies are red.

It’s troubling to me, because I think the General is using her powers to do this.  As I said before, the weather worked before she came to the matrix. But I don’t know what his master plan for this really is….Whatever it is, it can’t be good for humans.  :)

So there you go.  :)  A story update.  If you’re looking to play an MMORPG, I highly recommend the Matrix, and if you play MxO, I HIGHLY recommend the Zion Faction, SM Networks.  :)

Here are a couple shots I’ve taken in game:

In this next shot, you can see the state of the sky.  I was standing near a signal booster satellite in order to do some coding, which is why the green rings are around me.  Proximity to a signal booster gives you a bonus to the code skill.  And Captain Tzaikov appears to be programming the Signal Booster itself.  :)