Azel combines the DNA of a human found inside Sestren with her own to spawn a half human half drone child given the name Orta, a word meaning rebirth or dawn in Latin (if I’m not mistaken). Edge was the only human to visit Sestren, which simplifies any reasoning. Abadd, an insane drone hell-bent on serving the ancients, wanted to use Orta’s body to populate the world with a race of drones because ordinary drones cannot reproduce. Now why couldn’t Abadd simply do what Azel did: splice his genes with human genes to create a new type of drone? I believe Azel was the only female drone and that was part of the reason she was stolen in the Ancient Age from the clutches of her maniacal creators. After all, why create a female drone if none of them were ever meant to reproduce? The answers will not elude us forever, but just between you and me, I hope they do.
I figured he wanted to possess her body as his own (heck they are Drones so perhaps AI switching is possible) with what he was saying…
Since Orta was half human she could reproduce therefor Abadd wanted to be able to reproduce…and via lab procedure of getting pregnant make the babies just be copies of himself (similar way they cloned the sheep and whatever else in rl)
Or atleast just use Orta as a baby machine without actually possessing her body… (I figure since she’s half drone only she can carry a drone baby rather than any human)
Just thoughts…nothing is certain…some sound ridiculous perhaps even lol…
BTW I said the thing about Azel being able to reproduce first in the other forums
And as I said at the camp when you added your thoughts Geoffrey, again I don’t know if she was kidnapped due to being female (being able to open the portal to sestren is reason enough to steal her) still I do believe she was able to reproduce…
Azel didn’t get pregnant, but I believe Orta has enough human in her to be able to.
Drones were not able to reproduce like humans, but perhaps the “one exception” (who could have been the only female drone created by the Ancients like Geoffrey suggested) could reproduce her cells by cloning them. Orta obviously isn’t a clone of Azel; Azel’s DNA was mixed with Edge’s to create Orta.
Perhaps Azel, as a female drone, was the only drone who could reproduce because only female humans can reproduce? Drones were made in man’s image; so Azel’s designers may have created her as a female for that reason.
was Azel the only female drone? No, I don’t think so. If drones were created in mans image, why only make one female? a 99% population of males isnt mans image.to the male eye than the m
I’ve been really curious about the picture too, Gehn.
As for Abadd, I always figured he wanted Orta for a more superficial reason. Something along the lines of find out how she was created so he could replicate himself.
Perhaps the Ancients were a male dominated society. If we look at the present day Panzer Dragoon world, not a lot would have changed. The Ancients could have perhaps thought the male drones to be more capable fighters or something?
According to Abadd, drones were never built to reproduce, which of course makes us wonder how Azel created Orta in the first place.
Why couldn’t Abadd do what Azel did in order to breed a new race of drones? Considering Abadd’s relation to the ancients and abilities, it surprises me he was at such a loss.
I think Azel’s original kidnappers overrode her inability to reproduce or she was a one-of-a-kind prototype drone built by the ancients that they never got the chance to mass manufacture.
Maybe in the next game we’ll learn more about this
There is always the possibility which has to be left open, right?[/quote]
Panzer plotholes have a tendency to be left wide open forevermore. We may be doomed never to know exactly what happened. But then, that’s why I love the games.
Another explanation would be : Azel couldn’t reproduce like any other drone but she used another method that took advantage of the fact she was “kindda” human…
…Orta was born and only Orta can “really” reproduce…
But why didn’t Abadd use the same method? This method of creation must’ve been unknown to him, which is odd considering his advanced nature, or simply put: his genes were incompatible with human genes, but Azel’s weren’t.
