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The Lifehold Core is the story-exclusive final region in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It is the location of the final battles in the plot, and can only be entered during Chapter 12. After this, the Lifehold Core is still present in the waters of Cauldros, but it can no longer be entered. It is known as Central Life in the Japanese version.
Although the Core's interior is a sheltered location, after entering the HUD shows the weather to be thunderstorms, regardless of what the weather was outside. The weather changes to clear for the second phase of the final boss battle.
Landmark[]
Story[]
The Lifehold Core is a massive supercomputer built to protect Earth life after the alien war that destroyed Earth. The DNA sequences and consciousnesses of the lifeforms would be stored in this computer whilst androids known as Mimeosomes would be in New Los Angeles, fully controlled by their lifeforms' consciousness. However, the computer was lost during the White Whale's impact on Mira, placing the lifeforms stored on it in great peril as the destruction of the computer or its inevitable loss of power would result in the loss of the consciousnesses, essentially translating to extinction. Its recovery was therefore a top-priority goal for BLADE, and part of the impetus for expanding FrontierNav.
The Lifehold Core is located during the later portions of the plot. All of BLADE is mobilized during the final chapter of the plot to protect the computer from a Ganglion attack, while the party enters to verify the computer's functionality and restore its power source.
However, the failing Ganglion attack against the Trion barrier protecting the core prompted their leader, Luxaar, to board his mech in order to attack the Lifehold Core himself, leading to the party ultimately battling him in the central chamber. After its downfall, he attempted to destroy the computer in final attempt to prevent the revival of humanity - which activates the security system, creating mutant Chimeras due to a malfunction. Luxaar is then stabbed in the back - literally - by Lao, but the ensuing struggle leads to them falling into the protoplasmic fluid. Luxaar's body is dissolved by the human DNA in the fluid, and both his consciousness and Lao's mimeosome end up being absorbed by the Lifehold's final defense mechanism, becoming the final boss Chimera Lao. Losing control of this body, he begs the party to stop him before he ends up destroying the system.
Afterwards, Elma leads a team of Reclaimers to investigate the Lifehold Core's database chamber which has every human in NLA's consciousnesses. However, she discovers that the database was destroye dduring the Ghosts attack and then flooded upon impact with Mira's surface, destroying all its data. This puzzles her, as it should have resulted in the Mimeosomes dying during planetfall with the loss of information. Faced with no other explanation, Elma believes the contributing factor has something to do with the planet Mira itself.
However, following the return of Al from the space between universes and his experience near the Collective Cosciousness of all lifeforms, a new theory was proposed: if Void was able to use the Vita, an advanced mech, as a vessel for his own soul, then it is more than possible that humanity's Mimeosomes functioned in a similar way. When the Lifehold Core's database was destroyed, the Mimeosomes did not die because they were not just powered by a digitalized copy of the individuals consciousness, but instead, thanks to the similarities between the Lifehold Core's internal structure and the Rift Between Worlds, they were directly tied to their own soul extracted from the Collective Consciousness by the Core.
With the new danger of Mira being destroyed by the Dematerialization events, the central unit of the Core, its archive units, and the protoplasmic fluid are all extracted from the protective shell and quickly installed on the modified Ma-non Ship, now turned into the White Whale 2; furthermore, a backup of Mira's lifeforms's DNA is added to the Core, allowing humanity in the future to also recreate Mira's ecosystem. With the successful escape of the White Whale 2 from the doomed Mira, the Lifehold Core is likewise kept safe, ensuing that some day, on the new planet humanity would call home, all the DNA stored inside could be restored to phisical form.
Enemies[]
Mission Exclusive Enemies[]
Story Exclusive Enemy[]
Bosses[]
- Enhancer Satellis
- Lao
- Link Satellis
- Pursuit Satellis Alpha
- Pursuit Satellis Beta
- Pursuit Satellis Gamma
- Queen Chimera
- Shield Satellis
- Strike Satellis
- Vita
Miran Archives[]
Lifehold Core[]
"The Lifehold's Central unit, where human bodies are stored. Even if someone loses their mimeosome body, it's possible to switch to a new one, but the Lifehold Core is the only place in which the reset process can be initiated."
Lifehold Core [Declassified][]
"Human bodies were not in fact stored within the Lifehold Core. The truth is that humans' consciousness had been uploaded to a quantum mainframe. The database that should have stored their consciousness, however, was found to have been destroyed, and had ceased functioning even before the White Whale crashed on Mira."
Trivia[]
- The Lifehold Core's functions have similarities with the Kadomony in Xenogears. Both are supercomputers capable of creating living beings from genetic data.
Gallery[]
| Regions of Mira and NLA in Xenoblade Chronicles X | |
|---|---|
| Continents | Primordia · Noctilum · Oblivia · Sylvalum · Cauldros · Volitaris (DE) |
| Waters | Primordia Waters · Noctilum Waters · Oblivia Waters · Sylvalum Waters · Cauldros Waters · NLA Waters · Lifehold Core |
| NLA | Administrative District · BLADE Barracks · Commercial District · Industrial District · Residential District · Ma-non Ship |