Sector Fornax

Sector Fornax is the sixth sector that the Red Sprite's crew investigates inside the Schwartzwelt.

Appearances

 * Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

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Sector Fornax is the most inhuman sector of the Schwartzwelt, as it resembles more a massive supercomputer than an actual human dwelling. The Red Sprite 's crew lands here after the crash induced by The Three Wise Men, and immediately realize the graviton radio, a key component of their Schwartzwelt escape, is totally destroyed, and they are left with no choice but to analyze the energy band the Protagonist seized after Ouroboros' death, concluding it is a rare form of energy known as Exotic Matter, and that it serves the same purpose as Rosettas, only it keeps leading to new sectors instead of a giant circle as Rosettas did. Concluding it's best to investigate rather than give up, the crew is forced to continue onward.

Soon after landing on Fornax, the Protagonist is encountered by Mastema, who warns him the Kings of the first four sectors are fully unhindered in Fornax and are thus likely to seek revenge for their defeats. Soon after, he is ambushed by Morax, who sheds his lesser form and rises as Moloch; despite the power augmentation, he loses again. Passing past Moloch's defeated form, the Protagonist reaches a wide area where three doors lead to different sections of Fornax's basement; the other three Kings clamor from the basements they will kill the Protagonist in payment for their past defeats. One of the doors, however, contains an invisible demon which cannot be detected and can impunely attack the Protagonist.

The first of the basements explored can either lead to Orcus or to Mithras; in either case, when said demon is defeated, Arthur reports an emergency and summons the crew to inform them of the latest development of the Jack's Squad issue; the Lightning has entered a stationary mode in which it created with its enhanced technology a small subspace sector for the Squad's use. Interested, the Protagonist and Jimenez visit them, only for Ryan, the squad's subcommander, to reiterate the policy not to mess with each other. Setting the issue aside, he offers to purchase Bugaboo from Jimenez, but he politely but firmly puts down the offer.

Sensing something was wrong with the squad, Jimenez remained behind in their HQ to spy on them. Begrudgingly agreeing, Zelenin supports him and the crew proceeds to destroy the second King. When this is done, they are again summoned by Arthur, who reports Jimenez has not reported; soon after, Jack radioes an infuriate message issuing a complete relationship breakdown, stating Jimenez was found destroying vital equipment and releasing demons. He concludes the message by indicating Jimenez would pay for his act by serving as a guinea pig in the squad's experiments.

Hurrying back to the squad's HQ, the Protagonist found several heavily mauled and wounded demons, some kept alive in gruesome conditions in stasis tanks to serve as spare parts for weaponry. Horrified by this, he released whatever demons he could and switched off the stasis tanks, as those demons were already beyond help. Finding the Lightning locked, he was forced to slaughter most of the squad and found the secret laboratory area, where Jimenez and Bugaboo were to be used in a fusion experiment using a flawed Demon Fusion technique. Begging the Protagonist to use his Demonica to access the Demon Fusion Program, Jimenez is fused with Bugaboo either the Protagonist heeds his request or not.

Following this, Jimenez rips open the Lightning 's deck hatch and is confronted by Jack's best demons, while the Protagonist set about disarming Jack himself. After a battle, Jack lost, and begged for his life. Spitting his own words back, Jimenez killed Jack. After this, he tried to do the same to Ryan, even after he surrendered the squad's combat data and rare forma without a fight. However, Zelenin intervened and sent Jimenez to be inspected at sickbay.

Using the rare forma, the Enemy Search function was upgraded so the Protagonist could see the invisible demon - Asherah, who was added to the Protagonist's kill list, and proceeded to Fornax's sublevels until he found the leading demon of the Sector, Mother Tiamat. Vowing to rebirth all defeated demons, Tiamat attacked. She was, however, defeated, dropping her Rare Forma and Exotic Matter.

With this in place, the crew, shaken by the events of Fornax, left the sector for Sector Grus.

In one of Fornax's many dead ends, the Protagonist found a strange girl challenging him to find and corner "the rabbit". Once this was done, the girl proceeded to try and brutalize the rabbit by skinning it alive, showing it in saltwater, and kill him; before this was done, the Protagonist stopped the girl, and was attacked by her, revealing herself to be the Fiend Alice; upon her defeat, she sadly cries in defeat and fades. The rabbit, thankful for being released of the curse that kept both him and Alice unable to move on, granted the Protagonist a rare forma and unlocking Alice for fusion.