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− | The Conspiracy is a group of corrupt and evil high-publicity figures that secretly controls [[Tokyo]] through the use of the [[Metaverse]]. Their ultimate goal is to have [[Masayoshi Shido]] elected Prime Minister and implement his self-centered political beliefs, which would turn Japan into a fascist dictatorship that feeds and delights on its citizen's suffering. The [[Phantom Thieves of Hearts]] fight against their conquest by stealing the [[Treasure]]s of their high profile members in order to reform them. Once the Phantom Thieves caught their attention by dismantling several of their financiers (In which the Thieves do not know that they are financiers of Shido's campaign), the Conspiracy decides to hunt them down and kill them. |
+ | The Conspiracy is a group of corrupt and evil high-publicity figures that secretly controls [[Tokyo]] through the use of the [[Metaverse]]. Their ultimate goal is to have [[Masayoshi Shido]] elected Prime Minister and implement his self-centered political beliefs, which would turn Japan into a fascist dictatorship that feeds and delights on its citizen's suffering. The [[Phantom Thieves of Hearts]] fight against their conquest by stealing the [[Treasure]]s of their high profile members in order to reform them. Once the Phantom Thieves caught their attention by dismantling several of their financiers (In which the Thieves do not know that they are financiers of Shido's campaign), the Conspiracy decides to hunt them down and kill them. |
In order to achieve their goals, the Conspiracy has a mysterious black masked assassin (later revealed to be [[Goro Akechi]]) trigger mental shutdowns and psychotic breakdowns to specific targets in order to discredit the current government administration and call for a general election, while Shido increases his personal popularity by calling out the government's supposed incompetence and promises to create a greater Japan for all of its citizens. Members who know too much and pose a danger are executed by Akechi, who murders [[Shujin Academy]]'s [[Kobayakawa|Principal Kobayakawa]], the [[SIU Director|Director of Special Investigations Unit]], and [[Kunikazu Okumura]] when they no longer serve a purpose as members. If the rigged election went well, the Conspiracy had secretly planned to dispose of Akechi as well, as he would have outlived his usefulness and knew of Shido's dealings. |
In order to achieve their goals, the Conspiracy has a mysterious black masked assassin (later revealed to be [[Goro Akechi]]) trigger mental shutdowns and psychotic breakdowns to specific targets in order to discredit the current government administration and call for a general election, while Shido increases his personal popularity by calling out the government's supposed incompetence and promises to create a greater Japan for all of its citizens. Members who know too much and pose a danger are executed by Akechi, who murders [[Shujin Academy]]'s [[Kobayakawa|Principal Kobayakawa]], the [[SIU Director|Director of Special Investigations Unit]], and [[Kunikazu Okumura]] when they no longer serve a purpose as members. If the rigged election went well, the Conspiracy had secretly planned to dispose of Akechi as well, as he would have outlived his usefulness and knew of Shido's dealings. |
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− | Before the events of the game, Shido also personally attempted to seize and ruin the lives of cognitive psience researchers. These include [[Wakaba Isshiki]] and [[Takuto Maruki]]; The former was executed by Akechi per Shido's orders |
+ | Before the events of the game, Shido also personally attempted to seize and ruin the lives of cognitive psience researchers. These include [[Wakaba Isshiki]] and [[Takuto Maruki]]; The former was executed by Akechi per Shido's orders, ordering an IT company president to encrypt the research without telling him what it actually is, while he seized the research of the latter and forced his university to cut the funds for his lab in Odaiba, with a stadium constructed on it instead. Again, just like the IT company president, after he seized Maruki's research, he gave it to his fellow researchers for analysis without telling them what it actually is for. However, unlike with Wakaba, Shido left Maruki alone without any follow up action, inadvertently allowing him to complete his cognitive research. |
− | While Kobayakawa became an enemy of the Conspiracy once his investigation of the Phantom Thieves failed, the group itself becomes hostile after [[Ichiryusai Madarame]] is discredited and [[Junya Kaneshiro]] arrested, as they were primary financial backers of the group and their confession deeply hurt the group's bottom line and resource base. Initially, a tech firm CEO poses as the online hacker activist group [[Medjed]] to threaten the Phantom Thieves into compliance, although the ultimate plan was to increase the Phantom Thieves' popularity and make them ideal scapegoats, and the hacking threat is actually blank. After [[Futaba Sakura]] successfully breaks into his server and defangs him (Which didn't matter for them anyway since it's just bait), they decide to try a subtler approach, using the story of how the Phantom Thieves destroyed an international hacking front to raise their popularity to abnormal and outright suspicious levels, then using it to kick off a heist request on [[Kunikazu Okumura]] to the top of the list artificially. The Thieves only got in to save [[Haru Okumura|his daughter]] from her [[Sugimura|abusive fiance]]. In reality, they had planned to assassinate him to kill two birds in one stone; after the Thieves steal his Treasure, Akechi kills Okumura's [[Shadow Self]] upon Shido's orders and Okumura dies during a live press conference. This allows Shido both a free getaway from a potential opponent that he might lose his presidency to and frame the Phantom Thieves in fear of them encroaching onto his way. During the trip to [[Hawaii]] way before this, Akechi also faked a Phantom Thief murder by planting a false calling card in Kobayakawa's office, then killing him. |
+ | While Kobayakawa became an enemy of the Conspiracy once his investigation of the Phantom Thieves failed, the group itself becomes hostile after [[Ichiryusai Madarame]] is discredited and [[Junya Kaneshiro]] arrested, as they were primary financial backers of the group and their confession deeply hurt the group's bottom line and resource base. Initially, a tech firm CEO poses as the online hacker activist group [[Medjed]] to threaten the Phantom Thieves into compliance, although the ultimate plan was to increase the Phantom Thieves' popularity and make them ideal scapegoats, and the hacking threat is actually blank. After [[Futaba Sakura]] successfully breaks into his server and defangs him (Which didn't matter for them anyway since it's just bait), they decide to try a subtler approach, using the story of how the Phantom Thieves destroyed an international hacking front to raise their popularity to abnormal and outright suspicious levels, then using it to kick off a heist request on [[Kunikazu Okumura]] to the top of the list artificially. The Thieves only got in to save [[Haru Okumura|his daughter]] from her [[Sugimura|abusive fiance]]. In reality, they had planned to assassinate him to kill two birds in one stone; after the Thieves steal his Treasure, Akechi kills Okumura's [[Shadow Self]] upon Shido's orders and Okumura dies during a live press conference. This allows Shido both a free getaway from a potential opponent that he might lose his presidency to and frame the Phantom Thieves in fear of them encroaching onto his way. During the trip to [[Hawaii]] way before this, Akechi also faked a Phantom Thief murder by planting a false calling card in Kobayakawa's office, then killing him. |
With these two cases combined, the Phantom Thieves' reputation turns from saviors to murderers and the Conspiracy's true attack against the Phantom Thieves begin, using Goro Akechi as a mole to lead them into [[Niijima's Palace]] so they can all be arrested. Thankfully, this was foiled as the Phantom Thieves have a plan to foil him and have the protagonist evade his untimely death, although for it to pull it off, he has to willingly shrug off the truth serum's effects. Furthermore, having outlived his usefulness, Shido orders Akechi to kill the [[SIU Director]] and he dies. Now back to the present, the Phantom Thieves initiate a counterattack against Shido who was becoming abnormally popular, far beyond any sort of rationality. |
With these two cases combined, the Phantom Thieves' reputation turns from saviors to murderers and the Conspiracy's true attack against the Phantom Thieves begin, using Goro Akechi as a mole to lead them into [[Niijima's Palace]] so they can all be arrested. Thankfully, this was foiled as the Phantom Thieves have a plan to foil him and have the protagonist evade his untimely death, although for it to pull it off, he has to willingly shrug off the truth serum's effects. Furthermore, having outlived his usefulness, Shido orders Akechi to kill the [[SIU Director]] and he dies. Now back to the present, the Phantom Thieves initiate a counterattack against Shido who was becoming abnormally popular, far beyond any sort of rationality. |
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After Shido is defeated and experiences a change of heart, the Conspiracy is greatly weakened and rendered impotent politically. The remnants, consisting of a Shido crony appointed to [[SIU Director]], a psychiatrist and a legislator started to scurry for plans and the public began to doubt if Shido genuinely meant it. However, [[Yaldabaoth]] begins to take action on his own, having seen the protagonist's rehabilitation game complete. He manipulates the public into inversely increasing Shido's popularity even if it's not supposed to, and the Conspiracy's remnants plan to use it for even more sinister plans like ensuring both the control of Japan and to take over the world. In order to make sure their plan ensues smoothly, they also manipulate the media to make the public believe that Shido is in poor health and that there is no evidence that the Phantom Thieves actually changed people's hearts, then fire [[Sae Niijima]] who was nearly successful in indicting him. |
After Shido is defeated and experiences a change of heart, the Conspiracy is greatly weakened and rendered impotent politically. The remnants, consisting of a Shido crony appointed to [[SIU Director]], a psychiatrist and a legislator started to scurry for plans and the public began to doubt if Shido genuinely meant it. However, [[Yaldabaoth]] begins to take action on his own, having seen the protagonist's rehabilitation game complete. He manipulates the public into inversely increasing Shido's popularity even if it's not supposed to, and the Conspiracy's remnants plan to use it for even more sinister plans like ensuring both the control of Japan and to take over the world. In order to make sure their plan ensues smoothly, they also manipulate the media to make the public believe that Shido is in poor health and that there is no evidence that the Phantom Thieves actually changed people's hearts, then fire [[Sae Niijima]] who was nearly successful in indicting him. |
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− | In order to defeat the remaining members of the Conspiracy and reform the public, the Phantom Thieves reach the depths of [[Mementos]], only to find that the "reformed" Conspiracy members are merely made one with the public, and [[Holy Grail]] that Yaldabaoth manifests as is indestructible since it feeds on the people's apathy to endlessly regenerate itself. Once the Thieves can no longer fight, it exiles them back into the real world, then merges Mementos with the real world and further manipulates the public to believe that the Phantom Thieves don't exist, causing all of them to be exiled from reality as well and writhing in pain. Yaldabaoth now reveals himself to be impersonating [[Igor]] and to have been compromised the [[Velvet Room]] and transformed it into a prison where all of the Thieves are imprisoned in after they were exiled by him. It was revealed that the so-called "Conspiracy" are in fact, chaotic elements implanted into society by Yaldabaoth to see that if the protagonist's desire for change or Akechi's desire for destruction is stronger, as he deliberately arranges the most foolish and corrupt of people into power for the protagonist or Akechi to take down. He also subconsciously manipulates the public into worshiping the undesirables as god-like entities to prove his point. Regardless of whoever wins by dismantling the conspiracy, Yaldabaoth will enact his plan to make the public "distorted masses" who only desire safety and stagnation, so he can prove that there will be no more corrupt and foolish conspiracies like those once he rules over humanity. It is heavily implied that even if the conspiracy ever won, the results are the same. |
+ | In order to defeat the remaining members of the Conspiracy and reform the public, the Phantom Thieves reach the depths of [[Mementos]], only to find that the "reformed" Conspiracy members are merely made one with the public, and [[Holy Grail]] that Yaldabaoth manifests as is indestructible since it feeds on the people's apathy to endlessly regenerate itself. Once the Thieves can no longer fight, it exiles them back into the real world, then merges Mementos with the real world and further manipulates the public to believe that the Phantom Thieves don't exist, causing all of them to be exiled from reality as well and writhing in pain. Yaldabaoth now reveals himself to be impersonating [[Igor]] and to have been compromised the [[Velvet Room]] and transformed it into a prison where all of the Thieves are imprisoned in after they were exiled by him. It was revealed that the so-called "Conspiracy" are in fact, chaotic elements implanted into society by Yaldabaoth to see that if the protagonist's desire for change or Akechi's desire for destruction is stronger, as he deliberately arranges the most foolish and corrupt of people into power for the protagonist or Akechi to take down. He also subconsciously manipulates the public into worshiping the undesirables as god-like entities to prove his point. Regardless of whoever wins by dismantling the conspiracy, Yaldabaoth will enact his plan to make the public "distorted masses" who only desire safety and stagnation, so he can prove that there will be no more corrupt and foolish conspiracies like those once he rules over humanity. It is heavily implied that even if the conspiracy ever won, the results are the same. |
Once this is found out, the Thieves return to [[Shibuya]] to climb the Qliphoth World, successfully destroying Yaldabaoth and causing the erasure of [[Mementos]] from the surface of the world. Due to the source of all distortions being removed, people's opinion of Shido changed to an unanimously negative light and thus dissolving the Conspiracy once and for all. |
Once this is found out, the Thieves return to [[Shibuya]] to climb the Qliphoth World, successfully destroying Yaldabaoth and causing the erasure of [[Mementos]] from the surface of the world. Due to the source of all distortions being removed, people's opinion of Shido changed to an unanimously negative light and thus dissolving the Conspiracy once and for all. |
Revision as of 22:38, 19 May 2020
The Conspiracy is the primary antagonistic force in Persona 5 that secretly controls Tokyo.
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Persona 5
The Conspiracy is a group of corrupt and evil high-publicity figures that secretly controls Tokyo through the use of the Metaverse. Their ultimate goal is to have Masayoshi Shido elected Prime Minister and implement his self-centered political beliefs, which would turn Japan into a fascist dictatorship that feeds and delights on its citizen's suffering. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts fight against their conquest by stealing the Treasures of their high profile members in order to reform them. Once the Phantom Thieves caught their attention by dismantling several of their financiers (In which the Thieves do not know that they are financiers of Shido's campaign), the Conspiracy decides to hunt them down and kill them.
In order to achieve their goals, the Conspiracy has a mysterious black masked assassin (later revealed to be Goro Akechi) trigger mental shutdowns and psychotic breakdowns to specific targets in order to discredit the current government administration and call for a general election, while Shido increases his personal popularity by calling out the government's supposed incompetence and promises to create a greater Japan for all of its citizens. Members who know too much and pose a danger are executed by Akechi, who murders Shujin Academy's Principal Kobayakawa, the Director of Special Investigations Unit, and Kunikazu Okumura when they no longer serve a purpose as members. If the rigged election went well, the Conspiracy had secretly planned to dispose of Akechi as well, as he would have outlived his usefulness and knew of Shido's dealings.
Before the events of the game, Shido also personally attempted to seize and ruin the lives of cognitive psience researchers. These include Wakaba Isshiki and Takuto Maruki; The former was executed by Akechi per Shido's orders, ordering an IT company president to encrypt the research without telling him what it actually is, while he seized the research of the latter and forced his university to cut the funds for his lab in Odaiba, with a stadium constructed on it instead. Again, just like the IT company president, after he seized Maruki's research, he gave it to his fellow researchers for analysis without telling them what it actually is for. However, unlike with Wakaba, Shido left Maruki alone without any follow up action, inadvertently allowing him to complete his cognitive research.
While Kobayakawa became an enemy of the Conspiracy once his investigation of the Phantom Thieves failed, the group itself becomes hostile after Ichiryusai Madarame is discredited and Junya Kaneshiro arrested, as they were primary financial backers of the group and their confession deeply hurt the group's bottom line and resource base. Initially, a tech firm CEO poses as the online hacker activist group Medjed to threaten the Phantom Thieves into compliance, although the ultimate plan was to increase the Phantom Thieves' popularity and make them ideal scapegoats, and the hacking threat is actually blank. After Futaba Sakura successfully breaks into his server and defangs him (Which didn't matter for them anyway since it's just bait), they decide to try a subtler approach, using the story of how the Phantom Thieves destroyed an international hacking front to raise their popularity to abnormal and outright suspicious levels, then using it to kick off a heist request on Kunikazu Okumura to the top of the list artificially. The Thieves only got in to save his daughter from her abusive fiance. In reality, they had planned to assassinate him to kill two birds in one stone; after the Thieves steal his Treasure, Akechi kills Okumura's Shadow Self upon Shido's orders and Okumura dies during a live press conference. This allows Shido both a free getaway from a potential opponent that he might lose his presidency to and frame the Phantom Thieves in fear of them encroaching onto his way. During the trip to Hawaii way before this, Akechi also faked a Phantom Thief murder by planting a false calling card in Kobayakawa's office, then killing him.
With these two cases combined, the Phantom Thieves' reputation turns from saviors to murderers and the Conspiracy's true attack against the Phantom Thieves begin, using Goro Akechi as a mole to lead them into Niijima's Palace so they can all be arrested. Thankfully, this was foiled as the Phantom Thieves have a plan to foil him and have the protagonist evade his untimely death, although for it to pull it off, he has to willingly shrug off the truth serum's effects. Furthermore, having outlived his usefulness, Shido orders Akechi to kill the SIU Director and he dies. Now back to the present, the Phantom Thieves initiate a counterattack against Shido who was becoming abnormally popular, far beyond any sort of rationality.
Lesser members of the Conspiracy appear as Cognitive existence in Shido's Palace, but Shido's personality is so strong that many of them turn out to be actual Shadow Selves who did not form Palaces of their own. It was also revealed at this point that despite being a member of the Conspiracy, Akechi is not loyal to them at all and simply worked for both the Conspiracy and the Thieves for his own agenda. Once the Thieves reach Shadow Shido, he reveals that he knows about Akechi's plans to dispose of him and is prepared to dispose Akechi himself if things ever begin to go wrong.
After Shido is defeated and experiences a change of heart, the Conspiracy is greatly weakened and rendered impotent politically. The remnants, consisting of a Shido crony appointed to SIU Director, a psychiatrist and a legislator started to scurry for plans and the public began to doubt if Shido genuinely meant it. However, Yaldabaoth begins to take action on his own, having seen the protagonist's rehabilitation game complete. He manipulates the public into inversely increasing Shido's popularity even if it's not supposed to, and the Conspiracy's remnants plan to use it for even more sinister plans like ensuring both the control of Japan and to take over the world. In order to make sure their plan ensues smoothly, they also manipulate the media to make the public believe that Shido is in poor health and that there is no evidence that the Phantom Thieves actually changed people's hearts, then fire Sae Niijima who was nearly successful in indicting him.
In order to defeat the remaining members of the Conspiracy and reform the public, the Phantom Thieves reach the depths of Mementos, only to find that the "reformed" Conspiracy members are merely made one with the public, and Holy Grail that Yaldabaoth manifests as is indestructible since it feeds on the people's apathy to endlessly regenerate itself. Once the Thieves can no longer fight, it exiles them back into the real world, then merges Mementos with the real world and further manipulates the public to believe that the Phantom Thieves don't exist, causing all of them to be exiled from reality as well and writhing in pain. Yaldabaoth now reveals himself to be impersonating Igor and to have been compromised the Velvet Room and transformed it into a prison where all of the Thieves are imprisoned in after they were exiled by him. It was revealed that the so-called "Conspiracy" are in fact, chaotic elements implanted into society by Yaldabaoth to see that if the protagonist's desire for change or Akechi's desire for destruction is stronger, as he deliberately arranges the most foolish and corrupt of people into power for the protagonist or Akechi to take down. He also subconsciously manipulates the public into worshiping the undesirables as god-like entities to prove his point. Regardless of whoever wins by dismantling the conspiracy, Yaldabaoth will enact his plan to make the public "distorted masses" who only desire safety and stagnation, so he can prove that there will be no more corrupt and foolish conspiracies like those once he rules over humanity. It is heavily implied that even if the conspiracy ever won, the results are the same.
Once this is found out, the Thieves return to Shibuya to climb the Qliphoth World, successfully destroying Yaldabaoth and causing the erasure of Mementos from the surface of the world. Due to the source of all distortions being removed, people's opinion of Shido changed to an unanimously negative light and thus dissolving the Conspiracy once and for all.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers
While not actually having anymore power by themselves, the conspiracy's remnants still remain, namely a politician named Jun Owada who once lobbied for Shido and enlists Akira Konoe to defeat his political opponents with EMMA so he can become prime minister. Two years prior to the events of the game, Owada was responsible for the death and subsequent cover-up of Akane Hasegawa's mother. Proper police investigation was prevented due to Owada's ties to Shido and his sphere of influence on the government, and the crime was pinned on Owada's subordinate, who eventually commited suicide out of shame, while still insisting on their innocence. Zenkichi Hasegawa was also blackmailed with the threat on his daughter's life when he tried to investigate (considering Shido's ruthlessness during his reign of power, was likely not an empty threat). In reality, Konoe is only using Owada, and he would quickly take him down once he begins his anti-crime crusade. He also attempted to cause the Phantom Thieves of Hearts' arrest by bribing Miyako Kaburagi, only to fail because of Zenkichi Hasegawa and Sae Niijima's efforts.
At the end of the game, Owada is promptly arrested by Kaburagi and Zenkichi, who already planned to arrest them as soon as Konoe was taken down by the Thieves, preventing the conspiracy from actually resurfacing once again as well as granting the Hasegawa family the justice they deserve.
Members
- Yaldabaoth: Conductor
- Masayoshi Shido: Leader (Samael)
- Goro Akechi: Assassin. In reality, he's using Shido for his own goals.
- Junya Kaneshiro: Financier (Bael)
- Ichiryusai Madarame: Financier (Azazel)
- Kunikazu Okumura (Mammon): Used the Black Mask's services
- Principal Kobayakawa: Associate
- SIU Director: Associate, orders Sae to rig cases in favor of Shido.
- Yakuza cleaner (Ongyo-Ki)
- IT Company President (Oberon): Kickstarted the Medjed cleanse false flag threat
- TV Station President (Hanuman)
- Former Noble (Forneus)
- Politician Ooe (Yamato-no Orochi)
- Real versions of the guests in Shido's Palace
- Proxy SIU Director: Successor the previous Director.
- A Psychologist: One of the remnants accompanying the Proxy SIU.
- Shido-leaning Legislator: Accompanies the proxy SIU.
- Jun Owada: A senator who was involved in lobbying Shido's campaign. He was promptly arrested at the end of Scramble.
- Akira Konoe: Assisted Owada to capture the Phantom Thieves for terrorism. In reality, he is just using Owada for his own ends.
Some unconfirmed possible members include Suguru Kamoshida (given Kobayakawa's knowing allowance of his behavior, it is possible that Kamoshida has some hand in the conspiracy).
Trivia
- The Conspiracy is comparable to the New World Order from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. Both have members in the government, police and entertainment circles, are backed by the Mafia, and are ultimately working for a malevolent deity.
- However, while both are villainous social orders, their goals are completely different; The New World Order attempts to use false mysticism and prophecy to create a delusional utopia where only they live, while the Conspiracy is a more realistic portrait of a corrupt social system, whose sole purpose is to put a corrupt politician into power and remove all opposition.
- The Conspiracy is likely based on a corrupt modern government system or a coterie based on a corrupt politician (In this case being Shido), especially the ones seen in modern Japan. The actions carried out by the members of the Conspiracy, such as blackmailing and assassinating opposition, holding extremist views and trying to achieve ruling status regardless of means, plagiarizing the works of others and abusing workers are in fact, not uncommon in real life political, cooperate and entertainment circles.
- Just like Junya Kaneshiro and the yakuza cleaner in Shido's Palace, the mafia are often allies of a real-life government system.