Sector Bootes

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View of Bootes from the entrance

Sector Bootes is the second sector investigated by the Red Sprite inside the Schwartzwelt.

Appearance

• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Profile

Sector Bootes seems to have been produced by the demons as a mirror to red-light districts. The sector introduces trap floors, specifically floor tiles that damage the player and his demons when they step over them.

The Strike Team is given a mission to launch search probes in various locations of the sector. When the mission is finished, the Red Sprite receives a distress signal from a crew member of the Elve. Crewman Norris begins to act strangely at this point, and eventually goes off on his own.

The protagonist discovers a strange palace in the north area of the sector. As he is exploring the area, he gets captured by demons. Inside his cell, he meets Zelenin and confirms that she was the source of the distress signal. She explains that most of the Elve's crew has been captured by the demons. After this, the protagonist gets taken by a demon to Mitra. He offers the protagonist a chance to work with the demons and gives him a Luxury Bell to escort him to the palace.

Mithra's Palace

Upon return to the Red Sprite, the Strike Team devices a plan to infiltrate the palace. The rest of the strike team will use the Luxury Bell to remove the demons from the palace while the protagonist proceeds to storm the palace. He gets recaptured by an invisible demon and is taken to a cell adjacent to Zelenin's. The protagonist is forced to watch as the demons perform an experiment on Norris, who gets horribly altered after the experiment. The player is forced to fight Norris. After the fight, the demons take a stone dropped by Norris.

The protagonist discovers a door to the adjacent room and talks to Zelenin. While looking for a way to escape, they meet Mastema, who proceeds to create a tunnel out of the cell. The protagonist and Zelenin escape and return to the Red Sprite.

The protagonist is asked to return to the palace a third time, this time to investigate the energy signal inside the palace. At the source of the signal, the protagonist meets Mitra once more, who laments how humans refuse to "return to their essence". The protagonist fights Mitra, and once the demon is defeated, he drops the Rosetta for Bootes and a rare Forma.

Later on, the protagonist and Zelenin return to Bootes, this time to look for a cure for a parasite that afflicts the crew in Sector Delphinus. They then find out that Bootes and Delphinus have established shady trade relations regarding human experiments.

Also in Bootes the Protagonist can find a trio of Dis who beg him to stop the rampaging Yggdrasil, who has stolen their timetravelling powers. He fails, and is knocked unconscious, but is saved by another figure who eliminates Yggdrasil and lets him leave. The Disir tell him the fight is now engraved in his destiny and reward him, leaving him to ponder the explanations for this until Sector Eridanus.

Trivia

The name of the sector could be a referance to the constellation Bootes in the northern sky.