Nemo

Nemo

Biographical Information

Other Names and Callsigns

SARF-FOUR (UPEO)
HOPEFUL (GRDF)
FIREMAN (NEU)

Aircraft #

010

Birth

Early- to mid-21st century

Relatives

Simon Orestes Cohen (creator)

Affiliations

UPEO
General Resource
Neucom
Ouroboros
(varies with player decisions)

Equipment

Player choice

Appearances

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

Nemo (Latin for no one) is the given name of an artificial intelligence created by Simon Orestes Cohen in the 21st century. It is capable of piloting virtual aircraft and making decisions, but is incapable of speech or expression.

It is the player character in the Japanese version of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere.

History

In the 2030s, Yoko Martha Inoue and Abyssal Dision were performing research on the concept of sublimation, a process which would allow for a human to copy their consciousness into the Electrosphere. During a successful test session—in which a copy of Dision's consciousness was uploaded to the Electrosphere—a bomb was detonated by assassins hired by General Resource Limited, killing both Inoue and the human Dision.

Cohen, who had some kind of relationship with Inoue, blamed Dision for her death. He was somehow aware of the existence of Dision's Electrosphere copy and sought to permanently erase it. He created Nemo alongside a simulation of the real world, which included:

• Copies of the real-world organizations General Resource, Neucom, UPEO, and Ouroboros,
• Copies of every historical event,
• Full models of all COFFIN-equipped aircraft,
• Copies of every relevant person, living or dead.

Cohen then created a simulated conflict between the four organizations and ran the program multiple times to see what the possible outcomes would be.

Due to various decisions within the simulation, Nemo discovered five possible outcomes of the conflict—one where it remained with UPEO, one where it defected to General Resource, one where it defected to Neucom, and two where it defected to Ouroboros. Cohen, who was watching the program every time it ran and sometimes gave direct involvement to speed events along, was pleased with the results; no matter the outcome, Nemo always killed Dision.

Considering the experiment a success, Cohen then removed Nemo from the program, purged the simulation from existence, and released Nemo into the real world. Its fate afterward is unknown.

Description

Nemo is an artificial intelligence that is capable of piloting any COFFIN-equipped aircraft. It can also connect directly into the Electrosphere, and even hack into certain enemy aircraft. When given a choice, it also has the ability to respond with a decision, though it may not be able to provide an answer to open-ended questions.

Trivia

• Since Nemo is merely a computer program, it would not be able to pilot aircraft that do not feature COFFIN.
• Nemo is the default name when starting a new profile in Ace Combat 3. The player is able to freely change this name; their choice of profile name will be reflected in some missions and the game's true ending.
• In the international release of Ace Combat 3, the player is a regular human pilot and is not given a name at all.
  • The international release's introductory cinematic features a female voice saying the phrase, "Controller, this is Hopeful. On final approach." Hopeful is Nemo's callsign after joining the GRDF in the Japanese version of the game, suggesting that Nemo may have been intended to be feminine in the original plans for localizing Ace Combat 3.
  • In Ace Combat 3's Neucom script book, the end section is dedicated to secondary, cut and unused content, with some of this content being leftovers from the canceled localization. A line of dialogue nearly identical to the "Hopeful" line spoken in the opening of the international release of 3 is present, but instead with Nemo's UPEO callsign, as "Controller, this is SARF Four, on final approach. Guide me in!". Another line with this callsign is also present; "This is SARF Four, request refuel." It is possible that in the localization, Nemo would have had corresponding in-flight dialogues for each of their callsigns, SARF-FOUR, HOPEFUL and FIREMAN.