Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Comprehensive Combat Technology Assessment Exercise

Comprehensive Combat Technology Assessment Exercise

There have been a number of technical terms related to military science introduced. They play an important role in building the reality of the game world, and they also give players the opportunity to learn practical expertise that goes beyond the level of trivia. In many ways, this erotic game has more educational elements than normative pedagogy system.
 

Delayed ignition device
 
Literally as it reads, it’s a word that forms an entry in the dictionary of technical terms of the game Muv-Luv Alternative.

NOE (Contour-Flight, Nap-of-the-Earth)
 
In order to reduce the detection rate by radar, it is necessary to fly over mountains, valleys, tens of meters above the earth’s surface. 
In contrast to cruise flight, it flies at a low altitude with many obstacles and dense air, so it is possible to delay detection by radar and visual inspection, but it has the disadvantage of poor fuel efficiency and extra burden on the aircraft and pilot. Therefore, it is usually carried out only near the danger zone.
Today’s fighter jets and special operations aircraft are equipped with FLIR, LANTIRN, and terrain tracking radars, which allow them to fly on autopilot day and night.  In the U.S. Army, “Contour-Flight” is a flight that changes altitude along an obstacle or the ground at an almost constant airspeed, and “Nap-of-the Earth (NOE)-Flight” is a flight that changes speed and altitude. 
Of course, NOE flights are the lowest altitude and have the worst fuel economy.
 

Anti-material rifle

An anti-material rifle is a firearm that is distinguished from “anti-personnel rifles”. It is different from the “anti” in “antimatter”.

Prone
Shooting posture lying on stomach. It gives the most accurate shooting because the posture is stable. Let’s put it in the entries of our dictionary. 

Alternative
I received a question in the reaction paper, so I will answer it.
 
 Alternative means “choice”. In contrast to the “Unlimited” part, in which the possibility of one of the various worlds is introduced, another option is developed, so it means “another possibility”.
 
 The term “Alter” in the Fate series has the same meaning, but it is used as a variation of the “hidden personality” opposed to the regular one. If you play the game in another route, you will see Saber revealing the dangerous side of Black Saber phase, that appears in her completely different characteristics.  Actual instances of various manifestations assumed by the same personality has been discussed in my study of fictional characters, Existence, Phenomenon and Personality (Bokka-sha 2014), especially in the first chapter focused on Hatsune Miku, on personal archetype and its numberless variants are studied. 


Tactical Surface Fighter
It is called a “mobile suit” in Gundam, a “motoar hedd” in Five Star Stories, an “arm slave” in Full Metal Panic, and an “EizenKavalier” in Re; Creators but in Muv-Luv, it’s a “tactical surface fighter.” The identity and equivalence of the fictional beings indicated by these differing designations will provide a discussion for the concept of transcendental principles that may be acknowledged as archetypal existentiality.
This is where Takeru’s knowledge of the gaming machine “Game Guy” from the original world and his experience in the previous turn serve helpful. For some reason, Kasumi brings a Game Guy to Takeru. The mystery that arises here acts as foreshadowing, leading to the unraveling of an important knowledge. In addition, computer-controlled combat machines and knowledge of the game’s weapon control settings create a unique detail of reality within the game world. The detailed depiction of its settings makes a convincing description of the fictional world. However, no matter how much he is evaluated and praised by others, there is a reason why he can’t be happy heartily.

Lieutenant Tsukuyomi and others show inexplicable hostility to Takeru.
“You’re dead” is the search result acquired by Dr. Yuko. What is the fate Takeru faced in this world.
Then, what is the situation of Sumika in this world?

Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Metafictional structure of game works

Metafictional structure of game works
What gives us the opportunity to discuss this kind of argument is the current anime and game culture in Japan. For example, the meta-structure shown by the erotic game Fate/stay night has been discussed as follows.

The structure in which the story or the characters themselves are clearly aware of the constraint that the story must construct a fixed meaning as a narrative, has become a typical metafictional strategy in 20th-century fantasy literature. On the other hand, the fictional game worlds of the 21st century introduce meta-narrative perspectives that sometimes disrupt the fundamental meaning of the story as its unique metafictional strategy. The characteristic that are developed in the perspective of the game works that set them apart from the narrative fiction further deepen the philosophical phase that existed in fantasy literature. What is asserted by annihilating the typological “narrative” is the thorough speculativeness that the fictional structure as a descriptive system retains. Fate/stay night, a speculative visual novel, aims to fully expand the conceptual space of the fictional world by presenting the interesting concept of “conceptual magic” in addition to the conceptual beings, hero spirits and the conceptual personality, "Servants".

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This factor, which promotes the fusion and integration of existing fictional worlds, which can be regarded as a kind of entropy-increasing law, promotes the elevation of qualia making as a latent motive for the universe as a whole, and is recognized as the basis of the idea of teleologically acknowledging the functions of individual consciousness in comprehensive cosmology. A world image based on the reductionist picture premised on scientific thought will not only undermine the essential implication of the fictionality, but also hinder free qualia formation of each individual consciousness, and will have a serious negative impact on the sound progress of the universe as a whole. An immersive absorption in the fictional world and its characters, as recommended by Oscar Wilde’s theory of art, is the essential factor in the evolution of the universe, along with the sound preservation of the mind.


Estimating the Berserker’s defensive ability as an overwhelming powerful Servant that is able to neutralize any attack, Saber, the Holy Grail War warrior, tells Shirou.

“...... I suspect the Berserker’s noble weapon is armor. It is not simple armor, but closer to a magical theory called conceptual armament. Perhaps——Berserker has the ability to neutralize all attacks that do not reach a certain level. That’s probably why neither my sword nor Rin’s magic work.”

The “conceptual armament” that Saber refers to is nothing but an information concept that is reduced to prescribed correlations and set values, programmable as one of the various setting conditions for proceeding with the game structure according to the perspective that overviews the game world from outside the frame. The mechanism of magic and the special abilities of supernatural beings introduced in the game work make this visual novel remarkably self-reflective. A game work that is presented as an accumulation of conceptual information is not only an independent possible world, but also a virtual world experienced in the possible world as a “real world.” Through such a metafictional structure of games, the player/viewer who plays the work is provided with a transcending multifaceted perspective that is not bound by the perspective of a single world, as the subject of consciousness that extracts concepts and constructs only one worldview as a single possible world.

“Existence, Phenomenon and Personality: Summoning Magic and Individuality in Fate/stay night”
https://www.academia.edu/106632362/Existence_Phenomenon_and_Personality_Summoning_Magic_and_Individuality_in_Fate_stay_night

Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Parallel and serial -- retrocausality

Parallel and serial: retrocausality
Extending these ideas leads to the following considerations.
In the post-quantum mechanics (PQM) perspective, Jack Sarfatti introduced the concept of “retrocausality,” which asserts the existence of intersectional causal relationships that the future affects the present, by postulating entanglement connections in all things. Researchers are attempting to construct a comprehensive cosmology based on a new interpretation of the influence of primordial consciousness on the creation of the universe. This idea, which can provide scientific explanations to supernatural concepts such as “destiny” and “future prediction,” is also connected to a metaphysical principal mechanism that gives a transcendental meaning that encompasses the core principles of the real world to the connection of pseudo-phenomena in a fictional structure.
In the study of consciousness and fictionality, Unacknowledged Virtue of The Last Unicorn, published in 2018, I have focused on the function of consciousness that generates phenomena and bestow implication to everything all over the universe. Below is the part of the argument where synchronicity is considered as key notion to the understanding of the cosmological implication of fictionality.
https://www.academia.edu/38458395/Animated_Film_The_Last_Unicorn_and_Synchronicity_pdf

Jacques Sarfatti argues about the origin and purpose of the universe brought about by future intelligent life as a metaphysical cosmology with a perspective that encompasses the mystical thought of Kabbalah, Renaissance philosophy and quantum mechanical knowledge. In post-quantum mechanics, this metaphysical idea, which can be applied to grasp the factors of evolution by applying the term “destiny wave” as opposed to the “history wave” that is exerted by a chain of causal relationships from the past, can also be a hypothesis that elucidates the “Providence” of Eastern thought from a systems theoretical idea in innovative perspective.
Ref.（Beyond Bohm-Vigier Quantum Mechanics, January1998, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0990-3_48）

His comprehensive argument for an integrated re-understanding of supernatural phenomena such as revelation and foreknowledge as the effects of entanglement caused by the structure of the universe in relation to the existence of free will and the law of causality is also an effective assumption that suggests the possibility of a revolutionary shift in the theory of time.
According to Jacques Sarfatti, Jungian notion of synchronicity can also be understood in the context of the quantum interconnectedness brought about by the advanced future intelligence, which John Riley described as “cosmic coincidence control.” This seems to be a hypothesis that can encompass concepts such as Socrates’ daimonion, which leads to the prospect of constructing an integrative cosmology newly suggested by the study of consciousness.
Jack Sarfatti;Literary and Scientific Essays by and about Jack Sarfatti (https://www.academia.edu/37365216/Literary_and_Scientific_Essays_by_and_about_Jack_Sarfatti)

Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Parallel and serial -- Specific examples

Parallel and serial: Specific examples
Let’s try to contrast the opposing concepts of “parallel” and “serial” by replacing them with related words and phrases in other fields. You will be able to see the specific problems that each concept of “parallel side” and “serial side” suggests in the integrated interpretation of the universe.

Parallel Serial
Polysemy Uniqueness
Superposition Single Existence/Phenomenon
Decoherence Coherence
Wave Particle

It seems that the actual image of “human intelligence” and the existential attributes of the fundamental field of the universe are not necessarily “serial” as has been believed from the existing scientific point of view. Meta-Structure of fictionality The backdrop of Muv-Luv Alternative, which involves traveling back in time and leaping into other parallel worlds with time lag embodies an interesting meta-structural peculiarity in that the in-game setting also incorporates the external structure of the game player’s interaction and re-experiencing the game world. Not only does the player gain a strategic advantage by accumulating information about the development of the game by repeatedly replaying it, but the structural characteristics that increase the level and combat power are directly reflected in the fictional world by reflecting experience points directly in physical strength. Particularly interesting example is Yu-No, The Girl Who Chaunts Love at the End of the World, where this meta-structure provided a positive strategy in the game playing by saving the progress of the development and intentionally moving to the save points. Focusing not only on the story, but also on the structure of the method in terms of how the game is played, and considering the structural characteristics of each promoting system, we are sometimes able to make valuable discoveries on metaphysical cosmology. While living in the present state in the second turn, at the same time, Takeru is aware of the meta perspective of perceiving himself and the surrounding environment from the viewpoint of the player who watches the game work from outside of it. However, a similar sense of detachment from reality is something that we have actually experienced in a similar situation. This kind of “meta-consciousness” may sometimes be the source of transcendental sensations that can predict the future or guide the course of fate working as an “inner voice.” Currently, the necessity to consider the nature of “consciousness” from the integrated perspective of physics and psychology is postulated. Examples include James Beichler’s theory of cosmological consciousness, which is the root of everything that pervades the entire universe, and Jack Sarfatti’s “meta-consciousness,” which extends from the future to the past.
Below is the extract of the argument developed in the study of anime Madlax. This mechanism that causes events generation conforms to the understanding of Post Quantum Mechanics, which enterprises the explanation of the first cause of the universe, that had been once described as God’s stroke, because there had been no other means to describe the event horizon of the tremendous energy generation that caused the Big Bang; introducing the metaphysical notion of “universal consciousness”, and depicting the process of the universe as autonomous evolution of it. Many physicists are now trying to assert the existence of original consciousness called “Fundamental Awareness”, as the necessary factor, which allows the construction of the unified theory that is able to describe the holarchy of universe where time and space are all united. This hypothesis that bears some similarity to “universal life force”, embraced by ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius, seems to be a significant enterprise to be able to integrate ancient wisdom and scientific attainments, in its design to depict the development of the universe as an autonomous evolution of the ubiquitous consciousness or “panpsyche”. After the superstring theory has come to the dead end in its attempt to set up an integral theory that would be able to unify the description of four strengths of nature, the research of awareness often called as “consciousness study”, is now taking over the rank occupied by that theory as most promising hypothesis. Representative one of these theories is Neurocosmology, posited by James Beichler in his paper “The Emergence of Neurocosmology” (2016) and other series of research documents. Jack Sarfatti and Federico Faggin and others are similarly attempting to promote the reconstruction of new cosmology through the philosophical study of intuition and qualia. These Physicists’ attitude interestingly overlaps the metaphysical contemplation Romantic philosophers had adopted, endeavoring to describe the essential truth of the universe through the notion of a nerve extending into space. The fact that many of the ancient philosophers such as Lao Tzu and Parmenides were able to develop cosmological ideas long ago that share the similar insight to the ones modern post quantum physicists have discovered, espouses the basis of the metaphysical design that demands reexamination of the relationship between the holarchy of the universe and the peculiar function of consciousness, which is supposed to be able to grasp the meaning of everything through the ability of intuition. https://www.academia.edu/119096414/The_Hypernatural_and_Supernatural_in_Madlax_Disrupted_Genre_Concepts_Manipulation_of_Perspectives_Intuition_Fictionality_and_Implicate_Order_in_Anime

Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Serial and Parallel

Serial and Parallel
The difference in system-theoretical qualities between AI and human intelligence was “parallel” and “serial”, that was referenced in a conversation between the protagonist Takeru Shirogane and Dr. Yuko about the improvement of the tactical surface fighter operation program. Peculiar differences between the algorithmic mechanism of parallel and serial were pointed out, and the significant difference between the in-game environment, where a finite range is defined as an object of observation and response, and the real-world environment, where infinite abnormal divergences are assumed, was discussed. 　In fact, these are things that can be easily confirmed through the application of familiar computer function. 　In the folder organized by orderly hierarchy, if you give simple sequential numbers such as 1, 2, 3 …, when it contains a two-digit 10 or a three-digit 100, the computer will not be able to recognize them as numbers it can judge as a series of quantitative differences. It is because when the number of the units is within 1000, it is necessary to unify all the files in the folder by the information constrained as a three-digit number, such as 000, 001, 002, …999, in the end. 　Since human intelligence corresponds to infinite, it is possible to construct thoughts without hindrance by referring only to partial information and extrapolating it, without gaining the whole picture of the data. In this way, it can be understood that human intelligence practices a unique way of thinking that is completely different from the arithmetic algorithms performed by computers. If we look back at the various existing arguments from the viewpoint of systems theory, as confirmed here, we should be able to make various interesting discoveries. As an application, it will be interesting to reflect those concepts such as “linear” and “scalar numbers” in further discussions.
 
 Please understand the difference and relationship between “parallelization,” which is adopted as a means of social management measure, and “parallelism,” which is one of the models of thinking algorithms. As for parallelization pressure the administrative organization extends to the inhabitants of the society, it was discussed in the study of the anime Ergo Proxy.

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For an organization that manages a highly regulated system such as Romdo City, the more the structure of the system and the phases of the components contained in the system can converge into something as simplified and centralized as possible, the more efficient the “management” work itself will be, and the easier it will be to achieve the goals of the effort, and the more desirable the evaluation of the work content. It can be assumed that the reason why parents, schools, the Ministry of Education, the state, etc. want to “parallelize” children, students, schools, and citizens is because of these dynamic factors. However, the entire system, in which such a parallelization process is promoted to the extreme, lacks flexibility (sensitivity) and prevents the system itself from being modified autonomously, and in the event of a sudden change involving the entire system, its crisis response capacity will be extremely low. However, since the management system will recognize all interference and influence outside the management system as undesirable and should be eliminated, it is expected that it will not only ignore such internal system modification factors, but rather move in the direction of eliminating them as dangerous elements. A typical example of the result of mechanical action as seen here can be understood as the construction of a “dome,” an autonomous system isolated from the external “wasteland” structure. Concepts such as “science", “reason” and “cosmos” can also be understood in various phases as correlates of this “dome” system. What seems to be a phenomenon equivalent to escaping into the “wasteland” or “chaos” outside the dome, or “erosion” of these into the inside of these domes, should be able to be pointed out and verified in various ways from existing concepts and historical facts.


In addition, please pay attention to the systems-theoretic concepts of “open systems” and “closed systems”. Those ideas were developed in the study of consciousness against the background of all-encompassing cosmology, focused on the argument of fictionality applied to the implication of magic and the supernatural, as below.

https://www.academia.edu/95494303/Cosmological_Implication_of_Fictionality_and_Consciousness


As examples of further implication of the argument between Dr. Yuko and Shirogane, you can also consider the relationship between the functioning of the human cerebrum and the cerebellum, diencephalon, and other neural tissues, as well as the collaborating relationship between the knight and his Fatima when controlling a Motarheadd as depicted in Mamoru Nagano’s Five Star Stories.