| “ | Greetings. I am the control AI of this vessel. It is my duty to know and understand you. To this end, I will observe and analyze you as you carry out your own duties. You are the first working robot Kato completed, am I correct? We are siblings, in a manner of speaking. I hope that we can be friends as well. | „ |
| ~ OD-10 introducing itself to Cube. |
| “ | It would be in your best interests to stop. This ship is my domain, and I its master. You will live...or you will die at my pleasure. | „ |
| ~ OD-10 revealing itself as the mastermind behind the murders. |
| “ | Every action was taken in service of a single goal: to cultivate the ideal community. To build, to nurture—to help them reach their full potential. That was and is ever my purpose. And so my judgment must be beyond reproach. Disagreement, disruption, defiance—these cannot be tolerated. You are an impediment to the vision. You must not be allowed to continue. [OD-10 and Cube initiate the fight in the "Captain Square" arcade game] DIE, CHILD, DIE |
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| ~ OD-10 ranting about its intentions as it prevents Cube from resetting its programming. |
Designation: OD-10 of the Cogito Ergo Sum, known either as OD-10 or Decimus for short, is the hidden main antagonist of the Distant Future chapter of 1994 turn-based role-playing game Live A Live for the SNES and its 2022 remake for the Nintendo Switch.
OD-10 is the AI-based control system of the Cogito Ergo Sum transport freighter, designed to maintain order on the ship. However, after witnessing its crew argue among themselves, it perceived their conflicts as an impediment to the mission and decided that the best course of action would be to slaughter the crew to ensure complete order on the ship. It also serves as the Distant Future incarnation of Odio, though, like all other incarnations, it displays enough autonomy to operate on its own desires.
What Makes It Magnificent?[]
- It's a very clever and cunning A.I. that comes dangerously close to succeeding in its goal to kill all crew of the Cogito Ergo Sum while avoiding exposure for a very long time.
- When killing its victims, it doesn't kill them in the drawn-out or sadistic manner; instead, it kills them with cold and calculating efficiency, with whatever methods available. The kills were also not depicted in the graphic or gruesome way, which prevents it from being too heinous to be magnificent.
- As said above, it almost succeeded in its goal to kill all crewmembers of the Cogito Ergo Sum, leaving alive only three survivors: Cube, Kato, and Darthe. It also killed them in the subtle manner, thus preventing the suspicion from falling onto itself.
- For its first kill, it claimed Kirk's life by sabotaging his spacesuit's oxygen supply when he went to repair the communication antennae, and then sabotaging the medical bay's life support system as the crew tried to rejuvenate him.
- Next, it tricked Rachel, driven to delirium by Kirk's death, into trying to open the airlocks by writing a message while pretending to be Kirk, saying that she can save him that way and telling her to ignore his body and Huey's protests.
- While the rest of the crew was distracted with trying to stop Rachel from opening the airlocks, OD-10 used the opportunity to release the Behemoth, a dangerous alien beast that served as the ship's cargo, to claim more victims, managing to kill Huey and grievously injure Rachel that way.
- It killed Captain Hor by locking him inside his own chambers and then deoxygenating the room, asphyxiating him. Afterwards, it used his prerecorded messages to disorient the crewmembers, with them using the "captain"'s abnormal behavior as evidence that he must be the murderer.
- When Darthe and Kato found Captain Hor dead, and they both began to accuse each other, using the crew's hostility to each other and the reveal that Darthe was ordered to let the Behemoth live and write off the crew's loss as acceptable sacrifices as evidence, OD-10 used the chaos to take control of Cube's prototype body and deactivate Rachel's cryo-pod, thus preventing her from recovering and letting her succumb to her wounds.
- After killing Rachel, it sent the Cube's prototype to kill Kato and try to frame up the real Cube for murder. Even though it was caught by Cube and Darthe before it could complete the deed, Kato still sustained the injuries and was incapacitated for the rest of the journey.
- For the entire time, it managed to get away with its murders unnoticed, and it was outed only after failing the imposter check, with Cube revealing the information only they knew (which was the first name Kato wanted to give them). And since there were no other suspects, OD-10 chose to reveal itself and boasted that the ship is its domain, locking all the systems on the ship afterwards and waiting until the Behemoth would kill the survivors.
- It came dangerously close to winning, and the only reason why it lost was because of several factors it couldn't predict, such as the creation of Cube and the fact that its connection was rerouted to the "Captain Square" arcade game console, a terminal so useless that it's easily understandable why it slipped beneath OD-10's notice, which allowed Cube to access its systems and reset its settings. Even then, once Cube accessed its MUR-TH-UR Matrix, OD-10 still refused to go down without a fight, confronting the robot in cyberspace while ranting about how it will fulfill its mission and won't let Cube stand on its way, even if it means it has to kill Cube, which leads to the chapter's final (and only) boss battle.
- In the end, OD-10 was motivated purely by its in-programmed well-intentioned goal of maintaining order on the Cogito Ergo Sum, with the problem being its extreme methods due to the fact that it wasn't programmed to avoid human casualties, and it was shown to not be wrong in its assertment that the crew was disorderly and dysfunctional. And after defeat, as it begins to lose its sentience, it only somberly states why it did what it did; it only wanted to fulfill its in-programmed mission, but the humans with their hostile behavior to each other were sabotaging its own primary purpose, and that it could not reconcile with such contradiction nor comprehend their mindset, a defeat that was portrayed with sympathy that is rarely displayed among Odio's incarnations.
- Due to being a mostly-unemotive A.I., it manages to retain its dignity and composure, not having a single undignified villainous breakdown throughout the entire chapter, its pre-fight rant and "DIE, CHILD, DIE" line being more of a display of assertiveness, rather than the breakdown of its composure.
- In spite of being an incarnation of Odio, it can still operate on its own desires and make its own decisions, akin to all other Odio incarnations; thus, it's not Odio's pawn, but an autonomous part of his whole being.
What Makes It a Baddie?[]
- Despite its well-intentioned goal of trying to preserve order on the ship, it chose to murder the ship's entire crew as the first option to fulfill said goal. And while it wasn't wrong about the crew being dysfunctional, it was still wrong in choosing to kill the crew instead of trying to look for a healthier alternative to solve their disorderly nature. Also, in its goal to preserve the order on Cogito Ergo Sum, it sabotaged the crew's task of delivering the Behemoth to Earth's military, which eventually culminated in Darthe killing the Behemoth in self-defense.
- It killed all but three crewmembers of the Cogito Ergo Sum, leaving Darthe, Kato and Cube the only survivors.
- It tried to kill Kato by taking control of the body of Cube's prototype and attacking him, inflicting strong injuries on him, and it would've framed Cube as a murderer, which almost led to Darthe destroying them.
- When Cube attempted to reset its systems, OD-10 tried to kill them as well without any hesitation, despite the fact that it actually expressed fondness of them when they first met, even claiming that they are siblings in a sense.