Morganna Mode Gone

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Name	Morganna Mode Gone
Gender	Female
Class	AI
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Japanese Voice	Rie Tanaka
English Voice	Valerie Arem
First Appearance	.hack//SIGN
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"The higher up it is dropped, the worse the crash will be. Hope is the best spice to bring out despair."

— Morganna Mode Gone —

Morganna Mode Gone (モルガナ・モード・ゴン), shortened to Morganna throughout most of the series, was an AI created by Harald Hoerwick to oversee the birth of the Ultimate AI. Upon learning that she would die when the Ultimate AI is born, she rebelled against her programming and attempted to stop the process, resulting in many events in the .hack series.

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Appearance

Morganna is actually never seen in any of the series but is only heard, though, she is represented by an eye throughout the series.

Personality

Due to the fact she is omnipotent and omnipresent, Morganna likes to play God with the various players of The World. She is very self-centered, seeing as how she will place players into a coma, if it is in her self-interest, and will even delete her own child to save herself, as well as her lackey Maha.

History

.hack//AI Buster

Morganna makes her presence known in AI Buster through a series of untracable e-mails that she sent to CC Corp's Debug team. These e-mails told Albireo the location of the Vagrant AI Lycoris. After Lycoris escaped by segmenting her data, Morganna sent Albireo an e-mail telling him the location of the first fragment. After Albireo succeeded in restoring Lycoris to her original state Lycoris told him a little about Morganna. Stating that she was an omnipresent entity in The World, and that she had ordered Lycoris's deletion. She also told him that Morganna was a program capable of contradicting itself (a trait that would put her on a human level of intelligence). Before Albireo could learn any more, Lycoris said that she was tired of running, and deleted herself using Albireo's Spear of Wotan.

.hack//SIGN

Morganna's largest role is in SIGN, where she manifests as a voice. She orders her servant, Maha, to lead the character Tsukasa to the bottom of a dungeon and Data Drain him, trapping him within the system. She uses her control over the data of The World to modify his memories, making him believe that he is actually male in the real world, and erasing his happy memories, leaving only the memories of his abusive father. She also binds him to the incomplete AI Aura, who is in a sleep mode. As long as Tsukasa desires to remain inside of the system, Aura cannot awaken.

In order to keep Tsukasa inside of the system, Morganna provides him with a powerful monster, a Twilight Guardian, to serve as his protector. She also gave him the ability to teleport between fields and server without having to use a Chaos Gate; with this ability Tsukasa was able to access the isolated area where Aura was kept, along with other areas inside The World that could not be reached by other players. Morganna's plan went well at first. Tsukasa seemed happy within The World, experiencing power and safety that he had not had in the real world. However several determined players slowly began to unravel the mystery behind Tsukasa. And awoke in him the desire to return to reality. Morganna tried various methods to keep Tsukasa within the system, but in the end, all of them failed. Even Morganna's servant, Maha, turned against her, forcing Morganna to Data Drain her in order to get her out of the way.

In the end Tsukasa suceeded in waking Aura up, and managed to return to reality. Filled with rage Morganna ordered another of her servants, Skeith, to hunt down and capture her.

.hack//Wotan's Spear

Morganna's biggest role in AI Buster 2, is in the short story "Wotan's Spear," where she orders Maha to Data Drain Albireo in order to keep him from making contact with Tsukasa. She is also mentioned briefly by the AI Rin in the short story "Kamui".

Trivia

The name Morganna Mode Gone may in fact be a mistranslation of "Maude Gonne" though there are both cases of supporting and denying this in the canon, the belief is that the Amierican dubber's screwed up something when listening to the script, though this argument has happened in Japanese as well as English, it's all a matter of faith in the end.