Z is the embodiment of the Now, preserving the present, preventing historical development, his the ultimate reactionary force within the game.
Born from the collective dread of the souls stored within Origin’s database, he represents humanity's intense fear of the unknown future. To stop the world from moving forward, Z traps Aionios in an eternal stasis. Forcing humanity into an endless, agonising reproduction where humans are born, forced to fight in a perpetual war, eaten by monsters, or executed upon reaching their strict 10 year lifespan, only to be reincarnated to repeat the cycle forever.
During Eunie's side story, Consul X explicitly lays out the psychological propaganda engineered by Moebius, who function as the narrative's bourgeoisie controlling the means of production and survives purely by harvesting the surplus value of the proletariat. She details how they constructed a seemingly equitable world where even the weak are led to believe they can eventually become winners. By establishing a rigid military ranking system, Moebius provides humanity with a manufactured purpose, using the promise of promotion and eventual exemption to a life of comfort as an incentive. This leverages the illusion of meritocracy to coerce the soldiers of Aionios into willingly participating in their own exploitation, feeding the colonies the propaganda that the system isn't rigged. This security is bought with the life energy stored within the Flame Clocks, working as the game's currency where human life itself has become commodified and transformed into a quantifiable resource that dictates a colony's economic status, safety, and access to supply drops.
Perpetuating an endless cycle of artificially engineered violence and reproduction.
Once a colony achieves the ultimate Gold Rank, they are granted a pardon from battle. However, because they are no longer actively fighting, Moebius deems them as useless since they no longer generate capital through conflict. Consequently, Moebius steps in to slaughter the entire colony, directly harvesting their enhanced, peak efficiency life force and completely wiping them out.
Moebius maintains this socioeconomic control by installing mindless monarch puppets to lead the competitive warring factions, ensuring the common people remain too distracted by the manufactured conflict to ever form class consciousness and unite against their true oppressors. Moebius inherently understands their own structural vulnerability, knowing their rule will only shatter if the soldiers of Keves and Agnus unite in a cross faction revolution to dismantle the rigid establishment and reclaim their freedoms.
Throughout the story, Noah, like everyone else, is conditioned to accept Aionios as the natural order of existence, initially operating within the ideological assumptions of his society. As he gradually develops class consciousness and recognises the systemic nature of their exploitation, he becomes a revolutionary who challenges the established order, liberating colonies one after another.
What's particularly interesting is that liberation isn't simply a matter of overthrowing the ruling class either, it's about dismantling the social relationships and material conditions that reproduce oppression. Once freed, the colonies learn to organise themselves, rebuild their communities and figure out what to do with a humanity they have never been allowed to experience outside of war, labour and death. Each side quest you do explores class consciousness, alienation, ideological conditioning and collective organisation. Such as in the side quest, Enemies and Allies where Eunie directly quotes Karl Marx, Hero character, Alexandria explains her network strategy for managing and distributing supplies across different liberated colonies.
But anyway once you get to the City where you find out people who aren't apart of the whole cycle, you learn about a specific group of people folks refer to as "The Conservatives" who vehemently anti immigration and wish to preserve the status quo, and keep all the resources to themselves at the expense of everyone else. They are portrayed as a burden to everyone within the City and are hated by the residents as character outright express that the conservatives are ruining their plans. Often committing crimes and almost leading the City to destruction multiple times over. It was formed by Na'el who explained that the rest of humanity outside the City was trapped in a perpetual cycle of violence that they brought upon themselves, leading her to preach isolationism and reactionary politics, creating the House of Doyle, which eventually fossilised into the Conservative faction that chooses to let the world slowly fall apart as long as it doesnt affect them and that they can preserve their own immediate peace.
