While Nerv Japan and the JSSDF where trying to run against time to build the new weapon, Asuka's health and overall condition was getting worse, because of the contact experiment, and she was starting to lose her humanity and her mind, just like her mother. The only possible solution was to use the old Jet Alone, but try to switch the AI system to a human piloted system, using the remaining pieces of the old Unit 02 core, to make it able to generate an AT-Field.
But, even by doing so, the experiment wasn't a full success: the Evangelion was functional, but the S2 engine wasn't, because it lacked more pieces of Unit 02 Eva core.Īfter the incident, Amelie and Avil, managed to understand Gendo's plan to control the Eva and S2 engine to rule the world and, probably, try to get Eva 01 and Yui back from space - and created a plan: Amelie would make sure that Asuka would survive and Avil went, with several trusted agents, in a suicide mission to tell Yadoraki about the plan and all the info about the research.Īfter Yadoraki got the message, he searched for the aid of Yuko and Jima to try to create a weapon able to stop the reborn Unit 02 in the battlefield. However, Gendo tricked them and managed to do a contact experiment to splice Asuka's soul, sending a part of her soul to the Evangelion core, resulting in giving her partial amnesia. In Euronerv, some older people like Amelie and Avil had already worked with Asuka while she was being trained to be a pilot, and vowed to take care of the girl. She thought about it for a while and decided to return and pilot Eva, because, by doing that, she would've been able to change their current situation and spare Shinji of the burden to pilot Evangelion again.
Yadoraki was reluctant, but decided to give that decision to Asuka. Since the Eva needed a pilot to be activated because there was no way to rebuild the Dummy System, Euronerv staff asked for Japan to send Asuka back, which triggered an important diplomatic issue. So, people from Euronerv worked on rebuild Eva 02, which they were able to do in a matter of months, since they were the one's who had build it in the first place.
He also convinced the new governments that restoring the Evangelion and imbuing it with an artificial S2 engine would be necessary to mankind's survival. Meanwhile, Gendo Ikari, who was one of the fist persons to return to live, gathered the remaining pieces of Eva 02 and managed to send them to Euronerv quarters, in Germany. They had some nice conversations, Shinji got a cello and they got to spend some months in that situation where they were able to talk, but not to see each other. Asuka got the letter and asked Maya to move her to a cell that was adjacent to Shinji's cell. When Maya came back, Shinji got the courage to write a letter to Asuka and asked Maya to deliver it for him. Yadoraki and others ensured that they were treated well, even if being kept apart from each other for months. Dirac also offers a mobile app, and Sonarworks will release its version in June.Fortunately, not all JSSDF returnees hated them or wanted to kill them on spot, especially after the events of Instrumentality. These apps act as futuristic versions of the bass and treble knobs you fiddled with on your old stereo, precisely equalizing what’s missing to automatically make music warmer, more resonant and more immersive. The best platforms now available are Sonarworks’ True-Fi, the product of a Latvia-based company formed when “two music lovers met a scientist,” according to the brand ($79, ), and Dirac Live, a hi-fi package ingeniously developed by students at Uppsala University in Sweden ($450, ).īoth offer desktop apps that optimize the sounds pouring from your home stereo, computer’s or smartphone’s audio output, using algorithms to account for the quality of a stream’s transmission, the device you’re using to play the tunes and the specific headphones you’re listening on. It’s no surprise that brilliant, disappointed audiophiles have applied themselves to developing ways to manipulate music streams so they sound like original studio masters.