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Star Ocean: Fantastic Space Odyssey is the first of the Star Ocean video game series, made for the Super Famicom. It was never released outside of Japan due to the closing of Enix America Corporation, but it was unofficially translated into English through emulation by DeJap Translations. This game featured many revolutionary ideas, including emotional levels between characters, a real-time battle system, a Star Trekkish story, and many high-quality in-battle voices. It was also one of two games that stretched the power of the Super Famicom to its limits, netting a total of 48 Megabits of compressed data in the cartridge -- the most one could store in the cartridge. The only other game that used this much space is Tales of Phantasia.
The Story
Star Ocean: Fantastic Space Odyssey tells the story of Ratix Ferrence, a young Fellpool living in the town of Clatos on the underdeveloped planet of Roak. He is part of a group called the Clatos Brigade, a small organization of fighters who defend the town from thieves and robbers. Ratix himself is a swordsman, and his friend Dorn Marto -- who is also a member of the Brigade -- is as well. One day, a strange virus that spreads by touch begins turning people in the northern city of Cool to stone. The town healer and father of Milly Kiliet -- one of Ratix's best friends who also secretly loves him -- goes to Cool to try and use his Crest Magic (Symbology) to defeat the disease, but ends up becoming infected himself. When this news comes to Milly, Ratix, and Dorn, they set off for Mt. Metox north of Cool to recover the Metox herb, a legendary herb said to cure any ailment. With this, they hope to cure the disease and save Milly's father. When they reach the summit, where the herb grows, a mysterious light bursts from the ground and two people wearing odd clothes appear before them; one man with blue hair and one woman with blonde hair. The man introduces himself as Ronixis J. Kenni, captain of the Earth Federation starship Calnus. From there they learn that the disease was sent to the planet by the Resonians, a civilization that the Earth Federation has been at war with. The reason for this is unknown, however, as what the Resonians would gain from such an act wasn't clear.
It was soon revealed however that Roakian blood could make things invisible to human eyesight and that Resonia had used their blood to process a special, invisible material. The sort of material that would give them a massive advantage in the war! However, instead of fighting with it, they send emmisaries to the Federation HQ and reveal that they were being forced into war by a shadowy, powerful third party. A third party called "Fargett"...
The party then discovers the source of the virus. The virus originates from a monster on the planet Roak. The monster, however died 400 years ago. So they must go to the Planet Stream (later know as Planet Styx) to use the Time Gate to travel back in time and recover a sample of blood from the monster.
However Ratix, and a woman from the Calnus, Iria (later Claude's mother) is separated from Ronixis and Milly.
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