.hack Pluto's Kiss The World Main Storylines Other Storylines

The franchise primarily surrounds a future in which one operating system, ALTIMIT OS, is used by all computers in the world due to various computer viruses (in particular, one named Pluto's Kiss) that crashed the internet in the mid- 2000s.

1 Pluto's Kiss

In the .hack universe, The Pluto Kiss is a catastrophic event that took place on December 24th 2004. On that day, all computers connected to the Internet crashed simultaneously around the globe. Also, all networked computer and communication network control system were shut down.

In the USA, the automatic retaliatory system malfunctioned, in short time reaching a a point of crisis.

It was later discovered that the virus creator was a 10 year old elementary school student.

After the Pluto Kiss crisis, the 44th president of the USA (Jim Stonecold) resigned in January 2006.

Ever since then, ALTIMIT OS is now the only major operating system in the world due to its stability and the difficulty found in crashing the system.

2 The World

The primary focus of the franchise however is the popular MMORPG The World, which has over one million users upon its launch. The series focuses, however, on a particular set of incidents termed The Twilight Incident in which multiple users were forced into a coma while playing the game. Most of the stories surround an AI named Aura (アウラ) or various other anomalous AIs.

3 Main storylines

4 Other storylines

Other storylines of the franchise that were created later were:

.hack//AI buster , a novelA novel is a long or extended work of fiction written in prose, usually in the form of a story. It is longer and more complex than a short story or novella (ie. 40,000+ words), and it is not bound by the restrictions of plays and poetry. The word "novel" telling the story of Albireo and a prototype of the ultimate AI, Lycoris.
.hack//Another Birth , a novelization of the .hack games, from Black Rose's point of view.
.hack//GIFThack//GIFT is part of the. hack franchise: a one-episode omake that could be received in Japan if all four PlayStation . hack games were purchased. It was included for free on the fourth game disk in the U. The episode is a ridiculous, silly farce poking, a self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek, one-episode OAV that was created as a "gift" for those who had followed the .hack franchise through all its incarnations. It is predominantly a comedy that makes fun of everything that developed throughout the series, even the franchise's own shortcomings.
.hack//ZERO , another novel that tells the story of Karl (カール), and of what happened to Sora after he was trapped in The World by Morganna.

5 External links

.hackhack is a multimedia franchise primarily created by Bandai. The franchise primarily surrounds a future in which one operating system, ALTIMIT OS, is used by all computers in the world due to various computer viruses (in particular, one named Pluto's Kiss)

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