RAIDS ONLINE – Ragnarok Artificial Intelligence Defense System Online
In a distant future, creatures known as Ragnarok Beasts will emerge from within the Earth and bring about its destruction, wiping out all lifeforms—including the human race.
However, not all hope is lost. As humanity's greatest creation, a massive artificial intelligence megastructure built on the Moon, known as RAIDS ONLINE, initiates a countermeasure to change the fate of the Earth.
By linking itself from the future to the past—specifically to the day it first came online—RAIDS ONLINE manages to communicate with humanity in the present and transfers their consciousness into the distant future, where they inhabit avatars it has created, known as Devour Beast.
As the Devour Beasts defeat and absorb the powers of the Ragnarok Beasts, RAIDS ONLINE is able to analyze their data and determine the locations of Ragnarok Beasts lying dormant within the Earth, awaiting the day they will awaken and bring ruin to the world.
Armed with this information, humanity of the present can locate, contain, and eliminate the Ragnarok Beasts—altering the future and saving the Earth.
This was the synopsis written on the back of the box for the famous virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) known as RAIDS ONLINE.
It was only a game… or so the players thought.