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In the ancient days, before the Maverick Wars, there were two scientists, Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert Wily. Both were genius robotics experts in their time, but while Tom used his genius to better humanity, Al used his to attempt to conquer the world. The advanced robot, Rock, was modified into Mega Man to combat robots built by Tom that Wily altered. After the first wave, Wily made more dangerous robots in an attempt to destroy Mega Man. One of his own creations, Bass, went rogue when he realized Wily was using him as a tool for his own glory. In their final days, the two geniuses built their last machines; Tom's was the alpha Reploid, X. Wily's final creation was Zero, based off the stolen data on X's schematics. Wily issued Zero a viral program that, if Wily were to perish, would cause Zero to awaken and eradicate all life from the world as one last twisted act of revenge

Later, Dr. Cain awakened X and used his data to create the first Reploids. However, one Reploid went Maverick and killed three humans before it was destroyed. The Maverick Hunters were established from there on out, and Sigma took charge during this time. Sigma valiantly fought Mavericks until he was dispatched to fight a red Maverick that killed anything in sight - Zero. During the battle, Sigma destroyed Zero and contracted the Maverick code into himself. Zero was repaired by Dr. Cain during this time. Sigma went Maverick himself and broke away, taking a majority of the Reploids with him. The recommissioned Zero fought alongside X many times, destroying Sigma as he emerged time and again. During this time, Dr. Cain suffered from harsh mental degeneration, and required an implant to keep from suffering total brain death. Some time after he got the implant, he contracted the Maverick program himself. He retreated to keep himself from going mad in the public scene while the program began to spread into his organic brain. And it became his doom. In the aftermath of the Eurasia and Gate incidents, the scientists of the time designed the Cyber-elves to help contain the Maverick outbreak. One such Cyber-elf, the Mother Elf, was used to neutralize the program in all Reploids. Dr. Cain - who now emerged under the name Dr. Weil - took control of the Mother Elf and reprogrammed her, transforming her into the Dark Elf. Dr. Weil used his retained genius to fully repair Zero's old body - the one that was destroyed after the Eurasia incident - and give it a new consciousness, Omega. Weil then used the Dark Elf to control the world's Reploids, with only X and Zero capable of effectively fighting back. This became known as the Elf Wars, and decimated 75% of the world's population in its flames. Omega was horribly damaged, and Weil was executed, his mind transferred into an artificial prison and launched up into space with Omega's remains. The Dark Elf's location was unknown, and the only person capable of understanding it was Zero. Zero, believing he may still lose himself to the Maverick program, had himself sealed away for a whole century, leaving X to deal with this threat alone.

X constructed the utopian domain, Neo Arcadia, and four Guardians were made from his DNA program - the Sage Guardian, Harpuia; the Fairy Guardian, Leviathan; the Fighting Guardian, Fefnir; and the Shadow Guardian, Phantom.They ruled Neo Arcadia with compassion towards humanity until the Dark Elf returned, remotely controlled by Dr. Weil. The fighting was quelled, but realizing the danger the Dark Elf possessed, X sacrificed his body to seal it away and watched from beyond as a Cyber-elf. The budding genius, Dr. Ciel, made a copy body for X to move into, but it activated of its own volition – whether Copy X was self-aware or a puppet of Weil from his orbital detention center is unknown, but Copy X behaved like a tyrant compared to the original; the fact that an energy crisis had appeared made the situation no better for the Reploids of Neo Arcadia. Dr. Ciel organized the Resistance from the Reploids Copy X decreed as Mavericks, but they continued to lose battle after battle until Ciel entered the forbidden land and her Cyber-elf, Passy, awoke Zero from his stasis.

Zero then fought to protect the Reploids in the Resistance, and killed both Phantom and Copy X while the Resistance fled to a base removed from Neo Arcadia. Elpizo took charge and led Operation "Righteous Strike" which ended in disaster. It was during this time that Elpizo became tempted by the Baby Elves, Crea and Prea, and sought to awaken the Dark Elf. He accomplished this, destroyed X's body, and lost himself to the Dark Elf in the aftermath, eventually being killed at Zero's hands. With the Dark Elf loose, Dr. Weil intentionally crashed his prison into the snow fields, and Ciel and Zero went to investigate.

Onboard the wrecked craft was the battle reploid Omega, which made a mess of both Leviathan and Fefnir and, later, Harpuia. Weil then used a restored Copy X to rule Neo Arcadia with an iron fist, seizing the Dark Elf with Omega and seizing the nation after machinating a confrontation between Zero and Copy X. During this time, X had informed Harpuia of the true nature of this battle, while Phantom spread the news to the Leviathan and Fefnir. In the end, all three Guardians were restored, and they helped to contain Omega as the Dark Elf's program began to decay, the routines added by Weil going first. With Omega destroyed, the Mother Elf died off rapidly.

Weil took complete control over Neo Arcadia, having everyone who opposed his iron-fisted regime destroyed in as swift a manner as possible. Many humans fled the once utopian city, moving in flocks towards areas where they hoped they could find salvation. One such group, led by the rogue reporter Neige, fled to Area Zero. Dr. Weil learned that Area Zero - the site in the Maverick Wars that the space colony Eurasia crashed - was a domain outside his influence, and one that signified hope for humanity to escape his sovereign authority, so he sent the Einherjar and Craft to endanger it while he built the space satellite, Ragnarok, to annihilate all life on earth, including Area Zero. The Einherjar were defeated by Zero, and in his last moments Craft destroyed the cannon control systems to keep Weil from firing it again. Frustrated, Weil changed the orbit path so it would descend on a collision course with Area Zero. Zero forced his way onboard and fought Weil to the end. As Ragnarok broke apart, it fell into the atmosphere and landed in a concentrated plot near Area Zero. And while Zero was destroyed from re-entry, enough of Weil remained so it could oversee the aberrations that plague the world. Out of Zero's remains whatever machines were loyal to Weil managed to make a new Omega, but it wouldn't animate until it came fully online; eventually, there was no need for it to animate, and it was left in the void of the Ragnarok ruins without soul or purpose.