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SEELE, Gehirn and the
Second Impact
SEELE, German for 'soul', is a secret organization that was
established some when before the second impact, after humanity learned of their
evolutionary dead end from the dead sea scrolls; one of the great twentieth
century archaeological finds. SEELE, realizing humanity's limitations, thus
began the human instrumentality project; the next step in human evolution. The
creation of a single perfect entity formed from the unity of all human souls.
Otherwise known as the third impact.
Based on the many predictions depicted in the dead sea scrolls, SEELE organized
an expedition to the south pole lead by Misato's father, Dr. Katsuragi, and it
was there that the second greatest twentieth century archaeological find was
found buried deep in the Antarctic; the first Angel, Adam. Humanity had found
their god of gods, but when humanity attempted to contain what they had found,
by reducing Adam to his embryo form, their god fought back, the second impact...
Other than those individuals who left prior to the second impact, only Misato,
at the time still a young girl, from the expedition team survived the
nightmarish hell, no one else was spared as the polar ice caps melted giving
rise to the true dead sea. All knowledge of the incident was covered up by the
UN, or to be exact by SEELE now using the UN as a cover for the organization,
and so the popular meteorite story was born to divert any unwanted attention.
In order to realize the artificial induction of humanity's next stage of
evolution, SEELE formed the human instrumentality committee and then founded the
organization known as Gehirn, German for 'brain'. Gehirn built a research
facility in the Geo Front beneath Tokyo-3, and it was this facility which later
formed the head quarters for Gehirn's successor, NERV. Gehirn was responsible
for project E, the project to revive Adam from his remains found after the
second impact, and it was also during this time that the MAGI system was
developed by Ritsuko's mother, Naoko Akagi, who worked for Gehirn at the time.
NERV and a Probable Third
Impact
The official story for NERV's existence is to prevent the third
impact instigated by Angels through physical contact with Adam, however, this
elaborate and widely believed story merely exists to cover NERV's/SEELE's true
intention. NERV exists in fact solely for the purpose of instigating the third
impact upon the annihilation of all the Angels. The Eva series was in fact not
intended as a weapon, but instead as a means of invoking the third impact.
NERV, German for 'nerve', is a front for SEELE, founded by the organization
solely for the purpose of carrying out their wishes, that is their scenario, in
particular the human instrumentality project. The committee appointed Gendo as
head of NERV, and hence also of the instrumentality project. Gendo's task was to
effectively implement the instrumentality of man, seeing the project through to
successful completion, however, Gendo's goals, shared also in part by Kouzou,
are some what different to that of his dictators'. These differences are
tolerated for the most part by the committee, though the fragile relationship
between SEELE and NERV soon breaks down upon termination of the seventeenth
Angel.
SEELE intentionally captured Adam in order to draw out the other Angels which
were subsequently destroyed by the Eva series. Upon the annihilation of all
seventeen Angels, SEELE had intended to instigate a controlled third impact by
bringing an Angel into contact with Lilith as opposed to Adam. Of course this
would be impossible what with the annihilation of all the Angels and so SEELE
had planed to turn to the Eva series once again, this time for their true
purpose. Although not entirely Angel like themselves, coupled with lance of
Longinus, however, an Eva would provide a suitable substitute. When the lance is
lost destroying the fifteenth Angel, however, SEELE decided to settle for second
best by attempting to trick the seventeenth Angel, Kaoru, into coming into
contact with Lilith against the Angel's will.
The beginning of the end...
Unfortunately for SEELE Kaoru wasn't to be fooled into mistaking Lilith for Adam
and so SEELE's dream was about to amount to nothing, though maybe not quite.
With Gendo forced to use Unit 01 to prevent Kaoru from accidentally discovering
Lilith within terminal Dogma, the chance of a mergence between both Kaoru and
Unit 01, constructed from Lilith, and thus the third impact still seemed
possible. However, with Kaoru wishing his life to come to an end for fear of
triggering humanity's complete annihilation should he continue to live, SEELE's
dream of instigating a controlled third impact no longer seemed possible what
with the death of Kaoru, crushed by the hands of Unit 01 piloted by Shinji.
With both the key elements required to initiate the artificial instrumentality
of man, that is both Lilith and Rei, and with all seventeen Angels destroyed,
Gendo gets set to realize his dream; third impact along with the reunion between
himself and his late wife, Yui Ikari. With control over humanity's evolution
lost from their grasp, SEELE plan to take back what was once theirs, Adam,
Lilith and NERV, and so both Gendo and NERV find themselves battling an
unexpected eighteenth Angel, humans. Ultimately SEELE, NERV and the Angels share
the same goal, third impact, each desire to control third impact's outcome, or
rather that is to say the future...
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