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Theories > Dark Dragon Theory
Rewritten By Geoffrey Duke, April 2004
Let's look at two key events displayed via Sestren's memory orbs:
  Sestren's memory orbs begin by showing us the Heresy program's exodus from Sestren. Basically, a golden winged entity is chasing a black winged entity through Sestren's domain, and the former proceeds to promptly kick the latter out. Laser blasts can persuasively do that. The oval eye seems to suggest that Sestren was monitoring this event as an outsider, or a passive observer, as opposed to being an active participant in it.
The dark winged creature in this FMV sequence is in fact a program or virus designed to eliminate the Tower network. Once the Heresy program, or perhaps better named Heresy dragon, escapes the ethereal passageways of Sestren space, it downloads itself into a coolia. The rest as they say, is history. At the end of the initial memory orb, Sestren's voice orders its minions to pursue what it defines as an impurity. If the gold dragon was one such minion, or another dragon program, I don't see why the gold dragon couldn't follow in the footsteps of the Heresy dragon by downloading itself into a coolia as well and evolving it into the Dark Dragon in order to pursue the Heresy dragon into the real world.
In Sestren's fifth and final memory orb, we briefly witness the events of Panzer Dragoon. In this game a powerful dragon of Sestren, otherwise known as the Dark Dragon, endeavours to reactivate a dormant Tower. Though it was successful, both it and the Tower were destroyed by the Heresy dragon.
 During the same memory, as soon as the Dark Dragon reaches the Tower, Sestren shouts the words: "Activation D-Type 01 confirmed". In the actual game, the Tower calls the Dark Dragon Unit 01, which seems consistent with the idea that it was Sestren's voice emanating from the Tower. The question is: what is the creature in the picture to the left? It is shown while Sestren shouts those very words, and therefore could be Sestren.
 However, just after we see the gold-visaged creature as shown above, the camera angle immediately pans backwards to reveal the Dark Dragon. Thus suggesting the golden dragon seen in Sestren space was in fact the Dark Dragon but in a different form. Maybe its relentless chase didn't end inside Sestren space. Otherwise, it probably was Sestren itself, but the idea is food for thought nonetheless.
Side note: the clandestine drone riding the Dark Dragon is still shrouded in mystery, even to this day. The Dark Dragon is referred to by Sestren as a single, independent entity (D-Type 01) in Sestren's final memory orb, and yet, we know the dragon would still require the aid of a drone to activate a Tower. Who was the dominent one in this relationship?
In these memory orbs we're supposed to be watching the world through the eye of Sestren, which begs the question: why would the Sestren AI watch itself through its own oval eye? The eye of the Sestren AI seems to suggest that it's watching the conflict between the gold dragon and the intruding black Heresy dragon from elsewhere. The brief mixture of moving images of the gold dragon with subsequent images of the Dark Dragon soaring past us in the final memory orb struck me as a symbolic method of identifying them as one and the same (in the very least, the order in which the images are displayed is meant to mean something), especially when considering how so many other images are overlapped and blended together to convey meaning in Sestren's memory orbs, not to mention the Heresy dragon's visions (who had a habbit of picturing its future intentions). The memory orb is either telling us that the Sestren AI in the form of the gold dragon was the one responsible for activating the Dark Dragon, or showing us that the gold dragon was in fact the Dark Dragon defending Sestren against the invading Heresy dragon which eventually chased this invader into the outside world. We don't fight a gold dragon at the end of Panzer Dragoon Saga, but I always assumed that the graphical limitations of the Saturn were to blame. The fact of the matter is we can't confirm whether the gold dragon was Sestren or not. The Heresy dragon was damaged when it escaped Sestren space and its essence was scattered among many coolias as a result. It took a year to evolve Lagi into a dragon; if the gold dragon was undamaged what was stopping it from downloading itself into a coolia and evolving it into a dragon within mere days or seconds?
The gold and black dragons seen fighting in Sestren space were duplicate AIs in every respect except for their colour. Couple this with the fact that the Dark Dragon and the armoured blue dragon, aka Lagi, in Panzer Dragoon were both Solo Wing dragons in different forms (i.e. the most advanced dragon in the ancients' arsenal of bio-weapons), and we find ourselves in very familiar territory. The Dark Dragon only arrived when one of the ancient Towers was threatened by forces beyond Sestren's control. The nefarious dragon entered the world to bury the Empire's dream of controlling the Tower outside of its capital city by merely activating it, and to stop the Heresy dragon from destroying the Tower. Judging from it actions, the Dark Dragon's purpose could only have been to protect the Tower -- a purpose that came into conflict with the purpose of the rogue Heresy dragon (who for one reason or another sought to destroy all the Towers). I believe that in all likelihood the gold and black dragons we see fighting for supremecy were sentient AIs capable of possessing and shaping living creatures into ancient dragons. In the light of the possibility that the gold dragon was the true form of the Dark Dragon, imagine if the Heresy dragon's original purpose was to safeguard the Towers before choosing to destroy them...
The Heresy program/dragon isn't gold (not initially anyway), but black and shimmering in gold. The golden patterns twisting and coiling throughout Sestren's tunnels visibly reflect light off of its body.
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