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Theories > Gold Dragon Theory
Written By Geoffrey Duke, March 2003
I wrote this theory in order to speculate about the identity of the gold dragon seen in Panzer Dragoon Saga, and to clarify the Heresy dragon's changing outward appearance from the first time we see it in Sestren's domain to the last. The belief that the gold dragon is the Sestren AI (also known as Sestren Exsis) is common knowledge apparently, albeit not rooted in the fact that we never actually fight a gold dragon. Nevertheless, I want to put an end to the ambiguity surrounding the gold dragon which has arisen in the wake of Panzer Dragoon Orta. The Heresy dragon isn't gold in Panzer Dragoon Saga, even if it is in Panzer Dragoon Orta. The following FMV shots were captured from Sestren's first memory orb, which recorded the Heresy dragon's escape from Sestren space, aka the Sestren data circuit, before the events of Panzer Dragoon Zwei took place:
  The gold dragon, or butterfly-like creature seen fighting the black Heresy dragon, almost matches the gold colours of the eery patterns drifting in Sestren's tunnels, supporting the theory that it is the Sestren AI itself. The gold dragon blends with its environment as if it was a part of it. Sestren Exsis and the Heresy dragon were both AIs given physical form, so it stands to reason they'd seem almost identical.
 This entity/dragon is as black as night. The starkness of the black intruder on its current golden surroundings forces it to stand out as something that doesn't belong here. Why and how it originated in Sestren is unknown. The Sestren AI was designed to control the Tower network, whereas the black Heresy dragon was designed to destroy it. To coin an old cliche, they are opposite sides of the same coin.
The gold dragon wastes no time in blasting the black Heresy dragon out of Sestren space. Once the gold dragon fires several equally golden laser beams at the invading black dragon, the recipient emits sprinkling green light particles. At this point it seems like the Heresy dragon's attempt to take control of Sestren was brought to an end before it even began...
 
Wounded, the black dragon itself spirals out of control through the tunnel and rapidly descends into the outside world, leaving a trail of green energy in its wake. This reinforces the *fact* that the black dragon was the Heresy dragon because the coolia it soon occupies (namely Lagi) emits the same green light on his neck.
At the end of the memory orb, the Sestren AI shouts the words: "Impurity detected, pursue at once". The Sestren AI aimed to eliminate something that wasn't meant to be in its system or the world it maintained via the Towers. It then pursued the impurity using the tools at its disposal (i.e. Shelcoof and the Dark Dragon). The Heresy dragon, however, later returns to Sestren and returns the favour.
When Edge encounters the Heresy dragon at the end of Panzer Dragoon Saga, it is indeed black. The Heresy dragon absorbs and reflects the light sent out by the shining golden patterns forever swirling in Sestren space, at times creating the mistaken impression that it's gold.
We often thought Lagi and the black dragon seen at the end of Panzer Dragoon Saga were the same dragon but in different forms. Lagi and the Heresy dragon were only the same in that they were two parts of the same whole. When the black Heresy dragon escaped Sestren, it found its way into a male coolia Lundi saved from an early death and named Lagi. The coolia was host to the Heresy dragon but still had a mind of its own. The presence of two wings were clear signs that the Heresy dragon had already begun tampering with the coolia's natural growth to put him on a new path to draconic evolution. Lagi separated from the Heresy dragon when it took its real form again, and in so doing, became the ageing mortal his DNA bore him to be. His skin even resembles the green skin of the mutant coolia he once was.
In Panzer Dragoon Orta during another visit to Sestren space, we witness one of Lagi's memories in which he is having a rather one sided conversation with the Heresy dragon before the two dragons go their separate ways. The first thing you will notice is that the Heresy dragon has undergone what at first seems to be a bemusing change in appearance: it bears a golden visage.
To deactivate all the Towers, a quicker means would be to kill the entity controlling them (Sestren Exsis), take its place, and shut them all down. Azel opened up an opportunity that may very well have remained closed without her, leaving the Heresy dragon/Lagi no choice but to destroy all the Towers one by one.
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