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== The entire story is in universe post-war propaganda produced by the Gallian government. ==
Think about it for a second, Squad 7 must be the ultimate military version of [[Mary Sue]]. It is an entire unit of [[Good -Looking Privates]] [[Super Soldiers]] who can each kill tons of enemies without any hesitation and even turn the tide of a battle and succeed in missions that the regular army failed at. The Empire are portrayed as evil with few exception, just for the purpose of making the propaganda less obvious. Meanwhile, the story also tries to whitewash the war crimes committed by the Gallian government such as the use of [[Child Soldiers]] by having the character of Aisha. The creators of the game even tries to clue us in on the true nature of the story by revealing at the end that the story was told from a book written by [[Unreliable Narrator|a reporter who worked for the Gallian state radio]]. In reality, the war very violent and destructive which left most of Europa in ruins, and instead of having a happy ending, many of the veterans suffer from PSTD for the rest of their lives.
 
== The original Valkyria became the Darcsen. ==
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As to why one would be playing with these meatbags... Boredom, maybe. Or interest in the Valkyria.
 
* So all the Gallian soldiers have the brain implants necessary for Reaper possession? Man, that's creepy.
** What better way to explain how they just shrug off being SHOT while moving around? The enemy soldiers seem to deal with pain a great deal less...
*** It has been speculated that Shepard is somehow a "human Reaper" who empowers those who join him (but without controlling their free will). If so, this is the kind in the game.
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== Something happened to all the male valkyrur ==
According to this theory, the valkyrur were not always a [[One -Gender Race]]. At some point in the past, though, something happened that killed all the males. The females who remained discovered that after many thousands of years of evolution they were still able to mate with human males, but that just wasn't enough to save their empire.
 
== Welkin is a male valkyrur. ==
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Consider: Even by the most GENEROUS assessment, Gallia lost 75,000 people in EWII... out of a population of 800,000. Now, even if we tweak those numbers to their most generous extent, that still leaves us with just under an 8th or a 9th of their population to death, and chances are it was actually *higher* than that. And then, just when the ability to rebuild is absolutely necessary, a civil war breaks out soon after the end of the Imperial invasion and lasts for about two years. And this is before we talk about the more likely lower population threshold minimum, which would have seen at LEAST 46,000 dead out of a population of 430,000, WEEELLLLL over 10% dead. Now, even assuming that births outpace deaths throughout this period of time, that STILL is a massive chunk of the Gallian population that is just ''dead,'' with the most affected being men and women in the prime of life (who are in the armed forces and generally get killed, incapacitated, or disappeared)- precisely those in the traditional childbearing stages of their lives- with most of the replacements being (naturally) extremely young. As such, the older generation is probably decimated in an almost literal meaning of the term (with about a 10% death rate at least and even more rendered all but hopeless by their wounds). And if Gallia faces another large-scale conflict at any point in the next twenty or so years, that demographic situation is likely only going to worsen. Which means that soon Gallia will be desperately short of warm bodies and with absolutely no room to maneuver in terms of military and political options. And traditionally when that happens, VERY bad things occur.
* On the other hand, the sequel mentions that a large number of Darcsens are immigrating to Gallia from the Empire after Cordelia revealed her heritage. Granted, many were killed by the rebels, but that still represents a source of repopulation, especially after the civil war is won and they can safely resume immigration.
 
** Are you sure the population is 800,000? One of the guidebooks I've got (the Japanese artbook, I think) gives the population as 4.3 million or 4.5 million or so. I had been wondering about the population because Avan's hometown of Mellvere is big enough to field a soccer team, which wouldn't be possible if the whole country had a population equal to one big city. Gallia being in the 4-5 million range puts it around the same as Norway and Finland.
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== There was a process of "[[Only Mostly Dead|resurrection healing]]" being experimented on that was mastered in the second game. ==
A Project run by Dr. Foerster, who doesn't care what country lets her experiment or who gets her research. The first subject was "Ty the Immortal", the Ace who took grenades and headshots and kept appearing in later stages; and then this was given to other Imperial Aces. The nature of this treatment was a kind of "Ragnaid Concentrate Implant" that burst upon the death of the body; flooding it with Ragnaid and rejuvenating it. It takes ''very'' severe bodily damage to overwhelm a Ragnaid Implant.
* Second game; a minor feature of this was given to Lanseal Cadets. Characters do not die anymore if their bodies are set upon by enemies after they're downed. They're "hospitalized" for 3 battles; and then return good as new.
** Abilities like "Phoenix" also trigger this feature; and so is Dirk and Baldren's ability to revive any of their units that you don't send one of your units to retrieve the body.
*** [[It Got Worse]]. After Dr. Foerster left Lanseal, and after Lavinia and Avan <s> destroy</s> make the Ghost Tank stop moving, Dr. Foerster studied it and learned how to duplicate them. The Three-Star missions in [[VC 2]] are Dr. Foerster's mastering reviving Dirk, Baldren, and Audrey (this was occurring even during the main game; hence how you could keep killing them and they would get back up); and backing them up with Ghost Tanks for combat data.
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== The reason the Valkyria are so rare now is because they lose their powers when they get married. ==
 
Wherever the Valkyria come from, it was a matriarchal society. It wasn't a [[One -Gender Race]], they simply come from [[Lady Land]]; eventually when they came and conquered Europa, the Calamity happened. It's said that they installed Cordelia's family to rule and disappeared afterward-- but they didn't. They simply married. Just like the legendary Valkyries, marriage is a ''punishment'' that enslaves a former Valkyrie to her husband and robs her of her powers-- they ''knew'' the Calamity was their fault, but also knew they couldn't rule Europa and do penance for what they had done, so they installed the Darcsen traitor family as rulers in their stead, hoping to do both. Generations down the line the Valkyria eventually married themselves mostly out of existence; modern living Valkyria simply have never had married ancestors.
* Not married, but perhaps when they have children, for the same reason only women seem to be able to naturally use such power.
** Alicia pretty clearly loses her blue-flame powers with the ring and the kiss, though it's possible that she would have only lost her rapid healing and boosted stats at half-health after giving birth (after all, those abilities probably make childbirth a breeze)... unless li'l Isara had already been conceived by that point... *blush*
*** Having the powers dissipate after a kiss doesn't mean she ''lost'' them, just that she stops using them. We have no reason to believe they were actually gone for good.
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Aisha is only 12 in the game, by far the youngest unit in the series thus far (even beating out Aliasse in the sequel). It says she starts studying strategy to emulate Eleanor Varrot. So 20 years down the road, she might be an important character (maybe playable, maybe not). Given she's been described as a genius, she'll probably be 'The Zeri' in your squad so far as brains go. Same with Aliasse.
 
Also it says Helmut and the Imps were preparing for another invasion... but his heart was not into it. So we might have a possible turncoat for the Gallians.
 
== The sniper shot the medic ==
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