Ariane Yeong

Ariane Yeong is a Gestalt and a pilot of the Penrose 512. According to her medical record, she was born on Leng and seems to have lived most of her life prior to becoming a Penrose pilot on Rotfront.

Biography

WARNING: The following may contain spoilers about SIGNALIS, proceed at your own risk.

Early life

Life with Iris Yeong

Ariane Yeong was born to Iris Yeong on 59-21-D (Leng calendar) on the planet of Leng. Sometime during her life, Iris, a radio officer, would be stationed on the Nation's colony of Rotfront, in particular, Rotfront Interplanetary Station 06. Here, a young Ariane would grow up with little contact with the outside world, knowing nothing of general social contact outside of her mother, leading to her developing an interest in art, particularly painting. However, Ariane's lack of contact and isolation saw her not attending any form of schooling. This lack of both contact and schooling greatly concerned Ariane's aunt, Kamilla Yeong, who wished to take Ariane to live in Rotfront's Sektor C, an urban district. This concern grew to a point that Kamilla would acquire Ariane from the Station, and relocate her to the district.

Life in Rotfront Sektor C

Now living with Kamilla and her unnamed husband, Ariane would begin attending schooling at a late age. Attending Mandelbrot Polytechnische Oberschule, Ariane would struggle in adhering to the Rotfront's strict society, that frowned upon Ariane's interest in art, along with her unorthodox hair color, as she began to suffer from premature achromotrichia. This would result in bullying, with a physical altercation occurring after school in the library, where three masked students would kick and abuse Ariane, laughing as they did. The incident was witnessed by fellow classmate Isolde Itou, who did not intervene in the situation, however, Isolde's twin sister, Erika, would intervene in the bullying subsequently. The result saw Ariane blossoming a friendship with Erika, and Isolde both, the three becoming friends despite their age and cultural differences.

Prior to this incident, Ariane had taking up a tenure as a store clerk in her family's business, Yeong Photo, she would momentarily stop working however after the incident, which resulted in her being forced to visit the hospital with severe bruising. Incidents such as these resulted in Ariane suffering from insomnia, and she would continue to suffer from premature achromotrichia. Sometime during her education, Ariane would sight a poster of the Nation's Penrose Program, whilst returning home from school in Sektor C. This poster would stay with her for years to come. While working there, she would encounter an Imperial Spy who was terrified of her bioresonant abilities. Ariane was unaware of the presence of this ability and power she held, as when conducting a medical checkup during her final years of schooling, the school's administration, AEON, would discover the abilities and withhold them from Ariane. The school's knowledge led to an individual conducting a test on Ariane's abilities in the final years of her schooling using astronomical cards with planets on them to test her abilities. During this time, Ariane would continue to grow in interest of the arts, taking up hobbies such as drawing as well, something that was frowned upon greatly by one of Ariane's Teachers, who recommended Ariane be assigned to military service to "beat" her interest in the arts out of her.

Military Service

As per her Teacher's recommendation, Ariane was assigned to compulsory military service on Rotfront, where she would receive training as a Radio Officer, much akin to her mother. Ariane would not go to this with her friends Erika and Isolde, leaving her feeling alone, along with very disconnected. The attempt to end Ariane's appreciation and dabbling in the arts was however unaffected by the end of Ariane's military service. After two years of service, Ariane applied to the Penrose Program. AEON, in charge of her assignments, would give Ariane notice that she was to be stationed on the S-23 Sierpinski Facility, a remote re-education facility on her homeworld of Leng, if Ariane was not accepted into the program or find other employment by the end of the season. Ariane ended up joining the Nation's Penrose Program, the same one on the posters she had seen years prior.

The Penrose-512

Ariane's reassignment to the Penrose Program saw her stationed aboard one of the Program's vessels, the Penrose-512. Ariane set off on her exploration of the cosmos for life and planets as per the Penrose Program's mission, alongside a replika engineer. Early on into her cycles (time frame aboard the Penrose), Ariane would quickly take a liking to the engineer, a LSTR-type replika known as LSTR-512, otherwise known as Elster. The two began a friendship despite the program's guidelines, with Ariane doing forbidden activities such as playing the unit music and watching movies alongside it. Ariane's admiration of Elster grew across this time, with her finding Elster's familiar Vinetan accent, much similar to her friend Isolde's, "cute". Soon after, Ariane would fall in love and begin a relationship with Elster, the two bonding over their travels aboard the Penrose-512 for the next 3,000 cycles.

On the 3,000th cycle aboard the Penrose-512, also known as the "third phase" of the Penrose program, Ariane and Elster had yet to find life or planetary objects during her voyage in the known time period. Unaware of the orders to come, they share a romantic evening. The two dance before inevitably falling asleep together. While they are asleep, the updated mission orders come in, stating that the Penrose vessel they're aboard is detiorating, and that the Gestalt Officer should be killed sooner rather than later. Ariane, ignoring these orders, would slowly begin to die of radiation poisoning, which caused a variety of health issues, including her hair falling out, and intense insomnia. Sometime after the 262144th cycle, a damaged Elster, in an effort to save Ariane, would use the ship's emergency cryo-pod to preserve Ariane and her health, preventing her from dying. When they were to land, Elster was presumably to awaken Ariane from the cryo-pod, but the unit would die of exposure to the elements aboard the ship, leaving Ariane inside the cryo-pod, still suffering from the effects of the radiation.

Other Lore

Affinity for the Empire

Ariane showcased an interest in the banned Imperial Series, possibly indicating that she held some level of interest in the Empire and Imperial culture.

This interest could arrive due to the Imperial Series seemingly being fictional writing, fiction which showcases creativity even if done for Propaganda purposes, likely interested the art centric Ariane.

Notes

Several notes written by Ariane can be found throughout the game. Each notes a Cycle, which is a day.

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  Cycle 225
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  Cycle 648
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  Cycle 1294
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  Cycle 1840
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  Cycle 2503

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  Cycle 5309
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  Cycle 5434
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  Cycle 5555
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  Cycle 6575

(Translated from french unscrambled version) "Awakened from cryogenic sleep. ..in the empty mess hall. I was thinking about... Elster was looking out of the cockpit window. She looked lost in thought. Sometimes I feel like this is our home now."

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  Cycle 262144

"No longer can tell whether awake or asleep anymore. everything hurts my vision is blurry and my fingers hurt. my back hurts my feet hurt. my teeth hurt. my eyes hurt. everything hurts, all the time. i can't go on any longer please make it stop"

Trivia

• Yeong (楊) is a common Chinese surname. "Yeong" could be a romanization from multiple different Chinese languages and dialects, such as Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien, and Hakka. It is at least likely to not be from Mandarin, since according to Pinyin it would be romanized as Yáng. It also means poplar, a type of tree.
• The character 零 (líng, zero) is always featured on the "This page left intentionally blank" segments, and its Korean pronunciation may also be romanized as Yeong; though this is likely unrelated.
• Other than the Grand Empress, Ariane is the only character in Signalis with white hair.

Gallery

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  Ariane Yeong's medical logs.