Stellar Blade: All Endings, Explained

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• The Story Of Stellar Blade

• Colony Ending

• Cost Of New Memories Ending

• Making New Memories Ending

• Adam’s Plan For Saving Humanity

Stellar Blade wears its influences on its sleeves, since the whole game is an unapologetic homage to NieR: Automata, the heavily philosophic android epic from 2017. The game deals with many of the same themes, from a war-torn Earth to the meaning of being human.

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The story of Stellar Blade also has several endings, but fortunately they aren’t all that hidden, meaning that you won’t need multiple playthroughs to get the best possible one. They revolve around the final choice you can make in the game, and how much you have developed the relationships between your comrades, particularly with Lily, the party’s engineer.

As expected, spoilers for the game ahead!

The Story Of Stellar Blade

The story of Stellar Blade follows the adventures of EVE, a member of the 7th Airborne Squad sent to Earth to liberate it from its Naytiba infestation. But the real story of the game goes back many years in the past, when humanity thrived as a technologically advanced civilization.

The Birth Of Mother Sphere

The humanity depicted in Stellar Blade reached utopian levels of technology, with near-endless energy thanks to their Hyper Cells and artificial intelligences that were capable of self-awareness. The most advanced of these artificial intelligences was Mother Sphere, a supercomputer created by Raphael Marks.

From the blueprint of Mother Sphere, Raphael created a new line of androids known as Andro Eidos, who at a glance were indistinguishable from any other human. Yet they were stronger, much more durable, and even capable of surviving in the vacuum of space.

The Andro Eidos Uprising

As the years passed, Mother Sphere came to see the Andro Eidos as an improved version of humanity, and decided that the androids should inherit the Earth. This vision made her start a war against humanity, aiming to wipe them out so the Andro Eidos were the only sentient beings remaining.

It isn’t known if Mother Sphere simply convinced the first Andro Eidos of her cause, or if she simply ordered them to do her commands.

With the Andro Eidos being better than humans in almost every way, victory for Mother Sphere seemed inevitable. The surviving humans rallied behind Raphael Marks, who envisioned a way to defeat their robotic opponents: forced evolution.

Creation Of The Naytiba

Raphael became the first Naytiba, an evolved form of humans with increased physical strength, and special abilities like telekinesis and body transmutation. Yet this transformation came with a heavy toll, since only Raphael was able to maintain his sanity: all other humans became feral Naytiba, with grotesque features and heavy bloodlust.

Still, these monstrous forms had an unquestionable result, since they were able to turn the tide of the war and fight back against the androids. This made Mother Sphere retreat to the Colony, a space station orbiting the Earth, and bombard the planet to quell the Naytiba numbers.

The Lie Of Mother Sphere

As decades passed, Mother Sphere changed the narrative of what happened on Earth. She’d tell her android civilization that they were, in fact, the last surviving humans, and the monsters that roamed the Earth were what caused its destruction.

This, of course, made the Andro Eidos believe that they were the original humans, and that the Naytiba were mindless monsters that needed to be destroyed. Since most Naytiba couldn’t speak, no one remained that could tell anyone the truth about the war.

EVE And The 7th Airborne Squad

This is roughly where EVE comes in, as a “human” sent to Earth to liberate it from the monsters. On her journey, she meets Adam, a surviving scavenger, and Lily, an engineer that came to earth with the 5th Squad, two years before EVE’s arrival.

EVE’s final goal is to slay the Elder Naytiba, the source of all the horrors of the Earth. Adam agrees to help her, as long as she helps him protect Xion, the last city on Earth, and a place where many humans are hibernating, awaiting the moment when the Earth is safe again.

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Before facing off against the Elder Naytiba, EVE finds out the truth behind the Last War, how it was caused by Mother Sphere, and that the Naytiba used to be the original humans. With this knowledge, EVE (alongside Lily riding an exosuit) goes into the nest of the Elder Naytiba to have the last confrontation.

Colony Ending

This ending has EVE confronting the Elder Naytiba, who turns out to be Adam. He tells her that, while he may be the Elder, he isn’t feral, and in fact wants a world where both humans and Andro Eidos can coexist, offering to fuse with EVE to usher in a new age for humanity.

While not said during the cutscene, the bio for Adam also reveals that he is Raphael Marks, the creator of both Mother Sphere and the Naytiba.

If the player rejects Adam’s offer, they get the Colony Ending. Here, the final fight is against Adam, who offers quite a challenge, and also has a far fiercer form when he sheds his sanity to go feral, becoming an angelic creature with an armored exterior.

Killing Adam marks the end of the Naytiba, since he was the one creating more and maintaining their ecosystem together. After the fight, both EVE and Lily are greeted by Mother Sphere, who brings a spaceship for them, so they can return to the Colony.

While EVE’s mission is completed, this ending rings hollow, since EVE nor Lily do anything with all the revelations they had on their travels. Mother Sphere can now finish what she started, sending all Andro Eidos to the Earth to become the new humanity.

Cost Of New Memories Ending

If the player accepts the offer of fusing with Adam, both him and EVE become a single entity, although the resulting creature just looks like EVE with a new, angel-esque outfit. This not only gives EVE new powers, but likely allows her to make more creatures like her: a new generation of humans.

As Lily bears witness to all of this from her exosuit (called Providence), the machine starts moving on its own, being controlled remotely by Mother Sphere. This marks the final fight of this ending, a duel between an augmented EVE against a remotely controlled Providence.

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EVE emerges victorious, but at the cost of Lily’s life, something EVE laments greatly. As she leaves the battlefield, she’s confronted by Mother Sphere, who claims that the EVE protocol is over, sending an army of Andro Eidos against the player.

This is where the game ends, leaving a lot of unanswered questions, like EVE’s ultimate fate, what happened with Xion, and whether will humanity rise someday. These questions are answered in the secret ending, but some requirements need to be met before you face off against Adam.

Making New Memories Ending

To see this ending, you need to ensure that Lily’s progress bar is at 100%, and that you visit Eidos 9 before doing the Orbit Elevator section. After this, you simply accept Adam’s offer, and during your fight against Providence, Lily will manage to hack her way out of the exosuit.

After beating Providence, EVE is still confronted by Mother Sphere just like in the previous ending, but this time Lily is alive and well. Lily retreats back to Xion as EVE stays and fights the waves of Andro Eidos sent to destroy her.

After that fight, a new scene now plays, showing Lily taking the final Hyper Cell back to Xion, giving the city the necessary energy to wake all the citizens from their cryogenic sleep. Afterward, we see a Xion full of life, with EVE flying above as its protector.

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This ending has Xion become the birthing place of a new humanity, one where humans and androids can live in peace. There might even be a way to restore the sanity of the feral Naytiba, now that EVE has the powers of the Elder one.

Mother Sphere, however, remains a constant threat, something seemingly reserved for a new game down the line. This fact marks the Making New Memories ending as the likely canonical one, since it is the one that better sets up a sequel.

Adam’s Plan For Saving Humanity

Even after seeing all the endings of the game, you might still be confused as to what Adam's plan was, since his actions seem to contradict themselves. He helps EVE hunt down Naytibas the whole game after all, while at the same time being their supreme leader.

In reality, Adam is not the leader of the Naytibas, even though he is their creator. His plan had two parts: On one hand, create the perfect union between a Naytiba (the old humans) and an Andro Eidos (the new humans), and on the other, build a city to be the safe haven for this new humanity.

Building Xion

Adam built Xion as a safe haven for humanity, no matter the form that humanity would take. Many androids unaffiliated to Mother Sphere reside there, but the majority of people there are in cryosleep, waiting for an energy source that will let them wake again.

It isn’t known if the ones in cryosleep are Andro Eidos, Naytiba, or old humans.

Several Hyper Cells are required to power Xion to its fullest, which is why Adam is looking for them when we meet him at the beginning of the game. Adam left Orcal in charge of Xion, working as the spiritual leader of the city and aware of Adam’s true identity.

Uniting Naytiba And Andro Eidos

One of the first attempts made by Adam to unify Naytibas and Andro Eidos was Orcal, who began his life as a Naytiba and was later merged with an android. This merging was not perfect, which may be why Orcal is the only character with signs of aging.

What Adam needed was the perfect specimen from both sides, and fortunately he already had the perfect Naytiba: himself. For the perfect Andro Eidos, he chose to look for them among Mother Sphere’s forces, since those were the most advanced androids in existence.

Raven And The Attack On Xion

Raven was a member of the 2nd Airborne Squad, sent to Earth with the same mission as EVE: eradicate the Naytibas by slaying their Elder. She eventually learns the truth about the Last War, and meets with Adam, changing her perspective on the world.

Adam wanted to use Raven as a way to merge Naytibas and androids, but her desire for revenge left her imperfect. She ended up gaining the powers of an Alpha Naytiba thanks to one of their cores, and used those powers to kill Mother Sphere’s forces.

When she learns that Adam is planning to fuse with EVE, she lashes out, likely out of envy, and leads an assault against Xion. This means that Adam had nothing to do with the attack on the city, since by that point, he was already planning to peacefully fuse with EVE.

Adam chooses EVE over Raven since EVE demonstrates compassion and the willingness to listen at every turn, both in the main story and in the many side quests you can take. Raven only wants to destroy Mother Sphere, never once trying to aid Adam in recovering the Hyper Cells for Xion.

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