/jp/ - Otaku Culture

So let's try to recap. Hopefully this is mostly right.

God, "they" or "them" left behind a transcript of the future apocalypse in the form of the Revelations of Saint Ioannis. They're also supposedly monitoring humanity closely, and possibly left behind strange artefacts with bizarre powers called "Wisdom". Such artefacts have a date for name, which could be a clue toward their date of discovery (Tungunska and Mary Celeste) or something else.

An illuminati-like group forms with that knowledge. Those are the Three Kings. They seek to prevent this future by killing all of humanity, and hopefully starting back with some worthy survivors. They almost succeed with WW3 but were thwarted in the end by 8MS.

Prometheus splinters from that. They want humanity to win against "them", but aren't opposed to the Three Kings' plan. At some point, Toujirou becomes involved with both Prometheus and the Three Kings, apparently solidly in Prometheus' camp. He schemes something with Mother involving the creation of Miyao.

Ark is created, led by Vier. She seeks to translate the tech given by "them" and protect the Ark, or possibly use it for herself. Ark is considered highly heretical by the Three Kings, and probably Prometheus too, because of their use of Wisdom. The Three Kings try to shut it down, but fails, repeatedly.

The Three Kings, Prometheus, and Ark all have Gauntlet tech. Given the nature of Gauntlet tech being relatively new in-universe, it could be that Gauntlet tech is inherently a "them" technology, maybe something brought by Wisdom.

At some point the Geroy 4 Research Center becomes involved, which means, by association, at least a part of the AOU millitary has ties to either the Three Kings, Prometheus, or Ark. Or first hand knowledge of "them". They're also trying to hatch a plan for humanity by creating "Pandora", which could be the only one able to survive/continue to exist (?) when "they" come. Pandora is Koshka.

Somewhere along the lines, Gunhild becomes a high level member of that particular conspiracy, possibly backed by/spying for the Three Kings.