Talk:D-Reaper

I need to check what exactly the field name is (D-Reaper Zone/D-Reaper/??). Also, what do we want to do for the level field? The cards use something like ~Mega, meaning "equivalent to Mega". (obviously, the level bit is interchangeable).

Finally, do we want to split up this page like the Warriors or Lucemon/Arkadimon pages? Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon  survived intact.  05:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably should. Though it's all the D-Reaper, it makes them easier to keep track of. 'specially if they're important enough to each get their own card. Lanate (talk) 09:23, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay...I think if we finish up the info due to cards, do some cleanup with the fiction sections (Use the storylink template, I may not have copied that over from tfwiki yet), and use up the sources from here and possibly others on the net, we could even try to get the article featured on wikipedia. If anyone wants to look for sources across the net - I think we can make this article golden. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon  survived intact.  19:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Finally - is it worth it to set up a D-Reaper version of the card infobox? One that categorizes them under "Mega D-Reaper cards" instead of "Mega Digimon cards"? I could make that a sub-category of the Mega Digimon cards category, for ease of access, but is it even needed to make the categories say "D-Reaper" instead of Digimon? Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon  survived intact.  18:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

It's probably best, if you want to be really technical. Lanate (talk) 20:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

D-Reaper Report
What Is The D-Reaper?

Ever since the birth of computers, mankind has continued to attempt to create artificial life.

In the strictest sense, the "Artificial Lifeform" movement began in 1987, when Chris Langton held the first Artificial Life (A-Life) Convention in Santa Fe, New Mexico. However, many scientists and researchers had been using primitive computer graphics to create life simulations for quite some time before then.

It is unknown who first created the entity known as the D-Reaper.

It was created before Jiang-yu Wong and his fellow students worked with then-Assistant Professor Rob McCoy (aka Dolphin) as the research group known as "The Wild Bunch", creating the virtual wildlife system "Digimon (Digital Monsters)" in what would later become Silicon Valley.

The virtual creatures known as "Digignomes" were also created before the Digital Monsters, sometime around the early 1980s.

The D-Reaper was born in the late 1970s. Although this is only 30 years ago in our time, it is an ancient period of time in the world of the network(the "Digital World"), equivalent to our Cambrian Period.

The D-Reaper has only one single, simple function.

Whenever the number of lifeforms in the world it inhabits exceeds a certain number (at the time the D-Reaper was born, this world had only a small Random Access Memory size), the D-Reaper deletes them, in order to return the "world" back to a state of "nothingness".

The D-Reaper program remained deep within the recesses of the Net, in a dormant state, merely existing.

As humanity entered the third millenium, the network was expanded exponentially. At the same time, this caused a huge evolution within the Digital World. The wild digimon took the "data" hurled into their world by humans and began to evolve and change on their own.

This led to the re-activation of the D-Reaper.

However, the D-Reaper was an extremely primitive program. How did it have enough power to overcome the digimon? To this date, we do not know.

One possibility is that the D-Reaper hibernated in the depths of the Digital World, deeper even than the refuge of the Sovereigns (deities created by the digimon themselves). It may not even be a part of the world that humans created. It can be theorized that there may have been some connection to another world, a different dimension separate from the Real World and Digital World.

Chronicle of the Digital World and Virtual Creatures
Digital (Network) World

The world's first computer virus (worm) infects ALPAnet (network for the Department of Defense). It is deleted by the Reaper program.

1980's The SIGINT (SIGnal INTerception) system known as Echelon begins operations. Under the leadership of the United States Department of National Security, communications bases are built in various nations across the globe. There is a theory that Echelon's self-defense program may have been a forerunner of the D-Reaper.

200X The Network Surveillance Systems such as Hypnos appear as storms in the Digital World and ravage the land. One of the four Sovereigns, Azulongmon, senses that the D-Reaper may reactivate from its long hibernation in the deepest pits of the Digital World. Using the power of the Digignomes, Azulongmon changes The Catalyst(a program that accelerates the evolution and Digivolution of digimon) into the form of a digimon called "Calumon", effectively hiding it from sight.>From this point onwards, the autonomous Digivolution of digimon is limited.

Real World

1990 Tierra, an Artificial Life research project focusing on "evolution", begins operations. In the Tierra system, a Reaper program causes mass genocide when lifeforms have multiplied beyond a certain amount of memory.

ADR Variations
Everything

Design Works bv Shinji Aramaki
Mr. Aramaki was in charge of direction and contents for the Biomerge/Digivolution scenes into the three Mega forms (Gallantmon, MegaGargomon, and Sakuyamon). This was all that Mr. Aramaki had been asked to do; however, he was also responsible for the image of the tamers within the digimon (the Tamer Ball), the images of the D-Reaper Zone as it appears in the Real World, and even the B2-A stealth jets that appear in episode 49.

Misnamed
Okay, Paratice Head's only sensible name is "Palates Head". "Paratice Head" comes from Chiaki's site. However, his site also uses the incorrect name "D-Reaper Ball" for what the card's clarify is the "Gatekeeper", and he seems to have relied upon a friend "Amy" for translating things into English.

However, the Resource site also uses Roman letters for the ADR's names, even in the Japanese version, and Chiaki was the head writer for this series. And the card's name the ADR's in katakana, like every other Digimon.

So...do we want to take Chiaki's names as the "official romanizations", or do we want to say "well, it's not official enough", and allow ourselves to use the 1) sensible name and 2) official bandai name for ADR's 07 and 09?

Personally, I at least want to use the official bandai name for ADR-09, and I could see how we could let things slide on 07. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon  survived intact.  17:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Let's just say that for our purposes the Official Bandai Name trumps Chiaki's, but we can let slide 07's because it's a romanization of the given katakana but since 09's doesn't even come close, we can regulate it to a mention in the article itself. Lanate (talk) 20:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Featured
Okay, this week I want to make a real push for this article:


 * 1) Integrate the info from the Konaka sources listed here.
 * 2) Do full storyline info for the entire reaper and for each ADR, akin to the Digimon Encyclopedia or tfwiki. Use storylink templates
 * 3) Get the episodes involving the D-Reaper up to the same standard as And so it begins....
 * 4) Have some discussion of the quantum mechanics involved with the character.
 * 5) Get a better picture of D-Reaper "Chaos", that red stuff.
 * 6) Categorize the redirects for the various agents and reapers.
 * 7) Get sources for the "similar concepts" bit.
 * 8) Look for any appearances of the D-Reaper in Bandai merchandise, or shout-outs from other series.

Once we've done that, I think we can port it over to wikipedia, and push for it to be a featured article. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon  survived intact.  10:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)