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The Holmcross Project is a minor yet significant and crucial breakthrough scientific weapons project in the first Wild Arms game and its remake, Wild Arms Alter Code: F.

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Described as a kind of sacrilege "where man has reached the abode of the gods", the Holmcross Project was a joint biological and weapons research project by the humans and Elw of Filgaia in the days of the wars against the Metal Demons 1000 years ago. Utilizing the same living metal constitution as the Metal Demons but altering them to become human in form, these beings were then known as the namesake Holmcross upon their successful conception. Able to utilize ARMS with a greater psychic synchronization rate, they were seen to be all of Filgaia's last hope against the invading Metal Demons.

However, the Holmcross Project's results would become something more than its initiates could have ever intended. Being made simply as living weapons, and raised to be nothing but weapons, the sentience of Holmcrosses deployed into battle would see them come out of war as those who lived and thrived off of nothing but fighting, to where some subjects reveled and enjoyed the destruction and death they caused, turning them into psychotic and twisted personalities. Bringing into question if the Holmcross were nothing but Metal Demons under the control of men and the Elw, and that their possible mutiny could bring about an even greater threat, this moral consideration led to all deployed and active Holmcross to be deactivated and liquidated in favor of the Guardian Blade project.

Roughly 1000 years later after the wars against the Metal Demons, renowned archeologist and ARMS expert Zepet Roughknight came across a series of ruins related to the Holmcross Project, eventually discovering a Holmcross in infancy struggling to hibernate. The Holmcross, a human boy in form, was unbeknownst to him to be one of these ancient weapons of forbidden knowledge, with both strength unusual for his age and the ability to utilize just about any ARM he could come in contact to. But, seeing him as a child and realizing that he was just as indefinably human as any other, able to feel pain and learn right from wrong, Zepet spent the last years of his life dedicated to secretly raising this young Holmcross as his grandson and ensuring he would not fulfill his initial purpose as a living weapon, but as a human being.

Etymology[]

Holmcross is actually a mistranslation of homunculus (Japanese:ホムンクルス)[1], an artificial human.

The word holm, is a British word meaning an island or islet in a river or close in shore. Judging from this interpretation as to the project being "where man has reached the abode of the gods", the name in this instance may poetically mean "going where no man has gone before" or "crossing the line".

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