Talk:Committee of 300/@comment-1859455-20130417171243/@comment-7888499-20130417212201

You are right. Steins;Gate certainly has the most expansion potential, and they are certainly milking it for all it's got! Not that I mind. The series is just that good ^_^

A good question about Chaos;Head. I also wonder exactly which world lines it takes place in. Unfortunately, I have only struggled through the Chaos;Head anime and have no intention of reading the visual novel -because I am really, really bad with horror, and Chaos;Head was certainly gruesome. I hate ecchi stuff, too.-; so I don't know if there are some clues we could surmise off of in the original work. However, Chaos;Head was written first, before they had even come up with the "Science Adventure Series" concept, I think. The "world lines concept" was introduced with Steins;Gate, of course, and we know which world line Robotics;Notes takes place in because the Divergence Meter is shown at the beginning of the anime with the Steins Gate percentage.

As you remarked, there certainly is plenty of use of Chaos;Head tech in Robotics;Notes, but not in Steins;Gate. However, it shows up it in other ways. I think there are a few oblique references to CH in the SG anime, but there are plenty more in the visual novel. I'm playing through the VN of SG right now, and so far Faris has text messaged Okabe about Phantasm, the popular indie band in CH; both Mayuri and Ruka have mentioned the Gero Frogs from CH; and Kurisu has mentioned the New Gen. murders from CH as well. Also there is a short story in which one of the characters from CH encounters Okabe, though I don't know if it is canon. -If you are interested Reading Steiner has translated the short story, and you can legally buy the visual novel as a pc download quite affordably by following these instructions from the "unofficial Steins;Gate wiki" ibm5100. net. There is a free fan-translated patch so you can play the game in English. If you wait a couple more years an official translation might be released on Steam.-

The way I view it is Chaos;Head took place in the Alpha attractor field, because it is referenced by characters several times in the Alpha AF. Also, electromagnetic research seperate to SERN's own research is mentioned in the preface to the Z-program in the VN. Chaos;Head also took place in the Beta AF, of which the Steins Gate world line is a part, because Okabe himself remembered the earthquakes in Shibuya, the murders, and the Gero Frogs; and because the Kimijima Kou's research in Robotics;Notes seems to be an extension, though perhaps a different application, of CH's Project Noah. What I don't know is if Chaos;Head is limited to only the Alpha and Beta AF or if it also occured in, for example, the Gamma AF. That is why I left it unspecified in the activity section above.

I don't know if the creators of the series are planning on branching out into more world lines again with a new series. However, if you read the list of activities above, keeping only to events in unspecified and the Beta attractor fields, you'll more or less get the main line of where the Science Adventure Series has headed so far. Be forwarned, however, I am still working on filling in the "Known activity by the Committee of 300" section. I've gotten quite far, but there is still plenty more to fill in, I think. Like you said, it's confusing. The very diverse nature of the real-life Committee of 300's conspiracy, means the creators of the Science Adventure Series have plenty to work with even outside of the Steins;Gate story line. The Committee of 300 supposedly has one goal, but is so vast and so influential and willing to, at the same time, try anything and everything to bring its goal about. That's why in the Science Adventure series it was working on the Project Noah, Z-program, and Project Atom at the same time. It's like weeds. Even if you think you've plucked one danger, there is another. Destroying Noah II in CH didn't stop the production of Noah IV in RN.

I really wish they would release the Robotics;Notes visual novel in English, because I am pretty sure there is a lot of back info that got left out of the anime series. Like why does Daru call his creations "Daru Gadgets" Instead of "Future Gadgets"? Did Okabe not join Sawada's resistance, too? Will they make a new series that focuses more on Sawada's resistance and thereby the characters from Steins;Gate, or will they pull us a completely different direction. I have no idea. There is simply too much potential, but at least from the end of Robotics;Notes we can surmise that the world doesn't fall into a dystopia and space travel continues even after 2020 in the Beta AF Steins Gate world line divergence.

Edit: My goodness, I ended up writing a veritable essay there. Sorry, for the length. Feel free to correct and argue!!! :)

Edit 2: I just updated the section 2010 - 2019 to be 2009 - 2019 and included information that I have so far gleaned from the beginning of the SG VN and the RB anime about how the Committee handled the aftermath of the CH events. I listed it under "multiple attractor fields" for now. Hopefully this gives a clearer idea of how the stories flow into each other.

Edit 3: Updated section 2033 - 2036. It was Suzuha who talked about the chip right after Okabe sent the Lotto 6 Dmail. If the chip was indeed developed by Nozomi Group then that would mean Chaos;Head tech was present and used even in Steins;Gate. As a theory, if the chips weren't meant simply to identify who had already undergone brainwashing treatment, then perhaps they succeeded in minimizing the big terminals that the porters carried into chips for implantation. In any case, Nozomi hasn't succeded in making a Noah that can hit an entire country yet in the Alpha AF of 2036. If they had the Valkyrie resistance would have long crumbled. I wonder what happened to the gigalomaniacs in that attractor field. I can't picture Aoi Sena going down without a fight.