What is Rath SAO?

«Rath» (ラース, Rāsu?) is a mysterious company affiliated with the Japanese government and Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF). The main goal of the company is to develop Japan's own weapons technology to become independent from other countries in the field and to improve Japan's outdated defense technology.
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Who is the mole in Rath Sao?

The traitor inside Rath turns out to be a researcher named Yanai. A man who once worked for Nobuyuki Sugou, he's since infiltrated Rath in order to leak information to the American National Security Agency. When Higa attempts to restore Kirito, Yanai tries to thwart the operation by holding him at gunpoint.
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Is Alice a Fluctlight?

The distinction between Alice and Yui is that Yui is a program created with parameters and an objective, while Alice is a copy of a fluctlightーesentially a human soulーthat is not coded to react or think, in a certain way. In more scientific terms, Alice is a bottom-up AI while Yui is a top-down one.
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What is the point of Alicization?

Project Alicization is a top-secret AI project run by Rath, a shadowy company with ties to the Japanese government. Led by Seijirou Kikuoka, Rath aims to create weapons that put Japan at the forefront of world warfare.
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What does Alice stand for Sao?

The name Alicization is formed from the acronym A.L.I.C.E (Artificial Labile Intelligent Cybernated Existence, or a highly adaptive artificial intelligence), in reference to the project's goal of turning artificial human Fluctlights into «Alice».
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Is Alice Zuberg a robot?

In the real world, Alice is an android with her exact appearance from Underworld. She wears the SAO Survivor School uniform and white stockings.
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Why is Aincrad in Alo?

Aincrad, and New Aincrad, is the setting of the VRMMORPGs Sword Art Online (SAO) and ALfheim Online (ALO). It gets it's name from a concept called An Incarnating Radius and is an abbreviation of that concept.
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Is Kirito a Fluctlight?

Higa deleted the real Kirito's memories of the past 200 years spent in the underworld and at the same time copied his fluctlight so although the real Kirito has had the past 200 years wiped from his memory, a copy of those memories still exist as a fluctlight which will be at some point injected into the Underworld so ...
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Is Alicization the end of SAO?

Sword Art Online Fans Bid Farewell to the Alicization Arc Following War of Underworld Finale. Sword Art Online's massive Alicization saga has finally come to an end, and fans are bidding farewell to this season after the final episode of War of Underworld.
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Who attacked Kirito in Alicization?

Back to the Cathedral, Kirito and Eugeo retrieve their swords, just before being attacked by Deusolbert, one of the Integrity Knights.
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Does Alice get a body SAO?

But while she was a later addition to the third season overall, she has been the heart of the War of Underworld saga as Kirito and Asuna fought to free her from Gabriel's cluthes. This brought Alice's fluctlight to the real world, and the newest episode of the series has given her a physical body.
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Does Kirito get harem?

People need to watch actual Harem series if they think SAO is a harem. Kirito has only ever had one love interest, and that's Asuna. Sword Art Online has never been a harem.
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Is Eugeo an AI?

During Sword Art Online, protagonist Kirito entered an artificial world made by scientists who were trying to cultivate a self-thinking artificial intelligence. As Kirito took part in the experiment, he became friends with Alice and Eugeo, both AIs.
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Who put code 871 in Sao?

As this is happening, Kikuoka and Rinko discover that it was Yanai who put in error 871 into Underworld and immediately realize that he's betrayed them.
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Is Higa a traitor?

Back in the real world, the RATH employees realize what was already revealed to us: the guy that went with Higa, Mr. Yanai, is the traitor. He made the eye-code thing and sold them out for the Americans.
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Why does vecta want Alice?

Gabriel was hired by the NSA to retrieve Alice as the most advanced AI produced by Rath. However, his actual goal is to retrieve Alice for himself and to create a personal virtual world that he plans to populate with "high-grade souls" like Alice's and those of SAO Survivors.
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What did Kirito do for 200 years?

Above all, 200-year-old Kirito vows to fight for Underworld's rights so the real world will keep it alive. Kirito and Asuna were known as Star King and Star Queen of Underworld, ruling the land for their 200 years spent there.
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Why is Kirito in a wheel chair?

Essentially, when he tried to contact the outside world after the Administrator fight, a power outage caused a short circuit to his virtual self. As Higa explains, Kirito's in the worst-case scenario.
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Does SAO have a happy ending?

Season 1 of Sword Art Online has two happy endings, with the second one having much less impact. At the midpoint of the season, the Aincrad Arc comes to a close. Akihiko keeps his word to Kirito after their fight and frees all the remaining player-prisoners.
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Why is Kirito and Asuna stuck for 200 years?

The 200 years they spent in Underworld were attributed to Fluctlight's technology effect; time acceleration. After Kirito and Asuna leave the Underworld after 200 years, they decide to remove their memories of the VR world.
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Is Eugeo Kirito's clone?

Kirito is Kirito. Eugeo is Eugeo. Rath cloned babies, so maybe you can say that, Eugeo is a copy of these. But, those babies are just the UW base Fluctlights, Eugeo is himself, not a copy of something.
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Why does Kirito eyes turn yellow?

It's because he gets mad. When his eyes turn gold, it means that he is angry. This happened when he fights Heathcliff, and in the world tree, and when fighting the red (sorry, forgot his name).
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What floor did SAO end?

74th Floor (Aincrad)
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What floor is the skull Reaper in SAO?

The Skull Reaper (ザ・スカル・リーパー, Za Sukaru Rīpā) was the Floor Boss of the 75th Floor in Sword Art Online.
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How big is a floor in SAO?

The 1st Floor (第1層, Dai 1-sō?) of Aincrad is geographically the largest floor. It is almost completely circular with a diameter of ten kilometers (eighty square kilometers). The 1st Floor is roughly the same size as Saitama Prefecture Kawagoe City (population 330,000).
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