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Mega Man Legends is the first game in the Mega Man Legends subseries of Mega Man games from Capcom. It was released on the PlayStation in 1997, N64 in 2000 under the title Mega Man 64, PC in 2001, and PlayStation Portable in 2005. It stars a different spiritual incarnation of Megaman (Rockman), with the personal name Rock (in the Japanese version; explained further in the article) and the surname Volnutt. Apparently the series takes place many thousand years after the Zero series, according to the Rockman Perfect Works Sourcebook.

Story

The Legends (DASH) series take place in a flooded Earth; (which is referred to as Terra in the second game by Yuna) supposedly it is many thousand years after the Mega Man X (Rockman X) series (or more logically, the Zero series). Because of the flooding, only a few sparse islands exist and energy sources are rare. In order to satisify this increasing demand for energy to power up machinery, refractor shards found in ancient ruins are used. These refractor shards are valuable, they serve as an energy source, and they can also be sold for much money. However, the main goal of every person is to find the Mother Lode, an item of supposed infinite power that can fell the need for the energy in one swoop. Those who try to excavate these ruins are called Diggers. Those who assist information-wise from a outside location are called Spotters.

The game begins with Rock Volnutt, a Digger trying to exit a ruin after finding the refractor inside. After dealing with the Reaverbots blocking his way out, he makes his way to the Flutter (the airship which doubles as a "home" for the Caskett family--which includes Roll, his Spotter, Barrel Caskett, their grandfather, and Data, a mysterious monkey that talks in gibberish only Rock himself can understand--and leaves the ruin. However, the Flutter experiences some engine problems and crash lands on Kattelox Island. From there, the Caskett family tries to find a way to repair their ship. They also meet much antagonism from air pirates called the Bonnes, consisting of Teisel Bonne, the leader of the group, and his siblings Tron (who is a mechanical genius and builds most of their robots used in their elegant schemes, also has a secret crush on Rock) and Bon, who can only say one word "Babu"!(but the Bonnes can understand him anyway). They too are seeking refractor crystals- but they steal from others and only want to become rich. What first appears to be a straightfoward task of repairing the Flutter becomes much more as these ruins are revealed to be related to the so called "Main Gate", a place feared by the residents of the island because of a legend that a mysterious being lurks within.

The Main Gate is actually revealed to be a stasis chamber for the robot Rockman Juno (MegaMan Juno), a 3rd class aristocratic unit from Heaven (Elysium). When he is accidentally awakened from his sleep by Rock, Juno makes many strange revelations, calling Rock Rockman Trigger (MegaMan Trigger) and claiming how the island's population needs to be purged so that it becomes more controllable. He calls the residents of the island carbons, which will not be explored further until the events of the sequel. At one point Juno realizes that Rockman Trigger is suffering from "memory loss" and electrocutes him with in order to "reinitialize" him. The Bonnes help him escape the electrical trap and sends him to confront Juno while rooting for him. When Rock is at the door right before Juno, Data appears mysteriously and recharges his energy, while giving him advice as well(gameplay reason). After a huge struggle between the two, Juno concedes defeat and seemingly dies. This is largely due to him being an "3rd class aristocrat model (Bureaucratic Model)", in comparison to Rockman Trigger's supposed title "1st class Irregular Hunter (Purifer Unit)"

Even with Juno's physical body gone, he transfers his backup data into the systems of Heaven, and the Carbon Purification Process(it was a rectangular object from Space with very strange markings seen in the ruins, like the Reaverbot symbol) was still continuing its preparations...until in a rather unexpected twist, Data gives new commands to the system, effectively stopping the Purification and also deleting Juno's backup data from Heaven. Data then reveals that he contains Rock's previous memories, of when he was Rockman Trigger. Rockman Trigger apparently put his memories into Data as a way to prevent Heaven from ever tampering with it. Data promises that he will restore Rock's memory when the time comes. After much rejoicing, the residents proclaim Rock as a hero and the Caskett family rides the repaired Flutter to new horizons...with the Bonnes trailing not far off in a makeshift boat with a ridiculously huge refractor crystal (from the Main Gate)

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