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Lyoko (pronounced either ''l'yoh-koh'' or ''lee-oh-koh'', in the French Animated Television Series '' Code Lyoko ''. DESCRIPTION Lyoko is contained within a supercomputer within the Factory . It is divided into five separate sectors, all with their own unique features. The first four sectors are arranged around the fifth, like the Spokes of a Bicycle Wheel . Each sector is isolated from the others by the digital sea, also known as the digital void. The Ice Barrier is the first sector. The others are numbered counter-clockwise starting from the first. Carthage is the fifth sector. There are more than forty Towers scattered about Lyoko; ten in each main sector and one in Carthage. They act as data processing nodes and as a pathway to the real world. It is through these towers that Xana can attack Earth. Throughout the four main sectors, giant wires wind their way out from the fifth sector to each of the towers in each of the sectors, acting as conduits for data. Red energy can be seen pulsing through these wires whenever Xana activates a tower. These wires can be severed, which will isolate the tower, much like disconnecting a network cable on a traditional computer. HISTORY According to Franz Hopper 's diary, Lyoko and Xana were originally meant to destroy Project Carthage, which was a military project designed to disrupt enemy communications. It began sometime in 1974. Franz Hopper left the project roughly twenty years later. From the information given, it is not clear if the project was ever shut down. The sector Carthage seems to be the three-dimensional representation of that project. Why he wished to destroy it is unclear, but he built the supercomputer to accomplish the task. Lyoko was later adapted to serve as a sanctuary for him and Aelita . This seems to be a result of his suspicions that someone was watching him. He split the keys to Lyoko between himself and Aelita, which would make the pair the absolute masters of Lyoko. The government eventually found him, forcing him to flee to Lyoko with Aelita. Upon reaching Lyoko, Xana imprisoned Hopper and took his half of the keys. Why Xana did not do the same to Aelita is unclear. In her case, Xana took away her human memories instead. Afterwards, some unforseen event left the supercomputer inactive until the group found it. Once it was reactivated, Xana took control and used it to attack the real world. BENEFITS Living on or visiting Lyoko gives people certain benefits, such as enhanced strength, speed, and a measure of immortality as long as they remain there. Within Lyoko, the normal laws of gravity and physics do not fully apply, allowing those in Lyoko to easily achieve feats of acrobatic prowess that would be considered almost (if not completely) impossible for even the most well-trained athlete. As such, anyone that goes to Lyoko seems to gain an increase in speed, strength, and agility. Fatigue is practically nonexistent on Lyoko. While in Lyoko, people only get tired when hit with the largest of blasts, such as the elliptical laser of a Megatank , and even then they recover fairly quickly. Mental fatigue, however, is a big problem. This is especially true of Yumi and her Telekinetic power. Various outside factors or damage (such as Laughing Gas or Scanner damage) can negate some of the benefits, however. Aging is also nonexistent on Lyoko, due to the nature of how people arrive there. Because their bodies are made of code and not flesh and blood, the aging process is not duplicated in their virtual forms. A clear example of this is given with Aelita, who spends an estimated ten years on Lyoko after arriving there around the age of twelve. She does not age at any point during those ten years. The same benefit would also pass to Odd , Yumi , and Ulrich , but their overall exposure to Lyoko is not enough for any noticeable difference to be seen. TOWERS See Also: Tower (Code Lyoko) The towers serve as data processing nodes for the supercomputer, and as a link between Lyoko and the real world. By infecting these towers (usually one at a time, but sometimes more) Xana can attack the real world. Aelita , Jeremie , and Franz Hopper can operate the towers in the same manner, but nowhere near as skillfully as Xana can. Xana can take over towers activated by Jeremie, and Franz can do the same with both Jeremie's and Xana's towers. Aelita is capable of deactivating any tower. PARTS OF LYOKO Ice Barrier True to its name, the Ice Barrier is cold and icy. Composed of large glaciers and thin paths covered in a thin layer of snow, the Ice Barrier is just as slippery as any ice-covered area in the real world. Many of the Towers in this sector are very well hidden, and are often only accessible through tunnels one must "surf" down. On occasion, the group has had to traverse mazes in order to find the towers. In the episode "The Girl of the Dreams", Odd mentions that Aelita may be "snowbound," referring to a blizzard, but this phenomenon has yet to be observed in any episode. Simulated water exists in this sector, and like actual water can be swum through. Xana's monsters have proven to be less than proficient swimmers, as four Tarantulas drowned in the episode "Temptation". Odd, on the other hand, has no trouble swimming through the water in the episode "Vertigo".
Desert The Desert, like any desert worth its name, is dry and sandy as far as the eye can see. It has an oasis, but the water stored there is just an illusion. It leads to a lower platform. The biggest danger is falling off the edge (plateaus are rather small here) and into the digital void below. Xana has the ability to create sandstorms in this sector (only seen in the episode "Log Book"), as well as tremors that cause the plateaus to break apart. Additionally, in the episode "Plagued", Xana was able to tilt a plateau to a ninety degree angle. Aelita , Odd , and Ulrich were on the Plateau at the time and would have fallen into the digital void had Aelita not used her creativity to save them. The Krabes were able to traverse the tilted plateau easily thanks to their scythe-like legs. Forest Mystery reigns in the enchanted-looking Forest. Graceful trees, suspended in mid-air, let their roots dangle into the void. The Forest can be considered the most beautiful of the five sectors. It also has narrow paths rather than plateaus, though the chance of falling into the void here is less than in the Desert. Despite that, this is the only sector where someone has actually fallen into the void. The trees also provide excellent cover, which can lead to traps. Like the Ice Barrier, there is simulated water in this sector, but in a much smaller quantity. Mountain Its peaks craggy and its stones sharp, one false move in the Mountain and the group will topple off the rocks into the gaping void beneath. The Mountain is full of moving platforms and tricky obstacles, and is known for having further platforms underneath the "cloud cover," obscuring the digital void in some areas. These clouds make it difficult to aim oneself onto the lower plateaus. If one of the players falls a sufficient distance, regardless of whether or not they land properly, twenty life points are lost on impact. In this sector, the Hornets have the advantage over the group. Neither Krabes nor Megatanks have been seen in this sector, probably due to their size and lack of open space in the sector. Carthage A sector hidden deep within the heart of Lyoko, Carthage is only accessible by the special password SCIPIO. This summons the Transport Orb to the edges of the other sectors furthest from Carthage to carry its passengers to the sector's core, called the arena. Carthage is the very core of Lyoko itself. The sector itself is shaped as a giant blue sphere. On the outside surface of the sphere is a barrier covered with images of Binary Code similar to those seen in the Towers . Floating in the middle of the sector is the main body of Carthage – a smaller, but still massive, blue orb. Four data streams feed from equidistant points on its surface to the four other sectors. Everything in Carthage is blue and geometrically shaped. In this sector, the digital void has been replaced by a data barrier similar to the ones in the towers, but falling into it seems to be just as bad as falling into the void. The interior of the orb is an ever-changing maze, designed to act as a security feature to prevent intruders from finding their way around. The interior rooms and corridors of Carthage are composed of planes, cubes, and rectangles that can slide freely over each other. Therefore, this sector can reconfigure its Topography at will. Upon accessing Carthage, the labyrinth will reconfigure into a random pattern and a three-minute countdown will begin, allowing the user(s) try to traverse the labyrinth and disable the security system. The security system is disabled by pressing an Eye-shaped switch (called a "key") somewhere within Carthage. Like the rest of the sector, the key is moved with each visit. Failure to deactivate the security system results in the user(s) being trapped in Carthage and having to wait on someone else to reset the maze from the arena. They do have about a minute or so to escape before this happens, though. After the security system is shut down, a pathway out of the maze opens up. This leads to a multi-directional elevator. It only stops at one point, so a carefully-timed jump is needed to board it. The elevator moves on tracks around the outer surface of the sphere. It will eventually pause to allow its passenger(s) to disembark. It always pauses at the same spot – another platform that leads to the outer surface of Carthage. On the surface is a special interface that allows full access to the supercomputer, Lyoko, and Xana's data. While the interface is being used, the user controls in the lab are locked out. Leaving the sector can be achieved one of two ways: the user(s) can either head back to arena and take the Transport Orb or they can head to the surface and wait for Jeremie to open one the data streams. The first option allows the user(s) to be dropped off anywhere in Lyoko. The second allows them to exit through an exit tower in the sector that corresponds to the data stream they use. Within this sector are unique monsters that call it home. The first of these are the Creepers . These monsters never leave Carthage. They aren't very tough, but they do almost as much damage as a Megatank and can scale the walls of the sector as if they were walking upright. Another are the Mantas . They usually hatch from the outside surface of the sector to prevent intruders from leaving, but have traveled to the Ice Barrier on one occasion. The last is the Scyphozoa . Unlike the other monsters, the Scyphozoa is nearly, if not completely, invincible. To date, it has yet to be destroyed. There seems to be only one. This monster's main purpose is to steal memories, usually Aelita's. It first appeared in Carthage, but now travels wherever it is needed. Carthage is the only sector which can actually devirtualize the heroes without the help of monsters. Various traps exist in this region that can remove a hero in one or two hits. One such set of traps are the walls and ceiling of Carthage, which can easily be moved into positions that will flatten the heroes. Pieces of the ceiling can also be shaken loose, producing the same, albeit less-controlled, effect. As one would expect, getting flattened automatically devirtualizes them. Odd has been the victim of this trap the most; he compares the experience to being run over by a steamroller. Another, less-common trap are security lasers. These have only appeared in the episode "Exploration", and cause 90 points of damage in a single hit. This sector is not connected to the regular Materialization program, which means that if the characters lose their life points here, they will not automatically return to Earth unless the proper program is run. In the episode "Exploration", Aelita was forced to sort through the data contained within the sector in order to find the proper materialization program. It has been discovered that there is at least one hidden tower inside Carthage that Xana can activate without fear of Jeremie's super scan detecting it. It is possible that Xana displaced one of the other forty towers to accomplish this, which would explain why it is not used consistently. This sector was the first sector to exist, even though it's classified as the fifth. The original Project Carthage, as described by Franz Hopper , seems to be represented by this sector, even though the project existed before the supercomputer did. Its purpose was to disrupt enemy communications. For a reason that has yet to be revealed, Hopper sought the destruction of this place. To that end, he designed the supercomputer, Lyoko, and Xana to destroy it. He never went through with this plan, though. Instead, he reworked the rest of Lyoko to serve as a sanctuary for him and Aelita . When they were finally forced to travel there, Xana rebelled. It isn't clear why it did so, but it is clear that Xana took control of the sector instead of destroying it as Hopper had intended. Digital Void The void that surrounds the territories of Lyoko is something of a death trap – if you fall in, the only way out is to use Jeremie's materialization program, and even with it Jeremie doesn't recommend falling in. Along with the permanent Virtualization , whoever falls in gets lost in the void and runs the risk of never being found. The sea waves and moves like any water in the real world. Monsters will be and have been destroyed if they fall into the void. They explode on contact, producing a column of energy. Aelita will suffer a similar fate if she falls in, but whether or not it would produce a similar effect is unknown. Those with some knowledge of computers liken this place to unreferenced data in computer memory: deleted for all practical purposes and ready to be Garbage Collected (unless recovered by a special program first, of course). Virtual Limbo Seen only twice (once in the episode "Frontier" and again in a dream in "Code: Earth"), the virtual limbo exists as a null space between Lyoko and the real world. It exists within the supercomputer's memory, which Aelita is linked to. Jeremie was accidentally trapped here when he first attempted to go to Lyoko. The scanner memory had been cut off before the process had completed, trapping him in the limbo. Upon his arrival, Jeremie was able to speak to Aelita through her link to the supercomputer's memory. Through the link, Jeremie was able to tell the others how to free him. After travelling to all four regions and collecting the scanner memory from all four passage towers, Aelita was able to travel into the limbo and free him. During that time, their minds were melded, allowing them to sense the other's feelings. TRIVIA
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