ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON/Data Logs

Data Logs are collectibles in ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON. They can be obtained by interacting with certain AC wrecks found in some of game's missions. Collecting Data Logs is mostly optional, but occasionally they are required mission objectives. There are 50 Data Logs in total, and collecting all of them will unlock an exclusive Emblem. The player can view their obtained Data Logs in the Archives section of the License Menu.

Masaru Yamamura: There will be missions where you’re fighting across sweeping battlefields–very combat-oriented... But you’ll sometimes be recovering data logs from wreckage and doing other side objectives too.

License Codes

Raven

• Mission: Illegal Entry

License code extracted from an AC wreck in the contaminated city. Contains the pilot's registration data. ---------------- Registration number: Rb23 Callsign: Raven Rank: -- / F Affiliation: Independent • License expires in 3 days

Thomas Kirk

• Mission: Illegal Entry

License code extracted from an AC wreck in the contaminated city. Contains the pilot's registration data. ---------------- Registration number: Rb18 Callsign: Thomas Kirk Rank: 26 / E Affiliation: Independent • License expired

Monkey Gordo

• Mission: Illegal Entry

License code extracted from an AC wreck in the contaminated city. Contains the pilot's registration data. ---------------- Registration number: Rb37 Callsign: Monkey Gordo Rank: -- / — Affiliation: Independent • License expires in 15 days

G7 Hakra

• Mission: Illegal Entry

License code extracted from an AC wreck in the contaminated city. Contains the pilot's registration data. ---------------- Registration number: Rb29 Callsign: G7 Hakra Rank: 22 / D Affiliation: Balam Industries • License expires in 12 hours

System Logs

One-Sided Engagement

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

System log extracted from a wreck. Allows one to examine the operation of the craft prior to its destruction. The log indicates that the FCS was operating at maximum capacity, and yet it was still unable to track the enemy. It was completely overwhelmed by V.IV Rusty's speed. This was clearly a one-sided engagement.

The Deserter

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

System log extracted from a wreck. Allows one to examine the commands received by the craft prior to its destruction. No data regarding offensive or evasive maneuvers detected. It appears that the pilot of this craft immediately pulled the emergency eject lever at the start of the operation.

Video Records

STEEL HAZE

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Video record extracted from a wreck. Allows one to discern the assembly of V.IV Rusty's AC, STEEL HAZE. The STEEL HAZE appears to be assembled from a Schneider high-mobility frame equipped with weapons that allow for swift, agile action. Notably, Rusty appears to favor kinetic weaponry that Vespers members would not normally use.

Communication Attempt

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Video record extracted from a wreck. Contains leftover data from an attempt to communicate with V.IV Rusty during combat. ---------------- How could you...?! I... I know who you are! I've seen Uncle's files... At least tell me why...!

BAWS Arsenal No. 2

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Video record extracted from a wreck. Contains data recorded by the craft's cameras in the past. It seems that this craft was once stationed at BAWS Arsenal No. 2. At first glance, the recovered image depicts nothing out of the ordinary. However, on closer inspection, one can identify noise in one corner of the picture indicative of digital interference... Potentially, an effect of Monitor Display Deception jamming.

Rubiconian Invective

• Mission: Eliminate the Enforcement Squads

Video record extracted from a wreck. Appears to be a recording of a Rubicon Liberation Front address to fellow comrades. ---------------- They say that the Coral was plentiful, infinite! Before the Fires of Ibis. And then the Institute burned this planet dry. The academics in their ivory tower underestimated the power of Rubicon's blessing—and when it laid their weakness bare, they burned it all to ash!

G4's Last Words

• Mission: Operation Wallclimber

Video record extracted from a wreck. An incomplete message sent from one member of the Redguns to another, apparently just before death. ---------------- Iguazu, I'm telling you, man, you gotta give Michigan a chance. He's different from the suits at HQ. Look, I know he's an asshole, but he's looking out for us, you know? Almost like we got a family here, heh. Man, if there's anyone who deserves punching out, it's the freaks who sent us on this suicide mission. You picked a good day to go AWOL... Wish I—

BAWS Guard's Last Words

• Mission: Investigate BAWS Arsenal No. 2

Video record extracted from a wreck. It seems that a guard stationed at BAWS Arsenal No. 2 was shot dead by an unknown aggressor. ---------------- You're just on edge, man. BAWS supplies MTs to the off-world corps, too. No one would ever touch this arsenal. Gotta move as many units as we can to bankroll Elcano. That's the only way we Rubiconians stand a... What was that? The connection's—

The Collector's Last Words

• Mission: Infiltrate Grid 086

Video record extracted from a wreck. An AC that infiltrated Grid 086 appears to have been received by an RaD welcoming party. ---------------- Wait! Let's not do anything hasty! I'm no one, okay? I'm just a lowly debt collector. I didn't know this was your turf, I swear! The guy I'm after, he's a tricky one. He could be hiding anywhere in the Grid by now... Wait—no, please! You don't have to kill me!

Testing New Components

• Mission: Escape

Video record extracted from a wreck. One can see performance tests of an unpiloted AC. An officer's voice can be heard in the background. ---------------- I see no significant difference in performance compared to what an AI can achieve... How very disappointing. This experiment was another failure, then. Regardless, I will have answers. The arrival of ACs brought the age of unpiloted craft to an end... but what essential difference makes them superior? Send a message to the Factory. Have them leave the torso intact next time.

The Fires of Ibis

• Mission: Reach the Coral Convergence

Video record extracted from a wreck. Includes audio of what may be the last words spoken by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- 12 minutes remain, I have done all that I must. I alone shall bear the burden of watching the Fires of Ibis burn. Whatever future awaits the boy, I hope he grows into a man strong enough to seize it. I have friends in the Jupiter colonies... Surely they will look after him.

Comms Records

Friendly Comms

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Comms record extracted from a wreck. This appears to be a conversation between allies prior to the start of a mission. ---------------- We can't beat the top Vespers. We're as good as dead... At least Ziyi is off duty. She's the Liberation Front's little sister... She doesn't deserve to be out there on the battlefield. She can still love, and be loved... Have a family...

Rusty's Encoded Comms

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Contains leftover data from an attempt to intercept V.IV Rusty's encrypted line. ---------------- When......me comes...urlong will...technology... Elcano. You must...hidden...then.

Message for Uncle

• Mission: Unknown Territory Survey (NG+ variant)

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Appears to have been left by an RLF messenger who infiltrated earlier but was killed by the corporations. ---------------- I have to get this back to Uncle! Furlong agreed to provide technological assistance. Now the new model can finally be completed... He has to know—before those two destroy each other!

Doser Ravings

• Mission: Infiltrate Grid 086

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Appears to be a leftover log of chatter between allies. ---------------- Those Coral mealworms... They're just kinda...y'know. Buncha crap is what they are! A teeny tiny shot of Coral diluted all the way down until there's damn near nothing left! No one's getting high off that! That's why we're different. You gotta take Rubicon's blessings raw... Oh man, there's nothing like it! Damn right. Hits your brain with a pop and a sizzle.

Doser Chatter

• Mission: Ocean Crossing

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Appears to be a leftover log of chatter between allies. ---------------- Wanna hear something wild? Turns out those big shots at the PCA who run the satellites take their orders from an AI. They're working for a computer, man! What? Ha, guess you're right. Then again...we're not too different there, huh. Yeah, but at least Chatty follows the boss's orders. S'pose he's just programmed that way, though...

Coyote Chatter

• Mission: Eliminate "Honest" Brute

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Appears to be a leftover log of chatter between allies. ---------------- I dunno about our new boss... Think we can trust him? You think Carla's better? She's got the nerve to call herself a freakin' Cinder. Nice try, lady, but you're a little young for that stolen valor. Man. Are those people at RaD full of shit or what?

Independent Merc Comms

• Mission: Attack the Watchpoint

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Evidence of independent mercenaries sharing intelligence with one another. ---------------- Looks like the PCA inspectors are on the move. Make sure the "four" know. As for the other corps, well... Melinite and Takigawa don't seem too ambitious. All they care about is selling their products. Furlong, though... They're pretending to be neutral, but you know those crafty foxes would never make a move out in the open.

Enforcement Squad Comms

• Mission: Attack the Refueling Base

Comms record extracted from a wreck. Appears to be information shared between members of an enforcement squad. ---------------- We do what the notice from the System tells us. For now, focus on mopping up the corporate forces. Make sure to keep an eye on the independent mercenaries, too. We have Branch to thank for causing this mess... No doubt they've landed on Rubicon.

Observation Data

Coral Density Survey

• Mission: Steal the Survey Data

Observation data extracted from a survey drone. Contains records of surface-level Coral density at the Central Ice Field. ---------------- No major change in values compared to readings recorded in the Belius region. Likely to be cinders from the Fires of Ibis. Inert Coral readings make up 80% of the total. Analysis underway of the remaining 20%.

Installation Survey

• Mission: Steal the Survey Data

Observation data extracted from a survey drone. Contains records about old bases scattered across the Central Ice Field. ---------------- Most of these installations appear to have been built by the Planetary Closure Administration after the Fires of Ibis. They must have been made redundant by the subsequent completion of the Closure System. That said, with a bit of elbow grease, we might be able to repurpose these old ruins...

Offshore Survey

• Mission: Steal the Survey Data

Observation data extracted from a survey drone. Contains records about an attempted video survey of the ocean near the Central Ice Field. ---------------- Our video data of the ocean region has a noticeable gap. Stranger still, this hole in our records remains regardless of how many drones we send. What's going on here? Some kind of camera interference?

Terrain Survey

• Mission: Steal the Survey Data

Observation data extracted from a survey drone. Contains an analysis of a surface-level scan of the Central Ice Field. ---------------- Sonar's picking up something strange—whatever it is, you can't miss it. Some kind of massive cave, perhaps? ...How could there be a cavity underneath this vast sheet of ice?

The City of Xylem

• Mission: Survey the Uninhabited Floating City

Observation data extracted from a survey drone. Perhaps this was recorded by Handler Walter's "friend." ---------------- Xylem remains fully operational. The Planetary Closure Administration did their best to hide the place, but I'll find a way there soon enough... The only ones who know are the PCA, and—

Wave Mutation Detected

• Mission: Attack the Watchpoint

Observation data extracted from an AC of unknown affiliation. Appears to have once been heavily encoded, then cracked by a third party. ---------------- A wave mutation has been detected. It's happening. The aging mercenary is the ideal candidate to serve as the trigger... We must now bring the third factor into play.

Blind Spots

• Mission: Eliminate "Honest" Brute

Observation data extracted from an AC of unknown affiliation. Appears to have once been heavily encoded, then cracked by a third party. ---------------- The aftereffects of the Fires of Ibis are causing anomalies that frustrate attempts to observe a number of sites. The Central Ice Field is dotted with many such "blind spots"—areas that cannot be observed off-planet. The PCA would be keen to exploit these. We'll surely find the first Watchpoint there.

The Enforcement System

• Mission: Underground Exploration - Depth 3

Observation data extracted from an AC of unknown affiliation. Appears to have once been heavily encoded, then cracked by a third party. ----------------- The Enforcement System had been buried deep within Rubicon all this time. Little wonder that the suppression fleet was so quick to arrive.. For now, we shall monitor the Observers' actions... and provide indirect aid to Arquebus.

Text Data

Dolmayan's Writings (1)

• Mission: Operation Wallclimber

Text data extracted from a wreck. This appears to come from the writings of Thumb Dolmayan, Father of the Liberation Front. ---------------- The Coral is Rubicon's blessing. The land is frail and withered, yet within lurks limitless abundance—and just a single drop grants us our flesh and blood. Coral, abide with Rubicon!

Dolmayan's Writings (2)

• Mission: Historic Data Recovery

Text data extracted from a wreck. This appears to come from the writings of Thumb Dolmayan, Father of the Liberation Front. ---------------- How long has it been since I first "saw" her voice? "Fear not," she said. "There will always be plenty." She told me this, as I was imbibing Rubicon's blessings one fateful day... "If I were you, I'd never allow this," I replied. And I was forever ashamed by my deceit.

Dolmayan's Writings (3)

• Mission: Survey the Uninhabited Floating City

Text data extracted from a wreck. This appears to come from the writings of Thumb Dolmayan, Father of the Liberation Front. ----------------- "Symbiosis." She seemed to be contemplating the meaning of the word... This moment of happiness we share comes at the cost of her siblings—sacrifices all. Is that symbiosis? Surely not...

Dolmayan's Writings (4)

• Mission: Survey the Uninhabited Floating City (NG++ variant)

Text data extracted from a wreck. This appears to come from the writings of Thumb Dolmayan, Father of the Liberation Front. ---------------- As always, she whispers to me from inside. She tells me that she found something in the journals of Institute City...something about the potential for symbiosis. "Coral Release..." If such a thing is truly possible, then perhaps I can join her on the other side...

Dolmayan's Writings (5)

• Mission: Investigate BAWS Arsenal No. 2

Text data extracted from a wreck. This appears to come from the writings of Thumb Dolmayan, Father of the Liberation Front. ---------------- She says that she will respect my wishes. If I cross this threshold, tragedy will befall the world of mankind. Yet if I do not... Here I stand, too afraid to cast the die.

Professor Nagai's Log (1)

• Mission: Underground Exploration - Depth 2

Text data extracted from a wreck. The lost auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- Coral is an organic substance capable of self-propagation. The speed at which it proliferates is determined by the density of the colony. As such, a vacuum would provide an ideal environment to maximize Coral density and thus growth. However, one must not overlook the signs of mutations within the Coral brought about by this density effect; it is mutations such as these that will bring about a collapse that humanity has no hope of controlling.

Professor Nagai's Log (2)

• Mission: Historic Data Recovery

Text data extracted from a wreck. The lost auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- Assistant No. 1 has lost his mind. His research has utterly consumed him. Granted, there may be some logic to C-Pulse sensory augmentation of human subjects—but no ethical scholar would ever dare cross that point of no return. Mankind is driven mad by possibilities. What does Coral represent, if not sheer potential?

Professor Nagai's Log (3)

• Mission: Stop the Secret Data Breach

Text data extracted from a wreck. The lost auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- I have decided that Assistant No. 1's son is to remain at the lab. He's a reticent one—tough, too, beyond his years. And now, our research has robbed him of his mother and driven his father mad. He has every right to hate me... Perhaps Assistant No. 2 will be able to help. She does seem to have a knack for assembling toys... I hope that at least she can give him something to smile about.

Professor Nagai's Log (4)

• Mission: Historic Data Recovery

Text data extracted from a wreck. The lost auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- No— The Coral tide is rising at an abnormal rate! This resonance—it suggests some kind of mutation... Run the calculations. How much time do we have? 47 hours, 2 minutes, 16 seconds. We still have time. Deploy Ibis!

Professor Nagai's Log (5)

• Mission: Underground Exploration - Depth 3

Text data extracted from a wreck. The lost auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by Prof. Nagai, the Rubicon Research Institute director. ---------------- There is no averting the ruin that awaits both the Institute and Rubicon itself. I must now concern myself with what follows. The data shows signs of wave mutation... Observation must continue. Assistant No. 2 is our only remaining hope. Though it pains me, I have no choice but to pass the legacy of our sins onto her—my own student.

The Well Dries

• Mission: Retrieve Combat Logs

Text data extracted from a wreck. Appears to be the auto-transcription for a voice log recorded by an off-duty pilot. ---------------- The well we found in Gallia is going to dry up sooner than later... We just can't harvest as much Coral as we used to, and what little we do get, the corps squeeze out of us. They know we need it to raise mealworms. How many more children must we watch starve...?

The Re-education Center

• Mission: Eliminate V.VII

Text data extracted from a wreck. Makes reference to the Arquebus Re-education Center. ---------------- • To facilitate smooth progress of the Coral response survey, a temporary branch of AREC is to be installed on Rubicon. • Primary subjects are to be Rubiconist POWs. Re-education of hostile corporate assets permissible as the situation dictates. • Subjects who are resistant to re-education and who possess a certain degree of combat skill are to be processed according to the relevant procedures and transferred to the Factory.

Image Data

STV Sketch (1)

• Mission: Eliminate the Enforcement Squads

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • Old man (seated) looks like he's seen some things.

STV Sketch (2)

• Mission: Ocean Crossing

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • The woman's the one in charge, and she's the smartest of the bunch. Have I seen her somewhere else before, though?

STV Sketch (3)

• Mission: Underground Exploration - Depth 2

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • Awful bunch. Never again.

STV Sketch (4)

• Mission: Eliminate V.VII

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • Request for interview was met with snide derision by the most important-looking member of the group. • They're not all bad, though. One of them offered me a cup of coffee, or something like it.

STV Sketch (5)

• Mission: Underground Exploration - Depth 2 (NG+ variant)

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • Caught a couple of hired killers on the prowl— managed to sneak in a sketch without being noticed. • "The fool won't pay back what he owes," one said.

STV Sketch (6)

• Mission: Attack the Refueling Base

A sketch by STV, a masked battlefield artist said by some to be one of the last artists to dedicate his career to the art of hand-drawn portraits. His works command a high value among collectors in the know. ---------------- //STV's notes • These independent mercenaries are members of a group of four (one serves as an operator). Weren't willing to answer many questions. • Never got to meet the group's fourth merc, either.

STK Sketch

• Mission: Reach the Coral Convergence

A sketch by the famed artist STK, who perished half a century ago during the Fires of Ibis. His style was assimilated by AI artists, and with time mimicry supplanted the real technique. ---------------- //Notes (STK) • Prof., two assistants, boy • Assistant 1's heading for a breakdown • Boy's sharper than he looks