Sorry to disappoint you, but we don't have that kind of relationship. Didn't you know I already have my heart set on someone?
― Opera Vectra
Opera Vectra (オペラ・ベクトラ, Opera Bekutora?) is one of the main characters from Star Ocean: The Second Story, its remakes Second Evolution and The Second Story R, and its sequel Blue Sphere. Opera comes from a noble family of the planet Tetragenesis, but arrives on Expel in search of Ernest Raviede.
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- Profile
- Birthplace: Populated Planet Tetragenesis
- Birthday: August 24th, 343 S.D.
- A woman who prevented the destruction of the universe by the Ten Wise Men in the 360s (S.D.).
- Opera is very passionate, and traveled to Planet Expel alone on hearing that her lover had gone missing there. She encountered Claude and his friends on her journey, and joined them in theirs.
- In combat, she uses a symbological gun as long as she is tall, and specializes in ranged attacks.
Story[]
Search for Ernest[]
The party first find Opera in a bar at Hilton, where she is asking for information about a man with three eyes. When Claude tells her they saw a man like that at Krosse, she introduces herself, only to run off.
The party then go back to Krosse and ask the king about Opera. The king recalls being visited by her, and tells the party she went off to the Krosse Mountain Palace. He then gives the party permission to go there and help her out. They eventually find Opera, and Claude takes her aside saying he obviously knows she's an alien. Wondering what she's doing on an underdeveloped planet, Opera reveals that her boyfriend Ernest is somewhere on Expel, and that she's looking for him. Claude agrees to help Opera find Ernest. Further into the palace, they find where Ernest has been living, but no sign of Ernest. The party leave the palace in search of him.
Back in the Sacred Forest, Opera shows Claude her crashed spaceship and explains that she too is trapped on Expel.
After the events at the Hoffman Ruins, the party finds a man possessed by a ghost outside. Opera instantly recognizes the man as Ernest, but before they can do anything, the ghost attacks. After defeating the ghost, Ernest comes back to his senses, and Opera is glad that they are reunited. While she no longer has any reason to travel with the party, Claude convinces her and Ernest to still travel with the party.
Stranded on Expel[]
Immediantly after the initial storyline, Opera and Ernest go off to explore uncharted planets, and their ruins. Upon arrival to the Planet Edifice, their ship is pulled into the planet's atmosphere, and crash lands. Opera and Ernest immediantly send out an SOS signal to Precis back on Earth, but decide to explore the area while they wait. Because of Ernest's love of archeology, and Opera wanting to be close to him, they wander off too far, and are missing when Precis and their friends arrive on Edifice.
Profile[]
It's easier to become a survivor if you're living in a dangerous world.
― Opera
Aristocratic, Opera enjoys shopping though she has an adventurous side, but she even does battle in a regal dress. She likes handling projectile weapons, particularly guns and firearms, as well as operating and repairing vehicles; the Tetrageniot dislikes compromising and macho men but likes men that are cool, intelligent, and sexy.
Opera's favorite instrument is the Piano, and her favorite foods are Apple Cider (in The Second Story) and Lime Cooler (in Second Evolution).
Gameplay[]
With screeching flashes and rumbling blasts, all who oppose her are felled to open the way.
― Portrait I
Opera appears as a playable character in Star Ocean: The Second Story, its remake Second Evolution, and the sequel Blue Sphere. Her weapon of choice is the Kaleidoscopic Ray Gun, a enormous gun as tall as she is, and is thus a long-ranged fighter. Unlike all other characters, she does not swap weapons, instead she equips clips to her ray gun. If Opera is recruited, it becomes impossible to recruit Ashton Anchors. Furthermore, she is required to be in the party for the player to be able to recruit Ernest.
She is also playable in the spin-off Star Ocean: Anamnesis, in which she had two variants: "Opera", and "Crimson Opera". In her base variant, she is rifle user and Sharpshooter, whereas in her Crimson variant (her look inspired by Blue Sphere), she is an Invoker and orb wielder.
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Other appearances[]
- Fantasy Earth Zero
- Opera's clothes from Second Evolution were available during a collaboration, along with those of the rest of most of the main cast.
Trivia[]
- Opera's in-game sprite depicts her with a strange headress/tiara that slightly resembles bunny ears. In Star Ocean: Anamnesis, it is revealed to be a pair of goggles.
- In The Second Story R, Opera's idle pose has her briefly putting on the googles and aiming with her rifle.
- Opera is one of three characters who has a "special" ending (the other two being Celine and Ashton). To get her special ending, players must not see the PA that leads to recruiting Ernest.
- Claude is told in the Claude/Opera ending that she is "heir to the head of the Vectras", meaning that Opera's family is one of the four noble houses. Thus, she is considered royalty on her planet. In fact, an NPC in the third installment refers to the Vectras as the suzerain house, meaning Opera's family has control over the other three houses.
- Three of Opera's techniques require creating certain items through Machinist to obtain. The only other character who has to do this is Precis.
- In Star Ocean EX, she wears a perfume called Aphrodite, which is said to help the wearer find true love.
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