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'''Babel

Babel’s official name is Babel 71. It is a global broadcast tower originally planned in 1971 and completed in Osaka, Japan, in 1999.

Since the Great Canopy covering the earth cut off the world’s communications network, Babel was designed to act as the center of a global network that sent data even to parts of the world the cable network could not reach.

The initial corporate plans had the top of the tower acting as a Babel Cannon in order to reproduce the word attack only launched twice in officially recorded history, both in Cologne during World War Two. The plan was for that to shatter the Great Canopy.

But to avoid the hit to the corporation’s reputation if that failed, Babel was left as a broadcast tower as per the initial suggestion and, at the request of the plan designer, some Japanese students at the time were given the right to use it first.

Babel acted as the divine pillar for a '''festival''' held in Japan after the country was reunified from its east-west split, but it also presented the possibility of tearing the country apart again.

Babel’s presence placed the center of Japan in the west. A corporation worked in secret to stop that and to recreate the east-west split and there was some turmoil as a result. These issues are still not fully understood and the related court cases are currently on hold due to Tokyo’s closure.

Babel was abandoned in March of 1999, but it was then moved to DT to search for a solution to Tokyo’s closure in August of 1999.

To accomplish this, Babel’s lower levels were remade into a ley line extractor designed to receive the prophecy of the Great God Lives created during a godtact experiment.

The ley line extractor modification received a lot of opposition around the world because it reminded people too much of Tristan, the German tower that caused a ley line disaster in World War Two and is said to have created '''the greatest blank period in Germany’s history'''.

However, an agreement was finally reached when Japan created an international equal opportunity prophecy extraction system and assured every country would have a chance to use Babel as a prophecy extractor free of charge.

Babel’s transport was carried out using a high precision virtual transfer from an artificial port constructed on Japan’s coast and a joint air transport led by the US and said to be the return of the West Berlin support transports. The transport was completed in only 3 months in the outside world and the settings changes and construction took only another half month in the outside world. During this period, many negotiations were held between Japan, Switzerland (DT’s managing state), and the US.

Japan received the right to borrow the Death Techno stored in the Swiss bank and approval to use the Swiss bank as not just '''a money vault''' but as '''a symbol of trust'''. Japan also requested that entrance to DT be restricted while Babel was in use, preventing any tourists from arriving.

Currently (March 5, 2002 DT), Babel is preparing for a prophecy extraction in DT and the operation will begin on July 7 when the boost settings are changed.