Ultimate Hailey: Watcher in the Darkness
The Ultimate Descendant Project refers to a plan in which either the Ancestors' technology and equipment found throughout Ingris, or their special Arche genes, are refined to suit the characteristics of active Descendants and applied to them. The ultimate goal being to enhance all Descendants to reach the level of the Ancestors, the powerful predecessors of humanity.
However, Hailey did not want the Ultimate Equipment. Her near-obsessive compulsion to maintain perfect control over every aspect of the environment as a sniper made her reluctant to adopt new equipment.
When Anais and HQ selected her as a candidate for the next Ultimate Equipment project, she even passed the opportunity on to another Descendant. This stood in stark contrast to some Descendants who resorted to bizarre antics to obtain Ultimate Equipment and gain greater power.
However, when Hailey realized that the obsession, greed, and burden she carried were keeping her shackled, she personally requested the transfer of the Ultimate Equipment she had always avoided.
Then she reaffirmed the resolve she had held from the beginning.
"I only wanted to pull the trigger, to protect."
Ultimate Equipment, Arche Resonance Suit "Pitch Black Firing Line"
Ultimate Equipment that had been available for a long time, but was refused by Hailey. To that end, this Ultimate Equipment, which was designed to minimize interference from external factors in any environment, was returned to its rightful owner.
Unlike most Ultimate Equipment designed primarily to amplify, enhance, or increase the efficiency of the Arche, this equipment operates in a way that emphasizes Hailey's "sniper stability."
Its wearer can maintain and feel a stable body temperature at all times even during extreme external weather fluctuations and has been engineered to selectively filter out external ambient noise when necessary and ensure the wearer is unaffected by visibility limitations even during severe weather such as heavy rain or snow.
This was the result of a decision that, rather than making Hailey's already formidable destructive capabilities even more powerful, the priority was to help her carry out missions more efficiently and effectively.
"This equipment is meant entirely to assist you in making your choices. So that you can choose your targets with greater clarity."
- Anais