Gabriel Miller

Gabriel Miller

Personal Information Name (Japanese) ガブリエル・ミラー Name (Romaji)[?] Gaburieru Mirā (Gabriel Miller) Avatar Name (Japanese)[?] サトライザー (Satoraizā) ベクタ (Bekuta) System Name[?] Subtilizer (GGO) Age 28 Birthdate March, 1998 Gender Male Height 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm)[1] Virtual / Augmented Realities «Gun Gale Online» Occupation Chief Tactical Officer (最高作戦責任者CTO) at Glowgen Defense Systems Gabriel Miller (ガブリエル・ミラー, Gaburieru Mirā?), known as Subtilizer (魂を盗む者サトライザー, Satoraizā?, lit. "The one who steals souls") in Gun Gale Online and Project Alicization, and temporarily known as Vecta (ベクタ, Bekuta?) in Project Alicization, was the primary antagonist of the War of the Underworld sub-arc of the Alicization Arc. He is the chief tactical officer of «Glowgen Defense Systems» and the child of the former president and founder of the company. He played Gun Gale Online (GGO) and won the 1st and 4th Bullet of Bullets tournaments on the Japanese GGO servers. He later directly commanded the assault on the Ocean Turtle and used the Soul Translator to enter Underworld, first as Vecta, then as Subtilizer.

Appearance

Gabriel Miller appears to be a tall and slim American man of possibly European descent. He has slicked back blonde hair with two exposed bangs and greenish-blue eyes. His outfit consists wears a white dress shirt, dark grey slacks and custom-made cordovan shoes. In combat, he wears military gear and armor.

Personality

Gabriel first appears to be a charismatic and intelligent man, but in reality. He is a bloodthirsty sadist that is devoid of anything remotely resembling empathy. He murdered his friend just to see what the nature of the soul was like, experimented on animals for that same reason also during his youth, and treats his followers either as tools or his own playthings for his own insatiable obsession. Gabriel constantly views everyone else as inferior to him whilst discarding them after being done using them for his own purposes. He also sees Integrity Knights as nothing but artificial intelligence, as he mocked an AI for sacrificing his own life for others , and then mocked Kirito, Asuna, Alice and Sinon for their supposed arrogance. Due to "Incarnation" amplifying a person's beliefs and willpower to the point of becoming reality in Underworld, Gabriel's obsession with seeing souls manifested during his time in the Underworld. The experience made him insane, as his insatiable obsession granted him superhuman abilites, such as soul absorption, mind control, and even manifest itself into pure energy. As Emperor Vecta, due to it being a superaccount in the Underworld, he was also granted invulnerability, allowing him to survive through anything. His military background also made him capable in close-quarter combat and has reflexes and situational awareness higher than an average human being. All of this result in making him one of most evil antagonists in the franchise.

Background

Gabriel Miller was born in the Pacific Palisades district in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, in March 1998. His father had a hobby of collecting insect specimens and the young Gabriel would seclude himself in the room to view the multicoloured insects with a magnifying glass. During such observations, Gabriel began thinking about what powered those beings. His father then showed him a video about mating praying mantises where the female would devour the head of her partner during the mating, but the insect would still continue to move despite no longer having a head. Since then he began thinking where was the soul of the insect housed in. After conducting numerous experiments on insects by demolishing various parts of their bodies in secret, he concluded that the insect's soul was spread throughout its body. Gabriel desired to see or even capture this soul. However, despite his numerous experiments in his secret laboratory, this wish would not come true.

Background part 2

Gabriel then began thinking about the human soul. As humans could not live on without their heads, he concluded that their soul resided in the brain. He continued his thoughts about the human soul while analysing his childhood friend, Alicia Klingerman. Gabriel envisioned marrying Alicia one day to gain a glimpse at her soul, but, as the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 began, Alicia's family fell under heavy debt. As they were going to move to their kin in Kansas City, Gabriel decided to kill her before her soul lost its brilliance. On the day Alicia said her farewells at school, Gabriel invited her to the forest behind his home where his secret laboratory was hidden. There, when Gabriel and Alicia hugged, he took out the needle, which his father had used on his insects, to pierce through Alicia's left ear while holding her right ear. As Alicia died, Gabriel saw a small glittering cloud passing out of her forehead and thought that what he was seeing was her soul. Ever since then he was obsessed with the human soul.

Background part 3

Gabriel showed great interest in the FullDive technology created in Japan in his pursuit of souls. He even began studying Japanese and fought against Japanese players in Gun Gale Online as Subtilizer.[1] He was a legend amongst GGO players, as he was able to win the 1st BoB tournament with just a knife and a handgun and win the 4th BoB tournament without bringing any weapons of his own, using the «Army Combatative» skill to grapple to his opponent, steal the player's weapon and use it to kill his target. He was somehow able to predict the moves of his targets to ambush them at extremely close range and to kill them before they were even able to use their weapons against him. One day, his company was approached by the National Security Agency and they were requested to participate in an operation to assault the Ocean Turtle to obtain the Soul Translator technology secretly developed there. Hearing about the technology to interface with the human soul and that it had already succeeded in duplicating a human's soul, Gabriel volunteered to lead the operation himself.

Notable achievements

Winner of the 1st Japanese BoB, using only a knife and a handgun. Winner of the 4th Japanese BoB, without bringing any weapons of his own.

in the world of Gun Gale Online GGO

«Gun Gale Online» (ガンゲイル・オンライン, Gangeiru Onrain?, abbreviated as GGO) is a VRMMORPG, developed and operated by an American company called Zaskar, that emphasizes on gun usage. It is the setting for the Phantom Bullet Arc. One of the main events in GGO is the multi-player versus player tournament known as the Bullet of Bullets (BoB). The game started operation in April 2025[1] and has become the most famous Sci-fi VRMMO game in the Sword Art Online Universe since then.

GGO System

Gun Gale Online was created with the help of the free VRMMO game development support package, called «The Seed», and utilizes FullDive technology to set players inside a post-apocalyptic world. It is thus part of «The Seed Nexus», allowing players from other games that are part of the nexus to convert their avatars in the game into GGO and vice versa, though at the cost of not being able to transfer items, having the avatar's stats adjusted to maintain the relative strength between the two games and the player not being able to use the same avatar in the previous game unless it is converted back again.

GGO Setting

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, which had become a wasteland after a huge war long ago, that people had returned to on space ships.[3] The capital city of the game, called SBC Glocken, with SBC meaning Space Battle Cruiser,[2] was originally the spaceship that was used to return to this planet. A huge city of ruins from the war, which has an unlimited number of automated fighting machines and mutant creatures that await adventurers, sleeps beneath the capital city.

GGO Gameplay

The basis of the game's gameplay is to increase one's level, which in turn increases stats that are increased based on player's choices. These stats determine how a character plays and operates in the game, the interval selection can not be altered later, so players must know how they wish to develop in the long-term.

GGO Stats

AGI (敏捷力[4] or 敏捷性[5]アジリティ, Binshou-ryoku, or Binshou-sei or Ajiriti?, Agility) - Affects the player's fire speed (decreases Bullet Circle appearance[6] and stabilisation time[7][6]) and evasive ability.[7] Also affects the player's run speed.[3][5] DEX (器用さ[5][8], Kiyōsa?, Dexterity) - Narrows the area of the Bullet Circle (increases accuracy).[9] The stat is also needed for setting traps.[5] LUK[4] (幸運[4] or 運[5], Kouun or Un?, Luck) SEN (知力[5], Chiryoku?, Sensibility) STR (筋力[4][5][8], Kinryoku?, Strength) - determines the carrying capacity and ability to wield certain guns VIT (体力[4] or 耐久力[5][8], Tairyoku[4] or Taikyūryoku?, Vitality) - Determines the number of hit points the player has.

GGO Skills

Main article: Skills (GGO) As many other VRMMO games, Gun Gale Online also has a system of skills, most of them are related to the weapons the player use, while others are used to create weapons such as «knife creation» and «weapon creation» skills.

GGO Currency

Credits is the form of currency used in Gun Gale Online. The initial amount received at the start of the game is 1000 credits.[2] GGO is the only[10] VRMMO game that has a «game coin to real money conversion system». Not only can players purchase credits with Japanese yen, but credits earned inside the game can be converted into yen, at a rate of 100 credits to 1 yen (the rate in December 2025).

GGO Weapons

There are mainly two types of guns in Gun Gale Online, with each of them have different advantages and disadvantages that limit their use.[3] Optical guns - firing light-based ammunition, they are used primarily to hunt mobs. Their advantages include being lighter, having longer effective range and precision as well as smaller magazine size than live ammunition guns do. However, defensive equipment can be used to disperse the damage of optical weapons, making them ineffective against players. Optical guns are all given fanciful names and shapes. Live-ammunition guns - meant for player to player battles as they are capable of ignoring most counters meant for optical weapons. The bullets of such weapons can pass through defense fields and are able to deal higher damage per hit as compared to optical weapons. However, the disadvantages include having to carry extra heavy bullet magazines around and the fact that live bullet trajectory is affected by wind and humidity. Guns in this category are all originated from guns that exist in the real world. Non-gun weapons, like the Kagemitsu G4 or an estoc crafted from battle cruiser armor plating metal, also exist in this game.

GGO Log-out

Gun Gale Online utilizes the soul-less logout, like the system used in ALfheim Online, where the user can immediately log-out in safe zones, but in the field the body remains soul-less for a period of time and then the user is logged out. In the soul-less state, the user can be killed and have their items stolen, if their body is left unguarded.

GGO Squadron

In place of guilds and parties, GGO uses a squadron-type team play. Some squadrons prefer hunting monsters, while others prefer battling against other players.

GGO Servers

There are two separate servers for Gun Gale Online: the American and the Japanese servers. Until the aftermath of the first BoB, anyone from the American server could choose to play on the Japanese server and vice versa, though only a few players chose to play on a foreign server. This also meant that an American could participate in the Japanese version of the BoB. However, after the first BoB, the two servers were separated, meaning that American players could no longer connect to the Japanese server and vice versa though an American player did somehow manage to get into the 4th BoB despite the regional block.

GGO Other

To play Gun Gale Online, a player must pay a connection fee of 3000 yen every month. Players are given six months window time to pay the connection fee. If a player does not pay the connection fee within six months, the account of the player will be deleted. GGO is the only VRMMO game with «Pro» players, meaning players who make their income solely from the game's «game coin to real money conversion system». They convert credits earned in-game into yen and could use them to pay connection fees, and potentially even for their living. Because the game is running over legal gray zone, no real world contact information about its operator is provided, thus all game-related operations, like joining activities, can only be done in-game via terminals, which can be found in areas like the presidential estate in SBC Glocken.