Headscratchers / Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon

• What's with Regal's plan? He wants to create a new world of pure evil, which is silly, but I'll accept it. But how is the asteroid involved? His plan seems to be something like this:
  • 1. Sabotage laser plan.
  • 2. Propose Navi plan.
  • 3. Delete MegaMan.EXE.
  • 4. Gain control of asteroid.
  • 5. ???
  • 6. Profit!
    • Regal didn't really have a developed plan until the last third of the game. All Lan and MegaMan.EXE did were bump into a few of his agents, not the organization at large. That's why they had to use so many pointless tournaments as substitute for an actual plot. As for what he wanted to do with Duo; got me.
    • Duo (and the asteroid) were unaccounted-for elements, I do believe.
    • Actually, it's a bit sparsely fleshed out, but it seems to go something like this: In BN4, Regal was already convinced Humans Are Bastards and Nebula was already entering mainstream by the time the game rolled around, and even though he was probably planning to enact the BN5 Soulnet plot, the big rock about to hit the planet showed up, and since he was convinced humanity sucked, he wanted to make sure the big rock hit the planet. He failed, so by BN5 he activated his backup plan (technically his first plan until the asteroid showed up). As for the Dark Chips, he wanted to prove Humans Are Bastards in both BN4 and BN5, and what better way to do it than by corrupting the Internet, which the whole world is pretty much literally connected to. In short, the thin plot can be justified (on Regal's ambition's end at least) by the fact proving Humans Are Bastards was his baseline motivation for both games, on BN4 had him attempt genocide via Colony Drop due to his disgust, and BN5 had him instead try to enact massive More than Mind Control to achieve the same result.
    • according to another wiki: "Regal's plan was to alert the program Duo of the evil that existed on earth and then stop the program with his Navi, LaserMan, to look like a hero." presumably after that the world would acknowledge him and follow his every whim... but we see how well that went for Lan and he wasn't even PLANNING on saving the world
  • Regal didn't really need a plan at the moment. LaserMan had the self-sufficiency to run Nebula by himself while Regal was busy helping to save the world. There was no real "plan" until Regal realized (after the early tournaments) that the meteor was a giant computer system (it's unclear if he and LaserMan were even aware of Duo in the first place). LaserMan and ShadeMan, meanwhile, are busy trying to deal with the MegaMan problem (more specifically, his newborn Dark Soul). It would've been nice if the game went into more depth about the second part.