Sublimation

Sublimation is a technological concept in the Ace Combat 3 world, which involves the coversion of a human being's consciousness into computer software, and uploading into the cyberspace known as the Electrosphere. The Sublimation Project was one of the many projects undertaken by General Resource's Darkness of Enigma group, while the concept itself was first formulated by Youko Martha Inoue, the group's leader.

Notable characters involved with Sublimation
Abyssal Dision, the main antagonist in the latter half of Electrosphere, is one of the first known individuals to have been experimented on with Sublimation. Some time before the 2040 Corporate War, Abyssal was undergoing a Sublimation experiment supervised by Youko when he saw a group of soldiers planting an explosive in the laboratory through a security camera. The bomb exploded, destroying the building & killing Youko, leaving a lone Abyssal in the Electrosphere.

Cynthia Fitzgerald, a pilot of the Neucom's NEU, signed up as a test subject of the Sublimation project, which led to her arguing with her sister in several occassions. If the player chooses to remain with Fiona at the Neucom branch's Utopian Dreams, then Cynthia becomes one of the many Ourobors pilots that assault Expo City at mission 12, Resistance. Cynthia then becomes the main target in the second half of Radio Silence, where she is killed.