Towers
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A tower is an object within the virtual world of Lyoko in the French animated television series Code Lyoko.
The towers serve as data processing nodes for the supercomputer, and as a link between Lyoko and the real world. By infecting these towers (usually one at a time, but sometimes more), Xana can attack the real world. Aelita, Jeremie, and Franz Hopper can operate the towers in the same manner, but nowhere near as skillfully as Xana.
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Design
Each tower looks like a giant white pillar with a base similar to a tree trunk. Around each tower are large, grey wires that lead back to Carthage. These wires allow anyone operating the supercomputer to activate the towers. Red energy can be seen pulsing through these whenever Xana activates a tower. The wires can be severed, which will isolate the tower from the rest of the system, effectively deactivating it. This has only been suggested once, in the episode "Revelation", but none of the wires were ever cut. The towers have no visible entrance, but any friendly warrior can phase through the surface of the tower. Xana's monsters, however, can't do the same (this is proven humorously in "Attack of the Zombies", where a Kankrelat chasing Aelita into a tower bounces off the tower's surface and then proceeds to run in a circle without getting up). Even though Aelita always ends up walking in straight, it is possible to miss and appear over the pit instead, as Ulrich and Odd did in "Xana Awakens". The tower can also negate a person's access to it under certain circumstances. This is shown in the episode "Vertigo", where a bugged anti-virus given to Aelita prevents the tower from recognizing her and locks her out.
The inside of each tower remains the same, regardless of who or what is currently using it. The walls are covered with various images of moving binary code. There are two platforms; one at ground level and one higher up. Both platforms have the Eye of Xana printed on them, and the Eye glows when it is walked on. The upper platform has an interface that floats in mid-air, appearing whenever necessary. The interface allows Aelita to directly access the supercomputer.
Around each tower is an aura that changes color depending on who or what is currently using it. If the tower is not being used or is being used normally by Aelita, it glows blue. In the first and second season, this is the normal state for any tower. When Xana activates a tower in order to attack the real world, it glows red. When Jeremie activates a tower, it glows green. Finally, when Franz Hopper activates a tower, it glows white. In the third season, the towers glow white as opposed to blue. This is due to Franz Hopper's intervention in "The Key".
Once a tower has been activated by anyone, Aelita has the abiltiy to deactivate it. Xana can also deactivate its own towers at will. This occurs multiple times in "Cold War" and then again in "Revelation". Xana requires force to deactivate the towers of others. He accomplishes this by having Megatanks attack the tower in question. The force behind these attacks causes the tower to shut down completely after a short time. Laser-fire from other monsters is simply absorbed and dispersed by the tower.
Xana can also take control of towers activated by Jeremie, and has attempted this in "Tip-Top Shape" and "Revelation". Xana succeeded in the former instance and would have succeeded in the latter were it not for Franz Hopper's intervention. Franz Hopper can also take control of towers activated by Xana, as shown in "Revelation" and "The Key".
Different errors in a warrior's program can cause the towers to react in different ways. A clear example of this is shown in the episode "Just in Time", where a bugged materialization porgram infects Aelita's systems and falters her connection with the tower interfaces. Had she tried to deactivate a tower, she would be deleted forever. She is eventually forced to deactivate a tower in the episode and is deleted, but only temporarily, as she is recovered by Jeremie through one of her hairs he had materialized earlier.
Way towers
The way towers (also known as passage towers) are four unique towers that exist in the four main sectors. Unlike the regular towers, they have specialized roles. Way towers allow Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi to travel between sectors by jumping into the data stream below the lower platform. Carthage is the exception to this, as it has no way tower, and can only be accessed through use of the Transport Orb. The way towers also manage the scanners' memory, and are never activated by Xana except in the episode "The Key", but are taken over by Franz Hopper shortly thereafter. The way towers also can be used to analyze those already in Lyoko, and this is used on Yumi in the episode "Missing Link". Further, Jeremie can use the towers to implement cures to anyone affected on Lyoko, as shown in "Temporary Insanity", where he cured Odd and Ulrich of hallucinations given to them by Xana.
Data Tower
Storage For Ac's Files and imagination, and game data. Any Deleted File is Channeled To The Great Beyond Sector
Colour Glows
- Red-Xana
- Blue-Newtral
- Green-Jerimie
- White-Franz
- Black-X
