So, today I had a good listen to the opening narration, and it seems that...
All this time, I've been mishearing "atama (beginning, first) no moji (letter) o" for "atama (head) no mojuru (module)". What that means is that
there are no head implants, and I've been mistaken with most of my BLADE-related posts. It's just an organization and/or company. There's probably more to it than that, but that's all we know with any kind of certainty for now.
Apologies to anyone I mislead with my phenomenal derp.
Any chance these videos were made by a GAFer =P? Surprised it hasn't been posted on here, they seem to have been made by someone from Japan that knows the Xeno lore well as well.
They are good and deep information that could be drawn from the trailers etc,
#2 has spoilers for Xeno series, mind (Guy started with the narrator to voice the first video, second one hired a professional narrator to read it XD):
Xenoblade Chronicles X Analysis: #1 DOLL
Xenoblade Chronicles X Analysis: #2 WORLDVIEW
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Opening & NLA cut scene w English subtitles
Channel also did a remix of Xenoblade's soundtrack
His Doll analysis is okay, with the exception of him labeling this guy
as a crossbreed. Not sure how he came to that conclusion, when the more likely explanation would be that he's an alien turncoat (in fact, there's mention of a traitor in the story trailer).
That could explain why the humans have this machine fighting on their side
that's clearly not a Doll or of earthly origin (I do agree that senior Horns could've been its pilot).
His second analysis, though... That one falls apart in a bunch of major areas. For one thing, Xenoblade's connection to X has been explicitly refuted by the Treehouse guys. Secondly, using an Easter egg to elicit continuity between the two games makes for a pretty weak argument, I'd say. Not going to bother debunking the entire video (not that I can; there is stuff worth seeing in it), but if you're going to watch it, I would suggest going in weary.
One last thing I want to bring up:
If we can distinguish races by the aesthetics of their technology, then it's possible that we might have a fourth one (fifth, if you count the Nopon) on our hands. Could be that it belongs to a separate catalog of machines home to one of the two alien races, of course. It could also be that this is native technology (as we've seen that there's all sorts of machinery and whatnot that predates humanity's arrival on Mira).