Lifeboat

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Image of the lifeboats from KHUX
The lifeboats that are kept in the basement of Daybreak Town's Clock Tower.

A lifeboat (箱舟 hakobune?) is a device used to travel across worlds and through time. In Kingdom Hearts Union χ, some of the Dandelions use the lifeboats to escape the collapse of Daybreak Town.

Story

Kingdom Hearts Union χ

The lifeboats are first mentioned by Darkness, who tells Maleficent that there is a way for her to escape from the data world and return to her own time. Quest 841: Sweeping Away the Heartless Pt. 1 Darkness leads Maleficent to where the seven lifeboats are stored in the Clock Tower of Daybreak Town. Quest 925: To the Kart Bakery Pt. 2 Lauriam attempts to stop Maleficent, but is defeated, and one of the lifeboats is destroyed in the process. Quest 940: Sweeping the Area Pt. 5 Maleficent takes one of the lifeboats from the data Daybreak Town to the real Daybreak Town, and then from the real Daybreak Town back to the future, where she appears in Kingdom Hearts II.

Later, Lauriam, Ephemer, Skuld, Brain, Ventus, and Elrena use the remaining lifeboats to escape from the data Daybreak Town. The lifeboats are able to be transferred between the real world and the virtual world, as Brain appears to send two lifeboats from the real world back to the data world for Ephemer and Skuld. Quest 979: The Final Battle

Kingdom Hearts

The lifeboats seen in the World Terminus.

A lifeboat device similar to the one seen in Daybreak Town can be seen in the World Terminus through the terminal for Hollow Bastion. This device holds five lifeboats, rather than seven, and has a computer terminal at the front which displays the text:

Ones born of the heart and darkness, devoid of hearts, ravage all worlds and bring desolation. Seize all hearts and consummate the great heart. All hearts to be one, one heart to encompass all. Realize the destiny: the realm of Kingdom Hearts. The great darkness sealed within the great heart. Progeny of darkness, come back to the eternal darkness. For the heart of light shall unseal the path. Seven hearts, one Keyhole, one key to the door. The door of darkness, tied by two keys. The door to darkness to seal the light. None shall pass but shadows, returning to the darkness. Ones born of the heart and darkness, hunger for every heart until the dark door opens.

Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory

Cutscene screenshot from KHMOM showing young Kairi in the Radiant Garden machine
Terra-Xehanort sends Kairi to another world in the lifeboat.

The lifeboat device from Hollow Bastion is seen again in Kairi's memory of Radiant Garden. In Kairi's flashback, Terra-Xehanort abducts her while she is fleeing from the Heartless manifesting throughout the world. He places her in one of the lifeboats and tells her that her heart will resonate with that of a Keyblade wielder, leading him to that wielder's world.

Design

The lifeboats are brown, cylindrical containers large enough to contain a person. They have a single door that hinges open from the top. On the outside, they have metallic decoration and a tinted, heart-shaped window that resembles the Heartless emblem. The interior features a similar metallic decoration that resembles circuitry. Their inner workings appear to contain blue and red wires, as seen from the lifeboat that was destroyed in the clash between Lauriam and Maleficent.