Wilhelm (Xenosaga) - Pellegri

Japanese Voice Actor: Eriko Hara
English Voice Actor: Kari Wahlgren, Christine Auten (anime)

Pellegri (ペレグリー, Peregerī?) serves as Commander Margulis' aide de camp and second-in-command of his Inquisitor Fleet. She was stationed with other U-TIC officers on the asteroid complex Pleroma and was displaced when it was abandoned and later destroyed by Sellers. She seems far more conscionable than her commander, as she expressed her outrage to Margulis when the failure of the Zohar Link Experiment on Ariadne resulted in the planet's disappearance and the loss of over half a billion innocent lives. That being said she is capable of turning off her emotional side and becoming very callous and objective-driven when she needs to be. She is not very fond of Life Recycling variants, like the U.R.T.V.s and super soldiers like Cherenkov.

In Episode II Pellegri is given command of the E.S. Issachar, a powerful mech outclassing every other machine the Federation could field. Along with her wingmen Hermann and Richard she was ordered to retrieve MOMO on Second Miltia. Her mission ultimately fails when Canaan arrives in the E.S. Asher and drives the three of them off before they can capture her. Pellegri later reappears on the Ormus Stronghold where she confronts Shion, Jr., Jin, and the others as they are attempt to escape the fortress. After being defeated a second time Pellegri escapes and is not seen again for the rest of the game.

In Episode III the E.S. Issachar is in action once again, piloted by Pellegri. She is still a part of Heinlein's plot and is working to see the new Ormus Patriarch's goals fulfilled. In the recreation of the Miltian Conflict, her past self goes up against Jin and the rest of the party in Labyrinthos when he and his friends try to rescue Shion from U-TIC custody. She faces off against the party for real on Michtam in E.S. Issachar, and gets into a heated argument with Jin, explaining why their previously-hinted at relationship was always destined for failure. After she is defeated, Jin pleads with her in vain to stop fighting and join them in stopping Wilhelm's plans, but she refuses to eject and dies when Issachar explodes. E.S. Dan then appears and takes Issachar's Vessel of Anima.

In the TV Asahi anime Xenosaga: The Animation, Pellegri appears to have once been a student of Jin Uzuki's grandfather, the martial arts expert who taught Margulis, Shion Uzuki, and Jin Uzuki himself how to fight and manipulate the elements like fire, ice, and lightning. Though the events seen in the anime are not canon, much of the history and back story shown in it has been corroborated by various sources in all three games. It is quite possible that this is where Margulis and Pellegri first met, and this is how she was first introduced to U-TIC and the Ormus Society. In the anime, Pellegri is dispatched to chase down Ziggy and MOMO and is given E.S. Issachar by Margulis in order to secretly attack the Kukai Foundation and retrieve MOMO. She is driven off through interference from chaos and Jin. None of these events occur in Episode I, however. There was a lot of tension between Pellegri and Jin when they confronted each other in the anime stemming from their failed relationship. Episode III confirms that she left Jin to devote herself to Ormus and Margulis.

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