- "Aries was designed to override and assimilate anything that runs on code. Any computer anywhere. If it operates on zeros and ones, it’s vulnerable. If you take Aries and upload it to a satellite, it’ll spread like a virus. Then it’ll be a matter of time before someone can control any weapon system… traditional, nuclear, stuff we haven’t even seen yet… and just point it wherever they want."
- ―Ramsey[src]
Project Aries was a dangerous weapons program capable of allowing the user to control all of the world's computers and advanced weapons systems when the two halves are joined together.
History
Creation
For unknown reasons, the parents of Elle Lue built Project Aries and split it into half. To avoid it being used by opposing threats, they locked it with their mixed DNA, meaning only they or their daughter could activate it.
Mr. Nobody tasked Han Seoul-Oh to recover half of the device from Elle's parents. However, operatives sent by Otto stormed their house and blew up Ellie's parents in their car to recover the device. As they attempted to kill Elle, Han saved her life. Mr. Nobody then determined that the device and Elle needed to be kept safe, as Elle was secretly the key to activating it, and so he faked Han's death and the pair went into hiding in Tokyo.
At some point, Mr. Nobody was able to reclaim half of the device from Han and whilst on a plane, in which he had also arrested Cipher, he was attacked by Jakob, with Cipher being extracted and the plane crashing in Montequinto.
F9
During the plane crash, Mr. Nobody sent a distress signal to Dominic Toretto's Crew and Ramsey uses the signal to track down the plane and find the first half of the device which Mr. Nobody hid for them to keep safe. The team were then attacked by the military for infiltrating protected area and fled in their cars, with Letty Ortiz keeping the device in the storage compartment of her motorcycle. When Letty was knocked off her motorcycle the device falls out of it and is stolen by Jakob Toretto who flees and was caught by a magnet plane after driving off a cliff.
Jakob, who had also searched the plane for the device, gives Cipher, who was locked in a cage by Otto and Jakob, an outdated computer which she uses to find the location of the second half, a chapel in Edinburgh. Jakob uses a magnetic field in a truck to scramble security systems in the Chapel and he recovers the second half however after trying to flee in a stolen 2012 Toyota GT86, he is caught by Ramsey and they reclaim the second half.
When Otto and his men infiltrate the safe house, they stole back the second half and fled with Elle who they learnt is the key to activating Project Aries. They release a satellite into space to act as a signal for Project Aries and once in orbit, they activated the device and upload it to the satellite. Dom and his team are were to destroy the satellite by sending Roman Pearce and Tej Parker into orbit in a modified Pontiac Fiero built by Sean Boswell and recovered the device, stopping Otto's plan. It is unknown what happened to the device afterwards, but it was likely destroyed or placed into government custody after the successful mission.
Trivia
- Dominic Toretto and his team are tasked with finding Project Aries unaware that Dom's estranged brother Jakob Toretto is also after the weapon along with Otto and Dom's former enemy Cipher.
- The weapon is named after Ares, the Greek god of war.
- The weapon is so dangerous that Cipher claims it shouldn't exist for another 50 years.
- Mr. Nobody tasked Han Seoul-Oh with protecting Project Aries as well as Elle Lue, whose DNA could activate Project Aries, and they faked his death using Deckard Shaw.