Perlica — Arknights: Endfield

Perlica survived a disaster as a child and found refuge under the Endministrator’s care aboard Dijiang. Her curiosity about Techno-Protocol drew her into the developing Automated Industry Complex. The official comic The Promise expands on her childhood attachment to the Endministrator and a promise connected with seeing the northern reaches of Talos-II. The promise gains a different meaning when the Endministrator enters a long hibernation, leaving Perlica to grow up without their guidance.

During the Endministrator’s ten-year hibernation, Perlica continued visiting the Sarcophagus even as the other children gradually stopped coming. Lycia, whom she had regarded as a sister, also left Dijiang. Perlica stayed, worked through repeated setbacks in Techno-Protocol research, and gradually assumed responsibilities that had once seemed beyond her reach. M3’s account remembers both her growing authority and the loneliness accompanying those years.

Perlica helped make Techno-Protocol practical at an organizational scale and eventually took charge of Dijiang. Her role was not a title simply inherited from the Endministrator: Endfield's records stress that the position was shaped around her capabilities. She also assumed leadership of the Crisis Team and had to reconcile the authority of a Supervisor with the burden of commanding its experienced operators.

Restricted operator records identify Perlica as the designated Signatory of the Zeroth Directive, but expressly make activation of that role dependent on her consent. She chooses to remain with Endfield Industries, and M3 takes her to meet the Founder. The record identifies the appointment and the meeting without explaining the full purpose of the designation.

Ten years after the Endministrator began hibernating, Perlica welcomes them back aboard Dijiang. The reunion is complicated by their amnesia: she knows the significance of their shared past, while they are only beginning to recover the meaning of Endfield's mission. She explains the company's efforts to rebuild civilization through Protocol-Originium and the Automated Industry Complex, including the Reboot of Life objective connected to the Zeroth Directive.

The new crisis in Valley IV forces Perlica into action. She joins the Endministrator and Chen Qianyu in responding to a devastated communications and security situation, confronting Landbreakers and other threats as the team advances. The Valley IV incident ultimately involves a dangerous Æther rift, Nefarith's intervention, and the sacrifice of the prototype Tata to avert catastrophe. Perlica's later recap makes clear that the outcome depended on numerous allies, not only on her own command.

In the aftermath, Perlica recognizes Lycia, the former Endfielder she once considered a sister. Lycia now works alone and pursues her own hunt, following a promise made to her by the Endministrator. Perlica calls her an old acquaintance and explains the distance that has grown between their paths.

When evidence places Nefarith's activity near Wuling, Perlica organizes the transfer of operations and stresses that cooperation with the region's leadership is necessary. She supplies intelligence, coordinates with Fiona and the rest of Endfield, and helps steer the Crisis Team toward its next assignment. Her responsibilities remain diplomatic and organizational even when the Endministrator is the central figure in combat.

Later Chapter II dialogue confirms that the Wuling Very Large Rift is sealed and that the Endministrator has endured another unusual experience involving Si. Perlica meets the returning leader aboard Dijiang, checks whether they need rest, and reports M3's new request: the Endministrator should visit Rhodes Island. She speaks of Rhodes Island's foundational importance to Endfield and of the threat of renewed conflict. This is a direction for the ongoing story, not a completed final outcome for Perlica.