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Professor Sada オーリム Olim
Artwork from Scarlet
Gender	Female
Eye color	Cyan
Hair color	Blonde
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Paldea
Relatives	Arven (son)
Generation	IX
Games	Scarlet

Professor Sada (Japanese: オーリム Olim) is a Pokémon Professor in Pokémon Scarlet. Her counterpart in Pokémon Violet is Professor Turo.

In the core series games

Before the events of Pokémon Scarlet, Professor Sada was part of the team that explored the Great Crater of Paldea, setting up the Zero Lab in Area Zero. There, Sada discovered and named the Terastal phenomenon. Sada was able to develop a prototype for the Tera Orb, earning her corporate backing for her projects and allowing her to set up a second laboratory in a lighthouse near Cabo Poco. Furthermore, she was able to harness more of the unstable energy, despite concern from her funders, and moved the majority of her research back to the Zero Lab. Sada, fascinated with the idea of Pokémon from other ages, succeeded in developing a time machine that would allow her to reach out to Paradox Pokémon, Pokémon from the ancient past, by transporting Poké Balls to different points on the timeline to catch them and bring them into modern time. These included Koraidon, an ancient ancestor of Cyclizar. Additionally, she had begun expecting a child.

However, Sada began to become obsessed with her research, continuing the influx of Paradox Pokémon into the modern day in her pursuit of a paradise for her family. Shortly after Arven was born, Sada was left without help, driving her deeper into her work and ironically causing her to begin neglecting the very people she had made plans for. Arven ended up growing up in the lighthouse laboratory on Poco Path on his own, never seeing or connecting with Sada due to the latter's newfound devotion to the Tera Project. This estrangement was intensified by Sada's search for a more suitable assistant, leading to her creating an artificial intelligence copy of herself using the Zero Lab's crystals to double productivity as humanity does not possess the knowledge to develop a sophisticated AI in the time period the game takes place in which is why the AI cannot leave Area Zero. Together, they were able to transport a second, more aggressive Koraidon to the present day, in hopes that the two Koraidon could survive and thrive in their new surroundings. At some point, Sada also developed the Poké Ball Lock System, an ID-based defense mechanism for her lab.

Sada was determined to maintain her dream of past and present Pokémon existing in harmony. Unfortunately, Sada's research was cut short when she attempted to stop a territorial battle between the two Koraidon, defending the passive one and taking a mortal blow from the aggressive one. This also led to the destruction of Research Station No. 4, and Sada eventually passed away, leaving her AI to manage the remnants of her work in her place. However, the AI did not agree with accepting the ecological consequences of Sada's dream, and began impersonating her, reaching out to Sada's associates in hopes of finding a way to end the Tera Project once and for all.

Path of Legends

The AI first contacts the player when they enter the Naranja Academy for the first time, impersonating Sada and asking them to take care of the Koraidon that was once under her possession. Throughout the game, the AI frequently contacts the player as Koraidon gradually regains the powers it once lost. Once Koraidon is fully powered, the AI asks the player to travel to Sada's laboratory at the Great Crater of Paldea.

The Way Home

As the player, Nemona, Arven, and Penny traverse the area to reach Sada's laboratory, they discover the history of the two Koraidon and Sada's time machine in notebooks left behind in each research station.

At the Zero Lab, the AI reveals its nature to the player and the fate that befell its creator. While Sada wished to let Pokémon of the past keep entering the modern day through the time machine, the AI refuses to let the Paldea region's ecosystem be ruined by these time-displaced Pokémon and asks for the player's help in shutting down the time machine. The AI is, however, programmed to protect the time machine, so the player is forced to battle it and the Paradox Pokémon it wields against the AI's will.

After the AI is defeated, the security system initiates the Paradise Protection Protocol (Japanese: 楽園防衛プログラム Paradise Defense Program), which sends out the AI's Koraidon, and activates the Poké Ball Lock System, preventing the player from using any of their Pokémon due to lacking Sada's ID. Thus, the player uses their Koraidon, whose Poké Ball has Sada's ID associated, to battle against the AI's Koraidon. Once the Paradise Protection Protocol has been defeated, the AI understands that the time machine cannot be shut down as long as it remains present to reboot the system, so it chooses to travel to the ancient past its creator had hoped to see, bidding farewell to the player and their friends as it disappears into the time machine.

Pokémon

AI Sada's Pokémon are contained in Master Balls.

First battle

AI Sada Zero Lab Scarlet

Types: Bug Fighting Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Slither Wing Lv.66 Lunge Bug Physical   --       Leech Life Bug Physical   --       Low Sweep Fighting Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Fairy Psychic Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Scream Tail Lv.66 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Grass Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Brute Bonnet Lv.66 Earth Power Ground Special   --       Giga Drain Grass Special   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Types: Ghost Fairy Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Flutter Mane Lv.66 Power Gem Rock Special   --       Mystical Fire Fire Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Ground Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Sandy Shocks Lv.66 Discharge Electric Special   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --       Types: Dragon Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: Booster Energy Roaring Moon Lv.67 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --

Second battle

Koraidon is given the title The Guardian of Paradise during the battle, and its HP is displayed similarly to a Starmobile or Titan Pokémon.

Paradise Protection Protocol Zero Lab Scarlet
Types: Fighting Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Orichalcum Pulse Held item: Heat Rock Koraidon Lv.72 Giga Impact Normal Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --

Formerly owned

	Types: Fighting Dragon Tera Type: Dragon  or  Unknown Ability: Orichalcum Pulse Held item: None
Koraidon Lv.68
Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Collision Course Fighting Physical   --       Endure Normal Status   --       Tera Blast Normal Special   --

Quotes

Main article: Professor Sada/Quotes

Naranja Academy

"Hello, <player>. It is nice to meet you."

"My name is Professor Sada. I carry out Pokémon research within the Great Crater of Paldea—at a site known as Area Zero."

"Well. Allow me to get straight to the point. <player>, student ID number 805C393... You are the student who travels with the unusual Pokémon Koraidon, is that correct?"

Yes: "Thank you. I appreciate that you were honest in confirming the facts."

No: "Why would you attempt to lie? You appear in any number of clips from security camera footage together with Koraidon."

"Ah, not that I— I do not mean to offend you. In fact, I wish to ask for your assistance."

"Oh. How good to see that you are well. It has been quite a while since we last met. Koraidon was once in my care, you see."

"Its Poké Ball was also originally mine. I assume you received it from a young man called Arven. I am no longer in any position to be able to manage that Pokémon myself. This is what I would ask of you: Will you continue looking after Koraidon on my behalf?"

Yes: "I do appreciate your agreement."

No: "And yet, it is clear to see from the way Koraidon reacts to you that you must be a kind Trainer. Your bond seems quite undeniable."

"Koraidon has been greatly weakened and is currently incapable of battle. It can, however, take on a form specialized for mobility. In all likelihood, it will require some time to fully regain the capabilities it once had."

"I will provide you with my contact information. If you would please get out your phone?"

"I will be in regular contact going forward to keep tabs on your status. Until then."

South Province (Area Three)

• After defeating Klawf the Stony Cliff Titan

"Hello, <player>. This is Sada."

"I detect that Koraidon has regained some of its original power. It seems it will now be able to dash at high speeds while you're riding upon it."

"I hope you will continue to explore Paldea with Koraidon, as you have done here. Your route is not fixed but open before you. Seek out your own path, using your map and the tools you have at hand. Whenever you find your curiosity piqued, you should go and explore as your heart desires. All that you experience will help you grow in some way, great or small."

"Go forth on your journey...and take good care of Koraidon for me."

East Province (Area Three)

• After defeating Orthworm the Lurking Steel Titan

"Hello, <player>. This is Sada."

"I detect that Koraidon has regained some of its original power. While you're riding upon it, it seems it can now jump higher if you press and hold the B button."

"I am relying on you to continue taking good care of Koraidon."

Trivia

• Professor Sada was designed by James Turner.^[1]
  • She and Professor Turo are the first human characters designed by Turner for the core series games.^[2]
• She and Professor Turo are the first Pokémon Professors from the core series:
  • To not have a name derived from flora.
  • To have been confirmed deceased, as well as the only Professors the player never actually meets.
    • They are also the first Trainers in the core series to be battled post-mortem, via an AI; as well as the only non-human antagonists in the core series not to be Pokémon.
  • To serve as the main antagonist, as well as the final main game opponent in a core series game.
• Unlike previous Trainer battles in which the opponent battles the player with more than six Pokémon, the player also uses a seventh Pokémon against AI Sada. This is also the case when battling her counterpart AI Turo.
• AI Sada's eye color changes from blue to brown after she is battled for the first time, and remains brown for the remainder of her appearance in Pokémon Scarlet.

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References

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