balmung is the official name i dont know where he got the balmunk name.
secondly helba removed THAT net slum to try to destroy the phase skeith (who data drained sora and trapped him in the wand)
thirdly consider .//hack lottb cannon fodder because it doesnt follow any of the rules the other parts of the series set.
fourthly the games will answer about any question you have and ill just let you know [spoiler] that kite gets the bracelet meets blackrose fights the phases (the big monster at the end of sign was a phase there are 8 totall that where originally inteded to study human emotions (mainly negative for some odd reason) but where twisted by morgana to destroy people plus they have bracelets that put you into a coma when they data drain you unless kite is around.) also the phases have names such as skeith the terror of death, fidel the machinator and tarvos the avenger (just to name a few of the top of my head) [/spoiler]
also there are two new games coming out .//hack fragment which is a mmorpg and .//hack g.u. which has little data known on it (will post in a second) and will suposedly be longer then all four of the last .//hack games put together.
okay what WE KNOW about g.u. and some theories of mine [spoiler] it starts of with talking about "when "it" was born the first thing "it" saw was a "PK"" (direct quatiotion with included quatiation marks that were included in the trailer) then it flashes through several scenes super quick and shows a guy in black armor taking down a group of pkers that are pking two people (he pulls weapons out of his armor like a scythe, vibro twinblades, he shoots a ball of magic, and he also uses a super cool hybrid between a giant two handed sword/chainsaw/pruining shears to totally decamate the pkers (all the while it quick shows sketchy scenes and flashbacks) then it goes to name 8 people and gives them the titles of the 8 phases (the guy in black armor's name is haseo and it calls him the terror of death the nickname given to skeith) also noteworthy is haseos abilities that far outrange any character to date besides kites bracelet (pulling insane weapons out of his armor and using weapon types of 4 totally different classes that cant interchange weapons or abilities (just so you know heavy blade, twin blade, long arm, and wavemaster ). after it goes through the NEW 8 phases it shows haseo in the church (delta forbiden holy ground) where kite first used the bracelet and tsukasa and co fought off the mu guardians (with machas help) but a key to note is the aura statue is gone. then after this you hear the infamous PING noise and a glowing black sphere appears and blows haseo back. after this haseo is blown back as the orb forms into a twisted version of kite. soulless eye (he is missing one as far as we know) green tinged skin, and stiched together clothes (not to mention he doesnt speak a word and glows green whenever he is hit like a data bug does) haseo proceeds to pull out the twinblade weapons and go after kite which will be henceforth known as tri edge after a translated quote haseo makes about kite and the unkiteness of this new figure. tri edge proceeds to block every attack (though when it hits a green ripple goes over his body) with on weapon easily all haseos enraged attacks. then haseo is knocked back with a flick of tri edges wrist and he proceeds to pull out the longsword of awesomness (i want one badly...) and charges triedge which simply blocks the spinning teath of death and simply as before pushes him away which sends him through the air. then kit pull out a red and twisted (watch the trailer to see what i mean plus it is missing a prong (maybe where blackrose destroyed it in quarintine)) and data drains haseo. now here is where it gets confusing. the corbinik player comes in and with a very very strange (like a voice modifer) voice says "welcome....to the world) and the reaches down for him. then between the bandais and cyber connect brands you see haseo in a blue energy feild, then you see a mutated looking skeith and then you hear haseo screaming bloody murder, very confusing i shall also post pics later of tri edge and the depowered haseo (there are two forms one with armor and one that looks like he lost his armor (perhaps due to data drain?)) [/spoiler]
http://www.dothackers.net/gu.php
go here if you want more info and also want the trailer.