Schmup.exe?

[Janakev]

Well, something interesting I've discovered about the collectable statues (looking over some of the in-game notes).

Spoiler below!

They are referred to, in one of the internal Archaic notes, as 'Finis Specialis'. Transliterated it would be 'special end'. So I think this gives credence to they somehow being tied into the ending of the game.