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** It reminds me of an analogy I heard long ago relating nuclear weapons and mouse trap. Adapting that analogy, there were numerous fail safes for the world. The other weapons, for example, were designed to counter a dangerous life form on the world. Likely they were also designed not to set off Omega. We also know what didn't set off Omega: The extinction of the original race, the colonization of Gaia from colonists from another world, Jenova crash landing on Gaia, Meteor approaching and nearly impacting. The only explanation is the antagonists figured out how to short circuit the failsafe in a way to that ONLY involved the deaths of those thousands. They didn't start the whole mouse trap contraption, they flicked the pole holding up the cage. |
** It reminds me of an analogy I heard long ago relating nuclear weapons and mouse trap. Adapting that analogy, there were numerous fail safes for the world. The other weapons, for example, were designed to counter a dangerous life form on the world. Likely they were also designed not to set off Omega. We also know what didn't set off Omega: The extinction of the original race, the colonization of Gaia from colonists from another world, Jenova crash landing on Gaia, Meteor approaching and nearly impacting. The only explanation is the antagonists figured out how to short circuit the failsafe in a way to that ONLY involved the deaths of those thousands. They didn't start the whole mouse trap contraption, they flicked the pole holding up the cage. |
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** I didn't understand all of it, partly because a sound problem made it difficult to ''hear'' all of it, but something about a concentration of pure Lifestream had to be involved with Omega's awakening. Deepground killed those several thousand people in a specific way in order to create that effect. The planet would detect that concentration of Lifestream, realize it wasn't part of a healing process (like with Jenova's crash landing) or a defense mechanism (like when Holy tried to counter act Meteor). Thus it assumed the other possible reason for such an event and called Omega. |
** I didn't understand all of it, partly because a sound problem made it difficult to ''hear'' all of it, but something about a concentration of pure Lifestream had to be involved with Omega's awakening. Deepground killed those several thousand people in a specific way in order to create that effect. The planet would detect that concentration of Lifestream, realize it wasn't part of a healing process (like with Jenova's crash landing) or a defense mechanism (like when Holy tried to counter act Meteor). Thus it assumed the other possible reason for such an event and called Omega. |
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** Also, I think Deepground's project was a [[Wafer |
** Also, I think Deepground's project was a [[Wafer-Thin Mint|deliberately placed straw]] meant to break the camel's back. The planet's still reeling from Shinra and the Mako reactors, and then from Sephiroth contaminating the lifestream, and then the people who died in the Weapon attacks, and from Meteorfall and the use of Holy to stop it, and then the Geostigma outbreak, which is still going on to some extent during ''Dirge of Cerberus''. After so many blows against the lifestream in such quick succession, the planet was already one little push away from summoning Omega. Deepground realized it and gave it that push. |
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** How did they kill those thousands? They threw them into a Mako pit. That is nothing resembling natural, and it's bound to have a much greater impact than meets the eye. |
** How did they kill those thousands? They threw them into a Mako pit. That is nothing resembling natural, and it's bound to have a much greater impact than meets the eye. |
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* I know that Vincent's whole character trait is mournfully pining for a woman he loved, but honestly, what could he possibly still see in Lucrecia after all the things she did? This game makes it perfectly clear that she knowingly consented to experimenting on her own child, which is a [[Moral Event Horizon]] right there. But to Vincent personally, she had sort of more-than-just-professional relationship with him (the picnic scene was pretty flirty) until she pushed him away because of her guilt, went on the rebound with Hojo, brought him back to life by turning him into an uncontrollable beast that needed a materia in his chest to stay sane, and then just ... left him there in his capsule while she vanished. And yet the game clads her in glowing white and tries to make her sympathetic and almost Madonna-like and ''Hojo'' is the only one who even remotely tries to call her out on her actions. |
* I know that Vincent's whole character trait is mournfully pining for a woman he loved, but honestly, what could he possibly still see in Lucrecia after all the things she did? This game makes it perfectly clear that she knowingly consented to experimenting on her own child, which is a [[Moral Event Horizon]] right there. But to Vincent personally, she had sort of more-than-just-professional relationship with him (the picnic scene was pretty flirty) until she pushed him away because of her guilt, went on the rebound with Hojo, brought him back to life by turning him into an uncontrollable beast that needed a materia in his chest to stay sane, and then just ... left him there in his capsule while she vanished. And yet the game clads her in glowing white and tries to make her sympathetic and almost Madonna-like and ''Hojo'' is the only one who even remotely tries to call her out on her actions. |
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