Many might not have asked before they touched technology largely unknown to them, and fascinating, but Ignis was polite enough to do so. Holograms weren't entirely unknown in Ivalice, he knew that much. A little research had told him that they had them in the higher reaches of some of the more technologically advanced societies, particularly Midgar prior to its fall, but it was far from commonplace and what he'd heard of them put his far beyond those in terms of intricacy, display and scope.
If Pulse was Hell, it was only because all the technology had gone and left behind the same woeful inadequacies as the rest of the world suffered.
"I have to admit," Lumi said, settling himself into the pilot's chair. It had a swivel mechanism, a replacement for the original broken one, and it allowed him to reach most of the console barring the furthest reaches of the hologram. "Pulse history is not my forte. Why do they say it is hell? The history books here mention brief periods of trade and war between it and Ivalice and then the records of any crossover stop suddenly with the Mist Saturation event."
The way he spoke of that historical mystery was casual and irreverent, like a paleontologist or geologist discussing the Permian-Triassic extinction event, or some other such, world-changing tragedy so distant it felt like myth more than anything. Some Spirans, he knew, spoke of the War of the Magi, and the aftermath, like it had happened in living memory, as if their Grandparents had served in the great conflict, instead of a thousand years ago in countries that no longer exist, to people so far in the past only the legendary figures survived the annals.
He, of course, knew why records of Pulse stopped with that particular phenomenon. Even back then, when the technology was available, Jagd Proof ships were undoubtedly rare and difficult to come by. Prior to their invention, people had crossed the boundaries between the lowerworld and the purvamae on the backs of dragons. Mist, though not Jagd exactly, had the same effect on technology -- it crippled it. Even technology invented on this magic-saturated world suffered the negative effects of the ambient force. With the spread of Mist, the relative rarity of the ships and the well-documented turn against Machina that the War's end brought, trade routes closed.
Ignis, however, was from a Purvama, albeit the wrong one. Perhaps their history had more to tell of the continent than that of the Lowerworld.
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Date: 2019-05-14 10:53 am (UTC)Many might not have asked before they touched technology largely unknown to them, and fascinating, but Ignis was polite enough to do so. Holograms weren't entirely unknown in Ivalice, he knew that much. A little research had told him that they had them in the higher reaches of some of the more technologically advanced societies, particularly Midgar prior to its fall, but it was far from commonplace and what he'd heard of them put his far beyond those in terms of intricacy, display and scope.
If Pulse was Hell, it was only because all the technology had gone and left behind the same woeful inadequacies as the rest of the world suffered.
"I have to admit," Lumi said, settling himself into the pilot's chair. It had a swivel mechanism, a replacement for the original broken one, and it allowed him to reach most of the console barring the furthest reaches of the hologram. "Pulse history is not my forte. Why do they say it is hell? The history books here mention brief periods of trade and war between it and Ivalice and then the records of any crossover stop suddenly with the Mist Saturation event."
The way he spoke of that historical mystery was casual and irreverent, like a paleontologist or geologist discussing the Permian-Triassic extinction event, or some other such, world-changing tragedy so distant it felt like myth more than anything. Some Spirans, he knew, spoke of the War of the Magi, and the aftermath, like it had happened in living memory, as if their Grandparents had served in the great conflict, instead of a thousand years ago in countries that no longer exist, to people so far in the past only the legendary figures survived the annals.
He, of course, knew why records of Pulse stopped with that particular phenomenon. Even back then, when the technology was available, Jagd Proof ships were undoubtedly rare and difficult to come by. Prior to their invention, people had crossed the boundaries between the lowerworld and the purvamae on the backs of dragons. Mist, though not Jagd exactly, had the same effect on technology -- it crippled it. Even technology invented on this magic-saturated world suffered the negative effects of the ambient force. With the spread of Mist, the relative rarity of the ships and the well-documented turn against Machina that the War's end brought, trade routes closed.
Ignis, however, was from a Purvama, albeit the wrong one. Perhaps their history had more to tell of the continent than that of the Lowerworld.