So the allegans reached the moon

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

OK. Nitpick here.

Allag may have been capable of interplanetary travel. The satellite named Dalamud is proof enough of that.

There is no reason to believe they had the capability of interstellar travel.

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I dunno, I think a society capable of constructing an artificial moon might be capable of interstellar travel.

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Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

I dunno, I think a society capable of constructing an artificial moon might be capable of interstellar travel.

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Not necesarily.
Technically "we" are also able to probably start throwing mass into orbit and come up with an artificial moon. For Interstellar travel you need an entirely diferent order of magnitude in both technological advancement AND energy output.
But the Allagans did become the hiper-advanced civilization they were by retro-engineering Omega - If they managed to understand interstellar travel is unknown and interdimensional - Well the Crystal Tower kinda solved that part, again, with massive amounts of energy.

For interplanetary travel, thats probably a joke for the Allagans at certain point. But we do know very little of the system we are in: As in what other planets are close by, what features they have, we know of the Dragonstar and Omega planets, but those are far far far faaar away. Maybe the Allagans were simply not interested in space-travel to begin with...

Maybe it is dangerous.
Maybe both laughing and sleeping gods move their tendrils in the darkness between stars, maybe the chtonic entities we were shown as the "Final" enemies of the End Days are presicely that threat that kept smart civilizations away from outer space.

Also take into account that Allag was engineered by Emet-Selch, it's entirely possible the Ascians could have sabotaged any interstellar projects the Allagans had in the works beyond Dalamud. Especially if there are Amaurotine ruins on the moon, which I'm sure they wouldn't want discovered.

That's no moon. It's a space station.

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Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

I dunno, I think a society capable of constructing an artificial moon might be capable of interstellar travel.

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The difference in magnitude between interplanetary and interstellar is like walking to the next block over, and walking to China.

You can reach Mars in a matter of days. To reach the next closest star you're talking millenia.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

The difference in magnitude between interplanetary and interstellar is like walking to the next block over, and walking to China.

You can reach Mars in a matter of days. To reach the next closest star you're talking millenia.

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There's also a pretty big difference between interplanetary travel and *creating an artificial moon to contain a being of godly power*.

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Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

There's also a pretty big difference between interplanetary travel and *creating an artificial moon to contain a being of godly power*.

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Point of order: They didn't do very well at creating and launching that moon!

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

The difference in magnitude between interplanetary and interstellar is like walking to the next block over, and walking to China.

You can reach Mars in a matter of days. To reach the next closest star you're talking millenia.

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Slightly off topic. It takes months, not days to reach Mars. 7 months and that's with perfect allignment. Travelling to the next star will require either FTL travel or cryogenics. I do wonder how we'll get to the moon the first time though. Maybe we do use an old allagan rocket or something.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

Point of order: They didn't do very well at creating and launching that moon!

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I mean, it stayed up there and worked perfectly fine for several centuries before Garlemald started messing with shit and made Bahamut break free. Like it was up there long enough for people to think it was just a second moon.