Why is Syrcus Tower so...primitive looking?

One would think that the Emperor of the Allagan Empire would have the latest in Allagan advancements in his own dwelling, right?

Why is ST not more "futuristic" looking like Dalamud's fragments (coil)?
Where are the ADS's and lasers to intercept intruders?

Because FF 3 fan service.

Or maybe Xande like old looking structures like the ones he had when he was alive or something.

can't blame a man for his taste in the classics

The tower seems to be more of a place for royalty to gather, which also doubled as an energy source. The real question should be why none of the Allagan gear from the coils appear in the tower.

The Crystal Tower might have been built before Dalamud was. And, as said in the post before me, it's a place for royalty. Palaces are more about being aesthetically pleasing than anything else. Xande was the first Allagan emperor before he was the last, so he may prefer the more primitive Allagan architecture.

In addition, it may have been reworked with Xande started dabbling with the Void.

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Originally Posted by Grayve

In addition, it may have been reworked with Xande started dabbling with the Void.

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Yes, yes. I can see him putting those ahriman to work!

Probably the same reasons as why buildings from the 1800s use Roman architecture, I'm guessing. Especially since it is for Royalty, looks nicer than the bog standard futuristic look.

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Originally Posted by Toranja

Yes, yes. I can see him putting those ahriman to work!

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By staring at things really really hard?

Rewatch the LotA and ST scenes to find out why it is so old looking (no spoilers) but yes a nod to previous FF mainly.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

The tower seems to be more of a place for royalty to gather, which also doubled as an energy source. The real question should be why none of the Allagan gear from the coils appear in the tower.

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They do just not for us...The clones are sporting them but I guess looting a corpse in ST seems like a minor thing? ¬_¬

The Allagan Empire reigned for about one thousand years. Xande was both the first emperor, and the last emperor after his resurrection. In 1.0, it was said that the Crystal Tower was built as his tomb, though they may have revised that and/or the NPC that said it could have been incorrect.

If that's the truth, however, that would explain the construction, given that the Allagan Empire likely wasn't building space ships until the end of their thousand year reign. When Xande originally ruled, the empire was probably at a technological level similar to our own, if not even further behind.

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Originally Posted by Endemerrin

The Allagan Empire reigned for about one thousand years. Xande was both the first emperor, and the last emperor after his resurrection. In 1.0, it was said that the Crystal Tower was built as his tomb, though they may have revised that and/or the NPC that said it could have been incorrect.

If that's the truth, however, that would explain the construction, given that the Allagan Empire likely wasn't building space ships until the end of their thousand year reign. When Xande originally ruled, the empire was probably at a technological level similar to our own, if not even further behind.

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That doesn't mean it can't be retrofitted. Dalamud was built to complement ST.

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

That doesn't mean it can't be retrofitted. Dalamud was built to complement ST.

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Dalamud wasn't exactly the pinnacle of aesthetics, though. Those bottomless pits and robot spheres are so last fall.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

The tower seems to be more of a place for royalty to gather, which also doubled as an energy source. The real question should be why none of the Allagan gear from the coils appear in the tower.

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Because everyone would be farming ST to get their HA gears?

My personal take on the lore is that Crystal Tower is the tomb for an emperor while the Coils are more like a spaceship / military-research facility kind of thing. So it's more about aesthetics vs practicality.

The moon was a really complex creation. It had to have the excess security to keep intruders out and whatever was kept there, in there. It also was meant for people to travel to and from for general work and possibly emergency escapes should it fail. The tower is but was meant to be a nod to FF3. The tower in lore was built to receive and distribute the energy generated from the moon. It's also likely the moon was designed to be more than a cell and power source hence it would be way more complex than a tower that isn't in a slow decaying orbit. Although all those clones in the tower had to have been kept somewhere. My theory is the weapons (omega, ultima etc..) may have been designed to trap and transport, primals to the moon via ships as well as receive that energy from it via the tower for conquest. It also sounds like something Garland would like to do if they could.

Same way as the White House doesn't look like the CERN labs, nor the Large Hardon Collider.