So... Whatever Happened To the Void Ark Anyway?

As I recall, Diablos used it to warp away with the Queen's Coffin and that whole scene is the last we see of it. After that quest, everyone just kind of forgets about it and moves onto the whole Nullstone situation. Is the Ark still out there somewhere?

There's been three releases so far and has finished -.- your behind on it. might want to talk to Caith Sid at sky rats head quarters or check passed updates.

Hm? I think you misunderstand. I've already completed that whole storyline, including the quest after Dun Scaith. What I mean is, what is the current status of the ship itself? The last real mention of it that I remember was Radlia wanting to seek it out after she saw what it could do. But then after the Weeping City ordeal starts up no one really seems concerned about the Ark anymore from that point on, unless it was mentioned by one of the NPCs outside of cutscenes and I missed it.

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Hm? I think you misunderstand. I've already completed that whole storyline, including the quest after Dun Scaith. What I mean is, what is the current status of the ship itself? The last real mention of it that I remember was Radlia wanting to seek it out after she saw what it could do. But then after the Weeping City ordeal starts up no one really seems concerned about the Ark anymore from that point on, unless it was mentioned by one of the NPCs outside of cutscenes and I missed it.

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No one cares because once we defeated Diablos, we ended the War of the Magi. Radlia is free to seek the ship, but it's not going to present enough of a threat for us to be concerned with. Presumably it's still flying around the Sea of Clouds, but what she's going to do with it?

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Originally Posted by Delily

No one cares because once we defeated Diablos, we ended the War of the Magi. Radlia is free to seek the ship, but it's not going to present enough of a threat for us to be concerned with. Presumably it's still flying around the Sea of Clouds, but what she's going to do with it?

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Well I'm not actually expecting Radlia to actually do anything with it, exactly. I only bring her up because her talking about wanting to find it was the last time I recall it ever being mentioned by any of the NPCs. Still, whether the War of the Magi is finished or not, that's still some significant Mhachi tech floating around. We've seen enough of Allagan tech to know what happens if that gets abused, heck one of Cid's main MOs is to keep people from being able to fiddle with it. And while Mhachi tech might not be as prominent or (maybe) as dangerous, it's still probably not something to turn a blind eye to. The only reason it was even left alone for so long in the first place was because no one knew what it was, and people ended up calling it a ghost ship and were too afraid to bother exploring it until we came into the picture.

Though I suppose the Ark could just be drifting around in the Void somewhere after Diablos basically hijacked it, in which case it probably will remain there unless some random Voidsent gets some sort of clever idea with it. Anyway, I know it's not likely to be of any sort of relevance later on, but I just thought it seemed odd that after that raid and quest the characters just seem to completely forget about it and never bring it up, even if just to say "well anyway, that's not a problem anymore because of reasons".

it does drift there in the sea of clouds, you see it from time to time, at the northern part, but no one seems to care.... sadly.

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

it does drift there in the sea of clouds, you see it from time to time, at the northern part, but no one seems to care.... sadly.

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Oh, so it is still kicking around out there? I'm not in that area of the Sea of Clouds very often, so I've never noticed it. I'll have to look into that next time I'm in the area... But yeah, that makes it a bit of a loose end I suppose, but that at least covers where it went.

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Well I'm not actually expecting Radlia to actually do anything with it, exactly. I only bring her up because her talking about wanting to find it was the last time I recall it ever being mentioned by any of the NPCs. Still, whether the War of the Magi is finished or not, that's still some significant Mhachi tech floating around. We've seen enough of Allagan tech to know what happens if that gets abused, heck one of Cid's main MOs is to keep people from being able to fiddle with it. And while Mhachi tech might not be as prominent or (maybe) as dangerous, it's still probably not something to turn a blind eye to. The only reason it was even left alone for so long in the first place was because no one knew what it was, and people ended up calling it a ghost ship and were too afraid to bother exploring it until we came into the picture.

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I agree with you, we might have ended the War of the Magi, but there's still dangerous remnants around. Heck the trailer for Stormblood had 2 prominent Amdapori golems in it.

Didn't someone say it was only still being able to fly because of the Queen being it's main battery? Also we can't trust trailers as those bosses could just be symbols and the events might not even happen.

I sort of want them to have Radlia take it over and find out that it can make a portal into the Void itself and kickstart a Eureka style invasion into the Void. I feel like the Void needs more Lore.

It will probably float around until it runs out of fuel at some point in the next few years/decades and crash into the sea hopefully.

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Originally Posted by Sylve

I sort of want them to have Radlia take it over and find out that it can make a portal into the Void itself and kickstart a Eureka style invasion into the Void. I feel like the Void needs more Lore.

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If that happened we could get an even better understanding of the Void hierchy as far as what each ranking does and how it works....

But if we went there we would also presumably resolve the issue surrounding it or at the very least solve a lot of the issues surrounding it so wouldn't that mean there's overall be less voidsent in our world? If the Void became something else and resolved through our efforts that wpuld mean Square would lose the entire void enemy roster to play with... right?

As far as I am aware, there's nothing left in the Void to fix. That's the entire reason a Flood is something everyone, regardless of what side they are on, want to prevent. Once it happens, it's game over for the Shard.

That and isn't everything in the void aether starved and how Nero almost died at the end of the Crystal Tower series?

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Didn't someone say it was only still being able to fly because of the Queen being it's main battery?

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Well, as others have pointed out, the Ark is still floating around, even after the Void Ark series of quests, and the Queen is no longer around to power it. Bear in mind, the thing had a lot more Voidsent in it than just the Queen; she may have been the main battery, but she was probably not the only battery.

But, yeah, it seems odd that we're just letting it be. While we may have cleaned it out once, it was implied that there were a WHOLE lot more Voidsent packed into that ship than just the ones we encountered. It's dangerous, and letting it crash, even into the ocean, could unleash an awful lot of hostile critters into the world.

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Originally Posted by ObsidianFire

As far as I am aware, there's nothing left in the Void to fix. That's the entire reason a Flood is something everyone, regardless of what side they are on, want to prevent. Once it happens, it's game over for the Shard.

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Indeed, current understanding in-game is that once a world is Flooded, whether by Light or Dark, that's it for the Shard. However, it's worth remembering that the way folks understand things in-game are not immutable truths. If the writers like, they could introduce plotlines wherein a means is discovered to change a flooded shard back to a viable one. It's unlikely to save any of the lives lost in the flood (especially if of Light), but it's not impossible. I consider it similar to the truth that the only way to deal with a Tempered individual is to kill them. In spite of this, I would not be surprised if a means to reverse or cure Tempering were to be discovered at some point in the game.

One of the things that I found interesting about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is that he pulled this trick often. Characters in the story had very particular ideas about the way things worked in the world - but over the course of the story, many of these established truths were shown to be wrong, and not even the bad guys, millennia-old survivors from a "golden age" who considered all the currently population to be backwards savages at best, had considered possible the miraculous discoveries the heroes made. The Ascians, too, should not be considered infallible authorities on the things they supposedly know to be true. They don't even have to be lying - they could simply be wrong in their beliefs.

I wonder if there really are still Voidsent still on board. Diablos could have freed the remaining ones imprisoned there after he absconded. After all, why waste perfectly good pawns? I mean, if Scathac was the most powerful Voidsent locked away in there, and Diablos was planning on using her for his own gains, what would he have to fear from the others? Either way, the Ark itself is potentially dangerous enough on its own. If there are still Voidsent napping, that makes it all the worse if something or someone wakes them up.

Even if there is still batteries still in it it wouldn't crash at least not while the game is still running I mean we got told the warring Triad was a huge part of the reason why Azys Lla was still being powered and floating. We turned that one off and then also cut off the other flow of aether that we know of that it was getting just recently and that's like a texas-esque sized amount of land that should be slowly falling into whatever is below it yet no one else seems to care or remember that either in game at least.

It was implied that Azys Lla would take centuries to fall.