Quote Originally Posted by Marishi-Ten View Post
The floating boulders move, albeit slowly. I actually sat and watched them for a time to see if they did. It's not so much a freeze in time (though it looks like the crystal formations around the other Dalamud wreckage's look like time WAS frozen and the chaotic crystal formations were the explosion tails) but that it's suspending matter in zero gravity or has it's own gravitational pull. Fallgourd Float also has (debatably) the most intact piece of Dalamud and this may have something to do with it.
I never noticed movement when I was screen shotting but I digress. The rubble still seems to have a trajectory from the damage to the salvage. If it was just gravity effects there would be no reason for the rubble that is far off to be floating as well; else everything would be floating. There is clearly rubble just fine sitting on the ground.

As for the civilizations, this is an issue with the current state of the game. Since I never played any of pre-ARR there is no way for a player to know or confirm any of that within the game. None of the npcs mention anything about it and the ones that do have dialogue actually conflict with it.