There were a lot of theories, going around as Dalamud drew ever closer, and through all our attempts to prevent it, even after Van Darnus was using Megaflare, on the forums we didn't mention Bahamut being inside, SE even made us all think it would actually impact, what with calling the Garlean attempt to drop it the Meteor project, and the timer in the launcher saying "Impact in". The entire 7th Umbral era storyline was one of the best I have seen, and we really felt we were a part of events.