UFO spotted in Sea of Clouds - The Truth is out there

[Fenral]

I'll bet the devs are reading this thread with shiteating grins on their faces.

Pretty sure that could be said for most every thread in Lore. Not gonna stop us.

[Kalyca_Wood]

Would be great if it was a ufo and mass abducted 24 people for a raid.

Random person in fc house watering plants.

"Humming sound"
Player : " huh what's that!?"
bright flash then dark screen with the words "Lunatic pandora" etched across

[myahele]

Would be interesting ... perhaps Hildibrand since his quest line is begining to be a good source of Lore

[lordoftheapes79]

Pretty sure that could be said for most every thread in Lore. Not gonna stop us.

Not like this, this is an easter egg they clearly meant to be found.

[Jonnycbad]

Has to be Lunar Whale. Also the ending showed Ascians speaking on the moon. How does one get to the Moon in FF4?



Notice the Lunar Whale airship in FF4 also has those little oars at the bottom just like the UFO in the original post of this thread?

[Cilia]

Has to be Lunar Whale. Also the ending showed Ascians speaking on the moon. How does one get to the Moon in FF4?



Notice the Lunar Whale airship in FF4 also has those little oars at the bottom just like the UFO in the original post of this thread?

OK but this isn't IV.

Besides my reaction to everyone being all like "We're going into space! Like to the moon!" is something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbzuu14bGgs

[Balipu]

Yep, this isn't IV. We don't have stuff from previous games. Just Doma, Costa Del Sol, Matoya's Cave, the Crystal Tower, The Warring Triads and the Gold Saucer.

By the way, I saw the UFO today in the Sea of Clouds. It slowly descended into the clouds, but didn't move an inch untill despawning.

[AstralKaos]

Well, we know the Allagan's were capable of sending things up to space, sustaining life up there too.

Could it be, this is a lifeboat? There was a node in Azys Lla replaying a transmission with *emergency, emergency* all over it, like an evacuation message; it's uncertain, and hard to believe that those at Azys Lla would be affected by the Crystal Tower earthquake, so what if, they used lifeboat ships similar to this to "wait over" the calamity of that earthquake, and were waiting all this time in stasis for a signal to make the ship(s) to return to the planet... that signal, of course being something that activated alongside Azys Lla when Thordan and crew made the place "awaken" upon going through the barrier.

Yes, I strongly believe the theory that an amount Allagan survivors have been in space following their calamity, likely in stasis, while the remainder on on the planet either did the same on the surface, or gave up the old Allagan ways.

[Cilia]

Yep, this isn't IV. We don't have stuff from previous games. Just Doma, Costa Del Sol, Matoya's Cave, the Crystal Tower, The Warring Triads and the Gold Saucer.

The thing is those are all just references.

Doma is, like in VI, a Japan analogue. They didn't all die from having their water poisoned.

Costa del Sol is, like in VII, a coastal resort town. Here it's much smaller and independently owned.

The Matoya of I was blind and needed a crystal to see; XIV's Matoya has neither the problem nor the solution.

III's Syrcus Tower had no clear function (beyond being Xande's fortress). Here it's a monument to Allagan prosperity and a high-tech solar power plant. XIV's Xande is also the first and last Allagan emperor who delved into nihilism because of his death and resurrection, not some omnicidal maniac trying to halt the flow of time or destroy the world because he was "gifted" with mortality.

There's only one Warring Triad, and we don't know what the hell they are yet beyond "eikons." Not exactly the same as VI's progenitor gods.

This Gold Saucer has largely the same function, but not the same layout and is not quite as big as VII's. Also, no Speed, Battle, or Ghost Square.

... point is, shout-outs here and there are cool but carbon copying things from other games is not. I'm not saying the UFO isn't the Lunar Whale, but I'd rather it not be, and without more information it's impossible to say exactly. People just be jumping to conclusions.

[Fenral]

... point is, shout-outs here and there are cool but carbon copying things from other games is not. I'm not saying the UFO isn't the Lunar Whale, but I'd rather it not be, and without more information it's impossible to say exactly. People just be jumping to conclusions.

Well, it can still be called the Lunar Whale but have a completely different function from it's FFIV counterpart, right?

But let's be real, XIV's Crystal Tower had a lot of references, but kind of colossally missed the point of FFIII at just about every turn. Don't despair over what little time you have left? Nope, there's not enough time, so I have to stop it. The light of hope can never go out? Nope, hope is fragile (and tangible!) and requires us all to make sacrifices to keep it from going out. And don't even get me started on the irony of using "hope" and "there's no other way" in the same thought process. We've been over this before, you and I. And it's still not a part of Eorzea as far as I'm concerned.

So yeah, I guess I am kinda with you on not wanting too many "classic" throwbacks, but only because I no longer trust them to be true to the games they reference.