Proto Ultima and Mhach

[saber_alter]

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There are a lot of logical jumps in the idea. maybe we got to it just before it got to her. maybe it's aether-compass is completely bonkers from 5000 years of neglect and is no longer accurate. perhaps it decided you were looking at it funny. The machine is literally a prototype that was 5000 years past it's scrapping, so it could be any number of things. Machines tend to break, and prototypes are made to be broken.

[Balphagor_]

Big leap of logic, but what if all along Voidsent are "primals" like they come from somewhere and... I dont know, maybe we are the ones putting way more thought into the story of this thing introduced back in 3.0 than the people who implimented it finally.

[Chewy2nd]

Who would approve a automated military weapon that chases down imps thinking they are Zurvan?

[Legion88]

Don't forget, you as the WoL has absorbed corrupted ether from at least 9 primals. The WoL can be a valid target.

[Lambdafish]

Don't forget, you as the WoL has absorbed corrupted ether from at least 9 primals. The WoL can be a valid target.

And then there are SMNs....

[Sarynth]

Legion88 beat me to it. I was just thinking maybe it detected the warrior of light heading to dun scaith, and decided to set a trap there. All the primals wol has fought, their aether, etc had to of triggered proto Ultima.

[The_NPC]

as much as I admitidly know little about how it "may" fit lore wise I'm going with its a Prototype so after this was tested Allag made a "better" version & left this unfinished one to rust/decay... time & somehow powering up... it runs off its incomplete settings to "seak & destroy all Primals" then notices the Void Queen with high Aether amount (since Voidsent are like Primals-ish & Proto 's scan settings arn't narrow enouf to tell Void from Primal at that high of Aether)... we just finish fight with 2nd Dun Scath boss & "Wham" Proto attack's Aether sorce (acording to scaner is Cofffin, hence the beams droping apon aproach), Proto lands to re-check area & scans 24 humanoids, one of which has enouf Primal residue on their Aether to confuse its unrefined Proto-Aether scaner hence it attack us & flees apon defeat as is its defalt "Run if u can't win to return combat data" senario

Thats my jest of it really... Poor succubi never saw those laser's from the sky comming, at lest death came quick

[Sunspawn]

Not entirely serious, but given how the WoL is shown to solo literal gods, maybe we should take Thordan's question ("Who... what are you!?") a tad more seriously - given WoL's living legend status in Eorzea, that's a lot of belief and faith in his abilities coming from the people. And even without the "WoL is turning into a primal" angle, there could be side-effects from

Louisoix sending him into the future, possibly utilizing the Lifestream

[Levi_Tolar_Fan]

as much as I admitidly know little about how it "may" fit lore wise I'm going with its a Prototype so after this was tested Allag made a "better" version & left this unfinished one to rust/decay... time & somehow powering up... it runs off its incomplete settings to "seak & destroy all Primals" then notices the Void Queen with high Aether amount (since Voidsent are like Primals-ish & Proto 's scan settings arn't narrow enouf to tell Void from Primal at that high of Aether)...

I agree that time and the elements probably damaged its sensors so it couldn't differentiate voidsent from primals or eikons. Something similar occurred with Amdapor City's defenses when they mistook the elementals for voidsent due to damage accumulated overtime.

[Garnix]

I personally believe that the "lore explanation" to Ultima's presence in Dun Scaith is just a reference to FF6 and 8.
You know, these games where Diabolos was an Esper/G-Force.