[SPOILERS] Wonderings on Omega and the Allegan

[Wyldkat99]

I had a thought in my small mind today.

We know from recent events that there's a possibility that the Allegan did not build Omega, but found it, and that their study of Omega may have led to their high levels of tech.

What if Omega did to the Allegan what it is doing to the WOL? Made them part of it's experiments to become stronger. What if Omega agreed to give them tech and power in order for them to drive the other races to summon Primals for the sole reason of Omega fighting them?

What if Xande's actions were in fact an attempt to find a way to deal with Omega?

What if the stasis isn't malfunctioning, but it in fact doesn't work the way we think it dose. It may have been that after the Allegan Empire fell apart that Omega went voluntarily into Stasis to conserve power as it waited for a new power to challenge it, and all we did was hit the alarm button to wake it up.

[Quor]

I had a thought in my small mind today.

We know from recent events that there's a possibility that the Allegan did not build Omega, but found it, and that their study of Omega may have led to their high levels of tech.

What if Omega did to the Allegan what it is doing to the WOL? Made them part of it's experiments to become stronger. What if Omega agreed to give them tech and power in order for them to drive the other races to summon Primals for the sole reason of Omega fighting them?

An interesting idea, and definitely in the realm of possibility (although it's confirmed that the Allagan's did not build Omega, but instead found it. Check the magitek terminal next to Jessie in Rhalgr's Reach for the info. It's confirmed there that yes, Omega did have a strong influence on the technological advancements of ancient Allag. As for your last part about summoning Primals, that's the interesting idea for me. It would fit with what we know about Omega, and surely the Allagans would relish the chance to exert their seemingly limitless power over the world by taming the biggest and baddest things out there. The only rub to this is that it's confirmed that Omega was discovered only after Xande had died already. However, no mention was made of Xande's clone.

What if Xande's actions were in fact an attempt to find a way to deal with Omega?

Xande himself? Most likely not. But then again, the guy was a power-hungry megalomaniac who forged a pact with the most dangerous creature in the Void in his quest to dominate the realm, so I'd say there's at least the possibility that he knew "something" was up, even if he didn't know about Omega per se. Then again, he could have just been accumulating power for it's own sake, as most megalomaniacs are wont to do.

What if the stasis isn't malfunctioning, but it in fact doesn't work the way we think it dose. It may have been that after the Allegan Empire fell apart that Omega went voluntarily into Stasis to conserve power as it waited for a new power to challenge it, and all we did was hit the alarm button to wake it up.

I wouldn't put that sort of thing past Omega at all. Omega had enough influence over Allag to direct numerous future avenues of technological advancement, so it's definitely in the realm of possibility that it slowly fed the Allagans the necessary tools to make them think they had tamed it, when in reality they were really building it maybe, say, a nice comfy bed to rest in. One of the other things you learn about Omega is that, when it landed on Hydaelyn, it apparently was rather damaged, as when the Allagan's found it, it was passively using ambient aether in the ground to slowly restore itself to full functioning power. The Allagans aided this repair effort by actively feeding it aether in order to speed up the process.

One of the common threads of the Allagan empire was it's ability (and desire) to tame the untameable. The entirety of Dalamud and Azys La revolved around cataclysmic-level entities being bound and made to serve the glory of Allag. To me, that leaves the possibility that the Allagans actually did find a way to put Omega into some form of stasis. The reasons why are up for grabs, but I personally think that they eventually saw Omega for what it was; a major threat that would not be controlled, not completely. So whereas the Allagans basically took Bahamut and the Warring Triad and turned them into mega-power generators, they probably just locked Omega up nice and tight once they had learned everything they could from it.

[WyrahFhurrst]

Perhaps the ability to turn Omega on is a sort of test to see if the prospective subjects even have the capability to be worthy test subjects? Such as seeing if their progress as a civilization has progressed to a technological level where they would have the weapons and combative capacity to help it progress further.

[Cilia]

The datalogs recovered after defeating Exdeath state Omega was found 150 years after Xande's death and reactivated 20 years after that.

The rest... what if?

[Kinkoz]

What if Xande's actions were in fact an attempt to find a way to deal with Omega?

You mean his pact with the Cloud of Darkness? Because that was forged as a means for him to conquer Meracydia by reinforcing his armies with voidsent.

Then again, he could have just been accumulating power for it's own sake, as most megalomaniacs are wont to do.

Everything we have on the record thus far regarding Xande's actions (after he was revived) indicate this to be the case, although, upon his resurrection, he resorted to megalomaniacal means on account of the fact that his Empire had been falling apart due to an era of decadence and excess following his initial death. Thus, kicking his own people's butts back into action and setting them once more upon a path to conquest was the only way he thought he could restore the Allagan Empire to its former glory.