fate of emperor varis at the end

[Edax]

This is going to be the last time I bother repeating myself with this because this is getting absurd; Nobody knows Project Resonant made Zenos immortal...

This will be the last time I repeat myself. Fordola is the positive test result. She was proven nigh invincible in combat. That alone is enough for the technology to be worth looking into. The idea that The Empire would not know of this completely game-changing technology they themselves funded and researched would be just be proof positive the Empire is hopelessly incompetent.

[Nalien]

This will be the last time I repeat myself. Fordola is the positive test result. She was proven nigh invincible in combat. That alone is enough for the technology to be worth looking into. The idea that The Empire would not know of this completely game-changing technology they themselves funded and researched would be just be proof positive the Empire is hopelessly incompetent.

Not really repeating yourself when you're making a new point, but whatever.

You realize Fordola was never really fielded extensively enough post-Resonant to actually be worth any data, right? One skirmish at Castrum Abania and then she was captured and Project Resonant shut down. Next morning Aulus was dead and Ala Mhigo liberated... "Nigh invincible in combat", yet absolutely nothing came of that. She failed to stop Castrum Abania falling. She failed to defend Project Resonant. She failed to stop Ala Mhigo from being liberated. Those are the results that will reach Garlemald, not that she managed to toy with Lyse briefly in Castrum Abania, before Urianger pulled a deus ex machina out his robe to completely counter her.

[Edax]

Because it worked and has greater potential than an atom bomb. Immortality. Invincibility. -snip- The success with Fordola alone would warrant this becoming a national priority.

A single soldiers that would be invincible in combat is worth more than 100 conscripts. On top of that, they have cloning technology. This would absolutely be technology worth looking into. The project was bigger than one man, word would have gotten out.

This will be the last time I repeat myself. Fordola is the positive test result. She was proven nigh invincible in combat. That alone is enough for the technology to be worth looking into. The idea that The Empire would not know of this completely game-changing technology they themselves funded and researched would be just be proof positive the Empire is hopelessly incompetent.

Not really repeating yourself when you're making a new point, but whatever.

It really does paint a pathetic picture of the Empire, when the Warrior of Light ends up more knowledgeable about the Empire's ultimate research data then the Empire does.

[geekgirl101]

This will be the last time I repeat myself. Fordola is the positive test result. She was proven nigh invincible in combat. That alone is enough for the technology to be worth looking into. The idea that The Empire would not know of this completely game-changing technology they themselves funded and researched would be just be proof positive the Empire is hopelessly incompetent.

From what I recall other there's been other test subjects but they were unsuccessful, Fordola is their most successful test subject next to Zenos however she is also suffering immensely due to not being able to tune out all the voices of everyone who's suffered. The facility that gave her the gift was taken over by rebels so any research would now also be in rebel hands, plus they also needed prisoners already possessed of the gift in order to use the facility in the first place and since everyone with the gift are members of the Scions they haven't had any luck in capturing any more prisoners possessed of the gift as of yet. Since their war efforts were being spent on the production of the Black Rose toxin they've not had the time or manpower to devote a team into creating super soldiers. Varis was just as eager as the Ascians to bring about the next calamity under the pretense that he would be spared and become part of the new world.

[Edax]

These are the people who know Zenos is nigh immortal(We will kill him eventually just when):

1. Elidibus
2. Varis
3. Estinien
4. Gauis
5. Zenos

So how was Garlemald suppose to know they had created a near immortal being(and who is to say the other experiments Varis had used on Zenos didn't have any effect) when their leader and a deserter are the only 2 garleans besides Zenos who know so from anyone looking at the Resonant project they would deem it a failure.

A failure until Zenos makes a proclamation, he may very well ask the project be resumed in a way to make himself more powerful to fight us and once people see what it can produce, curiosity will take over and others will try and get it for themselves(Immortality is a high reward people would be willing to pay for) so right now the Resonant project could fade away or be brought back in the limelight who knows at this point except the writers/Yoshi.

Because creating technology that makes people immortal shouldn't be accidental. It's a ridiculous concept. On top of that, creating revolutionary technology shouldn't be handled by a single man. It's a ridiculous concept. On top of that, this one man was being lavished with funds by the Empire and had large custom built equipment so the idea that only the head researcher would know anything is a ridiculous concept. The idea that none of the staff working on the project had to file any reports or make any effort to preserve their data on their revolutionary technology that the Empire was paying for is a ridiculous concept. And the idea that the only people who know about their own revolutionary technology be the "enemy" is absolutely ridiculous.

From what I recall other there's been other test subjects but they were unsuccessful, Fordola is their most successful test subject next to Zenos however she is also suffering immensely due to not being able to tune out all the voices of everyone who's suffered. The facility that gave her the gift was taken over by rebels so any research would now also be in rebel hands, plus they also needed prisoners already possessed of the gift in order to use the facility in the first place and since everyone with the gift are members of the Scions they haven't had any luck in capturing any more prisoners possessed of the gift as of yet. Since their war efforts were being spent on the production of the Black Rose toxin they've not had the time or manpower to devote a team into creating super soldiers. Varis was just as eager as the Ascians to bring about the next calamity under the pretense that he would be spared and become part of the new world.

In the logic of the story, that makes sense, however using common sense the scenario is completely ham-fisted. The Empire apparently could make people immortal, but apparently didn't know about it. The Empire could make super-soldiers, but apparently didn't care about it. They had one man working on the most important technological advancement the Empire has ever seen and apparently nobody thought to try and preserve his research data at any point during the project. The Empire's gimmick is technology, so to see this scenario where they invent the most awesome thing ever while also not caring even slightly about while also letting the "enemy" get a hold of it comes off as very poor writing.

Also I'm not sure the logic that the Empire doesn't have the manpower or that Black Rose requires a great deal of manpower holds up.