Calamities explained

[Crushnight]

Having done a small amount of project management myself, this is the most unbelievable part of the universe of XIV. That a project could be so well organized that the only failures were brought about by incomplete information on the first attempt, and direct intervention on the most recent, and the other 7 all happened perfectly.

I don't think that all attempts happened perfectly but those 7 did , I believe the Ascians made more attempts than the successful calamities and fail void shows, my basis for this is Hydelyan tends to not make WoLs until she senses Ascian involvement in some way or another great threat to her like Ultima. Why would she need to she is currently in charge and making WoLs is giving up some of her power, to do that when there is no threat seems pointless. The WoLs myth has existed for a very long time, earliest I believe we know is the tailend of the Allagan Empire, Allagan Empire existed for a very long time as well, suspiciously long compared, they were around long enough to undergo cultural collapse, I think Emet-Selch when he created the Allagan Empire didn't intend for it to last as long as it did initially (parallels to Garlean Empire is pretty apparent and he wanted a civil war to happen by not naming an heir) but something went wrong either Source side, or shard side where their plans were put on hold until both were ready.

It wouldn't be a stretch to think past WoLs succeeded occasionally in preventing a Calamity either Source or Shard weren't ready, but never destroying the root cause that is the Ascians, so Ascians can just come back with plan B-Z as and when they want, heck they were doing just that with us with ARR-ShB.

The question I want to pose is why have they seemingly sped up their plans so much since the 7th Calamity? Could the 8th Calamity really be all that is needed for Zodiark to get enough power to dethrone Hydelyan, if so it would explain their haste for it.

[MirronTulaxia]

The urgency doesn’t make any sense to me either. If anything if this is the last one needed they should be more careful, not less. They keep losing members but don’t seem to see that as a concern. It just all seems strange. Without any time limit on their end they really shouldn’t be moving so rashly.

[Ilenya]

The question I want to pose is why have they seemingly sped up their plans so much since the 7th Calamity? Could the 8th Calamity really be all that is needed for Zodiark to get enough power to dethrone Hydelyan, if so it would explain their haste for it.

I know this is a tad late and may have been pointed out, but I feel like the Ascian's haste isn't so much "We're having issues, we need to hurry" and more "Oh hey, we don't need to wait for everything to rebuild this time, sweet!"