Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
So the writing and narrative is saying that no matter what you do you’re screwed?
Er, well if an army of angry robots from space attacks yeah you're probably screwed. I don't think that bit is that deep.
Whether you seek perfection or not your entire society can fail and perish. How is this any different from what Meteion did to the Ancients? An angry entity tried to end their world and cause mass extinction all for something that wasn’t even guaranteed.
The Omicrons attacked because they sought self-improvement through combat. Meteion did so because she felt she was sparing them the pain of existence. It's not a good reason, but she was a poorly-programmed robot herself so her motives being weak kinda fits.
Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Imagine how much more powerful that ward would have been had the Sundering not occurred?
Zodiark kept demanding more sacrifices, presumably to keep the shield going. (Elidibus was his moral center, so in theory it'd have been for the noble but single-minded goal of "save the world".) If he'd been left to his own devices, eventually there'd be nobody left to protect. It wasn't a perfect creation; Emet himself says they kinda rushed him out the door because of the ongoing apocalypse. Had Venat told them about it earlier, they likely could have more time to think it through and come up with a better plan, but it didn't seem like they were super interested in hearing her perspective on how to do it.