Sundering the Nibirun

[AlenyaElizabelle]

...But that's not what happened: instead, the task fell on a woman and whoever she could recruit that, while certainly smart and creative, and likely capable of considering a lot of the scenario around them, were humans (or whatever classifies as 'humans' in their scenario, which is admittedly not how 2022 Earth would consider the term) with human foibles and blind spots, doing their best with the information they have. In that context, yes, the Sundering was the best they could've possibly done, largely from the perspective of 'addresses all potential pain points'; granted, it feels like the group isn't thrilled about any part of the idea, they can tell that none of it is ideal. It's just that an ideal scenario is not available to them, and may not even exist on a theoretical level..

It's like comparing the Ancient Greeks or Ancient Romans with people living in 2022. What they knew back then was the best for their time, and the things we knew now are still advancing and learning more.

[Cleretic]

It's like comparing the Ancient Greeks or Ancient Romans with people living in 2022. What they knew back then was the best for their time, and the things we knew now are still advancing and learning more.

Honestly, while you're mostly right it's not even that, because that implies the in-game present day had any better ideas to solve this, and they really didn't. They had the Loporrits (who aren't actually inept, they know their stuff, they're just also comedic), but they weren't actually providing new solutions, they'd basically just spent twelve thousand years working on the part of the problem Venat and company knew they'd eventually need but couldn't provide themselves.

Even as an outside audience we don't actually have any better ideas; basically anyone I've seen put one forward either ignores or twists explicit fact (sometimes intentionally, sometimes accidentally), or just makes things up. We're aware that better ideas could theoretically exist, but that doesn't mean we have 'em either!