Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
Okay, and?
And that means that this is ultimately an argument about minutia for shallow point-scoring, because arguing that the escape plan couldn't have worked according to evidence that she did not have completely misses the actual story around the escape plan in the first place, and basically only serves to create artificial points against her. And personally, I'm not interested.

Ignore all of my points about Meteion, because they don't truly matter. There are three reasons why the moon escape plan is the way it is, flaws and all:

A: Because it's a backup plan if the main plan fails. I have mentioned this before: if the escape plan was flawless, it wouldn't be a backup plan.

B: Because Venat was working from only what she knew. Remember, all of the evidence being put forward as to why this wouldn't work is information we learned after that point, and hindsight is of course 20/20. Venat didn't have that information, what she had was Meteion's confirmation that there were civilizations living on other planets; even if they fell, that's confirmation that other planets are habitable, which is a hell of a lot better than Etheirys is gonna be if Meteion has her way with it.

And perhaps the most important, C: Because the plan didn't happen anyway, so it doesn't matter if it would've worked. It's in the same basket as the Ascians' Zodiark plan: you can poke dozens of holes into the Rejoining plan as put forward by Emet in Shadowbringers, both logistical and moral... but none of those matter, mostly because the Zodiark plan was torn to shreds far before the issues were ever in any way relevant. The moon escape plan is the same way, although thankfully with less moral concerns; neither plan left the realm of the theoretical, and so whether or not they would've worked doesn't actually matter.