Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
I think the most anticlimactic explanation is they are an isolationist society that's been there the whole time. Like they found a way to survive the second umbral calamity and they've just been in hiding. "Yeah, we've just been down in this cave the past 7000 years perfecting our cyberpunk aesthetic. A meteor? Hurled right at your continent? Ya don't say."
Oh, see even that is way too spectacular for how low I'm resetting my speculations. Solution Nine is, at most, a thousand years old. And probably less two hundred. But younger than Mhach. It's actually not an older civilization at all but a contemporary of all the other Turali nations that came together to form Tuliyollal and the seeming tech difference on the practical international stage didn't translate to imperialistic power over their neighbors. The Cyberpunk is all aesthetic. This sounds ridiculous but it will be justified in the plot. The big level 98/99 twist are something altogether different.