Quote Originally Posted by Anteiron View Post
Emet Selch says at the end of Endwalker: "Some of che civilizazion in the reflections will surprise you"

So I think Solution 9 comes from another reflection. The other worlds have not had calamities, so it is likely that their civilization has advanced to a very high technological level.
The problem is how it arrive to the source
At this stage with all the FF9 references they're pulling right now expecially with the preorder items of Zidane/Garnet, the ark mount etc, I'd bet money at this stage on Solution 9 being from another shard originally, likely a destroyed one. It's not only the most logical explanation of how an advanced civilization would be on the source that's NOT Allag in origin and not already destroyed after 7 Calamities but also the only one that would have any reasonable sense, not to mention being how remote and out of the way it is, why the Ascians had not used it in the first place instead of Garlemald for their last world wrecking scheme. There's also the small fact that Y'shtola has been looking to unlock the secrets of travelling to other shards and between what they dropped in the post endwalker quests with how to travel between the 13th and Source as well as the fact we still have the ability to travel between the Source and 1st thanks to G'raha allowing us to attune to the Firsts aether network it's a given that this is how the other remaining shards eventually are accessed as well as bringing the first back into the narrative in some form later on.