The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

[Aulainn]

they don't even explain how lizzard man can have such power over alexandria army, despite their civilization more advance than his, and sphene literally an ancient war machine that prey on living being souls and overprotect her people for hundreds years, she just give him an absolute priority on control her army without anyway to overwrite his command

i can say they tried to mimic how laguna come into power in esthar but we had tons of flashback cutscene show how laguna lead a revolution to overthrow adel in FF8

We must've played a different FF8 because I don't remember any such flashback.
Anyway, they did give the reason. Zoraal Ja had the key to dimensional travel and Sphene gave him the power he bargained for in exchange for leading Sphenes army to get more souls from Zoraal Ja's world. She was dumb and desperate as she admits herself to give that power without failsafe on her end, although we can assume Zoraal Ja wouldn't take the deal without making sure there wasn't.

[ShariusTC]

We must've played a different FF8 because I don't remember any such flashback.
Anyway, they did give the reason. Zoraal Ja had the key to dimensional travel and Sphene gave him the power he bargained for in exchange for leading Sphenes army to get more souls from Zoraal Ja's world. She was dumb and desperate as she admits herself to give that power without failsafe on her end, although we can assume Zoraal Ja wouldn't take the deal without making sure there wasn't.

you missed flashback when laguna being imprison in odine lab, then espcape, spark a civil war and launch adel into space with ragnarok (this literally a CG cutscene)

also sphene is a war machine she can has any safeguard and backdoor she want in her own system, unless you asume lizzard is so good in computering that know all of it, that also remind me about horizon zero dawn, where creator of system has alpha procol but the one who fund it can secretly make an omega procol that never know for her and her co-worker, and can overwrite any command from them