Quote Originally Posted by LuciferMournstar View Post
If their guns and ships worked like you say, why did they use Hunters with Beast Souls and regulators to begin with? Why waste the precious souls needed to keep Living Memory going on Hunters, if they didn't need to? Electrope may work for a while outside in Tuliloyol, but it was specifically said it converts LIGHTNING energy and needs quite a bit. Plus, what would be the point of the continued use of Electrope, when it's no longer needed because the source isn't assailed by massive amounts of lightning energy? What purpose would regulators serve without souls? Absolutely none.

I admire your continued nativity, I'll give you that. You really do try to look on the bright side (no pun intended), but life and the world can be cruel.
Why use hunters and beast souls when they have a robot army and airships? I don't know. Maybe it's lazy world building. Maybe Zooral Ja was just a bad ruler and didn't care about such issues when he was focused on conquest. Either way he's gone now, but they still have that technology.

Technology that was working just fine outside of the dome. At best you could argue that 'maybe' they have to go back to Heritage Found to recharge or something, but we haven't seen that actually happen. In both attacks against the capital their guns and robots and airships worked just fine despite being away from the lightning dome.

'The Source' is not assailed by lightning but Heritage Found definitely is. Electrope will continue to be useful there for as long as the region is heavily lightning aspected, and there's no hint of that going away. No suggestion in the story that Electrope or Electrope technology is going away. And even if it did, that would be a consequence of them fusing themselves to the Source, not us destroying their culture.

You're looking at this for what you think 'should' from your perspective be a realistic outcome, but that's not the reality the game is presenting us. You're not being realistic here you're trying to impose doom and gloom onto a story that's telling us these people are fine for now.