Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
Why do you assume anything has to do with the thunder calamity and the 12th? A calamity happens when a shard is rejoined. Thus Alexandria is probably NOT from the shard that created the thunder calamity, since it doesn't exists anymore. It's never told it's from the 12th reflexion.
We know that Alexandria was once part of a different reflection. After the 'barrier' was raised, the fate of the rest of their world is entirely unknown to them. We know they have the means to dimension hop or cause 'dimensional merges', but do not know how long they've had this means, so there are a number of ways Alexandria could have avoided being rejoined.

A calamity happens because the aether on a reflection and on the Source becomes so high that the aether from the reflection 'floods' the Source, rejoining the two. Lightning calamity... reflection destroyed by lightning... no connection here?

Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
Also, I don't remember about a shortage (just that Lindblum attacked Alexandria to get their electrope ressource, while also having some, but less), but rather Lindblum making a weapon with it that went far beyond what they planned.
It was stated that the weapon was created over the course of the Storm Surge war over electrope.

Even so, nobody ever thought that better resource production or even just trading the stupid stuff would be preferable to destroying the world?