A shortage? Are you serious? (endgame dt spoilers)

[NegativeS]

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?

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?

[CNitsah]

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?

I'm saying you can have 2 lightning calamities because there are more shards than elements, and since you LITTERALLY go in the shard where Alexandria comes from (12th floor is still in that shard), it means the shard STILL exists, and thus it's probably not the 12th. There is the possibility of time travel to a past where the second calamity didn't happen yet, but if that a possibility, you can make the ascian come back from the past, and still recreate Zordiark with part of him from when he existed. If that's the way they go, nothing matter anymore story wise. So I'm gonna assume they thought a little about it.

[hydralus]

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

I hate to break it to you but there are plenty of examples of real cities being destroyed despite their efforts to appease their conquerors.