Revelations from Patch 7.3: The Promise of Tomorrow

[Cassar]

I'm gonna be honest, it looks like we might be dealing with an Endless Asican. Maybe the 7.0 theories were correct all along and Ascians have always been part of Preservation, and they're the ones who groomed Calyx into becoming who he is.

Maybe this is their way of ensuring they no longer can be killed by being trapped in Auracite, although now they can by getting their terminal destroyed. Aren't Ascians just regular souls who get infused with their memories from the crystals? Being an Endless wouldn't be that different, only instead of having a soul you're now sustained by the life force of others' souls.

Assuming this is all the case (which by all means is a wild assumption) I can't help but wonder where and how well defended this terminal is. Considering Calyx transferred into it, I think it must be either on the Ninth or in the Source. Who's to say it's not on the Ninth's moon?

[mallleable]

Some speculation

This is assuming Preservation's efforts to make immortals en masse is part of a bigger scheme, but Calyx is going to give his report, and his failings, and a conclusion that I think would be drawn is that Endless are not invincible. The data storage facilities that would store Endless are a vulnerability. I think their next course of action is to develop invulnerable vessels to house immortal memories.

[Catwho]

Some things to consider

The Warrior of Light, as well as everyone else do not know Calyx is still alive or the existence of 'Winterers,' whomever they might be. Also Calyx's capabilities, and means of interacting with us are quite limited at this point. We don't even know where he escaped to, all we know is that someone like an Ascian can interact with that space. So I don't know how much impact they can have on the immediate future.

I saw one speculation that Calyx

didn't hop to another terminal... but perhaps instead uploaded himself to the "special" tiara that allegedly housed Queen Sphene / Simulent Sphene before. It's a big McGuffin still, after all!

[Kranel_San]

Recently, I had some thoughts about the 7.3 MSQ that I'd like to share; If Calyx is working with an Ascian or multiple, then why wasn't he warned about the WoL and the scions already?

It could be said that the involved Ascians aren't aware of the WoL and scions' involvement, yet that's unlikely in my opinion, given their history as observers of watching events and plans from afar. Thus, it makes me wonder: Did Calyx reach a point in their plans that they don't mind if he was disposed of?

This is supported by the fact that they were willing to teach him how to summon a Primal, whom should have raised a question mark to them if they were unaware of the WoL's involvement: "Calyx, who's this guy or group of people that's standing in your way to the point you want to summon a powerful Primal to get rid off?"

[Cleretic]

Recently, I had some thoughts about the 7.3 MSQ that I'd like to share; If Calyx is working with an Ascian or multiple, then why wasn't he warned about the WoL and the scions already?

What, you think he'd listen? Those chumps lost, and Calyx is a man of solutions.

Also, the literal first thing he did when entering the scene in 7.2 was try to kill us, and he just kept trying all through that patch. And then spent most of 7.3 trying to work around us instead because we're frustratingly unstoppable; I think he was doing the right things!

[mallleable]

Some comparisons

Necron might actually answer a question that has been rattling around in my head about Anima which was why a primal born of Garlean hopes, and patriotism did not manifest in a traditional Garlean form. Anima, and Necron were both summoned via mechanical means, but Necron had the added Concept layer. Anima may have been so grotesque because it had no guiding concept to shape it unlike Necron. Even more 'traditional' primals were shaped by the mind's eye of their devoted. I wonder if we'll find Necron's conceptual blueprints in what's leftover from preservation or if Calyx took them with him when he escaped.

On the topic of Anima, I wonder if these lines will have some relevance.

"Of paramount concern, even, assuming he didn't name the tower "Babil" on a whim.

In Amon's time, it meant "gateway of the gods." Xande used it to refer to a voidgate, but in this case, it almost certainly alludes to something altogether greater...

...The eldest and most powerful of primals."

I wonder if there is something more to 'abomination' primals like Anima.

[Carin-Eri]

What, you think he'd listen? Those chumps lost, and Calyx is a man of solutions.

Also, the literal first thing he did when entering the scene in 7.2 was try to kill us, and he just kept trying all through that patch. And then spent most of 7.3 trying to work around us instead because we're frustratingly unstoppable; I think he was doing the right things!

He was probably aware of our shenanigans in the Arcadion too, which would've further demonstrated what 'we' were capable of.

[Cygnia]

An idle thought

Not sure if mentioned here, however Simulant Sphene acted off. Too smug, too self-aware. It could be the end result of the purge made by the endless queen, but I have trouble squaring the way she acted with what she aimed to be post purge. Given how explicit the patch was over electrope's ability to manifest illusions and the repeated cultural taboo over replication, I wonder if the ascian we saw at the end was playing the part of S.Sphene.

[Cassar]

I didn't want to make a new thread for this so I'm just gonna ask it here.

I think I must have missed something so please remind me of this...

How exactly can the tech in Everkeep (which is located in the Source) communicate with the terminals in Living Memory (which is in the Ninth)? We see the regulators sending people's memories to Living Memory where they become endless, we also know that Calyx's terminal is located in the Ninth, yet he can project his image in Everkeep freely. However, every time we need to physically go to or come from Living Memory, we must do so through the portal in the Cenote.

Is Electrope WiFi capable of crossing the barrier between Source and the Ninth? Is this only possible because of the portal? What if the portal was closed?

[Cleretic]

I didn't want to make a new thread for this so I'm just gonna ask it here.

I think I must have missed something so please remind me of this...

How exactly can the tech in Everkeep (which is located in the Source) communicate with the terminals in Living Memory (which is in the Ninth)? We see the regulators sending people's memories to Living Memory where they become endless, we also know that Calyx's terminal is located in the Ninth, yet he can project his image in Everkeep freely. However, every time we need to physically go to or come from Living Memory, we must do so through the portal in the Cenote.

Is Electrope WiFi capable of crossing the barrier between Source and the Ninth? Is this only possible because of the portal? What if the portal was closed?

The original answer to this was that they were sending that info through 'Floor Twelve'--which was the portal to the Ninth. When that portal was closed, and Living Memory was shut down, those transfers stopped.

How Calyx was doing it, I couldn't possibly guess.