Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
EDIT: Just for fun, I'm going to pull up all in-game visuals of the star-shower and triangulate its position based on player vantage point... if we're going to assume they were all the same star-shower, we'll at least need it to hold up to being in the same place. (See? This is why I love this forum. No matter how motivated I am or how much I think I know, you guys always give me ideas...)
Unless, of course, they were like the aftershocks of an earthquake. One major rupture in the crust triggers off a bunch of other smaller ruptures that occur over the following few weeks to months.

Quote Originally Posted by Mjollnir View Post
Is there any reason not to think that the three stories start at the same time and the star-showers witnessed at the start/end of all three Echoes aren't the same pair of events?

I had assumed (yeah, dangerous, I know) that Y'shtola, Thancred and Yda/Papalymo's mission started simultaneously.
A very good reason to assume this is the reactions of our archons. If they are sufficiently seperated in time, you would expect only one of them to be shocked by the presence and use of the echo, who could then have informed their colleagues accordingly. But rather, they are all rather lost for words.


Unless, of course... ok, tangent time. Only one of the story arcs ever actually happened. Explicitly, the one you chose to begin the game in while the others experienced non-events. Maybe we're not supposed to tie the three stories together too tightly.