I don't know about this...

[EinherjarLucian]

So here I am in Azys Lla, and I seem to be only getting food items from the questbots. ...I'm not so sure this is a good idea, eating food that's been sitting around for over 5,000 years.

[Frederick22]

So here I am in Azys Lla, and I seem to be only getting food items from the questbots. ...I'm not so sure this is a good idea, eating food that's been sitting around for over 5,000 years.

If their tecnology can work, and the structures didnt dacay on those 5000 years, then taking care of food is not a problem xD

[Cilia]

Allagan ingenuity extends to food preservation, enough to keep it fresh for five millennia!

Truly, this and not their magitek WMDs is what we should fear.

[Frederick22]

Is hard to imagine they are alll gone just for an earquake.
What the hell?? did they all were off guard when this happened?

[Fenral]

Is hard to imagine they are alll gone just for an earquake.
What the hell?? did they all were off guard when this happened?

We know more than a few survived, we just don't know what happened after. Supposedly, the survivors settled down and eventually built the Garlean Empire, and we know at least House Darnus had some store of knowledge passed down, but that's about it. Most of their technology, even the stuff like Azys Lla which could have actually been quite valuable to relief efforts, was simply abandoned for reasons unknown. It's quite odd, because what little we know suggests that they would have used it if they could, and they still had people who could. All the "answers" we've gotten so far have just been thinly veiled questions.

We've met two moderately self-aware clones with no individual free will of their own; one absolutely bonkers imperial legatus who claimed to be descended from Allagans; and one poor bewildered historian, who found concrete proof that he indeed is, but put himself in a position rendering him unable to answer much of anything, besides what he felt like sharing as the doors closed. Oh, and one ghost, who also doesn't really feel like sharing, and may not even be a canonical character. The only actual natural-born, flesh-and-blood Allagans we've met have been freakishly oversized mutants that tried to kill us on sight. Fun times.

[Waffilicious]

The story stated the allagan empire fell upon the earthquake, but that didn't mean it went extinct. There is knowledge that indicates allagan being able to space travel, maybe they colonized the moon. That brings a question to mind, if they could live in flying cities how did the earthquake made them "disappear" from those flying cities.

That is unless the earthquake released so much aether to the air which could be toxic to allagans and the few surviving ones or they mutated or they genetically put themselves the garlean third eye so they don't die from aether poisoning (like mako poisoning from ff7). This is pure speculation.

[Hivernica]

Is hard to imagine they are alll gone just for an earquake.
What the hell?? did they all were off guard when this happened?

I like to think they're all gone somewhere in space. Sounds like they'd have the technology for it, but some remained behind.

[saber_alter]

-snip-

they're cut off from their main supply of resources in the air. no food, water, or basic living supplies means no sustaining boime. those creatures on Azys Lla aren't that edible after all. And with the main empire effectively gone, no reason to continue something that lacks purpose.
Aether isn't like mako, (the most it gave us was a headache, but a more extreme case is that it completely froze over coerthas)

[Waffilicious]

-snip-

If its like that then where does the 2/3rds of survivors go? most of the farms are always away from the main city if it goes by our logic, plus it is said the earthquake shook all of eorzea but eorzea is but a continent. did they spread? went underground? more flying colonies? space? Only future expansions will tell us (i really wanna know every era).

And aether can be toxic, example one all the zombies from pharos sirius they are aether poisoned pirates not tempered by leviathan. In cnj story if i remember correctly the girl went down with a fever for having too much aether inside herself. So it can be a cause, maybe not but i like my speculation :P

[Fenral]

they're cut off from their main supply of resources in the air. no food, water, or basic living supplies means no sustaining boime. those creatures on Azys Lla aren't that edible after all. And with the main empire effectively gone, no reason to continue something that lacks purpose.

Except one of the islands on the western edge looks like a residential complex, complete with garden, and the Delta Quadrant has no shortage of water. The facility has been left running on auto-pilot, but not for inability to sustain life. All the monsters running about only escaped for lack of maintenance after it was abandoned, near as I can tell from the side quests.

So what the seven hells happened? I don't want to doubt the "most were wiped out, but some survived" explanation, but it's kinda lacking in about a million different ways now that we know Azys Lla not only exists, but is still quite operational.