The Omega

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Regardless, what I find more interesting is that since the fall of the Allagan empire, the Ascians have almost never provided similar technological support to any other species in Eorzea (Ultima Weapon being the one possible exception).

Have they not? Isn't there the impending threat of a civilization who very rapidly developed new technologies and is even advanced enough to utilize Allagan technologies? I'm not saying the Garleans could only do it with the help of the Ascians, but I am saying their rapid rise to prominence from a very small nation is suspicious, especially when their rise threatens the beast tribes, which causes them to summon their Primals, the Ascians' goal.

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Have they not? Isn't there the impending threat of a civilization who very rapidly developed new technologies and is even advanced enough to utilize Allagan technologies? I'm not saying the Garleans could only do it with the help of the Ascians, but I am saying their rapid rise to prominence from a very small nation is suspicious, especially when their rise threatens the beast tribes, which causes them to summon their Primals, the Ascians' goal.

It's actually more likely that they haven't been given any Ascian help, or, if they have, the help they've been given is quite minimal by comparison to the Allgans.

Most of the Magitek gizmos are radically different in design form Allgan technologies (at least in appearance), and their creation has already been attributed to specific individuals. Of them, Nero is the most suspicious as he had dealings with an Lahabrea in the past, but it does not seem like those dealings involved the sharing of technologies. If they did, then there would have been no need for Nero to have spied on us during our fights with Ifrit and Titan. Lahabrea would have just told him what he wanted to know.

Further, as much as Garlemald's rapid expansion could cause an increase in for primal summonings (which is really only the case for the Sylphs and, maybe, the Vanu), the subsequent capture and enslavement or destruction of those primals is most likely not on the agenda for Ascians. Keep in mind that the Garlean Empire has a zero tolerance policy for primal summoning. Their end game is to destroy them, even at the cost of the entire species which summoned them. The immediate conflict would probably make the Ascians happy, but the overall effect would be opposite to their goals, given that the land would start to heal as soon as the primal and it's summoners were dead.