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    It was probably some Third Astral Era script that the Allagans thought looked cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar View Post
    It was probably some Third Astral Era script that the Allagans thought looked cool.
    This is actually a very fair possibility. It has a correlation to a common practice in real life of putting Latin phrases on logos and such to add gravitas.

    Why write "E Pluribus Unum", when you can just as easily say "From many, one"? Because using the Latin gives the phrase more perceived weight and authority. It's FANCIER.

    There's no reason to think that the Allagans couldn't have had their own precursors that they admired, and whose dead language they co-opted to decorate their automatons.

    Not that that gives us any clue as to what this phrase actually says. A decorative language used by a dead civilization that was dead even when the civilization was still alive? Need quite the Rosetta stone for that, I'd think...
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