Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
The problem with time travel is you have to get used to fluidity in the flow of time. It's not too hard to grasp once you do, but it's like this:

1. Mide, Dayan, and the others are born in the (relatively) recent past. They assemble and summon Alexander.
2. The events of the Alexander raid play out.
3. Alexander sends Mide and Dayan into the distant past to live out their lives as members (or possibly as the founders) of the Hotgo tribe, taking with them Roundrox' Codex fragment and the idea of Alexander, leading to 1.

So, temporally speaking, our distant past is their future. It is, as Quickthinx says, a closed circle, just like with his attempt to make Alexander turn us into ash:

1. Quickthinx freezes us in time and tries to force Alexander to atomize us.
2. Our future selves, having been deemed worthy by Alexander, save us from being turned to ash.
3. We engage Alexander Prime and prove ourselves worthy, allowing our present selves to save our past selves. If we don't, it causes a temporal paradox that kills us.

Alexander did judge us, just as Quickthinx wanted - in the future - and found us worthy. So he was doomed to fail from the first. The "time is a closed circle" is really funny coming from Quickthinx, when you think about it. For a gobbie clank who considers himself enlightened, he sure is dim if he doesn't understand you can't change the past even with time travel...

As I said earlier, don't even ask where or when Alexander and Schrodinger / Shanoa began to exist. They're temporal singularities; there is no logical answer.
Just one small correction:


Mide and Dayan never actually summoned Alexander. They attempted the summoning but were interrupted by the future Alexander jumping back in time. The original (and only) summoning of Alexander was when Quickthinx summoned him in the present.