Alexander Lore

[treuhavik]

But I'm still really confused. Would it make more sense to just think of this part as an enclosed bubble kind of thing?

I think it does a lot of good not to focus on the chronological order in which these events took place. Trying to start your line of thought with Mide and Dayan in the past makes things messy. If you concentrate on the characters' timeline, it's much easier to comprehend. Mide and Dayan started in one place in time and ended in another. It really doesn't matter that the latter period is chronologically prior to the former.

[Cilia]

As mentioned before, the trick to understanding everything is acknowledging that time doesn't flow in a straight line for the events surrounding Alexander. While the timeline I posted earlier is historically accurate, from our perspective it plays out a bit differently.

1. The Illuminati summon Alexander.
2. A1-A10 play out.
3. We're warped 3 years into the past, setting up both 1 and 2 above.
4. We're unfrozen from the time bubble and spared Alexander's Judgement.
5. We save our past selves in 4 above after surviving Divine Judgement.
6. Mide throws herself into Alexander's core to shut him down.
7. After Roundrox gives Schrodinger her Codex fragment, Alexander spits Mide and Dayan out in the distant past with it, setting up the events of the entire story.

Our distant past is Mide's future, leading to the "present" events of Alexander. It's all a big, infinitely repeating causal loop - a worthless comedy show played time and again for eternity.

Don't forget: time is relative.

[Cilia]

As always I hate to double post, but here is an instructional video for time travel concepts. The part that's pertinent to the topic at hand starts at 4:15.

[Alynn]

Thank you so much again guys!! I think I finally understand... I just stopped trying so hard and it all fell into place!! ._.

Happy New Years! Thanks again for all the insightful posts!!

[EdwinLi]

Ya Alex story is interesting but has, as Doctor Who would say....



involved being how events unfold as intended and the future is not actually in a person's control.

[N7Drayconivous]

It's like what Biggs says. "I'll believe just about anything at this point." That was my answer as well finishing that questline. It was a wonderful story though in my opinion. Kind of eerie, but wonderful. Pretty much time travel, we in our time meet her in her time loop is kinda how that works. We were destined to meet her and well you know what happens from there.