Not sure why this comes to mind, but the entire relationship between playing the game to enjoy it as it's going vs. playing it for the endgame kind of feels almost exactly like the struggle of a poorly prepared world (and game? :O) against the Empire for the right to survive and live as wanted, whereas the Empire despises it's loose powers and loose ends alike...

Could Yoshi-P have actually set up the 1.0 series just to play homage to his own coming, founding even satirical conditions on which to lay the 2.0 plot? <~~<~(^o^)

*Sets down the coffee.*