So... Whatever Happened To the Void Ark Anyway?

[Jonnycbad]

It will probably float around until it runs out of fuel at some point in the next few years/decades and crash into the sea hopefully.

[Dreggit]

I sort of want them to have Radlia take it over and find out that it can make a portal into the Void itself and kickstart a Eureka style invasion into the Void. I feel like the Void needs more Lore.

If that happened we could get an even better understanding of the Void hierchy as far as what each ranking does and how it works....

But if we went there we would also presumably resolve the issue surrounding it or at the very least solve a lot of the issues surrounding it so wouldn't that mean there's overall be less voidsent in our world? If the Void became something else and resolved through our efforts that wpuld mean Square would lose the entire void enemy roster to play with... right?

[ObsidianFire]

As far as I am aware, there's nothing left in the Void to fix. That's the entire reason a Flood is something everyone, regardless of what side they are on, want to prevent. Once it happens, it's game over for the Shard.

[SannaR]

That and isn't everything in the void aether starved and how Nero almost died at the end of the Crystal Tower series?

[LineageRazor]

Didn't someone say it was only still being able to fly because of the Queen being it's main battery?

Well, as others have pointed out, the Ark is still floating around, even after the Void Ark series of quests, and the Queen is no longer around to power it. Bear in mind, the thing had a lot more Voidsent in it than just the Queen; she may have been the main battery, but she was probably not the only battery.

But, yeah, it seems odd that we're just letting it be. While we may have cleaned it out once, it was implied that there were a WHOLE lot more Voidsent packed into that ship than just the ones we encountered. It's dangerous, and letting it crash, even into the ocean, could unleash an awful lot of hostile critters into the world.

As far as I am aware, there's nothing left in the Void to fix. That's the entire reason a Flood is something everyone, regardless of what side they are on, want to prevent. Once it happens, it's game over for the Shard.

Indeed, current understanding in-game is that once a world is Flooded, whether by Light or Dark, that's it for the Shard. However, it's worth remembering that the way folks understand things in-game are not immutable truths. If the writers like, they could introduce plotlines wherein a means is discovered to change a flooded shard back to a viable one. It's unlikely to save any of the lives lost in the flood (especially if of Light), but it's not impossible. I consider it similar to the truth that the only way to deal with a Tempered individual is to kill them. In spite of this, I would not be surprised if a means to reverse or cure Tempering were to be discovered at some point in the game.

One of the things that I found interesting about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is that he pulled this trick often. Characters in the story had very particular ideas about the way things worked in the world - but over the course of the story, many of these established truths were shown to be wrong, and not even the bad guys, millennia-old survivors from a "golden age" who considered all the currently population to be backwards savages at best, had considered possible the miraculous discoveries the heroes made. The Ascians, too, should not be considered infallible authorities on the things they supposedly know to be true. They don't even have to be lying - they could simply be wrong in their beliefs.

[ChaoticCrimson]

I wonder if there really are still Voidsent still on board. Diablos could have freed the remaining ones imprisoned there after he absconded. After all, why waste perfectly good pawns? I mean, if Scathac was the most powerful Voidsent locked away in there, and Diablos was planning on using her for his own gains, what would he have to fear from the others? Either way, the Ark itself is potentially dangerous enough on its own. If there are still Voidsent napping, that makes it all the worse if something or someone wakes them up.

[SannaR]

Even if there is still batteries still in it it wouldn't crash at least not while the game is still running I mean we got told the warring Triad was a huge part of the reason why Azys Lla was still being powered and floating. We turned that one off and then also cut off the other flow of aether that we know of that it was getting just recently and that's like a texas-esque sized amount of land that should be slowly falling into whatever is below it yet no one else seems to care or remember that either in game at least.

[Jonnycbad]

It was implied that Azys Lla would take centuries to fall.