Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
I see. That way it makes it sound like it's a bit of code gone wrong, and Alexander is the debugging tool. Particularly when you say the tribe wouldn't exist otherwise; my question would be, why would it need to? However, if there's some unobserv-ed/-able causal agent it begins to make sense.
The trick to understanding everything surrounding Alexander is to remember that it's a closed circle. It's all already happened countless times before you even begin to play your role within it, and countless more "yous" continue to play it out within the loop. The Hotgo tribe, for instance, has to exist because Mide and Dayan were sent into the past by Alexander after the final battle... because that not happening would create a temporal paradox, much like the DPS failing to save your past selves in A12 instantly kills you.

Remember Backrix' journal. He begins chronicling the events of Alexander, which continues up until A10. During the trip to the past his journal is knocked from his hands and picked up by Past Quickthinx, who uses it as a script to play out the events leading up to that precise moment. If Alexander isn't summoned, Backrix won't write his journal, and it won't be knocked out of his hands and picked up by Past Quickthinx - but those events all have to happen, because they already have.

There's not confirmed to be a "Zeroth Loop" outside of our ability to observe... but just like a hypothetical perpetual motion machine needs some energy input to start out, it's the only way this makes logical sense.