Quote Originally Posted by BluexBird View Post
It gets better though. If you read the sparkly items on the floor, they go into detail about how in this planet, the main civilization (called the Globalists) tried to unite all the people under one ruler to help establish peace.

Much like the Garleans were trying to do with Eorzea.

Naturally, there were those who opposed this (the Freedom Fighters). And thus war ensued. So the Globalists created the Peacemaker machines in order to defeat the Freedom Fighters, except the Peacemakers ended up realizing than in order to establish peace, they would have to get rid of not just the Freedom Fighters, but the Globalists as well. Now THIS is literally Terminator (and other AI in movies out there, Ultron had similar motivations, etc.).

The machine realized that peace would be impossible unless they were ALL exterminated, which is similar to Meteion's train of thought in the sense that she believes happiness is ultimately impossible - non-existence is the only option.

Ultimately this led to one person (I don't know which side they were on) triggering all the weapons to basically destroy everything - you see it right after you kill the second boss.

It's just so well-done because it sort of illustrates what might have happened to our planet had the Garlean's actually succeeded in conquering everything.
Yeah I should've predicted SE would do something like this. The SE localization staff love pop culture references and this is a prime example of that.