Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
One difference. The people in the 8th Umbral Calamity determined that their OWN erasure was preferable to living in hell. It was not just Ironworks but the survivors in that timeline banding together to work toward the goal of sending the Tower and G'raha back to avert the Calamity.

If the Ancients had stopped with the second sacrifice, it would be the same situation. But they wanted to sacrifice other new lives after the world was restored to a livable state just to get their own people inside Zodiark back.
U sure about that? How about the sundered shards, did they give their consent to being erased? How about anybody on Etherys who was minding their own business? I highly doubt ironworks was able to unite literally the entire planet for this cause. did they consent? How about any foreign races across the universe that meteion might've missed? did they asked to be erased?

And as I said in another post, I dont hold either of these groups as more or less just than the other. They felt the need to do what they did to ensure that the world they knew survives, a sentiment I'm sure most of us can understand. My point is that the game will go to great lengths to remind us of how awful those ascians are for doing this, meanwhile similar potential atrocities committed by our heroes are brushed aside as a minor footnote. Either both of these scenarios are ok, or none of em are. I'm not going to cherrypick which ones are right or wrong based on who is or isn't on my side.