Problematic notion about Zone 5 & 6 story bits.

[Zero-ELEC]

If you interact with the Endless that give sidequests after the terminals are off, they generally just accept without much issue that they were turned off and in one case even say that keeping them "alive" at the cost of the lives of others would be unconscionable.

Let me ask you this, if a solution is found later. Someone just comes in and asks "why didn't you do this or that?" and it would have kept all in Living Memory alive and not force Sphene to invade other Reflections.

If we're talking about hypotheticals like these, then they can simply be turned back on. We know that various Endless have been turned off before; particular people were turned on and off multiple times over the years as the aether reserves that sustained them dwindled. If their existence was genuinely threatened by being turned off then they were already on the verge of nonexistence.

[Kirutsuki]

If you interact with the Endless that give sidequests after the terminals are off, they generally just accept without much issue that they were turned off and in one case even say that keeping them "alive" at the cost of the lives of others would be unconscionable.

Yea I did all the sidequests and they did act as if they knew what was going on to some extent. But neither did they show any particular emotions about people being gone so it was a bit weird.
If it was that Cahciua indeed talked to all the residents, why didn't she clearly say that yea everyone knows they should be shut down. This one dude was so happy he just got his wife back even :'D

Honestly I would probably be happy if there's like a tribe questline here in living memory where we slowly bring like a small section back online and make it clear what's going on.
Could be an interesting thing to do, or maybe too cruel of a thing to do at this point.

[Alenore]

Yea I did all the sidequests and they did act as if they knew what was going on to some extent. But neither did they show any particular emotions about people being gone so it was a bit weird.
If it was that Cahciua indeed talked to all the residents, why didn't she clearly say that yea everyone knows they should be shut down. This one dude was so happy he just got his wife back even :'D

Honestly I would probably be happy if there's like a tribe questline here in living memory where we slowly bring like a small section back online and make it clear what's going on.
Could be an interesting thing to do, or maybe too cruel of a thing to do at this point.

They know they're pretty much projections from the terminal. For them, the temrinal being shut down means they'll just be reincarnated at another time, sinc ethey've been through multiple cycles of beinc recreated.
I suppose they think we're just shutting down the terminal, and not erasing data. I kinda want to know other translations on the matter, do they also use "erase"?