Did I skip something in the MSQ? This part doesn't make any sense to me

[CVXIV]

There is no way the person who wrote the story for Living Memory has played through the Omicron storyline because there are a bucket of solutions to maintaining the Endless in Ultima Thule. Three of the races there have figured out some form of immortality. The Omicron are capable of creating anything they have data on. Wanting to continue living is such a laughably solvable problem in the FF14 universe we could have just pointed at G'raha and been like, "He extended his life for centuries by fusing with a tower, then we stuck his mind and soul in a crystal and jammed him into a younger version of himself so he could spend another 100 years kicking it with the crew. Seriously Sphene, give us a week. We can solve this. Heck, we just ended racism with a bag of seeds and defeated an army 30 years in the making in an afternoon. This is like an average Tuesday level of difficulty for us. BTW, we also likely have a cure for levin sickness. Probably should have mentioned that earlier."

And for anyone who thinks there just wasn't enough time to solve her problem, I remind you, we learn the Endless can be stored on the servers for at least centuries and Azem's crystal not only summons specific people when needed because we summoned two ghost out of the aetherial sea to Ultima Thule, in the fight with Sphene we summoned people into a virtual reality... And we already know the residents of Ultima Thule can come to Etheirys because we brought an Omicron here to gather cooking tips.

We didn't wipe out the Endless because "we had to," doing so changed literally nothing about what comes after. Sphene didn't even seem to notice they were gone. We wiped them out because the story wanted to push a moral that it is wrong to continue past your time as if that's really an issue modern humans must contend with and I remind you, one of the people in our group is working on his 4th century. So I guess it's only wrong for people who aren't our unofficial love interest.

doesn't defeating Sphene cause the terminals to be shut down anyway? It's entirely reliant on her and her inability to see reason due to her being programmed the way she is

[Lady_Silvermoon]

doesn't defeating Sphene cause the terminals to be shut down anyway? It's entirely reliant on her and her inability to see reason due to her being programmed the way she is

Yep. So instead of spending that time trying to find a way to reprogram her. Or informing the people of Living Memory our next boss fight is about to end their existence, so they should probably wrap things up if they have any unfinished business like that wedding that couple has waited centuries to have. Or searching for a way to save the memories in storage so after we stop Sphene they aren't lost, we instead spend that time vacationing with people as we wipe them out...

I personally find dressing up as a bunny to give children happy memories ten minutes before wiping them out of existence absolutely mental. I would have rather the characters pulled out lawn chairs and sat in front of the Meso terminal waiting for Sphene to finish reformatting than what they actually did with that time. I get they are trying to do the "you live on as long as you're remembered" thing, but I'm pretty sure that's in reference to being remembered by the people who love you, not assailants remembering their victims. I guess where the Garleans went wrong wasn't that they tried to drop a moon on us, but that they didn't try any of the local cuisine beforehand.

[CVXIV]

Yep. So instead of spending that time trying to find a way to reprogram her. Or informing the people of Living Memory our next boss fight is about to end their existence, so they should probably wrap things up if they have any unfinished business like that wedding that couple has waited centuries to have. Or searching for a way to save the memories in storage so after we stop Sphene they aren't lost, we instead spend that time vacationing with people as we wipe them out...

I personally find dressing up as a bunny to give children happy memories ten minutes before wiping them out of existence absolutely mental. I would have rather the characters pulled out lawn chairs and sat in front of the Meso terminal waiting for Sphene to finish reformatting than what they actually did with that time. I get they are trying to do the "you live on as long as you're remembered" thing, but I'm pretty sure that's in reference to being remembered by the people who love you, not assailants remembering their victims. I guess where the Garleans went wrong wasn't that they tried to drop a moon on us, but that they didn't try any of the local cuisine beforehand.

I wasn't entirely certain which is why I had asked, so thank you for confirming it for me. I could've sworn that was the case but I didn't want to claim so without being sure.

Yeah I believe the intent was to create a twisted sort of way of the Yok Huy's teachings, given that they are referenced when we learn about living on through people's memories but the story does have a lot of holes in it which I hope gets addressed later on, given that the story has yet to be truly resolved.

I think if the Garleans had tried archon loaf they would have seen the errors of their ways.
Truly the pinnacle of the culinary art.