Quote Originally Posted by No_Nick_Needed View Post
I would imagine that after the Thirteenth, the Ascians would have spent some time analysing how and why they failed with their first attempt and coming up with the way that would eventually be successful. Also they were probably extra careful to avoid a repeat of their previous failure. Though they also didn't have to contend with the Source being devastated, so it could go either way with the first proper rejoining taking longer or shorter to set up, than the following ones.

I wonder, if the Ascians ever came up with any ideas of how to salvage the Void after all. To fully put Zodiark back together, they would have had to tackle that issue eventually... unless they believed that a 13/14th complete Zodiark was already complete and powerful enough to awaken and gobble up the final reflection himself.
Presumably the Ascians had a plan, because they didn't call it quits after doing that. We just weren't told the plan, because it wasn't actually important for the story.

My guess is, yes, they just planned to get Zodiark to fix it. That was gonna require more sacrifices, but the Ascians don't care about the immense human cost of their plans, so it's no skin off their nose to schedule in an extra sacrifice to a mostly-complete Zodiark to fix that one before they get to all the sacrifices they actually planned to do to bring back Amaurot.