Quote Originally Posted by Alleluia View Post
Reminds me how very much I look forward to the expac that reconnects us to them.
Don't count on it being an expansion. I've said before, I think it feels like they're setting up a big merger of various optional "fix the Thirteenth"-connected plotlines – Void and Eden quests are already angling for a merger and surely Zero's plotline will be relevant, but it seems like too much prerequisite questing for an expansion.

Zero's story might have originally been planned to be optional too, if the decision to merge it into MSQ came later. (Whether you suspect that to be a cost-cutting exercise or they just thought they needed more room to do the story justice, and get more Void lore out of obscure sources and into MSQ.)