Quote Originally Posted by Mimilu View Post
Important and world molding concepts and events are forgotten by the wayside by the next expansion. Examples include SB's artificial Echo and the implication that the Echo could allow one to control Primals, everything happening in Ivalice and Bozha, and Dynamis. It makes the audience wonder why the writers bothered introduced said important things if they weren't going to expand upon them. Electrope is heading in this direction.
Electrope is the entirety of the explanation for the FFXI raid. It has fulfilled its purpose as a literary device to hand-wave why something impossible can happen.