Quote Originally Posted by Cassar View Post
Do we know for sure that there's no more civilization in the ninth? Because the Living Memory zone is in the ninth, and you can clearly see a beautiful cloudy sky with sun shining and everything. Makes you wonder, with all this electrope technology some of the citizens from the ninth could easily have built a spaceship and fled to space or to the moon or whatever.

Also, even if the ninth is now devoid of all human civilization, Calyx's terminal(s) surely must be there somewhere, right?
We actually don't know for certain that there isn't someone else around on the Ninth; the subject has never come up to confirm or deny it. Which is a bit of an odd gap: we've never even incidentally gotten a line like 'before Lindblum fell they did X', the other parts of the Ninth just sort of exist only in abstract.

I'm not sure if that's a clue, or just storytelling efficiency. The story of the Ninth is only ever a story about Alexandria, so what happened to Lindblum just doesn't matter, in the same way that specifics about cities outside of Amaurot don't matter to the story of the Ancients. But unlike the Ancient world, the Ninth does have named locations, so it's entirely possible that might be setup for an execution somewhere down the line.