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[Today you are all graced with the visage of the Mars marshal, who has finally decided maybe it's time he brings something up here on the network.]

Howdy folks. Name's Sparks Nevada, if we haven't met yet. Before this planet, I was on one called Crystallis. Though before that, I was on Mars, and originally, I'm... from Earth. Thing is, I know a few folks who're from Crystallis that are here, too. It was kind of a similar situation. Y'know, the whole getting dragged outta yer home to be forced to live on another planet with crazy magic and chocobos and all that stuff. The difference there was that we were all considered to be somethin' called "Heroes of Light" and we had to basically save the planet -- the whole multiverse, actually -- from gettin' annihilated. Yer welcome, by the way.

Thing is, there are sure a lotta coincidences on this planet. If the jobs and the races 'a folks and all that ain't enough of a clue, the place names are a dead giveaway. Half of them are named for the Heroes from Crystallis. Even I got one - Sparks Goldsaucia. Pretty cool. Reckon it's all a bit too much to be a coincidence.

Bonnie also brought up the map to me, and... [He looks that over in a separate window.] If ya squint just right, and slide some bits around, sure as heck does look like Crystallis. Durin' that whole apocalypse thing, the planet did get kinda messed up and broken, so I guess we wouldn't have known what the continents looked like after all that. Woulda taken some time to re-map, and I was only there for a month after the whole ordeal was over. Had a planet to get back to marshaling, ya see.

What's my point to all this? Guess my point is that I don't believe in coincidences. The universe is, like, both too big and too small at the same time for that nonsense, if'n that makes any sense at all. It does. I think.

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That sort of sudden and noticable drifting is what causes mass extinction. That's definitely a bad end for someone.

[Were things really that bad off after he left? Sparks had been feeling guilty enough leaving Crystallis to go home in the first place. Not that he'd ever admit that, but he's starting to look a little guilty now.]

I, uh. Well. I-I don't think it was that bad. Look, I had to go back to Mars once all was said 'n done. I had a job to get back to. But other Heroes stuck behind to live on Crystallis, so maybe they know more than I do. If any of 'em are here, that is.

Perhaps. Either way, if this is the same world their lack of historical knowledge of the previous era speaks volumes.

That is a pretty big clue. I'm still thinkin' it's time to hit the libraries 'n museums and see what we can find. See if there's anything familiar, y'know?

We should also look into creation myths as well, they will no doubt have clues and might reference the events before.

Perhaps items were left behind and we could find that as well. That would be interesting.

Oh yeah, Crystallis had this legend about, um, "ancients" or something who were people in a past cycle who got pulled in for the same kinda BS. Like, two thousand years or before us or something?

[...Uh oh.]

So if that's the case, that could mean it's been another 2000 years and this crystal stuff is gonna start all over again.

If this is really Crystallis, I mean.

Which I hope it ain't.

I hope I'm wrong about all this.

That's an interesting thing to consider, perhaps this is an event that happens every 2000 years. Records would be hard to keep up with that kind of interval.

Especially if the world gets wrecked right when that 2000 years starts.

Man. This... This is soundin' pretty likely, huh?

I don't think there's a lot we can do about it, other than be mentally ready, I guess. Maybe start, like, stockpiling food.

It's hard to say, if this is indeed a pattern it would be best to be prepared. However, if it isn't we would be making people worry for no reason.

But, if I had to choose i would rather be prepared for the worst.

Thing is, as soon as we showed up in Crystallis, we heard all about the Heroes thing. Mysterious voice in the darkness, special crystals that did stuff for special Jobs, prophesies, the whole nine yards. Here, it's kinda like "hey so you folks were floatin' around in space, so we picked ya up. Welcome to Vaikuntha, I guess."

Civilization loses information and knowlege all the time, you can do it in as little as three generations.

Oh. Well, that's not good. I'd like to think that savin' the universe would get ya. y'know, remembered. [No books, no statues, nothing?]

I agree! But, sometimes things happen where knowlege is lost. It could have happened soon after the events or not that long ago from now.

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