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« Reply #75 on: October 02, 2005, 09:41:08 am »
Don't spam..... And don't ask stupid questions unless you've read the topic... Maybe that way you'll find out what we're talking about (well the level headed people atleast).

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« Reply #76 on: February 14, 2006, 06:48:01 pm »
Questions raised:

1. What is the cause of the Dead Sea's destruction?

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1. Frozen Flame Idea

Inquiry

The Dead Sea is stated to be the resurrection of the original ruined future averted by Crono and his crew when they defeated Lavos. How was this future resurrected, and how is Serge related to it?

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Quote from: Kuroikaze
Well, I guess that's a no-go then.

But thinking about how Lavos multiplies, I notice it's asexual. This is pretty easy to figure out, because there's only one on the planet, and there's no way in hell it has a gestation period of several million years.

So the next logical idea is that it produced by asexual division, Mitosis or Meiosis. Starfish reproduce in a similar fashion. If you cut a starfish into five pieces, it will grow into 5 new starfish. This might have something to do with the first thing Lavos does when it unburrows from the planet (and its little pocket dimension). It attempts to preform a high-speed mitosis or meiosis and launches spires off itself to spread them around the world. The widescale destruction this causes is most likely a side-effect, but negligible, because the world by this stage of Lavos' cycle is more than fit enough to support myriad lifeforms. Killing a few billion people just means that there will be more food for its infant spawn to slowly grow, mature, and eventually launch themselves into space in search of their own planets.

If this is true, then perhaps the Frozen Flame is a piece of Lavos that either had its growth halted or severly stunted by its father piece. Why would Lavos do this? A few reasons.

1) A backup plan. If Lavos reproduces via meiosis or mitosis, then it retains memory genetically. This clone would for all intents and purposes BE lavos. Laucnhing a premature chunk of itself would serve the dual purpose of it being its link to the surface and a backup piece of itself.

2) Lavos cant have another version of itself maturing at the same time as it's trying to guide the planet to be able to sustain multiple powerful life forms. It needs to be able to drain a specific ammount of energy from the planet before it can reproduce, as Mitosis and Meiosis are a severe drain of energy.

so, when Lavos was removed from history by Chrono and Co, the Frozen Flame put into plan its backup, by corrupting FATE and tossing it back in time, and allowing it to create a stable self-contained environment, it had a mini-planet to begin draining from to start its maturation. Serge's predicament was most likely planned from the begining. His being there and almost dying in 1010 created a perfect opportunity to give the Frozen Flame infinite time to mature. When Wazuki/FATE was killed by Kid, this created a vacancy of FATE in Home World, meaning that El Nido was no longer guided toward the time when Chronopolis existed. This created the Dead Sea, which might be seen as a place held in an infinite time loop.
With an infinite 10,000 year loop, the Frozen Flame could mature and grow into a full Lavos being, then burrow and halt the loop by hiding in a pocket dimension, then emerge from the pocket dimension in 11,010 AD, bringing about the destruction seen in the Dead Sea.


Quote from: Kuriokaze
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If that was indeed him seeding the planet, then how come the only place where you find Lavos Spawns at is on Death Peak?


Migration, probably. They would want to go to the area where their spawner was last, as there would be easy access to the PD so they could start siphoning off the remaining vestiges of energy in the planet before launching themselves into space.

Also, as stated above, Death Mountain may be Lavos' corpse after splitting off into several pieces.

And as for the "why destroy the planet?" thing, I imagien young lavos are very vulnerable, and probably only have the shell of their creator's spire as their initial protection. By devastating the dominant lifeform of the planet, it increases each spawn's chance for survival.

This kind of "spreading seeds" thing is seen alot in nature, especially in insects and reptiles, and other species that dont reer their young. I highly doubt Lavos reers its young, or even stays alive much longer after reproduction.

Edit - another explanation may be that the Lavos Spawn at Death Mountain are the last remaining ones, and that being at the point of exit means the area there isn't as energy ripe as the rest of the world was in 1999, thus they've not yet met their energy requirements for interplanetary launch. The others had probably left decades before, having a wealth of area and energy at their disposal.


Could have use in the Lavos article. The actual theory needs to take into account how the Dead Sea instantly forms.