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Idea for a sequel and the fate of the main cast....

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Sheiken:
Now I KNOW I am not the first to do this, but here is my take on where there is plenty of room for a 3rd mainline Chrono game.  Many would wonder what left there could be to do after Cross.  Trigger covered saving the future, Cross covered the consequences of messing with time, and healing the scars of time as a whole.  So what could be left?

The events on the Zenan mainland that take place alongside of Cross of course!  Think about it, Dalton is still sitting pretty in Porre after their invasion of Guardia.  However Crono and Marle are still alive, and there is no way the prince and princess are just going to stand by and let him be.  But wait...didn't they die?

Well no, not exactly.  You see memories of them as children in Cross, which are only present in Home World (an alternate timeline).  These are not ghosts, but echos of a time that no longer exists.  Illusions if you will.  Furthermore judging by Kid's age and the letter left by Lucca, it implies that someone is coming for her and her friends (Dalton).  The fall of Guardia happened in 1005 AD, a time when Kid was a baby.  However in the letter, Lucca talks to Kid as if she were older at the time she wrote it.  This implies that Crono and Marle are still alive, and the fall of Guardia was more a way to get the Masamune in Porre's hands, which is how Lynx got the sword to El Nido after infiltrating and rising through the ranks.  However, since Lynx did not exist in 1005 AD, someone else had to lead the attack.  As shown by the DS release of CT, this was Dalton.

Now we have Dalton, someone versed in time travel and Dimensional Distortion, and a living Crono and Marle.  It is important to note that there will only be references to the events of Cross happening at the same time, but the story will not interfere with Cross directly.  This is because in Another World (the true timeline), FATE is very careful not to allow anyone from El Nido influence the events on the Zenan Continent, as to avoid changing the past and prevent the FATE computer system from ever being created at all.  There is another approach to this however, that will bring us to our next topic...Lucca.

Lucca has always been assumed to be dead, but we do not know this for certain either.  The only death to the original cast that is confirmed is Robo (Prometheus circuit).  During the campfire scene with Kid, it is stated that Lucca was specifically kidnapped, not killed.  It is also revealed later that Lucca was kidnapped to program around the Prometheus Circuit, to allow FATE to access the Frozen Flame again.  However, things did not go as planned.  There is no confirmation of her death however.  Perhaps what went wrong with FATE's plan was the fact that Prometheus sort of had a bond with Lucca, and he could have helped her to escape.  It is also possible that FATE couldn't kill Lucca, as she was a big deal in the science community on Zenan.  When things did not pan out, she may have been released as well since killing her would influence history itself.  There is also a possibility that her mind was wiped, since FATE could still do that in Another World as well.

The last possibility is that after the events of CC, the Chrono Cross heals the scars of time.  Schala is free and there is no time crash for FATE to appear from.  This also means that there is no Lynx, which means Lucca was never kidnapped.  Guardia would still have fallen however, as that was Dalton to begin with.

So what we are left with is a living Crono, Lucca, and Marle.  Dalton is backed by a massive Porre Military and is fighting against a resistance led by our heros in an effort to rebuild Guardia back to its former glory.  Eventually time travel or Dimensional Distortions would come into play (again Dalton is versed in both) and he would either serve as the primary antagonist or a starting point till an even bigger threat reveals itself.  And that, is where we will end this story for now.  This is only a topic of how a new Chrono game could take place after all, and not a full blown fanfic.

So what do you think?  Would this be a good starting point for a potential "Chrono Break"?  What would you change, if anything?  And where do you see the story going from here?

Beach Bum:
While I like the idea, I don't think it would work.

Dalton made it very clear in Chrono Trigger DS that his revenge would be personal. It's not about obtaining the Masamune (which Dalton may not even have known about until later, since during Zeal's era it wasn't finished), it's about getting back at Crono. If we look at Porre's succesful rise to power, and coupled with the fact that Belthasar most likely would have employed their help if they were alive, I do believe that during Chrono Cross Crono and Marle are dead and Dalton is firmly in his seat of power on the mainland.

As for Lucca, her fate is curious. Kid claims she was kidnapped, yet when Serge dives into her memories near the end of the game, we see Lynx looming out of the window with Lucca nowhere to be seen. You would think if he kidnapped her, or was in the process of kidnapping her, she would appear somewhere. Kid also refers to Lynx as a murderer occasionally, and Lynx himself claims "I'll send you to see Lucca" which, in my opinion, is the most damning evidence that she is most certainly dead. If she was alive, what would be the point of lying about it in that situation?

Finally, there's Lucca's statement that they "no longer exist in this timeline", specifically mentioning "timeline" and not "dimension".

Anyway, even if by some stretch of sheer luck they were alive... What have they been doing for 15 years? And why would they act now? In that time period Porre had probably colonized Guardia and installed new government. Would it be in character for Crono and Marle to seek revenge and wage another bloody conflict?

Sheiken:
Well considering that I said the game would take place at the same time as Cross but on the Zenan mainland, Crono and Marle would have been part of the resistance fighting back against Dalton.  The 15 years you are asking about would be the events of the new game itself.  And since Crono and Marle would still be alive, Dalton's revenge would not be complete either.  As for the Masamune, no that would not have been Dalton's intent.  Just something that happened during the invasion by chance.  We know that the Sword disappeared during the Fall of Guardia and that Lynx joined the Porre Military.  The Masamune must have been present within Porre for Lynx to have gotten his hands on it, because he did not exist until one year AFTER the Fall of Guardia.  As for why Balthasar did not use Crono or Marle, well they are a prince and princess that already had their hands full with the resistance.  There was no way they could help him during that timeframe.

Lucca is indeed up in the air.  However Kid assumed Lucca was dead because she never returned.  Lynx could have also just been taunting Kid, since he is all about mind games.  But even if she did die, there is still the possibility of this taking place during the 15 year timespan AFTER the Chrono Cross was used.  Since the scars of time were healed, there would have been no time crash and Schala would be free.  This means that Lynx would not have existed and Lucca would have never been kidnapped.

Also timelines is just another way of referring to which dimension you are referring to in Chrono Cross.  They mean the same thing.  Balthasar uses the word timeline while explaining the split in Viper Manor as well.  It is also worth noting that the Lucca you are referring to was in the "Home World" timeline, and the CT timeline is "another world".  Furthermore by saying "this timeline" specifically, there are implications that they could still exist in the other.

Now some of this is open to interpretation, but I believe all bases are covered here and it fits perfectly.  The only thing this possibility would contradict are other fan theories that are themselves open to interpretation.

Beach Bum:
Right. Putting the Fall of Guardia stuff aside, I feel like that whole thing is too vague to conclusively say what happened. There is some evidence that suggests Crono and Marle survived, but it's debatable.

You could set it after Cross has concluded and the dimensions are unified, but the problem with that is that Cross seems to indicate that the unified timeline resumes from 1020 AD onward, specifically when Serge and Leena were on the beach. So those 15 years would still have happened already.

Sheiken:
Maybe, but there is no way of telling exactly the extent of the Chrono Cross being used.  In any case, the game would take place during the 15 years so the only question would be Lucca if it only affected from 1020 onward.  If the Cross affected more than just from when Serge wakes up on the beach (like Serge's father being alive, well, and not Lynx), then we have an easy explanation for her if she were to return.  Unfortunately, there is no evidence supporting one way or the other as it never shows beyond the beach scene with Serge and Leena.

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