1999AD: How Director knows about Lavos?

[GenesisOne]

Nice extraction from the CC script.

The lithosphere would consist of the Crust and the Upper Mantle, so it correct to say that this is a geological report.

And yes, such a report would exist in CT's timeline seeing how the report exists in continuity within the Chronoverse.

[utunnels]

The difference is, the Dead Sea Lavos didn't awake until at least 2300AD.

[GenesisOne]

Don't you mean "didn't awake"?

If not, then that's grammatically confusing to me.

[utunnels]

Oh, sorry.
It is fixed.

[GenesisOne]

Perhaps, except such a scenario would require that the Dead Sea be frozen in 2300 A.D., and that the Report is simply reporting the date it is accessed when it displays '2300 A.D.' as a header.

[SilentMartyr]

It definitely is an interesting question. Without any serious time to think about it, I'd have to say they probably took geological studies. Even in 1000 there were significant earthquakes, over time as technology improved they had to have started a geological scientific branch of the kingdom.

As for the mystics, they had to have been killed in the original attack by Lavos. He came out so close to where Medina was located in 1000 and 600 that there could be no way anything could have survived the assault near ground zero.

[utunnels]

Perhaps, except such a scenario would require that the Dead Sea be frozen in 2300 A.D., and that the Report is simply reporting the date it is accessed when it displays '2300 A.D.' as a header.

I overlooked something. It seems this structure in the Dead Sea shows the year 2400. It will make less sense if the destruction took place in 1999 unless the structure was warped from another dimension other than Home World's future. http://www.chronocompendium.com/images/wiki/8/81/Company_2400.png

[Acacia Sgt]

Well, wasn't the Dead Sea the mesh of two different futures? The one without Lavos (where Company 2400 comes from most likely), and then the future where Lavos destroyed the world (probably not exactly the CT original, but one similar)?

[wsdragon]

We don't actually know whether Company 2400 is really from the year 2400.  For example, it's the year 2010 but we still have 20th Century Fox.

[xcalibur]

I agree with truthordeal that lavos may have been known as a legendary creature. It's similar to how zeal was mostly forgotten, but remembered as a legend, similar to our Atlantis (and there are even more similarities, but thats another discussion)

No, the Mytics didn't all die by 1999 A.D.

They simply relegated their existences to the interiors of the Medina Domes. However, seeing as to how there are no mystics in the year 2300 A.D., I am to assume that they were all wiped out by a combination of theoretical means:

- The Day of Lavos wiped out all within close proximity of his wrath
- The Volcanic Winter between 1999 and 2300 (yes, Lavos' reign of destruction would cause tectonic shifts which would result in earthquakes and volcanic activity)
- Killed off by rogue robots in between that span of time
- Killed each other for survival in the aforementioned Winter

It would explain their absence in the year 2300 A.D.

What says everyone else here?

What about creatures such as mutants, octopods, meat eaters and shadows found in lab 16? They could be mystics.

[Hayden]

Well as you see if you go in the medina village the text says "If only Magus Summoned lavos 400 years ago Yada Yada Yada" probaly the Director heard a imp or a Heckran or something that Lavos coulda been summoned 400 years ago to destroy the whole world

[1st Mate Bob]

^ That's right. Every mystic knows about Lavos' existence. They probably passed the tales down as the legend of the great Magus, and it eventually got spread to everyone.