A.D. & B.C.

[Ryuusai]

Yeah the Greeks had their own calendar.

[Salvadeiro]

Buts so amazing how technology can speculate these things.

[Legend of the Past]

Legend got an account here! w00t!

Hehe, it's good to see you too, man.

I think it's better for the storyline if they leave it as B.C. and A.D. -- it adds to the emotional impact.  If some other random planet gets destroyed, we're not liable to care that much (think Krypton), but they're talking about us.  Us and our entire way of life potentially getting destroyed by what turns out to be the very thing that's responsible for it.  I am your father, indeed.

Yeah, I agree with that. The thing with CT (And CC, for that matter) is that the themes of the games were made to be emotional. If you lost to Lavos, you see the Planet dying and turning bleak. But then you beat him, and see it didn't turn bleak. And it somehow makes you feel happy: You saved that planet! You saved Earth! Though it dosen't exist, it touches you at some point. And the ending in CC is quite emotional, too: No one is useless, and though there might be one person to change everything, he woulden't exist without everyone and everything that came before him. That person could be anyone, it could be you, it could be me, it could be anyone of us, and anyone who isn't one of the guys (And gals, hopefully) who are members of the Compendium.

Everything exists for that one moment. All so that the universe can evolve into the next dimension...  Does that make us all just pawns?  Are each of our short lives nothing but a cheap sacrifice just so the one chosen life-form can be born? No. That is not the case!  Each and every one of us has a chance of becoming that one chosen life-form
which inseminates a planet.  Yes, it could be "you"...

[Chrono'99]

I just thought about something strange. In the series, "A.D." basically means "after the creation of Guardia", but why didn't people (especially Porre and El Nido) change calendar after the Fall of Guardia? Even Chronopolis' "Central Regime" faraway in the future still uses the Guardia calendar.

[Lordchander]

I guess they just stayed with tradition...



~LC, racking his brains out trying to think of an answer!

[Legend of the Past]

Maybe Guardia was the very first modern kingdom to rise, thus everyone use it's calendar? Like most countries in our world use the Roman calendar.

[Lordchander]

What Legend said is most likely right!

P.S. we r both dragoons now!



~LC

[DarkGizmo]

I just thought about something strange. In the series, "A.D." basically means "after the creation of Guardia", but why didn't people (especially Porre and El Nido) change calendar after the Fall of Guardia? Even Chronopolis' "Central Regime" faraway in the future still uses the Guardia calendar.

Well we still use AD and it's been 2005 years and it would be really wierd to see that,

You see chronopolis has be taken in 7,600 BC but because a groupe of kid from 1000 AD destroyed lavos in 996 AFG*


*AFG standign for after the fall of Guardia

it would be really wierd so they kept the old calendar

[Legend of the Past]

In fact, it would be more to the effect on 994 After the fall of Guardia. Guardia falls in 1005 AD.

[Ryuusai]

Whatever, lets just say saying anything else after the fall of Guardia would be really wierd.

[DarkGizmo]

mais they could jsut remove the BC thing and put BFG

65,000,000,000 BC ---> 65,000,001,005 BFG

[Chrono'99]

But Zeal must have had their own calendar (obvious even if it's not mentioned in the game) and people did change calendar when Guardia was founded. So why didn't Porre create their own one? They could have done year 1,006 after Guardia = year 1 after the Porrean Empire (or something).

[Legend of the Past]

Maybe they did, but like anyone who wasn't under Porre's grasp gave a damn.

[Chrono'99]

El Nido is a colony of Porre, they should use it then.

[DarkGizmo]

I'm not sure but maybe everyone using the Guardia calendar are native (chronopolis people) so they weren't using the porre calendar