"We've gone from bashing our information into rock, where it will last a billion years, to putting the sum-total of the knowledge of the universe on - a chip you can destroy with a fridge magnet."
— Glen Foster
"After two thousand years, the machine still works. And old Azerim didn't even have a college degree!"
Cmdr. Adams: Dr. Morbius, everything here is new. Not a sign of age or wear on any of it.
Dr. Morbius: Young man, these devices—self-serviced, self-maintained—have stood exactly as you see them for 2000 centuries.
Dr. Morbius: Young man, these devices—self-serviced, self-maintained—have stood exactly as you see them for 2000 centuries.
Indiana: Do you really believe this machine still WORKS?
Dr. Ubermann: Why not? Everything ELSE we've found here certainly does.
Dr. Ubermann: Why not? Everything ELSE we've found here certainly does.
Agate: Take a look at this. ...The walls and floors of these ruins... What do you think they're made of?
Tora: Just rocks?
Agate: I thought so too, at first. Just regular stone, hewn and stacked, right? But... With natural materials, processed and put together, you'd expect some flaws, some deformations somewhere... And with this ruin shooting up into the sky like this...even small variations at ground level would cause it to tilt over.
Rex: So how do you think it was made?
Agate: Well, the treated blocks were stacked up into the sky, with perfect accuracy and no errors. That much is true. But the strength of it is unparalleled. Over hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years, the walls and floors didn’t break or become brittle...
Tora: Amazing work by people from age past!
Agate: At our level of technology, it’s unimaginable. I marvel at the minerals and materials used to create this site, though I don’t pretend to understand them. The whole World Tree is a mystery, for sure...
Tora: Just rocks?
Agate: I thought so too, at first. Just regular stone, hewn and stacked, right? But... With natural materials, processed and put together, you'd expect some flaws, some deformations somewhere... And with this ruin shooting up into the sky like this...even small variations at ground level would cause it to tilt over.
Rex: So how do you think it was made?
Agate: Well, the treated blocks were stacked up into the sky, with perfect accuracy and no errors. That much is true. But the strength of it is unparalleled. Over hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years, the walls and floors didn’t break or become brittle...
Tora: Amazing work by people from age past!
Agate: At our level of technology, it’s unimaginable. I marvel at the minerals and materials used to create this site, though I don’t pretend to understand them. The whole World Tree is a mystery, for sure...
—Xenoblade Chronicles 2, "Impassioned Thoughts"
"I don't know what possessed the Allagans to surround themselves with these chattering orbs, but the fact that they remain while their creators do not speaks volumes..."
—Estinien Wyrmblood, Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers
