It may be self explanatory, but nowhere in the game says the Palma was utterly annihilated, it was a term you put here out of nowhere
Nelson, if you would read a little more carefully, Utterly annihalated doesn't come out of nowhere. It is in the compendium!
The Algol Solar System (I - IV)
A solar system composed of one star and four planets - Parma, Motabia, Dezolis, and Ryucross. The Great Light created it as the Great Seal used to seal away the Profound Darkness. Due to the "Conjunction", the close alignment of three planets in the system in AW 843, an extraordinary event occurred, and Parma and Motabia exchanged orbits. Parma was instantly and utterly annihilated in an explosion in AW 1284, when the artificial satellite Gaila fell.
Now.. here it is
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Parma was instantly and utterly annihilated in an explosion in AW 1284, when the artificial satellite Gaila fell
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I didn't make it up. It is pretty self explanatory. You also have Tyler quoting Parma as gone for good.
Narrator following explosion- Yushisu and his party felt a shock wave of an explosion within the station. The satellite seems to be drifting towards something's pull. They'll have to fix the satellite's orbit, or else they will crash into some distant planet.
Say, they beat you guys up pretty bad huh? (look out the window) Well, that's the last of Parma.
even worse after the destruction of Parma.
My argument is that I believe that, for a piece of Palma to struck Motavia and cause a collapse,
Collapse refers to civilization being ruined. Lowered down in technology level. Hell, the movie Armageddon has a asteroid about to do that damage. Society would have collapsed indeed after that meteor hit in Armageddon and it wasn't moving fast!
It isn't a collapsing of a planet, it's a collapse of culture. A meteor strikes, massive plate shifts and you have Mota with a different geography.
Whose to say the Earthmen didn't also fire on Algo with Positron Bolts or weaponry to weaken it? They do take credit for it. People saw Gaira hit Palma, Palma exploded.
Hell, if I saw say one of our huge space stations in the future hit the moon and it explodes, I'd consider the huge space station to cause to explode. It was the final catalyst.
Anyways, the Great Collapse coulda taken place a few years after PS 2 requiring Daughter to be built. A worldship decayed in orbit and fell to the planet and destroyed a city almost. People in that town in PS IV think it's the end and should move.
As for impact meteors.. Sadbury Basin was a 10 km meteor.. You also have the Cretacious-Tertiary extinction event which would have wiped out 90% of Mota we see in PS 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous ... tion_eventScientists in 2010 found that the Chicxulub crater caused that event from that meteor.
I can easily see how a piece of Parma could cause such damage to the small civilized areas of Mota.
It's easy to see a meteor hitting Mota causing a massive civilization decline. Hell, after Mother Brain was gone, Mota's systems would fail and society would really decline.