Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-25936766-20190526121812

Sentry 616 wrote:

The crucible was the work of not just the countless man hours and resources our Shepards and alliances directed towards them, but also the legacy of who knows how many cycles. Except the Crucible's existence was never even implied in neither ME1 or ME2, nor in any of the dozens of side-material. It comes out of literally nowhere to save them against the Reapers because Bioware couldn't think of a better way to have the Milky Way defeat them. Hence why all the critics argued that it was a Deus Ex Machina, it's just slower than usual.

0551E80Y wrote: If you didn't edit my post in which you replied to. To cut out a bit that I said to make it look like I said something without fully understanding it. I.E Cherry Picking. I would have argued back. You mean the RWBY "losing a powerful element of drama that drives the plot forward if Atlas doesn't fall" bit? Since Atlas doesn't need to fall (in Vol.7 at least) and it is not necesary to have another Vol.3 Finale right in the very season that we arrive in Atlas, well, go read my first point instead of acting like an oversensitive child.

Remember that it's a quote. Anyone with 2 eyes and a brain can see which post anyone is responding to (it's right there on top of every post with a quote), with a single click they can see everything that you said in it's entirety. No need to act so offended and cry about "cherry picking" because of that, that just makes it seem like your points are too weak to defend in the first place. Besides it's preferable to quoting an entire post or chain of posts when you are just going to comment on a part of it.

And the rest was just "they can show Atlas in flashbacks later after it's destroyed", which they can do, yes....so what even is there to argue? If they destroy any place they can show it again via flashbacks, like they did with Kuroyuri.

Sentry 616 wrote: 1: I had my heart set on  military industrial complex that scarred the land... It's a lot harder to do that with a floating city than something on the ground.

2: The fuel requirements to get and keep a city airborne are crazy, especially since they also have to heat the city.

3: The altitude is going to make keeping this city warm even harder, and the wind has to be fought to keep the city level and in place. 1) You still got Mantle for that. And as for fortress cities, a floating city can still work like one, it's just in an unconventional manner.

2) They made a floating stadium that's been in the air for decades. The city of the Kingdom with the biggest Dust-working company on the planet doing the same would be expected to work the same way. Either 1 big dumb Dust crystal is enough to last for generations or they got a way to "keep it afloat" over time. Granted, that's still easy to sabotage.

As for heat, it's doubtful that they heat it much, if at all. The people would've already adapted to the cold. Remember Weiss's V5 Trailer, everything was frozen solid right in the Schnee mannor. And yet Weiss, with her legs entirely exposed, didn't even shiver.

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3) Well, actually that depends on how high up exactly Atlas is, there are layers that are warmer-than-others like the Stratosphere and Thermosphere. Granted, that's because of radiation, though it's fair to say Remnant has a better ozone shield since it isn't as industrialized as Earth, mainly because humanity doesn't cover almost the entire planet.

It's hard to measure the altitude though, since things in RWBY are either not at scale all the time or they outright change sizes between shots sometimes. Though I doubt they'll give us hard numbers for the altitude, most likely just "multiple Km into the air".