Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-23712247-20160203074906/@comment-184.101.216.76-20161029034928

On the subject of Grimm/Dust connection, I'd like to point something out.

Someone said that there is nothing to suggest such a corrolation. However, I challenge that with two things. One, there is also nothing to NOT suggest such a corrolation.

Two...let's consult Volume 1, Episode 1's intro again. Man came into being. Man prospered for awhile, which in these types of histories usually means hundreds if not thousands of years. Man brought in a shining golden age. Then the Grimm appeared. Mankind fought against the Grimm, but they couldn't succeed. They were too powerful. But they still fought. And they must have had enough success to survive for a time. Which means they had to have inflicted casualties.

And then, when all hope seemed lost, Mankind finally finds Dust. Dust, which hadn't been found in the previous hundreds or thousands of years. Now, suddenly, we found a bunch of it. And then "with Nature's Wrath in hand, Mankind lit their way through the darkness"...thereby killing even more Grimm. And next thing you know, Dust is everywhere. It's a common power source. An entire family has made their riches off of it.

It's an interesting idea. One I hope isn't true. Because if it is, then that means to finally finish off the Grimm, humanity needs to kill grimm...without Dust. And kill them all.

My own idea as to the moon's broken state, however, is simple. Dust explosion.

I mean, look at it. Volume 1, Episode 2. Weiss shakes a small amount of powdered Dust into a small cloud...which blows up when Ruby sneezes on it.

That is extremely volitile.

Or, same Volume, Episode 1. Roman shoots a crystal the size of a grenade and it blows up like a freaking HE artillery shell.

Now, think about taking an entire case of Dust and releasing it's energy. Or two cases. Or ten. Imagine the kind of explosions you could get. Explosions that could occur if you just set it down too hard.

So, my general idea is this. After mankind pushed the Grimm back, they had their own Golden Age. A flurry of technlogical advances...which rapidly propeled them towards the stars. They made a moon landing. They made five. Then they made a moon base...which became a moon colony. Then...someone fucked up and an entire armory of Dust explodes, destroying the colony and cracking the moon.

Or, a war breaks out again, this time between humans. It basically ends with them Dust Nuking themselves down to a pre industrial era. It could explain why such a large portion of the world is a barren desert and another one is virtually a glaicer. And why a third has a very shreded appearance to it.

The culmination of it results in someone lobbing a Dust Nuke at the Moon, which could have caused a chain reaction, as they probably need a lot more Dust to live up on the moon than people on Remnant did. Or, there could have even been large deposits of Dust on the moon itself and the Dust Nuke, or the Dust Accident set those deposits off, cracking the moon open.

Just a couple of ideas.

-Bippwatt