FFX 3 ? (A FFX sequel after FFX 2)

[Renmiri]

First I started with the "oddities" of FFX and FFX2 that could be explained in a sequel:

* Too many lost cities - Zanarkand, under Moonflow, in Mi'hen road, Bikanel desert, Besaid all have ruins of cities
* Too many machine debris - Under the ocean and in Bikanel there are so many debris that the Al Bhed have been digging them for 1,000 years and haven't even scratched the surface, 2 airships are found only after 1,000 years, as if they were very deeply hidden (Cid's under the ocean, Brother's under ice)
* Bevelle's machines - Why all the huge machines, that Gaol there ? Who keeps them in working order ? Why do they do it ? Why did they spend 1,000 years telling the rest of Spira that machines were evil while keeping machines themselves ?
* A calm interrupted every 10 years, for 1,000 years.

All that I listed above seems to indicate Spira's past has had some large civilization, with lots of technology, perhaps even larger than Tidus' Spira which only had Zanarkand. Why larger ? So many ruins of cities! Isn't it curious how Tidus never recognizes any other city name from Yuna's Spira? And he never mentions other cities from his time either. If all those cities in Besaid, Bikanel, etc.. were around in his time he could have visited or heard of them while growing up.

The 10 year "Calm / Mayhem" cycle is also very odd. Why ? Would a insane summoner like Yu Yevon really have that much patience ? Would Bevelle and Spira really resist that long without something else at stake ? Something sinister ?

Bear with me, I'm almost there

Now let's look at some stuff I thought I could also use:

* 2 airships, commspheres
* The Farplane
* Al Bhed, diving suits
* Hypello, Ronso - Obviously alien humanoid species. Are they native to Spira ?

I went into lots of detail in my previous post on why I chose an external danger (greedy aliens) and what would they would be looking for in Spira.

We learn that in the first 2 games that:
- the pireflies apparently are linked to Spira's dead.
- The Guado keep watch in a stable place where pireflies can be viewed, AKA, the Farplane.
- Summoners trained with Bevelle / Yevon's teachings can make sure the Spira's dead release their pireflies directly to the Farplane, by doing the sending.

The Farplane can be viewed as a giant pirefly warehouse, kept stocked constantly by Sin and the priests form Bevelle. Pretty convenient if you want to sell pireflies to some greedy robber barons, heh ? No need to strip mine.

The whole Sin / Bevelle religion can be looked as a huge pirefly collection operation. The poor Spira residents being milked for all they have with short, grief filled lives . Sounds ghastly, doesn't it ? But it isn't me here. I just added a BUSINESS RELATED MOTIVE for the senseless carnage Sin has done in the past 1,000 years.

If you ignore the gorgeous graphics, FFX world is incredibly dark. Short, grief filled lives is the Spira FFX describes: kids rarely meet their parents and every village gets destroyed once per decade. A land of orphans and widows. And according to FFX it was just to attend the vanity of ONE MAN. If you ask me, adding a bunch of greedy aliens that forced Bevelle's / Yu Yevon's hand into this crazy scheme makes it a bit more human. We humans can strip mine a land and ignore the destiny of those who live in it. See the Amazon, Africa...

So here comes the plot: TA-DA!

It's been 7 years since Yuna defeated Sin. The Guado (Trommel ?) send an urgent summons to Yuna and Tidus: Someone from the Farplane needs to talk with them ASAP. When Tidus and Yuna arrive at Guadosalam they got to the Farplane and see no other than Auron (and Jecht ?) telling them Spira is in grave danger:

An alien fleet is coming next year and it is expecting the pireflies / souls of 5 million Spirans to be delivered to them

Many years ago Spira was the home of a very advanced civilization that got discovered by (or contacted) aliens. Some of the aliens who made contact with Spira were good (Ronso, Hypello) some were very bad.

Some aliens were so bad that they decided to "harvest" the souls of Spirans for their evil potions (or evil machines, whatever..). Since the aliens wanted a steady supply of Spira souls (pireflies?) they couldn't just kill all in Spira.

Bevelle and Zanarkand were offered the job of "farm hand", i.e. be spared if they agreed to harvest the souls of their fellow Spirans for the evil aliens who came to collect a load every 10 years (hence the calm only lasting 10 years). Bevelle accepted. Most in Zanarkand refused (Lenne, fayth) and went to war against Bevelle. But Yu Yevon betrayed them and came up with Sin, a super harvester of souls who could collect thousands in a single attack. He and Bevelle made a deal to keep "farming" Spira Souls and delivering it every 10 years to the evil aliens for 1,000 years.

The scheme would be discovered easily if the people in Spira kept their airships and machines, as they would soon discover space flight and kick the alien invader's butt. So Yevon's religion was created to keep the people in Spira very low tech, particularly in weapons and space technology. Commspheres and spheres in general are allowed, as they help Bevelle spread their lies