Answer a.s.a.p please. time compression question.

[sephirothkevbob]

ok, i have been thinking about time compression and how does ultimicia compress time, i know he waited till rinoa got adels powers then ellone sent ulti into the past but throught rinoas body but then what.

what did ulti do when she was in the future and past, did she cast some sort of haste magic in the past and some sort of slow magic in the future so time would compress?

can i hear explainations as soon as poss

[*~Angel Wing~*]

You should ask Future Esthar for an explanation...

[sephirothkevbob]

lol, i would but hes not online, lol

[Sir Bahamut]

Think of time compression as being a spell. Ultimecia has access to spells like "Ultima" and "Meteor", but also "Time Compression". That's all there is to it really.

Why she needs to be in the past to cast it remains a mystery unexplained by the game, or anywhere else for that matter.

[sephirothkevbob]

i think she needs to be in the past, because ... (need to think of a good comparison)

think of 2 magnets with paper in between, i think her time compression is like the magnets attracting but still with the paper in the middle. if that makes sense.

and i was jus wonderin if there was any special trick to time compression like in the past you have to stand where you are in the future or somethin crazy like that, lol.

[McLovin']

It gives me headaches.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Imagine time as a piece of string. One end represents the start of time, the other end represent it's end. Now imagine if you were to crumple up the string ball. All of the days along the string would meet and it would be possible to visit any time and any space within a single moment simply because they would be next to each other. That's what Time Compression is like : Balling up the string to gain access to not only all of space, but all of time also. Quite a powerful thing to accomplish really, since it entails control over the whole universe.

[Sir Bahamut]

think of 2 magnets with paper in between, i think her time compression is like the magnets attracting but still with the paper in the middle. if that makes sense.

That would only make sense if Ultimecia set up these magnets at the beginning and end of time, which she clearly doesn't. If she could ostensibly set them up at any two different points in time, her necessity for coming to the far past would be ridiculous (she could have cast the first magnet, and then cast the second one straight away; they'd still be in seperate places of time).

Further, there is nothing that suggests that she needs to be at more than one location, or that she needs to cast it in several parts. All that is indicated is that she needs to be at some point in the past in order to cast it. No reason is given, and I doubt any reason can be found.

[Stayin Dizzy]

Imagine time as a piece of string. One end represents the start of time, the other end represent it's end. Now imagine if you were to crumple up the string ball. All of the days along the string would meet and it would be possible to visit any time and any space within a single moment simply because they would be next to each other. That's what Time Compression is like : Balling up the string to gain access to not only all of space, but all of time also. Quite a powerful thing to accomplish really, since it entails control over the whole universe.

I agree with said explanation

You should ask Future Esthar for an explanation...

Funniest thing I've heard today (but sure nonetheless he has a theory about it)

[Moon Rabbits]

Perhaps the reason she needs to go further back in time than the Junction Machine Ellone can take her is because there is something in the further past she needs in order to accomplish time compression. All the game says about it is something like "She needs to go back further to compress time".

[Future Esthar]

To me she never performed TC at all.
That´s why I think I had nothing to do with this thread.

[Moon Rabbits]

If she didn't perform Time Compression, Squall and Co. couldn't get to the future, she had to have done it.

[Future Esthar]

Ok,will not interfere on this thread.But three words:
Lunatic Pandora+Time travel+Holographic illusions proggramed to appear on the walls.

[Qurange]

To me, it always seemed fairly obvious that a requirement of the magic is that she cast it from three different times--a past, a present, and a future--in order to set the gears of Time Compression in motion. Time Compression did take time, and maybe it would have been faster if she'd gone to the beginning and then to the end, but.

If you use the string example, it does hold up--you take three points on the string, and yank them together, /hard/, pulling the other ends of the string together--the momentum, and her continued use of the magic once it starts, keeps Time Compression going. Until, that is, SeeD kills the heck out of her and it starts to shift back to the way it was.

[Ramza Beoulve]

If the time would achieved compression, anything would ended, live, death, time, things, everything would disappeared

Ultimecia nearly achieved time compression, but was stopped.

With her at the past, and her body in future, Both "tryed" to get united once again, achieving to compress the time