Why would you build a second Cocoon?

[DMKA]

So take Cocoon apart and lower it gently to the ground in pieces. You have weapons, you have tons of tools, you have hundreds of airships, this is not a hard process.

Use the Graviton Cores to keep it in the air. Don't give me this "incompatible power source stuff, Cocoon's power source was gone anyway, since that was the Fal'Cie. Whatever new power source they're using could have been put in the old Cocoon, that thing had tons of space in it.

Reinforce the pillar. They had five hundred years to think of a plan, and we've seen what they could do for construction in that time. Heck, a bulldozer of dirt a day would basically have Cocoon resting on a mountain long before the crystal pillar every collapsed.

Build a blast shell. While Cocoon is large, it's also mostly hollow. It's also not that far off the ground anymore. So it has a much lower mass than a standard moon, and would be accelerating for a much shorter time than an object falling from orbit. It's force wouldn't be much more than a nuke, and between force fields and earthworks, you could easily contain the majority of the damage.

Hope is more of an idealist than a realist? Or maybe he's just dumb? Either way he didn't think of any of these options, or we can assume for reasons unknown they didn't work.

Yes, yes they were. Maybe you forgot about the whole "time travel" thing, but the new Cocoon launched FIVE HUNDRED YEARS after the fall. Academia when you visit it takes place in 400 AF. And they didn't exactly looked besieged by monsters except with the Proto Fal'Cie or Caius attacked, that's one of the few standard town locations in the game.

Five hundred years is hardly a long time. It's only a handful of generations, and when you're starting civilization from scratch, such drastic adaptation is a pretty tall order.

I do.

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