What is Exile? (SPOILERS)

[Splintr420]

What the hell is Exile? It flew in the sky, and then everything turned happy, and it flew away. And how is it a gateway to another world? It just didn't pull together in my mind in the end

[Nokari]

Well I don't remember anything about it actually being a gateway. However it did have something to do with the Grand Stream as it disappeared in the end.

[Nilrem]

It was a colony ship I beleive.

The series doesn't explain a lot of things, such as quite why the planet they were on looked like an hourglass from what I could tell (with the two main area's on opposite sides with the "grandstream" seemingly at the joint).
Why the grandstream was there and why it disappeared, although my guess would be that it was meant to be the Exiles first line of protection from tampering, hence the reason it stopped when Alvi recited the mysterions and deactivated the rest of it's defences.

[Splintr420]

Why did it fly away in the end? And why did Delphine want it so badly?

[zxzxzxzxzxzx]

dammit.
I'm up to the second last dvd.
Should not have read this thread....

[Nilrem]

Why did it fly away in the end? And why did Delphine want it so badly?
from what I can gather once (re)activated by Alvis it starts acting as a sort of ferry between Earth and the Colony Planet.

I'm not sure about why Delphine wanted it so badly, except that it was the ultimate power on the colony, and that wouldprobably have been enough reason (given how she ruled the guild and treated everyone as a toy/possession of hers).

[Splintr420]

Well, it did pack a lot of damage, but when it was deactivited, it did nothing. Why would she want something that did nothing?

[Nilrem]

I would assume that if the person actively controlling it wanted it to do damage it probably could do, after all it's a matter of programming and the controllers will (if it could do the damage once in an automated mode, then there is no real reason it couldn't in a controlled manner).

[Splintr420]

post it just flew away! theres no way that it would have been controlled

[zxzxzxzxzxzx]

Were the two different factions from the different sides?
If so, how did they come to be warring, when the Grand Stream is in the middle and is apparently pretty tuff to cross.

It's been a while now, so my memory is sketchy - but did one side have some sorta huge rockets that fly over the grandstream?

Can anyone really explain the layout of the land and where each faction or empire or whatever were based?

[Splintr420]

you have Deusis and I forget the other side. But I think the world is shaped like an hourglass. I don't really know how exile got where it was, but I think it is what created the grand stream. And the rockets were Deusis, but where they were headed I have no idea, and they blew up, and was a confusing mess. I still don't understand.

[Merlion Emrys]

Well, my best guess was that it was basically an interstellar space vessel, and that it had been flown their by the ancestors of what is now the Guild. I think with the passage of time the Guild partially forgot what exile was and how to use it, with the Mysterions being all that was left.

And perhaps Exile did create the Grand Stream and some of the other negative conditions on the world, which were alivieated when Al lowered its defenses and (I assume) sent it back where it came from.

[HolyWhippet]

I kind of got the impression that the colonisation might not have gone down as planned. The world was possibly artificially created (hence it's odd shape) and perhaps it wasn't actually finished being built. Some of the colony ships crash landed and the final stages of the colonisation plan didn't occur. Exile I'm thinking was a terraforming ship meant to finish things up. Because it was in the grand stream it couldn't easily be reached. Alvis was presumably a genetic descendant of whoever was meant to activate Exile in the first place. It had security systems in place to stop anyone else making use of it.

That's my rough guess anyway. Far too much is unexplained.

[Pengi_Ken-Ohki]

Didnt the lower world have very little water ? I wasn't paying a lot of attention but I could have sworn that exile was a terraforming ship. Filled with wheat and other seeds for growing a stable ecology. Possibly even bringing water etc in too.

But yeh, I didn't quite get the 2 worlds facing one another thing. Not even binary planets would have a system like that. Weird.