Channy
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Then why rebuild it in the first place? Why not leave it as a burned rubble area and leave it at that?
The rebuild of Nibelheim? (Crisis Core Spoilers)
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Then why rebuild it in the first place? Why not leave it as a burned rubble area and leave it at that?
Tetsujin
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It'd be a more convincing cover story if they just said, "Oh, a fire broke out, it was an accident, blahblah, town is gone" instead of going through the effort of rebuilding it imo.
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Just because they control the media doesn't stop someone from doing grassroots efforts to discover the truth and spread the information. If word got out too fully, it'd be much more difficult to control. Keeping the pretence that nothing had happened there was a lot safer for them, since they could just track anyone who figured out the truth and kill them. If there was no one there, it wouldn't be possible to keep an eye on the place and make sure no one figured out the truth. So having it filled with people who are loyal to the company (because it supplies their paychecks) is probably the best option for them.
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Hey, our town burned down but there's no rubble left. Yeah, that's not at all suspicious.
It might've been possible to cover it up so that no one could find out about it, but having your own employees there is safer. Especially when you need to keep them away from Jenova anyway so you can study the effects of the Reunion.
Channy
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But what evidence is there?! Sephiroth just went mad and torched the place. There's no evidence to say it was him because there's nothing that really directly links him to the fire3 spells set to the roofs. If witnesses are dead, who's to say it was Sephiroth or it was just an accident?
If witnesses are dead, who's to say it was Sephiroth or it was just an accident?
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Smart forensics experts who can figure out what happened with super 1337 investigation skillz, .
Granted it's far fetched, but it's also natural for an organisation like Shinra which is covering up so much to be paranoid. Because well, they have a lot to be paranoid about
.Granted it's far fetched, but it's also natural for an organisation like Shinra which is covering up so much to be paranoid. Because well, they have a lot to be paranoid about
Tetsujin
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...of course it's not suspicious. People clean up shit after all. They're just like, "yeah, we're gonna clean that shit up and investigate, move along pplz".
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Police members in other governments? Someone could say "hay my family members died in this fire, let's make sure it was an accident" and if enough people went in there to investigate the rubble, shit could go down. It's not like Shinra had absolute control over every structure of power on Gaia. There were still other independent city-states.But other than the scientists in Shinra, who out there is super smart with 1337 haxxor forensic skillz?
It's running the risk that people wouldn't buy it. Pretending that nothing had happened and killing everyone who tried to visit family there was safer.
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I dunno, Cloud didn't try to investigate the events that occurred when Sephiroth stabbed Aerith. He was fairly accepting of it.
That's different. He witnessed that firsthand. No real way to deny it. Though, to be technical, that was Jenova in disguise as Sephiroth,
.Yes, but again, people in stages of grief are particularly paranoid. When presented with information, they may become unreliable and question it instinctively.
The game never really says, actually. Someone may have tried to, but then Shinra exerts such totalitarian control over Midgar that if they tried they'd probably just be killed.It's not like anyone investigated the aftermath of the sectopr 7 fall, is it?
It's a lot easier to do that when there's already a rebuilt town full of company employees,
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Munatik
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I could buy the danger of a grassroots investigation, since I would find it hard to believe that they could keep what happened under wraps forever, even with media bombardment. Discontents would already know that its propaganda anyway.
With Cosmo Canyon a stone's throw away, I'd bet you could find a good lead investigator there. They would probably start by hiring a few excavators from Bone Village
With Cosmo Canyon a stone's throw away, I'd bet you could find a good lead investigator there. They would probably start by hiring a few excavators from Bone Village
Channy
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That's different. He witnessed that firsthand. No real way to deny it. Though, to be technical, that was Jenova in disguise as Sephiroth,
I'm still in denial of that myself. It's harder to accept that this random alien stabbed Aerith rather than a malicious SOLDIER who torched a town himself.
Yes, but again, people in stages of grief are particularly paranoid. When presented with information, they may become unreliable and question it instinctively.
The game never really says, actually. Someone may have tried to, but then Shinra exerts such totalitarian control over Midgar that if they tried they'd probably just be killed.
It's a lot easier to do that when there's already a rebuilt town full of company employees,
It just makes no sense to me... Either leave a town torched and let it be, or leave it torched and kill people who are suspicious.. or hire random actors and be suspicious of THEM when they might get some info wrong about their character.
Where was Cloud's mom, and Tifa's dad, HUH?!
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well the random alien was ostensibly under the psychotic ex-SOLDIER's control, so yeah, .
And if you incentivise people to inform on each other then it pretty easily creates an atmosphere of paranoia, so you won't need to worry too much about being stabbed in the back. Seriously, have you read 1984 lately? Orwell goes over all of that pretty thoroughly. You should just expect Shinra to behave like the government of Oceania; they aren't particularly different in nature from one another.
.And if you incentivise people to inform on each other then it pretty easily creates an atmosphere of paranoia, so you won't need to worry too much about being stabbed in the back. Seriously, have you read 1984 lately? Orwell goes over all of that pretty thoroughly. You should just expect Shinra to behave like the government of Oceania; they aren't particularly different in nature from one another.