Yes it can.Simply.
'Sides the continent formation is very different.
[quote=“GehnTheBerserker”]Yes it can.Simply.
'Sides the continent formation is very different.[/quote]
So where did the humans come from? They couldn’t have evolved on another planet.
Yes they could.What other kind of planet has deserts,seas and forests like the PD planet has?
Earth.Those things are unique to the kind of climate Earth but similar climates produce similar flora and fauna.
Oh, that’s interesting; I wasn’t aware of that. Why is this so?
Surely the religion of the people of Zoah is meant to be a very misguided and twisted version of past events? It doesn’t seem to bear any resemblance to the gameworld’s reality…
Yeah, this is pretty much the stance I have on this. It would be very weird if it turned out they weren’t.
[quote=“GehnTheBerserker”]Yes they could.What other kind of planet has deserts,seas and forests like the PD planet has?
Earth.Those things are unique to the kind of climate Earth but similar climates produce similar flora and fauna.[/quote]
Yeah, climates like Earth…
What are the chances of human beings evolving on another planet in the universe anyway?
[quote=“Lance”]
Oh, that’s interesting; I wasn’t aware of that. Why is this so?.[/quote]
It’s a long story, but let’s just say someone who was involved in the development of Panzer Dragoon Orta shared his insights with everyone in the community.
The Zoah bible mentions gods leaving the planet with the intention of returning one day – sound familiar? Whoever Abadd’s masters were, I’m sure they hold most of the pieces to this puzzle.
Sega.com actually used text from the Zoah bible to promote Panzer Dragoon Orta. The ancients were more or less known as gods, so everything falls into place.
[quote=“Geoffrey Duke”]Yeah, climates like Earth…
What are the chances of human beings evolving on another planet in the universe anyway?
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It’s very possible.Different types of lifeforms need different climates.
Are you saying that in all the vast universe there aren’t similarities?1
But anyways, let’s see this from a different prespective : you tell me why it IS Earth.And answe this question as well : what is Earth?What makes the Earth, the Earth?
Assuming for a sec that the Panzer Dragoon world is a planet other than Earth, wouldn’t it be far more likely that our human race travelled there, rather than that an alternate, identical race evolved there?
We know that the Ancients had a ridiculously advanced level of technology. If we can put stuff on Mars, surely it’s at least feasible that the Ancients could travel between planets?
Though to be honest I hope they don’t have us cruising through an asteroid belt on a space-dragon in the next game, or anything… 
If you assume that Earth is the only planet on which humans thrive…
Ultimate nightmare situation:
Panzer Dragoon Saga 2. After digging up a strange, circular relic in a forgotten Ancient Age structure, the Empire is surprised when a big blue watery portal explodes out of it, and half the cast of Stargate SG-1 roves onto the scene…
Aargh…
This man has not read the MiB comic! OMFG!
It’s very possible.Different types of lifeforms need different climates.
Are you saying that in all the vast universe there aren’t similarities?1
But anyways, let’s see this from a different prespective : you tell me why it IS Earth.And answe this question as well : what is Earth?What makes the Earth, the Earth?[/quote]
The chances of human beings evolving on another planet are zero to none. It’s more likely these human beings descended from the people of Earth.
The moons are perhaps meant to be a clue, especially given the subtle emphasis placed on them.
Not zero to none.But I don’t mean their are 100% human anyways.
Emphasis on the moons?If this thread didn’t exist I would have a 99% chance of never noticing this…
Perhaps 99 is too much but you get the pic…
First post here:
I read somewhere once that ‘Two Moons’ is an indicator/unspoken rule (kinda’ like a proof-positive litmus test) for a setting that was unearthly in any sci-fi/fantasy fictional work. Whenever you see two moons in the sky it is almost infallibly a remote world other than earth. I’m not saying you have to believe this–I’m saying that is what I read on a professional site. Too bad I can’t find it now to prove it.
Another hint, perhaps, that PD takes place on another world–one which you all might have overlooked is the developers moniker: Team Andromeda. Andromeda is our nearest galaxy, and if mankind were ever to displace himself from the Milky Way it would be to that galaxy and its planets.
[quote=“DivineDragon”]First post here:
I read somewhere once that ‘Two Moons’ is an indicator/unspoken rule (kinda’ like a proof-positive litmus test) for a setting that was unearthly in any sci-fi/fantasy fictional work. Whenever you see two moons in the sky it is almost infallibly a remote world other than earth. I’m not saying you have to believe this–I’m saying that is what I read on a professional site. Too bad I can’t find it now to prove it.
Another hint, perhaps, that PD takes place on another world–one which you all might have overlooked is the developers moniker: Team Andromeda. Andromeda is our nearest galaxy, and if mankind were ever to displace himself from the Milky Way it would be to that galaxy and its planets.[/quote]
Nice theory!
Why would it be to THAT specific galaxy?
Welcome btw
Hey, welcome to the forums
No, I know exactly what you mean; the second moon is a pretty big hint that the PD world is not set on Earth. Saying that, science fiction has explained weirder things than a second moon, so it’s still possible that the PD world is set on Earth in a far-flung future; it might not be the typical explanation, but then the PD world is far from typical. Who knows?
I’m afraid the real explanation for this is probably much less interesting
Team Andromeda receieved its name along with many new Sega development teams of that period, when for some bizarre reason thay were all given the names of galaxies. The other teams tend to be less well remembered, of course; but it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the plot of any of their games.
Still, well spotted.
[quote=“Lance”]
Team Andromeda receieved its name along with many new Sega development teams of that period, when for some bizarre reason thay were all given the names of galaxies. The other teams tend to be less well remembered, of course; but it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the plot of any of their games.
Still, well spotted.[/quote]
They were all given names of galaxies due to the system surname ‘Sega Saturn’ - it’s only fitting, since the system was named after a planet, that the team developers were named after neighboring galaxies.
Yeah, Sega went through a strange phase of naming stuff after cosmic objects. If I remember correctly, they actually gave several other work-in-progess consoles similar names - things like “Neptune” (and possibly “Pluto”, although that sounds pretty silly so it might be my imagination). Most of them were obviously renamed before launch, though; I think the 32X might have been one such case, but my Sega history’s a bit rusty.
EDIT: The Sega Neptune was apparently the combined Mega Drive / Genesis and 32X console, which was developed but which never saw release. That would be why I have no memory of it
EDIT #2: And yeah, “Sega Jupiter” and “Sega Mars” were apparently codenames for the 32X. "Sega Pluto"was fortunately just a figment of my imagination
Some theories and questions:
If the ancients weren’t humans, why the human race wasn’t simply exterminated? What use a godlike species could have for puny weaklings humans like us?
Maybe the Ancients were humans that altered themselves with implants and biotechnology, turning themselves into something almost alien.
That second moon is not a big issue. They are like gods, remember?
“Mom! Mom! look at the sky! I made a second moon for your birthday!”
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