"The world is not just a single entity.
Another world similar to ours exists in another dimension."
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--3. Lost futures and other dimensions-------------------------------------------
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- 1999 AD - The Day of Lavos
"...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM..."
Lavos erupts and releases that massive amount of energy it's been saving in the
planet's cor for millions of years. It lays waste to everything andscatters its
spawn across the planet, preparing them to invade other worlds. For some reason,
in its very core Lavos was harboring a new life form, embodying the stolen dreams of
the planet. I forgot why and I feel very pathetic now.
Um, well, this future was erased, but it rears it's ugly head in the Dead Sea in
Home World so that sucks, But Lavos isn't actually there because he's dead (sorta)
IMHO, Crono and friends succeeded in mostly preventing this from happening. I figure
it's floating around the Tesseract with all the other crap.
- 2300 AD - A Dying World
"...but you're still hungry..."
Crono and friends end up here after a mishap with a time gate. They find that
everything sucks. There is little to no plant life, domed cities are deserted and
broken, and the few people left are barely alive and starving. The planet has
settled into a bleak, new ice age and is dying slowly and painfully.
In order to figure out what's going on, Crono and friends repair and recruit the
a certain unit RY-66R, codename: Prometheus, called "Robo". Crono and friends soon
discover that all this was caused by the eruption of a powerful alien creature
called "Lavos" in 1999 AD. It laid waste to the entire world leaving very little
left for humanity to do but wait. Crono and his friends try to give the last people
a little bit of hope, but resolve here to stop Lavos from destroying their world.
They also come to find Belthasar, thrown here from 12,000 BC. His conscious mind
was transplanted into a Nu (one of Gaspar's time-crossing creations). Balthasar/Nu
gives our heroes Belthasar's last and finest creation: the Epoch, a passenger ship
capable of going through time at will, regardless of location and without the need
for time gates.
After receiving Gaspar's Time Egg, Marle and friends attempt to brave Death Peak
to save Crono. Balthasar/Nu fulfills its final duty, releasing 3 Poyozo helpers
to make Death Peak scalable. They invoke the Time Egg and jump to the instant before
Crono's death, replacing him with an identical, but fake, doll-copy. Thus, Crono
is pulled out of time and Lavos' grasp and saved.
Later, heeding Gaspar's foretelling, they return to find that Robo's friends
(Atropos and the other RY series) and master (the Mother Brain supercomputer) have
long since turned on humanity and plan to destroy what's left of them. It is assumed
that Mother Brain was severely damaged during the Day od Lavos and went insane. Lucca,
Crono and friends save Robo and destroy Mother Brain system, though Lucca does take
with her extensive knowledge of 24th century technology. ^_^
Oh, and the nonexistent Black Omen was not permanently sealed, because it didn't
become unnecessary because Queen Zeal didn't finish her unification with Lavos.
Yes, and Queen Zeal also didn't taunt our heroes about this.
This is also where our CT heroes finally retrieve the Sunstone, which has been resting
and storing the energy of the sun for over 65,002,300 years.
This one's a definite goner, and that's not necessarily bad. Sure, it also has its
bits and pieces in the Dead Sea, but once FATE detonsates the Dead Sea, it's gone.
This post-apocalyptic wasteland was sacrificed to the Tesseract with the hope of a
better future taking its place. This more or less happened, but only exists in the
memories of all who actually went there and came back. In other words, the CT cast.
- 12,000 BC until 600/1000/1999 AD - Queen Zeal and the Black Omen -
"...but she sends giant monsters after you, JUST LIKE Rita Repulsa..."
Um, sorry folks--wait, no, I'm not apologizing for her. If Crono and Crew didn't
kill her in the Black Omen then she and her fortress died with Lavos (no one to
power her, or it). Goodbye, good Riddance.
- 65,000,000 BC until 2400 AD - The Reptite Dimension -
"...they evolved in harmony with the wishes of the planet..."
Did Azala and the Reptites HAVE to die? Well, no. This seems to be a Lavos-free
reality, created by the planet. Humans remained basically at Ayla's stage of
development if they even got that far. The Reptites founded their own empires
and kingdoms that, in many ways, mirrored the humans. By 2400 AD they've gained
a similar, yet planet-friendly and much more spiritual, mastery of science
and technology equal to humans of this time. They build the great city Dinopolis
and within it, implant the Dragon god plasma organism. The dragon god is like a
Reptite version of FATE. It is also capable of tracking other dimensions and
heeds the cries of the planet when it is summoned. Thus, Dinopolis is sent
through time, space, and dimension to directly counter Chronopolis in 7,600 BC.
The Chronopolitans (and FATE) battle the Dinopolitans (and the dragon god) but
FATE wins, divides the dragon god into 6 lesser ones (to weaken and control them)
and scatters them throughout El Nido. Dinopolis gets a brief resurgence with the
whole Terra Tower thing but it was under the Frozen Flame's control so it doesn't
really count. bleah.
You want proof? Remember the Chrono Trigger ending where EVERYONE was a Reptite
except for, like, one or two humans? I think that the Dinopolis reality is just
an extension of that ending farther into the future. Don't forget that there's
also a Reptites rule/humans are apes ending to Chrono Cross as well. Now this is
intriguing. I believe that this is a separate, legitimate, unexplored dimension
that wasn't committed to the Tesseract, and still exists somewhere.