chrono cross information......

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This is pretty interesting:
In 65,000,000 B.C., an advanced civilization of humanoid dinosaurs called
Reptites was destroyed by the combined efforts of a young man named Crono and
the leader of the human's Ioka Village, Ayla, as well as the timely (?)
arrival of a space-borne beast called Lavos. Lavos' influence allowed the
fairly primitive forest-dwelling humans to evolve at an accelerated rate over
the next tens of millions of years, until mankind grew to be the species that
the Reptites had been destined to become. However, humanity evolved less in
harmony with nature than the Reptites would have, disrupting the planet in an
almost parasitic way.

In 12,000 B.C., a young man named Crono and his friends fought Lavos in the
skyborne kingdom of Zeal. Zeal was a land founded upon science and magic and
was ruled by a queen who sought to establish herself as an eternal despot by
utilizing the power of the slumbering Lavos. Crono and his allies disrupted
the queen's plans, causing Lavos to awaken briefly and destroy Zeal (and
Crono, for a while). In his battle with Lavos, Crono was assisted by Schala,
daughter of Queen Zeal. Schala was lost into the Time Stream and never again
found, despite the efforts of her younger brother Janus (who was, along with
the Enhasa Gurus Melchior, Belthasar and Gaspar, flung into the far reaches of
time by Lavos). Schala in fact was absorbed by Lavos and became the benevolent
half of the TimeDevourer, but even her kind nature slowly became corrupted by
Lavos' hate over the centuries. The ocean palace, where Queen Zeal hoped to
tap into Lavos' power, rose from the sea as a skyborne fortress called the
Black Omen.

In approximately 9000 B.C., Lavos drew the future research city Chronopolis
from the year A.D. 2400 into the past as insurance of its own personal welfare
in the event that Lavos were ever to be destroyed. At the same time, the
forces of the planet pulled a Reptite-based city from an alternate future
(where the Reptites survived and became dominant) into the past to serve as a
balance against Lavos' scheme. After an intense battle between Chronopolis and
Dinopolis, Chronopolis was victorious and sealed away Dinopolis (which would
later come to be known as Terra Tower) beneath Sky Dragon Island. Fate, the
supercomputer which controlled Chronopolis, also captured the TimeDevourer and
divided it into six Elemental Dragon Gods and an artifact of power called the
Frozen Flame, thus allowing it to manipulate both Lavos and the Reptite forces
to suit its whims. At the same time, Fate created the El Nido Archipelago in
the midst of the Sea of Eden, an artifical land which it populated with the
former workers from Chronopolis. Using its power over the Elements and human
genetics through devices known as Records of Fate, the supercomputer managed
to maintain close control over the development of the area and its people.

In A.D. 600, Janus (now known as Magus) tried to exact his revenge on Lavos by
summoning him (with the pretense of destroying humanity in order to tap into
the support of the Mystic race, which was at war with mankind). Crono
interfered and he and Magus were thrown back in time to 12,000 B.C. by the
partially-awakened power of Lavos. Glenn (aka Frog) later defeated Magus and
returned to his human form with the aid of the Masamune (Grandleon) sword,
which was stolen by an unknown party once Glenn was finished with it.

In A.D. 1000, Crono became introduced to time travel when the pendant worn by
Marle (passed down through the descendants of Queen Zeal) reacted with a warp
device. Some time later, Lucca discovered an abandoned child in the woods,
bearing the same blue pendant worn by Schala and Marle; she took the child in
and founded an orphanage.

A few years later, a three-year-old boy named Serge who lived in Arni Village
on the El Nido archipelago fell deathly ill. During a raging storm, Serge's
father Wazuki and Wazuki's friend Miguel took a small boat to Marbule in the
hopes of finding a mystic healer there who could help Serge. Though they
survived the storm, they were thrown off course and ended up in the Sea of
Eden where they discovered Chronopolis. The electrical power in Chronopolis
was deactivated for 10 minutes by the storm; in that brief time, Fate's
control was weakened and two important things happened: first, the Frozen
Flame sought out the young Serge and healed him, but also bonded with him,
foiling Fate's control over the Flame. Fate was further thwarted by the
activation of a secret circuit which had been installed in its program by
Lucca Ashtear (a friend of Crono) and Belthasar, who had developed Fate and
Chronopolis to begin with. At the same time, the six Dragon Gods were freed
from Fate's yoke briefly and managed to create a seventh dragon, a Dragon God
of the second moon which bore a human form - Harle, whose mission was to ally
herself with Fate and manipulate events in the Dragon Gods' favor. Miguel
became trapped in a timeless void of paradox called the Time Crash which
resulted from Serge's interference with the Flame; Wazuki managed to get Serge
back to Arni, but was eventually corrupted and transformed by Fate (which
could control the bodies and minds of the humans of El Nido) into a servant
called Lynx. Wazuki - now Lynx - effectively became a human vessel for Fate,
and sought to undo the setbacks it had suffered.

Four years later, Lynx tracked down Lucca Ashtear to her home, which had been
converted into an orphanage, and abducted the scientist in the hopes of
forcing her to set right the havoc she had wrought on Fate. Thanks to the
power of the Mastermune (an advanced form of the Enhasa Guru Melchior's
Masamune), a future version of Serge was able to step back in time and save a
girl named Kid, though he could not prevent Lucca's abduction and eventual
murder. Around this same time, Lynx also tracked down Serge, the boy who had
bonded with the Frozen Flame, and attempted to kill him with a poisonous cat
demon. Serge's cries of pain as he lay dying on the beach reached the ears of
Schala and touched her heart. Using the power of her pendant (an incomplete
but nevertheless potent Time Egg crafted by Belthasar in 12,000 B.C.), she was
able to create a clone of herself and sent it into the world as Kid, the child
who had been found in the woods by Lucca. At this point, reality split into
two alternate worlds where Serge lived and died. In the "Home" world, Serge
lived and went on with his life, but in "Another" world where Lynx and Fate
existed, Serge perished from the demon's poison. However, the Frozen Flame was
still out of Fate's control. Thus they began to bide their time until Serge
could be pulled through the dimensions.

Ten years after that, Schala's influence caused Serge to cross the boundaries
between dimensions and into Another world where he had been killed by Lynx's
demon. By warping between the dimensions with the use of Kid's "astral amulet"
(Schala's pendant), Serge was able to set things right and re-stabilize time
and reality. However, his efforts were dogged (oddly enough) by Lynx, who
sought to gain control of Serge's body to help re-synch Fate with the Frozen
Flame. Under the guise of "challenging" Serge, the Dragon Gods gave him the
means to destroy Fate (which eventually happened as an act of revenge by Kid),
which in fact freed the seven Dragon Gods to reunite into the TimeDevourer in
order to detroy humanity. Ultimately, Serge was able to free Schala's mind
from the TimeDevourer, allowing her to merge with her "Kid" self, and causing
the split realities to be healed and restored as one. This neatly thwarted the
plans of Fate, Lavos and the TimeDevourer and allowed mankind to develop
apace...

In A.D. 1999, Lavos destroyed the world, leaving humanity as a decimated race
much like the Reptites had become. Alternately, Lavos was destroyed by Crono
and co. who traveled through the Black Omen in an earlier time period to stop
Queen Zeal and Lavos before they could annhilate the planet.

In A.D. 2300, Crono, Marle and Lucca learned of Lavos' actions 301 years
before and vowed to stop the beast in the past, before mankind could be
destroyed. Unfortunately, by defeating Lavos before it destroyed the world,
Crono and co. created a time paradox - since they were prompted into action by
witnessing events in a future that never happened, how could they have been
motivated to act in the first place? Thus rather than changing events, Crono
simply created an alternate timeline in which The Day of Lavos never happened.
In a disastrous timeline dominated by Lavos and the computer Mother Brain, the
Guru of Time, Belthasar, gave Crono and friends a time machine called Epoch to
combat Lavos; in a more peaceful reality, Belthasar helped establish a time
research center called Chronopolis, run by the supercomputer Fate (which was
based on the design of the Mother Brain).

In A.D. 2400, Chronopolis was pulled back through time by Lavos to arrive at
9,000 B.C.

[Greatluigi]

Bah !! Never played Chrono Cross. Oh, well. I'll read off your thing and try to get a view of it.

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have you......read?

[Greatluigi]

Half of it.

I'm not that lazy. Just my eyes are tired....