Sadishist Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) So they can see the future precisely, what's so important about that? You can't change the future, so what's so important about knowing the future when it will happen anyway? Edited January 6, 2014 by Sadishist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selenial Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 So they can see the future precisely, what's so important about that? You can't change the future, so what's so important about knowing the future when it will happen anyway? Oh, they very we'll can act on the information. And their healers can heal anything. And the commandos are pretty OP.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlrikFassbauer Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I believe that Voss was meant to be one place of tranquility - design-wise - where players can kind of retreat from if they have enough from all of this war & destruction going around them ... Kind of "an ideal Yoda planet", so to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthDymond Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) So they can see the future precisely, what's so important about that? You can't change the future, so what's so important about knowing the future when it will happen anyway? Who says you can't change the future? (In the SW universe at least, not interested in a debate about Logical Determinism vs Free Will in real life.) As Yoda put it "Always in motion is the future." And even the Voss's own prophecies indicate there are multiple possible futures: "The last Gormak must not die. If every Gormak dies, every Voss dies." Right there the prophecy is a command being issued to prevent a possible future. A straight deterministic, immutable future prophecy would be "The last Gormak will not die." By the same token a Voss Mystic working for the Republic could 'prophecy': "The Third Fleet must not go to Kashyyyk. If it does, Onderon will fall." Knowing that "if you do X, then Y will happen" is a very useful thing when waging a war. Edited January 6, 2014 by DarthDymond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadishist Posted January 6, 2014 Author Share Posted January 6, 2014 Who says you can't change the future? (In the SW universe at least, not interested in a debate about Logical Determinism vs Free Will in real life.) As Yoda put it "Always in motion is the future." And even the Voss's own prophecies indicate there are multiple possible futures: "The last Gormak must not die. If every Gormak dies, every Voss dies." Right there the prophecy is a command being issued to prevent a possible future. A straight deterministic, immutable future prophecy would be "The last Gormak will not die." By the same token a Voss Mystic working for the Republic could 'prophecy': "The Third Fleet must not go to Kashyyyk. If it does, Onderon will fall." Knowing that "if you do X, then Y will happen" is a very useful thing when waging a war. If the future is always changing, then what's the point of future-seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthDymond Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 If the future is always changing, then what's the point of future-seeing? Because: By the same token a Voss Mystic working for the Republic could 'prophecy': "The Third Fleet must not go to Kashyyyk. If it does, Onderon will fall." Knowing that "if you do X, then Y will happen" is a very useful thing when waging a war. Even if an outcome isn't completely unchangeable, knowing what steps you need to take to cause or prevent that outcome is very useful. The point of future-seeing for the Voss was "hey, don't kill the last Gormak, if you do, we all die". In that situation both "Gormaks all die, Voss all die" and "Gormaks don't all die, Voss don't all die" are possible futures, neither one is absolutely certain - but it is still incredibly useful for the Voss to know what can be done to, even potentially, avoid the "Voss all die" future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexDougherty Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 If the future is always changing, then what's the point of future-seeing? Well to steal an explanation from Babylon 5, once you know were the nexus points are, you can sculpt the future to you liking. It also helps if you know what you are changing the future from, every piece of information helps you control what's happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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