If you mean new as in Extella, sure.
And I mean, it's just like, existing takes energy. For a world to exist it also needs energy. Something has to provide that energy, and it happens to be drawn from a pool of finite energy in the universe.
I guess it's basically the first law of thermodynamics, yeah.
Imagine you have a nice pile of snow in your backyard, and you build some snowmen out of it.
You build a few of them, and constantly work to make them look even better.
At some point you might even think "I wonder how that would look if I did this instead" and you build a new one based on a pre-existing one.
Because your local neighbourhood watch is very strict, you're not allowed to just go and take more snow from anywhere outside of your own lawn though, so you inevitably run out of snow to build with.
Since you want to build more alternatives to some you're still working on, you decide to tear down both the really shitty ones, but also the ones you think are absolutely perfect, because there's no more you can do with them and then what good are they for if all they're accomplishing is for you to now feel bored so you'll end up going back inside and watching TV.
So the ones which are really bad, and the ones that are perfect are torn down, which gives you more snow, which allows you to make more variations of your WIPs.
Is this a shitty explanation for the first law of thermodynamics, or of timeline pruning?
Yes.
Wouldn't be surprised if its the CF that says yo prune me, or the Prime Ones for each planet's timeline
More likely is that we'll never be told at all who does the pruning
I've been assuming that it's an automated thing that the Human Order does. Organizations exist to further themselves. Like how evolution isn't maximizing life out of a reasoned principle. Life maximizes itself by default which we call evolution.
I assumed the pruning was just a way the universe fundamentally worked, not that there was some observer deciding what gets pruned and what stays.
Got a timeline question that's been bothering me for a while now.
If Olga Marie's dad used the money he wished for from the 2004 HGW to set up Chaldea, then how is it that Chaldea's Demi-Servant experiments and the invention of Laplace, Chaldeas, and FATE all happened before 2004?
They started building everything before the war, and the systems were made before that. Not everything was functional though, which is what iirc Maris Billy wished for. He didn't wish for money, he got money from sponsors
the wiki looks pretty correct about this????
http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Chald...y_Organization
Wait, is his name Maris Billy or Marisburry? I've seen both.
Don't know about Laplace but a mini version of Chaldeas (proof of concept) was made. They then scaled it up.
Also Marisbilly still had the Sepharix oil drilling thing and that held a working version of Chaldeas (Mk-1).
This stuff is from fragments of the moonlight lost room booklet
that hasn't been full scanned yet
Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions I
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.