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Now, the obvious explanation is that they, and the Solana Galaxy government, hadn't been concepted at that point, but the in-universe one is that they ''could'', but ''didn't'' stop Drek. Knowing how filthy rich and powerful he was, he might've either bribed the President to overlook his destruction of planets, forcing them to defend themselves, or threatened him with full-scale war or cutting off access to important products if he dared call the Rangers to interfere. Alternatively, he only attacked the planets not governed by Marcadia, assuming there are such in Solana.

As for Emperor Nefarious, it may or may not be the same.

[[WMG: Courtney Gears is really a spoof of Koda Kumi]]

** Alternatively: Qwark bought mass quantities of Stunderwear in an effort to perfect [[ADateWithRosiePalms a certain device's -ahem- effectiveness]]. The result? Why, [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One The Happy Platypus]], of course!

She was able to get away in the end without facing any punishment. She has dreams to conquer the universe as well. She has a score to settle with Rivet. The end credits show that she is being pursued but is able to avoid capture. When she returns, she'll prove to be smarter and more ruthless than both Nefarious' combined.

[[WMG: Emperor Nefarious Assistant will return as the new BigBad in the sequel to ''Rift Apart''.

[[WMG: The next game after Rift Apart will have a plot similar to VideoGame/SonicForces where Dr. Nefarious has sucessfully conqueroed the galaxy.]]

* Evil alternate versions of the Lombax, looking to conquer their alternate dimension doubles.

* Emperor Nefarious outlawed all publically-accessible vendor systems in his dimension, hence why the Resistance is reliant on Mrs. Zurkon for their equipment.

** Sure would give the Lombaxes' [[CatsAreSuperior catlike traits]] a new interpretation. Hell, even outside of technological prowess, it's been shown they might have a naturally strong agility (hoverbooting, jumping, etc.), so we can surely add that to the list.

** (Also, they were probably sexist, too: "You've travelled far, but to be clear, without a tail your quest ends here." Remember, female Lombaxes supposedly don't have tails.)

AlternateCharacterInterpretation is in full force for this one, but hear me out. Even if the fear and hatred towards the Cragmites was ''completely justified'' on Polaris' part, it's very likely that Tachyon, as a young child, would have experienced discrimination and the like for being a member of their species, regardless of what values he was raised with or what path in life he would've decided to take. Adding to this is the fact that he may have still kept a fondness for the Lombaxes who'd raised him specifically, given how he took after their inventive nature and kept both of the names that ''they'' gave to him even into adulthood. And especially assuming that the "authoritarian government" WMG is true, it's not unlikely that his role as a Cragmite led to his caregivers being shunned at best or even ''murdered in cold blood'' at worst for allowing a Cragmite to live. In the latter case especially (which authorities may even have covered up for obvious reasons), it's possible that this is what ''actually'' solidified his hatred of the Lombax race, viewing them as pompous hypocrites obsessed with their kind's own superiority—not unlike how [[WrittenByTheWinners the history books]] described the Cragmites—but also willing to even harm their own people to do what they preach is for the greater good (which isn't [[VillainHasAPoint too far from the truth]] considering Azimuth's actions decades later). Over the years, however, Tachyon's egomania regarding his hatred of the Lombaxes and taking back what would be rightfully his became so massive that he lost sight of the ones who were empathic enough to give him a life on Fastoon in the first place, now only contemptuous towards how they "had the gall to pity [him]", essentially [[ThenLetMeBeEvil becoming the horrible monster of a Cragmite that he was told of in the first place.]] FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse given everything he did to the Lombaxes and the rest of Polaris, but if this is what his past was ''really'' like, it just shows that, for all their reverence as Polaris' saviors, the Lombaxes were ultimately just as flawed in character as any other species.

Sure, Zephyr might have been going senile or referring to his creator when he claimed his mother was a lombax, but there's plenty of other robots who act ridiculously like organics. For instance the pirates eat, drink (a lot), and use the bathroom, though they obviously [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace don't breathe]]. And roboticization clearly existed before Nefarious built his Biobliterator, if the movie's to be believed the procedure can be performed by overzealous repair bots.

Let's look at the evidence: it's shown that even though the Lombaxes were a part of modern history (having been exiled about twenty years before Ratchet defeated Tachyon), very little is known about their society or culture by the rest of Polaris, even without Tachyon's constant anti-Lombax propaganda. And if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQj629I4Ps this Space Radio broadcast]] [[labelnote:(specific line)]]"I've never seen a Lombax before, but '''if this is what they look like''', [[CutenessProximity sign me up, please]]!"[[/labelnote]] is any indication, it's possible that many Polaris citizens don't even know actual basic information about Lombaxes (beyond "they killed the Cragmites"), as further evidenced by Ratchet [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday being singled out as one]] by ''many'' of the people and enemies he meets—again, even outside of Tachyon's sphere of influence. As such, this goes to show that, even if some interaction like economic trading or political representation occurred (along with Lombax settlements seen on Rykan V, Sargasso and [[DummiedOut possibly]] Vapedia), the Lombaxes were detached from the rest of Polaris, even before they escaped with the Dimensionator and even if they had a form of influence on Polaris culture (Meridian City's architecture resembles Fastoon's, for example). And on that note, they were perfectly willing to let the rest of the galaxy believe that they ''committed genocide'' on an entire race just to hide their technology (though, to be fair, that race was AlwaysChaoticEvil). Combined with how they mostly lived on a single planet with a hard majority of them escaping the universe all at once (as opposed to how even a SpaceAmish species like the Fongoids lives on at least three worlds), it's likely that the Lombax ruling class, even if partially out of a [[AlienNonInterferenceClause believed necessity]], made it so their people's interactions with other races would be limited by law. The "authoritarian" part of this WMG is due to how they very likely had many restrictive systems in place to prevent interspecies interaction (as evidenced by how the Rykan V outpost ''only needs a Lombax'' to be accessed).

Let's look at the evidence: it's shown that even though the Lombaxes were a part of modern history (having been exiled about twenty years before Ratchet defeated Tachyon), very little is known about their society or culture by the rest of Polaris, even without Tachyon's constant anti-Lombax propaganda. And if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQj629I4Ps this Space Radio broadcast]] [[labelnote:(specific line)]]"I've never seen a Lombax before, but '''if this is what they look like''', [[CutenessProximity sign me up, please]]!"[[/labelnote]] is any indication, it's possible that many Polaris citizens don't even know actual basic information about Lombaxes (beyond "they killed the Cragmites"), as further evidenced by Ratchet [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday being singled out as one]] by ''many'' of the people and enemies he meets—again, even outside of Tachyon's sphere of influence. As such, this goes to show that, even if some interaction like economic trading or political representation occurred (along with Lombax settlements seen on Rykan V, Sargasso and [[DummiedOut possibly]] Vapedia), the Lombaxes were detached from the rest of Polaris, even before they escaped with the Dimensionator and even if they had a form of influence on Polaris culture (Meridian City's architecture resembles Fastoon's, for example). And on that note, they were perfectly willing to let the rest of the galaxy believe that they ''committed genocide'' on an entire race just to hide their technology. Combined with how they mostly lived on a single planet with a hard majority of them escaping the universe all at once (as opposed to how even a SpaceAmish species like the Fongoids lives on at least three worlds), it's likely that the Lombax ruling class, even if partially out of a [[AlienNonInterferenceClause believed necessity]], made it so their people's interactions with other races would be limited by law. The "authoritarian" part of this WMG is due to how they very likely had many restrictive systems in place to prevent interspecies interaction (as evidenced by how the Rykan V outpost ''only needs a Lombax'' to be accessed).

Let's look at the evidence: it's shown that even though the Lombaxes were a part of modern history (having been exiled about twenty years before Ratchet defeated Tachyon), very little is known about their society or culture by the rest of Polaris, even without Tachyon's constant anti-Lombax propaganda. And if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQj629I4Ps this Space Radio broadcast]] [[labelnote:(specific line)]]"I've never seen a Lombax before, but '''if this is what they look like''', [[CutenessProximity sign me up, please]]!"[[/labelnote]] is any indication, it's possible that many Polaris citizens don't even know actual basic information about Lombaxes (beyond "they killed the Cragmites"), as further evidenced by Ratchet being called one by ''many'' of the people and enemies he meets—again, even outside of Tachyon's sphere of influence. As such, this goes to show that, even if some interaction like economic trading or political representation occurred (along with Lombax settlements seen on Rykan V, Sargasso and [[DummiedOut possibly]] Vapedia), the Lombaxes were detached from the rest of Polaris, even before they escaped with the Dimensionator and even if they had a form of influence on Polaris culture (Meridian City's architecture resembles Fastoon's, for example). And on that note, they were perfectly willing to let the rest of the galaxy believe that they ''committed genocide'' on an entire race just to hide their technology. Combined with how they mostly lived on a single planet with a hard majority of them escaping the universe all at once (as opposed to how even a SpaceAmish species like the Fongoids lives on at least three worlds), it's likely that the Lombax ruling class, even if partially out of a [[AlienNonInterferenceClause believed necessity]], made it so their people's interactions with other races would be limited by law. The "authoritarian" part of this WMG is due to how they very likely had many restrictive systems in place to prevent interspecies interaction (as evidenced by how the Rykan V outpost ''only needs a Lombax'' to be accessed).

** Jossed. He's not even referenced.

Sure, the Clock falling apart due to Azimuth trying to use it as one could be chalked up to the clock getting overwound and breaking that way, but just the same result could occur when the Clock's gears get caught on other gears in it and the user just keeps forcing the Clock to rotate and clash against itself. If the Clock was in the absolute center of the universe, it's gears wouldn't clash at all and it could be used as a true time travel device - something that Orvus noticed while building and abused to save on material costs where generating his own materials was inferior to buying them wholesale - before realizing how dangerous true time travel is in the wrong hands, followed by intentionally nudging the Clock just off center enough that it starts clashing against itself in six minutes when rewound, but works just fine as an oversized atomic clock.

* Hear me out--I'm not going to speculate on whether Kaden is alive or not, though it's possible he's alive despite the claims he's dead. Whether he has somehow survived or was killed off, the theory still works. He knew that the Solana Galaxy would be host to a number of critical events, and was able to predict what was needed. Specifically, he was able to tell about Drek’s plan while Orxon was still inhabited. He was able to tell that Veldin was key in Drek's plan, and sent Ratchet there, knowing he'd stop him.

After that, he needed Ratchet to leave Solana for three reasons:
1--He knew Ratchet would slack off.
2--He wanted Ratchet to meet Angela Cross.
3--He knew that Dr. Nefarious was going to be coming, and that if Ratchet was there at the time of the attack, he'd be at risk.

So, he knew that Ratchet needed to go to the Bogon Galaxy. If alive, he could've personally suggested to Qwark a fresh start, or if dead, set up something which made Qwark think of a fresh start. This triggers Going Commando, which gets Ratchet back into action.

When Dr. Nefarious attacks Veldin, it once again kicks Ratchet into action, where he had (once again) began to slack off and was not prepared. Returning, he felt obligated to help stop Nefarious, and would become Nefarious’s main foe rather than Qwark because of it. If Kaden predicted Clank's presence (or is alive and knows of it), he could’ve allowed Ratchet to also be set up as the side-kick to Clank (when in fact it's generally the other way around) so that people would want to eliminate Clank. As demonstrated in both the second and third games, it's easy enough for Ratchet to save Clank, but it's harder the other way around, hence the need for Secret Agent Clank.

When that ended, he set up Gleeman Vox to capture Ratchet—who was slacking off in the Phoenix. This both freed the heroes of the galaxy (which'd allow for Ratchet's work load to be reduced somewhat), and ensured that Ratchet would always be ready, not caught off-guard slacking.

Size Matters is something I'm not as sure on, but it could have happened because Ratchet needed a somewhat easier adventure, while still not slacking off.

Secret Agent Clank, however, is clearly meant to make Clank slightly more capable, preparing him for his eventual independence shown at Crack in Time. (Again, this requires Kaden to either have predicted Clank or know of his existence and be alive.)

With Ratchet now older and more capable, never to be caught off-guard, Tools of Destruction was set off because it was necessary to see Tachyon's reign come to an end in their home galaxy and for Ratchet to basically get set on the trip to find everything Lombax-related.

Since the events of Tools were setup for Crack in Time, he was ready (after Quest for Booty) to continue the journey and re-unite with Clank, while meeting another Lombax, Alister Azimuth. This would allow for Ratchet to know all of his past, and Kaden being able to predict/already know that Nefarious would return, knew that Ratchet would need to stop him.


With everything in rest after Crack in Time, Ratchet effectively chose to retire--and Kaden didn't want that to happen. And that's where Zogg comes in. This darker storyline wouldn't be possible if Ratchet hadn't been aged and grown from who he originally was. His planet was a very important choice. All of this eventually leading up to Ratchet learning more about his fate.

Come on, you saw that video at the end of [[spoiler:him with that photograph]], right?

Suddenly the whole "Six Minutes" line in A Crack in Time makes perfect sense. It turns out Mario looks like that because there are some pretty wierd mushrooms in the Ratchet & Clank universe...

Ratchet casually mentions that Stunderwear is a big seller on Umbris, a world in the first game that is home to Qwark's base. If what I think is true (that Stunderwear is a weapon) and with what Qwark usually adds...
* Alternatively: Qwark bought mass quantities of Stunderwear in an effort to perfect [[ADateWithRosiePalms a certain device's -ahem- effectiveness]]. The result? Why, [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One The Happy Platypus]], of course!
** The original poster would like to point out that he was kidding and that he added this guess as a joke... and would like to add that... how does stunderwear work, exactly? Does it have to be charged separately or is it one use only? Wait... that would explain why it's a big seller...

They served pretty much the same purpose, gameplay-wise: fixing a trashed ship. Maybe, since the Zoni inhabit robotic bodies in order to exist in one dimension, the crystals are part of their shells.

Part 3 of "Behind the Hero" claims that, after being imprisoned, Qwark "Flushed himself to freedom" in a scene at is A) absolutely ridiculous and B) strangely similar to the Plumber's exit in Tools of Destruction. Unlikely though it is, it's also kind of a hilarious thought.

Whoever acted as his caretaker in his childhood (if he even ''had'' a caretaker) didn't know the dietary requirements of Lombaxes, and fed him inappropriate food for years. As a result, Ratchet never received the nutrients a growing Lombax should receive, and his growth was permanently stunted.

The world of {{VideoGame/Team Fortress 2}}, whether as a game or a thing that really happened, exists in the far, far past of the R&C universe, and sometime in that far past, it has arrived at the design singularity of merging hats with weaponry and gadgets. Hence the ridiculous size of Dimensionator when unfolded - it contains every hat and weapon ever made by TF Industries.

[[WMG: The Plumber is [[SuperMarioBros Mario!!!]]]]

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** Too bad Ratchet won't be getting a cool costume like [[{{KingdomHearts}} Sora]] did in [[WesternAnimation/{{TheNightmareBeforeChristmas}} Halloween Town]]...

* It's not entirely out of the question that various galactic authorities or even other evildoers would've wanted to keep an eye on Nefarious. To do so, one of them sent in Lawrence. He would be the perfect spy due to Nefarious' GenreBlindness, able to report the MadScientist's schemes to his superiors or just sabotage them without being suspected at all. In the end, Lawrence fled the scene because with Nefarious dying or dead, his mission was complete. Either that, or he was ordered to sabotage the ship and kill Nefarious because of the risk the final plan posed to the universe.

[[WMG: The Smuggler is a ShoutOut to [[SpyroTheDragon Moneybags]]]]

[[WMG: Thugs-4-Less are [[{{Zathura}} Zorgons]].]]

There was time travel in ''A Crack in Time,'' after all. Someone will use the Great Clock to go back in time and change the timeline to what we will see in the PS4 game and the movie.

[[WMG: The Zoni and the [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureIntoTheNexus Nethers]] originally came from the same dimension]].
It sort of makes sense. Both species require protective metal suits in order to survive in Ratchet's dimension. And there is a connection between the rifts that the Nethers are using and the Great Clock that is clearly mentioned in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureIntoTheNexus.'' Perhaps the Nethers forced the Zoni to flee to a different dimension at some point in the distant past.