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The moon also exists in asynchronous orbit with Remnant. It's just shattered, not missing. It's just that sometimes we see the side without the enormous crater.

It's basically just a normal moon, with no rotation like ours, except the "dark side" of the moon just so happens to be the shattered side.

Tell that to Piccolo

except that the moon appears to be facing differently in different trailers◊

How do you mean?

The moon in some episodes is seen from a different angle, which makes it look like a chunk in the back is missing (when viewed from the ground), so since it's not a shot from space it's gotta have a real wonky orbit/rotation.

edited 19th Mar '14 2:23:22 PM by nman

And?

Thats what I was saying. The side that we equate to the dark side of the moon that results in the phases of the moon is the side thats missing/shattered whatever for Remnant's moon.

Our moon is circle-strafing the earth, theirs isn't.

I don't get what your saying.

The "Dark Side" of the moon wouldn't be visible at all from earth. Remnant's moon turns in such a way that over the course of a year or whatever you'd be able to see all points on it at least once.

Our moon doesn't really spin. The 'dark' side of the moon never faces earth, and when you have the waxing/waning stuff, it's not cause the moon is rotating, but because of sunlight and stuff. RWBY has a moon that does spin.

edited 19th Mar '14 2:28:55 PM by nman

What Nman said makes more sense.

edited 19th Mar '14 2:30:53 PM by Azure

How are you getting that their moon spins?

Somedays you can see the shattered side of the moon and some days you can't. Therefore it must be turning.

edited 19th Mar '14 2:32:55 PM by Azure

It's cause of the different images◊ in different episodes◊ showing the moon from other angles. But like pretty much everything else in RWBY, that's all speculation since we have virtually no source material to go off of, so for all we know the whole 'cracked moon' thing might just be the guy doing the art trying to make something look stylized in one scene.

Sooo... I am going to bed now, in an attempt to make up for staying up till midnight every day for the last two weeks.

It means that I haven't read anything of the last seven pages, and wont get to read these, or anything else, till tomorrow (after the next session). Then I can post. :/

edited 19th Mar '14 2:43:24 PM by Eventua

I'm not seeing how any of this fucks with canon. Grimm canonically existed before humans, and have been terrorizing them since the dawn of civilization. All this is is an addendum to Remnant prehistory. The story of another human offshoot (y'know, like irl prehistory) fighting the Grimm and ultimately annihilating themselves, breaking up the moon and paving the way for a new humanity to take their place by destroying most of the pants- shattingly enormous Grimm (because prehistory always equals big)

EDIT: Derp. Today is the day I forget critical details. Anyway, even though the Grimm appeared after humans, the start of the war with the Grimm is implied to have taken place a long goddamn time ago, and the appearance of the Grimm can easily be handwaved away as a "reappearance", since they were almost annihilated by the Horizon Bomb and shoved back into the shadows to regroup before they once again terrorized humanity.

edited 19th Mar '14 2:56:29 PM by KSPAM

(Reads some pages)

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Urujauni is not taking part in your weird Ecchi RWBY fanfic, guise...!1!

Actually Monty confirmed that the RWBY-verse moon actually does spin during a panel in....Australia if I remember correctly. And yea it is cracked on one side, apparently we're going to get more on that later

edited 19th Mar '14 3:03:56 PM by guyshane

There is still the matter that we all agreed that the Horizon bomb doesn't fit in RWBY at all, and plus, even though its prehistory, its still fucking with the history.

edited 19th Mar '14 3:03:27 PM by SolusLupus

Maybe it's one of those myth thingies — the ones that people debate whether or not it ever existed. Like Atlantis, for example.

@KSPAM:Okay we still agreed that we would not use the Horizon Bomb because that's something that would have been mentioned in canon if it could have have existed.

Secondly why couldn't they have just been ancient humans? Why do they have to be perfect in every way and all that bull? That makes no sense. They could have been normal humans who scraped and sneaked their way through hordes of Grimm until they found out how to use Dust at which point they started winning.

Thirdly we agreed to not use the Horizon Bomb. And the name of that scientist? Dude tell me that's a joke.

Fourthly no Horizon Bomb, shit seriously fucks with canon kthxbai.

edited 19th Mar '14 3:09:33 PM by Azure

How does it not fit and how is it fucking with the history? I was actually trying to fill in holes with this, like the moon and the existence of the Grimm arms race we created with Kurira and Behe-Mammoth. Anyway, regardless of whether or not the Horizon Bomb stays, I'd like to keep tinkering with the idea of a race of Precursors for RWBY >.>

EDIT: Aquatica has it. All this is to the people of Remnant is a myth. It's their Atlantis. "Perfect" is a hyperbole, because this is all romanticized as shit. And yes, the name is supposed to be that long. That's the joke.

edited 19th Mar '14 3:11:44 PM by KSPAM

Precursors huh?

And since when was it canon that the Grimm were around BEFORE humanity?

Did anybody else fucking LISTEN to the intro?

The intro sets the fucking stage, if there were humans before that, it would have fucking mentioned it. Not given us the whole Man born from dust establishing that that was the first time man fucking showed up.

Dude. Chill. This is an AU anyway, and it's not like Monty has given us any specifics about the past besides vague references and cryptic hints. We've already strayed pretty far from canon by making up all this supplementary information about all the other countries and Noble Houses. The existence of Grimm like Kurira and the Behe-Mammoth are also suitably huge events that they'd fall under the category of "why has no one mentioned these things in canon?"

edited 19th Mar '14 3:16:34 PM by KSPAM

Will post 'up to date' tomorrow, assuming I haven't missed out on too much.

Urujauni is probably still sleeping.