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Every generation drops more evidence that the Pokémon world isn’t just a weird utopia — it’s a civilization that’s rebuilt twice after near-extinction.
Let’s start with what we know.
1. The Kalos War (X/Y, Legends: Z-A)
3,000 years ago, AZ led Kalos in a brutal war with what’s implied to be Galar. The people fought with weapons and armor straight out of our 1400–1600s. Despite that tech level, AZ suddenly produces the Ultimate Weapon — a machine that can convert life energy into pure destructive power. He revives his dead Floette with it, then wipes out both sides of the war. Civilization collapses. That’s not a medieval invention. That’s someone stumbling onto lost, ancient tech.
2. Ange (Legends: Z-A)
After the war, AZ builds “Ange,” a machine that is Prism Tower meant to give life instead of take it. It runs on the same kind of crystal/biological energy we’ve seen in Mega Evolution, Z-Crystals, Dynamax, and Terastalization. All of these “modern” phenomena seem to be fragments of the same ancient science — manipulating life energy through crystals. AZ didn’t invent it; he rediscovered it.
3. Uneven Technology Everywhere
The world has teleportation and cloning but still lives like the 1950s more or less. Poké Balls, PCs, and healing machines all work on principles no one really explains — because they’re likely replications of pre-war tech, not original inventions. While technology is mostly following how our current technology progresses, its still worth considering.
It’s the classic post-post-apocalypse pattern: civilization rebuilt using scraps of something greater.
4. The Ancient Past Keeps Showing Up
Ruins of Alph, the Regis, the Anistar Sundial (“built with technology beyond today’s capabilities”), the Temple of Sinnoh, the myths of Hisui — all describe lost ages where humans and Pokémon interacted through technology that blurred the line between life and energy. It’s been lost and rediscovered multiple times.
