>>586094585. The Cycle
First Age: Ancient high-tech Pokémon civilization (life-energy mastery).
First Fall: Catastrophe wipes it out.
Second Age: AZ’s reigning era, rediscovery of that tech during the Kalos–Galar war, or even before that.
Second Fall: Ultimate Weapon fires, wipes everything again.
Third Age: Modern Pokémon world — peaceful, agrarian, and weirdly advanced in specific areas thanks to scavenged knowledge.
So the bright, utopian world of Pokémon is really the result of multiple resets. Humanity rose, destroyed itself, rose again, and now lives in harmony out of necessity — because they’ve seen what happens when you try to play god with Pokémon.
tl;dr:
Pokémon isn’t a utopia. It’s a civilization that survived two apocalypses.
AZ didn’t create the Ultimate Weapon; he unearthed the last remnant of a forgotten golden age — and burned the world with it.
