>>19541616Maxie worked for years as a geologist locating natural resources for the biggest clients in the world - Silph Co, the Devon Corporation, the Pokemon League - but the earth never recovered and the demand for resources never ceased. Everyone wanted more and more and more from the world, and thanks to his efforts they were extracting resources far faster than they could be replenished. Maxie could see the writing on the wall: sooner or later they were going to run out of everything, damning the entire world in the process.
The most basic rule of resource exploitation is to reap the most accessible resources first - those on land, close to the surface. Already these supplies were running out, and in Hoenn they would soon need to turn to deposits beneath the waves. The consequences of human abuse of the environment happened too slowly for the people of Hoenn to understand the future they were building, but with the power of Groudon Maxie could show them. He could strip away the oceans of the world, lay all of it bare to human greed, and in the greatest of ironies it would no longer matter, they would all be damned to wither and die.
Archie was a career pirate, raiding the shipping lanes connecting Hoenn to the rest of the world. Most of his money was made playing competing interests against each other - cutting off imports of advanced electronics from Kanto to make Devon products more attractive, intercepting prototype pokeballs, keeping shipments of minerals from reaching Sinnoh to let drive up the stock price of Oreburgh Mine - but he was always the junior partner. He did all the work, and the suits on land profited the most.
Kyorge, though, gave him the chance to change this once and for all. Flood the world, sink their cities and factories, and Archie becomes a king. Flood the world, sink their factories, and control Kyogre, and Archie becomes a god.
