>>20164043Why does any of this matter? For starters, both of you braniacs need to realize that permasun was NOT Team Magma's goal, or deliberate intention. In fact, Maxie was shocked to see the true power of Groudon, and just how unstable he really was, in spite of the orb's influence. If you recall, their first plan was to harness the power of the meteorite to cause an enormous volcano somewhat around the mainland of Hoenn, for the sake of expanding land mass. Upon first glance, it seems that there are no discernable areas in close proximity to the radius of the eruption that would be subjected to the eruption immediately, bar Rustboro, but if you take into account real life volcanoes, such as Mount Pinatubo's eruption which spanned as far as 950 kilometres away, the effects would be far more detrimental than one would think. No less, our- I mean their plans were thwarted, and they had to search for suitable alternatives. Such consisted of stolen rocket fuel, and depending on the version of the game you play, a Lilycove city base. All around, however, at no point did Team Magma show interest in an eternal sun. Earth, soil, land, and ground are our MO, and quite frankly, it pains me to think that we're chalked up to be 'that one fire type team', when in reality, that has nothing to do with what we had in store.
Next, fuck thermal expansion, we're talking about a legendary Pokémon capable of harnessing the sun's capability to radiate heat for evaporation of water, and it has said that this has been done numerous times to those suffering in floods. Fucking floods. That's over 23 feet of water whisked away in an instant by a goddamn ground behemoth, and you're worrying about ice. Almost every Pokedex entry mentions that he raises the land BY evaporating water. He's not using the sun to heat the world up on slow burn, no, he's sucking that shit up through a metaphysical straw and slurping as the ground beneath you is lifted.
