>>38101569>>38102329>>38104802>>38105545The grunts believed they were looking to discover a new form of renewable energy and that they would have the monopoly on it and get rich.
The admins believes that they would obtain Dialga's and Palkia's power to shape reality and put themselves in positions of power.
Cyrus' intentions differed though. Neglected by both his family and peers throughout his life, he was left alone in rooms of machines for his youth. He came to see humans, or rather the human spirit, as the cause of all the problems in the world. He saw it as imperfect and irrational in comparison to logical unfeeling machines, and also believed the current world to be beyond saving. His goal was to use Dialga and Palkia to recreate the entire universe with himself as its God, ending the current universe in the process. When Saturn learns this, he realizes Cyrus is a madman and no longer helps Team Galactic. Mars continues to pursue Cyrus after he's trapped in the Distortion World as it's implied she ironically has feelings for the man who shuns them, and Jupiter goes with Mars because she doesn't want to be left alone. Charon, in the meantime, was using Team Galactic as a vehicle to further his own research and moneymaking schemes. Cyrus' fate of being trapped in the Distortion World is meant to be a way of giving his tragic character a happy ending of sorts by putting him into a world without spirit where only he exists for all eternity, though he doesn't seem to realize this initially. It does outright state it in Pokémon Generations.
I don't know why people see Team Galactic as idiotic as Gen III Magma and Aqua. It's common sense that you need both land and water to survive and every character is interchangeable in their lack of this common sense. Galactic's subordinates had the true plan withheld from them and wouldn't have supported Cyrus if they knew what he was going to do.
