The Crisis of Xenoblade 3

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has me theorycrafting something fierce, and my thoughts naturally turn to what came before in an attempt to bring to light what comes afterwards. A crisis looms in the future of the worlds of Bionis/Mechonis and Alrest - a collapse, born of an experiment that rocked the very foundation of the universe. How did it happen? What is the state of Aionios? Why is this setting locked in such a perpetual conflict? Let's try to figure this out.
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Music Used (Chronologically): Valak Mountain Night (Xenoblade DE), UMN Mode (Xenosaga Episode 1), Rolling Down the UMN #2 (Xenosaga Episode 3), Mechonis Central Factory (Xenoblade DE), Testament Instrumental (Xenosaga Episode 3), Mechonis Field (Xenoblade DE)
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BIG Thank you to Twitter user Inofango for bringing the Fog in the Xenoblade 3 trailer to my attention, and compiling it into an image set for easy reference.
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