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Touhou 15 「東方紺珠伝 ～ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom」 Patch 1.00b released
Clarste:
--- Quote from: Drake on September 04, 2015, 04:58:46 AM ---The line says 「全ての地上の生き物を殲滅する」, and particularly 地上 here means "surface", not "Earth", which would have been 地球 or something. They were trying to wipe out the area so they could move there, hence the rover killing the wildlife. Just Gensokyo, not the whole planet.
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This is from, like, half a year ago, but I'd just like to point out that Lunarians have always called the Earth "地上" in every Touhou text I've seen in Japanese. As far as I know they've never used any other word for it. I think it's supposed to emphasize that they consider themselves heavenly beings.
Also, Reisen mentions in an FS chapter that the Lunarians consider wiping out all of humanity a popular coffee table conversation, so it's not like they'd be totally adverse to it. The phrasing of the line makes it sound like a side effect anyway.
Drake:
Yeah I've rethought that after reading more moonies again. It was still a dumb plan from the beginning though if they actually had the potential to wipe out everything.
Critz:
Yup, I've already noticed this after ZUN's interview. The Lunarians don't exactly discriminate between Gensokyo and Outside World:
--- Quote from: ZUN ---Hmm, would the Lunarians continue to sleep, or would they do a full-blown relocation of the capital to Gensokyo...? Would they completely overtake Gensokyo? In that case, there wouldn't be any living things in Gensokyo, and that would affect the outside world, too. That would end up causing the purification of the planet. Since she didn't want to do that, she only threatened to purify Gensokyo
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Emphasis mine. Makes you shiver about what kind of destruction Sumireko inadvertently almost brought about, doesn't it?