Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170803220318/@comment-6986530-20171103223155

I've been thinking about something since the Muzzle novel came out--although it concerns more than just Muzzle info, so I put it on here rather than that thread.

I don't think that our info is enough to assume that the Heavenly Yard is the Second Period. I think that we will need to at some point make the Second Period redirect into an actual page, and remove all mention of it from the Heavenly Yard.

Here's my reasoning:

There was never anything that actually said the Heavenly Yard was the Second Period. The information, to my knowledge, was based two things:

We also know from Enbizaka that the Heavenly Yard is the moon.
 * Sickle and Held calling the Heavenly Yard an "Ended world" and it having once had wilderness and other stuff (Heavenly Yard short story)
 * Behemo considering the Heavenly Yard like a home to him since Gudonechia didn't exist anymore and the story mentioning that there was once a facility there which Sickle chucked into the Graveyard to make way for his rice fields basically. (Pierrot Short story)

But, since all that, we've learned two big things that kind of contradict this: All that considered, I don't think that the Heavenly Yard/the moon is the Second Period. I think that it was an okay assumption at the time (despite nothing outright saying it) but what we know now makes it completely unreasonable.
 * Gudonechia, or Gudnatia, is Earth. I don't know why it said Behemo was born and raised there (I guess even as a parallel world it counts as the same place) but regardless the text states that Gudnatia doesn't exist anymore. It could be metaphorical, as in "this place is so different that Gudnatia as a planet might as well not exist anymore" but the wording makes the very unlikely.
 * The Second Period, likewise, is Earth. Which means that if the Earth and the Third Period were so close together, the Climb One crew had to have done some serious dicking around to be in space long enough to lose contact with all the other ships before they got to the new planet. Not to mention the whole size issue that this suggests between Earth and the Third Period if the Third Period is the moon.

For sure, the Heavenly Yard has a backstory to it and the moon is clearly not an ordinary moon. But I don't think it's Earth.

We don't have to split the pages right now if anyone disagrees with me. I'm fine with waiting until the Heavenly novel is out, because I feel as if that would be the ideal place for mothy to clarify things. It might also be covered in the Livestream (it'd be nice if we could ask mothy there.)

But yeah my feelings on this.