The Fall of Guardia

[SilentMartyr]

Ahhh that one. I always forget about it.  

[Sentenal]

I will always maintain that Crono's fate, and the incident he was involved in, was supposed to be covered in Chrono Break.

Unfortunately, Kato more or less stated that the series was concluded with CC. He never said that the Fall of Guardia was supposed to be explained in another game, he just said that the Fall wasn't explained in CC.

Here's what he did say about the series, though:

Q: So "Radical" and "Chrono Cross" are actually interlinked as one game. Could you say that this series was something like a little egg, that was being warmed up inside of you which just kept growing and growing until one day it finally hatched from its shell and got to this point? These two games must have really been filled with drama for you, but what are your feelings on that, now that you've finished the project?


MK: Well, if you put it that way, it makes it sound really nice, but... (laughs). In reality, I wasn't warming any egg or anything... I was just doing whatever I felt like doing at that certain point in time. But it sure was a long journey going from Trigger to Radical to Cross though. Right now, I'm just glad that I'm done with it all. Looking back on the works, I still get this feeling that there were a lot of things that were still left undone though. I just hope that Kid doesn't stab me for this... (laughs). But I think this really concludes everything, once and for all. Or... I guess maybe you could say that with this, Kid and Serge can finally begin their true "journey". Heh heh.. (the meaning behind this statement, including my suspicious little chuckle, lies within the ending of Cross... so please look forward to it.)

Yeah, but there are also unanswered things in the series, and they did get the rights to the name Chrono Break.  Thats indisuputable fact that the Series was planned to continue on some level.

[Chrono'99]

Then maybe Square wanted to continue without Kato... and it failed apparently.

[ChronoMagus]

Failed horribly I might add, and destroyed every chance of a CT remake.  Now we are forced to be stuck with only fanfiction... sigh.

[ZeaLitY]

Just for any people joining this topic late on, the Compendium has since dug up the truth behind Chrono Break -- that it was to be the third game, and was undergoing story planning by Masato Kato and the Chrono Cross team before they left Square Enix. It was never greenlighted. But Masato Kato wanted to make a new game. The fates of the Chrono Trigger team are yet unexplained, but Kato knows them.

[Daid]

There is no way the Army of Porre could stand up against Crono and Marle.
I mean they defeated Lavos!!!

In my opinion, the "incident" that Crono and Marle were victims of must depends on tricks rather than brute force. If the mysterious force that helped Porre came "from outside the normal flow of time", it might have time-warped Crono and Marle, or jailed them in a pocket dimension or time-stoped them or whatever, even if it couldn't actually defeat them by force.

That makes sense. I don't think that they are dead.

[Zaperking]

There is no way the Army of Porre could stand up against Crono and Marle.
I mean they defeated Lavos!!!

Thats the most common misconspetion with people. If the game makers want them to die off, they will die off. They are mortal, and only the plot and certain circumstances make one win.

[Daid]

That might be true.
I just don't think that they could be killed that easily. It would make more sense if they escaped and set up a rebelion.
They could also fight there way through the Black Omen and Queen Zeal. The Black Omen would certainly be tougher then the Porre Army. I don't think the Porre army could stand up to Lavos either. Lavos would just do his whole destruction rains from the heavens thing. The armies from 1999 AD couln't do anything about it, Crono and co stood up to him though. So if Crono is tougher then an army from 1999 AD then how the hell could Porre beat them.

This is just speculation though. I probably don't make sense anyway, I am so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open...

[Zaperking]

What army could have stood up to 1999AD if they were already dead. Lavos' strike was so random that nobody had time to prepare. Also, Porre possibly has the elements on their side.
And another thing, Crono and co probably did not need to fight 1000s of monsters in the Black Omen to get to Queen Zeal. Remember, monsters and leveling up is a game play aspect, not plot or canonish.

[Magus22]

Perhaps there is a hidden agenda behind Porre that Crono/Marle/company found out about.

Crono/Marle/company then went into hiding and will appear again to retake the thrown and stop Porre.

*Brainstorming* Maybe Porre recovered DNA of Lavos and planned to genetically create the parasite again using certain technology (Lucca?) so they could control it. It is possible that they could be harnessing the power and or energy of this Lavos doppelganger to use it to conquer the world. There might have been a mysterious Porre dictator that had appeared one day (Dalton?). He does have motive for such an action he would take on Guardia. So anyways, they needed to get rid of our heroes first before beginning, and as soon as they were confirmed out of the picture, they would slowly begin with the operation.

[AuraTwilight]

There is no way Porre could possibly be aware of Lavos' existence, much less obtain it.

[Romana]

There is no way Porre could possibly be aware of Lavos' existence, much less obtain it.

Notice he mentioned Dalton, though! He could have informed them if he was indeed the mysterious dude. 

[Magus068]

There is no way Porre could possibly be aware of Lavos' existence, much less obtain it.

Indeed! In the 1000A.D., people didn't notice Lavos because they think that it is a creature of myth.

[Romana]

There is no way Porre could possibly be aware of Lavos' existence, much less obtain it.

Indeed! In the 1000A.D., people didn't notice Lavos because they think that it is a creature of myth.

DALLLLTOOONNNN!!! He could have told them!!! 

[Chrono'99]

But where would he have found a piece of Lavos DNA?