On rereading... there's something more than I realized going on here.
Think about it: so far as we know, the Original Timeline is Chao's future... in which Cosmo Entelechia must not have succeeded. Why didn't they? Maybe they didn't realize the collapse was coming in time... maybe Fate was imprisoned and unable to affect matters...?
But why has that now changed? Fate's statement that the future is unalterable really means that the destruction of MM is (in his opinion) unstoppable; he's trying to save everyone the only way he thinks possible, and he thinks he can. And he clearly KNOWS what will happen on Mars over the next century.
Chao, you clever devil, just how long have you really been tinkering? And how many backup plans have you set in motion, in this Xanatos Gambit to end them all...?
--Sam
"Gravity is a harsh mistress."
Think about it: so far as we know, the Original Timeline is Chao's future... in which Cosmo Entelechia must not have succeeded. Why didn't they? Maybe they didn't realize the collapse was coming in time... maybe Fate was imprisoned and unable to affect matters...?
But why has that now changed? Fate's statement that the future is unalterable really means that the destruction of MM is (in his opinion) unstoppable; he's trying to save everyone the only way he thinks possible, and he thinks he can. And he clearly KNOWS what will happen on Mars over the next century.
Chao, you clever devil, just how long have you really been tinkering? And how many backup plans have you set in motion, in this Xanatos Gambit to end them all...?
--Sam
"Gravity is a harsh mistress."