Just what the crap was the Ragnarok doing floating out in space when you find it?

Was it buried on the moon, and then thrown into space because of the Lunar Cry?

Why would Esthar bury it where the Lunar Cry occurs, if it always occurs in the same spot (over Tears' Point?)

For that matter, why did they bury it at all?

I doubt it was docked at the Lunar Base, seeing as how the ship was infested with monsters; I doubt you'd keep a spaceship docked without finding out after a while that it's been talking over by extraterrestrial creatures.

I can imagine that Esthar used the Ragnarok to construct the Lunar Base, as well as Adel's Tomb, but why ground a perfectly good vehicle? Maintenance costs too much?!

And, with all these spaceships designed to look like dragons, or swords (Grandia II), how come aircraft engineers haven't designed aircraft to look like that, especially in the military, IRL? I should think that such shapes would be pretty aerodynamic! I mean, a jet fighter flying by at whatever speeds they do is intimidating, but one that looks like a dragon or a sword? DAMN.

The Ragnarok ricocheted off a cosmic string through time and space, was then sucked into a plothole, and ending up being buried on the moon.

Damn FFVIII for all of its plotholes...

Fan wank answer: It was overrun with the alien replicator dudes. One is to assume that they killed all the crew and the spaceship has been drifting ever since.

Real answer: Deus Ex Machina

Fan wank answer: It was overrun with the alien replicator dudes. One is to assume that they killed all the crew and the spaceship has been drifting ever since.
Ah! But, how did the Propagators get onto the ship in the first place?! Was the Ragnarok supposed to be a space explorer?


Real answer: Deus Ex Machina
"God out of a Machine?" I beg your pardon, I don't follow.

Not the literal meaning, the literary device. I mean it was floating out in space because if it wasn't Squall and Rinoa would be fuxxored and the writers couldn't think of a convincing way to save them.

I have to agree with ThroneofOminous here. It does seem as though the Ragnarok was being used as a Deus Ex Machina.

IRT First post.

Creating a plane that looks like a dragon or a sword? Okay, you try fitting all the stuff they struggle to fit into planes now, into something the shape of a dragon, and I'll let this comment stand.

Not the literal meaning, the literary device. I mean it was floating out in space because if it wasn't Squall and Rinoa would be fuxxored and the writers couldn't think of a convincing way to save them.
I have to agree with ThroneofOminous here. It does seem as though the Ragnarok was being used as a Deus Ex Machina.
Oh, right. Plothole. Gotcha. *Is ashamed of himself for not remembering high school sophomore literary terminology. (-_-);