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When you say blimp/dirigble, do you mean the Vykkers blimp, or the native blimps in this video? Surely the natives wouldn't do anything cruel to the Meetles? |
I mean, the Civilized forces would have cut them apart and used their pieces to build flying vessels. The Mudokons turned Meetle grubs into those flying balloons by feeding them beans. The whole concept was later consolidated into feeding the creatures, so the industrialists would have gotten their balloons by feeding them chilli.
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Has that now been retconned out?
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There's room for maneuverability. I think the idea was that Sekto was lying about the water: it wasn't spring water, it was river water. But if we wanted to say that Ma'Spa was just behind that dam, we could do that. It would make the liberation of Ma'Spa rather unceremonious, though.
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It's not necessarily cruel is it? If they kill them and use their hides? Native Americans had a 'harmonic' existence with nature but they still speared bison and used their skin to build their tents.
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Absolutely, but for gameplay purposes you want to present the two forces as polar as opposite: absolute empathy against absolute barbarity. Video games make them both fun.
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You cannot leave it at "four temples".
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I can! In fact the creatures themselves were in the very early stages of design at the point, so there's no answer to the question of "What was the fourth creature?" more than "Some scribblings with features that went into the other creatures' designs." The environments that each creature would inhabit kept changing, too. There was a point when 'Arachnid Sr.' was going to be an ice inhabitant and 'Arachnid Jr.' was the desert dweller. But at that point they weren't Scrabs and Paramites as we would recognize them today.