The Nature of the Halcyon Days.

[Loken]

Although it may be possible for the ruins to ruin out of refractors.
Of course then theres the motherlode, endless power. Is it in 5 island adventure that they find a machine that transforms magma into refractors?
Anyways do you think if there was endless power that conflicts might arise since they no longer need each other? I'm not sure but what are other reasons for going to war? They seem to have similar culture and a universal religion so we can rule that out. What is something that the Carbons could separate each other into? What lines can they draw?

It seems the only guarantee for 'peace' is reintialization, but I like to think the Carbons could work out world peace themselves. Maybe Rock could help out! ;D

[BlastMandrill]

What lines can they draw?

I think this is something that the Master system has taken care of in advance. To me, Reinitialization is probably just a last resort type of thing, so that war isn't really possible. With the intervention of the Master System, the problems that occurred before the creation of the Master System were eliminated for good.

[Deleted]

But, isn't the Reinitialization actually supposed to be used to wipe out all Carbons so that the Ancients can be restored in Legends 2 and to stop overpopulation in Legends 1 as they're unstable and "difficult to control"?

To quote Legends 1:

Juno: According to Urban Military Security Ordinance A10, the number of carbon
units is not allowed to increase beyond a pre-specified limit; if this happens,
they are to be purged immediately. My observation, if left unattended, the
carbons will reproduce indefinitely. Their numbers will grow, polluting the
surface world. They can be quite a nuisance...
MegaMan: Carbons? Do you mean...The people on the island!
Juno: The carbons fit Mass Population Model B. They are unstable, very difficult
to control...Perhaps, it would be better to simply reinitialize...

Here's Legends 2's quote:

Yuna: Now this is a problem. She plans on executing the Carbon
Reinitialization Program!
MegaMan: Carbon Reinitialization Program?
Yuna: Basically, every human alive will be deleted, wiped out, and the
Ancients will be restored!

I personally don't believe that they use it to simply stop the Carbons before they will wage war on one another. It almost seems that they just see the Carbons as pests and can mess with them however they please.

It's actually pretty depressing...

[Kyle]

Pretty much, yeah. Consider the entire thing to be a continuous cycle. The Carbons are reinitialized, leading to the Ancients returning. What's stopping them from making more Carbons? There are plenty of implications that this has happened before, but the Carbons always manage to return.

If not for Volnutt's interference, I'm pretty sure the cycle on Kattelox Island would have repeated indefinitely. Now that's a depressing thought.

Edit: Apologies, but the Bonnes deserve just as much credit. After all, they "shut down" Juno's whacky electric cageamobober that was trapping Volnutt.

[Loken]

I always thought that by bringing the ancients back they meant making Carbon copys of them (Excuse the pun )

As the Master was the last human I'd thought that carbons were supposed to be like reincarnations of the old humans.

[Deleted]

The idea of the Carbons actually being reincarnations of the old humans (or maybe even the ancients) sounds like a plausible idea.

It would explain how they could be so many of them and they look different from one another.

[Loken]

Well they don't look too different from each other!