In the short story “Prophet’s Lesson” the Exodar is portrayed as being fully repaired and functional as a dimensional vessel, and the Draenei discuss either using it to return to Outland or to take the fight to the Legion.
But in Legion, they don’t really acknowledge this, and instead the Draenei build a new ship to take to Argus.
Is the Exodar’s status explained in some source I don’t know about? Or did Rakeesh’s attack render it inoperable?
In Legion, I’m pretty sure they mentioned using the Exodar’s parts to make the Vindicaar, effectively retconning the stuff in Prophet’s Lesson by saying all their spare time and resources has gone into the Vindicaar.
In the file cabinet labeled ‘plot devices’ until further notice.
thats not what a retcon is
them deciding to use parts from there fixed ship to make a combat vessal isnt a retcon
Them saying that they’ve been devoting everything to the Vindicaar when previously they said they devoted everything to getting the Exodar up and running is, not that we have a proper scale of time it would take to build an intergalactic warship in complete and utter secrecy.
Incorrect.
Prophet Velen says: The Exodar has long been crippled by the crash brought us to this world many years ago.
Prophet Velen says: Every spare moment, every resource, has gone toward the birth of a new vessel. Our instrument of retribution.
Velen’s quote implies that the Exodar never recovered. Furthermore, you don’t repair your ship fully, only to cannibalize it for parts to build a smaller ship.
the status of the exodar as a vessel and the dreanei as a national or regional power is one of the most inconsistent thing in the story.
the prophets lesson ends with the exodar being operational and iirc flying up off the ground. just to be attacked and destroyed even more by the legion during the lights heart scenario being shown fully operational in the son of the wolf comic just to be replaced by the vindicaar the real project of the draenei artificers. just to be taken over by the AoTL and become a permanent military vessel for the LF dreanei.
the amount of npcs that were in the exodar and moved to the vindicaar implied at least to me that it would be the new home of the dreanei, but apparently they are once again squatting in the exodar now twice a ruin with every resource available dedicated to an orbital vessel they gave away.
Blizzard’s one constant.
Their inability to keep Draenei lore consistent.
Sure you do if you plan no never leaving, but yeah, if velen said that then its a retcon
Good catch!
Yeah they probably permanently crippled the Exodar in order to build the Vindicaar.
Permanently crippling the Exodar does work towards the whole “Azeroth is our home now, we’re here to stay” the Prophet’s Lesson was supposed to be about.
It’s probably a retcon, but I guess what happened was that they were building the Vindicaar in addition to Exodar, but after Prophet’s Lesson, Velen resolved to turn Azeroth into their permanent home, and crippled the Exodar to speed up the Vindicaar’s build, both to make it faster, and to symbolically show the draenei were here to stay.
Rakeesh apparantly did enough of a number on the Exodar to have Valen build a smaller combat ship from the parts that were going to fix the Exodar.
Even if the Exodar were repaired it could not be used with its pilot vaporized by the Legion. The Exodar was a Naaru ship. It requires a Naaru as a combo pilot and power core. Without one it is useless. That is where the Vindicaar was different, it didn’t require a Naaru to power it and had controls a mortal could use.
That said it turns out it was not repaired, and is permanently dead as most its vital parts went into the Vindicaar. They should just finish cannibalizing it and use the materials to build a permanent settlement at this point.
Vindicaar was the top secret plan. They pretend to repair the Exodar and spread misinformation to fool the enemy.
If Velen told the PC about Vinicaar they will post it in the forums and everyone will know it.
iirc the Exodar was ‘repaired’ in the sense that it might work as intended or might just explode, killing everyone aboard and devastating the surrounding area worse than its initial crash landing did.
According to Prophet’s Lessons, the test was successful, so it was fixed.
Just not anymore.
That won’t happen for the obvious reason that if Blizzard was going to build a new Alliance capital, a new Horde one, such as revamping Silvermoon City would need to be done as well, and they feel that both would be a waste of valuable developer time and effort.
It is unknown what parts were scrapped or needed to be salvaged from the Exodar to make the Vindicaar work, so the state of the Exodar in lore could be different from how it is in game.
As to the Naaru pilot point, it is possible that the Naaru was only needed for safe inter-dimensional travel, not for just flying the ship from point A - B. The whole reason the assault on Argus could even work was because there was a portal torn open in space to let us go straight to Argus, so even without a Naaru on hand to provide inter-dimensional navigation, even a simple navigational console / helm could allow us to pilot to the planet.
I have the impression that while the portal was up any ship that could get up there could potentially reach Argus, and the Vindicaar was the only ship that could both leave atmosphere and militant enough to be a mobile staging point.
It could well be within the realm of possibility that the Exodar is capable of flight / movement, but incapable of dimensional travel. This would still leave the Draenei people ‘stuck’ on Azeroth, as part of their commitment to make this their home, while still allowing the capitol city a degree of mobility not unlike what is afforded to Dalaran today.
The Exodar flew the same way Oshugun did… it relied on a pilot Naaru for flight. With O’ros dead and the damage done during the last attack, it’s not going anywhere.
I don’t really think the death of O’ros means the Exodar is worthless–there are many Sha’tari Naaru who are presumably still aligned with the Draenei in some way, even though they haven’t really been acknowledged much since BC. Unless A’dal and friends don’t have their drivers licences yet.
Rakeesh could still have busted the vessel in some other way though, but I dunno if that’s ever stated as the reason. And I don’t know if the Vindicaar was being built all along, or if it was built as a reaction to the attack (which would mean it was constructed in less than a year, quite a feat)