Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170108024434/@comment-111.69.151.164-20170109005109

Let me explain my theory real quick. In Eureka, the Artifact was theorized to have been created y the energy of the Big Bang, or was a remnant of whatever reality came before ours. My idea is that all of the energy, matter and life from that last universe is contained in these spheres, maybe a dozen or so, potentially hundreds all over the galaxy. These spheres are the source of the artifacts seemingly infinite tap of energy. How else could you explain artifacts that can create storms or manifest life? That energy can't just be created from nothing, so it must come from somewhere.

And the destruction of the Eureka artifact roughly co-incides with the start of WH13. So when the Artifact released all of it's energy it created and/or activated a bunch of artifacts, causing the Warehouse to require more than one aging agent to deal with it all. This excess of wild energy could also go some ways to explaining the sudden influx of 'tulpa' artifacts as it tries to find inspiration and events to tether itself to, going so far as to manifest some objects itself. (This is me finally coming around to Per's old ideas btw. Be shocked and scared).

It's not a foolproof theory, but it does make enough sense and melds the two shows together.

Now regarding Garr's idea, no, nature couldn't just make an artifact. Especially Pangea which Scalec rightly said was not a sudden event but happened gradually over millions of years and is still happeneing to this day. While the Artifacts may have existed at this point, there was no emotional connection for them to latch onto. Artifact creation requires some degree of sentience and understanding. Maybe later someone who spent their lives researching the continental drift found an acient layer of stones that supported the theory and thier inspiration retroactively made it an artifact relating to the event. But it would not have happened at the time.

(This is going to be another part of my gradual artifact thesis, retroactive artifacts, pre-fame artifacts and momentious artifacts. Also I wrote this all without my laptop bursting into tears! Yay me!)