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So, this is mostly just a random idea I had. I'm not generally much of a theorizer. Autonomy is attacking Scadrial because it's a threat to her future plans, but the primary reason she had was aside from Autonomy's primary planet (whether that's Taldain or somewhere else), Scadrial is the most scientifically advanced. TLM shows they've got big guns, electricity, cars, radio, railways, and early motion pictures and missile technologies. And that's not including the Invested technological advancements, which include airships and nuclear weaponry. Autonomy has access to better technology (most likely including her Men of Red and Gold), but Scadrial is close. The thing is, the Final Empire had halted Scadrial's technological advancements for over a thousand years. We know that Scadrial had gunpowder weaponry before the Final Empire from the HoA Epigraphs, and two other benchmarks of advancement from that point - Scadrians advanced to Industrial Revolution-level technology in under 400 years after the Catacendre, and us humans on earth only started using gunpowder for weapons around 700-1000 years ago, and went through our Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. And depending on the definition of "gunpowder weapons", it could also be a lot more advanced than that. They also had pocket watches, an invention only made about 500 years ago. So if the Final Empire hadn't inhibited technological advancement, then Scadrial wouldn't be at Industrial Revolution era during the time of TLM, they'd be about 400-800 years more technologically advanced than the modern world. That would presumably throw them pretty far into the steampunk Era 3 level. And presumably, a civilization designed to be superior by Autonomy didn't pause technologically for 1000 years to let Scadrial catch back up. Could it be possible that stagnation had something to do with Autonomy? We know she had a hand in pre-Era-1 Scadrial from Trell showing up there. Any thoughts?