Lexx Time Line
With regard to travel to and from the Dark Zone.
1) At the start of IWHS the Wake Up MC describes the Light Universe and the Dark Zone as Stan is trying to sleep. This means that knowledge of the Dark Zone is fairly common in the Light Universe. The Divine Order acknowledges its existence, which suggests it is so well known it cannot be concealed. Both Stan and Zev seem aware of it.
2) Stan tells the others that his teeth contain a map to the Dark Zone, a realm inaccessible to His Shadow’s forces. Although well known, the Divine Order can’t seem to get through. This is confirmed by the Megashadow admiral.
3) Despite this, both the Lexx and the Megashadow make it through. The Lexx has the map, the Megashadow follows. Later on, the Lexx returns to the Light Universe and goes back to the Dark Zone following the map.
4) But later, the Lexx has to detonate a neutron star to get back to the Light Universe, and it doesn’t make it to the Dark Zone again until the Universe is in collapse.
5) 790 near the end of series two refers to nodes, not actual places, but weak points between the two universes which are established by arrangements of mass. This may be similar to what Vlad referred to as a bruise.
6) There was apparently movement between the Universes in the past. The Brunnen G appeared to go back and forth and eventually moved their entire population. The Dark Zone was the probably origin point of humanity. Third season merely confirms it- the receptacles of human souls, Fire and Water, were in the Dark Zone. This included souls from the Light Universe.
What conclusions may we draw from this?
My guess is as follows. Humanity originated in the Dark Zone, the Light Universe was discovered, whole civilizations, including the Brunnen G colonized or even relocated. They met the insects, the great war started.
In this ancient history, travel between the Light Universe and the Dark Zone must have been much easier. Either there were more portals of entry and easier portals of entry. Or the level of technology or achievement was higher.
Actually, there are a lot of signs through season one and two that the Light Universe was an entropic realm, a place of civilizations and of humanity long past its peak and in decline. Civilization of the present might not have the guts and gumption, the scale of organization or the technical accomplishment to travel back and forth.
On the other hand, its equally possible that the ancient civilizations destroyed most of the good portals between the Universes in various wars. The LEXX put paid two both the Fractal Core and the Neutron Star gateways in its time.
Still, there must have been some occasional communication, probably difficult and risky and very small scale. It’s likely that if this was the origin of humanity, the Dark Zone was probably so deeply embedded in culture that not even the Divine Order could erase it.
The bottom line is that by the time of LEXX there was no viable portal to the Dark Zone large enough to move quantities of men and material on a large scale. Thus, the realm was inaccessible to the Divine Order. And, for that matter, the Heretics. An occasional agent or scouting party could get through, but not an invasion force.
Stan’s tooth suggests that a viable mass transit route, a highway had finally been developed and mapped between the universes. This provides, or could provide a retreat point for the heretics, if they needed to escape. Or maybe it was a potential source of allies. Whatever.
The point is, that by this point in history, an effective viable route between the universes was a valuable military secret.
There was nothing supernatural about its being inaccessible to the Divine Order. The Gigashadow and the Insect Essences in the Predecessors and Kai could travel back and forth. The Megashadow could make the trip. The Gigashadow couldn’t because it was too big. It was inaccessible because it was unknown.
As for Vlad, she got her marching orders after IWHS, but before the Cleansing and before Gigashadow. We have to assume that she wasn’t around for the cleansing but was herself inaccessible, or she would have been fed to the pits like all the other Assassins and Executioners.
The latest she could have gone would have been before Mantrid started dismantling the nodes. So no later than midpoint in second season, say Patches in the Sky.
But my own guess is that she transferred over early instead of later.
Drago was killed by Kai, resurrected as an assassin. By the date given by Kai, it would probably be one of his latter kills, within months, years, decades before IWHS.
Now, its entirely possible that Drago and Vlad wound up on Earth separately by coincidence. Big coincidence, very big coincidence, but who knows.
But it seems to me that Drago could not have been brought to Earth after Vlad was there.
She would have been in an active cycle (she was, she figured in legends and her symbol appears in ruins) and would have found and destroyed Drago.
Possibly, Drago arrived first and was buried when Vlad arrived, so she never noticed him.
But why would the heretics take Drago into the Dark Zone at all? What’s the point? What’s the motivation? He’s a weapon. I assume they should have been using him on their enemies. And why is Drago’s name so similar to Dracul? And isn’t it a huge coincidence that two undead assassins with a connection to Kai should show up on Earth at the same time and go into long term suspended animation.
So, I’m going with my “Vlad captures Drago on a prior mission, or as a blind alley on current mission, and drags him with her to the Dark Zone.”
There is another possible theory: That the heretics were also looking for Kai, and they believed Drago was their best bet to capture him. They headed for the Dark Zone following the same prophecy that Vlad would later on.
As for Vlad being screwed over by the prophecy, well, that’s basically the way prophecies work in literature and film.
They always contain evil unexpected twists.
Vlad was probably told that she’d meet Kai on Earth, but she almost certainly didn’t realize it would take 4000 years.
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