Thought

[Gilgamesh]

I have a thought of a thing that may have happened in between MMX and MMZ. It occured to me the moment I beat MMX3 when it said "To save the world, X must destroy Zero". So I started thinking, maybe X tried to kill Zero sometime in between X and Zero series. And maybe Zero lost the fight and his repair system was destroyed so Zero may have shut down which led to why he was "uncounscious" at the beghinning of MMZ.

What do you think of this Hypothesis? And if you have any ideas then post them here also.

[Darc Abyss]

X asked Zero to protect the humans and Reploids, which he did when Dr. Weil threatened the world with Ragnarok, which ultimataly killed Zero, and led to peace between the two. There. That's my theory. But then again, they both still exist as Biometals with Zero keeping his promise...

[Gilgamesh]

Actually, I meant thoughts about what happened in between X and Zero series.

[Silver Stryker]

possibly,as X5 was supposed to end with Zero going in suspended animation cuz the creator had to come up with a reason why it transfered to the zero series,but someone else continued the X series anyways,which leads me to think-maybe that's why Axl is no where in the zero series-the zero series is also an alternate timeline.what do you guys think 'o that?..

[Albireo]

That is a great theory Uiaruiamu, when you said the creator put Zero into suspended animation, then the rest of MMX was alternate, even if it was true, how can we explain Omega? >_<
I mean Elf X said "its time to finish what we started a century ago" or something like that, but i just made this difficult right?

[Raikon]

That's because Uiaruiamu is wrong.
Zero went into suspended animation after the Elf Wars, after Omega was beaten.

[Miguel]

He was only partly wrong. I came to the theroy that all the different series (except ZX, which I don't count as a seperet series because it seems pretty well cannon, and that lazy spriting department kept the sprite style identical) are in timelines to the previous ones long ago. It pretty well explains why nobody but Dr. Light seems to remember the original series timeline in the X series, and why Omega's final form is supposed to be Zero's original body when it looks to be just a recolor of Zero's current body. And Uiaruiamu forgot one little detail in his theroy. Every ending of MMX5 leads to Zero being dead, not in suspended animation. But Zero's ending in X6 puts him there, but he just mysteriously ends up on the intro stage from X1 for the into stage of X7. And what he says then is "I can't beleive I'm back here again. They've really made a mess." (please bug about "oh, that's not what he said", 'cause it's been awhile since I last played X7, and my copy was a rental) so he just falls down a plot hole and lands on the highway. No explanation.

[viruszero]

Ok here's what I think:

- No one from the X series remembers the classic series because it happened so long before that no one was alive for it. ( Only Dr. Light's hologram because it was programmed then, X wasn't ever activated then, so he'd have no memories, since it'd be assumed he could turn out to be evil, so it'd be too dangerous for him to be activated. Zero may have been activated but he would have had the virus persona so any memories it had could have been wiped when the virus was transferred.)

- At the end of X6 there is one ending where Zero isn't found and X wonders if Zero is alive. But at any time before X7 happens Zero could return. No specific date has been given for X6 or X7 so it's difficult to tell how much time has passed, and all the events which have occurred between them.

- X wouldn't have tried to kill Zero unless Zero went maverick. And he did in X5, but in X6 the maverick virus in him is dormant again. (Though this is one theory why Zero enters the sleep, so that he can rid himself of the virus altogether. And that the damages that his body encounters just occur as the ravages of time.
As far as Omega goes, the events surrounding him are unclear, though it could have something to do with the purging of the virus... Maybe the virus was hardcoded into Zero's body so the only way to get rid of it was make a new body, transfer Zero to it, and rid the virus of both the hardware and the software of the original body. Then have Zero enter sleep to ensure the cloned body didn't manifest any viral traits.
Of course then Wiel stumbles onto Zero's original body, activates it, names it Omega and builds an exo-frame for it. But that is only one possibility.)

- The X1 and X7 highway level is used to show a change from 2d to 3d, so that give some familiarity while a whole new experience. And as a storyline thing, if Axl was being chased the fastest route out would be the highway.