Did Ragnarok kill everyone on Pulse?

dtwei,  Vanille's weapon >>>>>>> The Keyblade

There, I said it.

lol going to learn 2 pages, then I'll be back

In the beginning if found the Sentinel role useless too, but like u said, in some boss battles it was like more than necesary specially with two other medic: Medic/Sentinel/Medic was my most used class every time my life is in danger in boss battle. Since then Sentinel had a special place in my paradigm shift

The people of Cocoon wouldn't fear Pulsians.

There wouldn't be any pulsians on cocoon to create the events of the thirteen days.

Thus, no Cocoon L'cie would arise, as Dajh wouldn't be made a L'Cie

Serah wouldn't be made a L'Cie too, since the Bodhan vestige Fal'Cie didn't had any need to defend itself. 

There wouldn't be any fear of the L'Cie.

Cocoon Fal'Cie wouldn't be able to control the people as easily as they did. 

Thus most of the chapters after chapter 4 wouldn't have any logic to it, especially chapter 7, where the people of Palumpolum are dying with fear of Snow and Hope. 

Nautilus fireworks wouldn't happen in chapter 8. 

Cocoon wouldn't be in a weakened state, meaning that Orphan and Eden would be nigh-impossible to destroy. 

Totally agree with you, FF XIII is really a good FF game, and people were expecting so much of the game.  The actually delivers dispite the bad reviews. I also think it could have been better, but I can't say I didn't and I am still enjoying my money

That boils all down to:

"It made Cocoon fear Pulse"

But it didn't.

Dysley wanted Cocoon to fear Pulse through any means, and he used that war and other factors to do so.

If there was no war, he could have done it just as easily.

That's just your hypothesis, which boils down to what I said previously. Every story can be twisted and shaped to fit anyone's agenda. So you easily do this for FFXIII as you can do it for any game. 

Probably he would have, but then again, that would change the entire plot of the game, as there wouldn't be any reason for this particular plot to happen. Barthandelus could easily do that 500 years ago, 100 years ago, whenever. So the plot would never be the same. 

But no, the main spark for the plot was the resurrection of the two pulse L'Cie which had tried to destroy Cocoon before, which lead to the series of events of the thirteen days, which in turn led to the events of the plot of the game. 

So that is essential to the plot, to why everything unfolds as it does, to why even Jihl and Yaag had any relevance to the plot. 

So you're saying that the only relevance that plot had was to crystallize Fang and Vanille?

That's what I am thinking basically.

That's just one of the relevance points of Fang's and Vanille's story. 

Substitute cristalization for destruction. Had both of them died 500 years ago, the same events that lead to the events of the game wouldn't take place. 

If you change the back-story you will change the plot, no matter what. Because the entire plot is heavily dependent on the Thirteen days.