Either I missed a giant plot point in CC or that didn't happen or I don't remember it.

There is no confirmation that the guy who killed Guardia's final defender was Dalton. It's just a guy with long hair and you know that it doesn't exclude many people in the Chrono franchise's universe. It's only hinted at in the PSX remake of CT, too.

I still wonder to this day if Lucca, Marle, Crono, Magus, and Frog ever wondered... why... a group of islands that never existed before randomly starting existing and was inhabited by dragons and people using unknown technologies to do magic-like effects?

I just roll with it.

I mean, all things considered Chrono Cross was a fun game. It just didn't make any sense.

past limit and getting pretty off-topic.

feel free to make follow up threads for the CT remake or for CT generally or bitchin' guitar renditions of CT themes or whatevs.

Especially that last one cause that was the shit.