[S/M Spoilers] Implications of [REDACTED] Travel

[Chase]

The following spoiler contains direct spoilers for Sun and Moon - and I am requesting all viewers to tag every post if they wish to respond directly. However, for those of you that -DO- have the game in hand, this can be considerably helpful to you in your post-game.

Seriously, folks. Use Spoiler Tags. For those of you still reading and aren't afraid of playing with fire - you've been warned.

Today's postgame slumming around Alola involved getting news that Amethyst had bred a Popplio egg for ya boy. Gentleman that I am, I figured that I would try to do her one better and give her a Litten egg in return - boasting an egg move. I settled on "Crunch" - although "Fake Out" is probably better (Incineroar didn't get blessed with great egg moves.) because I knew of a Pokemon that learned Crunch by level up and was in Litten's egg group.

Yungoos.

I'm also in pursuit of the Lucky Egg - having steered clear of dex filling unless it was a Pokemon that struck my fancy during the story - so I figured I would knock out two birds with one stone and evolve "El Presidente" into Gumshoos for the extra "caught" data.

And then I realized. I was playing Sun. At night....and Gumshoos evolves during the day. And I have a final project and work to spend my upcoming daytime hours on instead. If I were only playing Moon, it would be daytime in my game right now, right?

Enter the "Secret Cosmog" event - and it's implications.

Small summary:

If you take Solgaleo/Lunala to the Altar of the Sunne/Moone during the Night/Day (that's the opposite time from the one the galactic body in your game's title is usually seen) you would be able to enter a visible Ultra Wormhole. When you do, you end up in a different dimension where you're suddenly found in the middle of the Day/Night at the Altar of the Moone/Sunne (play attention to placement of the alternative words here, folks.)

The event would be complete if you were to go to the Lake of the Moone/Sunne and reach the altar found there. Solgaleo/Lunala ends up contacting Lunala/Solgaleo, and then a second Cosmog (rather, a Cosmog that is not known as "Nebby") appears on the center of the altar - allowing you to take it with you and enabling you to fill in Cosmog and Cosmoem's data in your Pokedex. You can also evolve the Cosmoem into another of YOUR box legendary on your own, or trade your Cosmoem to a friend playing the opposite version in order to have BOTH box legendaries registered under your Trainer ID - making it possible for you and your friend (should they also trade over THEIR Cosmoem) to own their own copies of BOTH Sogaleo and Lunala.

The interesting thing outside of all of the Cosmog stuff though is this. The night/day mechanic is essentially the ability to cause time based events to happen on your own whim without messing with your time on your DS. It is not really effectively playing in the world of the other version - as you are still locked to your version's exclusive Pokemon - but you can hop into the wormhole in order to complete events you couldn't do at the time of day/night you play in normally.

This in mind. I will get to evolve Gumshoos in real-Central-Time-Zone nighttime, even though it's locked to evolve during daytime hours.

I knew this time-lapse mechanic was going to be cool. Hope this helps some of you guys out!

[Rot8er_ConeX]

I would like to point out that even though from a mechanics perspective, it is effectively just being able to go from day to night at will - because as you point out, you're still locked to your own game's version exclusives, much to my dismay - the way the game treats it from a lore perspective very much implies that it is another dimension.

"Beyond the portal is what seems to be another world. Would you like to go there?"

The fact that the names of the Alter and the Lake change when you go to the other world.

What the significance of this is, is as yet unknown.