The idea of 'experiments' is so stupid, when you look at it from an out of game context it looks like a bad idea.
Lunars aren't a bunch of half-hearted dabblers who play around creating societies that don't need Exalted even though they were founded by them unless they're shaping a society in a place they can't afford to be noticed because of the Realm's influence. Lunars are survivalist heroes not sociologists generating lies among backwater societies that they're making progress when a Lunar is doing all the work for them.
The rule of the Terrestrials is crumbling, prominent Sidereals will soon die off. For better or for worse the Solar Exalted have returned and is the Lunars dont move to fill the power vacuum now the Abyssal Exalted will. For long enough the Lunars' concern could only be for their own survival. Creation's natural survivalists had their acumen tested to it's limit during their long and troubled exile which they haven't got through unscathed.
It just makes for bloody atrocious reading. Supposed great heroes fucking around with petty little 'experiments.' Surely they could have come up with something better than that.
