Sort of important question for my sanity, do we know if Simon(ironlung) is actually going into a planets sea or into a mutated portion of space? Because if he is going into the planet I nave no idea how thatās helping them fix the stars or space, and the whole thing with the creature that was responsible for the QR(I think?) and the cave system just confuses me if itās inside some planet.
Because if itās a mutated portion of space and a space version of a ship with a submarine port(or something similar to a gas giant but with blood and a core made of Swiss cheese) I can at least understand how Bloodymary works in terms of Rocky and Grace finding Simon in space. Simon gets thrown out of the planet, or the mutated part by the monster and then they find him. Monster is a mutation or a different evolutionary stage of astrophage, which would work in a mutated space because astrophage travels through space and stays alive, who says it canāt survive in a later evolutionary stage? It would make sense why their stars are ādeadā, they are set in a further region compared to earth and cannot see Tau Ceti, the rest of stars are so dimmed that they canāt pick up their light with the equipment they have, and they clearly dont have the equipment to find the Petrova Line. If we assume the blood sea is a planet similar to Venus and has the same favorable climate, it would explain the monster being a further evolved astrophage, weāve got no indication of it being actual blood so it could just be some weird gas form or something on the border of liquid and gas forms (xenon was a solid, thereās no reason why this planet canāt have an odd atmosphere on the border of states of substance). And the reason why Simon ends up in PHMs part of space is because heās thrown out of whatever he was in and because he gets thrown into space heās journey is dependent on Newtonās first law (object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force) so he wonāt need any fuel to get there. We are shown that he has something that allows him to save his oxygen, so he could make it if the force of the initial impact created by the creature that threw him out of the blood sea was big enough to make him go the same speed as Hail Mary did.
Iām also conflicted on my feelings about Eva Stratt and Ava, not in a sense on their morals but more about what they are relative to each other. On one hand I think they should kiss and then get wasted while spilling their guts about their moral failures.
On the other hand, ironlung apparently has some time warping creature? What if Eva Stratt after being convicted escapes and sneaks on a ship that was supposed to be for a rescue mission for Grace, but instead she hides there until they are in space and then she hijacks the spaceship and makes them go in a different direction. If I was correct and ironlung does have a time creature then in this scenario the creature gets Eva and the spaceship, sends them slightly back in time to have them also fix the stars in that part of the universe. Eva Stratt is Ava, sheās trying to recreate project Hail Mary, and Avaās attempt to save Simon is her guilt, over basically murdering Grace and then doing that a second time, spilling over and clouding her judgment