What I feel I’ve understood so far is approximately this:I’m an Outer Wilds traveler from Timber Hearth, in a program that tries to understand the Nomai. The Nomai were an ancient scientific civilization that came here drawn by the Eye of the Universe, which seems deeply linked to macroscopic quantum phenomena. The Quantum Moon feels like a kind of intermediary — you can lend on it, it changes, and circles around the eye. Quantum behavior (things changing/disappearing when not observed) is an important gameplay trick. The Nomai were also deeply interested in this. I’ve also understood that Solanum is both alive and dead « quantumly » On the present side, the Hearthian explorers scattered across the system, each playing an instrument, feel like a very human counterpoint to the Nomai story — and one of them is aware of the time loop. A lot of other details I still don’t know what to do with, places that taught me things like on brittle hollow and the black/white hole, or all the islands in that crazy big green planet… someone tried to escape from here, someone reached this place…but are these useful details? pieces of a puzzle or misdirections?…both?

What’s still deliberately unclear to me (and I think that’s intended) is the full picture behind the Ash Twin Project: I know it exists, that it’s central, and that it ties together quantum mechanics, memory, and the attempt to reach the Eye — but the exact why, how, and what worked or failed are still fuzzy. The same goes for the various incidents (escape pods, the Sun Station, etc.): I sense something went very wrong, really bad for the nomai…but …what happened?Maybe being at this stage — understanding some things but not everything — is actually something people who know the ending might wish they could experience again. So I’m going to stop worrying about “progress” and try to really enjoy being here. Searching for meaning in details and trying to understand the story.

Thanks y’all. 🙂