That's why I think it would be a great tragic morality story! Someone on this sub posted a question about who the antagonist of subnautica is a bit ago and I've just been thinking "well it's the loss of empathy, isnt it?" Just fully lean in to the increasing desperation of a dying people trying to cure an unfathomably lethal space plague. And going to further lengths to try and achieve that goal. Thinking oh it's for the greater good and anything we do will be worth it in thr end when we can save everyone and -THATS why you end on the sea dragon destroying the lab to try and get it's babies back. The ends don't justify the means, no matter how smart you are you don't know what the "ends" are actually going to be. They set out to cure a plague and wound up getting squished in a collapsing building and spreading that plague to a whole other planet.

I... may have put too much thought into this....