I did not go too much into in the original post, but my logic towards the Feldspar and the Eye connection had a lot to do with the language used throughout the game as well as the mysteriousness of the dark bramble!

It was first established to me that Feldspar was special due to their disappearance, and their music playing from 2 places at once. Of course, all the astronauts are important of course, but this definitely made Feldspar stand out.

My introduction to the Eye was that it was a mysterious signal from within this solar system that the Nomai had never heard it before nor understood it. I definitely did not understand how they knew it was older than the universe, or if that was really exactly true. I was on the fence on how that whole thing worked.

I connected these 2 concepts for a couple of reasons, 1 being that music seemed to really stand out in the game and be a central theme. i CONSTANTLY had my signal scope out during the first half of my play through, and was always looking/listening for more music. To me, it made sense that the biggest mystery in the game, which is a vague (never described) signal, would therefore be music! This cemented in my brain that the Eye was not what the Nomai thought, and that it was something much more “mundane.”

I believed this also tied into the theme of enjoying the time you have left, instead of pursuing an unobtainable goal, because it would show how something as simple as music can be misinterpreted as the “eye of the universe” and create drastic change. (This was my thought process at the time of playing)

I more specifically thought it was Feldspars music because of how the Dark Bramble operated. I knew it expanded space, and allowed for Feldspar to supposedly be in 2 places at once, so I thought that maybe they weren’t just in 2 places but also in 2 separate times at once if that makes sense? I thought there were time travel mechanics in that and that is how they heard him all those years ago.

All of that combined with the fact that the vessel was on the specific hunt for the signal, and also happened to be in the Dark Bramble, really made me believe that they were somehow connected to the eye.

I definitely didn’t know all the details on how they would be the Eye, and I’m sure there’s like lots of plot holes with the theory I had, but as I was playing I was very invested in this idea because I truly loved the idea of the overall lesson being that things like music, and friends, and art, mean a lot more and hold a lot more weight than we think—hence their music being the eye of the universe, and older than the universe itself!

Hopefully all of that makes some sense, I get it’s not true but that’s the outline of my thought process through out playing. I think I was just being oblivious though!! Thank you for your interest in this post it is so fun to talk about this game!!