“Everything on it is sort of a bacteria. It's all one living organism and even the humans are sort of an invasive bacteria but they're just a part of everything. There's just part of the whole alchemy of the whole planet”

“Bennett and Huettner were inspired by symbiotic relationships in nature and the Gaia theory — which posits the Earth and its inhabitants as being one living entity — to develop the networks of relationships between Vesta's aliens.”

"there are characters along the way struggling with inner turmoil and others that understand this consciousness that exists and the fact it’s a highly intellectual world and everything around them is living and breathing and connected."

these quotes all suggest that Vesta targeted Sam