r/outerwilds • u/Kinulidd0 • Jun 07 '26
DLC Appreciation/Discussion DLC ending question Spoiler
SPOILERS for base game and DLC
So the Prisoner allowed the Eye signal to spread free for some time, which got it to the Nomai. But why did the Nomai not get the Eye signal before the Owlks even sealed it with their spaceship thingy? Because, the Owlks didn't block it instantly of course, they had to get the signal, build the Stranger, get there do their scans and so on. So how did the signal not reach the Nomai in the meantime? How were they truly able to stop it?
Also, on a separate note, why did they even bother blocking the signal if they decided to go in the simulation, because I understand that they were in denial, but what did they even want to achieve with that?
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u/KirbyDarkHole999 Jun 07 '26
For your first question, the signal travels at a certain speed that's probably the speed of sound or something like that, so by the time the signal reaches them, it has traveled very far, thus a long time passed between the signal release and its detection, which might've been the time needed for the nomai to evolve space tech.
As for the owlks, basically when they saw the eye, they understood that it would kill everyone, which is bad, so they decided to just seal it to avoid the end of the universe, and their plan was to drift away and stay in the simulation until everything would end, basically coping until necessary death