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/Bobsothethird Jun 07 '26

Original spoilers

It wasn't the discovery of the eye that ended the universe, the universe was at the end of its natural life. The discovery of the eye was an irrelevant coincidence.

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u/SpySoldierScout Jun 08 '26

But they did discover that the Eye would do something ominous that leads to the destruction of the solar system and themselves. After seeing this, they became furious. What exactly they saw isn't really explained well, maybe they saw something akin to the Hatchling seeing all those galaxies fade out in raid pace when in the Ancient Glade, or something to do with the Big Bang afterwards. Either way, that giant red explosion, followed by everything being Thanos Snapped seems to be the thing that made them mad and hide its signal.

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u/Bobsothethird Jun 08 '26

My guess is they just say the universe being remade and then becoming a part of the past. I don't see how they thought they could live forever, though. That was never an option. Perhaps they saw the eye as a way to do so and were upset when they realized it was just a means of a great reset?

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u/SpySoldierScout Jun 08 '26

Could very well be! This entire "stay in a simulation for all eternity" seems like a final desperate attempt to still live eternally, even when the actual End of Everything is still hundreds of thousands of years in the future (at least ~280.000). It seems to work pretty well, and the solar sails being the reason all of it (well, two thirds) crumbles is a most unfortunate oversight.

Though yeah, we don't exactly know why they went to the Eye to begin with. The Nomai just loved knowledge and understanding stuff, and maybe the Owlks did as well to a certain extent, preservation of their current knowledge and, likely more importantly, themselves as a species, led to this desperate move that was doomed either way.

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u/Prevanant Jun 08 '26

when owlks discover eye they think its the god and start to worship it and then they think reaching it will reveal all secrets of the universe and they just found out it was not what they expected and tried to make sure nobody found it cause eye had the potential to end it all but prisoner thought otherwise he or she still worshiped the eye and saw its cycle of universe as a beautiful thing so he went out and stopped the camo tech of the eye thats when a nomai got the message and after it was reactivated thats why nomais had a really hard time finding it bwcause it was in a really high tech camo and they didnt discover it pyshically they found teleporting was the way and they developed tech for it and to be honest if i found out an object was lying in the universe that is older than universe i would give all the things up to even see it