I'm curious on what you all think. We see the traveler starting to leave then stops. Now does it stop because as the Witness says it has no where else to go or does it stop because we nuked the warsat network which was humanities last line of defense, so it sees something good in us or a reason to stay and protect?
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I think it's possible that it stayed bc of Rasputin's sacrifice, but I think if that was the only motive then why didn't it come back down to the city? Unless it went dormant once again and just so happened to be in low Earth orbit at the time. Also did it start leaving bc it knew the witness' fleet was close, or did it do so bc of eramis targeting it? I think either way it knew that something bad is going to happen to it soon, and it moved to prevent the city from being collateral damage. The argument could be made that the traveler doesn't care enough about humanity for either explanation, but I think between Rasputin's sacrifice following the guardian creed and the pyramids closing in made it stay in system but also move far enough away that it can protect the city from collateral damage from the warsats or the witness