Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
I think I've said this before, but the one credible indictment of Ancient society is that it could produce people like Hermes and Venat.
This wasn't Venat's fear though. She specifically was afraid Etheirys would go the way of The Plenty, which is the antithesis of another subversive agent as they had achieved "perfect unity".

It's also not up to her to take executive action for the entire star to prevent possible future outcomes. The sundering left Etheirys open to fall to any one of the other stars' fates in Ultima Thule that were less likely to occur in the unsundered world. Plus, the goal of every civilization is to better itself. The notes within The Plenty even describe themselves as having once been similar to the sundered. At most she kicked the can down the road for one possibility while opening the door for numerous others, in fact, quoting Veloran: "8UC is basically a complete 'bad end' for Venat right down to people again trying to return to the past over going forward in the future (and by his very nature G'raha is the biggest thematic walking contradiction in the entire universe) and despite the short story existing to try and suggest some hopeful future for it, the storyline of Endwalker would imply that it's completely doomed."