Quote Originally Posted by Dikatis View Post
Meteion was not imbued with the "hope" and "will" of the ancients. She was a space probe designed to possess exceedingly little aether (even less than ours) specifically to better respond to emotions and harness dynamis so she would not need sustenance on her long space voyages. And yes, she did succumb to despair and was consumed by the negative emotions she was forced to absorb due to her uncontrollable empathic powers, resulting in her becoming the source of the Final Days and transforming other creations into terminus beasts. The science of creating entelechies was also lost when Hermes abandoned his project after "Meteion's death".

Her final plan was to silence all of creation by preventing any new life from forming, thus sparing herself the agony of people succumbing to despair. The only way she'd be able to do that from Ultima Thule is if she's gathering dynamis from the entire universe to strengthen her Song of Despair.

Also, you plan to defeat Meteion is... to create more Meteions?
The science behind entelechies was not lost, Venat just assumed Hermes wouldn't be interested in making any more after he rewrote his memory to convince himself Meteion had self-terminated. I think he would change his mind if he had actually known that dynamis was the factor behind the Final Days.

Also, Meteion was specifically designed to exchange emotion so that she could communicate with alien races without need of words, which is the critical factor that led to her going haywire. There's nothing that seems to indicate that making a creation that can manipulate dynamis without that function would be impossible as it's simply a low aether density that is needed fundamentally.

Alenore's point was that maybe they could've made entelechy specifically imbued with positive emotions that could counteract the negative ones the Endsinger was turning against the world. Heck, they might've not even needed Zodiark judging from how strong of a force the collective wills of just the Scions was in the finale and could've made some kind of entelechy barrier instead.