Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
I think the person who got turned to dust was someone wearing a Neo Regulator, and I think that's their sinister purpose: kill the wearer, and send their aether, and memories somewhere to turn them into an Endless. Which is my point of I think there are unforeseen consequences, potentially of the Necron variety of killing 5000 people to turn them into Endless that I'm not sure Calyx has accounted for. I think it's gonna be more like 'oops I made Necron' instead of 'at last, I made Necron!'

I think Calyx's potential miscalculation is gonna come from his overly clinical view of death as just a process, not realizing, not caring that it means something to the people he will to kill to make them Endless.
When I was watching the cutscene, the first thought that crossed my mind about the corpse turning to dust was due to the neo regulator already uploading the person's memories to the cloud. However, since he is still alive and to prevent his memories and existence from being deleted in others' minds then the person has to be reduced to dust before the regulators can finish. As such, what people will see with their eyes is a permanently dead person (Whom they haven't seen before) that they used to know. This new dread of seeing dead people, plus the attacks, will ultimately further people's despair into escaping death.

This is just my interpretation of what happened.