Thread: Patch 5.4 Trailer, Predictions, and Hints

For something to be implicit, the story has to imply that it happens.

There is nothing to imply that they are going to build a spaceship or that Midgardsormr will encourage them to do so, even if they conceivably might possess the skills and knowledge to construct it.

On the contrary, it is implied that they must be staying where they are, because they plan to "pull their world back from the brink" and by saying they're going to rebuild it's implicit that they are staying around and not going somewhere else.

It is not explicitly stated that they are staying on this planet, but that's because it's the sort of basic assumed thing you don't need to establish. It would hold up the story awkwardly, like casually mentioning that there weren't any elephants in the crowd when the story has nothing to do with elephants in the first place.

If the story isn't supposed to be about the possibility of space travel, bringing it up just to dismiss it would be strange.

On the other hand, if the writer wanted it to be about Midgardsormr planning to lead them to another world in space, it doesn't make sense to leave that fact "between the lines". Something in the dialogue should mention it, even obliquely - looking to the stars, or a new world, a place beyond this ruined one. None of that literary language is there to establish the idea.