They seemed very much alive and even roared and reacted as they watched factions fight to understand them and covet their blooms.
Seems like much of the nature of the Pyramids being Paracasual beings has been retconned which leaves not just the Pyramid Scales existence in question but Clarity Control which moves and breathes.
At first I thought they were terraforming and transforming the 4 worlds back in Arrivals, but now we know the Witness simply took them. The temporal scarring on Mars could be linked to the Pyramid Scales acting as dissecting tools but last we saw, they were actually just converting the world beneath them into Pyramid matter.
Curious what everyone's take on all this is.
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They may have dropped it just to save the trouble of explaining something that is ultimately pointless. I do recall in BL that Ghost gets a paracausal entity reading only for it to vanish when we get there. I would take that as the ships are inherently “paracausal” as an explanation as to how they function. Ie flying with no engine or thrusters. Kind of like the Aegis shield. Although, I’m curious about the colored blocks. We see statues of people and things and then blocks of the same color right next to them. Taking power from them and imbuing it into the ship to power it? Back on point, it may not have lined up with whatever finalized idea they had crop up later. Hard to say how much is set in stone and how much is being made up on the fly. They didn’t revert back to the OG storyline for nothing, they hit a knot they couldn’t untangle. That’s the trouble with retconning an entire storyline after the game releases and sets the lore foundation.